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May 11, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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DIESELGEDDON - Citizens' Log - May 11th, 2022 - America's diesel supply...
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Citizens Log, May 11th, 2022.
A time capsule message from the present to the future survivors of the war.
Today's episode, Dieselgeddon in America.
And also a new question for Western Europe.
Do you want to heat or do you want to eat?
As you know, part of what I do in this podcast is to observe what's happening here and report on what's leading to the collapse of our modern civilization so that future historians looking back Can have some record of what went wrong.
And right now we're looking at the deliberate dismantling of the energy infrastructure.
We're looking at extreme diesel scarcity in America.
Talk about that here.
And then, of course, the bombshell events happening in Europe where Kiev, that's right, the government of Ukraine, has now shut off one third of the gas supply to Western Europe.
That's natural gas coming out of Russia.
So this is all being done on purpose and a narrative is being set up in advance through the mainstream media to tell us to prepare for power grid failures and to prepare for energy outages.
And part of what's amazing about that, as we mentioned yesterday, even the Wall Street Journal reporting that we should expect power grid failures in America, even in the hot summer months, because of the rush conversion to green energy.
And that rush has left us unable to provide the energy that people need to cool their homes and run their businesses and run their cities.
Well, we're also being warned about shortages of diesel fuel.
In fact, Michael Snyder from endoftheamericandream.com, he's got some good observations about what the media is warning us about.
He's quoting a tweet about the diesel supply.
It says, quote, We're looking at a nightmare in terms of global diesel shortage that will shock people starting June.
Diesel inventory on the East Coast is $18 million.
That's about three days' worth of diesel.
As of today, we will run down to sub-10 million.
Now, we're going to talk about diesel, but remember that diesel runs not only the transportation trucks, but also the trains, because the trains are diesel-electric trains.
And then, of course, we're also being warned by the media that there will be electrical shortages.
As I said, the Wall Street Journal claiming that, quote, fossil fuel power plants are being retired more quickly than they can be replaced by renewable energy and battery storage.
Now CNBC is reporting that diesel fuel is in short supply as prices surge.
And here's what that means for inflation.
That's the title of their article from yesterday.
Now remember, for those of you future historians listening to this, this is all engineered.
This is all an engineered takedown.
And what the globalists have discovered is that diesel fuel is the vulnerable point Without which, we can't transport food or fuel or fertilizer or coal or grain or anything.
So CNBC has started to get a clue about this.
They say that the U.S. distillate inventory of diesel is now at the lowest level in more than a decade.
And they're saying it's even more extreme on the East Coast, where stockpiles of diesel are the lowest since 1996.
Diesel and jet fuel, they say, at New York Harbor are now trading well above $200 per barrel.
Refiners can't just ramp up output to meet surging demand, reports CNBC, and utilization rates are already above 90%.
In the U.S., refining capacity has decreased in recent years.
The largest refining complex on the East Coast, Philadelphia Energy Solutions, shut down following a fire in June 2019.
A fire, you say?
A fire?
If that sounds familiar, it's because you've heard about all the food industry, distribution hubs and manufacturing facilities and so on, burning down over the last several weeks.
Well, actually, the last six plus months, but several in the last few weeks as well.
So it's very mysterious, isn't it?
Just this incredible coincidence.
So many fires of food plants.
Well, If you go back to 2019, when the Globals were first releasing the pandemic, you know, the SARS-CoV-2 and getting ready for the economic lockdowns and the masks and the vaccine coercion and all that, there was an explosion at Philadelphia Energy Solutions.
And this explosion took place June 21st, and this was in Philadelphia.
CNBC reported on it at the time.
Actually, this report that I'm going to read from is October 16th of 2019.
And the headline is, we finally know what caused the refinery blast that rocked Philadelphia.
So this was big news in the summer of 2019.
Massive explosion.
And the refinery closed after the fire and the company, Philadelphia Energy Solutions, filed for bankruptcy.
Now, According to this report, the fire was caused by a faulty pipe.
And it ignited more than 5,000 pounds of hydrofluoric acid, which ignited in an airburst, a massive explosion that rocked the whole city.
So they say this was a faulty pipe, and in the fire rage for 24 hours, it released 5,239 pounds of deadly chemicals into the air.
And they're saying an elbow pipe failed, which allowed flammable fluid containing propane and other chemicals to escape that turned into a vapor cloud, which ignited.
Basically, they created a fuel air explosion.
There were three explosions that occurred, and it just got worse and worse.
Okay.
Sent shockwaves for miles around the complex, and homes shook as debris rained down.
Okay.
Okay.
So this faulty pipe is being blamed for it, but how hard would it be for someone to go in and rig this thing and blame it on a faulty pipe?
If they knew which pipe to drill a hole in, let's say, or to put a crack in...
They could have caused this explosion to happen.
They could have burned this thing down and thereby taken out this infrastructure, the infrastructure to create diesel fuel.
So this place has been offline ever since.
And we've had essentially a nationwide shortage of diesel fuel ever since.
But there's something else that is happening here.
And the CNBC article I mentioned earlier has a sentence that deserves your attention.
Quote, several refiners are now being reconfigured to make biofuel, which has also reduced capacity.
Okay.
So instead of making diesel, they converted over to make biofuel.
But the biofuel isn't really available anywhere at the gas stations, you see.
And all the diesel trucks out there and the diesel trains, they don't run on biofuel without some alterations and so on.
So what they've done in America...
Over the last several years and I've got a story on this too about how Phillips 66 has taken some of its big energy plants and they've converted them over to make biofuel.
So here's an article from JWNenergy.com which is an energy intelligence website.
And this is from August of 2020.
Quote, massive oil refiners are turning into biofuel plants in the West.
And it talks about Phillips 66.
And it says that massive oil refineries across the Western U.S. are being converted into biofuel plants.
Now, again, this was part of the push to make everything green.
But in order to do this, they had to take these offline from being able to produce actual diesel fuel.
So this isn't just an issue of some refineries blowing up or having fires or being shut down for maintenance.
This is an issue where they revamped the refineries, made it so they couldn't produce diesel.
Instead, they're producing biofuel.
From that news story, Phillips 66 on Wednesday became the latest in a string of U.S. refiners to say it's converting an oil refinery in California into a biofuel plant as gasoline loses its luster.
to fuels derived from agricultural and waste products.
The company said its 120,000 barrel a day Rodeo refinery near San Francisco will become the world's biggest plant that makes so-called renewable diesel as well as gasoline and jet fuel out of used cooking oil, fats, greases, and soybean oils.
Alright, now, do you see the problem with this?
