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May 11, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, May 11th, 2021 - Hyperinflation begins in America as gas stations and refineries S

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	Welcome to the Situation Update for Tuesday, May 11th, 2021.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	I've got two special reports for you today, plus some updates on interviews and appearances and so on.
	I've got an interview coming up this week with Dr.
	Christiane Northrup, someone I've been really looking forward to interviewing on, of course, COVID, COVID vaccines.
	Such amazing people.
	I've been able to interview Dr.
	Lee Merritt, for example, and Dr.
	Carrie Made, so many others.
	It's just amazing.
	I interviewed the resistance chicks about homesteading.
	And I've got a lot of interviews lined up, interviewed the Ice Age farmer about food shortages.
	It's just a privilege to be able to talk to such well-informed people.
	So a lot of that coming up this week.
	For today, I've got two special reports for you here in this podcast.
	Each one is about 20 minutes.
	The first special report, and these special reports are also released as separate standalone podcasts.
	But the first one is an update on the shikimic acid topic, you know, pine needle tea.
	Well, I learned from a family member that fennel seeds also contain shikimic acid.
	And I've got an update for you on ways that we might be able to very simply grow and harvest fennel seeds and then harvest the shikimic acid from those fennel seeds and literally grow slash synthesize our own powerful antiviral medicines right at home without having to grow pine trees or without having to grow star anise herbs.
	We may just be able to do it from fennel or fennel seeds, technically.
	So that's pretty exciting.
	And then the second special report is about tactical food security.
	And that special report, which is in this podcast here, give you tactical strategies for protecting your food supply when the mass starvation begins and your neighbors turn into not-so-friendly people, you know?
	And they suddenly remember that you are a prepper.
	You must have extra food.
	So it's how to navigate that situation and keep your food supply safe.
	I mean, it's one thing to store food.
	It's another thing to keep it safe.
	So that's what that special report is all about.
	And it's got some crazy, crazy tactical strategies in there.
	One that I learned from Bob Griswold is, I'll just give you a taste of this, is go to Goodwill and buy a bunch of used clothes that are too big for you so you can walk around and look like you're starving like everybody else.
	Okay, so that's just one tip because your clothes are all baggy, you know?
	You're like, yeah, I've lost so much weight because I can't eat, you know?
	Nothing to joke about, but if everybody else is losing weight and all their clothes are baggy, you don't want to be the only one that's got a tight-fitting shirt and a full belly.
	It's kind of a giveaway, so we'll talk about that in the special report.
	Very interesting stuff.
	But today's topic, the main topic today, is the economic...
	What's the right term?
	I don't want to say apocalypse.
	It's not quite apocalypse.
	It's a crisis, though.
	The inflation crisis is here.
	And you may have seen in the news over the last couple of days Chipotle and McDonald's both announcing Crazy, crazy things about how America's been turned into a welfare state and how it's hard to find workers who will work at fast food restaurants now because at that wage level, people make more money staying home and not working compared to actually, you know, working.
	So there's a group of McDonald's franchisees called the National Owners Association, the NOA, and this group sent out a letter to its members over the weekend that said we are experiencing perverse effects of the current unemployment benefits of It's that simple.
	We don't blame them.
	We fault the system.
	The system is designed to It's all on purpose, remember, to crush the economy and cause widespread bankruptcy of small businesses while paying people to stay home and not work.
	And when Joe Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked about this, she was oblivious.
	She doesn't realize that small businesses can't hire anybody.
	She said, no, the real problem is there's not enough jobs out there.
	Are you kidding me?
	The job's everywhere.
	Anybody that wants a job has got a job.
	Everybody's hiring.
	Everybody's hiring.
	Every restaurant is hiring.
	Every grocery store is hiring.
	Every warehouse is hiring.
	I mean, every pizza joint is hiring.
	There are jobs everywhere.
	Nobody wants them.
	I mean, and why should they?
	Stay home.
	They can make $12 to $16 an hour.
	If they go to work, they make $12 to $16 an hour.
	Might as well stay home.
	Of course, the more intelligent people realize that it's good to keep getting job skills.
	It's good to have experience.
	It's good to have a resume that shows that you've been doing something rather than just sitting at home.
	I mean, there's going to come a day when all this flips upside down and all the people who stayed at home and just goofed off for two years are going to have a hard time finding work and the benefits are being cut, especially in conservative states.
	I don't recall which states yet exactly, but I know it's several conservative states are halting the unemployment benefits because there are tons of jobs available for anybody who wants them.
	So again, why are we paying people to stay home and not work?
	Now, I don't think Texas has passed a law yet, but I know the Texas legislature is working on that.
	So I would expect this to kick in very soon.
	Things are going to change dramatically.
	When a lot of these workers want to go back to work because the benefits have run out, many of them are going to find that they can't find jobs.
	Guess why?
	Because small businesses went bankrupt because nobody showed up to work.
	And so all these people that stay at home collecting free money While the central bank was just printing more fiat currency, what did they actually do to themselves?
	They put themselves out of a job, and then what else?
	Because of monetary debasement and price inflation, they made everything more expensive because of all the money printing and the bailout money.
	I mean, the dollar's becoming less and less valuable with every passing day, meaning that everything out there is becoming more and more expensive.
	Groceries.
	What else?
	I mean, lumber.
	We've gone through this.
	Housing, land, everything.
	Ammunition.
	It's all more expensive.
	So who is hurt the most by rising food prices?
	Is it the rich or is it the poor?
	Oh, it's the poor.
	Technically, it's the kind of entry-level wage workers who refused to show up and work because they were getting benefits.
	Benefits run out, all of a sudden, they're facing starvation.
	I mean, this will be happening shortly because there's no jobs to go back to because so many small businesses have gone bankrupt and now the food costs twice as much as before and your benefits have run out.
	What are you going to do then?
	Well, sadly, I know the answer to this because I was in Austin recently and There are entire tent cities set up under the highway overpasses.
	Massive tent complexes.
	It's unreal.
	I didn't see these two years ago.
	Under every overpass, it seems, there is like this interconnected network hub of tents.
	People live there.
	People live there.
	That's what's happening to a lot of people.
	These are all policies created by government.
	This is bad government on parade here.
	Bad government destroying America on purpose.
	And we're going to get to more of that in a second here, but there's something else to this story.
	You know, we're going to talk about the infrastructure failures, the pipeline.
	Fuel stations in the southeast of the U.S., In Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, the fuel stations, some of them are running out of gas now.
	Some of them are hiking prices to $4.50 a gallon.
	So when Trump was in the White House, gas was like $1.99.
	Now it's $4.50 in some places because this pipeline is still not functioning.
	It's called the Colonial Pipeline.
	Talked about it briefly yesterday.
	It was taken over by CyberAttack.
	The cyber hackers, this group, what's it called?
	Dark something.
	They were trying to get a bunch of, you know, Bitcoin money out of them.
	And they took control over the pipeline.
	So the pipeline shut down.
	Gas has not been flowing for three, going on four days now.
	No gas.
	And fuel stations are running out of fuel.
	I'm starting to get a weird, eerie feeling about this that takes me back to, I don't know, 1977 or I guess more accurately, 79.
	Jimmy Carter!
	Oh, President Carter!
	21% interest rates.
	Fuel lines at all the gas stations nationwide.
	Everybody lining up to try to get gas shortages, price controls, people losing their homes because of the high interest rates.
	What went wrong?
	Oh, well, the answer is there was a Democrat in the White House and Democrats don't understand economics at all.
	Just like Jen Psaki thinks the problem is there's not enough jobs available.
	You crazy wench.
	There's jobs everywhere.
	No one wants to work.
	She wouldn't know that because she gets paid for destroying economies, you know?
	But if she had to go find a job flipping burgers, which would be awesome to see her do, then she would discover that anybody who wants to work can get a job.
	But that's not her problem.
	They're just driving the country into total economic collapse.
	And now the fuel lines are shutting down.
	Makes you wonder, who's behind this?
	Is it the deep state?
	Because I know the media has been blaming this cyber hacking group.
	Kind of easy to blame a bunch of cyber hackers.
	And I saw one media report said, oh, they're tied to Russia.
