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Jan. 2, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, Jan 2, 2023 - 23 SKILLS you'll need to make it through 2023
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All right, welcome to the situation update for Monday, January 2nd, 2023. welcome to the situation update for Monday, January 2nd, 2023.
Mike Adams here.
Thank you for joining me.
If you missed yesterday's update, it's worth a listen because I call 2023 the year of contraction.
We're going to see a massive contraction of the global economy and the supply chains and wealth.
And food supply and fertilizer and energy and population and so many other things.
It's massive contraction which goes against the world that we have come to know through most of our lives because we've lived in an expansionary phase and so that seems normal.
That seems customary.
And then when anybody says, well, it's going to contract now, oftentimes that's seen, oh, that's doom and gloom.
You know, how can we have anything but constant, never-ending expansion?
But it turns out that expansion and contraction, these cycles are natural cycles of the cosmos.
You see it in everything, in the stars, in the planets, in orbits, in nature, in the seasons in spring, summer, winter, and fall.
It's expansion and contraction.
It's just like respiration.
And expansion cannot be sustained forever.
So contraction is natural, and that's what we're about to face.
Now, I don't mean that every single element is natural.
A lot of the crises that we are facing are, of course, man-made.
But it is natural to have cycles, for example, even in the stock market, cycles of stocks going up and then having corrections and back and forth over time.
That's normal.
But we haven't been living in normal.
But today I've got something special for you because I've got 23 skills and attributes that you'll need to navigate 2023.
So this is the upside of everything that I was really talking about or introducing yesterday.
So even though we're living through contraction, which has already begun in many ways, by the way, the housing bubble has already burst, by the way, this is not going to be doom and gloom for those who know how to navigate this contraction, which will last for many, many years.
And there are elements of this contraction that may last a generation, others a decade.
You know, not everything has the same timing, but this is the beginning of a new era of contraction, not just one year.
But I'm going to give you 23 things here today, skills and attributes to navigate 2023, the essential things that you need, and probably many of these you already have, if not most of them, if you're a regular listener.
But these are the critical things that I think people have to have in order to navigate this and make it through okay.
Now, yes, things are going to get more expensive.
You're going to have less stuff, or let's say less access to affordable stuff.
You're going to live a more frugal lifestyle, and so am I, and so are billions of people.
There are going to be fewer people, you know, because of the depopulation effort that's underway.
There are going to be effects on a global scale that we cannot control and we cannot stop, but we can navigate them.
I'm going to cover that for you here in, I don't know, a few minutes here.
But I do have some other news to cover first.
So I'm going to go through headlines.
I'll try to move through them quickly.
And then right after that, I want to ask for your help.
We're testing a partnership with a very innovative service provider slash sponsor.
I wanna know your feedback.
I'm gonna give you the email address to give me feedback and see what you think.
And this is part of my due diligence of checking out potential solutions providers and potential sponsors and so on.
So I'm gonna share it with you here.
Even though I'm not talking about it anywhere else, I'm not doing any articles or advertising.
But I want to tell you about who they are and what they're about here.
Ask for your feedback.
And then thirdly, we'll get into the list of the 23 skills and attributes that you need to survive this.
Now, if you want to skip ahead, you'll note that in the description of this video, We do put the time code of the major sections of this.
So if you want to just skip ahead to the list of 23, just check the description.
You'll see the time code.
You can skip ahead and start there.
But first, let's go through some of the important news headlines.
Now, California has five new radical laws that have gone into effect.
One of them is on hold, but all five are legal as of, well, two days ago.
And this is an article by Joel Pollack from Breitbart.com.
So I'm just going to summarize it very quickly.
Here are the five laws.
SB 107, Sanctuary State for Transgender Kids.
So California is now a transgenderism, basically kind of a parental child kidnapping slash transgenderism sanctuary state.
Wow, that's a new one.
The second one, AB 2098, the COVID misinformation law, where the state medical licensing board can now sanction physicians who say anything opposed to the official narrative on COVID or vaccines.
Even though the official narrative keeps freaking changing.
So it's not clear how they're going to enforce this.
Or are you supposed to agree with the state every single moment and every day?
And then when the state changes, you have to go back and delete all your tweets that agreed with the previous position and then update and put out a bunch of new tweets.
Oh, I agree with the current position.
And then when they change that, you got to delete it all again.
Because this is the Ministry of Truth.
This is, you know, classic 1984.
You have to go back and change all the encyclopedias and all the old newspapers to make sure that, you know, the historical news conforms to the present delusions.
So that's law now in California.
All right, the third one, AB 2147.
They've decriminalized jaywalking because ticketing people for crossing the street in the middle of traffic is, you know, racist.
So now anybody can just walk all over the roads in California.
No one can be ticketed.
You can't stop them.
So watch for more protests in traffic.
Blocking highways, blocking roads.
This is going to be interesting, especially as the food riots begin later this year.
All right, the fourth one, SB 1375, allowing nurses to perform abortions without doctors.
Oh, what could go wrong?
I guess in California soon it'll just be like, anybody, you know, with just a latex glove and a coat hanger, whatever, you can do abortions.
It's going to be the abortion Wild West anything goes state in America.
So that's law now.
Number five, SB 357, decriminalizing loitering for prostitution.
So if anybody listening needs a second job, you know, it is now no longer a crime to loiter around as a prostitute in California.
I mean, you know, could be some income opportunity.
I mean, that's sarcasm.
That's dark sarcasm, obviously.
It's like, okay, well, so let's see.
California is going to become what?
I mean, at least the city is just a drug-infested prostitution, like jaywalkers everywhere.
How about jaywalking prostitutes all over the cities and you can't arrest them for anything?
Okay.
It's just, wow.
All right.
The next one, which is on hold, is AB 257, state control of fast food restaurants, where the state will determine...
What a restaurant owner must pay the workers in terms of wages and also working conditions and benefits and holidays and so on.
So just straight up communism, folks.
The state controls, well, I guess technically fascism.
So the state controls the corporations and the state controls the labor or the means of production.
So I guess the state doesn't necessarily own those restaurants, but basically controls the restaurants.
It tells you as a restaurant owner what you must pay and what you must offer and so on.
And so basically restaurants are just going to go out of business all over California to be replaced by, you know, loitering prostitutes and jaywalkers all over the state.