So, in order to make biodiesel, you have to have food oils.
But in order to grow food, you have to have diesel to deliver the fertilizer by train, because the trains are diesel-electric trains.
So this whole system of turning these diesel plants into biodiesel plants puts them further down the chain.
You still got to have diesel in order to grow the food, to have the food oils to make the biofuel.
And even then, it's highly wasteful, extremely inefficient.
These biofuels are actually bad for the environment, not good.
They actually take more energy than they release.
I mean, it's just like ethanol from corn.
It's really just kind of a...
It's a fraud, frankly.
But it sounds good.
It sounds green.
And it allows these companies to pretend like they're doing something great for the environment, which they're really not.
But given all the environmental push with the corporate requirements, what's it called?
The ESG or something like that, where you have to qualify on these environmental standards in order to conduct business...
So it's causing these kinds of companies to shut down diesel refineries and turn them into biofuel plants.
And continuing from JWN Energy, the announcement came about a week after fuel giant Marathon Petroleum Corp.
said that it may convert two refineries into renewable diesel plants.
And in June, Hawley Frontier Corp.
said it would turn its Cheyenne, Wyoming refinery into a renewable diesel plant by 2022.
Now remember, this story is from August of 2020.
At the time, diesel demand was rock bottom because of the COVID lockdowns.
So the lockdowns crushed the economy and that caused the refineries to have a situation of oversupply where they were making too much fuel.
And do you remember?
I forgot the date, but do you remember when a barrel of oil went to, like, negative $40 or whatever that was?
That one day, oil went negative.
There was so much oil in the system that you had to pay people to take it from you.
I mean, that's insane, but that's what happened because of the pandemic lockdowns.
And the pandemic was also, of course, contrived.
This was all engineered.
So then these diesel plants decided, well...
We're going to shut down and convert into biodiesel.
That started happening around 2020.
And that continued through 2021 and now into 2022.
Now the problem is we don't have enough capacity, especially when you have the fire in Philadelphia and other maintenance shutdowns and so on.
We don't have the capacity.
So where are we now?
Well, getting back to the original CNBC story, Kloza said diesel at New York Harbor is trading at $5 per gallon, while jet fuel prices at the harbor, which usually mirror diesel prices, are around $6.72.
That equates to roughly $282 per barrel.
$282 per barrel.
Quote, these are numbers that are not just off the charts.
They're off the walls, out of the building, and maybe out of the solar system, he said.
Yeah, because he's never seen diesel prices and fuel prices this high.
Almost no one's ever seen that.
In Texas right now, Just me driving around casually, just looking at prices, diesel is about $5.50 roughly per gallon, which is crazy because, you know, I've got a few thousand gallons of diesel stored, and I paid $3 and something for most of that diesel.
I mean, some of it even under $3, but that was Trump-era diesel, which is no longer available, sadly.
So the combination of all this that I've just covered here, the explosion that rocked Philadelphia and shut down that refinery, the conversion of refineries over from diesel into biofuels, which still haven't appeared on the market that I can tell.
I don't know, maybe there are specialty markets somewhere.
Somebody's buying that stuff, but it's not at the gas stations.
It's not going into the long-haul trucks.
But this combination, plus, of course, the economic sanctions against Russia, The ban on Russian oil and the fact that the supply chain disaster is only getting worse everywhere around the world, including the United States.
All of this combines to create what I'm calling dieselgeddon.
That's the diesel Armageddon in America.
Dieselgeddon.
Now, I know that some of you who are concerned about the environment, and I am, by the way, I am an environmentalist for the point of view of halting pollution.
So I'm opposed to heavy metals being released in the atmosphere.
I'm opposed to the microplastics in the ocean.
I'm opposed to pesticides and herbicides sprayed on the food.
All that garbage.
I'm opposed to particulate pollution.
And you might think, well how can you be pro-diesel if you're anti-pollution?
And the answer is very simple.
Since 2011, every diesel engine sold in America Has had to be augmented with something called DEF, Diesel Emissions Fluid.
I think that's what that stands for.
And this DEF, and I've got a truck with a DEF on it.
You've got to add this fluid to it.
And I think they're called Tier 4 Anti-Pollution or Emissions Controls.
I think it's called Tier 4.
This diesel with the DEF on it is the cleanest running diesel that you could possibly imagine.
You could, if you wanted to, I'm not recommending you do that, but you could sniff the tailpipe.
Of a diesel truck that's running with this DEF fluid.
And you probably wouldn't even cough.
Now, don't start vaping the tailpipe.
There's nothing that's special coming out of there.
It's mostly just carbon dioxide and, you know, some little bit of water vapor.
That's pretty much about it.
Not that much else.
It's going to be on the warm side, too, since it just came out of an exploding combustion engine.
But there's almost no pollution coming out of diesel engines these days, the ones that have been released since 2011.
Now, the pre-2011 diesel engines, I get it.
They are quite dirty in terms of pollution, but that's what DEF is all about.
Today's diesels run so clean that they're comparable to gasoline engines, or maybe even cleaner in some cases.
And this applies to diesel engines in construction equipment.
In big rigs, long-haul rigs on the highways, it applies to bulldozers and skid steers and excavators and track loaders and every kind of cranes, all kinds of equipment.
It's all running DEF. These are very, very clean diesel engines.
They're incredibly clean.
And people who say that diesel is causing a lot of pollution, actually, maybe they haven't kept up with this, what's been going on since 2011.
But they might say, well, what about the carbon coming out of the tailpipe?
The carbon dioxide, you know, it's horrible.
It's pollution.
It's carbon.
And, of course, carbon dioxide is nutrients for plants.
So if you're driving down the highway and you're burning diesel, what's coming out of the tailpipe behind you is actually helping all of the plants and trees and crops along the highway grow because they need CO2. Every plant on our planet needs CO2. So the issue of diesel being clean or dirty really doesn't have much to do with the engine itself.
It has to do with the extraction.
Where is the oil coming from?
And how is it shipped or transported to where it's going to be consumed?
That's the question.
And when oil tankers burst and have a spill, like the Exxon Valdez spill or the Gulf of Mexico spill, yeah, those are horrific accidents against our planet and against the oceans, against the aquatic ecosystems.
Those are horrifying accidents.
Which is why it's better to transport oil in pipelines.
Pipelines are the safest and most reliable way to transport oil.
But what do the environmentalists oppose?
Oh, pipelines.
They would rather you transport oil on boats or by truck, both of which have far more accidents per mile, per gallon, or you could say per barrel, per volume unit, let's say, of the oil that's transported.
