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Aug. 16, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Preparedness Self-Audit: Are you REALLY READY? Here's what to check... (Health Ranger)
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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 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 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, the 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 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, a 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.
A 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 can 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 of 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 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 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.
Or 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.
You know, 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, gonna 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...
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 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.
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...
You know, 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 at 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 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.
Thank you for listening and watching.
I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger.
Naturalnews.com is my website.
And also I'm the founder of brighttown.com.
And you can watch more of my videos there.
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And finally, check out all my free downloadable audiobooks.
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God bless you.
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