All right, welcome to the situation update for Thursday, May 12 2022. welcome to the situation update for Thursday, May 12 2022.
And yes, this is back to the Situation Update name.
We took a poll on Telegram.
And thank you for all of you who participated in that poll.
I was asking everybody, you know, we tried the citizen's log for three days.
I thought I would just, you know, give it a few days and then ask everybody what they thought, which format they liked the best.
And according to the vote on Telegram, two to one people preferred the situation update name.
And so we're going back to situation update, which you might wonder, one of the reasons why I decided to try a different approach, different name, different context was number one, there are some other people out there using the phrase situation update that are not me.
So I wanted something more original, more distinguishing.
But secondly, personally, I like the citizens log format better, but this is not just about what I like.
This is about giving you The right information in the format that makes the most sense to you.
So we're going to stick with situation update.
And I will go ahead.
I'm going to go ahead and make a time capsule.
Anyway, like a physical time capsule.
I'm going to burn all these to opticals, you know, CDC ROMs and maybe some other formats.
And I'm going to have a concrete encased time capsule set up somewhere in Texas for real.
Because just in case this whole thing goes, total worst case, future historians need a record from someone like us, someone in the independent media, who actually had a handle on what was going on in the world.
Because all the official sources are insane, delusional, deceptive liars.
So they need records from good observers like you and I, who actually, we called all this.
We knew what was going to happen before it happened.
Anyway, I am going to have some other surveys on Telegram, and my channel there is Real Health Ranger.
If you'd like to join and participate, that's where I'm going to go for polls and such.
You might wonder, how come I'm not doing that on brighton.social?
Well...
Telegram is just easier for people to give a thumbs up or a thumbs down, just have a simple question right there.
It's just a really easy format, so I'm using that.
Now, in today's episode of the Situation Update, we are going to cover the worsening diesel rationing shortage situation, especially in the East Coast of the United States.
We're going to cover more food destruction on a global basis, more food inflation happening, more And confirmation from Germany that the natural gas deliveries from Russia have been cut off by about 25%.
We're going to jump right into the food topic here.
We've got some new intel and also some bombshell news and updates about food.
This is blowing my mind, the deliberate destruction of the food infrastructure.
But first, some intel from a source who is very reliable.
And the source has informed me that the reason...
The major storable food manufacturers in America, not just storable food, but kind of like, shall we say, camping food, meals, things like that.
The reason they're not shipping food out to customers and dealers is because they are fulfilling government contracts.
I don't know how much it's okay for me to say.
They're fulfilling government contracts.
And they're fulfilling government contracts.
Well, just think about which government agency would be interested in getting a lot of food stockpiled.
And I'm not sure how much I can say.
But if you think about what the government's doing, they're stockpiling a lot of food.
And what they did is they go into these companies, and there's several of them that are kind of on the larger side in terms of storable food or preparedness food or camping food.
And the government says, look, we're here from, we are the swamp, and you are either going to sell us your entire output, For X number of months, could be six months, could be a year, whatever.
Or, if you don't sell us your output, we will invoke the National Defense Authorization Act and we will come take your inventory for free.
And so you wonder, like, why are these food companies saying that they can't sell anything to their customers?
Why are they only selling to the government?
This is why.
This is what's happening.
And so the government is stockpiling food, obviously in preparation for what's happening on a global scale.
You can take a guess.
And yet, at the same time, the left-wing media and the White House itself mocks preppers.
But the government's the biggest prepper of all.
they're such hardcore preppers that they go in and they demand, like, sell us everything you make.
And if you don't, we'll just steal it from you.
Because, you know, the U.S. government is a bunch of pirates.
I mean, they stole $300 billion from Russia.
And they're just going to steal all your food.
And the only reason they haven't done this to us, by the way, is because we're either not big enough for that or we don't have instant meals that they want.
You know, because we sell superfoods and organics and nutrition and, you know, like lentils and quinoa and stuff.
And what they want is pizza, hamburgers, macaroni and cheese, you know, instant lasagna or whatever.
And we don't offer that stuff.
We don't sell any meat products, for example, but a lot of these storable food companies, they have dehydrated chicken bits in the chicken noodle soup, instant meal mix or whatever, or little meat bits, or artificial meat bits.
And that's what the government wants.
So they haven't done this to us, but I have to say...
For the record, if they did, what choice would we have?
I ask you, what choice would we have?
I mean, they knock on our door, hey, we're from this department of the feds, and you're either, like, now you're going to sell us everything you make, or we're going to come confiscate your entire operation.
What choice do we have at that point?
We have no choice.
We would have to do the same thing.
And, oh, by the way, the other part of this is When you're a company that is under contract with the government, you can't go public with the details of that.
Yeah, yeah.
You're not allowed to tell the public what's going on.
And so that's why these companies have not.
But everybody kind of knows behind the scenes what's really going on.
But they're not announcing to the public that, oh, you know, we're selling to the government now instead of our customers.
They put out announcements.
You saw this last year with one of the big food suppliers.
I'm not condemning these food companies.
Again, they were forced into this situation.
It's not their fault.
They're forced.
They're coerced into it by a corrupt criminal government regime.
What are you going to do?
I mean, you either do the contract or they just come take it.
So you have no choice.
You do the contract.
At least you get paid.
But then they tell their own customers publicly, they say things like, oh, well, we just can't get supplies.
You know, the food supply chain is breaking down, which it is.
So that's a very believable, you know, excuse.
So this is absolutely going on, 100% confirmed.
And it just goes to show you that the government stockpiling...
While telling you to not stockpile.
Why do you think that is?
Now, this gets even more interesting.
Let's switch over to the infant formula scarcity, but there's a new twist on this that I didn't know about until recently.
You know, the company that makes a lot of the infant formula is called Abbott Labs, Abbott Laboratories, A-B-B-O-T-T. Now, Abbott Laboratories makes, I think, like Similac or all these different infant formulas.