By boat and by truck, that's the worst way to transport oil, but that's what the environmentalists demand, which just shows you they don't have much knowledge about the environment, actually, do they?
But using pipelines is the cleanest way, the safest way, the most reliable way with the least amount of environmental impact of how to get oil from point A to point B. And by using pipelines, you avoid using rubber tires on the highways, you avoid using brakes, You avoid, I mean, you don't have to drag a giant truck around that weighs a lot all by itself to carry the fuel.
You know, you're just pushing the oil through the pipeline.
If the pipeline bursts, there's a pressure drop and the equipment knows to stop pushing more oil through the pipeline.
And so when pipelines spill, they're quite limited.
I'm not saying they don't cause harm to the immediate environment.
They can, but it's a limited amount of harm compared to a ship.
If a ship breaks in half and spills all of its oil, there's no stopping that oil, and it spreads everywhere in the ocean.
So you'd much rather have a contained small pipeline spill on land than a massive ship just dumping all of its cargo into the ocean where you can't contain it at all.
I mean, think about that.
You have to think about risk assessment when you're transporting oil.
And now we also have to consider, where does diesel play a role in our economy?
Because I'm talking about dieselgeddon.
What happens when we run out of diesel?
And we're going to bring in a source that came to me in the last 24 hours.
A source who owns a transportation company.
That serves the East Coast in addition to Midwest areas.
And the CEO of this transportation company is watching the diesel supply situation at the fuel depots where they refuel, where they acquire their diesel for their truck fleet.
And they are saying that it looks like the diesel is going to be gone.
That it will run out within the next 10 days.
And after 10 days, there's going to be I mean, sure, there's still going to be some diesel coming into the pipeline, but it won't be enough because we've been consuming more than what has been created for the last several months.
That's why the diesel...
The supply, the stockpile, you could say, has been getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
And it's almost gone.
Within the next 10 days, it will be gone.
And then, it's not going to be a question of the price of diesel.
It's going to be a question of, can you even get any?
We are going to have a diesel shortage this month, in the month of May, in America.
And this is going to contribute to the collapse of society that our future listeners are curious about.
Like what happened?
Well, this is what happened.
We're covering it right now.
Think about everything that diesel makes possible.
You need diesel to run trains, as I've said.
Well, what do the trains carry?
They carry fertilizers to grow the food.
The trains carry the coal to run the coal-fired power plants to generate the electricity that charges electric vehicles or that runs air conditioning in your home or that runs businesses or cities or the giant water pumps near Los Angeles that pumps all that water over that mountain so that Los Angeles can have a water supply.
Now, I am aware that those water pumps outside of LA, they use a lot of natural gas, not just coal.
But coal is critical to the national power grid.
Without coal, you don't have a functioning power grid.
Even though there is a mix of some solar and some wind and some natural gas, it's still mostly coal across America and across Western Europe as well.
Well, I should say coal and natural gas.
Gas from Russia and some coal from Russia and other sources.
It's a mixture of fossil fuels, basically.
So without the diesel, you don't have trains.
Without the trains, you don't have coal getting delivered.
Without the coal, you don't have electricity.
Bingo.
Also, without the trains, you don't have grains being delivered to the herd, you know, the ranch animals or the dairy herds.
So no trains, no grains.
And also, you don't have fertilizer that I mentioned, so you don't have the ability to grow food.
And without diesel fuel, you also can't run the trucks on the highways, the trucks delivering all the consumer goods.
Delivering the goods to your local Home Depot or Walmart or Target store where they're now celebrating transgenderism and offering, I don't know, some kind of man pads or something.
Some kind of clothing for transgenders.
I read about that.
That's part of the culture war going on.
Target.
It's like they're targeting your children, I'm pretty sure.
But you don't get deliveries.
of consumer goods and you don't get deliveries of groceries.
So if you thought that the infant formula shortage was bad right now, oh, just wait until the diesel supply runs out, which will happen by the end of this month.
And I don't mean 100% run out.
What I mean is there will be scarcity.
There won't be sufficient supply to meet demand, which means that somebody somewhere is going to have to stop running trucks that they would otherwise want to run.
Or somewhere, somebody is going to have to stop running trains that they want to run.
Now, you may recall that Union Pacific, we covered this a couple weeks ago, Union Pacific declaring force majeure, And telling its major customers, including a company called CF Industries, which is one of North America's largest manufacturers of fertilizer, they were told that they have to voluntarily reduce the number of rail cars on Union Pacific Railways because Union Pacific can't carry all those cars.
And Union Pacific says they're being hit with just record demand, and they just can't haul the grains and the fertilizer and the coal and everything that everybody wants.
There's just too much demand.
Well, I got a message for Union Pacific.
Soon that won't be a problem because you won't have diesel.
You won't have to worry about how many cars you're hauling because you won't be hauling any cars.
You'll be sitting on the tracks like a bunch of hobos wondering, where's the diesel?
Yeah, where is the diesel?
Well, the diesel plants, the refineries blew up.
Got set on fire, perhaps.
Or they converted over to biodiesel.
But the trains don't run on biodiesel, so they've converted to a fuel that nobody can use!
And the trucks on the highway don't use biodiesel.
I mean, who's actually using biodiesel right now?
Maybe some academics out at a university in California or something?
To power their french fry pickup truck?
Something?
But, remember, the biodiesel runs on You know, crop fats like corn oils and soy oil.
How are you going to grow the soy if the trains aren't running to deliver the fertilizer to the soy farmers?
How are you going to get the soy to make the biodiesel?
And who's going to use the biodiesel even if you do make it?
You see, nobody's thought this through.
This is why human civilization collapsed.
This is the point I'm trying to make here.
Because they pulled the rug out from under human civilization.
They halted the economic activity by attacking diesel and shutting down diesel production, and then declaring economic sanctions against Russia, which was producing more oil and energy exports.
And I've got a story out of Kiev that'll blow your mind as well.
But this is what led to the downfall of civilization that we once knew.
So we're going to cover the next section here called Do You Want to Heat or Do You Want to Eat?
And this is about the cutting off of energy to Western Europe.
There was major bombshell news.
Ukraine turns off Europe-bound gas.
Kiev cites a force majeure to halt a third of Russian gas flows to Europe.
that would justify such a move.
That's coming up.
We're going to get into that.
It's another chapter in the economic war against Western Europe.
But first, I've got a couple of new recommendations, some things that are highly relevant here to your preparedness and survival.
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Of course, those of you listening from the future, You're going to say, man, you could just buy 50,000 seeds for a couple hundred bucks.
Yep, we could still do that.