So that should be interesting.
You won't be able to find, you know, street tacos anymore.
No more restaurants.
But, you know, you can get a handjob in the old abandoned parking lot because all that's apparently going to be legal or you can jaywalk all over the place.
You can probably smoke crack, you know, whatever.
You could do an abortion right there on the street probably in California.
And they're going to let all the felons out of jail, let them run all over the streets in the process of doing that right now.
One more reason to leave California's cities, or for those of you working on the new California concept, one more reason to declare yourself to be a new state and separate yourselves from the insanity of the West Coast of California.
Well, plus Sacramento.
You know, and isn't it funny that with that, another idiocracy prediction is essentially coming true.
Remember in Idiocracy, do you recall what Starbucks, what business Starbucks was in, in the movie?
You know, what year was it?
Hundreds of years in the future?
Starbucks went from being a restaurant that served coffee to a brothel in Idiocracy.
And there are several references and jokes about that in the movie.
And then, what was it?
Fuddrucker's restaurant became something quite profane and grotesque that I will not mention here, but, you know, it's in the film, but the restaurants became these, you know, horrible non-restaurant-associated businesses that just kept the name but began offering other services.
Happy endings and full service and whatever else was on the menu.
Watch the movie, Idiocracy.
In the background, there's a menu of what Starbucks offered.
Here it is.
This is what's happening in California.
Okay, moving on to some economic headlines here from the Mises Institute, a multipolar shift with energy and dollar disruptions.
Just going to read you four bullet points that summarize this article by Victor Shing.
From just a couple of days ago.
China's reopening and buying of ESPO crude would likely erode the role of Brent and energy indices.
In other words, this is moving away from the West's domination over transactions involving oil.
Alright, second bullet point.
Gulf nations envision the scope of the petroyuan to be on par with demands for Chinese goods and technology transfer.
In other words, we're talking about global trade in oil using not the petrodollar, but the petroyuan, which is the Chinese currency, obviously.
So this shift is underway.
Rising yuan payments for Russian energy and more China-Gulf bilateral trade imply future dollar demand decline.
Now, I know this is written in an academic style, which is fine.
But what this means is that right now, China's buying oil and energy from Russia using the yuan.
And of course, you know what's happening with Saudi Arabia and how they are saying that China is their priority trading partner.
But this means that there's going to be less demand globally for the dollar because you won't need to buy dollars as a country in order to buy oil.
So, you know, the thing that keeps demand for the dollar high is the petrodollar status, and that is rapidly eroding.
So then it says, finally, in the long term, more local currency trade settlements would erode dollar flows and Federal Reserve's influence.
Yeah, I'll say.
If the world doesn't need your collapsed dollars to buy oil, because they can buy oil in, you know, The Yuan or the new World Reserve currency or whatever, you know, Russia's currency or other currencies or just gold or maybe Bitcoin.
Who knows?
Then why do you need dollars?
So if the dollar loses its dictates as a global transaction currency, then the Federal Reserve doesn't really accomplish much by printing trillions more dollars because there's just flooding at that point.
A currency that's no longer in demand.
And so this is going to be ultimately the decline of Western civilization or the empires of the West, specifically the United States of America and the petrodollar status.
And that's going to accelerate throughout 2023.
I think the ruble is going to do very well, by the way, in 2023.
So will the yuan and also probably whatever world reserve currency comes out from the BRICS nations that is backed by commodities such as gold.
And then here's another story related to this from Zero Hedge.
Brazil's first corn shipment to China indicates shifting trade flows could endanger U.S. dominance.
And that's kind of an understatement.
Essentially, here we go.
Brazil, the world's second largest corn exporter, sent its first vessel carrying corn to China this month.
So global trade flows are shifting away from the U.S., which is the largest exporter of corn, as China reduces its reliance on the Midwestern U.S. farm belt.
Now, at the same time, what's interesting is the United States is working to reduce its reliance on Taiwan semiconductors.
So the US is working with Taiwan to try to build semiconductor plants in the United States, while China is working with Brazil to get corn from countries other than the United States.
So what is this all about?
Well, it's because China and the United States are expecting to be at war with each other.
And when that war happens, they want to have already repositioned their supply chains to reduce their dependence on things such as semiconductors out of Taiwan or, in the case of China, corn out of the United States.
So that's what this is.
Both China and the United States, they know that things are headed into global conflict very soon.
And in fact, Forward Observer did an interview, they published it over the weekend, predicting that China might be looking at launching a naval blockade against Taiwan in a little over 30 days from right now.
So sort of early February timeframe.
I'm not going to focus on that today, but I have invited analyst Mr. Shelby for an interview.
And I think we're going to connect that here in the next couple of weeks.
So we'll talk about it at that time.
But yeah, things are looking pretty dicey there between China and Taiwan.
Now, continuing the economic news and also talking about the contraction that I mentioned yesterday.
An article from Breitbart says America is enduring the second largest home price correction since the end of World War II.
See, look, the housing bubble has burst.
I mean, it's already done.
The house prices are declining rapidly.
One expert attributed it partly to people's concerns about economic issues.
Oh, yeah, really?
Anyway, Fox Business reported this and Breitbart covered it.
Home prices dropped for the third straight month in September, which drew attention to the stress the Federal Reserve's battle against inflation has caused the market, and so on and so forth.
Well, prices are going to go a lot lower across the board in 2023.
That's part of the contraction.
Now, looking at Europe, another story out of Breitbart is relevant to this.
European energy crisis.
France is close to electricity rationing over problems with local nuclear plants.
Oh, they can't get the nukes going?
Really?
Did you forget to do the maintenance on those suckers?
A report by The Times, which is a UK newspaper, says that France is coming close to having to ration energy because its nuclear power plants are being taken offline over the last few months.
This could put extreme strain on the country's national power grid, and the only reason they haven't rationed power so far is because it's been warm.
But a sudden cold snap could change this.
So they say they're good till January 15th.
After that, not so much.
Who knows?
If a cold snap, if there's a cold snap, the situation will inevitably be more tense, said Emmanuel Wargon, the president of France's Energy Regulation Commission.
So what's wrong with the nuclear power plants in France?
Well, apparently dangerous cracks are being discovered in a number of major power stations.
