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July 27, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
16:00
It's TOO LATE to stop the global collapse... assume CRASH positions!
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- I've got a really good metaphor to share with you here that helps explain where we are in the world in terms of the food scarcity and energy scarcity and why there are no quick solutions for this.
In fact, we are in this for the long haul.
We, humanity, and a lot of people are going to suffer.
This cannot be solved in the short term.
And there's a real easy way to understand this.
You may not know this, but there are canyons in America where if you fly but there are canyons in America where if you fly into those canyons, and some of these are in California, for example, if you fly into the canyon with a small aircraft like a Cessna 172,
which is what I trained on, and if you fly in there on a hot day where you don't have as much lift and it's at the right altitude and you've exceeded a certain weight of the aircraft, You are dead from the moment you enter the canyon.
Even though your aircraft is flying and it's a beautiful scene, it turns out that that canyon gets increasingly narrow and the bottom of the canyon keeps rising higher and higher the deeper you fly into it.
And beyond a certain point, you do not have room to turn around, Because there's a certain turning radius of a Cessna 172.
You do not have room to climb out because the elevation that you would have to achieve exceeds the climbing rate of the aircraft.
And there's also no place to land because the ground is coming up.
And so you're already dead even though the plane is still flying.
Now, This is kind of what's happening with food all around the world, farming, agriculture, the loss of fertilizer, the non-planting of crops that's going on worldwide, and it's also what's happening with the economy in terms of the debt bomb.
The debt bomb is already in place.
We can't prevent it from destroying the world's Western economies.
It's going to happen just as that Cessna 172 is going to crash into terrain one way or another.
You're either going to hit the canyon walls or you're going to hit the canyon floor.
You're going to crash the plane.
All you get to determine is how you want to crash it.
You want to crash it into the side.
You want to crash it, you know, head on.
You want to crash it, you're trying to land it in the trees and the rocks.
You get to choose how you want to crash and probably won't survive.
But in pilot training, there's something called staying ahead of the aircraft.
And what that means is that you as the pilot, you have to think At least 10 seconds ahead of the aircraft and a lot more if you're a good pilot.
Because you're thinking about that there's a window of options ahead of you.
And this window of options is quite limited.
It's based on your airspeed.
It's based on the power that you have, the climb rates.
It's also based on air pressure, ambient temperature, other factors, right?
And how much cargo you're carrying in the airplane, including yourself and your passenger.
You know, the people count as cargo too.
That's part of the weight.
So, if you learn to fly ahead of the aircraft, to think ahead, then you're going to avoid trouble because you know what the options are within this window of opportunities, this window of potential actions, you could say.
And that will keep you out of trouble because you won't get into a bind from which you can't escape.
But if you don't fly mentally ahead of the aircraft and you end up reacting to what the aircraft is doing, then you're a dead person.
You should not be a small aircraft pilot because you're going to end up reacting too late and you're going to get killed.
For example, if you're climbing at too rapid of a pace and you stall the airplane, that doesn't mean an engine stall, that means a wing stall, an airlift stall.
You lose forward momentum and you lose lift and the plane starts to fall, usually in an uncontrolled manner, then you could very easily die from that.
And it's hard to stall a lot of planes like Cessnas.
They're very stable in flight, but you can still do it if you're not paying attention.
So think about the Federal Reserve.
Think about all the money printing.
That's kind of like climbing into the sky at an unsustainable climb rate.
And as they kept printing trillions of dollars over and over again through COVID especially, think about 2020 and 2021 and more money printing this year, essentially the currency has now stalled.
The currency has lost the ability to maintain flight.
And you're starting to see the disastrous results of inflation, which is in this metaphor the same thing as the plane starting to just tumble out of the sky in an uncontrolled You know, non-organized format, just chaotically falling out of the sky without the pilot having control over the flight surfaces.
If you've lost control of the rudder and the ailerons and so on, you're in trouble, right?
You've got major problems.
Well, that's what's happened with the economy.
So the Federal Reserve no longer has control.
The Federal Reserve It's printing money and they do control interest rates, but they've lost control of inflation.
Inflation is now spiraling completely out of control, kind of like a spiraling nosedive into terrain.
And it's bringing the economy down with it because as people spend more and more money on food, And on energy in particular, but also on housing and other things, then they have less discretionary income to spend on other things that typically drive the economy, right?
People will spend less on restaurants and travel and fashion and all kinds of other things that they really don't need as much.
They will tend to shift their spending into the things that they absolutely need, such as having food on the table.
Or heating their home in the winter, or air conditioning their home in the summer, or paying the water bill, things like that.
So we're already seeing that happen on a large scale.
But that's not even the worst of it.
The truth is, the food supply is collapsing worldwide, and there's another phrase for this called baked in.
It's baked in that we're going to have food scarcity and global famine for at least the next two years, maybe longer.
Even if we reverse all the problems today, if fertilizer were suddenly plentiful again, if it were affordable again, if diesel fuel just were cut in price down to less than one half of what it is right now, if seeds were readily available, if all these factors happened right now, it is possible that we can have an abundant food supply sometime in 2023.
But it is not possible To have an abundant food supply in the fall of this year, 2022, because those plantings have already not happened.
And the fertilizer applications have already not happened.
In other words, there's a certain amount of fertilizer that has to be applied to the acreage at certain times during the crop development, and that has not happened.
So crop yields are already going to be catastrophic.
That's baked in.
That's like flying the airplane into the canyon and thinking, oh, it's a beautiful day.
Look at the canyon.
And then sometime later realizing, oh my gosh, there's no way to turn out of this canyon.