And yet, amazingly, some people didn't have any seeds.
It's just amazing.
Okay, now then the next company, similar situation.
This company was introduced to me through James White.
He's an amazing guy, and he's one of our hosts on brighteonradio.com.
And he knows the founder of a body armor company called Hoplite Armor.
That's H-O-P-L-I-T-E, Hoplite Armor.
And I think Hoplite, wasn't that a class of Roman soldiers?
I think that's, or maybe it's a type of soldier throughout history.
Anyway, they've got...
Pretty amazing body armor.
It's all made in the United States.
So it's a USA-made body armor.
It has an alumina ceramic core that is covered with polymer composite fiber.
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They do not sell to government, which means they don't sell even to law enforcement.
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The swimmer plates give you a lot more upper mobility for your shoulders and arms.
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You can also get level 4, which is better.
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You can get them in triple curve, which means they're formed better for the shape of your body.
Unless you have odd shapes or something, it's going to fit better.
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I don't have a discount code for that.
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Those are the things I wanted to mention for you today.
So getting back to the big breaking story out of Europe, this is being reported by both RT.com, which of course is Russia-funded, but then also by Ukraine's UA, what is it, transmission system operator?
This is the gas transmission system operator of Ukraine.
Okay, that's what they're called.
And it's T-S-O-U-A.com.
And if you go there and you read their announcement in English, Here's what it says, and then I'll read for you some from RT, which is the Russia point of view of what's going on.
So, according to the Ukraine Gas Company, quote, the actions of the occupiers led to the interruption of gas transit through the GMS Sokranivka.
Sokranivka.
Okay.
So, they're saying that they're inciting force majeure And they're saying they can no longer allow gas to transport through Sokronivka to continue on to Western European countries.
Now, in order to make sense of this and why this matters, you have to understand that the pipelines from Russia go through Ukraine before they get to Poland and, you know, before they get to Germany and so on.
Ukraine is the...
It's the bridge through which all this gas flows.
So when Russia is sending the gas and the Russian company Gazprom sending the gas out, that gas goes through Ukraine.
Some of it goes through, you know, Kiev.
And then it ends up in Poland or eventually in Germany.
But Kiev has turned off the gas now.
And they're saying they've turned it off because of Russian occupiers.
They're saying that the border compressor station called Novopskov is now located in an occupied territory, occupied by Russia.
So Novopskov is the first compressor station of the Ukrainian GTS in the Luhansk region, and that transports about a third of gas from Russia to Europe, about 32.6 million cubic meters per day.
And so from this press release, it says, quote, As a result of the Russian Federation's military aggression against Ukraine, several GTS facilities are located in territory temporarily controlled by Russian troops and the occupation administration.
Thus, GTSOU cannot carry out operational and technical control over the Novopskov and other assets located in these territories.
Basically, they're saying that there are Russians there, and thus they can't control Ukraine.
I mean, that's a simplified version of what they're saying.
Russia says, on the other hand, there's no reason for Ukraine to shut off the gas, and that this gas is bound for other European countries, and that Ukraine is sort of making an excuse to shut it off.
So from RT.com, again, Russia Today, Russian gas conglomerate Gazprom has received no confirmation of force majeure or any obstacles to the continued transit of gas through a junction in the Luhansk region, the company said on Tuesday, after Ukraine's operator announced it would halt further delivery starting, well, today, May 11th, due to the presence of, quote, Russian occupiers.
Huh.
All right.
So gas from this connection will not be accepted into the transit system of Ukraine starting at 7 a.m.
on Wednesday.
That's today.
And this accounts for a third of the gas, according to the operators.
Again, Gazprom has no confirmation of force majeure.
And furthermore, Gazprom has been notified by Ukraine's gas company, NavtoGaz, That if Russia continues to supply gas through the Sokronovka pipeline, that's the name of the pipeline, then Kiev will reduce the volume at the point of exit by the same amount, effectively confiscating the gas.
In other words, Ukraine is saying, if you send us gas through this pipeline, we're going to take it.
It's not going to go...
To Poland.
It's not going to go to Western Europe.
We're going to take it.
Okay.
So RT says that Gazprom is fulfilling all of its obligations to its European customers, but that Kiev is shutting it off.
All right.
So those are the two points of view of what's happening.
Now, it brings us to the question that's now facing Western Europe and is helping to explain the downfall of Western civilization whose days are numbered.
Do you want to heat or do you want to eat?
Now that question, the heat question, may not be such of a big deal right now.
We're in May, headed into the summer.
Won't be a lot of heat used in Europe until the fall.
Start talking about October time frame, right?
You get up in Northern Europe in October, you start to need some heat.
Well, the gas is being turned off tomorrow, at least one third of it.
All of a sudden, One-third of Russia's gas to Europe is being shut off without notice in one day.
I mean, just boom.
Not like a 30-day warning, oh, we're going to shut this off next month.
It's just boom.
It's off.
What impact do you think this is going to have on Western Europe?
Because you see a lot of this natural gas runs the electrical infrastructure.
So many of the power plants across Germany and Poland and other Western European nations, they rely on natural gas in order to produce electricity.
No gas means no electricity.
Rolling blackouts.
And also the economic implosion of the industrial sectors of countries like Germany and the UK and France and so on.
And Italy and Greece on top of that.
I mean, it's going to be ugly.
It's going to be ugly.
Now, can I get this gas turned back on?
Doesn't look like it.
This looks like an escalation.
And it has a lot of people scratching their heads.
Why is Ukraine turning off the gas to Western Europe?
And there are a couple of theories about this.
One theory is that Ukraine is blackmailing Western Europe and saying sort of behind the scenes, if you don't bring us more support to fight Russia, you're not going to get any Russian gas.
We'll stop it because Ukraine can stop it as they're doing because they're sitting on the pipelines.
They can just turn them off.
That's one theory, though.
That's just congestion.
We don't know if that's the case.
The other theory is that this is being done in order to try to blame Russia for worsening inflation and power grid outages.
In other words, to make the Western European people suffer so that the narrative can say Russia did it.
This was Putin's fault.
Putin cut off the gas.
Putin's troops interfered with the gas deliveries.
You can see that's going to be the narrative in the European Western media starting from right now.
Putin's troops interfered with our energy.
It's Putin's fault.
So whatever the reason behind this, this is some kind of crazy act of warfare.
This is, I don't know, an economic warfare, a commodities sanction.
We don't yet know.
But we know, I mean, we don't know why they're doing this in Kiev, but we do know that Western Europeans are going to suffer horrendously.
