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July 18, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, 7/18/22 - TRUST YOURSELF - Your preparedness action will SAVE you...
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Welcome to the Situation Update for Monday, July 18th, 2022.
Mike Adams here.
Thank you for joining me.
We're going to go through a preparedness self-audit today to make sure that not only that you're ready for what's coming, but also to help you reinforce the internal mindset that I think will keep you alive, help you thrive, help you get through this and keep your attitude positive and your confidence level high in what you are doing and what I am doing, what we're all doing to get ready for what's happening.
And a lot of it has already begun, but it's going to get more interesting as we move forward.
So we're going to get to that.
I think you'll find that very valuable.
First, an interesting story about gear that happened to me over the weekend.
Now, remember over a year ago, the deep freeze in the winter, like what, February of 2021 in Texas.
And remember when my pond froze over, my dog fell through the ice and I could not start my tractor.
And of course, I rescued my dog using a different machine and a lithium boost starter and And then from that day forward, I committed myself to experimenting with lithium starter batteries in equipment to make sure that I could always start something in the winter.
So I've got a little update for you on that that has actually worked.
Now, understand that lithium starter batteries are quite expensive compared to regular lead-acid batteries, but they are very, very powerful, and they can cycle a lot more times.
So some of them are good for maybe 10 years of normal use.
So really, over time, the cost is not any higher.
It's just up front, it's higher.
But there are two brands that I've been looking at, and by the way, neither one of these are sponsors.
This is not a plug or anything.
I mean, not a promo.
But there are two different companies, and I bought both of their batteries, and I have their batteries installed in different vehicles.
And I had something interesting happen that I'll share with you.
So the two companies are Antigravity, and I think the website is just antigravitybatteries.com.
I don't know.
You can look it up.
It's Antigravity Batteries.
And then the other one, the second one, is Dakota Lithium.
D-A-K-O-T-A. I think that's their website, dakotalithium.com.
So I have both of these, and I have them as starter batteries.
Now, I've got them installed in different vehicles.
One I have installed in a piece of construction equipment, and I've got some batteries installed in a tractor and a truck and a ranch vehicle and stuff like that.
And I'm trying to test them out.
And one of these batteries I have installed in my main truck that I drive around, and that's an anti-gravity battery.
And even though I had some problems with anti-gravity batteries when they were installed in a tractor, I had some failures.
And they replaced the battery and so on.
I didn't know if it was the electronic, the starter demand of the tractor or something.
But I never really fully recommended anti-gravity batteries because I had that tractor trouble with them.
But they've been working great in vehicles, like cars and trucks and things like that.
So anyway, I have this in my main truck.
And the anti-gravity battery has a built-in emergency jump-starter.
So there's a button on top, a physical button.
And if you press the button, it switches the circuitry over to this secondary, like, built-in backup battery.
Kind of like, remember the original Terminator?
When the Terminator was killed, and then it was like, searching for, like, backup battery located.
Boom!
And it comes back alive, right?
That's what this battery does.
Except it doesn't try to kill you, like the Terminator.
So anyway, my truck, I'd left the door open and the lights were on for days.
It used all the juice in the battery and it wouldn't even turn over.
So I popped the hood and I pressed that button and it flashed red.
And then I went back into the truck and turned the key.
And wouldn't you know, it started right up.
It started right up.
So, sure enough, this built-in automatic jump-starter actually works.
And then I drove the truck for, I don't know, 20, 30 minutes or whatever, which recharged the main battery.
Now it's working fine like normal.
And unlike a lead-acid battery, which is really harmed if you drain it below about 50%, by the way, These lithium-ion batteries, they can be drained fully and then recharged fully, and they're not damaged.
They don't lose hardly any total capacity.
So the anti-gravity battery actually did pull me out of that problem.
I did not have to put on a booster.
I didn't have to use jumper cables.
So that was pretty cool.
And again, yes, it's a very expensive battery.
I don't know what I paid for that.
I think it was like $1,000 or something.
But again, Over time, over the life of it, it's not any more money than I might pay for regular lead-acid batteries, and it's a whole lot lighter, and it's got this built-in jump-starter.
So as far as I'm concerned, if you're looking for reliable batteries, like if you're worried about the supply chain, As we all should be.
And you're wondering, well, what's going to happen when my current lead-acid battery runs out in, let's say, two years?
Or a year?
Because they don't last very long.
You know, lead-acid batteries are horrible technology.
You almost can't even call them technology.
They're just horrible.
You always change an amount.
And they're heavy.
Right?
And they lose functionality over time.
They just get weaker and weaker and weaker.
Well, if you want something that's going to work for...
Maybe as much as a decade.
Lithium-ion starter batteries are the way to go.
And there's even another brand that I bought and put it in a small...
I have a small John Deere tractor, too.
Almost like a little toy hobby tractor.
And I put one in that, and that's been working great, too.
I forgot the brand name of that.
But I got to tell you, this market is getting more mature.
And...
If you buy these batteries, understand that you can also use them, you can double up on them as a solar generator.
In other words, You have this battery, and it might have massive capacity, right?
I mean, a deep cycle capacity of, let's say, 100 amp hours at 12 volts or roughly almost 13 volts typically.
But you've got this battery.
Well, all you need to do is get a solar panel, a charge controller, and then an inverter.
And then you've essentially built your own solar generator, right?
Yeah.
Because solar panels collect sunlight, convert it into electricity.
You get yourself a little DC charge controller, which you can get those online for $15, $20, the cheap ones.
And that'll charge the battery.
Just make sure that that charge controller knows it's going to be charging a lithium battery because the chemistry is different.
And then you just need an inverter.
A device that you clamp on to the battery, positive and negative, and then you turn it on and it's got alternating current outlets where you can plug in your laptop or you can plug in a flashlight battery charger.
You can plug in chargers or maybe it has USB output or whatever.
You can charge mobile phones.
You can charge your satellite phone, your bivvy stick, all these kinds of things.
So in terms of preparedness, this actually makes sense.
Where you could invest, let's say, $1,000 in a lithium-ion battery for your vehicle.
And I know that sounds like a lot of money, but if things hit the fan, you can pull that battery out of your vehicle and that becomes the storage device for your solar generator.
So you see, it's got double use, and that helps justify the cost.
You've got energy storage in that unit, and you can use it in a variety of ways.
So just keep that in mind.
Now, I have not yet had any problems with the Dakota lithium batteries.
They've been working just fine.
And I've also got an anti-gravity deep cycle battery that I'm setting up to use as part of a...
Well, I'm building just a real simple kind of in-line, uninterruptible power supply by using an anti-gravity deep-cycle battery where I have a charger on it constantly, like a 10-amp charger, and then I have an inverter on it constantly.
And the inverter, then I have my computer plugged into the inverter.
So the battery is constantly receiving a charge and is constantly...
I'm providing energy to the inverter that's powering my computer.
So if the power grid goes down, the battery stops receiving the charge, obviously, and it starts dropping slowly over time.
I don't know if you want to call it a poor man's UPS, because it's not.
I mean, it's still an expensive battery, but But it's kind of a do-it-yourself type of uninterruptible power supply, which, frankly, I'm all about modularity in preparedness.
If you can have one power unit that can be used for multiple things, it can make a lot of sense.
And my last comment on this topic, and we'll move on, is that all these batteries, to my knowledge, are made in China.
I'm not aware of any lithium-ion or lithium-ion phosphate batteries, the LIFPO batteries.
As they're called, LifePo4, that's the chemical equation, lithium phosphate.
I'm not aware of any of them that are made outside of China.
So quality is definitely an issue across the board, and I would not buy no-name brands And I would not buy batteries where you think you're going to have trouble with service or trouble with warranties because my guess is and kind of my experience in this area is that failure rates can still be pretty high because, again, a lot of it's made in China.