Up to half of the country's arsenal of nuclear facilities has been taken offline.
Oh, cracks!
Giant cracks in the concrete.
And if you wonder why are the nuclear power plants cracking up and getting shut down, and of course the answer is, you know, they're made in France.
And have you ever purchased a car made in France?
I'm not trying to piss people off if you're from France or anything, but look, France is good at a lot of things.
Not so much manufacturing robust mechanical devices like cars and nuclear power plants.
I'm just saying.
I mean, if I'm in Europe, I want the French cuisine, but I want the German industry, which is also collapsing by the way.
I want the German industry, the French cuisine, not British cuisine, because that's a contradiction.
And I don't want Greek bureaucracy to do the organization and coordination of anything, because that's always a mess.
I want the Germans to build stuff.
I want the French to do the food and the arts and the wine.
And the UK can just go bleep themselves for the most part.
That's, yeah, because, you know, look, we're Americans, so we get it.
All right, folks, calm down.
These are just funny jokes.
I make fun of Texas, too, so don't take it personally.
We're all funny.
We're all funny wherever we're from.
Oh, hey, you know what's funny?
In fact, let me make fun of my heritage here for a second.
Did you know that in America, in certain parts of rural America, which kind of tells you where I'm from, it's a tradition on New Year's Day to eat black-eyed peas and cornbread.
And so I did so.
And yeah, I felt my roots, you know?
Cornbread!
Cornbread eaten, black-eyed pea eaten, country boy, you know?
I did that.
And I can make fun of that too, because that's the funniest thing ever.
Why black-eyed peas and cornbread on New Year's Day?
I have no idea.
But my family's been doing that forever.
So I did that too.
See, look, I can make fun of all of us, including myself.
I have no idea.
But hey, at least when we make cornbread, it's really cornbread, not that crazy sweet cake, that mushy cake, spongy, overly sweet garbage that they serve in restaurants these days and they call it cornbread.
It's really like a corn muffin.
Give me a break.
Cornbread's supposed to be dry and rough.
And so boring that you gotta put half a stick of butter on it.
That's real cornbread, folks.
Real cornbread.
With black-eyed peas.
Maybe some fried okra.
Well, that's summertime.
And some chitlins from certain parts of the country as well.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Look, seriously, when I grew up, when I was a kid, I thought everybody ate catfish and okra and cornbread and black-eyed peas and hominy, whatever else.
I thought that was totally normal.
I mean, in certain parts of the country it is.
You're probably drooling a little bit right now listening to this if you're from that part of the country.
Like, yeah, that actually sounds like a good new year.
What is hominy, by the way?
Does anybody know?
To this day, I still don't know what is hominy.
And I'm in the food business.
I still don't know what that stuff is.
It's little starchy nuggets of some kind.
All right, moving on.
From thesun.com.
Mind of the machine.
Chilling AI predicts what nuclear war would look like with attacks on London, Moscow, and Washington.
So, yeah, an artificial intelligence system has responded, I don't know, it's painted a picture of what it thinks nuclear war is going to look like if you ask it.
This is like an AI chatbot type of thing.
So, if you ask it, like, what is apocalypse and nuclear war going to look like?
And it actually then produces photos of This is one of those AI image production systems.
And so, you know, I mean, look, you feed it all of humanity's worst nightmares and so on, and it just kind of reproduces that in its own way.
But it shows scenes of London in it, like a nuclear winter, and deserted streets, and a decayed, broken-down city.
And then...
Here's like the last man left on Earth in some kind of a horrific dead gray landscape and all kinds of interesting pictures of nuclear bombs going off mushroom clouds and so on.
So anyway, yeah, if you ask an AI system about doom and gloom, it's going to give you these kinds of pictures.
I'm not sure that that has any predictive, you know, value.
I think it's just regurgitating, you know, sci-fi movies and such.
Alright, moving on here, but also I just thought of a quiz for you here.
What is the real purpose of cornbread with black-eyed peas?
Huh?
This is to test to see if you're an authentic country American.
What's the real purpose of the cornbread?
And the correct answer is to mop up the black-eyed pea water sauce.
Like, whatever's left behind from the black-eyed peas.
You gotta mop that up with the cornbread.
Hmm?
That's how you know you're authentic country boy America or country girl America.
If you're mopping up the sauce with the cornbread, you're in the club.
You qualify.
If you want to take it one step further, you know you're really rural American if your mama tells you to mop up the black-eyed pea sauce with the cornbread.
Like, you have to be prompted to do that.
And then you obey and do it.
See?
Two generations.
Of not wasting food.
That's authenticity right there.
All right, here we go.
The Epoch Times says 15 million Americans are set to lose medical coverage.
Wow.
As public health emergency comes to an end, you're like, what?
15 million Americans are going to lose?
What?
Okay, here's what's happening.
It's being called an impending medical insurance meltdown As of January 11th, an estimated 15 million Americans are going to begin to lose their health coverage.
It's because after three years of a COVID public health emergency, the temporary shield of continuous coverage offered by Medicare and the Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, is now coming to an end.
So in other words, because of COVID, they had a temporary thing where they said they can't drop anybody from these insurance programs.
But now that this emergency is expiring, apparently, it says regular income requirements and restrictions will apply.
This will disqualify millions who have benefited from congressional legislation passed in 2020, preventing the disenrollment during the COVID pandemic.
So, healthcare administrators are bracing for the fallout as the end looms large.
With such a high volume of newly uninsured patients, some analysts predict cost increases for doctor visits, especially in the emergency room.
Now, have you noticed how crazy expensive health insurance is getting?
I mean, any kind of insurance, like long-term care insurance, accident insurance, car insurance, home insurance, health insurance.
A lot of this is because of COVID. Because people keep dying or people keep showing up in the hospital because, well, they got the jab and now things are going horribly wrong and they're presenting with all kinds of conditions and cardiovascular and neurological and reproductive and all kinds of things, right?
So insurance costs are going sky high.
I mean, not just a little bit.
Not always a 20% increase.
It's like 100% more.
I've seen policies.
I've seen letters.
They say, ah, this is going up 100%.
It's like, oh, just going to double it, and we'll probably double it again next year.
So 15 million Americans are going to be thrown into the pool of uninsured, and how are they going to buy insurance when prices are, in some cases, doubling?
