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April 3, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Health Ranger shops at a dollar store to reveal secrets of PREPPING and CURRENCY
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All right, welcome folks.
Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger, and I present to you a table full of stuff and also a table full of currencies.
There's a stack of $10,000, but that's nothing because right here I have a million dollars from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
You see that?
Now, all of this stuff, what does this have to do?
With all these other currencies, by the way, all of these currencies have collapsed.
You're looking at all collapsed currencies here.
And we're going to go through this later in more detail, but, oh, $1 million is nothing.
Here's, oh, here's $50 million from the Bank of Zimbabwe.
Here's $100 million.
Gosh, I feel so rich with all this paper with big numbers on them.
$200 million from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the official currency that the government said you can trust.
$500 million, whoa, and then we get to billions and it just continues.
I'm going to cover that in a separate video.
You can see, you probably guess where that goes.
But what does that have to do with all this stuff right here?
Well, all of this stuff, except for the currency, the paper currency garbage, everything that you see on this table, I purchased at a dollar store in Texas for a total of about $40.
So I want you to just notice what we have here.
We've got click pencils.
We have a scientific calculator, which actually works.
It's actually on.
I need to turn that off.
We have, you know, rulers.
Here's a candle, like an emergency candle that totally works.
We have a digital thermometer here.
Pretty amazing.
Ibuprofen, of course, notice there's only six soft gels in that ibuprofen.
We're going to talk about that in a minute.
But you've got decongestion, medicine, mucus relief, alcohol prep pads.
There's 100 of them in there.
That's actually a pretty good deal right there.
A little over a penny per pad.
Hydrocortisone, some paracord, paperclips.
Of course, it was kind of survival-minded in this.
Here's another calculator, $1.25.
Playing cards, pencil sharpeners, a pair of socks, an oven mitt, some sponges, a two-in-one flashlight, three cheap lighters, a little cheap spatula that actually could be useful in a camping scenario, a can opener, which is pretty thin metal, but...
It looks functional.
Four toothbrushes, washcloths, epoxy, some Ajax cleaning solution, a hex key set, screwdriver set, super glue, some small tools, and I think I pretty much covered almost everything, a few other items.
Okay, all of this for under $40.
Now, how can that be?
I mean, just think about the pens.
If you were to try to go out and buy this by itself, you might pay, I don't know, $6, $7, just for that.
You could pay $10 for this candle somewhere.
You could pay $20 for a scientific calculator.
So the dollar stores are actually doing a really good job at bringing you low-end stuff at very reasonable prices.
You know, $1.25 for this?
That's pretty incredible.
Two microfiber cloths, four toothbrushes.
And the reason I mention all this is because America is going broke.
The American currency, which we'll talk about here in a second.
Let me get my stack of $10,000 here.
See that?
See that big stack of $10,000?
Yeah, we'll talk about that here in a second.
America's going broke, and this is becoming worthless.
And yet, right now, you can buy a lot of stuff with a little bit of this because most of this stuff comes from China.
So we have, of course, international shipping and logistics and manufacturing.
And in China, these things can be produced very, very cheaply.
And the only reason that we're able to buy all this stuff with just a little bit of this is because of the petrodollar status.
Which creates worldwide demand for the dollar because most of the oil in the world, especially the oil sold by the Saudis, must be purchased with dollars.
So this creates demand for dollars and allows the United States to print more money into the world's supply of dollars without causing a total collapse of the currency at first.
But the collapse is coming.
Until the collapse happens, you can buy three sponges for $1.25.
You can buy nine.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's 12.
You can buy 12 pencil sharpeners for $1.25.
You can buy a bunch of twine for $1.25.
You can buy a pack of cards for $1.25.
And a calculator.
That's just astonishing.
This thing even works.
Look.
Turn this sucker on.
There you go.
It's on.
You can even do math.
You realize how hard it would have been?
I mean, how hard it is to make this yourself or to come up with this?
How are you going to manufacture this for less than a dollar?
Only in China can they do that.
And only because we, in the United States, we make dollars, basically counterfeit dollars, and we export dollars in exchange for all this stuff.
And so we have this artificial material abundance in America, and that material abundance is going away.
It's vanishing.
So here we go.
Here's a stack of $10,000.
Let's see.
Let's make sure.
Okay.
You see the $100,000 on top, right?
There you go.
There's your $10,000.
Okay.
Actually, that's a little trick.
Only the top one is real.
The ones beneath that are Hollywood dollars.
So these are actually fake, and they even say they're fake on them.
See?
It says copy, and it says, like, this is not legal tender, right?
But anyway, you can put $100 on top, and you can create the impression of a $10,000 stack, which is what I've done here.
But even on the back, it says, like, for motion picture use only, right?
It's all fake.
But there's no difference between what's on the bottom, which is totally fake, and what's on the top, which is supposed to be real.
And there's really no difference between this $100 and then...
$1 million from Zimbabwe.
Look, Zimbabwe has security features here.
These little holograms, right?
Just like this $100 has some kind of security features built into it.
This is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Treasury or the Federal Reserve.
This was backed by the full faith and credit of Zimbabwe.
Oh, and what about all these other countries?
Republic of wherever?
There's billions of dollars around here from Yugoslavia or somewhere.
I've lost the Yugoslavian notes.
But Zimbabwe tells the story.
Check this out.
If you keep going through this, you get to $5 billion right there.