	Oh, not Russia again.
	They've been blaming Russia for everything for five years.
	How much you want to bet this is a deep state operation?
	How much do you want to bet this is actually the same puppet masters, the same radical left-wing activists who are controlling Joe Biden?
	How much do you want to bet they ran this, maybe with the FBI, maybe with the DOJ? They're running this up.
	And they took over the pipeline just to shut it down, just to create a crisis, just to cause this economic implosion across southeastern states.
	How much you want to bet?
	It's the deep state, not the Russians.
	That's my theory.
	Can't prove it.
	Don't know for sure, but that's a theory.
	Saw a tweet today, a picture of a gas station.
	The tweet is, this gas station in Robbinsville is all out of gas.
	That's in North Carolina.
	Clerks said the manager told her it could be five days before they have gas again.
	Says that the phone has been ringing off the hook with people calling around to find gas.
	So, no gas.
	Oh, here's another gas station in northwest Florida selling gas for $4.29 a gallon.
	Regular gas.
	In Fitzgerald, Georgia, Twitter user shows a long gas line at an end market gas station.
	One South Carolina gas station was out of unleaded and plus gas.
	They only have premium.
	Somebody filling up gas cans in Myrtle Beach and so on and so forth.
	What have I always said about fuel, about stockpiling fuel?
	What have I always said?
	Those of you who follow me, you know.
	I've said, have vehicles that run on diesel and get yourself a 500 or a 1,000 gallon diesel tank.
	Again, you can't do this if you live in a regular neighborhood because people would complain like, what's a 1,000 gallon diesel tank doing in your front yard?
	Or they probably just come steal gas from you.
	But if you live on a farm or out in the country somewhere, it's very common, especially if you have a tractor or something, then you have a diesel tank.
	And if you have a diesel tank and a diesel truck, like I do, then you know, like during the freeze in Texas, Governor Abbott, he said...
	That he's waiving the regulations where normally you can't use the tax-free red dye farm diesel in your road truck.
	Normally you get fined for doing that.
	But Governor Abbott waived all that and said, you can fill up on any diesel you can find because we're in some crazy emergency, right?
	So I filled up my truck with red dye diesel.
	And since I barely drive my truck anywhere, it's still full of red dye diesel.
	So I'm going to be driving red dye diesel truck all over the highways of Texas for the next six months because, well, I guess not all over, but here and there, because it's a big fuel tank and I just don't drive that many miles anyway.
	So if you have a diesel truck and a diesel tank, you never have to worry about this.
	You can use your own diesel in an emergency.
	And are you starting to get the feeling that we're living in Venezuela now?
	The hyperinflation is kicking in.
	I almost can't state it strongly enough, but when you see people now going to the gas station and desperately filling up 10 two-gallon gas containers, which is what's happening in the Southeast, is filling up gas containers, you're like, man, this sure rings a bell.
	This looks just like Venezuela.
	And by the way, storing gasoline is a very hazardous thing to do.
	Gasoline is highly explosive.
	Diesel is not.
	Diesel is not.
	Did you know diesel is very safe to store?
	Did you know that if you have, I'm not saying you should do this, but if you did, if you poured a cup of diesel and you tried to light the diesel in the cup with a match, it would not light.
	It does not burn that way.
	You can't get it to explode unless you really, really compress it, which is what diesel engines do.
	So diesel has a lot of energy in it, but it's very safe to store compared to gasoline.
	I also found out, this is just from experience, diesel almost never evaporates.
	You know how gasoline evaporates?
	Like if you have a gas can and you leave the lid off, or if you have an improper seal when you're storing gas, After a while, it's all gone.
	It's just vaporized.
	You've had gas fumes and it's gone.
	Diesel doesn't really work that way.
	I found this out because, well, I don't know, it's kind of a long story, but...
	I ended up with a container of diesel that I thought might evaporate, and it never evaporated.
	It just continues to sit there.
	So diesel, even if you don't have a lid on it, I mean, it almost never evaporates.
	That's very interesting.
	All right, so we know that the fuel is running short because of the cyber attack.
	We don't know when this pipeline is going to come back online.
	We also don't know if there are going to be other cyber attacks against other elements of the energy infrastructure.
	What about refineries?
	What about refineries?
	Could they be attacked?
	Well, Guess what?
	Reuters has reported two refineries are paused due to the pipeline cyber hack.
	And let's see, what is this?
	Motiva, Port Arthur, the two largest U.S. refinery shuts down crude units due to the colonial outage.
	So This outage has, I mean, the refineries have shut down not because they were attacked themselves, but because there's no material coming to them from the pipeline.
	So now, these deep state hackers or whoever they are, they've not only taken down the pipeline, they've taken down refineries.
	And restarting all this takes a lot of effort.
	I don't know that this is going to be able to be restarted very quickly.
	A lot of these things have a startup and a shutdown procedure that is many days, or sometimes even weeks, and you can't just flip a switch and turn the whole thing back on again.
	So they're shutting down refineries now.
	Well, what's this going to do to gas prices and gas supplies?
	Well, obviously, gas prices are going through the roof.
	Welcome back, Carter.
	In this case, Jimmy Carter.
	For those of you who remember the 1970s, that's a bit of an allusion to welcome back Cotter.
	Yeah, but anyway, you get my drift.
	If you don't get that joke, then just feel blessed that you're young.
	Okay.
	But when you have skyrocketing fuel prices, on top of what did we talk about yesterday?
	Oh, shortages in trucking, shortages in transportation infrastructure.
	No available rail cars.
	No available ship containers.
	Some truckers being offered $700,000 a year just to drive their trucks.
	$14,000 a week to deliver pallets on their own truck.
	That's how desperate the transportation sector is to move things around.
	And you add to that gas shortages and refinery shutting down.
	Are you starting to get the picture?
	And on top of that, then the money supply is losing, now it seems like, 10% a month in its value.
	I mean, folks, I should have started out by saying this.
	I just have a hard time getting into the, like, digging deep into the truth on this.
	But folks, I should be screaming at the top of my lungs.
	Hyperinflation has begun.
	It's here.
	It's here.
	Now, we are living in Weimar, Germany.
	The money is losing, I mean, I'm just guessing 10% a month.
	Pretty soon it'll be 10% a week, and then 10% a day, and then 100% a day, and then it'll go to maybe 100% every six hours.
	This is where it's going, and you're now seeing it.
	So costs of everything are skyrocketing at an accelerated rate, Supply lines are cratering with fuel shortages now, refineries shutting down now, and yet no available delivery services from trucking, rail, or ships because everything's occupied.
	So all the retail stores are restocking like crazy but can't get anybody to work because the government's printing more fake money paying people to sit at home and not work.
	Calling that the solution to the economy.
	Democrats are currently in charge for a while, and they are destroying everything.
	And I can't help but think, just think back just a few months ago.
	This is the plan of the White Hats.
	I mean, this is the, I almost hate to bring it up, but isn't this the Trump plan?
	I mean, for those of you who've been following all this, The Maricopa County audit in Arizona is going to turn up major fraud, and it looks like Antrim County in Michigan is going to have an audit now.
	It looks like an audit's going to happen in Georgia.
	This election could very well still be overturned, but The White Hats all this time have been talking about how, remember I said this months ago, it's important for the American people to feel the pain of being ruled by Democrats and watching their country be driven into just disaster.
	And only then, when the public approval of Biden plunges into the low 30s, remember that?
	Only then will the evidence be brought forth And taken to the Supreme Court?
	And by that time, there would be this groundswell of popular support to pressure the Supreme Court to make the right decision and nullify the 2020 election, put Trump back in the White House, and eliminate all of these insane policies that have done so much damage to America just in the last three, four months.
	Think about it.
	This plan may very well be underway.
	This might be the plan.
	Now, if it is the plan, rest assured the plan calls for a lot more suffering because people aren't awake enough yet.
	Some Americans are still walking around, you know, the zombies, the oblivions, walking around thinking, oh, this is all just temporary.
	Everything's going to be perfectly fine next week.
	We get back to normal.
	As long as everybody takes the vaccine and we all keep wearing our masks dutifully, everything will get back to normal.