Quality control is very poor in China, and it takes a brand-name company that's willing to stand behind its batteries like Dakota or Antigravity.
Both of those companies are willing to stand behind their batteries, and they have warranties and I don't know.
I think in one case, I think Dakota has like a prorated warranty over maybe five years.
I don't know.
Check it out yourself.
But both of these companies, I think, have a quality product, at least as high a quality as you can get in the world today.
And no, they're not sponsors or anything, but just trying to help you get squared away with what's working.
All right.
Welcome to the Preparedness Self Audit.
In this short program here, this is designed to help you review where you are in the preparedness process and to also reinforce the wise decisions that you've made so far and also to help you upgrade any decisions or let's say lack of action that you might need to jump on right now to make things even better.
But this is going to be very valuable.
And if you're listening to my work, you're probably already very well prepared compared to most people, probably compared to 99% of the people.
But this is going to be useful no matter what.
So let's jump right into it.
To be prepared, there are three key things that we must all master.
And mastering these three things is actually quite difficult, and it takes a lifetime of experience, which is why the best preppers tend to be people who are a little bit older.
There are very few young preppers.
The younger you get, the less you tend to worry about the future, right?
But as you get up there in the years, you not only gain more knowledge about what's happening in the world and more knowledge about the vulnerabilities in the world, you also understand that That life is pretty fragile and things can fall apart pretty easily if you don't take steps to be prepared.
And so where you are right now is that you're in a position to be extremely well prepared and to have the wisdom and foresight to stick with this plan that will keep you alive and help you survive and navigate everything that's coming.
So let's talk about the three things that we must all do in order to be effective at preparedness or survival, you might call it.
Three things.
The first thing is that we must be able to anticipate events, obviously, to see them before they arrive.
That's what we mean by anticipation.
And so this isn't psychic.
We don't have crystal balls, obviously.
To anticipate future events requires a vast knowledge and life experience, but knowledge of geopolitics, knowledge of finance, of agriculture, of understanding supply chains and logistics, psychology, history, The way the world works.
And right there, right there, the vast majority of the population fails at this point number one.
They cannot anticipate future events because they don't understand the present nor the past.
And even more, anticipating events before they arrive requires you to be able to resist propaganda and And see through the lies of the media that is trying to twist your mind in the present.
So remember that the media is constantly trying to distract you and deceive you.
The media will never tell you the truth about the loss of the value of the dollar, for example, or where inflation actually comes from or what are the long-term ramifications of dollar devaluation and ultimately the collapse of the dollar.
The media will never tell you these things.
So being able to see what's coming months in advance or years in advance literally requires a lifetime of experience and wisdom and knowledge.
And it has to be multidisciplinary knowledge.
See, specialists who may be very bright in certain areas, like rocket science or brain surgery or whatever, They could be high IQ, but they can still have no knowledge of the big picture.
They could be the most brilliant man or woman in the world in their own particular field and yet be utterly oblivious in what's going on in the real world around them.
So the kind of person who is able to anticipate future events has to be a multidisciplinary type of person.
Which I think probably characterizes you.
And I know that's how people describe myself as well.
We are people who have big picture views.
We are able to connect the dots and put the pieces of the puzzle together on a global scale or even a cosmic scale.
That's because people like you and I are curious about everything.
We're curious about the nature of reality.
We're curious about the laws of physics.
We're curious about human psychology.
We're curious about history.
We're curious about everything.
The cosmos.
We're curious about free energy and anti-gravity technology or whatever.
We're just always curious and so we're always learning.
And that is a trait that allows you, better than most, to be able to anticipate what's coming.
And also what goes along with that is a curiosity about how we got here.
Because history brought us to this moment.
And while everything doesn't always repeat in exactly the same way throughout history, they say the cycles of history rhyme.
And so where we are going, elements of it, we've seen before, or at least our ancestors have.
And if we are wise enough to learn from their mistakes or to learn from their written history, then we have almost kind of a crystal ball of being able to look in the future because, you know what, human psychology has never changed.
The problems that are leading us to these collapse events today are exactly the same kind of problems that have appeared over and over again throughout human history Greed, selfishness, a quest for power, lack of empathy and compassion among rulers, a desire for authoritarian dominance over the population, a desire to print money and have free money in the hands of certain people while screwing everybody else, and so on.
these are the same types of problems that have happened before in history.
Although today, these problems are bigger than they've ever been before.
So there are elements of what is happening that are completely new and completely different.
The full picture of what's about to come down has never happened before in human history, but it shares elements with things that have happened before that can therefore alert us to what is coming.
So when you see financial bubbles, for example, the housing bubble, and when you see inflation, and when you see runaway money printing, and you see the collapse of morality across the leadership of your nation, you could kind of put the pieces of the puzzle together.
You know where this goes, and it doesn't end in any kind of desirable outcome.
It ends badly.
But to get specific answers about what's coming, then we really have to understand supply chains, logistics, the interconnectedness of everything in society that keeps people alive.
And that requires a lot of modern knowledge about the complexity of society, or maybe a better way to describe that is the vulnerabilities of complex civilizations.
We have never before lived in a world, as the human species, a world that was so interdependent on global trade and transportation and logistics.
Until today, in previous generations, nations were more self-sufficient.
But today, more than ever before, we can't get the supplies and the parts and the chemicals that we need in the United States, for example, without relying on exports from China.
And as Western Europe is finding out right now, they can't run their nations and their industry without energy from Russia.
And so those are just two examples, but think about all of the interdependencies of our complex global society, whether it's fertilizer or finance, food, seeds, diesel engine oil, for that matter, natural gas,
energy, or complex parts for machines, including the turbines that compress natural gas to push it down the pipeline, or getting parts for military weapons or for construction equipment, and so on.
We have a very complex global infrastructure that is highly vulnerable to disruptions.
And yet, almost everyone underestimates the cascading failures that emerge from this highly complex, highly vulnerable system once it starts to break down.
Because it's not easy for people to see.
It's not intuitive, in other words.
When societies are simple and local and economies are what we call flat or not highly leveraged, not highly dependent on outside supply and demand and supply chains, then it's kind of easy to see what's happening.
You can drive around town.
You can see, oh, the shops are open, you know.
Farmers are producing food and the shoemaker down the street is making shoes and so on.
You can get a good glimpse of what's going on.
Yeah, the economy is booming, right?
But when it's a highly complex global system, no one can quite know the ramifications of what happens when one piece of this puzzle stops functioning, such as not having diesel engine oil additives, for example.
Or losing rail transportation or losing a portion of trucking transportation or having the ports shut down because of COVID lockdowns and so on.
These events unleash systemic failures across the system that have ramifications which are very difficult to anticipate or properly grasp because the complexity of the global system far surpasses The ability of even the most brilliant mind to grasp.
No human mind can model our world economy right now.
It's too complex.
And therefore, no single human mind can accurately understand the vulnerabilities that go along with the systemic risk that we put ourselves into as a species.
So that's all point number one.
We must anticipate events before they arrive.
Point number two, as part of this preparedness self-audit, point two is then having information about what is coming, whether it's food scarcity, energy scarcity, inflation, currency collapse, social unrest, World War III, nuclear terrorism events, nuclear war events, whatever it is, whatever you've decided is happening or coming.
Point number two is then we must devise a strategy to minimize our exposure costs to those events.
So we must avoid the extreme costs of being unprepared.
And this, too, this point, second point, requires vast knowledge of preparedness.
We have to understand crowd psychology.
We have to understand strategic relocation.
We need to understand alternatives to money.
We need to be masters in the area of avoiding the costly failures associated with being a mainstream operator that is entirely dependent on the system because as the system fails us, if we are not ready with an alternative or a parallel system of some kind,
whether it's money or transportation or what have you, then we can lose everything or we can be stuck In a very costly position, such as, let's say, people who are highly, highly leveraged and own multiple homes, and then interest rates go up.
