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Aug. 2, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, 8/2/22 - Americans shift food shopping to DOLLAR STORES...
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It's Tuesday, August 2nd.
I'm Mike Adams and this is the Situation Update and thank you for joining me today.
Hope you're having a great day.
And by the way, if you're in the state of Kansas, don't forget to go out and vote today for the value them both amendment that would allow the legislature of the state of Kansas to finally regulate abortion clinics and abortion activities, you know, and finally put some limits on it instead of the current unlimited you know, and finally put some limits on it instead of Because, you know, Kansas has become kind of a an abortion tourism destination for the Midwest.
That's kind of sad.
It's like, welcome to Kansas.
We just came here to kill our baby.
And then we're going to leave.
No, that's not acceptable.
Let's change that.
So be sure to get out and vote today.
Vote yes on the amendment called Value Them Both.
And if you know anybody who lives in the state of Kansas...
Give them a ring or a note and remind them to get out and vote for Value Them Both.
And I'll bring you the results of that tomorrow.
If they're ready by tomorrow, that should be interesting.
Now, on a more international scale, Nancy Pelosi, our favorite drunken gal, is on her way to Taiwan.
And frankly, by the time you hear this, she may have already arrived.
Now, it's interesting because this has been kind of an on-again, off-again type of vacation, meeting, trip, I don't know, to Taiwan.
And yesterday, it looked like she was dropping Taiwan from her itinerary, and her staff was running around saying, what Taiwan?
We've never even heard of Taiwan.
There's no...
What are you talking about?
But today, reportedly, or at least in the last 24 hours or so, she is now...
Reportedly going to visit Taiwan.
We're going to have high-level meetings with...
I guess, is it the Kuomintang, the KMT people?
I'm not sure which political party she's meeting with.
Now, in Taiwan, there are basically two political parties, the KMT, the Kuomintang, and the DPP. And the KMT is all about reunification with China.
And the KMT has largely been infiltrated by China, by the way.
And China has even infiltrated some of the media in Taiwan, which is kind of sad.
The DPP party is all about Taiwan independence.
Which means, you know, I support the DPP, not the KMT, because I support Taiwan independence.
But This is fascinating what's going on right now because, you know, Nancy Pelosi saying we're going to go visit Taiwan and then China, well, they've been beating their chest for the last several days saying, you know, how dare you visit Taiwan without our permission?
You know, because they say Taiwan is a renegade territory of China.
It's ours.
We control it.
But they really don't.
Taiwan is its own nation, its own independent island nation.
And as you may know, I lived there for a couple of years.
And so I know Taiwan quite well.
I can name many of the streets in Taiwan cities.
And I know the Taiwan people.
Maybe better than any American, or I mean as well or better than any American.
So let me tell you what I think is going down.
Now Taiwan has to play this very, very careful game.
They have to be sure, number one, not to anger any political party in the United States because they have to be friendly to both the Democrats and the Republicans.
Because they never know who's going to be in the White House, but they need support from the U.S. no matter what.
They need the U.S. Navy, in particular, to dissuade China from an invasion.
Secondly, Taiwan, the culture of Taiwan, is quite amazing.
I really, I love the Taiwan people.
And they are incredibly industrious.
They're innovative.
They're creative.
They're hard workers.
And they manufacture a lot of stuff.
Especially microchips, by the way, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is, I think, the largest microchip supplier in the world, or at least among the largest.
It's one of the most important for our critical supply chain.
And when I was living in Taiwan, which was back in the early 1990s, I actually got to visit a lot of manufacturers.
I visited manufacturers that worked with carbon fiber, electronics, I visited manufacturers of fitness equipment, you know, exercise types of machinery, computers, monitors, a lot of big monitor manufacturers.
The only downside of Taiwan is that a lot of the business owners got quite greedy over the last couple of decades, as they do, I guess, everywhere in the world.
And they decided to offshore their manufacturing to China, which is exactly what, you know, American corporations did, too.
And so in doing that, Taiwan actually transferred a lot of technology to China about how to manufacture computers and electronics and all kinds of things.
And then China ended up taking over that manufacturing.
And now Taiwan is suffering a lot of the same problems of the United States, where it's losing its industrial base and labor prices are getting higher and higher.
They're suffering inflation and quite a lot of internal strife about whether they should reunify with China or be their own independent nation.
Now, of course, because they supply key semiconductors for the entire world, the United States desperately needs Taiwan to maintain its independence in order for the U.S. to get those microchips, which go into military weapons for the U.S. weapons industry.
And everybody in the world knows that if China takes over Taiwan, then that microchip supply will be cut off and it will be absolutely disastrous for the Western world.
In fact, the head of the tech giant, TSMC, has now warned that an invasion of the island there would render his factory, quote, not operable as tensions rise ahead of a visit by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
This is from insiderpaper.com.
The story is called Taiwan Chip Giant Head Warns War Would Devastate Global Supply.
Kind of an awkward headline, but whatever.
And the story talks about the chairman of the TSMC company, the microchip company, called Mark Liu.
And he warns that, quote, nobody can control TSMC by force.
He says that it's one of the main suppliers of the world's most advanced microchips, used in everything from smartphones and cars to missiles, and that the TSMC factories are currently running at full capacity to try to alleviate a global shortage.
He says, quote, if you take a military force or invasion, you will render TSMC factory not operable.
These are sophisticated manufacturing facilities.
It depends on the real-time connection with the outside world, with Europe, with Japan, with the U.S.
He's talking about real-time connection, non-conference.
not just through e-commerce and, you know, internet connections, but commodities, being able to get raw materials because Taiwan is a relatively small island nation.
So they have to import all these raw materials from all over the world in order to make these semiconductors.
The story goes on and says, quote, With clients including Apple and Sony.
And Mr.
Liu says, quote, from materials to chemicals and spare parts to engineering software diagnosis, it's everyone's effort to make this factory operable, he says.
So what he's saying is kind of like, you know how Russia needs all these parts from Siemens in order to run the Doomstream 1 pipeline, which, of course, is only running at 20 percent of capacity right now because they can't get the parts, you know, because the sanctions and so on.
Well, Taiwan, the Taiwan Semiconductor Company, they've got to have parts with Europe and the United States and Canada and all kinds of other countries in order to keep everything running as well.
So what he's saying is if there's an economic blockade of Taiwan or a naval blockade by China, then that's going to be devastating to the world's microchip supply.
And you know, it's already quite difficult to get microchips for the automobiles and trucks and computers and spare parts and industrial systems and all that, right?
It's all backlogged like crazy.
If China starts to blockade Taiwan, that's going to get way worse.
So you might wonder, well, why is Nancy Pelosi going there in this provocative kind of maneuver?
And I'm not exactly sure.
I have a couple of suspicions about it.
I mean, one is, of course, the Democrats want a war with China as quickly as possible before the midterms.
That's true.
But there may be another reason, and that is to try to show that the U.S. is still powerful enough to throw its weight around.
I mean, after the disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan and Kabul under Biden, the world is looking at the United States military and thinking, snowflakes!
Weaklings!
Pathetic!
That's pretty much the way the world looks at the U.S. military right now.
Despite What it really is.
I'm just saying that's the world's perception of the military because it's so mismanaged, you know, by the woke Pentagon leaders and the cognitively impaired, quote, president.
So perhaps, perhaps the U.S. is looking for a way to throw its weight around and say to China, oh, you're not going to bully us.
If we want to fly to Taiwan, we're going to fly to Taiwan.
If we want to sail our naval battle groups, You know, through the islands, straits, waters over there, you know, wherever they want to go, the Spratly Islands or wherever.
We're going to do that because we're Americans, you know, like we're going to do that.
America, if yeah, you know, like we're going to sail wherever we want.
And that might be the goal as well.
And China is either going to have to back down, which would be hilarious, because they've been threatening to shoot down Nancy Pelosi's plane.
