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April 28, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
26:35
Why America's coming COLLAPSE will be far worse than the collapse of the Soviet Union
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I was listening to an author named Dmitry Orlov.
Who's a Russian but also immigrated to America.
He lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and he's seen what collapse looks like and he points out a lot of similarities between the collapse of the Soviet Union and what's happening in America today.
And there are many things that he talks about that I will be talking about coming up.
But one of the most intriguing things he said recently is that the inputs of farming Upon which human civilization exists because people have to eat.
The inputs are not just the obvious things that everybody thinks about.
Like, oh, yeah, diesel fuel.
You need a lot of diesel.
Sure, you need natural gas, you need fertilizer.
You know, all these inputs of modern agriculture, which is really not a good form of agriculture.
But there's one that people overlook, and that's the input of credit.
Farmers need credit in order to grow food.
Why?
Well, ask any farmer, but number one, you need very expensive equipment right up front that has to be amortized over many, many years of production.
And then even seasonally, a farmer needs to put a lot of money into growing a crop.
They need to buy seeds.
They need to buy fuel.
They have to buy sometimes new equipment and repairs and so on and put in a lot of labor.
You know, all the inputs require money.
Farmers do not typically have a lot of excess funds just sitting around.
So they need credit.
And so the liquidity of the financial system is absolutely critical for food production to take place.
When you lose liquidity, i.e.
in a banking collapse or a financial collapse, a debt implosion, when you lose liquidity, you lose the ability to grow food in our current monoculture corporate farming system.
So that then begins to collapse quite rapidly.
And a lot of people don't think about that, but food can become extremely scarce very quickly within a matter of weeks because the food supply chain is a pipeline.
It's a just-in-time delivery pipeline.
When the dollar collapses...
Then you can't even pay transportation companies.
How are you going to transport goods from somewhere else?
When the dollar collapses, farmers can't even purchase fuel, even if they have the money.
And they certainly can't get credit because, of course, the debt system has collapsed.
So when the dollar collapses, there are going to be food shortages far worse than what most people imagine.
Far worse.
And one of the things that Dmitry says that really helped the Soviet people, you know, 1990, right before the collapse, was the fact that most families grew some amount of food in their own kitchens.
They had, like, little kitchen windowsill herb gardens, or they were planting food in containers and growing a little bit in their kitchens.
And it wasn't as if that was enough to live on, because it wasn't.
But it augmented what people got from the state.
So remember, in the Soviet Union, the state provided a lot of food staples like bread, and you had a certain allotment, how much bread you could have.
But at some point, the collapse got so bad that the state began to give people bread that wasn't even really bread.
As Dmitry explains it, at one point it was more like 80% sawdust and 20% rye flour.
So it was basically just sawdust, kind of rye flour flavored sawdust.
And that was a loaf of bread.
And that's what people got.
And of course, the human digestive system doesn't digest cellulose very well at all.
Maybe goats can and other animals can, but not human beings.
So that didn't work out very well.
But it's an important principle to understand because what do you see in the West right now?
You see all these companies that are going to be making meat that isn't meat.
Crickets.
Why do you think Tyson Foods is gearing up its cricket production?
Yeah, because that's what they're going to give you at some point when the food system collapses.
Oh, here, have this cricket meat, whatever, substance.
We're not sure what this is.
You can pick the black legs out yourself that look cricket legs.
But they're going to say it's meat.
They're going to say it's food.
And especially for the impoverished who lose everything when the banking system collapses, then the government's going to give them this sort of, you know, synthetic artificial replacement food and tell you to deal with it.
Now, another important thing that happens during societal collapse is that a lot of the roles of who's wealthy and who's poor, those become inverted.
So a lot of people who are wealthy today are only wealthy because of paper wealth.
And even their paper wealth generates apparent numbers because they're involved in some kind of economic activity that has no value after a collapse, like vaccine manufacturing, let's say.
Or selling derivatives.
Who cares?
In a collapse, people are like, I need some food.
I don't need your derivatives.
There's a lot of people who are involved in the financialization of the economy who are going to be penniless.
And meanwhile, there are a lot of people who are considered relatively low income today, but who have really practical skills who will become the new wealthy.
I'm thinking like car mechanics, welders, people who can fix HVAC systems, electricians, and so on.
Why?
Because those skills are absolutely essential during a collapse.
People need to repair things.
People need to make things work because it's very difficult or unaffordable to buy new things.
So all of a sudden, there's a huge market for making things work and repairing and, you know, handymen, that kind of thing.
The handymen are going to become the new wealthy and In society, while the banksters are going to be impoverished because they will lose everything.
They believe in the banking system so completely that they won't get out.
You know, they think the dollar will always have value.
And so they will lose everything in the collapse.
They'll be impoverished.
They'll lose their homes.
And, you know, all these McMansions will be up for sale.
They'll be repossessed by the banks.
And who's going to move into the McMansion?
Handyman Joe there.
Because all of a sudden, he's got unlimited business and he can charge $500 an hour, which is what you used to pay attorneys.
Now the handyman's making that.
And also the currency's devalued at that point.
So...
That helps explain it.
You're also going to find out that people who own real things are going to be very wealthy.
That is gold and silver, ammo, diesel, food, emergency medicine, you know, all these things.
They will find themselves able to trade those things for all kinds of goods that they want, while those who only had currency will be completely impoverished, just wiped out, because the dollar will become worthless virtually overnight at some point.
Nobody will want dollars.
So to the extent that you want to actually have assets in the collapse or even after the collapse, you have to, of course, convert dollars to things that will hold value that we've talked about many times, gold and silver.
Some crypto will hold value.
Although it'll be interesting to see how crypto is impacted by all this, by the way.