And they also make a lot of these.
And by the way, I consider these to be nutritional junk.
That's just my opinion as a food scientist.
If you read the ingredients on Similac, the infant formula, or these other things that are for senior citizens, you know, these kind of milk-powdered nutrition canisters that That they feed old people at retirement homes and so on.
I mean, they're just garbage.
They feed people this at hospitals, too.
I was shocked the first time I read the ingredients on these things.
They act like it's nutrition.
No, it's garbage, in my opinion.
It's just garbage, like milk proteins and corn syrup solids, for the most part, with a bunch of synthetic vitamins and low-grade minerals and so on and so forth.
It's really, again, it's crap processed junk food that is just labeled baby formula, okay?
So for the record, I want to be clear about my opinion on these products.
Nevertheless, Abbott provides the vast majority of these products to retailers across the country, you know, Walmart, Target, grocery stores, everybody else.
And a major Abbott production plant in Michigan was shut down by the FDA in February of this year.
Now, I guess they couldn't just burn down the Abbott plant like they've been burning down other plants.
So the FDA went in and shut it down.
And the FDA issued a bunch of warnings about a lack of cleanliness and water handling.
And I don't know what all the violations were.
Let's see.
Regarding water and cleaning and maintenance procedures at the facility, I'm reading from a letter now from Abbott.
Abbott says, we immediately implemented corrections to address the items that the FDA raised.
We've been making upgrades to the plant.
Installing non-porous, easily cleanable, and sanitary floors?
Holy crap!
That means they didn't have that in the first place?
Are you kidding me?
They didn't have easily cleanable and sanitary floors?
Okay, hold your horses here.
Now, I know a lot about this because we produce food items, you know, And let me tell you, there's a lot of people, well, maybe not a lot, but several people who have been through our facility, like Scott McKay.
He's been through our facility.
And the whole IMTV team, like Bob Denny and Bob Sisson and other people as part of the team.
And a few other people have been through our facility.
I'm about to give a tour to Marjorie Wildcraft, too, by the way.
And Melissa Redpill, she's seen the whole thing.
And they will tell you that our food production kitchen, as we call it, the floor is all epoxy.
It is a very expensive epoxy that is very hard.
It's non-porous.
It's easily cleanable.
It's sanitary.
And we go through a very extensive cleaning protocol that involves FDA-approved Sanitary solutions, which are basically a special kind of bleach that goes onto the floor to mop and sponge the floor.
And the walls of all our manufacturing areas, all the walls are a special material that I think it's called FRP. I have to double check that.
And it's another very expensive material.
That is completely nonporous, easily cleanable, sanitary, because if you have to wash the wall, it can't be a wall that will grow mold spores or something like that.
You can't have a floor in a food facility that's going to grow bacteria.
You have to have, again, nonporous surfaces throughout the entire food production area Surfaces that you can wash and mop and clean.
You've got to have drains in the floor so you can just throw buckets of bleach and water, well, the FDA special bleach, all over the floor, mop it, clean it, like everything's sterilized, you know?
And then, by the way, your machines.
So your food production machines, which can include augers and shakers and volumetric packing machines and encapsulation machines and liquid handling machines and vacuum packing machines, all of it, All these machines have to be disassembled and washed with a special FDA-approved sanitization substance.
I forgot the name that we use, but it's like you have to buy this special thing that's 50 times the normal price because the FDA has approved it.
Yeah, for cleaning machinery.
And then you have to rinse everything, and then you have to dry it in a special way, and then you reassemble the machinery, and you do that every time you change the item that you're running.
So you can't run, for example, like pinto beans through a machine and then turn around and just say, okay, now we're going to run quinoa You have to wash that sucker.
You've got to disassemble it and wash it and reassemble it.
And for some of our machines, that process, the disassembly, washing and reassembly can take about six hours.
Right, right.
You wonder why food production and packing is expensive.
Well, because if you do it the correct way...
Where you're not, you know, contaminating batch after batch after batch and you're actually, you have epoxy floors and FRP walls and you're cleaning the surfaces and doing all this stuff.
It takes time and money.
Oh, and you also have to have records.
That's right.
Cleaning records, machine disassembly records, all of it.
Everything's logged, including the person who did that, like which technician cleaned that machine, which person washed that floor, you know, what hour of what day and how many units were run through the machine.
All that stuff.
Those are called BPRs, batch production records.
And then the FDA comes in every once in a while and they say, hi, we're from the FDA.
Show us your BPRs.
And then we pull out these giant three ring binders, like shelves upon shelves of three ring binders.
And we say, here, have a look, come check out the kitchen, you know, see us in operation and so on and so forth.
And they do.
And the FDA so far has always told us, awesome, you guys are awesome, we wish everybody would operate with your standards.
That's what the FDA has told us.
We wish everybody would clean their machines between production lots.
We wish everybody would have a non-porous wall in their production facility.
We wish everybody would have epoxy floors.
And you know why everybody doesn't have epoxy floors?
Because the last time we did epoxy floor, I think we did about 5,000 square feet of epoxy.
And guess what that costs?
Oh, like $30,000.
Right.
Oh, that was just the epoxy.
That doesn't even count the labor of spreading it.
So you're probably talking $40,000, $50,000 to have the floor that is correct.
All right, so I just want to get that on the record.
This is an area I know a lot about because we have, you know, organic inspectors coming through.
We have Texas health inspectors.
We have county inspectors.
We have FDA. They all just show up and they say, hey, we want to take a look, you know?
Got the fire marshal showing up sometimes.
Hey, we want to take a look.
You have fire exits.
You have fire extinguishers.
You have the self-illuminating fire exit lights and everything else, right?
You got to do all this stuff correctly.
And so when I see that the FDA writes up a company like Abbott Laboratories and that the FDA says you need to have non-porous, easily cleanable sanitary floors, in my mind, major alarm bells are going off because I'm thinking, how do they not have that?