They've been threatening, you know, war.
They've been sending out alerts to their militaries like battle stations, everybody, you know, all this stuff.
So they're either going to have to back down or they're going to have to wage some kind of major attack on Taiwan.
And frankly, I think either way, China loses.
China's going to lose this round.
I think that China has protested too much, and as much as I rarely congratulate the Democrats or the Biden White House for doing anything intelligent at all, If Pelosi proceeds with this plan and if she lands in Taiwan and she meets with Taiwan government or political party, frankly, that's a big win for America that is pulled off by the Democrats.
You've got to give them credit this time.
I mean, yeah, I know.
You're probably surprised to hear that coming out of my mouth.
But geopolitically, this is a big win for America to just say, hey, we're going to visit Taiwan and there's nothing you can do about it, China.
You know, like, make us stop.
Like, make us not visit the island.
You know, we dare you.
Basically, that's what Pelosi is saying.
So China's going to lose this round.
If they launch a bunch of weapons and launch a war, they lose because they look like, you know, the aggressors.
If they do nothing, they lose because they look weak and America looks strong once again.
So my guess is that China is not going to do anything real.
They're going to continue to push out a lot of bluster and a lot of verbal threats and they're going to maybe sail some ships around and fly some planes around like airspace, patrol, whatever.
But in the end, it's going to be nothing because I don't think China wants to start a war with America yet.
Not quite yet.
I mean, they're building up for a war with America, and maybe the right time for them is going to be like November of this year.
There's no doubt they're getting ready for it, but they're not quite ready yet.
So the timing might be premature for them.
At least that's my guess based on the current assessment of the situation.
Nevertheless, if Nancy Pelosi pulls this off and lands there and has a meeting, I will actually congratulate her for doing something useful for once.
And I will also warn the Taiwanese people to guard your liquor cabinets when she's there.
She's going to be thirsty after that international flight, and she's going to need a little drenching, a little personal thirst-quenching activity there.
So just guard your liquor cabinets, folks.
Nancy Pelosi is on the alcohol hunt.
And since I do speak a fair amount of Mandarin Chinese, I do want to let you know that the phrase to drink alcohol in China and in Taiwan, it sounds like this.
So it's He is to drink and Joe is alcohol.
So if you hear a lot of talk in the background, like you're watching the media reports or something, you keep hearing He Joe, He Joe.
You might think they're talking about Joe Biden.
No, no, no.
Joe is alcohol.
They're talking about getting her some booze.
So just be on the lookout for He Joe.
That means to drink.
Drink it up, lady.
Keep drinking.
And by the way, just culturally speaking, if you ever negotiate with Taiwanese people, you should know that you are expected to go out and get drunk with them.
Like, this is a normal part of the culture.
It's kind of a rite of passage that means you're okay.
You go out and you drink until you're just clobbered.
And this was always an impediment to me because, of course, I don't drink.
And even when I lived in Taiwan, I did not drink.
So not only was I the foreigner, I was the foreigner who would refuse to drink alcohol.
They're like, you want to have a drink of alcohol?
I'm like, no, no, thanks.
Thank you.
I'm not drinking alcohol.
Oh, man, you're really a foreigner.
But whatever.
Just saying.
I think Nancy Pelosi will drink enough for both of us.
So she settles all debts.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the other really obvious thing.
America needs Taiwan to remain independent because America needs Taiwan's airfields and location to beat China in a world war.
A world war that, frankly, both countries know is coming.
I mean, China knows and the USA knows as well.
So Taiwan is absolutely critical for the United States strategically.
And Taiwan, of course, it was previously occupied by Japan, by the way.
And Chiang Kai-shek and his people fled mainland China.
They fled the communists and they formed the anti-communist government of Taiwan.
Taiwan is a democracy.
It's not communist.
They don't like the communists.
They also don't like to be occupied by the Japanese, by the way, although they learned a lot from Japan during the occupation.
That's a fascinating cultural history there.
You find a lot of Japanese influence in Taiwan today, including in the factories and the technology and construction and so on.
I'm not going to go into all these details, but...
It's a fascinating history there.
The point is, the United States needs Taiwan to remain independent.
And also, probably the Pelosi family is getting paid off somehow.
Because I don't think she flies anywhere without getting paid, right?
Kind of like Hillary Clinton giving speeches.
You know, Hillary Clinton's going to give a speech in this African nation, right?
Yeah, it's a 30-minute speech, and the speaking fee is half a million dollars, and it turns out she didn't even speak.
She just collected the money.
Thank you very much, and went on.
That's the way it works in the world.
All right, let's switch over to economic and food news.
We have a lot in this area today.
The UK Daily Mail has kind of a shocking headline I have to read for you.
Quote, Americans are relying on dollar stores to buy dinners and bulk items as grocery prices surge 12.2% and chains, including Walmart, say prices aren't coming down anytime soon.
And most importantly, this is still the headline.
Like the UK Daily Mail has the longest headlines in the world.
More than 61% of people say they are now living paycheck to paycheck.
You got that?
Paycheck to paycheck.
Six out of ten Americans.
So assess your current situation right now as you're listening to this.
And I would imagine that if you're listening to this, you are not living paycheck to paycheck.
So count your blessings.
That you're already in the...
If you're not living paycheck to paycheck, you're in the top 40% of America right there, just economically speaking.
And the reason 60% or 61% are living paycheck to paycheck and why that number is getting higher is because, of course, of food inflation and fuel inflation.
Cost of living increases on everything.
And the lower income classes in America are getting hurt bad.
They're starting to get into a desperate situation.
That's what the story is all about here in the UK Daily Mail.
Check this out.
Grocery sales at discount stores have spiked 71% between October 2021 and June of 2022.
Which means that people are going to these dollar stores now.
And these dollar stores are all over Texas, too, by the way.
There's a few different ones.
There's like Dollar Tree and Dollar General and, I don't know, some others.
There's one store called Five Below.
I think everything's supposed to be $5 or less.
And just as a side note, I wonder, if you're named the dollar store, what are you going to do when the dollar collapses?
Because that's where it's going.
I mean, the dollar is going to be the worst name ever at some point here.
And even at a lot of these stores, remember when I went out, I went to one of the dollar stores and I bought a bunch of stuff and I filmed a video about it.
And it's on my channel on Brighton because I was kind of impressed about what kind of stuff you can get for $1.25, I think it is, right now.
Like, you can get a solar-powered scientific calculator, I think, for $1.25, which is pretty remarkable.
But I also pointed out that a lot of the other things that you buy at the dollar stores are a rip-off.
So, for example, if you're buying, I don't know, what was it, like ibuprofen or Tylenol or aspirin, what have you?
Yeah, the bottle is $1.25, but there might only be six tablets in it.
So you're paying like 20 cents per dose, where if you buy a bottle of 100 of those at, I don't know, Walmart or somewhere, you might only be paying, you know, a nickel a dose.
So you could be overpaying 400% on, you know, over-the-counter painkillers, if that's what you're into, by buying them at the dollar store.
Just because everything's a dollar doesn't mean it's actually a better value.
So be careful about that.
But...
Apparently, people are now buying a lot of food at the dollar stores.
Now, if you thought processed food at the regular grocery store was bad for you, just think about a whole box of sort of generic Pop-Tarts for $1.25.
How low grade is the wheat that went into that little Pop-Tart or that box of Pop-Tarts?
How fake is the blueberry juice in that sucker?
For where they can sell that thing for $1.25.
You know, it's kind of like, I'm not even sure that would qualify as, you know, pet food, frankly.
I mean, in my book, anyway, I'm not saying that these retail stores are selling anything that's technically unsafe.
I'm just saying, how good can it be if it's $1.25 for a box of Pop-Tarts, you know?
You realize that the most affordable food is the most worthless food because it's the processed garbage.
And it's also the subsidized corn that's in the food chain.
And of course, you're not going to get whole wheat bread for $1.25 a loaf.