There's a massive question, and there are no easy answers to this.
The article cites a 2022 study that shows 112 million adults in America struggle to find affordable medical insurance.
93% said that they felt the benefits aren't worth the high price tag, but people still decide to pay because they can't afford not to have it if something goes horribly wrong.
I mean, it's a vicious cycle here.
And then there's a lot of people talking about the mental health crisis that is going to, well, be sparked in a worse way because of all the mental stress from people losing their health insurance.
So here's a Dr.
Kimberly Parker talking to the Epoch Times said, quote, if you think the mental health crisis is bad now with the increase in suicide, oh, just wait until the undeserved lose their health care.
You hear what she's saying?
She's saying, like, people killing themselves, that's nothing.
Wait until they lose their health insurance.
That's going to be like mental health apocalypse or something.
Yeah, no question.
And with the added stress of food inflation and scarcity and home prices plummeting and also whatever happens with Wall Street this year is probably not going to be good.
I think there are going to be some major corrections on Wall Street.
People's mental health is going to take, you know, major hits.
This is a kind of psychological trauma across the country.
There's going to be a lot of mentally ill people, but also people snapping.
At retail establishments, did you see that lady in the yoga pants on that viral video, I don't know, a week ago?
Just taking it to the airline reservation computers at some airport.
I don't even know what airport it was.
She's just going at it, just trashing the place.
Everybody's like, oh my gosh!
This seems to be happening a lot more, and it's happening with road rage.
People are snapping, and there's like psycho mass murderers running loose.
You probably saw some of those stories recently, and some white dude became, I don't know, he converted into Islam, and then he attacked some New York police officers with a machete.
He tried to chop them in their heads.
But he didn't kill them, thankfully.
They were injured.
But that happened over the weekend.
I was like, dude, white Islam convert terrorist with a machete knocking police officers over the heads in New York City on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day or something.
Okay, this is crazy.
But we're going to see a lot more of this.
So we know that telemedicine is going to be a major thing.
Frankly, from the COVID years, telemedicine and even teleworking, you know, people working from home, became a big thing.
But right now, people have largely lost trust in doctors.
I mean, mainstream doctors and mainstream hospitals and who wants to go to a hospital anymore if you could get help another way.
So telemedicine is going to be big.
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All right, with that said, and thank you for your patience on that, we're going to go into the 23 skills and attributes that I think everybody needs in order to make it through 2023.
So I'm going to go through this list with some commentary on each of the 23 points, but I'll keep it short because I don't want this to get crazy, like a three-hour program here.
But I want you to keep in mind, as I mention each item here, mentally, check off the checkbox if you've already got this nailed.
Or make a note if you can improve it.
But look, you know that I believe that 2023 is going to be a very difficult year, but especially for those who are not prepared.
Those who are prepared, both mentally and spiritually and physically and so on, I think are going to come through this just fine.
So this is how to do that, in my opinion.
Number one is humility.
We're all going to be humbled in 2023.
The ability to learn quickly and to move past mistakes or errors is going to be absolutely critical.
And those people who are arrogant and therefore unable to work well with other people or with groups or with community, they're unable to barter or negotiate or recruit or influence people.
You know, arrogance is not a survival skill.
It's basically a death wish.
You can be arrogant in a time when there are no challenges.
And, you know, and there are a lot of crazy arrogant people out there.
But when things get tough, humility is so critical because you're going to make mistakes and you're going to make mistakes.
You're going to make mistakes trying to grow your food.
And you've got to be willing to say, oh gosh, I messed that up.
How do I learn from that and do better next time?
So, number one, humility.
Number two, frugality.
Yeah.
Because, again, we're in a contraction, not an expansion.
So this is not a podcast or a channel about how to spend more money on jet skis and vacations and brand name purses and Rolex watches.
No.
Because that's boring anyway.
Who cares?
This is going to be a time of frugality, just making your investments count.
Yes, you're still going to need to spend money on things, but how do you do so wisely?
How do you leverage the assets that you have to get the most bang for your buck?
And for example, learning to grow some of your own food is part of that.
Or learning how to do basic sprouting is part of that.
For a few pennies worth of sprouting seeds, plus some mason jars and some water and some time, you can do a lot of sprouting and you can augment your diet with essentially superfoods that you grow yourself.
So frugality is going to be really important during all of this.
That also means deleverage your financial position wherever you can.
There are people out there that own like 100 homes.
And they thought they were big shots when everything was going up, up, up.
This is like the big short over again.
Just another new generation of learning the same lessons.
But these people are going to be wiped out.
I mean, they should make a new movie soon called The Big Short 2.
Or The Big Shorter.
You know?
Because, yeah, it's coming.
People are going to get wiped out.
So deleverage your debt.
If you can, try to own everything that you need to live in, such as your house or your vehicle or what have you.
Try not to have debt around and try not to be leveraged because this is a contraction phase.
Okay, number three, redundancy.
And you know I'm a big proponent of this.
My book, Resilient Prepping, is all about this.
You can download that book for free, resilientprepping.com.
It's an audio book, actually just a series of lectures with a transcript that you can download as a PDF. But redundancy, of course, is critical because some of the things that you think are going to work will actually fail.
Or you won't be able to get supply parts for them.
Or the power grid will fail.
Or some other black swan event will come along and the best laid plans of mice and men will fail to come to fruition.
So you need redundancy.
You need backup plans, and then you need low-tech and no-tech plans in case all your high-tech, super-duper, modern, electronic stuff all fails.
You need a low-tech option for things.
That's what that book is all about, resilientprepping.com.
Number four, you need flexibility.
And this is mental flexibility.
You need to be able to change your mind based on new information.
And there's something called normalcy bias.
You've heard this term, where people are stuck in the same rut of their day-to-day living.
And they think that everything's going to be the same forever because that's all they know.
And Whatever they live in, it becomes normal.
And they can't imagine anything different.
Well, trust me, in 2023, a lot of things are going to be very different.
And if you don't have the mental flexibility to get your head around what's happening, because a lot of people live in denials, like, oh, no, housing prices can't be going down.
I still own 12 homes or whatever.
You know, the people would lie to themselves about that.
Because they can't accept it.
If you can't accept what's happening because you have, let's call it cognitive stiffness syndrome, that's different from what Celine Dion is suffering from, which is stiff person syndrome, I think.
