The horrific drought that has much of the western half of the United States in a death grip has already surpassed what many scientists thought was possible.  Some areas of the Southwest went more than 200 straight days without any measurable rain last year, vegetation is disappearing at a frightening pace, and giant dust storms are becoming increasingly common.  For years, we have been warned that the droughts in the Southwest were getting worse.  For years, we have been warned that Dust Bowl conditions would return.  Now a nightmare scenario is upon us, and authorities are using the term “megadrought” to describe what is taking place…

The western U.S. continues to endure dry conditions, and now scientists are using the term “megadrought” to describe the problem — which has existed for decades — with no end in sight.

“A megadrought is typically a drought event that has a long duration,” Brian Fuchs, with the National Drought Mitigation Center, said to FOX Television Stations Tuesday.

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map that has been released has such bad news that it is hard to believe.  More than 265,000 square miles of territory is currently experiencing “exceptional drought conditions”…

The scope of the western drought is chilling. All of Nevada, Utah and New Mexico are in drought, according to the US Drought Monitor. Close behind are Arizona at 98.9% and Colorado at 98.6%.

More disturbing is the size of what’s called the “exceptional drought” area, according to the US Drought Monitor. Parts of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, California and Texas classified as exceptional drought, total 265,200 square miles. For comparison, that is nearly equivalent to the size of Texas.

It would be difficult to overstate the severity of this crisis.  In fact, the Wall Street Journal says that this drought is already “one of the most severe on record in the Southwest”.

Approximately 40 million people depend on the water that flows through this area.  With so little snowpack this year, authorities really don’t have any idea how they are going to make it through the summer.

In February, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Yuma did not have any measurable rainfall at all.

Las Vegas had just 0.01 inch of rain for the month.

As winter ends, we will move into a part of the year when many cities may not see any precipitation at all for months on end.  Just consider what happened last year…

Las Vegas had a streak of 240 days from April to December 2020 without measurable rain — a trace or less — smashing the previous record of 150 consecutive days in 1959.

Yuma, Arizona had a dry streak of 242 days last year, their third longest streak, while Phoenix was dry a consecutive 110 days. Bishop and Needles, California, also had record dry streaks of over 200 days without measurable rainfall.

Read that first sentence again.

Las Vegas broke their old record by a whopping 90 days last year.

We are in unprecedented territory, and the drought just keeps getting worse.

According to climatologist Brian Fuchs, the epicenter of this drought is in the Four Corners area…

“The Four Corners [Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah] is the epicenter of this drought,” said Brian Fuchs, climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska. “When droughts like this happened long ago, the people living there just had to move.”

As existing supplies of water become more strained than ever before, could we potentially get to a point where large numbers of people will be forced to migrate once again?

It could happen.

This endless drought is also creating ideal conditions for giant dust storms.  Just the other day, an enormous dust storm caused a horrifying multi-vehicle crash in Arizona…

The multi-vehicle crash happened late Wednesday afternoon on eastbound I-10 near the intersection of State Route 87.

The dust made things tough for crews from the Eloy Fire District, who were trying to help multiple people. As the firefighters and paramedics worked, they had to deal with zero-visibility dust storm conditions. Photos provided by the department showed thick dust blowing in the area, and crew members trying to shield their faces.

Sadly, such dust storms are becoming a regular occurrence in the western half of the nation.  In fact, a few months ago there was a dust storm that was so large that it could be seen from space…

Earlier this month, a storm front swept across the Great Plains of the United States, plowing up a wall of dust that could be seen from space, stretching from eastern Colorado into Nebraska and Kansas. It was a scene straight from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when farmers regularly saw soil stripped from their fields and whipped up into choking blizzards of dust.

Better get used to it. According to a new study, dust storms on the Great Plains have become more common and more intense in the past 20 years, because of more frequent droughts in the region and an expansion of croplands. “Our results suggest a tipping point is approaching, where the conditions of the 1930s could return,” says Gannet Haller, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Utah who led the study.

Needless to say, these conditions are making it extremely difficult for farmers to grow anything.