	Those people haven't yet suffered enough, apparently, to realize that nothing goes back to normal under the tyranny of a left-wing totalitarian dictatorship.
	So the lesson has yet to be fully realized by those people.
	So it seems like if the White Hats really are in charge, which is something I haven't even entertained for a long time here, if they are in charge, they're waiting for a lot more pain and suffering so that the people beg for Biden to be removed from office.
	The people have to beg for it.
	And they will.
	They will beg for it.
	Kind of in the same way that America begged for Jimmy Carter to get the hell out of the White House.
	And they were begging for Ronald Reagan to come in.
	No, seriously.
	America was like, this guy, Jimmy Carter, he's just destroying everything.
	He's destroyed the economy.
	He's destroyed the money supply.
	He's destroyed the fuel supply.
	Sound familiar?
	Oh, and Jimmy Carter was installing solar panels on the White House.
	Sounds like something that Biden's people would do.
	Just put some solar panels on the White House while everybody's suffering...
	You know, just virtue signaling nonsense.
	Doesn't do anything for the economy.
	Reagan came in.
	After the 1980 election, Reagan came in.
	What did Reagan do?
	Oh, got the hostages freed from the Iranian embassy.
	What did Reagan do?
	Oh, cut taxes!
	Slash regulation.
	Got the economy going again.
	Interest rates came down.
	Unleashed.
	A decade of financial abundance, the 1980s.
	Easy profits.
	I mean, so much abundance.
	Anybody that wanted to work, anybody that wanted to start a business could do very, very well in the 1980s.
	Regulations were getting cut everywhere.
	All the crazy high tax rates, which were in some cases up to like 90%, they were all getting slashed.
	Reagan was kind of like, you know, Trump of two generations ago.
	And Jimmy Carter is kind of like Biden.
	So question to you, how long before the average American begs for change?
	When the grocery store shelves are wiped out.
	When the dollar has lost 80% of its value.
	When there's no gasoline at the gas station.
	There's no transportation.
	When women's sports are taken over by big, hairy, smelly men pretending to be women.
	What else?
	What else are they doing?
	When the borders are being overrun, which is already happening, the total land invasion of illegals carrying out all kinds of crimes in America when the police have all been banned and defunded and chased out of town and its rampant lawlessness in the cities, which is already here in some cities like Portland, But at what point do the American people rise up and rebel against this and demand Trump back in the White House?
	You know, this is saying that every nation is nine meals away from anarchy.
	And what that means is, of course, as long as you keep the people fed, most people will not take to the streets.
	They will stay home and do what they're told.
	But...
	You skip about three days of meals, something changes in people.
	All of a sudden, they realize there's not much left to lose.
	All of a sudden, they become activists.
	I mean, hungry activists, but suddenly they're in the streets because they see what's happening.
	And if they're losing their savings on top of that, and they're losing their pensions or the value of their pensions, they're losing their dollars and they're starving, oh, that's the recipe for revolution.
	And it seems like we're headed there very, very quickly.
	No wonder the Biden regime wants to mass murder as many Americans as possible before all this happens.
	Because when the masses figure this out, they're going to take to the streets.
	Even leftists are going to rise up and say, enough of this starvation nonsense.
	You know, this isn't supposed to be how socialism works.
	Little do they know, that's exactly how socialism works.
	But even they're going to take to the streets.
	And this is why the Biden administration wants vaccines to mass murder as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, especially young people.
	With the antibody-dependent enhancement effect coming up, they want to kill young people because they don't want them to be protesting in the streets.
	That's coming.
	It's going to be a very interesting fall, fall of 2021, or maybe fall of America.
	It's going to be interesting to watch, that's for sure.
	It's going to be a lot of starving people.
	There was a video today of a kid riding a bike in a parking lot throwing a Molotov cocktail at some luxury cars that were parked.
	I was just thinking, this is probably a very accurate depiction of where things are going.
	Young men on bicycles throwing Molotov cocktails.
	It's kind of like eco-friendly terrorism.
	It's like, no carbon fuel footprint was required to carry out this act of terrorism.
	This is probably what the left is going to do.
	You know, it's going to be green terror, throwing Molotov cocktails at anybody who can still afford a vehicle or who can still buy gas when it's $10 a gallon.
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	But getting back to the main news here, you know, this convergence of what we're seeing, the food shortages, the hyperinflation, money printing effects, and then also the vaccine death wave.
	These three factors are converging now.
	And this is a war against humanity.
	And I got to tell you, the average American is clueless.
	They are not ready, not even for one of these things, much less all three.
	I mean, think about it.
	Think about it.
	The average American, let's say somebody that you know or I know who's not fully informed, just a typical person going to sports games, watching CNN or whatever, they don't know that food prices are going to double in the next six months or maybe the next three months.
	They don't know massive food scarcity has been engineered into the system and the grocery store shelves are going to be increasingly stripped bare over the summer.
	They have no clue that's coming.
	At the same time, they have no clue that the COVID stimulus multi-trillion dollar money printing is going to just decimate the value of the dollar.
	They have no idea that hyperinflation is actually here.
	All they see is that prices keep going up and they're scratching their head.
	Why is it going up?
	And it's like, because your dollars are becoming worthless.
	You try to explain that to them and then you have to get into...
	You know, Austrian economics and everything.
	I just want to get back to my baseball game.
	Okay, whatever.
	But you're going broke while you're sitting on your couch, buddy.
	You're being stolen from.
	You don't even know it.
	And then on top of that, they don't know the vaccines are killing them by design because they're going out and getting vaccinated.
	If you think about it, the vaccine, by causing strokes...
	Which is causing brain damage in people.
	It's actually carrying out kind of micro lobotomies in people's brains, which is very effective for the Biden regime to keep people stupid.
	Because if people can't think, they can't process information because entire sections of their brain have literally been denied a blood supply.
	So you just have these dead areas of the brain now that might process, oh, I don't know, math and numbers and logic and reason or memories of history, economics, whatever.
	Those are all fried now or dead.
	And so the average person can't even process information anymore, which is great for people like Biden while they're in power temporarily because nobody or very few people are smart enough to realize how they're getting screwed.
	And then, you know, Jen Psaki comes on and says, it's not a problem paying people to not work.
	That's fine.
	And people just can't process the information.
	But the average American has no clue these three things are coming.
	It's as if there's a hurricane on the way, but they're in denial about the satellite map.
	There's a hurricane coming.
	There's a volcano about to blow.
	And what else?
	What would be the third disaster?
	An earthquake.
	And there's a fault line running right under their house that's going to swallow them up in a giant sinkhole.
	Okay, so imagine if you had a hurricane coming and a volcano coming and a giant earthquake and they all struck at the same time, that's about the effect of what the average American is going to experience soon with the food scarcity and The global, well, the fiat currency debt collapse, and the mass death wave from the vaccines.
	That's about the same.
	And they're not ready for even one of them, much less three.
	Which is why people are running around waiting for gas, you know, in North Carolina right now.
	It's like, you don't even have fuel?
	You don't have fuel.
	How can you not have fuel?
	I mean, did you not remember 2020?
	The toilet paper buying Bonanza?
	The mad rush for teepee?
	You don't remember any of that?
	The food shelves stripped bare?
	The supply lines cratering?
	You don't remember that?
	How can you not have fuel?
	Seriously.
	It's almost like God gave everybody a chance to learn to be a prepper.
	Now, maybe I shouldn't invoke God on this because, frankly, the bioweapon was unleashed more like by Satan, right?
	Fauci and the communist Chinese.
	So let's not say God.
	Let's just say karmically, cosmically, everybody had a chance to wise up and be a prepper.
	If you're not a prepper after 2020, it's kind of hard to argue that That you deserve to survive what's coming.
	I don't mean to sound cruel or anything, but if you went through 2020 and you still aren't a prepper, you're kind of oblivious.
	You're kind of not designed to make it, is all I'm saying.
	You're not really ready for reality.
	How can you go through 2020 and still not be a prepper?
	Every living being who's got a memory...
	Which I know excludes a lot of people who watch TV, but those people who have a functioning memory, you should all be preppers, all of us.