And we know that diesel shortages are also appearing in the UK. Just as they're about to appear in the United States.
By the way, the months of June and July and August in the United States, you get ready for logistics hell.
Because with diesel in short supply, the question becomes, how do you get deliveries of groceries?
How do you get deliveries of food?
And we have this question, too, with our own operation, healthrangerstore.com.
How are we going to get deliveries of food?
Because, you know, we're buying millions of pounds of food a year and it all arrives by truck.
Right?
So if there's no diesel, there's no food.
But if there's no diesel, there's also no UPS delivering or FedEx or the U.S. Postal Service.
You see how crazy this could get?
You realize what would happen to our economy if...
They stop delivering packages.
What would happen to Amazon.com if there's no fuel to deliver packages?
You might see, in fact, you might see things reverting back to local retail, but people riding up on their bicycles to stock up on whatever arrived by truck on pallets because it's more efficient to transport commercial quantities but people riding up on their bicycles to stock up on whatever arrived by truck on pallets because it's more efficient to transport commercial quantities on pallets than it is for Amazon to ship you
It's actually more efficient to do it the old school way where people come to a distribution retail center of some sort, you know, like a grocery store or a Walmart or a Costco or whatever, and then they buy stuff there and they take it home themselves.
But if there's no fuel, there's going to be a lot of people riding bicycles or maybe walking once again.
America will get into the walking fitness habit by force, it seems.
Might get some people off the couch and out and about.
Which might not be a bad thing.
And I can just hear how the typical American snowflake is going to complain about this.
Oh yeah, I went to the store.
I walked there and I bought some Pop-Tarts.
And then I walked home with the Pop-Tarts.
And then by the time I got home from all that walking, I was so hungry.
That I ate all the Pop-Tarts.
And then because I was out of Pop-Tarts, I had to walk back to the store to get some more Pop-Tarts.
You can just hear this going on in people's minds because they've never actually had to expend energy to get food before.
So this could be a whole new thing.
People might have to plan ahead and maybe stop buying Pop-Tarts, especially since the wheat is going to be kind of wiped out.
You might end up buying lima beans and quinoa.
That's a whole new recipe universe for you right there.
But now getting back to Western Europe, here's another story out of RT that is accurately sourced back to the CEO of Scottish Power.
That's the electric company in Scotland.
His name is Keith Anderson.
And RT is signed in Daily Mail.
But here it is.
Millions of UK homes face no heat this winter, power chief warns.
And the Scottish Power CEO warned that rising gas prices could drive energy bills to nearly 3,000 pounds in October.
And that's the annual cost, by the way, not a monthly cost.
So that's about US dollars, $3,576 is what a typical UK person would be paying for their household energy bills up to October for the year.
And the story quoting CEO Keith Anderson says that 10 million UK homes will potentially be unable to afford heating.
And Anderson's calling on the government to subsidize people's heating costs so that they don't freeze to death.
So Anderson here, Keith Anderson is quoted saying it will hit incredibly hard and immediately because he's talking about the rising cost of electricity due to the energy shortage.
He adds, quote, we will also see a massive increase in debt levels for direct debit customers and a massive increase in people being pushed from direct debits to prepayment meters so that companies can recover the debt.
Quote, we are heading into a really horrible place where none of us want to be.
Yeah, it's a place of having no power grid.
That's right, because they've been trying to build wind farms and solar farms while they've been shutting down oil and gas and coal.
And then, of course, cutting off Russia.
And then they wonder why they're freezing and have no electricity or why, if they have electricity, why are the costs so high?
Can a typical family in the UK pay $3,500 a year in energy costs?
I don't know.
I think for a lot of pensioners and people on fixed incomes, any increase comes out of what they're going to be eating.
That's why I raise the question, do you want to heat or do you want to eat?
You're going to have to make a choice.
There's going to be a lot of people freezing this coming winter all over Western Europe.
So now all across the financial markets, by the way, people are beginning to panic.
They're shocked and terrified about what they're seeing in the market corrections over these past few days.
And also some people in crypto are very shocked and surprised.
And in fact, I'm going to come back to the energy question, but let me just bring in this crypto story that is rapidly developing, or I should say, rapidly tearing itself apart.
And here's the headline from CNBC. Bitcoin investors are panicking as a controversial crypto experiment unravels.
Oh, we didn't see that coming at all, did we?
No, no, not at all.
Us and John Perez and other commentators, we knew that the crypto bubble was going to burst at some point and that these so-called stablecoins, many of them were just Ponzi schemes, right?
This is why I've told everybody to become proficient in being able to use crypto, understand how it works, understand its advantages, but do not speculate in crypto and do not treat crypto as a store of value because it isn't.
It can vanish overnight.
This is starting to happen with a stablecoin called UST.
And here, let me just read from CNBC.
Crypto investors are keeping a close eye on UST, a controversial stablecoin, as the organization that supports it is sitting on billions of dollars in Bitcoin.
And I guess the company is called Terra.
Terra's UST token sank below 70 cents late Monday as holders continue to flee the controversial stablecoin.
So, first of all, you're wondering, how can a stablecoin sink to 70 cents if it's pegged to the dollar?
Well, apparently, this coin is no longer pegged to the dollar.
I think it used to be, and it isn't.
So, is it a stablecoin?
Huh?
Traders worry that the project might have sold or will sell a large portion of its Bitcoin to prop up UST. So from the story, investors in Bitcoin are in panic mode as the Terra USD stablecoin slips further from its intended $1 peg.
And again, it's below 70 cents.
It fell to 62 cents before regaining ground to trade at 90 cents on Tuesday.
So here's the gist of this.
It was created by Terraform Labs in 2018, but it's supposed to be stable to the dollar, but, quote, Terra doesn't have cash and other assets held in reserve to back its token.
Instead, it uses a complex mix of code alongside a sister token called Luna to stabilize prices.
I think Luna is exactly the right word for this.
And if there were a ticker tape tracking the Luna coin value, it would be called the Luna tick.
Of course.
Drumroll, please.
UST is important for Bitcoin investors as Luna Foundation Guard, an organization supporting the Terra project, is sitting on billions of dollars in Bitcoin that could be dumped onto the market at any point.
Quote, every professional investor in crypto has one eye on UST watching to see if it can maintain its peg to the dollar.
That's from Matt Hogan at Bitwise Asset Management.
So observers who are watching this company have discovered that the Bitcoin wallet that's tied to the Luna Foundation guard is now completely empty.
All 37,000 Bitcoins were taken out of it.
It's empty.
So...
If Bitcoin continues to fall, and it has fallen below 30,000 this week, then you want to talk about margin calls.