Isn't Abbott Laboratories like a billion-dollar company or something?
They've got to be making loads of money because their ingredients cost almost nothing because, again, in my opinion, their ingredients are garbage processed food.
I mean, how cheap is it to get corn syrup solids for your infant formula?
That's one of the cheapest things you can find.
Or like casein milk protein.
This is dirt cheap stuff.
They've got to be making loads of money.
How can you not afford epoxy floors?
How can you not have good equipment?
I just don't get it.
So there are really only two explanations from here.
Explanation number one is that Abbott Laboratories, I don't know, they pocketed all this profit and they did not invest in the infrastructure to make their food products in an FDA-approved, safe and clean manner.
That's explanation number one.
But explanation number two could be that maybe Abbott Laboratories is doing everything in a way that's perfectly acceptable, but that the FDA is looking for a reason to shut them down.
That could be.
I'm not saying that that's the case.
I mean, if they don't have non-porous surfaces in their food production facility area, then the FDA would be right to shut them down and tell them, hey, buy some epoxy, people.
How do you mop your floors here?
But I don't know which one of those is true.
I don't know.
It's just the timing of this is very, very alarming.
That in a time when our diesel infrastructure is being taken out, Including by that giant explosion in Philadelphia in 2019.
And that company then went bankrupt.
And the fact that our food facilities are burning down all across the country for the last six plus months.
It seems odd to me that the FDA would choose February to shut down the Abbott Laboratories infant formula production facility.
So I don't know, and I'm not accusing the FDA of anything here, because from what I know about the FDA, the kind of food safety division operates very differently from the drug division, because the Big Pharma Drug Approval Division, in my opinion, is a bunch of corrupt cartel criminals that are just prostitutes for Big Pharma.
But the food safety side of the FDA... I mean, you might be surprised to hear me say this, but they actually do some good work.
They do run around and do spot testing of companies and test the peanut butter factory and see, do you have salmonella or E. coli?
And you'd be shocked how often they find it.
You'd be shocked what goes on behind closed doors in the food industry.
Trust me.
If you were an FDA food safety inspector running around America, like walking in to food facilities, you would lose your faith in humanity.
Like, you're producing food out of this dump?
You're kidding me, right?
No, and then the FDA has to write it up.
I've seen FDA warning letters.
It's just mind-blowing.
Even in the supplements industry, I've seen warning letters like, well, you failed to wash machines between production batches of products containing allergens like nuts.
So you're packing allergens and you're cross-contaminating production lots.
Yeah, I mean, the FDA does stop some of that behavior.
So they do, at some level, they do some good things.
And that's why I wish, by the way, I wish the FDA would be broken up into two agencies.
We should just have a food safety agency, and then we should have a drug and medical products safety division, or maybe a totally different agency.
Because these two should be separate, frankly, in my opinion.
And all the supplements should go under the food category, basically.
And the FDA should get its hands off the supplements, like N-acetylcysteine, NAC. You know, they're trying to ban that, which is totally insane.
But that's being pushed by the drug side of the FDA, not the food side, by the way.
The drug side, the corrupt side.
Anyway, because of this infant formula shortage, we have Senator Mitt Romney.
Ooh, our favorite rhino, is he?
He wants the FDA and the USDA, and this is according to the U.S. Daily Mail, he wants those agencies to do more to ensure the availability of baby formula, citing serious implications of the current shortage on infant health.
He wants the FDA to give Abbott permission to reopen as quickly as possible.
Now, the shutdown of the facility in February, I should add, that shutdown took place after there was a bacterial infection in Abbott Laboratories products that reportedly caused the deaths of two children and other serious illnesses. that shutdown took place after there was a bacterial infection But Abbott says they're not responsible for those deaths, that those were something else.
But Abbott issued a nationwide recall for all its baby powder—I'm sorry, powder baby formulas in February— This is massive recall because of these accusations that some babies died.
But now, according to the UK Daily Mail, pediatricians, healthcare experts, and politicians are urging the FDA to reopen the plant and to distribute Abbott's formulas to families in need.
Okay.
Sarah Sorcher of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
This ought to be interesting, the CSPI. She says, quote, there's still some risk from the formula because we know there are problems at the plant and FDA hasn't identified a root cause, but it's worth releasing because these infants might die without it.
And I'm thinking, what?
This is the CSPI's position now?
Like...
Babies died from the unsanitary conditions at this plant, but we should reopen it because more babies might die without the formula.
Well, what if the formula is contaminated and then more babies die?
What are you going to say?
You're going to use the vaccine logic on that?
Oh, it's for the greater good.
The number of children saved is greater than the number of children killed.
Contaminated infant formula saved lives.
That's going to be the slogan, really?
So, I mean, what do you think about this?
What's the right call?
I mean, I think Abbott should have epoxy on the floors.
You know, I think, how come Abbott Laboratories can't be up to the standards of the Health Ranger store?
There's my question.
I mean, we were doing this from day when.
We're a tiny little company compared to Abbott, and yet we invested in these things.
How come these big mega billion dollar corporations can't have any dedication, at least not the same level of dedication, to the safety of their own customers?
There's a question.
Nevertheless, for whatever reason, The FDA is not yet giving Abbott permission to operate, and maybe we should applaud the FDA for that.
Maybe the FDA is perhaps doing the right thing here to say, no, no, clean up your damn facility before you kill some more babies.
Maybe that's the FDA's position on this.
Maybe they're right.
But even Romney says, I'm alarmed to see documented instances of nondescript contamination in September 24th of 2021 and inadequate sample testing to prove formula products met microbiological quality standards in 2019.
So, okay.
So the FDA claims that Abbott failed to maintain sanitary conditions at its Michigan manufacturing plant.
It was linked to a cluster of infant chronobacter Sakazaki infections.