	And I know those of you listening to this, you are all preppers at some level.
	But who's out there not prepping?
	Turns out it's still the masses.
	They're the ones wearing the masks somehow.
	They'll prep with a mask.
	Oh, got to be prepared.
	I didn't put on a mask and then walk around with a mask everywhere.
	Totally say this now.
	No, you're not.
	Because you have no food at home.
	You're not a prepper.
	You're just a moron.
	You're an obedient, biological robot, sheeple thing, wearing a mask because you were told to do so.
	You're not a prepper.
	You didn't figure that out for yourself.
	You're just following Fauci.
	You're not a prepper.
	You're just a robot.
	Or how about people who line up to get vaccinated and they tell themselves, gotta be protected.
	You never know what's out there.
	Gotta be protected.
	Gotta have some defense.
	And then they don't own a pistol.
	How can you not own a pistol?
	How can you not have a gun?
	You saw the chaos of 2020, did you not?
	You saw Black Lives Matter.
	You saw the Antifa mobs.
	You saw the Molotov cocktails setting government buildings on fire.
	And yet, the only defense you want is a deadly, toxic vaccine that injects you with a genetically engineered biological spike protein weapon system that sheds to other people and infects the people around you and kills them too?
	And you think that's self-defense?
	And you don't own a Glock?
	Or a Smith& Wesson?
	Or something?
	You don't own a gun?
	But you think vaccines are going to protect you?
	My God!
	There are people like that.
	It's unreal.
	It's really kind of an easy litmus test question, by the way.
	Just ask somebody.
	If you really want to know where they stand on reality, just ask them a simple question.
	What do you have more of in your home?
	Masks or guns?
	And if the answer is masks, they're in a world of hurt.
	Because any legitimate, honest, informed person would say, well, guns, of course.
	I mean, I might have one or two masks lying around, but I've got way more guns than that.
	That's the right answer.
	If you really want to be prepared, you should have way more firearms than masks.
	And by the way, the definition of a mass shooting is a drive-through vaccination center.
	That's right.
	They're shooting up the masses with toxic, deadly chemicals.
	It's a mass shooting.
	It's got nothing to do with firearms.
	The real death wave in America is happening from the vaccines.
	Not firearms.
	I mean, the Biden administration runs around screaming about ghost guns.
	Oh, we have to get rid of ghost guns.
	They don't have any serial numbers.
	They can't be tracked.
	And then they release vaccines that have blank insert pages with nothing on them.
	No ingredients list.
	It's like, what?
	Are these ghost vaccines then?
	What are these?
	These vaccines have nothing.
	There's nothing on the paper.
	No ingredients, no data, no evidence, no clinical trials, nothing.
	Is this a joke?
	Because that's what's in some of the vaccine boxes, just blank sheets.
	There's nothing in there.
	But just overall, if you told me even three years ago that we were going to wake up one day in America and the government was going to print trillions of dollars to pay people to stay home and not work, While tens of millions of people get injected with a biological weapon that causes blood clots on purpose,
	and anyone speaking the truth about politics or medicine would be banned from speaking on all the tech platforms, and on top of that, the value of the dollars that we've earned would lose, I don't know, 50% to 70% in one year.
	If you told me all those things...
	Oh, and the truckers would be making $14,000 a week, and gas stations would have no gas, and the food scarcity was being engineered into the system.
	If you told me all that, I'd say...
	Yeah, that's a funny scare story.
	It sounds like, you know, an end-of-the-world novel, like a collapsed novel, like a James Wesley Rawls type of novel.
	That's very interesting, but that can't be real.
	That's what I would have said three years ago.
	Today, it's all real.
	Because all that that I just said, it's all here right now.
	And way worse.
	So...
	Anybody who's not a prepper is basically just signing up for joining the dead, I think.
	Frankly, that's the only honest answer here.
	So we're going to proceed here with the special reports, two reports that's going to add another 40 minutes to this.
	But I just want to wrap this up by saying, think about what connects all the dots of what I've talked about today.
	The financial prepping that's necessary.
	Defending your health and growing your own medicine, you know, maybe fennel seeds with shikemic acid.
	That would be a great thing to grow.
	Think about how to protect your assets.
	Dollars are going to lose value at an accelerated rate.
	Food scarcity is going to become a critical issue.
	Oh, I forgot to tell you.
	We are headed into a Venezuela-style scenario where there will be daily purchase limits at the grocery store, and it's going to be tied to your ID. It's going to be tied to you in some way.
	Either your driver's license number or maybe your palm scan, mark of the beast, RFID chip embedded in your palm or something, biometric scan.
	I don't know.
	Maybe the vaccine has some kind of nanotech tracking system in it.
	They can scan you while you walk in.
	It's like, whoa, I just got scanned, you know?
	And then they freak out about people who are not scannable, like that scene in the hospital out of Idiocracy.
	He's unscannable!
	He's unscannable!
	But this is coming.
	You're going to have limits on how much food you can purchase.
	This is coming.
	The government's going to pay everybody an income and crush the economy on purpose, shut down all the small businesses, And then give people just enough food to barely survive as long as you obey.
	And if you disobey, oh, your food quota just got cut there.
	Look at that.
	You just lost another 100 calories a day because you criticized the Biden regime.
	Oh, look at you.
	This is what's coming, folks.
	Absolute tyranny.
	They want to turn the entire nation of America into a giant death camp.
	A giant death camp run by insane left-wing trans activists who are running Biden the puppet, the brain-dead puppet.
	If we don't stop this, we, all of us, we the people, the American people, if we don't stop this and take this country back through the election process and take back the rigging of the 2020 election, nullify the fake rigging, And have the proper president back in power, which would be Trump.
	If we don't do this, America will be no more.
	There will not be America as we know it by 2024, for sure, probably not even by 2022.
	This country is going to be ripped to shreds on purpose if we don't stand up and stop all this.
	So think about that.
	This is all being engineered.
	It's all by design.
	It's an engineered crashing of the United States of America and a total enslavement of its people.
	They're going to steal everything.
	You're going to steal your health and your wealth, steal your dollars, steal your life, and then take your businesses, take your assets, take your property, full-blown communism, total control over all speech, Outlawing of dissent.
	The DOJ turned into just basically a weapon against political opponents of the regime in power.
	The FBI becomes the secret Stasi police of the Biden regime.
	It's already functioning that way.
	It's just a total nightmare scenario from here forward unless we take this country back.
	So we need to really support the ballot audits in Arizona and Michigan and Georgia.
	We need to recount those paper ballots, get the rigged machines out of the loop so that we can get an honest count of the ballots.
	And if we do, guess what?
	Biden is not the president because it was rigged.
	They cheated, they got caught, and they need to go to prison.
	Let's see if we can make that happen.
	All right, stay tuned now for two special reports.
	Like I mentioned, the first one here on fennel seeds and shikimic acid, and the second one on tactical food security.
	And thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and I'll play those two special reports for you.
	Take care.
	Welcome to this special report update on chicemic acid and pine needle tea.
	This is Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger.
	If you haven't heard it yet, I put out about an hour and 20 minute podcast and a very detailed article on naturalnews.com talking about pine needle tea.
	It's kind of a buzz right now.
	Everybody's talking about this as a possible natural medicine that may show promise for Let's say halting the artificial blood coagulation, blood clots caused by COVID vaccines and so on.
	A lot of people excited about this possibility.
	I just want to give you a quick update, a couple of things.
	If you haven't heard that podcast, I encourage you to go back and listen to it because it gives you two methods for making your own pine needle tea extracts at home.
	And it also gives you some safety precautions and warnings like don't drink pine needle tea if you're pregnant, for example, or expecting to be pregnant.
	It also explains how tea works.
	Water is a solvent and it accomplishes this extract.
	But what I have learned since then...
	It's pretty interesting that this molecule called chicemic acid is also found in fennel seeds.
	Fennel seeds.
	Yes, fennel.
	The Latin name is Foniculum Vulgare.
	Funiculum vulgari.
	That's fennel.
	And the fennel seeds contain some amount of shikemic acid.