In fact, thousands of farmers in New Mexico have already taken at least some of their acres out of production for 2021…

Gary Esslinger, treasurer-manager of the district in Las Cruces, New Mexico, told WSJ that his area’s conditions are absolutely “horrific.” He said at least 33% of the 6,500 farmers in his region had taken offline 90,640 irrigable acres out of production from previous drought years.

New Mexico State Engineer John D’Antonio Jr. has requested farmers not to plant this year due to dangerously low levels at the state’s reservoirs.

Other farmers are going to try to operate normally, but they know that the outlook is extremely bleak.

New Mexico farmer Travis Harris understands what he is potentially facing, and he says that it is “very scary going into this season”…

Harris is all too familiar with this. He said he didn’t get his full water allotment in 2020. Last fall, he said, his water got shut off a month early. He keeps a close eye on the conditions high in the mountains, too, knowing how deeply they affect him.

“There’s no snowpack. There’s no water in storage up north,” Harris said. “It’s very scary going into this season.”

I have been writing about the drought in the Southwest for years, and this is the worst that I have ever seen it by a wide margin.  If conditions continue to deteriorate, that will have very serious implications for all of us.

Unfortunately, experts are expecting 2021 to be another exceedingly dry year.

That means that this crisis isn’t going to go away any time soon, and supplies of water in the region will just continue to get tighter and tighter.

***Michael’s new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***

About the Author: My name is Michael Snyder and my brand new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America” is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book, I have written four others that are available on Amazon.com including The Beginning Of The End, Get Prepared Now, and Living A Life That Really Matters. (#CommissionsEarned)  By purchasing the books you help to support the work that my wife and I are doing, and by giving it to others you help to multiply the impact that we are having on people all over the globe.  I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe.  I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article.  The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions.  I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook, Twitter and Parler, and any way that you can share these articles with others is a great help.  During these very challenging times, people will need hope more than ever before, and it is our goal to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as we possibly can.

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If U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel are intercepting more than 100,000 migrants a month as they try to illegally cross the southern border, how many more are able to make it through undetected?  In recent days, there has been a whole bunch of news stories about the nightmarish border crisis that we are currently facing.  Now that President Trump is out of the White House, vast numbers of migrants have been flooding toward our southern border over the past couple of months.  They are desperate for a better life, and the perception that Joe Biden is implementing “open border policies” gives them hope that they will be allowed in.

But when they try to cross the border, approximately 70 percent of those that are intercepted by CBP are turned away…

Customs and Border Protection officers have encountered over 100,000 migrants at the border in February alone, highlighting how overwhelming the situation has become.

The vast majority of migrants – around 70%, according to one source – are expelled via public health order Title 42 that allows authorities to quickly return migrants to their country of travel.

But of course countless more migrants are making it in through gaps in our porous border security.  When the Daily Mail sent a team down to the Rio Grande, they witnessed traffickers bringing migrants across the river over and over again…

As the night drew on, this brief, chaotic encounter was repeated again and again as scores of migrants crossed one of the narrowest sections of the Rio Grande with virtual impunity.

Over a two-hour period we watched in disbelief as the three-man trafficking crew made five drop-offs, cramming as many as ten people into a boat designed for four.

Of the 96 newcomers they dumped onto a slippery riverbank in Roma, an hour’s drive west of McAllen, 13 were unaccompanied children, including sisters aged five and 12.

This sort of thing is happening at various points along the southern border night after night, and yet nothing is done to stop it.

Of course CBP personnel can’t be everywhere, and without a doubt they have their hands full on a constant basis.

Thanks to the “catch and release” policy that has been instituted by the Biden administration, many of those that the CBP is able to detain are processed and then released into the country…

Under Biden’s revisions, single men and women will still be sent back but families with young children will be taken to a Border Patrol facility, processed and released with an I-862 form – a notice to appear before an immigration court at a later date.

Needless to say, only a very small percentage of those migrants ever show up at immigration court.

It is an absolutely disastrous policy, and Biden administration officials know this.

But they just keep doing it anyway.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the agency that is tasked with protecting our borders, and their job has become a complete and utter nightmare.

The following are 10 quotes that come directly from the official CBP Twitter account that demonstrate how bad the crisis on the border has now become…

“In February, CBP encountered 100,441 persons attempting entry along the SW border. This is a 28% increase over January.”

“Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended multiple people attempting to illegally enter the U.S. through the Rio Grande River. Several individuals drifted back to the Mexican side of the river on inner tubes.”

“Border Patrol agents conducting a train check found 16 people inside of a storage container after discovering that the seal from the storage container’s door had been broken. The group was from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.”

“#USBP agents assigned to the Laredo North Station apprehended 111 individuals during three separate human smuggling attempts involving commercial trailers north of Laredo, Texas.”

“Within a 12-hour period, the Laredo Sector Border Patrol Horse Patrol Unit apprehended 125 individuals in 3 different human smuggling attempts”

“Over the weekend, @CBPRGV Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station encountered two large groups crossing into the U.S., leading to the apprehension of 247 individuals from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Romania.”

“On Wednesday, CBP officers in Laredo seized 28 containers manifested as acrylic paint, holding a total of 1,234lbs of meth. The estimated street value of the seizure is over $24M.”

“CBP agents and officers have seized more than 75,100lbs of methamphetamine during the first five months of FY21, a 9% increase over the same time last year.”

“CBP agents and officers have seized more than 43,300lbs of cocaine during the first five months of FY21, a 64% increase over the same time last year.”

“CBP agents and officers have seized more than 4,900lbs of fentanyl during the first five months of FY21, already surpassing the total for all of FY20.”

In January, the number of migrants intercepted by CBP was about twice the level that was reported in January 2020.

And then as you just read about above, the number of migrants intercepted in February was 28 percent higher than January.

What is going to happen if the numbers just keep going up like this?

According to one CBP source, the number of migrants has gone “from a trickle to a torrent” since Biden entered the White House…

But as a well-placed Border Patrol source told us under condition of anonymity: ‘The cartels don’t know or care what the actual policies or politics are.

‘They just tell the migrants that Biden will let them stay and the migrants believe it because that’s the rhetoric he used on the campaign trail.

‘The numbers have exploded since he took office. It went from a trickle to a torrent.’

What is really ironic is that this is about the worst possible time to be moving into the United States, but of course the migrants that are trying to come in illegally don’t realize this.

Most of them truly believe that life will be so much better if they can just get to America, and many of them are willing to go to extreme lengths to get across the border.

Brave CBP officials will continue to do their jobs, but the Biden administration will continue to undermine them at every turn, and that means that the crisis at the border is not going away any time soon.

***Michael’s new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***

About the Author: My name is Michael Snyder and my brand new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America” is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book, I have written four others that are available on Amazon.com including The Beginning Of The End, Get Prepared Now, and Living A Life That Really Matters. (#CommissionsEarned)  By purchasing the books you help to support the work that my wife and I are doing, and by giving it to others you help to multiply the impact that we are having on people all over the globe.  I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe.  I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article.  The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions.  I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook, Twitter and Parler, and any way that you can share these articles with others is a great help.  During these very challenging times, people will need hope more than ever before, and it is our goal to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as we possibly can.

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Want to know how to treat a gunshot wound? This week, EMS and firearms expert Gary Anderson will be teaching you everything you need to know about how to treat a gunshot wound!

In this article:

• Gunshot Wounds
• Ground Rules
• Fluid Shock Wave
• The Final “Rule”
• Different Types of Gunshot Wounds
• Hard Tissue Injuries
• Soft Tissue Injuries
• Solid Bullets
• Fluid Shock Wave Affecting Soft Tissues
• Solid Organs
• Hollow Organs

RELATED: How To Build An Emergency Preparedness Kit For The Whole Family

How to Treat a Gunshot Wound | Everything You Need to Know

— This post is courtesy of the American Gun Association shared with permission —

Gunshot Wounds

Today we’ll be focusing on the different types of gunshot wounds. We will look at specific examples and discuss gunshot wound management depending on its severity, location on the body, etc. in the second part.

Let me start with some background on why I chose to write on this subject.

I was driving home and listening to one of my favorite radio talk shows.  A caller related a recent event from his life.  He accidentally caused a self-inflicted gunshot to the lower leg.