The dollar store is not about selling, you know, organics and non-GMO and whole grains and whole foods and anything like that.
No, it's about Like, the cheapest processed calories that you can stuff in your face for the least amount of cost.
And I get it.
At certain times in life, that's all you can afford.
And I've been there before, and I've talked about this publicly.
In fact, when I lived in Taiwan, I was flat broke.
I was down on my last...
It was 100 NT at one point, which was like $4 at the time.
I was down to my last $4.
And I was buying white rice, and I was buying eggs and soy sauce.
And I was making meals out of that.
It was like, hey, what are we having for dinner today, honey?
White rice, eggs, and soy sauce again, because that's all we can afford.
Yeah, I've been there.
I've absolutely been there.
I know what it's like, so I'm not judging anybody who's living on the dollar store.
For the long run, this is not a good place to get good nutrition, obviously.
And so I'm concerned about so many Americans having to stop shopping at the regular grocery stores and now shopping at the discount dollar stores, which is kind of a downgrade in nutrition.
Let's be honest about it.
You know, I would love it if everybody could eat organic.
But, you know, economically, it's very expensive for people to go that route as food inflation keeps getting worse.
But if they can't go organic, at least shop at a regular grocery store so you can get something that's got some nutrition in it, but even that's becoming too expensive for people, so they're going to the discount stores.
So according to this article, again, grocery sales at these discount stores is up 71%, and the concern is that out of $18,000 general locations in America, only 2,300 of them carry fresh produce.
So what are people buying?
Well, not fresh produce.
They're buying garbage, packaged, processed foods that are strongly linked to ongoing degenerative disease conditions like diabetes and so on.
And so even in this article, it says, quote, many discount store consumers are forced to depend on boxed, canned, or frozen produce options.
Boxed or canned food, heavy on preservatives, heavily processed.
And even this article points this out, says the majority of these dollar stores only supply boxed and canned food that's high in sugar, they say, spelling trouble for the health of Americans.
Well, Sugar is not the worst problem in the food supply.
In my opinion, it's actually all these processed canola oils, rapeseed oil, corn oil, vegetable oils that are just garbage.
I mean, sugar is a problem, but the vegetable oils, I think, are frankly far worse and they're dirt cheap.
And that's why they're going into these cheap, cheap food items.
So the other thing that's happening in all of this, and remember, again, 61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
Keep that in mind as things hit the fan, because those are the people that are going to be quite desperate, you know, for all the obvious reasons.
But keep in mind that people are having to make a lot of new decisions about what to let go of in their discretionary purchasing budgets.
And so Amazon just lost $2 billion in the second quarter of this year.
I mean, they've lost $2 billion.
Why?
Well, a lot fewer people are purchasing things online.
And they're being more discriminatory in what they purchase.
Like, do I really need, you know, that folding origami wooden shelf cabinet thing?
Probably not.
You can probably get by without that.
Especially if it means you'll have food to eat for the next two weeks.
And in addition, McDonald's sales are down.
This is...
Kind of perhaps worth celebrating.
I'm sure McDonald's will be soon rolling out the World Economic Forum Cricket McNuggets with the cricket goo dipping sauces.
So, you know, that'll be an affordable meal, no doubt.
That'll be probably subsidized by the World Health Organization.
Eat more crickets, you know.
You'll be seeing TV ads all about that.
But the bottom line is a lot of these retailers, Walmart, Amazon, Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, and so on.
They're losing out while sales at these deep, deep discount stores are going higher.
Now, I showed you a photo last week when I was at one of these dollar stores that I got pulled into, and I took a picture because there were boxes strewn all over the floor, and the shelves, it looked like the place had been looted, but it was during normal business hours, and they were operating, people were in there shopping and buying stuff, and I'm looking around, I'm like, did...
Was there a ransacking that happened here that I missed out on?
I mean, I wish I would have caught that on film.
There's boxes everywhere.
But apparently that's normal now in America, which with each passing day is descending into a third world nation.
I don't know if you've noticed that.
Seems like there's more trash all over the place lately.
And just everything looks run down.
I mean, it's the great ghettoization of America.
You know, America's turning into a giant ghetto.
And in the ghetto, the police don't respond.
You're on your own.
Everything's kind of dirty and dingy.
Certain places kind of smells like urine, you know?
It's like a giant ghetto.
And people are miserable, a bunch of addicts everywhere.
You know, it's not a good scene.
So, sadly, that's what America is turning into under...
Joe Biden.
No surprise.
So here's something interesting.
One UK supermarket chain has come up with a whole new way to deal with customers when it comes to fresh produce.
You know how most fresh produce has a kind of a Best before date, kind of like a use-by date, you know?
Best before September 30th or what have you.
Kind of like a food expiration date.
Well, this supermarket in the UK has decided, we don't need expiration dates on produce.
Just let the customer figure it out.
I mean, how...
How stupid do you have to be to eat brown, watery lettuce?
I mean, people can look at the lettuce and figure it out for themselves.
This is what they're saying.
So there's a supermarket chain in the UK called Waitrose.
I don't know if it's Waitrose or Waitrose or what.
I don't know how you say it.
But according to a story on EcoWatch.com, they're getting rid of best before dates on packaged fresh fruits and vegetables.
They're going to just eliminate all those dates on cucumbers, lettuce, and peppers in the hopes that customers will use their own discretion in determining whether food has gone bad.
And the expectation, according to the story here, is that this will keep customers from discarding food that is still good, thus reducing food waste.
So how hilarious is this going to be?
You go out, you buy some green peppers at the grocery store, you leave them in the fridge a little too long.
They start to get smaller and smaller and more liquidy and brown.
But since there's no expiration date on it now from this supermarket chain, some people are going to look at that and say, well, it must still be good.
Let's just eat it and see what happens.
People, don't mess around with expired vegetables.
When food starts to smell funny and look funny and go runny, you need to ditch it.
Chuck that stuff.
Put it in the compost pile.
If you don't have a compost pile, make one.
Everybody's going to need some compost, like I call it black gold, to grow some food.
So hey, even if you don't eat the slimy green peppers, you can chuck them in the compost pile and turn it into tomorrow's food, you know, through composting.
But I think this is fascinating.
Because maybe in the UK they can get away with this, but you know, in America, a lot of the grocery consumers are so stupid.
This is just inviting them to eat the most insanely over-ripened, even rotten stuff.
Like, the common sense of the American consumer is gone.
You know, they'll just eat anything, no matter how long it's been there.
Or, I mean, it's not just the problem where they throw stuff away too early because it hits the expiration date.
The problem is they're going to keep it too long and still try to eat it.
It's like, ah, there's a corner of that.
What if we just cut the mold off this cheese?
Let's just slice the mold off all the edges.
Looks good.
Looks okay.
Which...
I suppose with cheese there's some argument to that, but it's not like you can take a jug of milk and just pour out the lumpy part and the liquid part must still be okay.
No!
It's probably not okay.
Be careful with that stuff.
So that's why I think it's so funny that there's another grocery store chain in the UK called Morrison's and they're going to eliminate the expiration dates on milk.
Also, according to The Guardian, this chain, Morrison, says they plan to urge customers to employ a, quote, sniff test for the milk instead of having use-by dates.
You got that?
The sniff test.
In case you were wondering, when did this milk expire?
So even the grocery store is going to say, ah...
Take a whiff and see.
You know, welcome to 2022.
Welcome to the era of global food inflation.
You're pretty much just going to have to sniff test everything.
And if it passes the sniff test, try the sip test.
And if you still don't pass out from ingesting toxins, you know, if the room isn't spinning and you're not having a seizure, then you might be able to drink it, but be careful.
Because there's no expiration date any longer.
Yeah, even on milk.
Woo!
Folks, I don't know about that.
But the real joke in all of this is that they're relying on consumers to have a sense of judgment about what food is good and bad.