There are going to be so many hodlers of Bitcoin who are, they've bought on leverage.
And in some cases, they're able to buy at 100 to 1 leverage.
So they deposit, let's say, $10 into a trading account, and then the trading account company allows them to purchase $1,000 worth of Bitcoin.
And that's been done by millions of people across the world buying on margin, and big margins too, like 100 to 1 in some cases, or more typically 10 to 1.
Well, when the market moves against you and you're leveraged 10 to 1 or more, The market doesn't have to move very far before you have to liquidate.
And that's what's been happening over the last few days.
And if you really get down to the math of it all, the Bitcoin bubble and the crypto bubble in general has been propped up by all kinds of leverage and just a lot of upside speculation that will end.
Is this the end of the Bitcoin market?
I'm It's hard to say.
It might bounce back.
But this is why I've urged people to stay out of it because we don't know when it's going to go to zero.
Or if the dollar crashes first, Bitcoin might go to a million dollars per coin.
But that won't mean anything because the dollar is worthless as well.
And this is why I've urged people to consider gold and silver and physical assets because those things don't vanish.
When you wake up in the morning, you still have the same number of ounces of gold and silver.
Whereas if you own Bitcoin or dollars, Bitcoin value can go up or down dramatically and dollars can lose their purchasing value dramatically due to rising food prices or fuel prices or home prices, you name it.
So Bitcoin is just one experiment of many.
And what I think is really interesting about The whole story of Bitcoin and where we are now is very similar to the story of our infrastructure and how our fossil fuel infrastructure has been torn down.
There's this overriding arrogance of people who think that they're smarter than they are.
They think they've figured out a whole new way to run the world.
And when it comes to fossil fuels or energy infrastructure, they think, oh, we can all just go green.
We'll just go green, they say.
And by that, they really mean go bleep yourself.
This is really what they're saying, because they don't have the infrastructure to go green.
When they say go green, what do they mean?
Buy an electric vehicle?
Should you put solar panels on your roof?
Should you have a wind turbine in your backyard?
What do they mean, go green?
I mean, you still have to charge your electric car.
You charge it with the electricity that comes to your house.
Where does that electricity come from?
It comes from the power grid.
Gets it from coal and natural gas for the most part.
So how is that going green exactly?
And then the whole crypto bubble situation is kind of similar.
It's like, oh, we have a whole new way to run money and it's going to go up forever.
And everybody should just buy and never sell.
Never sell.
Just keep buying and buying and buying.
And as long as we all keep buying and not selling, it's going to keep going up forever.
And that sounds exactly like the way a Ponzi scheme works, by the way.
It's like, as long as nobody sells, everybody's value is going to be rising.
But then how do you convert it into something else, you see?
Eventually, somebody's got to cash out.
You've got to use the Bitcoin or sell the Bitcoin to purchase something, buy a house, buy a car, buy a piece of land.
Somebody's got to liquidate the Bitcoin at some point.
And when enough people start liquidating, then the bubble bursts.
And that may be where we are right now or at the beginning phases of it.
I guess we'll see.
But the value of Bitcoin was never backed by anything other than other people's perception of value in Bitcoin.
So it was a recursive...
Sort of self-reinforcing logic loop.
And I'm not anti-crypto, by the way.
You know, I've advocated the crypto technology and the decentralization of money and the evils of the central bank and the evils of the money printing systems and so on.
So I love cryptocurrency, but I've hated the hype behind it, the get-rich-quick hype.
And you know some of these online trading platforms or currency exchanges, as they're called, crypto exchanges?
You know, they're paying insane interest rates if you just hold your Bitcoin with them or other coins, Ethereum or what have you.
You just let them keep your coins for a while and they'll pay you, in some cases, 10% returns, 15% returns.
Some promise, some of these other coins promise crazy like 50% annual returns and you know that is not sustainable.
That can't last.
Because the coin is not, I mean, it's not doing any work.
It's not achieving something.
It's not producing something.
It's not like owning shares in a business that's actually doing something, like, I don't know, exploring for oil and finding barrels of oil that have inherent value.
A crypto coin is not doing anything that is inherently valuable.
It's an abstract function.
It's an abstract thought.
And it only has value because other people agree it has value.
Same thing with the dollar, by the way.
The dollar only has value because other people think it has value.
And that's in contrast to gold and silver.
Gold and silver have value because they intrinsically have value.
They are on the table of elements.
They are masses of certain elements that have very unique physical and chemical properties that give them intrinsic value regardless of The dollars that represent them.
Regardless of the price, in dollars, gold and silver have value in and of themselves.
And that's not true for dollars, and it's not true for Bitcoin, it's not true for crypto.
It's not even true...
Well, I guess you could say some stocks do pay dividends, so there is some expectation of an annual value of some sort because the company must be producing something But you look at most of the big tech companies that have the biggest investments, and they're losing money, actually.
They're not really earning money, are they?
I mean, Amazon lost $3.8 billion in the first quarter of this year.
Netflix is losing money.
Netflix, their stock is down something like 70%.
Why?
Because they're not making money.
They're bleeding subscribers because Netflix has gone into woke flicks.
They're nothing but woke content now.
Like full, woke-tard, left-wing, child indoctrination.
You know, all the shows feature LGBT and transgenderism themes, and people just don't want to pay for that crap.
So they're tuning out.
Netflix is committing subscriber suicide, frankly.
And one of the common themes in all of this that I think is very important for future historians to pay attention to is that our present time in 2022, it was really strongly preoccupied with this idea that if you say something, it makes it real.
So they thought that if you say, like if you're a biological man, but if you say you're a woman, then that makes it real.
Then you are, you quote, are a woman, and you can win woman of the year.
Which has happened to now two biological men.
They've won Woman of the Year awards.
That's incredible.
And the same thing is true with green energy.
So they think that...
And the green energy pushers think that if you just say, go green...
Then magically, magically everything just turns green.
Like, magically you don't have an ecological footprint anymore.
Magically you can just dump fossil fuel infrastructure and then just, I don't know, like float off into the ether and Somehow, with your fairy tales, that energy comes from the plug in the wall, and it's magically created right there,
that nothing has to feed that plug, and that you can just have electricity for free, which, again, technically through free energy devices you can, but that's all been suppressed, so that's not commercially available yet.
Maybe it's coming, but it's not available now.
So these people are delusional.
It's just like these Western European countries.
They say, we're going green.
But in reality, you're going to freeze.
You're not going to have enough food.
You know?
Because you cut off Russia.
You cut off the fertilizer, the natural gas, the coal, the oil, all the energy, all the commodities from Russia.