That's an actual name of a bacterial strain.
The Sakazaki published its initial inspection findings in March of this year.
The findings showed the facility didn't maintain clean surfaces used in producing and handling the powdered formula.
the inspectors found a history of contamination with the bacteria, including eight instances between fall of 2019 and February this year.
Okay.
Now, I don't know how Abbott Laboratories is not getting this right Again, this is something that we do correctly.
We have a microbiological laboratory area, and this lab runs computer-controlled incubators That are very, very expensive.
We've invested, I don't know, hundreds of thousands of dollars in these incubators.
And you have to buy all this media all the time, little vials of different colored liquids, a little blue liquid, and there's a yellow liquid.
And they're designed to incubate and test for the presence of salmonella and E. coli, yeast and mold, total plate count.
And gosh, there's one more that slips my mind at the moment.
But we're testing for all these things.
And we don't sell any product that hasn't been tested through microbiology and heavy metals and the other tests that we do.
So nothing leaves our store without doing sampling and testing, which takes three days, by the way, because to incubate these bacteria, it's a 72-hour.
Actually, some of them are a little bit longer than that, but roughly three to four days is what it takes to do this.
So, of course, it slows you down.
So it reduces your profit because you're sitting on all this inventory that's been produced and you can't sell it because you're holding it back pending your own in-house tests for microbiology.
It appears, based on the FDA report, that Abbott Laboratories did not engage in sufficient testing and they sold products, according to the FDA, that were contaminated and that killed some babies.
Although, again, Abbott Laboratories denies that that was the case.
Nevertheless, it seems like they weren't doing a sufficient job with the microbiology testing.
So then, you know, back to the question, should they crank up their operations and just keep selling products?
And the FDA just said, oh, well, never mind.
Go ahead and sell your, you know, your bacteria infant formula.
Because, you know, mommies are screaming across America.
Yeah, screaming for toxic processed junk food that might have bacteria in it, I guess.
Have you tried nursing?
Have you tried breast milk?
And I understand that not all women can nurse.
Have you tried hiring a wet nurse?
You know there are other women around who can produce breast milk.
Yeah, and these days with transgenderism, you might find some men who are lactating as well because they're pregnant.
Didn't you know?
The pregnant man emoji.
That's right.
You can have man breast milk for your baby.
By the way, I do want to mention if you go to most search engines and you search for homemade baby formula, you will find an article from the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Yeah, Weston Price.
This is a foundation that is fantastic.
And there's an article there.
It's called Formula, Homemade Baby Formula.
And this was all the way back to 2001.
And it shows you, and there's even a little video there, how to make baby formula.
So, let's see.
The ingredients are two cups of whole raw cow's milk, which the FDA hates, you see.
Because, you know, whole raw cow's milk is real food.
Whereas the garbage-processed, over-modified casein protein that's used by most baby infant formula manufacturers is just junk, in my opinion.
But anyway, you're going to use raw cow's milk and some homemade liquid whey and it looks like some lactose and some probiotics here and good quality cream.
You're going to put in some fermented cod liver oil.
Some high vitamin butter oil.
Wow, this is interesting.
Expeller Express sunflower oil, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, looks like some nutritional yeast flakes in here, a little bit of gelatin, water, and some acerola powder.
And this is going to make some infant formula for you.
And then there's a goat milk formula.
That's a variation.
I used to milk my goats and you could just drink their goat milk.
That was really great milk.
There's a liver-based formula where you're using some organic liver pieces.
Ooh, yummy.
There's a fortified commercial formula where you add stuff to regular infant formula that you get off the shelf, like you add an egg yolk to it, you know, and some cod liver oil, things like that.
Anyway, that's from the Wesson A. Price Foundation.
And, you know, why isn't Senator Romney telling mothers, hey, you want healthy babies?
You should make your own formula.
First of all, use your breasts.
If they function for this purpose, you know, they're not just for entertainment purposes.
They actually exist for a biological function to feed your baby, right?
But if that doesn't work, then check out the homemade baby formula.
Why isn't this a national message to Well, you know why?
Because it doesn't benefit the big mega corporations like Abbott Laboratories that manufacture the processed food that, in my opinion, the ingredients in those formulas contribute to a lifetime of diabetes, a lifetime of nutritional deficiencies, a lifetime of obesity, all kinds of other conditions that are related to the garbage processed ingredients that go into infant formula.
So I think that's a big part of what's going on here.
Okay, but just in case you thought that the shutdown of the infant formula factory wasn't disturbing enough, check out this story.
And this is from Free West Media, but I've seen it reported elsewhere as well.
Truckloads of avocados dumped despite massive price hikes in Oz.
They're talking about Australia.
So we're going to show you a photo of these thousands of avocados that are being dumped.
And you're not going to believe why, but I mean, perfectly good fresh avocados are being just dumped by the ton in Australia.
So the story says, quote, Australian consumers were flabbergasted to learn that thousands of avocados were being dumped amid the highest food price inflation in years.
A Queensland resident described the discarded mountains of fruit as tons and tons and tons of avocados going to waste.
All right, so farmers have defended the waste, saying it was the only way to secure a profit, right?
So I just want to, we got to stop right here and have a little discussion about economics.
So this is where you get the insane, lunatic, suicide cult economic theories of governments coming into play, where they say, well, the best way to support farmers is to destroy their food.
And this has been going on for years.
The USDA ordering farmers to destroy their food.
And remember during COVID, what were they doing?
Pouring like a million gallons of milk down the drain, letting crops rot in the fields.
They wouldn't even let people come pick their crops, right?
They're just wasting food by the millions of pounds all across America and around the world.
And this is always justified by governments.
The same governments that are now trying to starve us to death, by the way, But the governments are like, well, the only way to support, you know, good prices for farmers is to order farmers to destroy their products.
It's just unbelievable.