Fortunately, the caller is progressing towards recovery, but it will be a long and painful road. I wish him the very best. The talk show host brought up a very interesting point; how many shooters and gun owners have some trauma training?

How many shooters have a trauma kit available to deal with the massive injuries caused by gunshots? The seed was planted, and my head started to put together this article.

If you read my bio, you will see that I have quite a bit of EMS background. As a shooter, I have an opportunity to combine these subjects and present them here so if this horrifying situation happens in your lives, you will have a better chance of success than most.

If you find this article motivating you to gain some further training, please do not hesitate. You will never regret knowing what to do when the worst day of your life comes, and it will happen in a blink of an eye.

So to let you in on a bit of my EMS background, I hold a certification as a coordinator in the following trauma specialties:

• International Trauma Life Support
• Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support

If you are not familiar with these certifications, please look them up if you are so inclined. I do not want to spend a bunch of time talking about myself and get onto the subject at hand.

Ground Rules

So as I start this series, let me lay out the ground rules I want to stay within to keep on the subject and not get into product reviews.

Bullet Types

• Solid
• Expanding

Types of Wound Channels

We will cover the three types of wound channels created by the bullet interacting with tissues. These wound channels are:

• Primary Wound Channel – This is the actual “hole” the bullet carves out.
• Secondary Wound Channel – This is the affected and permanently damaged tissues that are a result of the bullet.
• Tertiary Wound Channel – This is the damage caused by the Fluid Shock Wave.

Everyone that has studied guns has seen the video footage of bullets traveling into and through a ballistic gel. Great visuals to show different types of bullets and cartridges shooting through different media.

So, I am going to assume everyone has seen this. If not, check out the example in the video below.

When the footage shows the impact, the primary tract or “hole” is evident, and missing the gel or in the case of a body, or any sort, missing tissues. After the action video, the secondary tract can easily be seen, and it looks cloudy.

Usually, this gel or tissues would still be present but massively damaged, usually beyond repair. During the action shot, the gel block will warp, wriggle, bulge and represents a massive transfer of energy that is the fluid shock wave.

The host of this action video will measure the primary tract, and show the penetration, and may even recover the bullet to show it is after profile.

The host will almost always discuss the secondary tract and measure the amount of tissue damage to expect from using this type of ammunition.

Fluid Shock Wave



What is usually not discussed is the fluid shock wave that was such massive energy transfer, it at times will escape the gel block and they will suffer a “blowout.”

Let us take a quick look at this shock wave. I will talk a bit later about the tissues this shock wave will affect most drastically.

But for right now to keep the reader’s interest, let me introduce this – that shock wave can impact solid organs hard enough to rupture them and at times even fracture and split the organ into pieces.

Now, that happens without the bullet ever touching the organ or tissues; it can happen in a separate cavity of the body, depending on the ammo type and caliber, etc.

Another “rule” I want to discuss is I will use moulage (or fake injuries) to make my points on gunshot wounds.  Here are the simple justifications for this:

• HIPPA is a law designed to protect patients’ information.
• Lack of volunteers to receive a gunshot wound to get very awesome pictures.
• Theft of pictures from other sources.

The images we will create will be disturbing to some but remember, no animals were injured making this article.

I have asked my good friends and colleagues to help me with this endeavor. Their company is called “Brothers Grimm, Masters of Disaster.”

They specialize in moulage training for every level of disaster and have adopted me into the Brothers Grimm. I could not be more honored.

We took the accompanying pictures while working with an ARMY unit. I promised to not include any identifying information on the soldiers, so please don’t ask.

Many of the stacks of pictures that we have, should not be used in a publication, for ID reasons, and some are pretty over the top. These guys are very good at what they do.

If you would like to discuss some moulage training with the Grimm Brothers, contact them at Brothers Grimm, Masters of Disaster LLC; 801-580-7250.

The Final “Rule”

Now onto the final “rule.” The audience this article is written for is you, the gun site reader. If we have trauma surgeons reading, and they want to argue minute details, this article is not written for you.

Ammo manufacturer representatives that want to point out this type of super bullet vs. this other one; I apologize that you are not happy with this article, but it is not written for you either.