You don't have those anymore.
And yet, you're just sitting around pretending that everything's okay.
Or even in the case of Western European nations, pretending that That Russia is losing badly in this war, which is absolutely not the case.
If Russia is losing so badly, why do NATO nations continue to desperately demand more tanks and more hardware and more missiles and more aircraft?
Gosh, I thought you said Russia is losing.
So why don't you just let Russia continue to lose if they're losing so badly?
But see, they say it, and they imagine that it's true because they said it.
So we're living in this delusional era which will end.
This is the delusional era where people are just so full of bad ideas and often so full of themselves, too.
Like if you go to, I don't know, like a party, a get-together in Silicon Valley, and you talk to people there, and it's just...
Endless, person after person after person with the most insane idea, but they think it's genius.
They think they're going to change the world, they're going to save the world, especially a lot of these more youngster, progressive people.
They think they're geniuses, and they have the craziest, nuttiest ideas that have nothing to do with reality.
And a lot of it is in reality.
The crypto world or the NFT world.
I think NFTs were the perfect example of this.
And NFTs, in case you're not familiar, these are the digital...
Token representations of pieces of intellectual property, like you could create a sketch, like a JPEG, and then you could sell that as an NFT, and someone who's crazy might pay you $50,000 for that.
And I think Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet on Twitter as an NFT for, I don't know, a few million dollars, but now it's worth almost nothing because the NFT market has collapsed.
And NFTs are just digital property that someone claims to own.
And, you know, for the past year and a half or so, NFTs were pushed as the next big thing, the thing beyond crypto.
It's all going to be NFTs, and everybody's going to get rich on NFTs.
You can go to Amazon.com, and you can find books on how to get rich trading NFTs.
Well, folks, the NFT market was always delusional, and it has already crashed, by the way.
The ICOs from a couple years ago, initial coin offerings, there were like 5,000 companies that instead of going IPO through Wall Street, they did an ICO and everybody handed them cash to say, give me your coins.
And they had the dumbest ideas imaginable.
Like, oh, we're going to have a coin for like, it's going to be like a horse racing coin, you know?
And then when the horse, for every step a horse takes, there'll be another coin created.
And then the horse that wins, the coins are doubled.
And then if you own those coins, then you can trade those coins for a digital picture of the horse, which is an NFT of the horse race.
And these could go up 10,000% per year.
And these are the ideas that these people are always pitching.
It's just nonsense.
It's just gibberish.
It's all made-up stuff.
But see, that is indicative of our culture.
That's the best demonstration of this era of delusion in which we are living, where people have moved away from what's real, which is grow your own food, or own gold and silver, or learn how to produce something, learn how to make something, learn how to repair something, you know?
Have a business that sells something real.
Instead, the preoccupation of our time, at least for the last probably 15 plus years, has been a bunch of people getting together and saying, oh, how can we make money selling nothing but convincing people that it's actually something?
And that's where the NFT market came from.
Like, how can we sell absolutely nothing but make gobs of money and make people think that they actually got something?
And they had celebrities, you know, pushing cryptos, like celebrity coins, like, you know, welcome to Big Ass Coin or whatever.
And look, this big ass celebrity over here is going to be promoting Big Ass Coin.
Everybody buy Big Ass Coin.
And there were these online promoters who would...
Just pitch these coins and say, oh, these coins are going to the moon, and everybody would buy the coins, and then they would sell and cash out, and the coin would crash.
There are some pretty prominent people in the alternative media who got pretty wealthy doing that exact thing.
By the way, some unethical people who did that.
But they're out there, and a lot of people were suckers for it.
Again, because we're living in the age of delusion.
About everything.
The infrastructure, delusion about what is science, as you've seen with the vaccine scam and the whole pandemic.
Delusion about what is money, because it's all money printing now, money's becoming worthless, or the currency is.
We have delusions about what is gender, delusions about education.
We've got universities dropping the college entrance exams.
We've got law schools dropping the LSAT requirement because their view is, hey, attorneys shouldn't have to be able to actually read or anything.
We just need attorneys who check the right checkboxes.
Are you LGBT? Are you a person of color?
Are you an immigrant?
You know, are you bilingual?
Oh yeah, come on in.
You can be an attorney.
You don't need to actually have aptitude.
You don't even need to know how to read.
You can be an illiterate attorney.
Because, again, that's the culture.
It's all delusional now.
Everything's imaginary.
And as our civilization collapses, the delusions will melt away into reality.
And for those listening to this in our future, they will be nodding their heads in agreement.
Yep, yep, things got very real, didn't they?
When you're living in the real world, you have a sustainable society.
When you're living in a delusional world, then your society is going to collapse.
And that's what happened to our society.
That's why it collapsed.
Because people lived in their fantasy worlds.
And they thought their fantasy worlds, even the metaverse of Facebook, they thought it was vastly superior to the real world.
They abandoned the real world.
They walked away from it.
They walked away from things that make food, that grow food, like carbon dioxide and fertilizer.
They walked away from the real world of transportation and logistics.
How do you get things from point A to point B? They walked away from real work or real production or real factories that make real things like tennis shoes or blue jeans.
And they went into their fantasy worlds of transgenderism and LGBT and NFTs and everything else.
And their delusional worlds collapsed.
And as those delusional worlds collapsed, a bunch of zombies emerged, clueless about how to survive in the real world.
They emerge from their apartments in the cities wondering, oh my gosh, the food deliveries have halted.
The dollar has collapsed.
The transactional system has broken down.
What do I do?
Where do I find water?
You know, when tap water stops working, electricity is down, these people will emerge from their basement holes in the ground, and they will be like pale, gray-skinned, deep-eye-socketed, almost human creatures who haven't seen daylight in two or three years, and they'll wonder how they're going to survive.
And the truth is, many of them won't.
Because they've been living in their virtual artificial worlds.
So I've said this from day one.
NFTs are a dumb idea.
Just straight up stupid.
And living your life in a virtual world is also a form of suicide.
It's a kind of mental illness.
To reject reality, live out your world, an artificial world.
And cryptocurrency, the idea is very good about decentralized money, but it's been ruined by all the speculators and the hypesters who have been pushing a get-rich-quick type of attitude.
The only crypto that I really support...
Number one, privacy coins for transactional use only.
Not to hold onto them, but to use them for transactions.
And then secondly, crypto that would be tied to physical commodities, such as gold and silver, or food production, or maybe oil.
And isn't it interesting that the BRICS nations are probably going to launch a digital currency backed by commodities?