	I don't know exactly what percentage they contain, but it's high enough that some companies online are offering to sell purified shikemic acid that is extracted from fennel seeds.
	And remember, we talked about an extraction method using a common espresso machine.
	So if you can extract shikimic acid from a star anise herb using a coffee grinder, you could probably also extract it from fennel seeds using an espresso machine just by putting the fennel seeds in place of the star anise grinds.
	So this is exciting for a couple of reasons.
	Number one, shikimic acid, in case you don't know, this is...
	Really, this is the ingredient that's used to make the drug Tamiflu.
	And shikimic acid is anti-influenza.
	And it also, apparently from the science that I was seeing, shikimic acid halts artificial blood platelet aggregation, i.e.
	it stops blood clots.
	And blood clots are what's killing a lot of people after taking COVID vaccines.
	Even young people.
	As we talked about yesterday, a 17-year-old athletic high school boy had two blood clots in his brain just after taking one of the COVID vaccines.
	Yeah, because it causes artificial clotting.
	The spike protein is a clotting poison, in essence.
	The spike protein causes your blood to clot.
	The spike protein is the weapon.
	The vaccines are death shots.
	They are injecting you with something that kills people.
	This is all confirmed by the Jonas Salk Institute in their study, published, I don't know, a little while ago.
	I did a whole podcast on that and a story on that at naturalnews.com.
	The spike protein is the weapon.
	Even without the virus, the spike protein causes blood clots.
	So this molecule, shikemic acid, appears to have real promise.
	And Some people may not be able to get it from pine needles.
	Other people may not have access to star anise because that's a difficult herb to grow.
	But how easy is it to grow fennel?
	Now, as I understand it, and by the way, I have to thank one of my family members for giving me this information.
	And I don't know if they want their name mentioned, so I'm not going to mention it.
	But this information came to me through my own family, which is pretty awesome.
	But fennel, the fennel plant, may not contain any shikimic acid.
	I don't know that it does.
	But the fennel seeds contain the acid.
	Well, to get fennel seeds, as I understand it, although some of you probably know better than I, you have to have a fennel plant that winters over for one year, and then in the second year of the fennel, it produces a lot of seeds.
	So if that's the case, maybe it is.
	I'll have to do more research.
	It means that you could, in essence, use fennel plants to synthesize your own homegrown shikimic acid using a hydroponic system or just container gardening.
	You would grow the fennel plants for the first year and then let them freeze and winter over and then let them come back the second year and boom, when they go to seed, you harvest the seeds.
	You take the seeds, you put them in an espresso machine, or you use an ultrasonic cleaner, and you do a water extraction.
	Well, as we talked about, there's some amount of alcohol as well.
	Combination of alcohol and water extraction.
	And then you've got your own homegrown shikimic acid.
	You have, in essence, something better than an antiviral pharmaceutical.
	And you didn't have to get a doctor's prescription.
	You didn't have to pay a patent royalty.
	You didn't have to get government permission.
	You didn't have to leave your home.
	You can grow your own medicine, which is what humanity has done for thousands, well, probably much longer than that, but at least thousands of years.
	Remember, modern pharmaceutical medicine is only a little over 100 years old, and it's horrific.
	It's killed people.
	How many tens of millions of people around the world, especially now with this toxic vaccine?
	It's a disaster.
	The history of medicine in human civilization is almost entirely plant-based medicine.
	That's what most people have used throughout the history of the world.
	In fact, that's what most people use today, all over the world.
	There are more human beings using plant-based medicine now than Western pharmaceuticals.
	That is an absolute fact.
	And by the way, in China, I don't know if you knew this, but in China they used star anise to treat people for COVID. So this may be one reason why relatively low numbers of people died in China, even in the early stages, although China was trying to, I think, scare the world with some kind of staged videos and so on.
	But the actual number of deaths, in retrospect, We're good to go.
	Now, it also turns out you can buy fennel seeds online right now as an herb or a spice.
	You can go on even Amazon.
	You can just buy a pound of fennel seeds if you want for something like $12 to $15 a pound.
	And you could run those through an espresso machine and you could extract shikimic acid right there.
	You could probably buy several pounds of fennel seeds and you could store them, you know, and you'd be stockpiling basically, essentially Tamiflu.
	You'd be stockpiling an antiviral medication, but in plant form.
	And you could then grow them later on if you wanted to, using the seeds.
	Or you could sprinkle them onto your foods.
	Because remember, if you eat fennel seeds, your body extracts the shikimic acid, I mean, your body is an extraction machine.
	Your body uses stomach acid and water and changes in pH, bile and so on to extract nutrients from the things that you chew and swallow.
	So if you chew fennel seeds, which are very common in, let's say, Mediterranean type of meals, food from Turkey and I don't know where else, I don't know, food all over the Mediterranean.
	Maybe parts of the Middle East and so on.
	Fennel is a common spice, sometimes using curries and things like that.
	If you eat a lot of fennel, you probably have a lot of shikimic acid.
	You're probably getting a lot of benefit from that, which is one reason.
	You may even recall this.
	Over a year ago, when the COVID pandemic was first spreading, what did I tell people to do?
	I said, go to a Middle Eastern spice store.
	You know, like a Middle East food store and learn how to cook with all those Middle East spices because it turns out that a lot of those exotic spices have amazing medicinal properties that can halt, for example, viral replication in your cells, you know?
	Or they can protect the respiratory tract from viral transmission.
	And many, many other things.
	And little did we know, some of them also protect against blood clots.
	So, you know, if you're just eating a standard boring American diet, sugar and salt and fat, you know, there we go.
	That's like 99% of the American diet.
	And GMO corn.
	That's not going to be good for you.
	But if you're eating more exotic foods, especially the Middle Eastern foods, Check out Pakistani food.
	How about that?
	How about Ethiopian food?
	Whoa!
	That's some pretty awesome stuff.
	Check out some of the food from even, like, Iran.
	And, I don't know, some Israeli dishes and so on.
	I'm not trying to get into politics here.
	I just mentioned a bunch of countries that don't get along.
	I'm talking about the food, not the politics.
	Use the spices.
	Because there's medicine in all these countries, in all their cuisine.
	It's all medicine.
	It's not a hamburger and fries and a fake strawberry shake.
	It's like actual healing medicine that protects the heart, protects the brain, protects the cardiovascular system, and so on.
	So fennel is just one of those spices, and it's got loads of shikimic acid in it.
	And you can extract it yourself for pennies.
	For pennies!
	That's what's amazing.
	You can literally just boil fennel seeds in a cup of water, and you can have fennel seed tea, and that's got shikimic acid in it.
	If you want to just keep it really, really simple, that's as simple as it gets.
	Just make some fennel seed tea.
	So with all that said, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
	Remember how I promised we're going to test shikimic acid in the lab?
	We're going to do some extracts from pine needles and then buy some standards.
	So I already confirmed with my chemist today.
	That we have ordered a couple of standards of shikimic acid, so those are on the way.
	I think it comes as a crystalline solid, which should be interesting.
	We'll have to dilute it and so on.
	But anyway, we've got shikimic acid coming, and we're going to develop a single quad chromatography method.
	We'll try to fast-track that.
	Fortunately, I've got a lot of experience doing that.
	So we'll use a liquid chromatography system.
	We'll try to identify an elution peak for shikemic acid.
	And then we'll use the single quad mass spec on the tail end of that to confirm the mass of the molecule.
	And that way we know we're getting the right peak and we use the standard so we have the right elution time and everything.
	And then we'll start playing with the espresso machines.
	I've got some pine needles already, and I've just ordered some fennel seeds, and I've also ordered some star anise, and we're going to test the extraction techniques and tell you how much shikemic acid we're able to extract from these three different sources that we know of so far.
	And then fourth, as you might know, I'm setting up my vertical hydroponic grow tower system And you can bet I'm going to plant some fennel in that system.
	I'm going to have fennel growing like crazy because why not just grow amazing, powerful medicine for nearly free and And I'm going to give you updates on that.
	Now, this is a long process.
	If it takes two years to grow your own fennel seeds, then obviously it's going to take me two years to complete this experiment.
	But might as well start now.
	Can't rush Mother Nature when it comes to producing seeds, can you?