This article is written for the average shooter to gain two things:

1. Direct first aid knowledge to keep themselves or another alive until help arrives.
2. Direct first aid or trauma kit knowledge to stock the kits that go to the range or the field with them and are available to use the acquired knowledge.

Ok, now onto the “nitty-gritty” parts of this discussion. We need to establish the types of tissues that will be affected by terminal ballistics.

One of the biggest influences I have had in EMS is my good friend and brother, Franco Cerchiari. He is a Critical Care Flight Medic, Dive Medic if it has a medic in the name, he probably has that certification.

He has a saying we use when teaching EMS students: “everything means something.” That is perfect advice for dealing with gunshot wounds. So I will cover everything, to help us learn what to do when we have something happen.

First off, we will discuss hard tissue, generally speaking, bone tissue. Second, we will discuss soft tissues or skin and muscle tissues, we will spend most of our discussion on the muscle tissues, as skin damage is pretty obvious to nearly all shooters.

Next, solid organs. All these will be in the thoracic (chest) and the abdominal cavities. Finally, the hollow organs. Again these are located in the thoracic and abdominal cavities.

Different Types of Gunshot Wounds

Hard Tissue Injuries

When a fast-moving bullet strikes a hard tissue, it will most likely drill a hole right through it. Now that is obvious.

However, a bullet that has encountered tissues and clothing will not be flying in a perfect pattern and will not just cut the hole, it will also split the bone.

Think of this as a large screw splitting a piece of wood that is not pre-drilled when building a shelving unit – or what you choose to build.

When the bullet encounters any resistance, the perfect trajectory is altered, and the bullet will begin to wobble and at times even tumble.

Introducing this alteration will send the energy along with the bone tissue, causing cracking and splitting to occur. To picture this energy transfer imagine a metal pipe hung from a string, and you hit it with a hammer.

When the hammer strikes the pole, it may make a dent, but the energy vibrates along the pipe from the impact area to each end of the pipe making it ring like a bell. When the bullet strikes the bone tissue, the energy will transfer similarly.

If that happens, and a wobble or tumble is generated. It will send much more energy down the bone and cause more of the hard tissues to break away and makes the one tissue less stable.

RELATED: Basic First Aid For Cuts And Scrapes

Soft Tissue Injuries

When a fast-moving bullet strikes the soft tissues, many things happen. The obvious injury is the bullet carving out tissues.

The second will be the explosive effects of that primary tissue rupture sending directed energy into the surrounding tissues and tearing and ripping the nearby tissues. Massive bleeding will occur.

If the wound does not appear to have massive bleeding at first, when that injury moves, the tissue will contract and stretch causing tissues to begin pouring blood out of the wound.

This is called hemorrhage (Heme = blood & rrhage = uncontrolled flow). So here is a good place to discuss the types of bullets that I alluded to earlier.

Solid Bullets

When solid bullets designed for penetration enter the soft tissues, they will do just that. If the trajectory becomes disrupted, they may tumble, expending all of their energy to the surrounding tissues – a massive wound channel.

If the solid bullet does not tumble, it may have a simple deformation causing a bit larger wound channel. But not much. The solid bullet will, more often than not, pass directly thru the target unless the target is massive.

It will exit, taking some and at the time, half of its energy with it. That is not the greatest way to use the energy available to bullet terminal ballistics if stopping the target is the main goal, for personal protection or hunting game animals.

The way to get the bullet’s terminal ballistics to leave its energy in the target is to have the bullet intentionally deform and deliver all its energy. This is the reason we have expanding ammo.

The ammo industry has taken this one or two steps higher and, instead of just opening to deliver the energy, they have now engineered bullets to open in a deliberate fashion.

These awesome bullets now make an even bigger primary tract, which directly translates to a bigger secondary tract, and as I will discuss in a short while, a massive fluid shock wave.

So let’s relate a bit of common knowledge to this application of soft tissue injury. Everyone has seen a boat speeding thru the water. The massive wake behind the boat, that is the effects of the fluid shock wave.

We will get there soon enough. The other thing we have all seen is the wave from the bow of the ship as it pushes its way thru the water. That is a point we need to look at for bullets and soft tissues.