And suddenly all that leverage turns against them, and they can end up being blown out and losing all their assets as home prices collapse.
And that process is happening right now, by the way.
But if we were able to anticipate interest rates rising, then maybe we could have sold homes sooner and gotten out of that situation.
And you may recall in April of this year, mid-April, it was around April 18th or 19th, I publicly said this is the top of the housing market.
And I said that with confidence and I've stuck with that and that is exactly what has happened.
Since then, housing prices have started to come down.
Now, there's still a long way to go on that.
So if you are over leveraged right now and you own maybe a rental home or something that maybe you're renting it out for income, there's still time if it's appropriate for you to sell that home before the bottom falls out of this market.
But anticipating these events is key to being able to adapt and survive what's coming.
Now, in a similar fashion, if you have stored some extra food in anticipation of rising food prices or increasing food scarcity, then you're already in a very good position as the food on the shelves becomes increasingly scarce or food prices begin skyrocketing even more, which is already underway.
So you could be right now, you could be eating stored food that you purchased at a lower cost.
Or you could go ahead and pay the cost at the grocery store knowing that it's higher and then double down on your storage in anticipation of food costs or food scarcity getting even worse over the next, let's say, 12 months, which is probably a very accurate anticipation.
Food scarcity is going to get worse.
But because you have that knowledge, And because you're able to devise a strategy to minimize your exposure to food scarcity, then you are in a position where you're not going to starve.
And you may even be in a position where you can help other people not starve.
So, again, point two here is to devise a strategy that minimizes exposure.
Now, this gets complicated when it comes to finance because there are so many different ways to minimize your exposure to investment risks.
But a lot of people...
They really want those high returns from things like the Celsius platform in the crypto world, which was offering, I think, 19% APR deposited in your account on a weekly calculated basis.
you were going to earn 19% a year, which was great, except for the fact that Celsius collapsed and went from $25 billion in assets down to, what, $167 million after they froze everybody's accounts and basically stole everybody's money.
So, right, 19% was too good to be true.
I mean, Bernie Madoff was offering, I think, 15% returns, but that was a giant Ponzi scheme.
That collapsed.
Well, Celsius collapsed too.
So there are a lot of different strategies and typically people are reluctant to give up their earnings.
They're reluctant to shift over to safe assets.
They want to keep earning.
They want to keep riding the stock market higher.
If they think it's going to go up more, they want to stay in to the very last minute and that's when they get burned because then it collapses out from underneath them and they're not able to sell.
And it's hard for people to jump into something like gold and silver or land.
And by the way, all three of those, gold and silver and land, have all had a slight reduction in dollar value recently because of this massive sell-off.
So in terms of dollars, they haven't even held 100% of their value, although long-term they will.
But the stock market is down many times that percent, right?
And crypto is down like 70%.
And the bond market is getting clobbered as well.
And even some commodities are down right now like copper.
So the correct strategy to avoid financial risks as everything starts to hit the fan, these strategies can be very complex and also very debatable, and some strategies are appropriate for certain people and not for others depending on where they are in life, what their current income is, what their risk tolerance is, and so on.
But if you want to be as safe as possible with a certain percentage of your assets, There's nothing safer, in my opinion, than physical gold and silver in your possession and a roof over your head, a home that you own, no debt, on a piece of land that you own,
no debt, and maybe have enough cash on hand to where you could pay the property taxes, too, so they don't come take away your property when the dollar collapses and the county is begging for tax money.
You know, that happened before in American history.
Some people owned their homes and their property free and clear, but they couldn't pay the property tax because money wasn't functioning, and they didn't have anything to pay with, and they got their property confiscated.
So a lot of complexities, and we don't have time to go into all that right now, but if you listen to my podcast and a lot of interviews that I do with financial experts, you'll quickly come to discover What the right strategies are, it's usually for most people, it's a mixture of physical gold and silver and land and a home and some cash and then some things that will hold value like maybe certain types of used vehicles or ammunition or firearms or things like that.
But check out my podcast for more details in that arena.
All right, moving on to point number three.
So just to review, point one was we must be able to anticipate events Point number two, we have to devise a strategy to minimize our exposure costs to those events before they arrive.
And then point number three here is that we must then possess the determination and the courage to implement our plans before those events arrive.
Now, this might sound relatively simple, but it isn't because not only do we have to have the determination and courage to implement our plans, we also have to have The faith in our own assessment to believe in ourselves and not be talked out of this by, you know, friends or family members or skeptics.
Or if they say, oh, the dollar is going to be fine.
It's not going anywhere.
It's the world reserve currency.
Everything's going to be fine.
You worry too much, blah, blah, blah.
So there are all kinds of forces in culture and media and society that try to pull you away from being a prepper.
They try to tell you, oh, you don't need food.
Meanwhile, the government has underground cities full of food.
It's like massive multi-floor structures, you know, tunnels and actual cities and military bases.
And they're just chock full of food and emergency medicine and ammunition and all kinds of supplies.
Meanwhile, the government through ready.gov tells you that you might need three days of food.
And they have 10 years of food, you see.
So it's about believing in your assessment.
Once you've decided what's coming and once you've developed a strategy to minimize your exposure to what's coming, then you need to stick with yourself and follow through in implementing the plans, whatever those plans might be.
Sometimes it might be acquiring certain types of things, you know, like solar panels and a solar generator.
Backup flashlight, night vision, monocular, whatever.
I mean, you can make a long list of gear.
But that's only the first part of it.
The second part, the more important part, is learning how to use these things, learning what to do with these things, and also learning how to be adaptive so that if you don't have that gear, maybe it's too expensive, maybe it's not available, maybe it gets destroyed.
How do you survive without all that stuff?
And I will mention, this is a lot of what I talk about in my book called Resilient Prepping, which is available as a free download, of course.
You can download the whole thing.
It's an audiobook at resilientprepping.com.
And in that book, I specifically cover high-tech prepping, low-tech prepping, and then what I call no-tech prepping.
What do you do when there's no electricity and no combustion engines, no diesel fuel, no gasoline, nothing?
How do you prepare?
How do you cover the basics like self-defense and food and shelter, water supplies?
Emergency medicine, communications, all those things.
I cover all that in the book.
And solutions that rely on no technology whatsoever.
Although they do require, in many cases, certain types of gear.
So it's always still good to have the basics, you know, basic tools available.
Like a shovel and a hammer, you know, a drill and things like that.
But you can still make it through all of this even if you don't have the super-duper high-tech equipment that you always wanted that cost, everything cost $10,000 and, you know, that's just too much.
I get it.
We got to learn to make do with less.
Let me give you an example of that.
You can go out and you can buy a $200,000 thermal camera motion sensing security system.
For your property and there's a thermal camera on every corner of your house or your barn or whatever and it's tied into a data server and it films all the videos and you've got like a remote access view with your mobile phone and you can check all the angles and all that stuff, right?
A couple hundred thousand dollars, complex parts, needs to be maintained, the cables, you know, mice chew through the cables and whatever, you got to get it repaired and so on.
You can go out and spend a couple hundred dollars on some motion-sensing solar-powered lights and get yourself a couple of dogs.
A couple of dogs that bark when the lights go on.
Those are pretty easy to find.
You can just adopt them.
That's what I do.
I go out and I adopt dogs and then they're alert.
They're always looking out.
And when lights come on, they go...
I'm like, wow.
That's a layer of my security system.
And although personally, because of my situation, I have a lot more security than that, but I could get by on just that.
And since maybe your situation, maybe you're not as threatened as I am, maybe all you need is the solar lights and some dogs, you see?
So in many cases, you can go low tech and still be like 90% as good.
Versus somebody who's able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on something.
And by the way, I don't trust high-tech systems to function long-term.