I would imagine Bitcoin will do very well during a dollar collapse because I think people will flee the dollar And desperately try to get into something that can't be counterfeited by governments.
That's crypto.
You know, Bitcoin and Monero and others.
But for sure, gold and silver are going to have tremendous value.
They will hold value.
And as the dollar collapses, then gold and silver will be worth more and more in terms of dollars.
But food will have incredible value as well.
Storable food is going to be as good as gold in certain circumstances.
And, you know, I used to live in Taiwan, and some of the old timers there were telling me stories about the collapse.
I don't even know what year they were talking about, but, you know, Taiwan was occupied by Japan in World War II. And then, so there was a time of incredible financial collapse.
And I remember this one story one of the old timers told me, which is that one of his neighbors had a duck A living duck.
And the other neighbor was so desperate for food, so starving, that they offered to trade their house for the duck.
And the person who owned the duck refused the trade because they were desperate for food too.
And eventually they were going to have to eat the duck to stay alive.
So a duck, think about it, a duck can be worth more than a house.
When people are starving to death.
So don't forget the food aspects of this.
You don't want just all gold and silver because you can't eat the gold.
You can't eat the silver.
Eventually you're going to have to eat.
So you do want a certain amount of food, storable food, of course.
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And if you do want gold and silver...
First, we have our affiliate site for goldbacks.
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And you can go there and check out what are goldbacks.
They have real physical 24-karat gold embedded in the bills.
And we did the lab testing on those.
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In either case, having gold and silver, having food, having even diesel fuel, if you can get yourself like a 500-gallon diesel tank and then get 500 gallons of diesel and store it on your property, and be sure to put in the antibacterials treatment solutions and so on so it has long shelf life.
But that's going to be invaluable.
You need all this stuff.
Gold is very portable.
Crypto is even more portable.
But food is universal.
Everybody's got to eat food.
Diesel is going to be extremely valuable because people need transportation.
People need farming.
If you want to run a tractor, you're going to need diesel.
And I can assure you now, there's going to be a high demand for the smaller tractors, the little hobby farm tractors, while the large tractors are going to be sold off like crazy because, well...
They can't get the financing to farm at that level in many cases, or they can't buy enough fuel to run the big tractors and plant 1,000 acres.
It's going to be a lot of small hobby farms.
So if you're looking at a tractor, of course, make sure you get a diesel tractor.
I think most of them are diesels.
Get a hobby tractor.
Something even in the 20 horsepower to 45 horsepower range is a pretty good thing to do.
Kubota is a good brand I recommend now, by the way.
So check out the Kubota brand.
I've had good success with those.
I don't recommend John Deere anymore because they got crazy with all the software controls.
You can't start your tractor if they don't give you permission from their servers.
That's not going to work in the middle of a collapse.
You know, if I can't go out to my tractor and turn the key and have the damn thing start, I don't want it.
I don't need it to freaking check in with headquarters.
Am I allowed to start the tractor?
Screw you, John Deere.
So we're buying Kubota now.
In any case, stockpile food, grow some food, get gold and silver, get some cash, get some crypto, get ready for the collapse, because it's coming, and most people won't be prepared, which means they're going to be desperate, desperate, desperate.
All right, thanks for listening.
Mike Adams here, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and brighteon.com.
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Alright, let's talk about some solutions for preparedness and survival based on what's happening in the world.
Things are getting completely out of control, as you know.
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First thing, show the camera on my desk here.
This is all collapsed currency from all over the world.
Trillions of dollars.
Dollars worth of collapsed currency and then here's fake Hollywood currency of $100 bills.
This is all going to zero.
I mean, some of this is already zero.
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I could hold it right side up.
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Show camera one.
Let me show you this.
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See if I can get the light just right.
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You're going to pay for the gold.
Not everything is going to be free, obviously.
So iodine, storable food, weapons of self-defense to defend and protect innocent life, these are the kinds of things that we are advocating very strongly right now at this time in history because of what's happening in the world, what's happening with the open borders, where we are domestically, with chaos and lawlessness getting worse in most cities across America, more illegals invading more states and counties.
So be ready to defend yourself.
And then, of course, the collapse of the dollar coming as well.
It's accelerating every day.
You're seeing it with food inflation.
Now look at the cost of your car insurance, by the way.
Look at that.
It's skyrocketing.
Health insurance, it's all skyrocketing.
Things are getting more expensive because your dollar is worth less and less.
Meanwhile, gold is absolutely skyrocketing.
In fact, let me just bring up where gold is right now.
2384.
Show my screen.
I want to show the trend here.
If you look at gold prices here, just over, what does that go back to?
Like the end of October last year, gold was $1,837.
Now, now it's almost $2,400.
Look at that rise right there.
Gold is skyrocketing in dollars because dollars are losing value.
So people who are smart, who want to maintain their value of gold and silver...
Well, it's doing exactly what it's designed to do, to hold value.
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Whatever you do, make sure that you're getting prepared for what's coming.
Grow more food.
Save your garden seeds.
Get more items at the grocery store that you can even stockpile that will last a longer period of time.
Try to get out of the dollar into things that will hold value, whether it's gold and silver or something else.
Maybe you're going to buy a piece of land.
Maybe you're going to stock up on ammo or diesel fuel or something that holds value.
But take action now because the world is becoming more chaotic.
Time is running out.
Thank you for supporting our sponsors and supporting this platform.
We appreciate you.
That keeps us going.
It allows us to build the free tools that we're giving back to you, such as the AI tools as well as the Brighttown.io platform.
But together, we can make it through all this, and then we'll be the ones who get to help rebuild society on the other side of the collapse of this current system.
And it is collapsing.
But get prepared now while you can, and thank you for all your support.
I'm Mike Adams here of HealthRangerStore.com, as well as Brighteon.com.
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