Well, if they had that judgment, they wouldn't buy most of the food that is sold in these grocery stores in the first place.
Because most food sold in the grocery stores, I mean, all the processed garbage junk food, it's toxic.
And people are buying that all the time.
So you're going to say that, oh, these people have good judgment and what's okay for them?
No, of course they don't.
They're eating discount $1.25 Pop-Tarts from the dollar store.
You can't trust these people to know what's any good.
It's just like, the smell of the milk is like, what does it smell like?
Well, it was, who cares?
It was only $1.25.
Drink it.
See what happens.
By the way, something else to watch out for is not just food that goes bad, you know, too soon, but also, have you ever seen a food that never goes bad?
And that's just as suspicious.
There's a brand of bread that is sold at a grocery store in Texas that's in the frozen section.
And I've come to find out that they don't need to freeze it at all because you can set that thing out on a shelf after it's open for six to eight months and it will never mold.
And I'm telling you, I will never buy that bread again because something's wrong with that.
It should mold.
It must have anti-mold chemicals mixed into the bread.
Something's wrong with this picture.
Normal, healthy bread should eventually mold, usually within a week or something after you open it, but not this brand, which I'm not going to name.
It's just highly suspicious to me.
I'm not going to buy it anymore.
How much do you want to bet they're kind of secretly mixing some kind of, like, antibiotic penicillin loaf in there, you know?
What are your ingredients?
Ah, well, you know, wheat and some yeast and some salt and penicillin.
What?
What was that?
Did you say something else after the salt?
What did you say?
No, we didn't say anything.
It's wheat and it's got salt and so on.
You know, I would not be surprised.
Seriously.
Have you heard the rumor before that some of the organic strawberries are grown by using water that's irrigated with pesticides?
You know, like the pesticides are put into the water.
Now, I've never been able to confirm this rumor, so maybe it's just kind of an urban legend.
But I'll mention it in that context as an unconfirmed legend.
But the legend is that some organic strawberry growers, they know that it's against the rules to spray the strawberries with pesticides or certain types of herbicides and so on, right?
That's not allowed under USDA Organic.
But you can still irrigate them with water that's dosed with pesticides.
And technically that is allowed under USDA organic standards, or maybe a better way to say that would be it would not be noticed under USDA organics because they don't really test anything for pesticides.
The organic certification program certifies a process, not an end result.
So USDA organics doesn't mean that anything's tested.
It's not.
Nothing's tested.
You can be certified organic and they don't test a thing.
They don't test for heavy metals.
They don't test for pesticides.
They don't test for glyphosate.
I mean, folks, why do you think that we do all this testing at our lab, even though almost everything we sell is certified organic?
You know, if organic meant that it was already tested, we wouldn't have to do all those tests.
The reason we do those tests is because organic doesn't mean any of that stuff.
Seriously.
So the legend is that strawberries in certain areas that so-called organic strawberries are actually grown in irrigation water, spiked with pesticides.
And frankly, I wouldn't be surprised.
I can't confirm it, but these days, nothing would surprise me.
All right, more news about food.
This is kind of shocking.
And this was a story by Value Walk that I found on Zero Hedge.
45% of independent restaurants couldn't pay July rent.
45%.
So according to this survey from Alignable, this is a rent report.
This is a poll that concluded among 3,553 small business owners.
It says that rent struggles are becoming severe for many small business sectors, including restaurants, transportation, retail shops, and beauty salons.
And the reason is that rent is going up, labor costs are going up, there's a labor shortage, there's a higher price of gas, and there's reduced consumer spending.
And so 34% of all small businesses in America could not afford to pay July rent.
I mean, that's a third, folks.
And the rate among restaurants, independent restaurants, I should say, is 45%.
That means that almost half of the restaurants that are independent in America could close down soon if things don't change, you know, quite dramatically for the better, which I don't see any signs that that's coming.
75% of small business owners in America have not yet recovered to the same revenues that they had pre-COVID. And 46% of small businesses say they're paying higher rent now than they did just six months ago.
44% of retailers say they can't afford their July rent.
And the rent delinquency rates in July were the highest that have been seen since the end of 2021 during the lockdowns.
48% of small businesses that are in the transportation industry couldn't pay July's rent.
Again, that's almost half.
That's insane.
And then in Canada, it's a 37% rate of being unable to pay rent for these small businesses.
So, folks, the situation is not looking good.
Small businesses are going under.
Labor costs are high.
Energy costs are high.
And consumers are reducing their discretionary spending.
So, you know, here's what's weird.
We're all living through a slow motion train wreck.
And the thing is, we're on the train.
We're riding on the train as the wreck is unfolding day by day by day, and we're seeing the bankruptcies, we're seeing the shift in consumer confidence.
People aren't very confident about the future.
They're losing the value in their dollars.
They're cutting back in every way they can.
I mean, pretty soon a big segment of the population is going to be eating ramen noodles, which are scary if you ever read the ingredients on those things.
Sure, I ate a few bowls back in college.
Well, more than a few.
It was the cheapest stuff around, but you can't live on that stuff forever.
You can get away with it when you're 19 or 20 because your body recovers.
But you can't live on that stuff.
Now, do you see the importance of all of us growing more of our own food?
You see how critical this is going to be?
Where just augmenting 10% of your diet with food that you can grow, that's a big deal.
That can make the difference between having to eat processed discount junk food garbage at the dollar store versus maybe getting something that's perhaps whole grain at a regular grocery store or maybe being able to get into some superfoods or Some supplements that you need or even organics for everybody who can afford that and so on.
I mean, wherever you can save money somewhere in your diet by growing your own food, that allows you to have more money that you can spend on higher quality food for the rest of your diet.
This is why in growing your own food, that food is better than organic.
Way better, right?
Because you grew it, you're not using toxic pesticides on it.
You might have augmented it with some trace minerals as well, or high quality compost that maybe you've made yourself from other organic materials and so on.
So the food that you grow is the best in the world and then frees up more money for you to eat well.
And Even for those of you listening who are rather well off, and I know there's plenty of wealthy people and retired folks listening to this who have done very well for themselves, and congratulations on doing that.
You deserve it.
But you also know that the way to maintain your assets is to conserve wherever you can.
You're not just out there in a flippant manner wasting money like, oh, let's buy a yacht.
Let's join Leonardo DiCaprio.
Let's be a globalist with a yacht or a private jet or whatever.
You're not out there just blowing money around.
You conserve money.
Which is probably why you're a good steward of assets and wealth, by the way.
So when it comes to food, you know that growing food is like growing money, in a sense.
It's growing something that replaces money or allows you to conserve more money.
And that's why I've been kind of joking the last few days.
Compost is black gold, and rainwater that you collect is blue gold, or I guess any kind of water.
It's like surface water.
Maybe you have water from a stream or a pond or whatever.
That's blue gold.
And I guess the food that you grow, let's call it green gold.
You know, the garden veggies that you grow, in a sense it's better than gold because you can eat it, but it also allows you to save more gold because you don't have to spend it on food.
And as food inflation gets higher and higher, the garden veggies that you're able to grow become worth more and more and more.
That's what's amazing, where home gardening used to be an expensive hobby, no longer.
Now it's kind of a break-even operation, and soon it's going to become highly, highly profitable with a major payoff in terms of savings as the grocery store prices continue to go up.
Because, you know, the inputs that you put into gardening have stayed basically the same through all of this.
You know, sunlight hasn't been inflated.
Right?
And for the most part, water still costs about the same.
And garden seeds, maybe there's been a slight increase, but overall seeds are a very, very minor part of the cost of growing anything.
So that's not a huge input.
Yes, fertilizer prices have gone up, but if you're not a mega commercial farmer, then the amount of fertilizer that you need is pretty small.
And you can replace that with nitrogen from goat poop, chicken poop, donkey poop.
I'm just talking about my own ranch right there.
You can find other sources of nitrogen probably.