Fluid Shock Wave Affecting Soft Tissues

When the bullet enters the target, it begins to carve out the surrounding tissues. We all understand this. The flatter the front of the bullet, the more tissue it can displace prior to the bullet carving out the “hole” of the primary channel.

The hollow point is designed to use to open the bullet and begin and continue its expansion. The tissue is not being “cut open” it is being “ripped open” like the wave at the bow of the boat.

The boat hull will be like the bullet carving the tissues, and like I have alluded to, the wave behind the boat is the fluid shock wave.

With tissues cut, ripped open, and then blasted apart after the bullet passes, the damage we need to prepare for is much more massive than the largest expansion of the rounds.

Now, let’s talk about this fluid shock wave. When this fluid shock wave travels thru soft tissue, it meets resistance, and in turn, to keep traveling, the energy has to overcome the tissue’s ability to absorb the energy.

“That is great, now what does that mean?” Let me make it simple, if the tissue cannot absorb the energy, it will be blasted apart.

The next tissues to absorb the energy, will either need to absorb the energy, be blasted apart, or ripped apart. If the energy slows as it passed thru the tissue, the energy will rip them.

The tissue will blast and won’t survive if the energy just flat out exceeds the tissue elasticity. Now onto the tissue side of the equation.

Muscle tissue is very tough, capable of doing an immense amount of work, and recovers better than most tissues in the body. Muscle tissue has a giant blood supply.

If these tissues are cut apart, ripped apart, or blasted apart, that injury will hemorrhage. To keep the body from going into shock followed by loss of life, it needs serious and immediate treatment.

Solid Organs

Solid organs will suffer the same effects as muscle tissue. For the purposes of this article, let me talk about the unexpected effects of gunshot wounds that do not carve a hole in the organ.

This fluid shock wave I keep talking about is capable of affecting tissues up to 19 inches from the primary channel, again depending on bullet-design and caliber, etc.

So it is possible for a bullet wound in the shoulder to send enough energy into the thoracic cavity to impact the heart. Causing a cardiac contusion or simply put a heart bruise.

When this happens, the heart may go into unhealthy rhythms called dysrhythmia and may lead to the heart coming to a complete stop or cardiac arrest.

On top of the cardiac issue that may come from this, the shock wave may even affect the diaphragm, the trachea, even the bronchi. Massive bad things will come from this.

So a gunshot wound in the shoulder can impact very important internal organs that may compromise the next breath the body tries to take.

Needless to say, a bullet impact in the abdominal cavity can affect the sold organs in the area. Think of the damage that the shock wave will cause if there is a spinal stroke.

Even if the bullet is unable to penetrate the spinal column of bone tissue, the resulting shock wave damage could be massive.

Hollow Organs

So here is a bit of good news, not much good news about bullet injuries, but some. The hollow organs have the ability to bend and flex.

The destructive energy transfers to the flexible organ tissues and dissipates when this shock wave strikes leaving only the primary and some secondary injury tract.

Now for the bad news, most hollow organs that can take the fluid shock wave are usually filled with horrible poisonous stuff. It leaks out and begins to dissolve us from the inside out.

The exception to this is, of course, the lungs. When the bullet’s path damages the lungs, we have a whole new set of problems with air pressure leaving the lungs. It will begin to fill up the thoracic cavity.

This pressure creates a condition called Tension Pneumothorax. Most folks call this the Sucking Chest Wound. Now, those in the medical fields, I know I have lumped everything into one pile.

The point is to be ready for bad situations, not prep all the readers for tests. We will cover how to treat this later when we discuss what to do about these issues.

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Knowing how to treat gunshot wounds is vital when SHTF. Gunshot injuries are extremely traumatic and must be approached the same way as stab or puncture wounds. You need to treat the entry and exit wound as well.

Gunshot victims need immediate attention and treatment because the material and debris can infect the wound.

Reminder: The victim still needs to be taken to a hospital’s emergency room as quickly as possible for proper treatment of gunshot wounds.

Do you know other ways how to treat gunshot wounds? Let us know in the comments section below! 