Cognitive stiffness syndrome.
You're stuck in a mental rut.
You're not going to do well in 23 and beyond because things are going to change right out from underneath your feet.
It's going to be a giant global rug pull, as they say.
Okay, number five, endurance and stamina.
You're going to need this both mentally and physically.
So this is a great time to do some more walking each day.
This is a great time to swim a few laps if you have access to a swimming pool or get on your rebounder and do your trampoline thing or get on your gliding machine, your exercise bike, whatever.
Get your cardio up to speed.
improve it because as the contraction kicks in and more things hit the fan, you're going to end up in a situation, all of us are, where we have to do more work in order to cover the day-to-day basic requirements for living.
So in a decentralized economy, when globalism collapses and you don't have the long supply chains and the benefit of foreign labor and cheap energy because of the petrodollar status and all that, you're going to end up in a situation where you have to rely on yourself and your neighbors more than ever before. you're going to end up in a situation where you And that's going to involve more physical work.
So you're going to need stamina and also the mental stamina to be able to make it through all of that.
Okay, number six.
Discernment.
And specifically, not falling for false authority.
At some time in 2023, you're going to be told, practically ordered, to line up and take a new vaccine because there's going to be a new pandemic.
Oh, you can count on it.
There's going to be a new crisis.
You're going to be told to turn in your gold or something.
You're going to be told to put all your money in the bank.
You're going to be told to stop reading alternative media.
You're going to be told all these things by false authority.
You, listening to this, you already have discernment, so this is not an issue for you.
But I want to remind you to exercise this, and do not fall for the propaganda and the false authority that will be presented across big tech and mainstream media and the fake White House and all of that.
So continue to visit the alternative media websites and alternative social media sites and so on, because that's where you're going to get good information.
Okay, point number seven.
Cognitive awareness and alertness.
You're going to need to be alert, but not to the level of experiencing constant stress.
And this is a very fine balance.
This is really critical.
I don't want you to stress out and be freaking out at every moment of every day.
Oh, my God, what's happening next?
Is it here?
No.
I want you to be chill, be cool, but be alert.
Like, okay, I'm gonna put my radar up and listen and pay attention and learn and stay connected, but I'm not gonna freak out in my day-to-day life.
I'm still gonna sleep well.
I'm still gonna enjoy the meals.
I'm still gonna have smoothies.
I'm gonna have a nice walk.
You know, I'm gonna socialize with friends and family or your pets or your animals or whatever.
Be cool, be chill, But don't be complacent.
So again, high alert mode, but low stress.
And that takes a little practice for some people.
All right, number eight, optimism and faith.
You're going to need a sense of optimism in order to make it through because there's going to be, in my opinion, a lot of things that happen that people could say, oh my gosh, that's doom.
The doom has arrived.
There's the doom over here and there's the gloom over there.
Doom and gloom, and then with Russia, the boom!
Doom and gloom and boom, kaboom.
And a lot of people can look at that and say, oh my god, it's horrible, the world is ending, it's over.
You've got to be able to say, okay, yes, those things are happening, and here's how we navigate that.
Here's how we can make it through.
We're not all going to die.
The world isn't ending.
Now, yes, certain nations will end, certain civilizations will end, but you notice that that's happened before in human history, and the planet still has people on it.
How does that happen?
Well, nations rise and fall.
Civilizations rise and fall.
Currencies rise and fall.
Wars happen and have happened throughout history.
None of those things have killed everybody.
None of them.
In fact, I think the biggest event that killed off most humans is that comet impact 12,800 years ago.
And we're going to be interviewing some scientists about that.
That's the younger dry-ass comet impact theory that killed maybe, I don't know, 50-60% of the human population at the time.
But aside from that, nothing else has come close to killing anywhere near those numbers until now.
Of course, now it's not a comet impact.
It's a vaccine impact that may kill one or two or more billion people over time, especially when combined with an economic implosion, you know, and a food implosion and fertilizer and energy implosion and all that.
Yes, these things are real, but they can't kill us all.
We've got to maintain a sense of optimism.
We can make it through this.
Think about this.
If you're listening to this, you are more informed and probably more prepared than 99 out of 100 people.
There's just no question about that.
And are the globalists going to be able to kill 99 out of 100 people or 100 out of 100?
No.
They may only kill, you know, one out of four people.
Or if they get their wish really nailed down, they might kill one out of two people.
But they're not going to kill 99 out of 100 people on this planet.
Not even close.
And you're better off than 99 out of 100.
You know, you're probably in 1 in 1,000 or 1 in 10,000 people in terms of your knowledge and your experience and your preparedness and your intelligence and your discernment.
So you are in a great place to make it through this.
So yeah, doom and gloom can happen all around you, but maintain that sense of optimism and faith.
Yes, God is on our side and your side, and God wants you to be here in this moment.
Ask yourself why.
You know, hey God, what's my purpose here today?
What am I supposed to be doing?
Oh, helping other people?
Okay, you got it, God.
That's what I'm going to do.
You know, waking people up?
Yeah, that's what I'm going to do.
So, that's number eight.
Okay, number nine.
You're going to need community building skills, either offline, you know, real world, or online.
And in online, I really want to encourage you to join Brightown.social.
It is an amazing community of like-minded people.
Brighteon.social.
It works just like Truth Social.
In fact, we've had ours out there for a couple of years now.
It's like Gab, kind of.
It's like Getter or Parler.
It's like a Twitter alternative.
Brighteon.social.
But it's like-minded people who get it.
They're really well-informed.
They have the best news, the breaking news of the day.
You can monitor it there.
I enjoy doing that.
It's just amazing people.
Brighteon.social.
But even if you're not there...
Build communities, get along with people, have neighbors or family and friends or groups that you can turn to.
When things get bad, you know, barter groups, people you trust, people who you can trade seeds with, people who know things, like how to grow food, how to butcher a wild hog, you know, how to fish, how to repair things, all kinds of things.
Make sure you network with people who have these skills.
So then number 10 is barter and negotiation skills.
And this gets back to being humble, but also competent.
So in order to effectively barter and negotiate, you've got to be fair-minded, you've got to be trusted by others, and you've got to be able to communicate well.