Or if not, get yourself some chickens.
Get yourself some goats.
They're always producing nitrogen.
That's for sure.
And if you're into that, by the way, goat poop is the cleanest pelletized, very polite little nitrogen pellets.
They almost, they scream out, begging, collect me, collect me.
They're easy to sweep up, put them in the garden soil, work them in, you know?
Or donkey poo is semi-polite.
It's chunkified.
You know, each little poo chunk is about the size of, let's say, a couple of chicken McNuggets or a charcoal briquette or half of a McRib sandwich, okay?
Which is what my dogs think they are because they munch on them all the time and I've given up trying to say, no, don't eat that.
I'm just like, have at it.
You know what?
Enjoy yourself.
It's a buffet.
It's a donkey buffet.
You can stop at every donkey turd out here.
Just take a bite of each, get a little sampling, and we'll just keep moving along, go for it.
And pretty much, they lose interest after a few bites, and we keep walking.
So, no, I'm not even joking.
They do that.
They're like, gotta have a bite of this turd, and that turd, and this other turd down there, because it might be different.
Pretty much they're all the same.
It's like a box of chocolates you keep hunting for a different chocolate.
They all turn out to be the same, and none of them that good.
That's my dog trying every donkey turd on a walking trail.
But you know how they used to have all those books in the 1980s?
Like, Grow Rich!
Or, you know, like wealth books.
Think and Grow Rich.
Wasn't that an actual title from somebody?
Grow Rich.
Well, today, because of food inflation, you actually can grow rich just by growing food that you no longer have to buy.
You can literally grow your way to wealth.
Pretty cool.
And if you're good at growing, you can, of course, barter that with other people.
Especially as food inflation gets insane and food scarcity gets worse and the collapse accelerates and so on.
This train wreck You're going to be someone who is a major resource for keeping people alive and having nutrition and nourishment.
I mean, what's in your garden is so much more nutritious than the $1.25 Pop-Tarts at the dollar store, whatever they have there, the frozen ice cream sandwich, which doesn't even have any cream in it, but it's just, it's like whipped up frozen sugar mixed with canola oil and maltodextrin.
Milk, protein, casein powders.
Like, really?
That's an ice cream sandwich?
No, it isn't.
It's just frozen garbage.
You're going to actually be growing real things.
You know, tomatoes, cucumbers, maybe some berries in there.
Get yourself some medicinal herbs, some oregano, thyme.
Good stuff.
Stuff that's going to keep you alive.
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You're going to find both of those very useful.
You know what?
It would be nice, too, to have a sponsor that's into food preservation systems that really work.
Now, I've tried every kind of food preservation system, I believe, that's out there.
And, of course, if you're into food drying, you probably know about the Excalibur food dehydrators, which work just fine.
You know, and I have an Excalibur, and I've got some other brands as well.
They're kind of pricey, you know, for what they are, which is basically a bunch of trays and a fan and a heat coil.
But the real problem with those food drying systems is what do you do when the power grid goes down?
You know, they need quite a bit of electricity to function.
And they do work.
They do work.
But they also, you know, the downside is there's a lot of oxidation of certain types of food.
Like if you dry apple slices, for example, you know, they no longer taste like fresh apple slices.
So there is, of course, freeze-drying.
And freeze-drying food is the best preservative technique of all.
And by the way, at the Health Ranger store, we do have, I think we're about to launch, freeze-dried, diced, organic apples.
And the reason I know this is because my team was running the label by me, and the label just said, freeze-dried apples!
And I said, are they whole apples?
Are there whole apples freeze-dried in this can?
Because I doubt that.
And they said, no, no, they're dices.
And I said, well, the label has to say diced.
It's got freeze-dried diced apples.
Otherwise, people are going to expect an entire freeze-dried apple in there, which is not what we're delivering.
So had them change that, it's going to say diced apples.
These are some behind-the-scenes things that go on.
You're like...
Really?
You review the labels?
Yes, I do, actually.
I review all the labels and fix stuff from time to time.
But freeze drying is the best method of all.
If you can get freeze dried fruits, man, they taste fresh.
I mean, they're just amazing for years to come.
So I went out and bought, a few years ago, I bought one of these consumer grade freeze drying units.
It was several thousand dollars.
I don't even remember the brand.
But they ship it to this big heavy tunnel.
This big metallic tunnel.
Because freeze drying means that you have to remove...
The atmospheric pressure from the system.
So it's not just about freezing it.
It's about actually, really, it's about sublimation, which is removing water from the food through the process of sublimation, which means basically forming ice crystals that get vaporized.
The term sublimation means it takes something from a solid to a gas without going through the stage of a liquid.
That's technically what that means.
So freeze drying is sublimating the water out of food.
And I thought, this is going to be awesome.
I'm going to freeze dry everything in this consumer freeze dryer.
I can't wait.
It's going to be great.
And so I started freeze drying a bunch of fruit in there, in the trays.
And everything I freeze dried tasted like the metal, the chamber.
It was like, oh, metal flavored apple bits and metal flavored bananas and metal flavored sausages or whatever I was freeze drying.
Everything tasted like this metal.
And I realize that this system sucks.
It's the worst system ever.
And I need to get stuff that's been freeze-dried in a more professional, industrial manner so it actually tastes like fruit.
So that was my experience wasting thousands of dollars on a freeze-dryer that I do not recommend, by the way.
You probably know this about me, but I waste...
But I waste a lot of money on stuff that does not work that normally I don't even tell you about.
This is one of the...
The burdens of being a prepper.
And also I have a lot of companies reaching out to me and saying, oh, can you try this?
You know, maybe you want to promote this or maybe we want to be your sponsor.
And I'm always saying, well, let me try your thing first, whatever it is, and check it out.
And then often it's like you never hear about it because I'm like, you know what?
I'm not that impressed with whatever that thing was.
It didn't really work for me.
And if it doesn't work for me, I don't think it's going to work for others either, frankly.
And then there's a flip side of that where occasionally there are products that I use for years and I fail to tell you about.
And the most recent example of that was the Juvent product.
You know, we had Pete Simonson on, Dr.
Carrie Madej, using the Juvent product.
What is it?
A micro-vibration plate.
And I've been using this plate for many years, and Dr.
Madej is using it now to help heal from her plane crash.
And I don't know why I never talked about this thing.
It just didn't enter my mind as...
It wasn't about nutrition and food and so on.
It was like warming up in the morning.
So I don't know.
Weird.
But now that I'm talking about it again, I'm getting a lot of great feedback on it.
So check it out.
Micro Impact.
Yeah, that's what they call it.
Micro Impact.
That's at Juvent.com.
J-U-V-E-N-T. Oh, before I forget, let me tease you about this.
Coming up this Friday, set-aside time, real live time, at 12 noon Central and 1 p.m.
Central.
Because the way things are lining up, I'm doing two bombshell interviews, again, this Friday at 12 noon and 1 p.m., on a major broadcaster that you probably know about.
And I'm interviewing two amazing guests.
One of them has never been interviewed on that platform before.
And I've never interviewed him before.
And he rarely grants interviews.
But he's someone very special that you're not going to want to miss.
And the second person I'm interviewing, again, unless the schedule changes.
I mean, if Nancy Pelosi gets too drunk and presses the wrong buttons, we could be in World War III by Friday.
But if things are still okay, And I'm doing this show on Friday.
The second interview, which will be at 1 p.m.
Central, will be with a guest that has breakthrough news that is going to change the world.
And I'll go ahead and tease that because I talked about it here on the podcast.
That interview coming up is about cold fusion, low-energy nuclear reactions, how we change the world, And also support energy independence for people to go off-grid.
So bombshell back-to-back interviews this Friday.
Two very, very special guests on two different subjects, by the way.
Mark your calendar.
I'll bring you more confirmations as that firms up.
It's always subject to change.
You know, just to be clear, things can change between now and then.