And dogs are low-tech.
You just have to be able to feed them.
But dogs don't have circuit boards, thank goodness.
You know, the barking software needs an upgrade.
You're going to have to reboot this puppy.
Oh, man, really?
Does it run on Windows?
Oh, yeah, the barking app is down, needs an upgrade, and the running app is down.
No, thank goodness.
Thank goodness dogs don't need software.
And also, interestingly, dogs can't be hacked.
You know, you could have an intruder come along and try to entice your dog.
Like, here, nice puppy, puppy, puppy.
You know, coming out of the darkness, coming out of the trees on the edge of your property or something.
Here, puppy, puppy, nice puppy.
What do you think your dog's going to do?
Is your dog going to get hacked by that bad guy and suddenly be nice?
No, your dog's going to go, like, who are you?
Right?
So your dog has its own built-in security system as well.
Kind of like, you know, an identity authentication system that's built in.
Can't be hacked.
So let's apply these three steps to Noah, the biblical Noah, and the building of the ark.
All right, so point number one, Noah needed to anticipate events that were approaching.
So how did he do that?
Well, in his case, God just told him, hey, Noah!
There's a big flood coming, and you're going to need to save some animals, right?
So he had at least God talking to him directly.
That was a relatively convenient way to get information.
Point number two, Noah needed to devise a strategy to minimize the exposure to those events.
He was like, well, what do I do?
It's going to flood.
What do I do?
Well, fortunately, God also told him to build an ark.
And he may have arrived at that conclusion himself as well.
But God told him, so problem solved.
Build an ark.
Build a ship that floats on the water.
Because the problem that's coming is water.
You're going to need to float.
Build an ark.
And then point number three, and this is where Noah really deserves kudos, is you've got to stick to your plan.
Whereas all the people around Noah are like, what are you doing, crazy old man?
It's like, it's not even raining.
Why are you building a giant ship and really going to collect two of each kind of animal?
Give me a break.
How are you going to do that?
Are you going to run around the world capturing everything?
So there were a lot of detractors, people that were living in their normalcy bias, right?
That's what we would call it today, normalcy bias.
And they mocked Noah and they teased him.
You're crazy.
But Noah stuck with his plan.
Why?
Because Noah had faith in point number one.
Because God told him what's coming.
And he knew that God had told him that.
So if there's any source that is the ultimate source of knowledge, it would be the God.
So Noah was able to stick with that.
He knew what was coming because he had been told.
So he stuck with his plan.
And because he stuck with his plan, Noah was not wiped out by the great flood.
But God used the great flood to wipe out a tremendous amount of evil in the world.
And according to some analysts at that time, some of humanity were playing God with genes and mixing giants and humans and who knows what else and fallen angels, whatever.
I'm not an expert on all the details, but God was using the flood to eliminate a lot of evil on the planet as well.
And so when the flood came, of course, Noah was ready, and he saved the animals.
And when the waters finally subsided, then he knew he had completed his mission.
He had successfully navigated these events that were coming, and he had also done the bidding of God.
Now, where all this comes together is that I believe God also wants you to survive this.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be here in this moment.
You wouldn't be living this life mission that you are living.
We wouldn't be connected.
God wants us to be together.
God wants us to be communicating.
Even though we're censored on all the platforms, we've found a way to connect and to keep in touch and to inspire each other and to share knowledge and information.
God wants that to happen.
God has a plan for you and for me.
You are supposed to be here in this moment, which I believe is going to be the greatest challenge to humanity that has ever been experienced in the history of human civilization.
And yet God chose you to be here in this now.
That's a big wow.
And one of the most important takeaway messages in all of this is that you should trust yourself.
Trust yourself.
If you've been listening to some of my work or podcasts or reading the independent media, doing your research and homework and taking action to get prepared, you are so far ahead.
You might not even be giving yourself credit for it.
You do have good judgment in this.
You do have good information.
You are ahead of the curve.
Trust yourself and also listen to God's plan for you.
Be open to what God has in store for you.
Have faith in God and trust your judgment.
Because I know that you are well informed and well aware.
I've been able to meet face to face quite a surprising number of fans or people who follow this podcast over the last several weeks.
And in every case, they've told me about their actions, what they're doing.
To get prepared for the challenges and the crises that are coming.
And I am so impressed.
I've been blown away.
By the detail of what people are doing, they've shared with me their plans on home gardening and food preparedness and strategic relocation and how they're preparing family members, what they're doing with finance and self-defense and firearms and so on.
They've shared with me detailed plans.
People who listen to this podcast, they love to come up to me and tell me what they're doing, by the way.
And they just start sharing all of these details.
So I listen and I am impressed.
If you're listening to this, you're in good shape.
So the bottom line here is, as this is a preparedness self-audit, guess what?
You pass the self-audit.
You pass with flying colors.
You are prepared.
Now, are there things that you can still do better or you can shore up another alternative in certain areas?
Of course there are.
Even for me as well.
And I've been preparing for over two decades.
And in some ways, I don't feel like I'm prepared enough.
But that's never going to get resolved.
We're always going to realize there's a few more things we could do.
But where you are now, you already passed the test.
You're going to be able to make it through.
You're going to be able to navigate this.
Without having to resort to panic or fear or desperation.
And if there are things that you can do to improve your position over the next couple of months, do so.
Absolutely do so.
But you never have to live in fear of being ill prepared.
Even though that fear will strike a great many people as things happen, you know, banks close down and power grid failures begin to worsen and food scarcity gets bad and so on, or we end up in World War III, which is what Biden is pushing for.
Most people will panic.
You don't have to panic.
No need.
You've already thought through it.
You're already prepared.
You passed the preparedness self-audit.
You get a thumbs up.
So the bottom line, trust yourself.
Invest in yourself.
Listen to God's plan for you.
And continue to stay informed here in this realm by listening to informative podcasts and watching informative videos and doing your research and gaining skills and so on.
It's just a daily commitment to staying on top of this.
And as things unfold, this is the interesting part.
As things unfold, what's already begun and what will accelerate over the next 12 months plus is You will have already known about each and every one of them.
You already know about them.
When the food shelves become bare in some parts of the country, a lot of people will freak out.
You won't freak out.
When the energy collapse happens in Europe this coming winter, they're going to freak out.
They're going to panic.
They're going to freeze.
You won't freak out.
And if you're listening to this from Europe, you're probably already gathering wood and a wood stove, and you're going to be okay.
As international trade is increasingly disrupted and supply chains fail and transportation fails and so on and parts are not available even worse than what we're seeing right now, you're not going to panic.
And when people are rioting in the grocery stores and there's violence in the parking lots of the grocery stores and there's an increase in violent crime and carjackings and so on, you don't have to be subjected to that because you're prepared in advance.
You're okay.
You've got to back up food supply.
Maybe you're growing some food.
Maybe you're sprouting some food.
Maybe you've stored some food.
You've got garden seeds.
You're okay.
You're going to make it.
And you will serve as an inspiration to those around you who will, even if they're skeptical right now, at some point they will see you as the person who had the wisdom To know what was coming, to take action against that, and to stick with that plan to see everybody through.
Even the perception of who you are in your social circles will be dramatically transformed as more and more of this global collapse scenario unfolds.
So keep doing exactly what you're doing.
You're right on track.
Trust yourself.
Have faith in God's plan for you.
And continue to stay informed.
Alright, now continuing with some other news in today's Situation Update podcast.
A mass shooting was halted in Indianapolis at the Greenwood Park Mall.
This has been breaking late.
Turns out an eyewitness tells News 8 that a Good Samaritan shot and killed a shooter.
Who apparently was planning to carry out a mass shooting.
Three people are dead.
Three people are injured with conditions unknown after multiple police departments responded to an active shooter at Greenwood Park Mall Sunday afternoon.