So Jan Delay, a resident in far north Queensland, said the fruit was perfectly fine, but it was just left to rot.
She says, quote, two trucks came in and just dumped big mounds of avocados, and I'd noticed that there's also been a lot of dump there previously, she told Australian outlet 7 News.
And then Australia is suffering its highest year-over-year increase in food price inflation since 2011.
That's what I'm reading from the story.
So, record food inflation...
Australia says, let's dump the food.
Let's just trash the food.
So the story continues.
A board member of Avocados Australia, apparently that's a trade group in Australia, admitted that a large number of avocados were destroyed in this manner.
Yeah, we destroyed them by the time.
COVID-19 lockdowns with restaurants and eateries closed down, as well as Queensland and New South Wales floods this year had disrupted the market, he says.
So they had to destroy the avocado, which makes no sense.
When asked why farmers were not lowering the price to drive up demand, he said it would not be worth it for the farmers.
Like, what?
But get this.
Here's the excuse from the board member of the Avocados Australia group.
Quote, says...
The cost of putting that stuff in a package, including the labor and the cost of packaging and the cost of transport, is just not worthwhile.
He says it doesn't pay to put the money into packaging the fruit or to pay someone the freight cost to send it down to Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.
So you hear what they're saying that, okay, the fruit's perfectly good.
The food is fine.
It's not worth it to put it in a package or transport it when you can get record prices for the avocados because food inflation is going up, so the premium on avocados has gone up?
You're telling me that it's not worth putting this in a piece of plastic and driving it to the grocery store?
Really?
That it's worth more to dump it?
Now, in no economic system does this make any sense at all.
It would be like Texas oil drillers, you know, discovering a bunch of oil.
Look at that oil coming out of the ground.
We got so much oil!
And then somebody comes along and says, oh, but it's not worth putting it in barrels and shipping it nowhere.
We should just let all that oil just run downhill and disappear forever.
That would be crazy.
You wouldn't have oil and say it's not worth putting it in a barrel.
You put oil in barrels all day long because it's free money coming out of the ground.
What do they say?
Texas tea.
Remember the Beverly Hillbillies?
Black gold, Texas tea.
And if you're growing avocados, that's green mone from Mother Nature.
That's free mone.
That's mula from the tree of the avocado.
That's just like riches from the branches.
I mean...
Like, nature's giving you riches, like free jewels.
Just pick them and put them in a piece of plastic and ship them to the store.
I mean, avocados are worth so much that the Mexican drug cartels are running them in Michio Can and other places in Mexico.
They control the avocado trade because it's like green gold, in a sense.
And I know, because I drink a lot of avocados and It's probably my number one food expense kind of thing.
I probably spend like $300 a month on avocados.
I mean, they're really healthy, so I don't mind.
And I can afford it, but not everybody can.
And the thing is, they're dumping the avocados.
It makes no sense.
It would be like saying, oh, we grew all this corn.
But it's not worth putting it in a can or a basket, shipping it to the grain mill and using it to make corn products.
It's not worth it.
Let's just dump it all.
How is that worth it?
How is it worth it to maintain an avocado orchard And spend all the money to grow the avocados and then to just dump them.
How is that worth it?
That makes no sense whatsoever.
So clearly, this is not about economic rationality.
This is about somebody's been ordered to destroy the food supply.
I know I took a long time to get to that point.
Sorry.
This is about destroying the food supply.
And for whatever reason, they're targeting avocados in Australia because Australia is run by lunatics.
But then again, so is almost every country in the world right now, including our own.
All right, there's one more story on this topic that's also going to blow your mind, and this is from D-N-Y-U-Z, dnews.com.
Quote, war and weather sent food prices soaring.
Now China's harvest is uncertain.
This story is just from yesterday.
So in China, from village to village, the wheat crops in China have been inconsistent this season.
One field on the flat plains east of Beijing was patchy.
The next village over, the wheat crop was thriving.
but China's winter wheat harvest next month is one of the big uncertainties in a global economy struggling from high commodity prices.
If the Chinese harvest is bad in the coming weeks, it could drive food prices higher, compounding hunger and poverty.
Global food prices have climbed sharply.
Wheat is up nearly 80% since July.
And then it talks about how poor weather has added to the challenges of scorchingly hot weather in India, a large wheat exporter.
And there's been drought in the western United States that continues right now.
And then China is the next pressure point for prices because flooding last autumn left the soil so waterlogged that the wheat could not easily take root.
So they're saying the harvest is definitely affected.
And then food supplies have been a top issue in China where tens of millions of people died of famine in the early 1960s during Mao's disastrous agricultural experiment.
Oh, you mean like what Australia is doing now, like destroying food because that helps the farmers somehow?
Yeah, that sounds like a Maoist experiment, doesn't it?
It's like, just destroy the food, and then we'll see if people live.
Welcome to communism.
So China's agricultural minister, Mr.
Tang Renjian, stirred international concern in early March when he said the wheat crop would be the worst on record because of the rains last fall.
Okay, so China's got crop problems, which is why China has been stockpiling crops and buying a lot of corn.
From the United States, by the way, and stockpiling grains.
China's got stockpiles for the next 18 months of corn, wheat, soy, millet, and I think oats and some other grains.
Whereas the United States is just selling everything, selling out to the world and not really stockpiling much of anything and just waiting to see what happens.
Pretty crazy stuff.
Here's a piece of good news to share with you before we continue.
Thailand, the Thailand government is giving away one million cannabis plants to its own citizens.
That's right.
They're giving away marijuana, well, cannabis, to encourage their citizens to grow natural medicine.
So, in the United States, you grow cannabis and you go to prison.
Well, not in every area.
It has been legalized in certain areas.
But even there, you have to have all these permits and permissions and DEA checks and security protocols and all that stuff.
But in Thailand, the government's just handing it out to people.
It's like, grow your own medicine.
Cannabinoids are awesome.