A lot can change.
But, you know, if we're all still here and everything's on schedule, that's what's going to happen on Friday.
All right, now moving on to other news.
This is from usnews.com.
That's the U.S. News and World Report website.
A globalist publication, of course.
Headline is the following, quote, staff shortages are choking U.S. healthcare system.
A growing shortage of healthcare workers is being called the nation's top patient safety concern.
So, okay, here we go.
An estimated 1.5 million healthcare jobs were lost in the first two months of COVID, blah, blah, blah.
They're going to want to talk about this and how they're short hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers in the U.S. healthcare system.
So first of all, as you know, I'm sure you would agree with me, it's not a healthcare system.
It is a sick care system or basically a death cult system that And the reason they're short on healthcare workers is because they killed them with the vaccines.
And the ones that didn't want to be killed, they quit.
And many of those people are still alive because they quit.
In fact, we have a video here from one of those healthcare workers who has come out.
She was forced to take the vaccine and she noticed that all her friends who took the vaccine were doing horribly while those who did not take the vaccine are doing quite well.
So let me play this video for you and then we'll continue.
I was asked to reply to a comment.
What do I think of people who refuse the vaccine, the COVID vaccine?
I've been hurt by the Pfizer vaccine.
I have CIDP, chronic inflammation, demyelation, polyneuropathy.
It's changed my life completely.
If I had to do it all over again, I would have never got the vaccine.
I do work in healthcare, so I do work with patients.
So, where I work, we were told, you know, if you get the vaccine, you'll save lives, you won't get sick, you won't die.
The media was saying the same thing.
So, I believed it.
My friends that didn't get the vaccine, I thought, how could you not get it?
You're going to go home.
What if you have it and you don't know it and you give it to your family members?
The worst case scenarios were playing out in my head because of what I was seeing inside the facility.
We would have cookouts and things like that with my friends.
A lot of friends that are unvaccinated and they still aren't vaccinated.
We'd have cookouts and at first I was scared to go there because I thought, oh my gosh, what if they're spreading COVID? It was like the dumbest thing I've ever thought of now that I think of it.
And once I started hanging out with them and things, they weren't getting sick.
And the ones that did get sick, they got COVID. Lightly, they were back on their way.
I had already gotten my vaccine.
I had already started having issues and seeing a neurologist.
I totally have changed my mind.
things.
They were the smart ones.
They were the ones that didn't wear the masks.
They were the ones that hung around each other and never caught it, never spread it.
Some of the ones did get vaccinated because of their jobs.
But the ones that aren't, I totally commend you and I wish I was one of you.
I think very highly of you.
And I'm upset with myself.
No job is worth it.
No job.
So there's my answer.
So as you can see from that video, even a lot of people who took the vaccine and who are in the healthcare industry are regretting it.
And they're now coming out and admitting that, in fact, those who avoided the vaccine made the correct choice.
So think about, if you're a healthcare worker and you went through this insane, I don't know, hospital homicide system, this genocidal experiment of the COVID vaccines and the ventilator deaths and the denial of treatment with ivermectin and all these things, would you want to work in that system anymore?
A satanic death cult healthcare system?
Would you want to work in that system?
Of course you wouldn't.
No sane person would.
And a whole lot of people are quitting, and a whole lot of other people are dead.
And by the way, this is what's happening with pilot shortages across America, too.
All the airlines are saying, we don't have enough pilots to fly the planes.
Why?
Well, you killed them by making them take vaccines and then take high-altitude flights that are already at risk for thrombosis and so on, blood clots, and then they died.
So, of course, you have a shortage.
You killed them.
It's like you run around killing everybody.
They're like, where does everybody go?
You're the one who killed them.
Same thing with healthcare.
So the death care system is itself imploding because they're killing off their workers.
You've heard about now, I think it's up to five or six doctors that have died in hospitals in Canada in, what was it, like a one-week period or a 10-day period or something?
Pretty short period.
Small window there.
And I think three or four of them died at the same hospital after they took the fourth shot, the second booster, I believe.
Yeah, I think it was three of them died at the same hospital.
And These are all young, healthy doctors.
Some of them died while out jogging.
It's like, I'm jogging along in Canada, eh?
And then suddenly dropping dead.
And some of these doctors, even online, were mocking people who didn't get the vaccine.
Some doctors were online saying things like, well, you know, it's their own fault.
If they die, well, so be it.
Turns out, you died, you...
Jack off.
I mean, you killed yourself with the vaccine.
And that's happening across the board.
You know, don't you find it odd that healthcare and airlines, they don't realize that they need to replace the people they kill.
You know, every military in the world, when you send troops out to the front lines and then they die...
That military organization, whatever it is, the Pentagon or somebody else, they realize, oh, we're going to need to replace those soldiers because we killed them.
We sent them off and they died.
But when the hospital system kills their own workers, then they have a giant question mark.
Where did they go?
Why are we short healthcare workers?
What's going on?
It's like, you haven't solved this mystery yet?
Well, keep taking the boosters and it will eventually become clear to even you.
And same thing with airlines.
Where'd all the pilots go?
As the pilots are being dragged off the planes by EMTs because they're having seizures and strokes and clots, heart attacks.
In flight, by the way.
And even then, the airlines are, what's happening to the pilots?
Where are they all going?
You're killing them!
You morons.
You know, the healthcare system is so idiotic and so cruel.
And what they do to children and senior citizens, well, frankly, everybody, it's just such a criminal act.
And every once in a while you find stories that even blow your mind beyond the normal level of cruelty.
Here's a story out of the Epoch Times, just from a couple days ago.
Quote, FDA warns that puberty blockers may cause vision loss in children.
So, apparently, these, what's called a GNRH, what is this, So now it's not just chemical castration.
You know, this is all part of the transgenderism, grooming, and child abuse.
And apparently one of the side effects is that, well...
You might also go blind.
In addition to losing your fertility and maybe having your reproductive organs surgically chopped off, and we're going to try to turn you into a girl or a boy or whatever you are not, But you might also go blind in the process as well.
Now, don't worry, because you can self-identify as someone who is sightless in addition to your gender change.
I guess that's what they're being told.
But it's just insane cruelty.
Why would you put children on drugs that could make them blind?
It's kind of a cruel twist on the old joke.
You ever heard this joke?
The parents caught their young son masturbating, and they warned him, little Johnny, if you keep masturbating, you're going to go blind.
And then Johnny said back to his parents, okay, mommy and daddy, I'll just do it until I need glasses.
And you ever heard that joke?
Well, now, apparently, the transgenderism can literally make you go blind.
And then what?
What do you have?
Because, you know, you've lost part of your body.
You've been maimed.
You've been chemically castrated.
And they've taken your sight from you as well.
But somehow, the left-wing doctors support all this.
Totally okay with them, because remember, they also murder babies, which I talked about yesterday, and I guess I talk about that quite frequently.
They murder babies, and then they make them go blind if they survive.
So, extreme cruelty, folks, extreme cruelty.
Now, on a different topic, but similarly insane, we have a story here out of, what is this, post-millennial, Portlanders desperately try to sell off homes taken over by squatters.
So there are people who own homes, and they're trying to list these homes for sale.
And in the real estate listing, you know, the MLS listing?
Here's an actual line from one of the listings.
Quote, unfortunately, there are squatters on the property, and seller does not have resources to remove them.
And is willing to negotiate the price for a buyer to take the risk of closing.
In other words, here's a two-bedroom, three-bedroom, single-family home that's in Portland, southeast neighborhood, selling for $330,000, except there's other people living in it who don't own it.
They're squatters.
This was on Realtor.com.
And you're supposed to, I guess, buy it, and then what?
What do you do?
You go in there and chase them off?
You release pepper spray everywhere?
You get an angry barking dog?
You know, what do you do?
Run around with a baseball bat?
Call the police?
What do you do?