You can't just barge into a barter conversation and like, this is what I'm going to give you, take it or leave it.
And they're just going to say, we'll leave it.
Go pound sand, right?
If you're going to barter and negotiate, You need to be an effective communicator and networker and to be able to get along with people.
So, you know, socialization skills are really important.
So that's number 10.
Number 11 is blending in or what's called gray man type of skills.
I'm sure they include gray women as well, but that sounds weird.
So it's just called gray man.
Blending in just means not sticking out wherever you are, fitting in locally, dressing the way the locals dress, you know, looking or talking the way they talk or eating black-eyed peas and cornbread on New Year's Day, if that's appropriate for your specific area.
It's a survival skill, yes.
Wherever you are, be able to blend in, you know, and don't just draw undue attention to yourself.
Okay.
Number 12, asset protection skills.
Now, we've talked about this quite a lot, so I'm not going to go into a lot of details here, but asset protection is going to be critical, I believe, to surviving the implosion of the dollar and fiat currencies.
You know, the global debt markets are set up for a cascading collapse at some point.
We don't know what the trigger is going to be, nor what day that trigger is going to come.
It could be the day that China and Russia and Brazil announced the new World Reserve currency.
And then the next day, all the banks are closed down all across the United States and Canada and the UK and so on.
It's like, oh, well, guess what?
All your deposits are now bank assets and you get to apply to be allowed to withdraw a certain limited amount each day for the next 10 years or whatever.
And yes, that's exactly how it can happen.
So asset protection is a skill.
And it involves, of course, understanding what is money, what is gold and silver, what is land, you know, what is liquidity, what is convertibility, what is fungibility, and so on.
And we talk about that quite a bit, but just make sure you're up to speed on all that.
You probably are.
And then number 13 is cashing, which is kind of related to that.
So cashing means, you know, hiding stuff effectively, hiding food, hiding gold, hiding ammo.
I don't know.
What do you need to hide?
But depending on how crazy the world gets or how much tyranny there is or whether we're in a war or China invades America or who knows what happens, you might need to hide stuff just to survive.
You know, it might be the food police running down your neighborhood door to door.
Knock, knock, knock.
You got any extra food stored in there?
You're a hoarder.
Hoarders, we hang hoarders or something.
You know, that could happen in some dystopian upcoming future.
So you might need to hide food to survive.
And if you don't believe me, you know, read all the history books.
Read the history of the survivors of Nazi occupation of countries like Poland and so on.
I mean, just read history.
And yes, you need to hide some stuff.
So make sure you're up to speed on all that.
Okay, number 14 is off-grid survival basic skills.
Make sure you've covered the very basics of being able to generate heat when the power grid is down so that you don't freeze to death and being able to cook food and boil water when the power grid's down and there's no natural gas or what have you, no propane.
How do you heat water?
How do you bathe?
How do you cook food?
In a no-tech, no-grid situation.
So make sure you cover those basics.
Pretty easy to do so.
Plenty of online videos if you've got any questions or just need to brush up on some skills.
All right.
Number 15.
This is a critical skill.
Is the maintenance and repair of equipment and appliances and things like vehicles.
You need to be able to repair things.
Including firearms, by the way.
So anything that you use, any tool that you use, like even a shovel or a rake, how do you repair a rake?
How do you repair a shovel?
Do you have any welding skills?
Do you have any metallurgy skills?
Do you have any salvage skills?
Do you know how to change an air filter or an oil filter on a vehicle?
Do you know how to repair a leak, like a gas tank leak?
Do you know how to use epoxies and things like that?
Basic maintenance and repair are going to be invaluable because as the global economy contracts, you're going to have to make things last longer.
And unfortunately, we live in a world where the things we've been purchasing for the last couple of decades are kind of a throwaway mindset product line.
You're supposed to use them for a few years and chuck them, put them in the landfill, and then go buy a new freezer or a new laundry machine or what have you.
Whereas a couple of generations ago, you would buy one refrigerator and it would work for 40 years.
But that's not the world we live in anymore.
So you're going to have to figure out how to make stuff work longer, and that means maintenance and repair.
Okay, number 16 is emergency medicine.
Not only just stockpiling the stuff you need, like antiseptics and, you know, povidone iodine, isopropyl alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, various sanitizers, various surface antibiotics, and what have you, chlorine dioxide, colloidal silver, emergency medical type of stuff.
But then knowing how to use it.
Knowing how to clean wounds.
Knowing how to deal with burns.
Knowing how to deal with food poisoning.
Knowing how to stop bleeding.
Emergency medicine.
How do you stitch somebody up?
It's not a bad skill set to have.
So add that to your list of things to brush up on if you don't yet have that covered.
Oh, and emergency dental skills.
Those are handy because everybody eventually needs a dentist.
Alright, number 17, kind of related to that, but it's home chemistry.
So how do you make your own cleaning supplies and medical remedies?
And there are a lot of great recipes and simple ways to do things.
Even I have a video.
It's on Brighteon.
It's about how to make your own colloidal silver using, what was it, three 9-volt batteries in series to make a 27-volt circuit.
And then you apply that to two U.S. Mint Silver Eagle silver coins.
And And you can make your own colloidal silver solution from silver coins.
I show you how to do that.
It's very, well, it's very simple.
And it totally works.
You need a little bit of baking soda, a small touch, and you need basically deionized water, or what do they call it at the grocery store?
Distilled water.
But you can also use rainwater in a pinch because that's distilled water.
So these are just some examples of some skills to have.
For home chemistry and making your own stuff.
I say stock up on baking soda because it's got a thousand uses.
It's amazing.
You'll use baking soda all over the place once you realize how important it is.
Make sure you've got chlorine dioxide or the ability to manufacture chlorine dioxide because you can make a spray out of that.
You can cleanse surfaces.
It's got antiviral effects on surfaces as well.
It's a great sanitizer and it's also a water purifier.
It's got a thousand uses itself.
And then also, if you burn wood for heat, you can use the ash for all kinds of things.
Lots of ways to use ash.
A lot of benefits of lye, for example.
And you can just check out online videos about using wood ash.
There's all kinds of things you can make out of it.
Many different uses.
So it's actually a very valuable commodity to have.
And I've noticed, by the way, since I do burn wood and then...