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We are running out of time, but most people are still dead asleep.  I have to admit that I am really struggling with how to say what I need to share in this article.  I have been up against some real challenges in recent days, but the vast majority of my readers didn’t know that anything was different because I have just continued to pump out content on the websites.  Of course we all face challenges in life, and there are many that are facing far greater challenges than I have been facing.  The phrase “remember Job” has been repeatedly coming to mind throughout this time, and there is so much that we can all learn from that story.  When great challenges come, there are often very important lessons that we can learn from them, and an entirely new chapter may await us on the other side of those challenges.

In this article I am going to share with you some of the things that I have been sharing with people privately.  Prior to sitting down, I spent some time walking around in the chilly mountain air outside.  I wanted to clear my head and organize my thoughts before I began writing.  Unlike in our major urban areas, the air is crisp and clean here, and I will never get tired of the view.  We live in a truly beautiful world, but unfortunately many of us take the beauty of nature for granted.

Many of you probably expected me to write an article about the latest mass shooter today.  That is the “big story” that everyone is talking about, but the truth is that it isn’t really that important.  There was a mass shooting last week, and there will inevitably be more mass shootings in the days ahead.  We live at a time when mass shootings have become commonplace, and that is because we live in a deeply broken society.

In 2020, the number of mass shootings was almost 50 percent higher than it was in 2019.

And since we are off to a brisk start this year, the final number for 2021 will almost certainly be even higher.

The Democrats are going to politicize this latest tragedy and use it as an opportunity to push their gun control agenda, and conservatives will freak out about that.

But these short-term political battles are not where our focus should be right now.

For a very long time, many of us have been warning about things that are coming.  But now we are transitioning into a period when the time for warning will be over because so many of the things that we have been warning about will actually be happening.

Of course you could say that we have already been in such a time since the beginning of 2020.  The COVID pandemic continues to sweep across the globe, the entire world is wrestling with severe economic problems, civil unrest continues to rage in our major cities and our planet is becoming increasing unstable.  I covered many of the things that we are currently facing in an article entitled “7 ‘Plagues’ That Are Hitting Our Planet Right Now” that just went viral on Zero Hedge.

But as bad as conditions are at the moment, I believe that they will soon get a lot worse.

In fact, I believe that we have entered a time when global events will accelerate dramatically.

Now that Joe Biden is in the White House, a lot of people are crying “peace and safety”, but they aren’t going to get “peace and safety”.

The next few months are a time to be watchful.  In particular, I have been privately telling people to watch Israel for anything “unusual” that happens.  If you learn of something extremely unusual that happens over there that you don’t think I know about yet, please write to me.  Way too often there are extremely important events that take place that the mainstream media never covers.  So if history changing events take place in the weeks or months ahead, that doesn’t mean that the mainstream media will cover them.

In addition to watching Israel like a hawk, let us also keep our eyes on the Biden administration.  Joe Biden is not all there mentally, and the warmongers that he has surrounded himself with are pushing us toward conflicts with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.  There are multiple places around the globe where war could break out, but let us hope that war can be put off for as long as possible.

Once war does finally break out, it will greatly intensify the economic problems that we are already facing.

I know that many of you are very eager for me to release my next book.  Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America has been ranking very well on the Amazon charts for many months, and it is literally waking people up all over the globe.  My next book will also examine coming events which will greatly shake the world as we know it today, but I can’t publish it yet.  I feel that things that are about to happen will be absolutely critical to the message of the book, and so I need to wait and watch during this season.

I believe that we will soon see historic events take place which will literally change everything.

Needless to say, many others also believe that 2021 will be a critical turning point as well.  But ultimately even “2021” is just an artificial man-made construct.

Do you want to know who decided that the year would start on January 1st?

It was the Romans.

And why should our days start at midnight?

That is an artificial man-made construct as well.

Just because something has been handed down to us from previous generations does not mean that we have to blindly accept it.

Many of you will read this article on Wednesday.  Did you know that the name “Wednesday” actually comes from an ancient pagan god?…

Wednesday is “Wōden’s day.” Wōden, or Odin, was the ruler of the Norse gods’ realm and associated with wisdom, magic, victory and death. The Romans connected Wōden to Mercury because they were both guides of souls after death. “Wednesday” comes from Old English “Wōdnesdæg.”