So according to the story, this neighborhood has become a hub of homeless people taking advantage of vacant homes with neighbors saying they now live in fear for their safety.
Now understand, This is where liberals live.
Okay, we're talking Portland here, folks.
So liberals voted for this, and now they're getting exactly the neighborhoods they voted for, just to be clear.
They're getting exactly the non-response from police that they voted for when they supported defunding the police.
So, according to KGW8, local news station, neighbors have begun barricading unused doors in their houses, investing in security systems, and buying things like baseball bats.
Oh, I was right about that.
Intended for self-protection.
And then here's a woman, Annette Benedetti, quote, It's unbearable to watch your whole city become a dumpster fire.
She lives near homes on Southeast 67th Avenue.
She's had numerous homeless people move in with RVs lining the streets.
She said 16 homeless people had moved into the neighborhood.
It's a living nightmare, says Dustin Shannon, another neighbor who's lived there for 19 years.
There's no peace of mind.
There's no sleeping well at night.
Every little noise, I'm jumpy.
It just gets worse and worse by the day.
More and more of them are showing up.
Stolen cars are showing up.
They got a pile of garbage out back that's taller than me.
Okay, now, I don't know these people who were mentioned.
I don't know their politics.
But how much do you want to bet they voted for Democrats?
You know, elections have consequences.
You put Democrats in power, you should expect exactly what you're getting.
Now, if you didn't vote for Democrats, you should have left.
Because you should have known what's coming.
I mean, for how many years have I been warning people, get out of the Democrat cities, right?
Get out while you can.
Well, what's interesting is that these homeowners are trying to get out.
It's too late.
Their houses have already been taken over by squatters and Vagrants.
Is that still a word?
Vagrants?
Squatters?
I don't know.
They're not really homeless people anymore because they've taken over the home.
I guess they're home full.
Now, they've got a new home.
They've got your home.
You can't even sell it.
Can you imagine trying to show your house?
If you get a real estate agent, it's like, yeah, I've got a new home to sell.
We need to get some buyers to come through and take a look.
Except for the fact there's other people living there.
Who are mostly addicts and have trashed the place and pay no rent and have no contractual right to be there.
So, oh, so they're squatters?
Yep, they're squatters.
Why don't you call the police?
Because police don't do anything.
It's Portland.
It's a Democrat city.
So basically the homeless can just take over whatever they want.
Nothing you can do about it.
So get this.
This is wild.
So the neighbors nearby are having all their stuff stolen by these people that are living without permission in houses.
Anonymous neighbors said her house had been broken into.
Expensive guitars and a camera was stolen after robbers broke in through an air conditioning unit in a vacant unit next to hers.
And then a group of neighbors later decided to break into one of the vacant homes to recover their own belongings.
And they were shocked at the state of the house.
Here we go.
Quote, we went in.
It's filthy.
There's human waste in the closets.
Like right there, I think I would turn around.
They crapped in the closet?
I'm out of here.
I'm out.
Continuing, there's pornography.
There's drug paraphernalia.
There's torn out siding.
Doors propped up against windows where the fire has burned through.
What fire are they talking about?
Another neighbor found his bag.
He found his wallet and a few other things.
And we found a metal Colombian tin that was in my husband's top desk.
This is all from the story.
Proof that they were in there and that's where they went after the burglary.
The property has been for sale for a little while with little interest from buyers, says the story.
Very little interest from buyers.
Maybe could it be the turds in the closet?
Could that turn off a buyer?
You're like, hey, let me show you this wonderful home that somebody else is living in.
It's got lots of closet space.
Open the door.
Close the door.
Actually, let's not look at the closets.
Let's move on to the dining room.
This is another home on the corner of Southeast Division Street and 154th Avenue.
Squatters reportedly set fire to the living room, according to the Redfin posting.
Squatters caused a fire in downstairs bed and living room.
This is in the actual real estate listing, okay?
Imagine if you're trying to sell your home and this is it.
Squatters caused a fire in the downstairs bed and living room.
Trash inside home.
Period.
That's probably an understatement.
Turds in the closets.
Squatters now removed.
Sellers are selling, quote, as is.
And price adjusted for that.
In other words, make an offer.
Give me 500 bucks and the house is yours.
I mean, this thing, you need a bulldozer, basically.
This thing is hazardous waste central.
Room one, buyer to verify zoning in schools, buyer to do due diligence, corner lot, whatever, tear down and build single fan.
What is this?
Major smoke damage throughout.
Interior viewing with accepted offer.
Wait, so you get to see inside the house once you make an offer and your offer is accepted, then you get to go in and see it.
Find out how much you regret making that offer.
It's okay to drive by and walk around.
That home sold for $195,000.
Somebody was desperate enough to go in there and say, well, hey honey, how are we going to afford a home in Portland?
A collapsing city run by Democrats and criminals and corrupt police departments.
How are we going to afford a home here?
Oh, honey, let's just look for a house that's got turds in the closets and fire damage in the living room.
I'm sure we'll get a great deal.
And they did.
Another home outside of Portland was listed earlier this year and sold for $180,000, complete with, quote, squatters in the barn.
According to a Zillow listing, Squatters in the Barn sounds like a country western song.
We got squatters in the barn and zombies in the yard.
There's been a bad invasion.
The filthy libtards, they're humping in the alleys and spreading monkeypox.
They crapped in all the closets and wiped with all the socks.
Yeah, squatters in the barn, squatters in the barn.
I mean, seriously?
Is this Portland now?
Oh, please, tell me it ain't so.
And just in case you're not convinced yet that this is a liberal left thing from the story, another one of these situations came in the form of the, quote, Red House, an autonomous eviction blockade.
According to the Oregonian, which is the local paper, a developer bought the home at a foreclosure auction, but the family remained inside the home with far-left activists barricading the property and attacking police officers who attempted to clear it.
So you buy a home and you try to do something with it, and the radical left-wing lunatics attack cops, and the cops just go, well, we've been defunded.
See you later.
Let's see.
The property currently lies in limbo.
People in the neighborhood have reported increased cases of harassment, vandalism, and threats, with some neighbors reporting finding human waste on their property.
Gee, I wonder why.
The Kinneys, who lived at the property for decades, no longer appear to be living there, but visit regularly.
It feels like home!
Oh my gosh.
You know, we have a solution for squatters in the barn in Texas.
Yeah, no, seriously.
You have a problem with squatters in the barn, squatters in the...
Don't worry, we have rifles in the house.
Rifles in the house, yeah.
Squatters in the barn, but rifles in the house.
No more squatters in the barn.
No more squatters in the barn.
They have fled to Oregon, yes.
I mean, trespassing.
We deal with it the right way in Texas.
It's like, get the hell off our property.
Unless you want to take some lead in the ass.
And they either move on or get shot, basically.
That's how it works.
So, folks, the bottom line here, and this is the, you know, consider this your final call.
If you're still living in a Democrat-run city, get out while you can.
Because, you know, folks, with the economic collapse accelerating and food prices increasing and all that stuff, you know, banky system is going to go down, food stamps are going to go down.
If you have a home in a liberal city, a Democrat-controlled city, You technically don't own anything because you can't enforce ownership under those jurisdictions.
If a bunch of squatters just kick you out, or even if you take a day trip somewhere, and then by the time you come back, it's like another family's moved in, you're screwed.
You can't do anything in a Democrat city.
You call the police, there's people in my house.
The police will say, we can't do anything.
Because they no longer...
I mean, it's lawless.
It's just complete lawlessness in the blue cities.
The squatters have all the rights, but you as a property owner, you have no rights whatsoever.
And in California, you don't even have the right to charge rent.
You know how they're trying to extend the moratorium on rent?
So people could just live in your house and pay you no rent, and there's nothing, literally nothing you can do about it in California or in certain parts.
I think Los Angeles or San Francisco and so on.