	You've got to respect Mother Nature's timeline.
	But might as well start now.
	So that's what we're going to do.
	All right?
	So it's all amazing stuff.
	And those of you who are gardeners and you may be growing fennel, now you have a whole new reason to get excited about fennel.
	Like you just thought it was a boring, weird-tasting kind of herb.
	Guess what?
	Could be life-saving.
	And you know, by the way, I'm wondering if shikimic acid is what has this kind of licorice taste.
	Because fennel seeds taste a little bit like licorice, right?
	And also star anise herb tastes a little bit like licorice.
	And remember how I mentioned this Chinese dish called ni rou tang mian, which uses star anise and some other spices to make this amazingly delicious beef noodle soup that's served all over Taiwan and China.
	And it was just an amazing dish.
	Well, the flavor of that, which again, if you've never had that, you got to try that.
	Oh man, traditional Chinese beef noodle soup.
	You got to try that.
	Put that on your list of things to do.
	But it almost tastes kind of like fennel, which almost tastes kind of like licorice root.
	And so I guess I should do the research on this.
	I wonder if licorice root has some shikimic acid in it.
	I don't know.
	Or I wonder if shikimic acid is what has this taste.
	So here's what I'm going to do.
	When I get this standard of shikimic acid...
	That we purchased for the lab at a very high cost because it's standardized.
	I'm going to taste it, which I normally don't do.
	I normally don't bring in standards and taste them because it's normally, oh, here's a standard of organophosphate pesticides.
	You know, not going to taste that.
	Or here's a standard of glyphosate.
	Don't need to taste that.
	But when this chicemic acid comes in, I'm going to taste it, you know, cautiously.
	I can't recommend that you do that.
	I'm going to do it.
	Because I know what I'm doing.
	I'm going to try a couple little tiny grains on the tongue, swish it around and see, oh, is that that licorice taste?
	We're going to find out.
	And I'll share that with you.
	That's the update right now.
	All of you gardeners out there, get some fennel seeds.
	Grow some fennel.
	You're growing powerful medicine.
	It may be a cure for this COVID vaccine plague.
	We don't know for sure, but what we do know for sure is that the establishment won't tell you about things that work.
	They want you to be diseased.
	And suffering and locked down and dependent on their system of medicine.
	We know that the only way the truth about this gets out is if we talk about it.
	And if we grow the plants and we share the seeds.
	And by the way, you should always share seeds.
	Give seeds away.
	And I know a lot of you do.
	And so if I grow fennel seeds, you can bet I'm going to share them with people.
	Plant those fennel plants and I'll tell them all about shikemic acid, all about Tamiflu, all about antiviral medicine.
	And hopefully, they'll grow some fennel.
	It's amazing.
	Mother Nature synthesizes the medicines for us.
	Mother Nature is the only, quote, pharmaceutical laboratory that you ever need.
	Every molecule that you need to be healthy already exists in a leaf, in some tree bark somewhere, in a seed somewhere, in fruit, in vegetables, in peeling, or whatever.
	All the molecules you need to be healthy already exist, like resveratrol.
	It was found in grape leaves.
	Not just grape skins and so on, but grape leaves as well.
	Resveratrol.
	Miracle medicine.
	You can get it for free by harvesting grape leaves.
	It's just amazing.
	But chicamic acid is another one of these amazing, powerful medicines.
	And also, by the way, since we were talking about licorice earlier, don't forget glycerin, which is one of the molecules in licorice root.
	And glycerin It protects the liver from toxicity caused by acetaminophen, otherwise known as Tylenol, and also alcohol.
	So if you know anybody that is taking Tylenol or drinking alcohol or, God forbid, doing them together, it causes permanent liver damage.
	If they take licorice root first, it protects the liver from the damage caused by the Tylenol and the alcohol.
	So once again, all the medicine we need is in the plants.
	It's already provided for free.
	Humanity is just so blind, just looking for drugs in laboratories and in mRNA sequences and genetic engineering.
	You don't need that.
	It's in the weeds, you people.
	It's in the weeds.
	It's in the bark.
	It's in the fruit.
	It's in the seeds, like apricot seeds, laetrile, vitamin B17, anti-cancer, all of it.
	It all exists.
	It's in the mushrooms.
	You know?
	It's all there.
	Just amazing.
	God wants us to be healthy, and he gave us a planet where all the medicine is free, and yet humans will drive past fields of of anti-cancer medicine as they pull into a cancer treatment center to be poisoned with a synthetic man-made chemotherapy agent that they pay a fortune for while it's killing them as they ignore the natural plants all around them.
	Just incredible.
	Blind.
	Blind.
	It's the only term to describe humanity today when it comes to medicine.
	Just blind.
	But we don't have to be blind.
	We can make a choice to open our eyes and be aware, and that's what this is all about.
	So thank you.
	Thank you for all the support.
	Thank you for sharing this information.
	Thank you for tuning in.
	I'm Mike Adams, of course, the Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and brighttown.com.
	I'm going to be growing fennel seeds.
	I'm going to be doing shikimic acid extracts and experiments with shikimic acid in the lab.
	Should be tons of fun.
	I can't wait to share it with you.
	Thanks for listening.
	Welcome to this special report on tactical food security.
	This is Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger, founder of HealthRangerStore.com.
	And we are facing a food scarcity situation, a scenario that's been engineered that none of us have ever lived through.
	Now, right now, In the wholesale market, the commercial market, food prices across the board are up 80 to 90 percent or so this year.
	So we're talking about the prices on corn and soybeans and wheat and canola and many meat products and so on.
	Now a lot of these prices Are only beginning to trickle into the grocery store retail sector.
	So most Americans have not yet seen these price increases.
	And for most of the year so far, the mainstream media, the lying corporate fake news media has claimed there's no inflation because that's what Janet Yellen has said.
	Oh, there's no inflation.
	And yet prices are doubling on many things and prices are going to double on food.
	This is coming.
	Inflation is here.
	Inflation is horrific.
	Fuel prices are up.
	Lumber prices are up.
	In some cases, 500%.
	You know, copper prices, aluminum prices, so electrical wiring.
	For new homes is skyrocketing.
	And because of increased fuel prices, transportation of everything is more expensive now.
	There are many other examples of this.
	Inflation is here and it's hitting the food industry very hard.
	You're going to see from this point forward massive increases in prices at retail, at the grocery store.
	Now some of the food companies, they have been, let's say, shrinking Their food products, it's called shrinkflation, so they're reducing the number of ounces in their products or the size of a loaf of bread or the number of crackers in a cracker box or what have you.
	But they can only do that so much before people notice.
	Eventually, they have to really raise prices, and that's exactly what's going to start happening.
	Well, it's already begun, but it's going to get way worse.
	So with that understood, we are creeping into a scenario where the average American will have to spend as much as 40% of their income on food.
	This is going to bankrupt many families and many Americans, especially with housing already so high, where people are spending, in many cases, almost a third of their income on housing.
	There's no way they can spend 40% of their income on food.
	So what's going to happen is increasing desperation for acquiring food will expand what I call the behavioral Overton window, which is a person's allowable range of behaviors That they feel are justified or acceptable in society.
	So right now, at least before now, we've lived in a mostly polite society, unless you live in downtown LA or Seattle or something.
	Most Americans live in polite society.
	Where neighbors don't steal food from other neighbors, typically.
	That's just not something you see very often, especially in more middle-class suburbia type of neighborhoods.
	You don't have neighbors raiding other homes for food.
	But that's only because people have decided in their own minds that that's not an acceptable behavior.
	Well, that behavioral Overton window is now expanding and And you will see people so desperate for food coming up that they will feel justified in stealing food from their neighbors.
	And in fact, the higher food prices get, the more you're going to see not just shoplifting out of grocery stores and convenience stores and so on, and not just the hijacking of food delivery trucks, Grocery rigs that are delivering food to grocery stores, they're going to be hijacked and looted, which is what we saw in Venezuela over the last decade or so, by the way.
	You're also going to see farms raided.
	Farmers are going to be subjected to theft of their cows, theft of their crops, more than usual.
	This is going to become a national issue.