According to the Greenwood Police Department, an eyewitness tells News 8 that a good Samaritan shot and killed a shooter.
Greenwood police indicated that the shooter was carrying a rifle with multiple magazines of ammunition through the food court of the mall before firing upon the mall crowd.
The police believe that a good Samaritan used a handgun to incapacitate the shooter.
So, folks, this was another, it was supposed to be another mass casualty event.
Obviously, these sheep-dipped, brainwashed Manchurian candidates are being unleashed across America.
But these plans of the globalists are being thwarted by armed civilians.
Who are taking out these mass shooters.
And this isn't the first report like this, by the way.
There have been several potential mass shootings that have been halted or minimized because of armed civilians.
So one more reason for every law-abiding citizen to be armed, to carry where legal, and to be your own first responder.
Because this good Samaritan stopped the shooter before the police showed up.
Now, contrast that to this bombshell new report that came out yesterday about Uvalde.
Remember the Uvalde shooting in Texas?
A new report was released on Sunday, and it's been covered in the Texas Tribune.
And it says, this is shocking, it says that almost 400 police officers were gathered outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, So this report was compiled by a Texas House committee,
detailed a series of missteps on a number of fronts, but the strongest condemnation was reserved for law enforcement officers who arrived on the scene and then waited to act for over an hour.
Folks, I had no idea it was 400 cops.
Until this report came out.
Nearly 400 cops, as they're saying.
400 cops in a parking lot standing around doing nothing while a shooter was massacring children inside the school.
And the gunshots were clearly heard by the police in the parking lot.
So the situation is so...
It's so disastrous.
It's so catastrophic for the reputation of law enforcement, too.
And that reputation is not deserved by many members of law enforcement, by the way, but it shows you that if this can happen in Uvalde, it can happen anywhere.
It's almost like a joke emerges from this.
How many cops does it take to stop a shooter?
And the answer is infinite.
They will never stop the shooter.
What you need is armed civilians, as we saw in the mall in Indianapolis.
Armed parents would have stopped the Uvalde shooting.
But armed cops with all their tactical training and all their SWAT teams and all their simulations and confrontation training and everything, all the gear, all the shields and tactical vests and everything, 400 cops couldn't stop one all the shields and tactical vests and everything, 400 cops couldn't stop Think about that, folks.
You wonder why I say you need to be your own first responder?
You wonder why I said you need to carry a firearm?
You need to be proficient in a firearm?
You know, you need to consider maybe ballistic vests if appropriate for you?
You know, you look at why I did that review recently of the folding AR-style pistols and rifles.
That's on my website, prepwithmike.com.
And I'm currently recommending the folding AR-style pistol from Shield Arms.
That's shieldarms.com.
Let's see.
Brandon over there, he said he would give us a discount code for our audience.
Here it is.
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All one word.
Let's see.
Lowercase or uppercase.
Health Ranger gets you $100 off an AR-15 folding pistol or rifle.
That's at shieldarms.com.
So there you go.
We're always trying to get you discounts for all kinds of things.
But why am I recommending that you become proficient in these kinds of tools?
Well, again, 400 cops couldn't stop one shooter.
And, folks, I hate to tell you this because I'm not anti-police at all.
You know, I appreciate what law enforcement, well, at least until Uvalde, what they were doing for society, you know, But Uvalde just destroys the reputation of law enforcement.
But I appreciate it when they do their jobs.
It's just that even they will tell you, and I know a lot of cops, and they will tell you they can't respond in time, and they're short-staffed.
But what do you think is going to happen when there aren't 400 cops to respond?
There aren't even four cops.
To respond because the crimes are so widespread, because the collapse is upon us, and people are freaking out and looting the grocery stores and ransacking ATMs because the banks have frozen withdrawals and so on.
There won't be 400 cops to respond to anything.
You won't get a cop.
You're going to have to be, in that scenario, you're going to have to be your own cop.
I mean, that's the truth.
And frankly, any honest cop will tell you that.
And, you know, I used to, I was on the police foundation in Tucson, Arizona.
And, you know, I worked with the governor of Wyoming previously in years past.
I was on the Wyoming Business Council as well.
And so I've had a lot of conversations with law enforcement in high positions over all these years.
And the number one thing they tell me is that there's not enough of them, is that they're understaffed and underpaid and underequipped.
That was true in Tucson.
I know it's true in Phoenix.
I know it's true in LA. Folks, the fact that they could even find 400 cops to show up at Uvalde is kind of mind-boggling.
It must have driven from hours away, because there aren't that many cops around.
And when you need them, sadly, as this demonstrates, they're going to stand around in the parking lot.
Again, a parent could have stopped that.
Just one parent.
Remember, tactical mom, as I said.
Tactical mom with an AR-15, she would have gone in there and shot that mad shooter's face off, right?
Tactical mom could have solved this thing.
Tactical mom is more valuable than 400 cops in the right scenario.
See, the difference is these 400 cops are just doing a job, whereas armed parents are saving their children.
So when it hits the fan and something threatens you or your property or your family, you're in a situation where you are defending your life.
Where if you call 911 and if they even do send anybody, that's just somebody who's only doing their job.
You are defending your life.
Who's got more skin in the game in this equation?
Well, you do.
It's like that black American veteran guy that I showed on Friday's podcast right at the beginning.
Remember that?
He saw bad guys coming up his driveway.
He's a veteran.
Picked up his AR-15 with his flip-flops.
He flip-flopped right out there to the front porch and started firing away at these bad dudes that were shooting at his BMW. Because that guy had more skin in the game.
He was protecting his family.
He didn't call 911 and wait 30 minutes for 400 cops to show up and stand around and do nothing.
You see?
That's the difference.
Look, I hate to tell you this because, again, I'm not anti-police by any means.
I support law enforcement when they do their jobs.
But we are in the post-police era of society.
I'm sorry to even have to say that.
To reach that conclusion.
But we are.
We are in the post-police chapter of the downfall of America.
We're in territory where police cannot help you at all.
Where you can't count on police at all.
Not one bit.
And even in the UK, did you see the story over the weekend?
Where basically stealing cars is now decriminalized because there's not enough cops to investigate or arrest car thieves.
So if you want to steal cars in London, pretty much it's open season.
And that kind of trend is going to increase everywhere.
And to some degree, you can't blame the cops because, again, they're understaffed.
And crimes are on the rise.
Why?
Well, because of money printing and inflation and food prices and everything that goes along with that.
I mean, the cops are not the cause of the problem here.
The cause of the problem is the central banks and corrupt politicians and the criminal element and so on, the loss of morality in society.
You can't blame cops for all that.
It's just that You can't put your faith in cops to come solve your problem.
That's all I'm saying.
It's not their fault.
There's just not enough of them.
And the situation is getting bad.
You are your own first responder.
I will just say two things.
As a disclaimer, keep it legal.
I always encourage people to keep it legal.
Don't carry a gun around unless you're legally allowed to do so.
I don't want to see you get arrested.
And then secondly, get training.
Get good training.
You can go out and take classes right now.
You can practice gun handling safely with dry fire techniques and things like that.
But Get good training so that you have proficiency, so that you're able to handle yourself as the situation outside continues to worsen.
And it is going to get worse.
How many cops does it take to change a light bulb in the Uvalde school?
400!
And even then, they can't get it changed.
I'm sorry to say that.
400 cops standing around.
Just unreal, really.
Do you realize how much money the county and the city and the state paid for all those 400 cops to be standing there for those few hours?
You realize?
It's probably a couple million dollars of salaries and overtime and everything and transportation.
To do what?
To do nothing!
That's what's astonishing about it.
What are we paying these people for?
If your job is not to move toward the gunfire and take out the shooter, then pardon my language, but what the F are you doing there?
Out of 400 cops, there wasn't one that was just willing to go Rambo in there and take care of the problem?