As much as I encourage everybody to own the home in which you live, right, and own your land and have hard assets, if you have a hard asset in a blue city, sell it, sell it, sell it.
Get out while you can because the day is coming when you cannot.
You will not be able to sell it.
And you will not be able to protect it.
Because in the blue cities, they will charge you with a crime.
If you start, I don't know, being aggressive towards squatters.
See, that's the difference between Democrat-controlled America and, you know, rural red America.
You go to rural America, someone's squatting in your home.
I mean, in most places, although I'm not encouraging a specific line of action, but in most places, you come home and there's somebody in your home, you have the right to shoot them.
Just, I mean, check your local laws, do what's right for you, make sure it's not some other family member or something that's just looking to borrow a cup of sugar or whatever.
But if there's like strangers in your home when you come home, you know, most places, most rural areas, they have a special way of handling that problem and it solves the problem.
You know, if that happens in Texas and then the cops show up and the cops ask the homeowner, why'd you shoot the guy?
And the homeowner said, well, he asked me to shoot him.
And the cops said, he asked you to shoot him?
Really?
He asked you?
Oh, yes, he absolutely asked me to shoot him.
When he broke in the front door, that was his way of asking me to shoot his ass.
And so that's what we did.
And now he's shot.
And he's dead.
And that's why I called you cops to come here and document all that stuff.
Because now I got bullet holes in the wall opposite that dead guy.
I got a couple of bullet holes I'm going to have to file an insurance claim because I wasn't using frangible ammo.
And then if they're real Texas cops, you know, they would look at each other and say, well, yeah, the guy did ask to get shot, frankly.
He broke in, he came in, he got shot.
Okay, then we'll write it up.
See you later.
You know, call the crew, drag the body out.
I mean, that's This is why squatting is not...
I've never heard of this being a problem in Texas, at least in the red areas.
Maybe it's a problem in Austin, which is a blue, Democrat, lib, woke city, like the worst.
Maybe it's a problem there, but they don't get very far outside of that hellhole.
The liberal utopia of Austin, a collapsed...
Just what a dump.
I mean, talk about a dumpster fire.
I don't know why people keep moving to Austin.
It's a total dump.
It smells like piss all the time, by the way.
Nobody even goes there anymore if they can help it.
Oh, and finally, speaking about liberal cities, San Francisco has announced a new monkeypox super spreader event after declaring a monkeypox emergency.
So they're having a, what is this, a sex festival called Up Your Alley, where, you know, alley is a euphemism, obviously.
It's called Up Your Alley, and they've declared a health emergency over monkeypox, which is also known as pridepox or schlong COVID. And this festival, known commonly as Door Alley, D-O-R-E, Door Alley.
Is that how you pronounce it?
Doray or Dor Alley is a leather fetish carnival that encourages same-sex casual encounters and public sexual demonstrations of kink.
So in California, this is what they do when monkeypox is getting bad in the gay and bisexual communities.
They have a giant monkeypox super spreader celebration event called Up Your Alley.
So do you need to be reminded anymore to leave San Francisco or other such liberal cities?
I mean, it's beyond a dystopian sci-fi, filthy, I don't know, futuristic movie.
I mean, they couldn't even imagine what it has become in places like San Francisco.
I mean, you know, normally, if you're watching movies back in the 1990s, the dystopian sci-fi future, it was like everything was collapsed.
And, you know, people were homeless.
I mean, think about, like, the original Terminator movies and the collapse of post-Terminator society.
But never would we have imagined a bunch of, like, gay sex fetish leather monkeypox humpers out in the alley as society is collapsing because they really want to get in the monkeypox humping as the economy is collapsing.
You know, I guess they've got to have some hobby, right?
When you're not crapping in closets and taking over people's homes, you've got to have some hobby.
So, I mean, what else is there to do in blue cities these days?
Nothing else functions.
So I guess they're just doing whatever they have left.
Unreal, man.
Unreal!
All right, all right.
One more final story, because we can't end with the up-your-alley San Francisco monkeypox celebration.
No, we've got to change the topic here.
Here it is, CNBC.com.
The SEC charges 11 people in an alleged $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme.
So the criminal indictments are starting to accelerate against the crypto community and certain people that were promoting certain things.
Which was a whole lot of people in crypto.
They were like, it's going to go to the moon.
You know, buy now.
Like, mortgage your home and buy.
And a lot of these people were doing pump and dump schemes.
Not all of them.
I mean, but some.
Pump and dump.
And they were kind of promoting these real obscure coins, like Dogecoin and a bunch of others like that.
It's like, here, buy these coins!
And they would pump it up all over their social media, and they would sell, sell, sell, sell, sell, and screw everybody.
There's a whole bunch of people like that out there that were just trying to push this up.
Anyway, the SEC is going after them with criminal charges now.
So there's this one scheme that they call Forsage.
F-O-R-S-A-G-E. Forsage.
I don't know if it was Forsage.
I don't know how they pronounce it.
This is supposed to be some kind of a decentralized smart contract platform.
And then millions of retail investors entered into transactions via smart contracts that operated on Ethereum, Tron, and Binance blockchains.
But according to SEC, The whole thing was really just a standard pyramid scheme in which investors earn profits by recruiting others into the operation.
And it basically is just a Ponzi scheme using a bunch of words like blockchain, blockchain, cryptocurrency, but it's just Ponzi.
So Forsage operated a typical Ponzi structure, says the SEC, and it allegedly used assets from new investors to pay earlier ones.
Quote from Carolyn Welshans, acting chief of the SEC crypto assets and cyber unit.
She says that Forsage is a fraudulent pyramid scheme launched on a massive scale and aggressively marketed to investors.
Which every time I read something like that, I'm always reminded that sounds like the dollar.
That sounds like what the Federal Reserve does.
They print money.
It's a giant pyramid scheme on a massive scale, and it's aggressively marketed to citizens as money, but it isn't.
So I just think it's funny.
I mean, yeah, a lot of these crypto people, they were crooks and criminals and fraudsters and Ponzi schemers.
True.
And I've always warned everybody about that, by the way.
But the biggest scheme of all is the dollar.
The central banks are running the big scheme.
And the SEC will never go after the Federal Reserve.
So just remember, this is still selective prosecution.
There's all kinds of schemes out there.
The biggest and most dangerous schemes that rip it off the most money for the most people, it's the dollar money printing machine, the debt creation factory that is the Federal Reserve.
They're ripping off more people than anybody.
So just remember that, folks.
And as you're shopping for rural property to move out of Democrat-controlled cities, just make sure you check the listings to be sure there are not squatters in the barn.
That can be devastating.
You know how Steve Quayle says, if you can't touch it, you don't own it?
And he's right about that, but there's also a corollary to that, which is, if you can't defend it, you don't own it.
Just remember that, folks.
Whatever you think you own.
And you know I'm into things like John Deere tractors and, you know, firearms and, I don't know, what else do I own?
Like physical metals, right?
Whatever you own, if you can't defend it, you don't own it.
So make sure that you have a means to defend it.
And the best way to defend it against the zombie wave is to just don't be near the blue cities.
Because they won't get very far on foot, it turns out.
Not far at all.
Just be far away.
Be somewhere that they're not.
Alright, thank you for listening, folks.
It's been a wild day.
I'm sure there's going to be more crazy stuff happening tomorrow.
Watch to see what happens with Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan.
My guess is China's going to back off but make a bunch of noise.
I don't think they're actually going to start World War III over this, but they may pretend to.
We'll see.
See what happens.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe by Thursday we're in thermonuclear war.
That's possible.
Just keep an eye on that.
I'll be back with you tomorrow.
See what's going on by that time.
And until then, be well.
God bless you.
Thank you for all your support and all your prayers.
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No squatters in the warehouse.
We would clear them out.
I would sick my guard dog on them.
The one is like, what is that?
What is that?
Squatters in a cardboard box.
They do not belong.
She's barking right now.
Okay, thanks for listening.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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