	Those of you who are farmers, you need to start planning for this, but then also individual homes in suburbia, just suburban neighborhoods are going to start to see food violence and food looting and theft.
	If your neighbors see that you're away from your house during the day because you still have a job that requires you to go to an office, they may decide to break in and raid your pantry and refrigerator during the day.
	And if you told your neighbors previously that you have storable food, then you're probably going to be on their target list because they're going to get desperate and think that, hey, anybody who has storable food must have, well, extra food.
	And that's going to play into their decisions.
	So we're dealing with a situation, again, that we've never lived through, not in American society and not in most first world nations like Canada, for example.
	But it's going to happen.
	It's already begun and it is inescapable.
	And as the starvation gets worse and worse, that allowable behavioral Overton window continues to expand to the point where when people are hungry enough, they will kill for food.
	And that's coming in certain areas as well.
	People will kill for food if it means not starving to death.
	So this is what you need to understand.
	There's a spectrum of behavior that And the more severe the hunger gets or the food scarcity, the more severe it is, the more behaviors are justified in the minds of people, which means they're going to be willing to attack, loot, rob, kill, threaten, whatever the case may be.
	So that's the background to what we're going to talk about here.
	That's the background.
	And I'm serious about all of this.
	You need to think about tactical food security.
	So now we're going to discuss some of the ways that you can achieve food security.
	And protect yourself even if you live in a suburban neighborhood.
	In fact, that's going to be kind of the focus of this, is a suburban neighborhood type of scenario.
	Because let's face it, if you live out in the country and you're far away from other people, you already have sort of natural barriers or protections.
	Number one, you have lots of ways to grow food, should you choose to do that.
	And people who live in the country tend to be more self-reliant, so your neighbors are probably doing their own food thing as well.
	Whereas people who live in cities or suburban areas, they tend to rely on the system, the grocery stores.
	And so they're the ones who are going to panic first.
	So if you're closer to them, then you're automatically in more trouble.
	So obviously one of the answers to this is, as I've said for many years, get out of the cities.
	Get out of the suburban neighborhoods.
	If your neighbors are just 25 feet away, or if you're in an apartment, you're in a potential threat zone when it comes to food scarcity.
	So get outside of the cities.
	Get into a rural area as quickly as you can.
	The other practical thing that you can do, and there's a risk associated with this, but You can talk to your neighbors and try to convince them that food scarcity is coming and try to convince them to become preppers.
	The downside of this is that this will admit to them that you are a prepper.
	So if they refuse to prep, and let's face it, there's a lot of oblivious, idiotic people today, and you can identify them usually by the fact that they're wearing masks while they're walking around outside or driving in their own cars, you probably don't want to waste your time talking to those people.
	Because they're not going to prep, but they will remember that you're a prepper and then they'll come for your food one day.
	So just something to think about.
	You'll have to assess your neighbors and figure out what's the best way to go.
	A third thing to do is, of course, increase your own personal security, which is something that everybody should be doing anyway.
	So just in case this goes kinetic, it would be a great idea to make sure that you are competent with a couple of different types of firearms, notably a pistol and a rifle.
	So an AR-15 combat type of rifle, semi-automatic, full-length 16-inch barrel, the whole deal.
	It's a good idea to become proficient in an AR-15 if you're not already.
	And AR-15s are considered really light weapons.
	They're not hard to handle.
	They don't kick hardly at all.
	I mean, there's virtually no kick whatsoever, despite, you know, what Hollywood shows you and TV shows.
	Firing an AR-15 is extremely easy as long as you have the upper body strength to just hold it up.
	A lot of women don't.
	Shorter AR-15 style pistols or even 9mm carbines which are lighter and easier to shoot with.
	Those are good options as well.
	But everybody should be competent with a pistol.
	And there's going to be a day where you're going to need to wear a pistol In your own home, if you don't already.
	Now, I've done that for years on my ranch.
	I'm always carrying a pistol with spare magazines.
	It's just the way that I've lived my life because of the threats that are unique to me.
	But everybody who wants to survive is going to have to wear a firearm soon because it could be a knock on your door one day.
	A year from now, massive starvation has hit your state.
	The grocery store shelves are empty.
	Knock on your door, and it's your neighbor.
	Says, hey, it's your neighbor, Bob.
	And you're like, oh, it's Bob.
	You answer the door, and Bob's got a shotgun in your face.
	And Bob says, I'm really sorry.
	I had no other choice.
	I need some of your food, okay?
	So that conversation is coming.
	And if you don't have a gun on your hip in that moment, you really don't have any way You know, to react and if they've got a shotgun pointed at you, you might need to, you know, figure out the proper way to handle that.
	Now, I mean, I'm trained in weapon takeaways.
	If someone puts a shotgun in my face, it's real easy to deflect and take that shotgun away or push it to the side, grab your own pistol, fire three or four rounds into that person before they know what happens.
	But I wouldn't advise people to attempt that unless you have a lot of training in doing that.
	And, you know, even if a shotgun goes off near your face, it's going to be loud and it's going to suck, but there are ways to survive it.
	Nevertheless, think about that kind of situation because that is going to increasingly happen.
	But there are other things that we can do as well without having to resort to firearms.
	And of course, one of the best things to do is to hide your food.
	So hiding your food in your home, around your home, in your yard even, we'll talk about this, is one of the best ways.
	That way, if your home is robbed or looted, it's very unlikely that they will be able to find much of this food.
	So, where to begin?
	Food can be bulky, so you need a lot of physical space.
	And some of the best ways to do this are in the basement.
	If you have a basement, build a false wall so that you have maybe a six-foot area behind that wall to hide buckets of food.
	Or if you have a pretty big closet, maybe a walk-in closet in your home, you can build a false wall with drywall with a secret compartment to get into it.
	Maybe it's your master closet or something.
	You can get in there.
	And you have a secret door.
	And you've got a food stash behind there.
	Now, I know that those are kind of complicated to build those.
	So some simpler things to do are...
	You'll have to have some drywall and some paint skills, but you can go out and buy a stud finder and locate the studs in your walls.
	They're normally every 16 inches.
	And then cut out some drywall in between the studs and you'll have...
	Some space in there to stash food, like canned foods and jars of peanut butter and things like that.
	And then you'll have to patch back up the drywall.
	I know this sounds like a lot of work, but a couple of jars of peanut butter could save your life one day depending on how bad the starvation is getting and whether your local government is coming to confiscate your food supply.
	This will happen especially in Democrat-run states.
	So if you're living in Oregon, Washington, California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, you should expect the government to come try to confiscate your food at some point.
	When they do that, they will enter your home without a warrant and they will look for food and they will take what's convenient for them to find and take, but they will skip the foods that they can't find, i.e.
	the foods in your drywall, the foods hidden in secret locations in your basement, things like that.
	Those foods will enable you to stay alive.
	So think about all the things that you have in your home and where there's empty space.
	Where could you hide things?
	Some people may choose to hide food in a fireplace that they're not using and then they would stack wood in front of it or something to cover up that food.
	Some people may be building a new house and they're designing new hidden compartments.
	Some people may decide to hide food in the backyard.
	And this is a good option.
	It requires very good containers, such as the polyethylene pails.
	Obviously, you've got to protect your food from moisture.
	Because if you bury it in the yard and it rains, you don't want moisture to get in.
	Also, if you hide food in your walls, make sure that you have rodent-proof containers and ant-proof containers.
	Don't just throw a bag of chips back there because you'll end up just having mice eat it all.
	They'll eat through insulation and everything to find your food.
	And they'll just leave behind a bunch of mouse turds in your walls.
	That's not going to help you when the day comes that you need your food.
	Burying food in your yard is an option.
	You can also hide food in vehicles, including maybe an old broken-down vehicle that's in your backyard if you're using that even as a disguise or something.
	You can hide food.
	Some people will take an old refrigerator, just an appliance, and they'll bury the refrigerator in Just lay it down, dig a big hole in the yard, the size of the refrigerator, put the fridge in there, and then put containers of food inside the fridge.
	And these food containers need to be fully sealed, waterproof, weatherproof, antproof.
	And then they'll close the door on the fridge and cover it up with a thin layer of soil.