I dump the ash in a pile outside and I notice that every animal especially chickens and goats and donkeys donkeys love to roll around in ash You know, not hot ash, not like it's on fire.
No, but cool ash.
They love it and they use it as a natural insecticide and so do chickens.
Chickens like to sit in the ash and they'll actually work it into their feathers to get rid of, you know, mites and pests and things like that.
So animals love ash and my dogs like to sit on the ash pile too.
It's just, I don't know, it feels comfortable.
They love it.
They play in it.
It's crazy.
Anyway, a lot of uses for ash.
And of course, once you have wood ash and you have lye, then you can make soap also.
But it's good to get some online recipes.
I'm just talking about some basic home chemistry of some things to have, some things that are good to stockpile.
One of the chemicals, by the way, that a lot of people don't know about is D-limonene, L-I-M-O-N-E-N-E. D-limonene is a natural molecule found in orange peels, and I think to some extent in lemon peels.
And D-limonene has...
It is an oil-soluble molecule that is a degreaser and a cleaning agent and a solvent.
It'll dissolve plastics and resins and things, by the way.
But it's also...
And I can't advocate for this, but I'm just saying some people use it, some very tiny amounts of it, as some kind of a natural remedy for certain types of things.
Again, I'm not recommending that.
Just saying that's out there.
But it's an example of the kind of thing that you can stockpile that may have multiple uses.
And I'm a big fan of that.
For example, stockpiling coconut oil.
Because coconut oil can be a lubricant, an industrial lubricant for hinges.
It can also be a solvent to clean your rifle.
And it can be a lubricant for your Glock.
And it can be an ingredient in your superfood smoothies.
And it's also an ingredient combined with beeswax and maybe some oils in order to make emergency medical even like suppositories, believe it or not.
Or creams or certain kinds of like remedy lotions and things.
You can use coconut oil in so many ways.
It is something very, very handy and very useful to stockpile, but it's great to know what to do with it, obviously.
You know, if I had time, I would really like to do a whole book on just home chemistry.
Like 5,000 things you can do with baking soda, wood ash, you know, coconut oil, D-limonene and iodine or whatever.
Just with about maybe 20 basic ingredients, you can make almost everything you need for home use.
I mean, you know, your own window cleaners and your own car antifreeze.
Do you know how to make your own windshield wiper solution for your vehicles?
It's so simple.
It's just a combination of water and what ammonia and isopropyl alcohol.
And it doesn't freeze or it's resistant to freezing, I should say.
And it's a windshield wiper fluid and it's a window cleaner and so on.
And it's so easy to make this stuff.
And I think you can put a little bit of baking soda in it too.
You can find the recipes online.
But if you have about 20 basic ingredients that you can buy in bulk, you can make almost all the cleaners That you need and a lot of solvents and certain types of lubricants and so on, like olive oil.
Like olive oil can also be used as an industrial lubricant, not just for cooking.
So I would love to do a whole book on this.
I don't know.
I just don't have time right now for that.
Oh, by the way, one of those things is citric acid.
Citric acid is using a lot of home cleaning formulas and things, so that's worth checking out as well.
And it's dirt cheap if you buy it in bulk.
Okay, moving on.
Let's see here.
Number 18, animal management.
So it's very valuable to know how to deal with backyard chickens.
That's why I started with chickens, just because I wanted the skill set.
I wanted to know.
How do I take care of chickens?
How do I gather chicken eggs?
How do I shelter chickens?
Just all the big questions.
Now it's all second nature.
But do you have dogs as guardians, security dogs?
Do you have sheep?
Do you have goats like I have?
Of course, mine are pets, but you might have goats for goat's milk.
Do you have cattle?
Whatever.
Animal skills, I think, are very valuable in what's coming, especially for all the rural living that people are going to be moving to.
Okay, number 19, and maybe I should have mentioned this earlier, but self-defense skills are also going to be very important during this time.
Now, for a lot of people, self-defense means a firearm.
It means carrying a sidearm and knowing how to use it in self-defense.
Now, if you're willing to put in a lot more training hours, you can do, obviously, hand-to-hand combat type of skills.
I study Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and I've done many years of Krav Maga and striking and edge weapons and so on.
But if you want to accomplish self-defense in the least amount of time, the answer is a pistol.
That you can carry with you.
Keep it legal.
Obviously, get a lot of training.
But within, frankly, 10 to 20 hours of training on a pistol, you can be basically proficient.
And in 50 hours, you can be much better.
In a couple hundred hours, you can be quite good.
With a rifle, it's even faster, because rifles are easier to shoot.
Much easier.
Easier to handle, easier to aim.
You know, people don't get confused about, which eye should I use?
The one that's next to the rifle.
I mean, you know, people get all confused with pistols, like, which eye?
But with rifles, it's easier.
It's like, put the red dot on the paper target!
You know, drill sergeant time, pull the trigger three times!
Put in some basic skills with some rifle training.
I mean, get good, competent training.
Keep it safe.
Keep it legal, but get competent, and it's going to serve you well.
That's all I'm saying.
Okay, number 20, essential skill here for 2023, food production and sustainability.
Yeah, being able to grow some food and also to do so in a sustainable way, which means saving seeds and being able to repeat it and using heirloom non-GMO seeds to begin with, and also understanding soil microbiology and the fertilizer need of your plants versus what you're taking out of the soil.
So understanding the basics of fertilizers and nitrogen fertilizers especially.
You can't grow without nitrogen, not much.
Yeah.
And also compost, having good soils and so on.
So one of the really great pieces of good news in all of this is that you can stockpile nitrogen fertilizer practically forever.
You can stockpile the minerals that your plants need, such as calcium and magnesium.
Those are the top two that all plants need.
You can stockpile those and they last forever because they're rocks.
I mean, it's just powdered rocks with other kinds of rocks, you know, minerals, mineral rocks.
So if you buy the right buckets or bags of fertilizer, you can just go out to your local, you know, Farmer, co-op, or agricultural supply depot, whatever it is, and just start buying up 50-pound bags of fertilizer.
And I've mentioned this before, and you can tell them, you know, I'm growing tomatoes, I'm growing potatoes, whatever.
What do you recommend?
And they'll recommend ratios.
And they might want to know what your soils are like and so on.
Often you can get a soil test at your local or state-level agricultural department, what have you.
And that's all very valuable.