You know, cannabinoids have all these amazing properties that are anti-cancer, you know, that support healthy blood sugar, support joints, and they're anti-inflammatory, and just on and on and on.
It's just incredible.
But of course, in the Western world, cannabis is largely illegal because they want to make sure people don't have access to good nutrition, obviously.
And feed your babies corn syrup and milk protein solids and we'll call it a day.
That's it.
That's all they need to feed their obesity, little baby obesity.
But the Thai government is just handing out cannabis.
Interesting, right?
Interesting contrast to what we have in America.
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Oh, I've also learned, by the way, that satellite phones are going to be in short supply for several years.
And also, any kind of two-way messaging devices, such as BivyStix or other kind of competing devices, they're going to be in very short supply because of the microchip shortage.
And I was given some other details I can't really share publicly, but there's a certain chipset that goes into most of these devices.
That chipset is gone.
I mean, it's like 18 months out.
So these bivy sticks are going to run out.
There's, I don't know, a few thousand still remaining in the U.S. right now that might last, I don't know, three more months, four more months.
I'm not sure.
But they're going to be gone.
After that, I don't know what the satellite phone store is going to have to sell.
Like, no sat phones, no bivy sticks.
Like, what are you going to offer?
Like, smoke signal messaging.
I'm joking.
I don't know.
But it's going to be a short-range communications package consisting of a string and two tin cans.
You hold it up to your ear like this.
No, I don't know, but the chipsets are vanishing rapidly.
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So let's talk about crypto here for a second, because this is all in the news recently.
Bitcoin is cratering hard.
Coinbase is also cratering, and it's lost a million users in the last couple of days, I believe.
That's what CNBC is reporting.
Because Coinbase updated its terms of service, apparently, and And is now saying that if Coinbase goes into bankruptcy, that anybody who has accounts there will lose those accounts and every user will become an unsecured creditor.
Which, the funny thing is, technically the same thing is true with a regular bank.
You're an unsecured creditor.
You don't own your deposits in a bank.
Did you know that?
But people are freaked out realizing this, especially as crypto is falling so rapidly, so they're fleeing Coinbase.
And then there was the fiasco with the Terra stablecoin, the USDT. I forgot the symbol for that.
But the Terra Stable coin has dropped to like 26 cents.
It's recovered some since then.
And the Luna token that was related to that has plunged 96%.
Of course, Bitcoin is down almost 60% from its high.
And as a result, everybody's freaking out about crypto, crypto prices.
I gotta say, this is all, in my opinion, and remember that my position on crypto is that I'm pro-crypto technology, I'm pro-decentralization, I'm pro-privacy coins, but I'm anti-speculation, I'm anti-hype, anti-Ponzi scheme, you see.
So for me, this is actually a great thing to observe.
And you know why?
Because it means that the crypto ecosystem is really kind of clearing out the speculators and the hypesters.
And it's going to become more mature.
So the long-term prognosis for crypto is actually very good.
And this needed to happen, this crash of the speculators and the hypesters and all the get-rich-quick kind of people.
I think that needed to happen.
This is like burning out the lower brush in a forest so that the trees grow better.
You know, we need a little brush fire in the crypto community so that it can have a better long-term viability of and usage by serious people, people who want to use crypto for what it's actually good at.
In other words, for crypto to really be embraced by serious users, that would be e-commerce merchants and people who want to buy things with crypto and just maintain their own private crypto wallets as stores of value and so on.
For all that to happen, the speculation and the hype and the get-rich-quick attitude has got to be eliminated from this ecosystem.
We've got to have more serious people in control of the whole ecosystem who understand the advantages of Bitcoin, the mobility, the very rapid transaction speed.
The ability to cross national borders and, of course, the fact that it's not controlled by central banks or governments, so they can't really seize Bitcoin wallets effectively.
I mean, they tried in Canada and they failed, even though the blockchain is public.
There are privacy coins where the blockchain being public doesn't matter because nobody knows whose transaction belongs to who, right?
Crypto's got a really amazing future, but it's time to get serious about it and get away from all these, I don't know what you call them, just crypto hypesters in the basement.
It's like, everybody's going to get rich.
It doesn't really work that way.
We need to get to the utility of crypto.
And this process that we're watching, I think, is going to get us there.
So I'm actually optimistic and kind of excited about this.
I think the real, quote, value of a lot of these coins is, you know, a small fraction of what the prices have been for quite some time.
And once the value gets down to reality, it has a very good chance of stabilizing.
And this is what users need is stable valuations of crypto, not all the volatility.
I mean, what merchant wants to use it when it can go up or down 30% in a day or more sometimes?
That's too much risk to accept the coin or to hold the coin.
And I know everybody that's in crypto, they feel like they've made a lot of money on the upside.
But you haven't made any money until you sell it.
And now that people are selling it, it's collapsing.
So you really didn't have that money in the first place.
You had digits on a screen.
But until you convert it, right, it doesn't count.
So we need something that's stable so people can buy and sell without seeing the prices go up and down by crazy amounts.
And I think this process, this kind of clearing out of the deadwood, so to speak, is going to get us to a more mature crypto ecosystem.
So personally, my preference is, and I think this will be very successful, I want to see crypto backed by real things.
And I've said for a while, I want to see crypto backed by gold and silver.
And there's a company out there called Lode, L-O-D-E, that is doing that.
And they still have some work still to go on that, some progress to be made, but they've made great strides.
But I think also crypto can be backed by other things such as commodities.
It can be backed by wheat, for example, or copper.
Or natural gas.
And I do believe that it seems very likely that the BRICS nations, B-R-I-C-S, what is that?
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and some other nations, are going to collaborate on a global commodities-backed cryptocurrency that will replace the petrodollar, and this currency will use a public blockchain, and it will be backed by commodities, a basket of commodities, we'll say, from all these different countries.