Not one?
Tell you what, you got too many obedient order followers in this system today.
Yeah, you're too obedient.
Sometimes, sometimes you need to do what's right instead of just following orders, okay?
That's all I'm going to say about it.
Let's move on.
Before I lose my temper.
All right, the rail shutdown that was anticipated for today has been averted.
So there's a small piece of possible good news.
As you know, the rail workers had all voted like 99% to go on strike beginning today.
But under labor law, the White House was able to appoint an emergency board.
I don't know how it all works, but now they have to go into these mandated legal negotiations and so on.
So this could take a month, even up to two months.
The strike could still happen later, or they might reach some kind of agreement to pay railway workers more money, and then we might not have the strike.
But the good news is, for right now, the trains have not stopped.
Thank God, because if the train stopped today, the question is where are you going to get coal for the power plants by Friday?
I don't know if you've looked at the power generation infrastructure in America, but wind and solar is not hacking it, folks.
You gotta have coal, and the coal arrives by train, and if the trains aren't running, your power grid fails.
So anyway, that has been averted for now, so at least that gives us more time to prepare.
We should, I think, use that time wisely.
And then on the financial front, I wanted to mention this.
CNBC covered this over the weekend, how Celsius, which was the big crypto investment platform, Celsius went from $25 billion in assets under management down to now $167 million.
So that's a massive drop in assets under management.
They now have only $167 million in cash on hand, and they say that's going to provide ample liquidity to support operations during restructuring.
It's like, restructuring what?
What are you restructuring?
People aren't going to get their money back.
So what are you restructuring?
Celsius owes its users $4.7 billion.
That's according to a bankruptcy filing, and its current balance sheet has what CNBC is calling a, quote, $1.2 billion hole.
I don't know exactly what they mean by that, but a $1.2 billion hole does not sound like a good thing if you're a company.
That sounds kind of scary.
So they had $25 billion under CEO Alex Mashinsky.
And even in May, as crypto was crashing, they were managing $11.8 billion in assets.
They had another $8 billion in client loans.
They were the largest name in crypto lending, and they'd promised 19% annual returns.
That if you loan them your crypto, you deposit Bitcoin with them, let's say, and then they would give you 20% or 19% per year as a return.
The problem is, of course, it was all a Ponzi scheme because Bitcoin doesn't earn anything.
So how was Celsius paying 19%?
they were making loans with your crypto loans that paid them like 35, 40, 50%.
And then they were paying out the 19%, you know, to the users for borrowing their Bitcoin.
The problem is those much higher interest rate loans, or they were earning the higher interest rate.
Those were even riskier.
So Celsius was basically depositing borrowed Bitcoin on other platforms that we're doing the same thing in an even higher risk category.
Those platforms were taking some of that money and investing it in other platforms that were offering like 75% to 100% returns.
And the whole thing collapsed because it was never rooted in financial reality.
So remember what I've said about crypto this entire time.
My position has always been the same.
Do not speculate in crypto.
And don't believe the get-rich-quick promises.
I've always said that I support the concept of cryptocurrency and I've even encouraged people to learn how to use it But to understand it's not digital gold.
It's not a store of value.
And don't speculate in crypto where you're going to get burned pretty bad.
And that's what's happening.
And it's going to get worse.
Now, Bitcoin itself is currently hovering around $20,000, $21,000.
That's very unlikely to continue much longer.
So there's still an opportunity to get out.
Okay, in the world of craziness, the University of Pennsylvania has nominated the biological male swimmer Will Thomas, or Leah as he liked to be called, to receive the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
So now we have a biological male swimmer nominated for Woman of the Year, which just goes to show you that in academia, they now believe that the best woman is a man.
So much for feminism, right?
What happened to the idea that women were great to be women, that women should win women's awards?
Now it's men winning women's swimming awards, which is almost a tongue twister.
And it reminds me of the time that Bruce Jenner, who of course now I think goes by Caitlyn Jenner, right?
Won a Woman of the Year award in some magazine a couple of years ago.
We thought that was pretty hilarious, too, because once again, it was proving that according to this magazine, the best woman in the world is a man.
So in order to be the best woman, you have to have a penis.
Academia now believes this as well.
It's hilarious.
But I know how to catch Will Thomas here.
I know how to catch him.
All you have to do is follow him around, secretly catch him peeing standing up.
Because if he's going to really be a woman, he needs to pee sitting down all the time.
If you catch him standing and peeing, oh, you're disqualified from the Woman of the Year award, that's for sure.
Because we caught you standing.
Caught you.
But I also think, as long as we're handing out awards, I think we should also nominate the leaders of the University of Pennsylvania for the Academia Mass Mental Illness of the Year Award, because they are highly qualified for that.
They would win that hands down.
And speaking of gender and personal, I don't know, reproductive issues, New York City now has announced that the one city accounts for nearly one third of all monkeypox cases in the United States.
Yeah, this was covered by Breitbart over the weekend.
30% of all U.S. cases are in New York City.
And this is according to a study that was just released.
The median age is 35 and it's 95.5% men.
And I was wondering, how do they know it's men?
Did they just assume?
What if it's men pretending to be women?
What if it's transgender monkeypox?
Huh?
then they could win like women of the year awards for, you know, spreading infectious diseases among, among men.
But seriously, what does it tell you?
If it's 95.5% men, What does this tell you?
Let's all put on our epidemiology hat here.
We see that number.
We realize, well, this is not something that spreads through the air or through normal casual contact like shaking hands or hugging or whatever.
Because if it were, then it would be more evenly distributed among men and women.
It would be about 50-50.
So no, clearly there's something happening.
Among these men that is spreading monkeypox.
And what is it?
What is it about these men that is spreading monkeypox?
Well, of course, the answer is they're all gay and bisexual.
That's right.
And 60% of these cases are in Manhattan.
And I already said the median age is 35 years.
These are gay men or bisexual men who are having multiple sex partners.
And because of the acts of their sexual intercourse, they are spreading monkeypox.
And isn't it fascinating that the CDC, their lips are zipped about this?
Their lips are zipped.
They won't talk about, oh, this is a gay thing.
They won't talk about the lifestyles of...
These young homosexual men having multiple sex partners, and they won't ever say that.
Now, they were happy to tell you to lock down your children.
They were happy to tell you, oh, six feet distancing, and you have to wear a mask, and you have to be behind the plexiglass, and if you're in a grocery store, you have to stand in the footprints on the floor.
But they won't tell homosexual New York men to stop banging 50 other guys.
They won't say that because that would be politically incorrect.
So when they say, oh, it's all about the science?
No, it isn't.
If it was about the science, then you would just say, hey, gay men, stop having anal intercourse, period.
That would be the science.
They won't say that.
Or they would say, hey, maybe you should wear condoms.
Maybe you should limit your partners.
Maybe you should just stop doing that.
No, they won't say that.
That's not allowed in New York City.
It's never about the science.
It's always about the politics.
And the CDC and the FDA and the NIH, none of them, they will never criticize homosexual lifestyles because it's politics.
So the good news in all of this, by the way, is that if you are not a homosexual man with multiple sex partners, your risk of contracting monkeypox is about zero.
That's good news.
So do you need a monkeypox vaccine?
Don't think so.
Not unless you plan to just like one weekend suddenly join the gay brigade of, you know, mass homosexual drunken party sex or whatever.
If that's your thing, you're probably not listening to this podcast.
But seriously, but if that is your thing, you should expect to get monkeypox.
And this brings up a really interesting point, that monkeypox has become a gay sex tracking system.
Wherever monkeypox is appearing is where homosexuals are having a lot of anal intercourse with each other, with multiple partners.
And of course the capital of that is New York City.
Of course, you know, also the capital of abortion.
Now the reason I want you to remember all this is because they're going to try to push monkeypox into a big epidemic scare.