Yeah, there's no way to magically come up with a bunch of food.
It takes time.
It takes nitrogen.
It takes diesel fuel for planting and harvesting and transportation.
It takes all these things.
And these things have not been available at the critical times that have already passed.
So you see, no matter what happens from here forward, we're going to deal with massive global food scarcity.
Now, sure, it's going to affect developing nations a lot more than America, let's say.
But even in America, you're going to see fewer food options on the shelves compared to what you're used to.
Some items will be out of stock and the items that are in stock will be a lot more expensive than what you're used to.
And that alone is a factor that leads to civil unrest.
It leads to widespread unhappiness and revolts and so on.
That is something that we are headed into no matter what.
And so the social ramifications of unaffordable food and unaffordable fuel Those ramifications are going to be experienced without question.
It's just like in that Cessna, you are going to hit terrain.
One way or another, it's coming.
All you can do now is figure out how to maybe survive the crash landing.
Is there a way to walk away from this?
And on a societal level, that's the question that economists are asking behind closed doors, but not publicly.
Publicly, you know, they're all pretending everything's fine.
At worst, we're just going to have a recession.
They're not thinking yet that there's going to be food riots in America.
They're not considering the ramifications of food rationing and scarcity.
And the same thing is true with fuel.
So did you know, for example, that Costco is now rationing fuel at its gas pumps in New Jersey?
If you're not a member of Costco and if you're not a resident of New Jersey, you are no longer allowed to purchase gasoline from Costco in New Jersey.
Why are they doing that?
Because they don't have the supply.
I mean, why wouldn't they be happy to sell fuel to everybody if they're making some money off of it?
Well, the answer is they don't have the supply and so they're starting to ration it to their members only.
We've seen the Flying J travel truck plazas running out of fuel in Florida and other places along the East Coast.
And you're probably already well aware of the shortages coming in diesel emissions fluid or DEF, and also the shortage of diesel engine oil additives, which are anti-corrosion additives and so on.
We've covered that in detail recently.
Add diesel fuel shortages or scarcity, not a complete wipeout, but just difficult supply because we don't have sufficient refining capacity in the United States because the EPA and various administrations, especially the Obama admin, they deliberately shut down fossil fuel infrastructure.
That's been going on for well over a decade.
And so we just don't have the refining capacity that's needed to support the demand for diesel fuel.
And the only thing that's going to solve that, frankly, is going to be a deep economic depression where there's reduced demand for consumer goods and therefore reduced transportation demand.
And we are going to get that.
So that might be the reason why there's still enough fuel to go around if there is.
But if we don't have a deep depression, we're going to have outages of diesel fuel and diesel engine oil and diesel emissions fluid and other things such as continued fertilizer outages and supply chain collapse affecting agricultural equipment and so on.
So we are in the canyon.
To go back to the metaphor, we're all riding in a Cessna.
We've entered the canyon.
People are looking out the windows and they're going, oh, isn't the canyon beautiful?
Look at the trees!
Look at the rocks!
It's amazing!
They're not realizing that they're already dead.
They're not realizing that they're going to crash.
The smart people on the airplane already know what's about to happen because they can see ahead.
That's people like you and I. And it's a blessing and a curse.
It's a blessing because if you're on that airplane, you can start looking around for ideas of, you know, hey, is there some kind of maybe a parachute here or a seat cushion or something that can help me survive this crash.
But the curse of having this knowledge is that you can turn around and say to the other passengers on the airplane, hey, everybody, I know you're enjoying this flight, but this plane is going to crash.
It is inevitable.
There's no way out of this canyon.
And those people are going to respond to you and say, stop being so negative.
Right?
We've all heard that.
Stop being so negative.
Enjoy the flight.
Why do you have to make everything doom and gloom?
And you're saying, no, we've done the math, the altitude, the airspeed, the air pressure, the ambient temperature, the climb rate, and the number of passengers on the Cessna.
There's too many people.
In fact, the only way that we're going to make it out of this valley is if two of you jump out the door right now.
And at that point, you're going to be met with a bunch of outraged people.
You jump out the door, you moron.
Stop being negative.
So that's where we are in society.
This economy is going to crash.
This currency is going to collapse.
There is no way out of it.
We are going to see worldwide famine.
At minimum, hundreds of millions of people are going to starve.
And if we don't solve these problems, if we don't get back to global trade and fertilizer and energy and logistics and international shipping and so on, if we don't restore the energy infrastructure that once made America great, then there will be no America left a few years down the road.
There will be no Western Europe remaining.
There will be no Western civilization.
Without energy and without food.
And those two are intertwined deeply because higher energy prices lead to higher food prices.
And also because the urea chemical that goes into diesel emissions fluid, that's also one of the base nitrogen rich fertilizer products.
And it's produced by companies like CF Industries that make fertilizer.
So it really is a lot of the same chemicals that go into food and that go into running diesel engines.
So when you don't have the critical supply chain working in areas such as nitrogen-based fertilizers, you can have a disastrous catastrophic collapse in both food and energy affecting transportation and logistics.
We are not getting out of this without a lot of damage.
We are not getting out of this without a crash.
The only question is, can you walk away from that crash?
And you do so by having stored food, assets that are off the fiat currency system, backup systems that operate off-grid, and so on.
Backup plans, bug out plans.
Emergency medicine, communications, self-defense, all kinds of things.
That's your insurance.
That's your parachute in this scenario.
And right now is a good time to deploy that parachute.
You can hear more of my videos at prepwithmike.com.
Thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, also the author of resilientprepping.com.
That's a free download of the entire audiobook.
You can find it at resilientprepping.com.
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