And then if you keep going, you get $10 billion.
Yeah, there you go.
That's an actual Zimbabwe note.
That's $10 billion.
100% official, right?
And then they had to keep printing, just like they're doing in America, more handouts, more stimulus money, and then it went to $20 billion here, and then it went to $50 billion, and then they finally just said, screw it, and they just went to $10 trillion.
They're just like, ah, let's just stop messing around with the billions.
Let's go to the trillions.
And that's what they did.
And when that happened to this, it meant that you couldn't buy this stuff no matter how much of this you had.
Understand?
Because this is nothing but just useless paper.
And this is nothing but useless paper soon to be.
Because the dollar is going to zero.
You won't be able to buy a pair of socks for $100 soon in America.
You won't be able to buy a toothbrush for $100 because $100 will be worth less than $1 today.
And so if you wonder why it makes sense to do prepping, it's because right now you can get all this stuff.
Even if you work a low-end job, you can earn $40 in about, what, two hours right now?
Because almost everybody's paying, it seems like $15 to $20 an hour even for just washing dishes.
So in two hours of work, you can acquire all this stuff.
That equation is going away.
It will, at some point, take you maybe a couple hundred hours of work to acquire these things right here that you're looking at because of what's happening to this.
Ben Franklin is not smiling, is he?
He's not happy about this.
So I want you to understand what's going on.
And also, by the way, Let's talk about shrinkflation here for a second, because this is ibuprofen for $1.25.
Looks great.
Except, look at how many soft gels are in there.
Oh, it's only six.
Six soft gels?
Really?
There's almost nothing in there.
What is this?
Sinus congestion and pain.
Twelve caplets?
It's only twelve?
My God!
What?!
Mucus relief.
Only 15 capsules.
What if you still have more mucus?
That's gualfinescin.
There we go.
That's the active ingredient.
So if you do the per unit pricing on these, they're actually not that great of a deal.
Most of the money that goes into this goes into printing the box and manufacturing the bottle.
This is not a smart way to buy medicine.
But I'm noticing that this is the way a lot of people are buying now because they're increasingly impoverished.
When I lived in South America, I noticed a lot of people would buy one meal at a time in terms of groceries or one dose at a time in terms of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals because they were living day by day, day to day.
They did not have enough money to make it through.
And so they were just using the money they earned that day to go buy food that day or to go buy medicine that day.
And I see more and more Americans heading into that situation now.
So the dollar stores that offer these things, you're going to see more and more people shopping there.
Even people who were formerly middle-class people.
I mean, hey, I shopped there.
I went and did all this myself.
I decided to go through the store and see, like, what can I get that's actually useful?
This stuff's useful.
Superglue.
I mean, if you were to try to buy all this stuff at a Target or a Walmart, you would spend easily over $100.
Easily.
But at a dollar store, you can get this stuff for about $40, roughly what I spent, maybe a little bit over.
And this is where more people are going to be shopping.
For all the reasons I just mentioned, it has everything to do with this and this and, you know, what's going on with currency.
So I just want to say, as our dollar is less and less valuable, and you have to go out and hunt for bargains, You know, does it make sense to pick up how many pens is this?
Eight pens for a dollar?
Yes, it does.
There's no shame in shopping at a dollar store if you want to get eight pens for a dollar or a bunch of clips for a dollar or three rulers for a dollar or four-clicking pencils or whatever.
It's not smart to buy ibuprofen at this price per dose, but you can do better than that.
Somewhere else.
But a lot of these things are actually good deals.
You know, three lighters for a dollar?
I mean, do they work?
I mean, I don't know.
It looks like they have lighter fluid in them.
Wouldn't be hard to see if they work.
Let's just find out.
You know what?
Here we go.
Open this sucker up here.
I bet they do work.
Here we go.
There we go.
There we go.
Yeah.
Apparently they work.
Do they hold the fluid for a long time?
I don't know.
But three lighters for basically a dollar, well, $1.25 technically, that's a pretty good deal.
All right, so that's what I wanted to explain to you folks and just share that with you.
I mean, look at this thermometer, you know, a digital thermometer.
If it works, it's a steal at $1.25.
Could this be useful in a collapse scenario?
Absolutely.
So right now, today, you can go out and get this stuff for a fraction of what it's going to cost you in the future.
And, you know, since commerce is going to be very difficult, you might want to calculate it like this because you're going to be doing a lot of, you know, little math while you're buying and selling, bartering ammunition and chicken eggs and garden seeds and stuff.
You're going to need to do a lot of math.
You might need square root functions.
Who knows?
You might need this scientific calculator over here.
You might have to calculate x and y in a multivariable equation.
Who knows?
But the fact that you can get this so cheaply, You know, the first calculator like this, the first scientific calculator was a Texas Instruments calculator.
I think it came out in the late 1970s.
And I think that calculator cost $400 at the time.
That was in 1970s dollars.
Today, you can get it for $1.25 in wildly devalued dollars, by the way.
So it's just like a thousand times cheaper now than what it used to be.
So while this trade situation lasts, it's a pretty smart idea to go out and get the stuff you need because it's never going to be cheaper than it is now.
Never in your lifetime is it going to be so easy to acquire these physical things with such a small amount of this stuff because this stuff is going to zero.
All right, I'm Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger.
Thank you for watching.
Much appreciated.
Get prepared.
Take care.
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