The WHO is about to declare, you know, another big phase six global pandemic or something.
And they're going to try to push all kinds of restrictions.
And we, the non-homosexual, non-multiple gay sex partner people, we need to push back against this and say, hey, wait a second.
We're not the gay men spreading this.
We're at zero risk.
You can't lock us down.
You can't make us wear masks.
You can't push vaccines on us.
You can't limit our travel just because these homosexuals won't wear condoms or won't stop their lifestyles that keep spreading filthy diseases and so on.
Okay?
We need to push back.
Say, no, this is a gay men disease.
And if you're not a gay man, you've got nothing to do with this.
I mean, there's no way you're going to get monkeypox.
But you see, Democrats will never speak out against homosexual anal intercourse.
They will never speak out against rampant drug use or, of course, pedophilia or child grooming and so on.
And every once in a while...
A business person who is a raging leftist comes out and just says, this is too much.
This is insane.
This has got to stop.
And over the weekend, that was none other than Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
Howard Schultz.
This is the CEO of Starbucks, the company that welcomed the public to use all their restrooms all across America, including all these drug users.
And they were finding needles in the Starbucks restrooms in a lot of areas.
And Howard Schultz came out over the weekend and he said, quote, Starbucks is a window into America.
We are facing things in which the stores were not built for.
Yeah, like needles all over the restrooms and drug users and more.
We're listening to our people and closing stores.
And this is just the beginning.
There are going to be many more.
So he is blaming the leaders of Democrat cities for having to close Starbucks stores.
He says, quote, where the stores are closing, quote, at the local, state, and federal level, these governments and leaders, mayors, and governors, and city councils have advocated, I'm sorry, abdicated their responsibility in fighting crime and addressing mental illness, he said.
He's blaming the Democrats.
For the rising crime problem and the drug use problem and the homelessness and everything.
Even though it was Starbucks that wanted a virtue signal, they wanted to go woke!
And this all stemmed, by the way, from an incident in one of their stores, I forgot where it was, where apparently there were two black guys sitting at a table who didn't order any Starbucks and they were sitting there having a conversation or something.
I think at some point some Starbucks employees called the cops on them When they try to use the restroom, I don't have all the details, but something like that.
And then I think Starbucks reacted to that and said, no, we love black people.
We're going to open up our restrooms to all black people all over the nation.
Everybody can use their restrooms.
Like that was the virtue signaling woke reaction to that at the corporate level.
Fast forward to today, that policy has invited all the drug users to use Starbucks restrooms to shoot up heroin.
And that's what they're used for now.
So Starbucks has become the, you know, the heroin shoot-em-up pit stops, I guess, and probably a whole lot of monkeypox gay sex going on in those restrooms as well, come to think of it.
Maybe heroin and monkeypox all together.
That's Starbucks.
So the answer from Starbucks is not to reverse that policy and to say that restrooms are for customers only.
No.
The answer, because they can't risk the anger of the woke left, so their answer is, we're just going to close the stores.
Stores that were profitable.
See?
They can't have rules.
They just have to get out of Dodge.
Get woke, go broke, folks.
Get woke, go broke.
And by the way, these same Democrat policies in these left-wing cities that essentially allow shoplifting is causing CVS pharmacies to close down stores.
That's right.
And you're going to see grocery stores closing down as there's more food riots and looting and so on, flash mobs, all of that.
And in essence, you're going to end up Sometime in 2023 probably, a lot of these blue cities like Seattle and Los Angeles and San Francisco and Portland and so on, they're going to be gutted.
You're not going to have pharmacies.
You're not going to have grocery stores.
You're not going to have Starbucks.
You're not going to have fast food.
I think McDonald's is shutting down in some of these places as well.
What are you going to have left?
Just drug users all over the streets.
Just mass homelessness and violence.
Just...
People having sex on the sidewalks, I guess.
It's like giant monkeypox party.
Welcome to Seattle.
Because the key theme of Democrats is they refuse to hold anyone responsible for their actions.
So they refuse to enforce the law.
They refuse to halt shoplifting.
They refuse to arrest drug users who are using drugs right out in public.
They refuse to have rules.
And when you have anarchy...
You end up with a local ecosystem where no honest business can continue to function because you can't open a grocery store and just have everybody looting all your grocery products nonstop every day or a pharmacy for that matter.
And that's why they're all going to close down.
Now let me ask you this.
Is this problem going to get worse or better as inflation worsens and food prices go higher?
And gas prices go higher.
Is it going to get better or worse?
Well, obviously, it's going to get a whole lot worse.
And these are the same cities that instead of having a willingness to arrest criminals, they said the solution would be to defund the police.
So they have even fewer police, and they have more crime and more woke virtue signaling, which means these places are going to become...
Collapse zones?
I don't know.
What's the right way to describe them?
It's beyond food deserts.
It's just no-go zones.
Just infested, criminal, drug-using wastelands.
And that's the perfect description of what Democrats do to everything.
Everything that they control.
They turn it into a wasteland.
They will destroy nations if you let them.
They will destroy the world if you let them.
Look at what they've done with their green energy policies.
They've thrust Western Europe into an energy crisis that is going to be catastrophic this coming winter.
It's not even clear that Western Europe will survive as currently structured.
The EU will likely crumble.
The euro will collapse, cease to exist probably within another, let's say, year and a half, maybe two years at most.
It's not even clear how Germany's industry is going to survive this coming winter.
I mean, those are all left-wing, quote, green policies.
Remember, everything that the left does is a horrible idea, and it's important to understand the left always implements these policies with what they claim are good intentions.
They think that intentions should be what counts when implementing policy and law, but they don't look at the results of See, liberals look at intentions.
Conservatives look at results.
And if the results are bad, conservatives would say, hey, maybe we should change this policy and do something that works.
But liberals say, no, it's all about intentions.
We want a virtue signal.
We want to advertise our good intentions, regardless of the results.
And that's how they end up collapsing everything, which the Starbucks CEO, who is an ultra left-wing liberal, he is figuring this out now.
It only took Howard Schultz a decade to come to his senses.
And start closing Starbucks stores.
And many more to come.
I mean, if Starbucks ceases to exist, so be it.
That's because they made a lot of bad, woke, virtue-signaling decisions, and it didn't work out for them because of cause and effect.
Okay, I've got one more important story to share with you here today.
And this comes from Medscape.com.
This was sent to me by a physician over the weekend.
And here's the headline.
Medscape.com.
Quote, if nuclear disaster strikes, U.S. hematologists stand ready.
Now, of course, hematology is medicine of blood.
Okay?
So, this story, it requires registration to read the whole thing, but I'll just read you the first part.
Dozens of hematologists in the United States already know the drill.
And have placed themselves on the front lines of talking about Ukraine and Russia and nuclear weapons.
These physicians stand prepared to treat patients exposed to radiation caused by nuclear accidents or attacks on U.S. soil.
So, first of all, have you ever...
Do you recall any medical news network carrying a story of doctors announcing they're ready to treat radiation poisoning from nuclear war?
Like, that's new.
Haven't seen that before.
And here we are.
Quote, they work nationwide at 74 medical centers that make up the Radiation Injury Treatment Network.
That's the RITN.
Ready to manage cases of acute radiation syndrome during disasters.
While RITN keeps a low profile, it's been in the news lately amid anxieties about the Ukraine conflict, nuclear accidents, and the potential launching of nuclear weapons by foreign adversaries.
And then it goes on.
So 74 medical centers and 330 million people.
Do the math on that one, folks.
So you saw that if a one megaton warhead hits New York City, first of all, it would probably wipe out a whole lot of monkeypox.
But it would also kill several million innocent people as well.
And in addition to the millions who die, there would be many more millions who are subjected to radiation poisoning.
So there are 74 medical centers in America, and in one city there would be, what, 3 to 6 million radiation injured people?