And because of that, that crypto will be wildly successful.
I might even buy some of that as an asset to actually hold onto.
Because if it's backed by commodities and it's not this big hype thing, it could have real longevity.
But, you know, we'll see.
Maybe something like that comes out of the Western nations, but I doubt it.
It's like the Western civilization seems to have lost sight of the value of commodities.
They just want to have an economy based on financialization, like everything is just derivatives and abstracts and hoopla.
But nothing's real.
The real stuff is coming out of places like Russia and China and India and so on, the BRICS nations, you know?
Anyway, those are my thoughts on crypto.
It's kind of a good sign of where things are headed.
Before we continue with the news, I do want to mention that cryptocurrency It has, you know, all these risks.
But remember that gold and silver do not have the risk of just vanishing.
If you own, you know, 100 ounces of physical silver, you got 100 ounces.
The ounces don't disappear.
Now, you could say the dollar value of that silver goes up and down.
Well, that's because the dollar is fluctuating.
The silver has the same intrinsic value, the same industrial value, the same intrinsic global demand every day and since you have the same number of ounces, you haven't lost anything if silver goes up or down a little bit in terms of dollars.
Whereas when you own crypto, you own nothing that's real.
Literally, you own nothing physical.
And all you have is the perceived value of crypto, what other people agree it's worth.
And that faith can change dramatically as we are seeing right now.
That faith can drop by 50%.
Well, you can bet that the intrinsic value of gold isn't going to drop by 50% because people want gold and gold has all these industrial uses.
Gold is useful because it has properties as an element that no other element has.
So all these properties are unique to gold.
And then silver has its own properties that are unique to silver.
Nothing else is the same as silver.
Literally, on the table of elements, you know, copper is not silver.
If copper were silver, it would be called silver.
It would be indistinguishable from silver, if it were silver.
Right?
But it is different, so it's called copper.
Every element has unique properties, and these properties have everything to do with the industrial applications, the chemistry, the ability to conduct electricity, the malleability, the resistance to oxidation, all of these things.
That's what gives them value in addition to the perception of how beautiful they are as metals.
There's also just that human perception, like gold is beautiful.
Silver is beautiful.
And it always will be because it's hardwired into human neurology.
It's the way we see the world through human eyes.
Crypto can never have that same value because you can't hold crypto in your hand and look at it and say, wow, that's gorgeous.
That's amazing.
You can't walk down a hallway of a magnificent church or something that is built with gold inlays, or I should say, you know, crypto inlays in the walls.
They don't exist because crypto is not real.
It's not physical.
You can't see it.
It's an abstract idea.
Doesn't mean it doesn't have utility, but it's not the same as intrinsic value.
All right, let's move on to the diesel story yesterday.
I talked about Dieselgeddon, or maybe I should have said Dieselpocalypse or something, but you get the idea.
In the last 24 hours, this is being reported by Bloomberg, New York City billionaire Katsimatidis warns of looming East Coast diesel rationing.
So it's interesting because I was using the phrase of diesel rationing I think several weeks ago, talking about the coming rationing of fuel.
I even bought a couple of domain names all about fuel rationing.
Some of those are about to go live, by the way, but I bought them a little while back.
I knew this rationing was about to happen.
Oh, in fact, I bought dieselcollapse.com for $9 because nobody had bought it.
And I guess not very many people are paying attention to the collapse of diesel.
But here's a story from Bloomberg that just confirms everything I've been saying.
The diesel crisis in the U.S. may get worse this summer with the potential of shortages and rationing on the East Coast, said billionaire refinery and fuel station owner John Katsimatidis.
Yeah, maybe that's Katsimatidis.
I don't know.
Anyway, he owns refineries.
He's apparently a billionaire.
I've never heard of him before, but he's a billionaire and a fuel station owner.
He says, quote, I wouldn't be surprised to see diesel being rationed on the East Coast this summer.
Boom.
There you go.
CEO of United Refining Company, he said this in a phone interview, quote, right now inventories are low and we may see a shortage in coming months.
And then the story goes on to say that East Coast stockpiles of the fuel have fallen to the lowest in data going back to 1990, and that national inventories stand at the lowest in 17 years.
As the U.S. has become the world's diesel supplier of choice, Fuel markets have been in disarray since growing bans against Russian products restricted one of Europe's main suppliers of energy.
With exports draining U.S. tanks, the East Coast is feeling the pinch most acutely due to a lack of sufficient fuel-making capacity there.
All right, so this story is leaving out what we covered yesterday, the fact that many diesel refinery plants or operations have been converted over the last two years into biofuel.
And that's been done by numerous companies.
I named, I think, three or four of them yesterday that was covered by CNBC, including Phillips 66.
They're basically shutting down the diesel refineries and converting them over into biodiesel.
But remember that to make biodiesel, you have to have food.
Because that's what biodiesel is made from, just like ethanol is made from corn, you know, for the gasoline supplementation market.
Well, the biodiesel or biofuel, it's made from food.
So you've got to be able to grow food to make the biodiesel.
But in order to grow the food, you have to have fertilizer.
In order to have fertilizer, you've got to have trains deliver it.
In order to have trains running, you've got to have diesel because the trains are diesel electric trains.
So if you start to not have diesel, then you can't have biodiesel either, because it needs the food.
And since you converted plants to biodiesel, they can't make regular diesel.
So you just shot yourself in the foot, which is what the United States has done.
And then on top of that, they declare these economic sanctions against Russia and the EU votes to ban virtually all forms of energy being exported out of Russia, including coal, diesel, natural gas and so on.
And on top of that, then Russia announces, right, and this was a few weeks back, that they're not going to export commodities to unfriendly countries at all.
And then suddenly, because of these factors, Western Europe needs diesel from the United States, but the United States doesn't have enough diesel for itself.
So then the question becomes, so who gets the diesel?
And what happens to the price?