	You could bury an entire fridge.
	Other people will bury polyethylene barrels like a 30-gallon drum or a 55-gallon drum Full of food, bury it in the yard.
	It's a lot of work, but you can put a ton of food in a 30-gallon drum, by the way.
	And you can go, you know, dig it up later when you need that spare food.
	And a lot of these foods will store for 10 to 20 years, especially grains like wheat and so on.
	And you could store a wheat grinding machine with it.
	These are just some ideas of some things to think about.
	A couple other tactical strategies.
	One is to buy clothing that's too large.
	And I heard this tip from Bob Griswold at Readymade Resources.
	He recommends this to people because everybody else in your neighborhood is going to be losing weight.
	And so it will be common for people to drop pounds and to have clothes that are too big.
	Very common.
	Well, if your clothes aren't too big, but everybody else is wearing baggy clothes, eventually the local townsfolk are going to figure out that you're not missing calories somehow.
	That's amazing.
	So what you need to do is go to the local Goodwill or wherever and buy some used clothing that's too big and be prepared to wear that around in public.
	The other strategy is to start right now training yourself to consume fewer calories because it's something your body can get used to.
	And you can also drop pounds right now so that you appear thinner the next time people see you who haven't seen you in a while.
	And the easiest thing that I've found, this just works for me, Is to drink a smoothie in the morning and then fast all afternoon and then just eat one meal in the evening.
	And by the way, I'm doing this right now because I put on a few extra pounds during the COVID lockdown situation.
	So I decided to just do this technique to shed some pounds and it works great.
	Again, you do a big smoothie in the morning.
	Almost like a full Vitamix blender full.
	I do an avocado banana smoothie with turmeric and flax seeds and coconut water.
	And what else?
	Whey protein.
	Some things like that.
	Cacao.
	And I just drink that.
	Sip that in the morning, noon.
	And then I fast all afternoon until about, say, 7.30 or whatever.
	Eat one good-sized meal in the evening, and that's it.
	And that...
	That's a bit of a calorie restriction diet, but it's easy for me to do, and you don't go to bed hungry because you had that meal later at night.
	So whatever you decide to do, get your body used to eating less because that's going to be something that you're likely going to have to do.
	And you notice that so far in all of this, I haven't yet said, you know, go out and buy more storable food because that's an obvious thing.
	Everybody...
	Who's in the know is already doing that.
	I'm talking about how to hide that food or how to stretch that food, how to train yourself to eat less.
	If you're living on 3,500 calories a day, as a lot of Americans are, could you get by on 2,500?
	Answer, yes.
	Could you get by on 2,000?
	Probably so, depending on your level of activity.
	Could you get by on 1,500?
	Well, that's tough.
	That's a stretch for a lot of people.
	But you could certainly reduce your caloric intake by a third and still be fine.
	It just takes some training to get used to that.
	Okay, the next strategy is gorilla gardening or gorilla food production.
	This is to produce food in ways that are not obvious to your neighbors.
	So yes, you can grow food in your backyard or you can grow food in containers On your patio, and you can also grow food hydroponically indoors using LED lights.
	If you do these things, and I recommend that you do, if you do these things, make sure you do them in a way that's not obvious to everybody else.
	So if you have a garden in your backyard, try to hide your garden as much as possible or make it look like it isn't a garden.
	Now, there's a simple way to do this.
	Stop mowing your yard.
	Let the weeds grow.
	Let the grass grow.
	Let it all get tall.
	And then somewhere in the middle of that, you might have a garden area, but then don't make it shaped like a square.
	People always like to have a square or rectangular garden.
	You don't have to do that.
	You could grow a few potatoes over here.
	You could grow a tomato plant over there.
	Some zucchini somewhere else in your yard.
	Distribute your plants around the yard so it doesn't look like everything's all in one place.
	And then you're much less likely to have someone drive by or peer over your fence and say, hey, well, it looks like a garden.
	Now, you may also have, maybe you have a backyard that's got some trees.
	So think about what could you plant under partial shade You know, depending on the type of plants, I mean, some plants need full sun, but some will do well in partial shade.
	What could you do that would still produce calories for you that wouldn't be open to, like, the full sunlight view?
	And then also, if you're growing hydroponically indoors or on a balcony or something, How can you hide that from nosy neighbors?
	How can you, let's say if you have hydroponic lights that are on to grow your plants, how do you turn off those lights at the appropriate time so your neighbors don't see that you have grow lights on late into the evening that are obvious just from driving by your house or looking at your house from across the street?
	So think about light pollution.
	Light will give away hydroponic systems.
	Think about distributed gardening or guerrilla gardening.
	And then think about food preservation that you know how to do.
	Canning, drying, salting, smoking, you know, different kinds of food preservation techniques.
	Because food that you grow and then preserve yourself is food that I call off-grid food.
	Off-grid food is food that's not known by the government.
	It's not tracked.
	Because they're going to implement biometric, mark of the beast, food tracking systems and food limits, just like in Venezuela.
	You're going to see this all across America.
	There's going to be a limit to the amount of food that you're allowed to purchase.
	And it's going to be tracked with maybe a palm scan, an iris scan, maybe your vaccine passport app will have a food quota system built into it.
	Who knows?
	I mean, this is the Orwellian nightmare come to life.
	But if you grow food, that's off-grid food.
	It's just like, you know, how you make your own firearms and have no serial numbers, and they're called ghost guns?
	Well, you could have ghost gardens, basically.
	That's another way to say it.
	Ghost gardening is off-grid food that's not tracked by anyone, and this can keep you alive.
	This can spell the difference between life and death.
	Because at some point, the government may say, well, you know, we're reducing the caloric allowance to 1,200 calories a day, and everybody's starving.
	Except for the tattletale people who turn in food hoarders, they turn in their neighbors to the government.
	They get a food credit reward.
	And that's how the government's going to basically arrest and incarcerate all of the preppers, is just have them turned in by their own neighbors.
	But for everybody else, they might get reduced to 1,200 calories a day.
	So they're on a starvation diet.
	But if you have, let's say, 500 calories a day of your off-grid food, your ghost gardens, you're going to be able to stay alive where many other people won't.
	So that's another reason to have off-grid food.
	And right now, you can go to the grocery store and buy food that's not tracked.
	Pay cash to get the food.
	Stock up now while you can.
	And that's all off-grid food.
	It's not necessarily being tracked to you if you bought it with cash and you don't have an RFID biometric chip implanted into you yet, right?
	So that's off-grid food and you can store that in a big way.
	Oh, and by the way, some people have camper vans and RVs and such.
	An RV vehicle can store a whole lot of food as long as you can keep that RV secure and it doesn't get stolen.
	It's also a great place to store quite a bit of food as long as the food is vacuum packed and safe from humidity and safe from insects and so on.
	So these are some of the ideas of tactical food security.
	I hope you found these to be valuable ideas.
	Think about what's appropriate for you in your situation and Where do you live?
	Is it a red state?
	Is it a blue state?
	Is it run by lunatic Democrats who are police state Orwellian control freaks?
	Or are you living in an area where you have more freedom?
	And just compile that into your plans when you decide what to do and how to run with all this information.
	But stock up now because food security is going to become one of the biggest issues for the next couple of years.
	Certified organic, lab-verified, storable food, of course.
	My store offers that, healthrangerstore.com.
	It's packed in very thick, vacuum-packed bags, individually packed of different types of food staples inside the Ranger buckets.
	You can go online to healthrangerstore.com and learn about that.
	We have availability on and off.
	Sometimes they're sold out, but we're always making more.
	I anticipate the prices of those food buckets will double over the next two years or maybe the next year, depending on what it costs us to get the raw materials.
	They will double and there's nothing we can do about it.
	We're probably going to be lucky to even get the raw materials coming up soon.
	So whatever the price is now, it's a bargain compared to what it's going to be.
	It's an investment in your food security, and right now it's all off-grid food.
	The government doesn't know you have it.
	So find ways to hide it, find ways to keep it safe, and it may just save your life as the food crisis really kicks in over the next couple of years.
	Thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams, The Health Ranger.
	Take care.
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