How are millions of Americans going to be treated at 74 medical centers?
And I'm willing to bet you those 74 medical centers are not well-staffed.
Because they don't have a lot of day-to-day business of radiation poisoning.
So they're going to have to ramp those suckers up real quick.
Now, look, I'm glad that hematologists stand ready to treat acute radiation syndrome.
The problem is that hematologists can't alter the laws of physics.
Right?
So if you get a certain dose in a certain short amount of time, It's over, man.
Your cells fall apart.
Your cells can't replicate.
Your genetic code is no longer sustainable for cellular replication and healing.
It's over.
You just fall apart from the inside.
That's a very painful way to die.
The problem is they can't treat that.
Now, are there certain things that they can treat?
Yes, lower doses, non-fatal doses of radiation, they can be treated.
And, you know, I've done a lot of research in this area with my cesium eliminator invention, which is patented with the U.S. Patent Office.
You probably know I developed a way to remove cesium-137 from the digestive tract.
That's what that patent is all about.
When I was doing that research, by the way, I found that there is a blue pigment dye that Now, I'll pass along this information to you just with the disclaimer that I'm not advocating any particular action.
You know, check with your doctor, etc., etc.
But this blue pigment, which can be purchased in the form of painting supplies, it's called Prussian blue.
P-R-U-S-S-I-A-N. Prussian blue.
And it is FDA approved to remove both radioactive cesium isotopes and thallium from the body.
It is marketed as an oral drug and it's called Radiogardase.
G-A-R-D-A-S-E. Radiogardase.
Apparently that's the drug name.
And if you go to HHS.gov...
There's a sub-site called Radiation Emergency Medical Management, and the sub-domain for that is remm.hhs.gov.
So if you type this in, I'll give it to you, remm.hhs.gov slash prussianblue.htm.
You're going to get to the page on this, and you're going to be mind-blown that you never knew about this.
But I've known about this for many years because of the research on this, but check this out.
A 0.5 gram dose of Prussian blue is administered to people in gelatin capsules, okay?
And it's only by prescription, quote, you know, gotta have it from a doctor.
And it eliminates, or largely eliminates, cesium-137 and thallium isotopes, and it turns your poop blue.
You're gonna poop blue!
And your poop will be radioactive.
Just letting you know.
Because that's where it's going.
So if you've ever wanted to have like a Smurf dump that is radioactive, this is your chance.
It's called Prussian Blue.
And again, it is also available as a paint pigment, but obviously that's not FDA approved for oral ingestion, but look into that.
That's all I'm going to say.
Just look into it.
Might not be a bad idea to have some extra, you know, painting supplies on hand in case things happen.
And you know, who hasn't wanted to poop radioactive smurf turds, by the way?
I mean, that's a lifelong dream coming true right there.
Prussian blue can make it happen for you.
Now, this would be a bad time to be constipated for all the obvious reasons.
If you can't move it out, it's irradiating your rectum.
Well, your bowels, your large intestine, and everything on the way out is getting irradiated.
You want to move this stuff out quickly.
Again, for all the obvious reasons.
I don't mean to get weird about this, but let's talk reality here.
If you've taken a heavy dose of cesium-137, it's been in the food or the milk or the water that you've consumed.
And if you go to one of these hematology treatment centers, they're probably going to give you Prussian blue.
And they're going to say, you need to poop.
Like, this stuff needs to come out.
It's going to push the radiation out.
There are, of course, over-the-counter things like milk of magnesia type, you know, basically stool looseners and things you can get at the CVS if the CVS hasn't yet closed down because of shoplifting issues.
Things like that, but I got to tell you something here, and I kind of saved this for the very end because I don't want to announce this right up front, but you know that vibration plate that I talked about last, was it Friday or Thursday, Juvent, it's called?
J-U-V-E-N-T dot com, Juvent.
That vibration plate, and I've used it every morning for six years now, and it's amazing.
It's a micro-impact plate.
And it does wonders for circulation and moving lymph and increasing bone density and speeding bone healing and so on.
All kinds of things.
The benefits are extraordinary.
There's another benefit that nobody talks about.
This sucker will make you have a bowel movement.
I guarantee.
And in fact, this effect is so pronounced that I was talking to the owner of the company there, Pete, over the weekend.
And he said that there are centers...
Where clinicians actually treat people's bowel movements or constipation problems with this micro-impact plate.
They get on this thing for 10-15 minutes and they are ready to go.
It sounds bizarre.
Like, why would that have anything to do with it?
And without getting into all the physiology, you know, there's peristaltic action.
That moves things out, and that's normal, and that's healthy.
But the peristaltic action is also stimulated by these micro-movements.
It's kind of like it kind of wakes up or activates your elimination organs to say, hey, whoa, we're getting signals.
And then the peristaltic action kicks in, and your body's like, whoa, got to move this out.
I'm telling you that the effect is...
It is very strong.
And the great news is it's not like an artificial medication bowel movement.
You know, it's not loose stools.
It's just normal.
It's just normal but now.
So if you suffer any kind of constipation issue or you know somebody who does, get on this juvent plate for 10, 15, maybe 20 minutes.
You're going to know what's up.
I don't know.
Maybe in some cases, if it's a very, very persistent constipation problem, maybe it takes a couple days of your body training with this micro-impact plate.
I don't know.
But this is one of the most commonly reported benefits.
Of this plate that is entirely unexpected.
I didn't expect it.
But there you go.
Now just add, look, I don't drink cow's milk.
I don't do a lot of dairy.
I don't eat a lot of meat.
I don't eat a lot of fried food.
So for me, in that area, it's never been an issue.
But still, the plate sends a signal to your body and your body responds.
There's just no doubting that.
Alright, so hopefully you've learned some interesting things here today.
I know.
You learned about Prussian Blue, which is a cesium-137 elimination pigment that's used by painters, and it is an FDA-approved drug in the name of Radiogardase.
Okay?
So that's interesting to note.
And you've learned that a micro-impact plate causes bowel movements.
Which is true, and that's Juvent.
Juvent.com.
J-U-V-E-N-T.com.
Maybe, probably didn't know those two things.
That's useful information.
But let's see.
According to HHS, there are other names for Prussian blue.
It's called Berlin blue.
Different city names.
Feric ferocyanide.
Ooh, that doesn't sound good.
Feric hexacyanopherate.
And by the way, the cyan or the cyano here refers to the color blue, okay?
I mean, cyan, you know, that means blue.
Iron blue, and then radiogardase-cs, which is the element symbol for cesium, okay?
So radiogardase-cesium.
And then finally, now, I'm not advocating anything to you.
I'm not advocating that you buy this or use it or anything.
I can't vouch for anybody.
But right now, I'm going on to Amazon.com just because they're a common retailer.
And if I type in Prussian blue, there's 100 grams for $79.
It is laboratory-grade, Prussian blue, I'm just saying, I hereby disclaim anything.
If you were to have this or use it, I mean, you should research and be safe and so on.
But Maybe you've always wanted to be a painter, and it'd be a good idea to have some blue pigment and a canvas, you know?
Because you might have a lot of free time after a nuclear war if you're not in the blast zone.
And the power grid's down and everything.
I'm like, hey, what are we going to do with those free time?
Maybe you want to take up painting.
Who knows?
Get yourself some pigments, you know, just in case.
All right, that's my report for the day.
Always trying to bring you unique and interesting and life-saving information that I think you can put to use.
And I hope you found that true today.
Thank you for all your support.
By the way, I ran into a fan out in public over the weekend.
This fan was just so thrilled to see me in person out in public.
She said her husband would not believe That she saw me, unless I mentioned it.
So I'll mention, hey husband, your wife is from Argentina and her name starts with E. So there you go.
Have fun with that one.
We really did have a nice conversation about preparedness.
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