You know, a global blockchain, a digital wallet system, a whole new global currency, but it can always be traded for wheat or copper or oil or gold or silver or energy because those things are real.
So if you're going to have crypto that makes any sense whatsoever, it's going to be backed by things that are real.
And that ain't Bitcoin, folks.
That's not Ethereum.
It's not Zcash.
It's none of that stuff.
It's going to be whatever new coin is backed by commodities.
And backed by multiple nations that actually produce those commodities because it's all about to get real.
And as reality emerges, the delusions fade away.
The delusions are smashed.
And those who invested their focus and their effort in delusions will find themselves ill-equipped to survive in the real world where you have to have food and water and shelter.
Got to have food and water and shelter or you die.
Well, the food's running out, the water depends on the power grid, and the shelter is becoming unaffordable because of hyperinflation.
So what's your plan from here?
It's going to be interesting.
When Dieselgeddon fully kicks in, which is going to begin this summer, then the question becomes, how do you transport food?
And materials for building shelter.
And coal for generating electricity and so on.
How do you transport those things?
That's when it's going to get very, very real and very ugly.
And it makes you wonder, how long would it take for America to rebuild its diesel production infrastructure?
If they want to go back...
Like rebuild that plant in Philadelphia or switch from biodiesel back to actual diesel.
How long would that take?
Oh, it would take three to five years, probably.
Yeah, three to five years.
So between now and at minimum 2025, what are you going to do about the diesel?
Answer, you're going to suffer.
You're going to have a shortage.
You're going to have crazy high prices.
And this is all by design.
All by design.
This has all been engineered to take down human civilization for all the reasons I've been talking about here ever since I launched this new citizen's log this week.
So this is, what, episode three?
And each day we're covering more and more reasons of why human civilization tore itself to pieces.
This is one of the reasons.
Well, this focus on energy infrastructure and the preoccupation with delusions and fantasy lands.
That humanity seems to be so interested in.
There's a psychological aspect to all this that we need to look at, too, which is why did humanity reject reality so much?
And I believe that, frankly, it was the rise of the iPhone.
It was Apple that did it.
Just like in the Garden of Eden, think about it.
Apple was the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And if you bit from the apple, then you were dissociated from God.
Well, if you have an Apple iPhone in your hand and you eat from that Apple because you want the tree of forbidden knowledge, you want the Internet, you want the social media, you want to know what's happening to your friends every second of every day because you're an iPhone addict, you are eating from the forbidden fruit And you are rejecting the real world around you.
You're rejecting your family.
You're rejecting nature.
You're rejecting the soil that grows the food that you need to eat.
You are living in an artificial world, actually a demonic world.
The symbol of apple is the apple fruit with a bite out of it because you have eaten from the forbidden fruit.
And when you have a A vaccine passport or a digital wallet on your iPhone and you carry that iPhone in the palm of your hand then you have adopted the Mark of the Beast system.
To buy or sell with a mark upon your palm or on your forehead.
So think about it.
You're eating from the forbidden fruit, from the tree of knowledge.
You're living through that artificial world, that screen, that little five-inch screen on your phone, that consumes your entire world, and you are rejecting God and rejecting reality, rejecting your family, rejecting your physical body in many cases.
You're rejecting everything that is real.
That is the forbidden fruit.
And it's the rise of the iPhone that led humanity down this path of artificiality.
And it is a path of destruction and delusion.
And pure evil, of course.
So the answer for those of us in our time here in 2022 who want to survive all of this is incredibly obvious.
Get out of your artificial worlds.
Get back to reality.
Stop spending your time focused on virtual reality and social media, artificial friends and artificial likes and artificial value.
You know, if you're still speculating in crypto, you're probably taking a lot of losses right now.
Or if you're speculating in big tech stocks, you've probably taken a Pretty heavy hit.
These are all artificial worlds.
Get out of the artificial worlds.
You want to make an investment?
Buy some seeds.
Invest in growing food, folks.
Get back to reality.
Get yourself some backyard chickens.
If they won't let you have chickens because you live in a neighborhood that has a rule against that, see if you can get out of that neighborhood.
Get somewhere where you can have backyard chickens.
Get to reality, which means getting back to nature and getting back in touch with God.
God is real.
The Creator is real.
Ethics, morality, those are real things.
Even though we think of them as abstracts, they are real laws of the universe.
When you abandon that which is real, and you focus on worlds that are artificial and delusional, then you are going down the path of seduction and self-destruction.
So get back to reality.
That's how you survive what's coming.
Humanity as a civilization, at least as currently structured, will not survive this coming collapse.
But you can.
As an individual, even as a family, as a community, we can survive this, even as we watch society collapse into disintegration all around us.
And actually that word is ideal.
It is disintegration.
To be integrated is to be whole with the reality of what you are and where you came from.
The reality is that your body is nothing but organized minerals and molecules.
That are temporarily organized and animated by your life force into the shape of a body, into the shape of muscles, into the shape of arms and eyes and sensory organs so that your mind can interact with the real world.
When you pass on from this world all of those molecules and minerals and ash just falls back to the earth.
It is no longer your body but it never was you.
That temporary organization of molecules is not you.
You are consciousness.
You are divine.
You are immortal.
Your soul is.
That's real.
Even this whole world is, in essence, a kind of simulation.
It's not even as real as your soul.
The soul is the ultimate reality beyond this world.
But isn't it just so bizarre that people in this world, which is kind of a testing ground from a cosmic divine perspective, in this world they then vanish into a simulation inside the simulation.
They're going down another level into the metaverse or into social media.
They're living their life through a screen, even though their life itself is a test for the greater cosmic reality.
And they don't get any of it.
They are oblivious to all of it.
They're living inside delusions, inside delusions.
Fake worlds, inside fake worlds.
And they still don't get it, and many of them never will.
But you get it, and that's why you are so appreciated.
That's why you are part of our family of people who are aware, awake, alive, intelligent, informed, and we are the survivors who will rebuild human civilization after the collapse of this current one.
So, how's that food for thought today?
It's a lot to get into.
You didn't think I was going to go in that direction, did you?
When we started with diesel, and then we ended up with the soul.
I know I took you for a little spin on that one.
But, hey, it's all connected.
It really is all connected.
So thank you for listening.
God bless you.
Of course, we'll be back with you tomorrow, God willing, if things are functioning still tomorrow.
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By the insanity of our present time, and hopefully this will provide some explanation for why things did collapse, why humanity lost its collective mind, and why there are so few of us, like myself and our listeners, who maintained our sanity through all of it.
Thank you for listening.
We'll talk with you tomorrow.
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