It's a good idea to do that.
But you can stockpile fertilizer for future farming, and it's like money in the bank.
It really is.
To me, it's like, I call it white gold, actually, because urea pellets and a lot of the nitrogen fertilizers, they look like white pellets.
So I call it white gold because you can convert it into food.
If you have those pellets and then you have dirt and seeds and sunlight and water, boom, you can make food out of it, well, plus some labor.
My only kind of asterisk on this is Don't buy so much fertilizer that the FBI thinks you're Timothy McVeigh Part 2.
Like, the return of McVeigh.
Don't buy thousands of pounds of fertilizer as if you're the Unabomber or something, because some of these substances can, I guess, in certain formulations and with certain accelerants and so on.
I don't obviously know the details of how to do that, but...
Some fertilizers can be used, you know, by, I guess, bomb makers.
Don't be that person.
And don't draw attention to that.
And, you know, look, I'm talking about actual food fertilizers here, okay?
Calcium, magnesium, you know, a certain amount of copper.
You're going to need trace minerals, and you're going to need nitrogen.
So sometimes you can get a whole mix like that, or you can get hydroponic mixes, but But just look into that because I think stockpiling fertilizer in a reasonable way, a non-McVeigh way, is actually a smart strategy for facing 2023 and beyond.
Because fertilizer is going to go up in price, by the way.
Okay, number 21, food preservation and reconstitution.
So it's good to have skills for canning and drying and salting and pickling and sun drying and whatever else you do.
All the different ways you preserve food.
Smoking.
And then also how to reconstitute those preserved food items back into meals.
In other words, you know, old school, you know, American pioneer recipes, basically, is what we're talking about here.
How do the pioneers live?
Well, they grew like crazy in the spring and summer, and then they canned and jarred and salted and smoked and freeze.
Well, they didn't have freezers, sorry.
But they did whatever they could to get the food ready so they could survive the winter and just barely not die.
That's how they made it.
And if you're an American, your ancestors are probably those people, which means you're probably pretty well positioned to do it again.
You know, you come from good lineage.
You come from a line of survivors by definition.
All right, so that's number 21.
And then number 22...
Coms, skills.
I had to include this.
You've got to be able to communicate with people.
So, you know, get the cheap...
If you don't have anything else, get some cheap local radios.
You know, get the Baofangs or you can get the MERS radios or whatever.
The FRS bands.
You don't have to get a $5,000 super CB radio.
You can start with something basic, but make sure that you can communicate locally.
Make sure you know how the basics of radios work.
And yeah, if you want to get satellite phones and the satellite gear that we talk about from time to time, and our sponsors have that stuff, that's awesome too in a different way for a different reason.
But make sure you cover local radio communications.
And then number 23, I had to put this in.
It's kind of a joke, but it's also true.
And it's sewing.
Make sure you have sewing skills.
And as you know, I talked about this, I don't know, a year ago or so, that I was buying old Singer sewing machines.
And these are amazing pieces of equipment.
I've got one that was made in 1959, I believe.
And it's amazing.
It's a work of art and it's functional.
And it's strong.
I can sew leather and I can sew two pieces of leather together that are each a quarter inch thick.
Huh?
Can your sewing machine do that?
I doubt it.
Now, I know that there are celebrity people out there like Andrew Tate we talked about the other day, and he brags about having 33 cars, a V12 engine, and all this kind of stuff.
Oh, big horsepower.
For me, I'm happy with a sewing machine that can sew quarter-inch pieces of leather together.
To me, that's way more important than a fast car, because that fast car is going to be useless in about two seconds when you can't get the parts.
But a sewing machine can help save your life in the right conditions because, you know, you're going to need to repair your shoes and your pants and your bags and your belts and everything else when the supply chain all breaks down.
So sewing is no joke, folks.
Get yourself some sewing skills and Even if you're a manly man and you don't want anybody to think you're a soy boy, just sew manly stuff like saddles and holsters and things.
Just have a bunch of holsters.
I sew holsters.
I'm not a sissy.
Yeah, I have a sewing machine, but I only use it in a macho way.
I'm a macho seamster as opposed to seamstress.
If you really want to go macho on your sewing machine, get one with a hand crank or a foot treadle.
You can actually rock it with your feet.
You don't even need to plug that sucker in.
You have foot-powered sewing.
Oh man.
Woo, that's macho right there.
No one can compete with that.
Alright, so there you go, folks.
23 skills and attributes that you're going to need to make it through 2023.
Now, I did not include anything involving children, because I don't have children.
That's not my area of expertise.
But obviously, you're going to want to add things for the kids and the grandkids and, I don't know, the newborns and the infants and everything else.
That's just not my area.
So, you'll have to add those yourself.
But...
Take care of the kids, obviously, and teach them well and homeschool them and get them hands-on.
Give them the skills that they need to survive, too.
It'll serve them well in the years ahead.
But that's my list.
Hope you found that useful.
Hope you enjoyed it.
And if you want to listen to some of my free books, I've got audiobooks, I think six of them now, including, of course, Resilient Prepping, I mentioned.
SurvivalNutrition.com is another one.
Free download there.
And also the Global Reset Survival Guide, which is at GlobalReset.News.
So the bottom line, folks, I'm optimistic about us, about you and me and our chances of making it through.
I'm concerned about the rest of the world and what's happening in the contraction and the collapses and the wars and all that stuff.
But I'm not concerned about you and I. I think we're going to do fine.
We really are.
We're going to navigate this very well.
So this is not a doom and gloom prediction.
This is a how to surf the doom.
We're going to surf the doom waves like expert surfers.
When other people are drowning in the waves, sadly, we're going to be surfing and trying to help as many of them as we can, like fish them out of the ocean.
But we're not going to be inundated by the waves.
We're going to be riding those waves, because we saw it coming, and we got the surfing skills in advance, or in this case, the sewing skills, which is not nearly as cool.
It doesn't get you chicks on the beach to show up with a sewing machine instead of a surfboard, but that's just the way the world goes.
All right, so I'll be back with you again tomorrow.
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And I've got some fascinating interviews coming up for you this week.
Even though I know I promised to back off the interviews.
I ended up scheduling a bunch of them this week because, well, things are happening and interesting people need to chime in on that.
So we'll see how that goes.
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