Now you understand why I stored several thousand gallons of diesel, which I bought, a lot of it I bought at like $3 a gallon.
And I know, it's funny because every time, this is just an odd story, but every time I publicly announce the things that I've bought as a prepper, there's always a little reaction at first.
People are like, Why on earth would you buy thousands of gallons of diesel?
And store it in barrels or whatever, or tanks.
Why would you do that?
I mean, you could just get diesel at the gas station.
And, you know, my reply to people is, just wait.
Or, you know, they ask, why would you stockpile thousands of pounds of food?
Or why would you buy a 55-gallon drum of isopropyl alcohol or other medical supplies?
You know, similar things.
And my answer, just wait.
Because it's coming.
And so now...
Or, you know, people say, why would you buy tractors?
Just wait.
Well, and here we are.
Now it's very difficult to get tractors.
Difficult to get tractor parts.
Difficult to get old tractors, especially.
Which is the kind that I like.
And it's going to be very difficult to get diesel.
So anybody who...
Stockpiled diesel is going to be sitting on stored energy.
Energy that can power vehicles, obviously.
That can power construction equipment, delivery trucks, and trains.
But if the diesel runs out of the gas stations, think about how incredibly abundant it would be to have 500 gallons of diesel sitting on your property.
Well, 500 gallons of diesel, that's going to drive a truck for a long time.
Just 500 gallons.
Imagine if you have 1,000 gallons.
Or a few thousand gallons, you see.
So diesel is stored energy.
It's stored work.
And when you unleash diesel in a diesel engine, then it produces work.
And that work can be used to plow a field, to pump water, to move dirt, to propel a vehicle.
Or to plant corn or harvest wheat or all kinds of things, right?
So diesel is the concentrated work that actually produces the food and moves the goods that keep our society running.
And now diesel is going to be rationed.
So from the Bloomberg story, We're good to
You know, the explosion that was from a mysterious elbow pipe failure, they said.
Well, an elbow pipe failed and the whole thing exploded.
You know why I'm not buying that?
Because I actually know people who work in safety in the oil industry.
They work at refineries or drilling rigs and so on.
Because, you know, I'm in Texas.
I know a lot of people.
I know safety people that do this for living.
Inspectors, things like that.
These pipes are inspected, folks, on a regular basis.
There is no piece of equipment in an oil refinery that does not get inspected.
Precisely because failures can be catastrophic.
Failures can be giant explosions that can bankrupt companies, which is what happened in this case.
I don't believe that that explosion was just a failure of a pipe.
No, because that is inspected.
That is checked properly.
It is a vigorous assessment that goes on in the oil industry, especially at refineries, because, well, a lot of the stuff they handle is highly explosive and very toxic.
Safety is critical.
You can say, well, somebody missed it.
Yeah, I'm not buying that.
I think it was sabotaged.
That's just a theory.
I don't have any proof of that.
I think it was sabotaged just like a lot of these fires in the food industry right now.
I think they're trying to shut down the energy infrastructure and the food infrastructure.
But we can't prove it, right?
So anyway, this guy who owns the refinery says, quote, drivers will pay the highest gasoline prices ever paid for Memorial Day.
Right?
Get ready for that.
And these diesel distributors such as, what is this, Pilot Flying J, Inc., which runs a lot of those truck stops that you see on the highways, they've adopted contingency plans to try to keep the East Coast markets supplied, but...
They may not be able to do so.
So again, the question comes back to who gets the diesel?
And remember that the government, they can print money, but they can't print diesel.
So you don't just magically make diesel appear out of thin air after you've shuttered a bunch of refineries and converted them over to biodiesel, or you're selling off your diesel to Europe because the European leaders are dumb enough to blockade Oil coming out of Russia, that's their problem.
They should deal with that problem.
Sorry for those of you who are listening from Europe, but your leaders, well, who am I to speak?
Our leaders are dumber than your leaders.
But most leaders in Western civilization are morons.
But when the European leaders cut off oil to Europe, I don't think America should send our oil to you I thought we stopped being a colony back in 1776.
America should take care of America.
And the United Kingdom should take care of the United Kingdom.
Germany should take care of Germany.
And if they were taking care of themselves, they wouldn't have cut off all this energy supply from Russia.
But I don't think America should have to suffer just because the idiotic leaders of Western European nations decided to shoot themselves in the face when it comes to their own energy supply.
Why should we starve in America?
Because of the dumb decisions of Western European countries, right?
That's my question.
So that's a wrap for the podcast today.
I definitely appreciate all your support and appreciate you voting on us reverting back to the situation update format and title.
We're listening to our audience, you know, try to deliver this to you in the way that you like best.
And I've got some other really practical preparedness information to share with you coming up.
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And just stay on course with your preparedness activity.
Remember, the government's preparing like mad.
They just don't talk about it.
And they want you to not prepare while they prepare with all the food and all the ground beef that's been recalled.
You know, it's going down into government bunkers and, you know, they got emergency medicine, stockpiling gold and silver and everything.
Basically, it's funny.
The government's doing everything that I'm urging you to do while the government claims they're not doing any of that and while the media mocks people who do that.
But the government's doing that.
You know why they're doing that?
Because they know what's coming because they're causing it.
I mean, they know there's going to be a war because they're causing the war.
They know there's going to be a food shortage because they're causing the food shortage.
They know there's going to be a dollar collapse because they're causing the freaking dollar collapse.
I mean, look at what the government does, and that tells you what they're planning to unleash.
It's kind of obvious.
When they're stockpiling food and medicine and iodine pills and gold and silver and ammunition, it's like, oh, maybe we should be stockpiling the same stuff.
If they're stockpiling it, maybe we should stockpile it.
Because they know something.
Because they're planning something.
Because they're doing something.
They're causing all the problems.
Anyway, we'll be back with you tomorrow, God willing.
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And we'll talk to you tomorrow.
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