When you start to learn about the lies that we have inherited, it will open your eyes to a whole new world.

Of course most people never stop to question why things are the way that they are.  Sadly, most people just mindlessly absorb whatever the system tells them to believe, and as a result we have vast hordes of vacuous “sheeple” populating our society today.

The good news is that millions of them will soon be shaken out of their slumber by the apocalyptic events that are coming.

It will be a rude awakening, but that is certainly preferable to never waking up at all.

***Michael’s new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***

About the Author: My name is Michael Snyder and my brand new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America” is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book, I have written four others that are available on Amazon.com including The Beginning Of The End, Get Prepared Now, and Living A Life That Really Matters. (#CommissionsEarned)  By purchasing the books you help to support the work that my wife and I are doing, and by giving it to others you help to multiply the impact that we are having on people all over the globe.  I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe.  I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article.  The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions.  I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook, Twitter and Parler, and any way that you can share these articles with others is a great help.  During these very challenging times, people will need hope more than ever before, and it is our goal to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as we possibly can.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci is once again (or still) warning that a surge of coronavirus cases in Europe could foreshadow a similar surge in the United States.  Fauci wants everyone to stay submissive and enslaved while they rush to get the experimental gene therapy falsely labeled a vaccine into as many people as possible.

Without a rise in cases, many on the fence about the “vaccines” won’t end up getting them. Would you get a vaccine for a disease that doesn’t exist? It really is pretty obvious that this is all about a mass vaccination agenda? They need people to willingly take this gene therapy shot, and there’s a reason for that.

The ruling class and elitists must keep the fear high in order to control and manipulate the public. And that’s exactly why the mainstream media continues to roll out Dr. Fauci to tell everyone a new and the same reasons to remain scared little sheep and wait for the master to come and save you.

New Jersey “Pauses” Reopening Over Coronavirus Variant Fears

Fauci continues to caution against people making up their own minds and being free.  Apparently, we all should just be willing slaves and stop wanting our free will. Fauci is constantly telling people to continue to submit and bow to the ruling class so they can control you. He does not want people to use their own critical thinking skills and decide for themselves what is right for them.

“I’m concerned that if we pull back in our enthusiasm for the fact that vaccines are rolling out, and things look good if we pull back prematurely, we may trigger another surge. And that would really set us back in all the things that we’re trying to do,” he told lawmakers other members of the ruling class.

Unfortunately, this time, Fauci gave us a timeline. If we undergo another lockdown, it’ll be 3 or 4 weeks after Europe’s surge.

“Europe is generally about three to four weeks ahead of us in the dynamics of their outbreak. And what they saw a little while ago was a plateauing of their decrement. They were coming down nicely, and then they plateaued. And then, just as you might have predicted, they then, one, started to go up,” he said according to ABC News.

He is telling us to expect that the numbers will go up.  Since they can manipulate them and make the cases say what they want, we should just trust these people who want ultimate control over us. So what’s coming? All I have are speculations, to be honest, but stay alert because it could be anything.

More COIVD-19 Vax Deaths: Think They’ll Blame This On COVID-21?

 

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When I was growing up in the 1970s, society was definitely beginning to change, but there were still plenty of men that knew how to be men.  In those days, if men wanted to be masculine that was okay.  And if women wanted to be feminine, that was okay too.  But now everything has completely changed.  Any effort to promote traditional gender roles is frowned upon, and masculinity in particular is under attack.  In our society, “male” has become a label with highly negative connotations, and if you exhibit masculine traits you are considered to be part of the problem.  Sadly, these negative messages about masculinity are constantly reinforced by the countless hours that Americans spend watching television and movies each year.

Whether they consciously realize it or not, men are continuously being told that they must change in order to be acceptable to society.

Masculinity has not been abolished, but it is being twisted, reshaped and redefined.  The term “toxic masculinity” is code for how men used to behave in the old days, and those that embrace the old values are portrayed as villains.  For an example of what I am taking about, just watch the Gillette television commercial entitled “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be”.  They don’t even try to hide what they are attempting to do, because there is no need to do so.  Our society has rejected traditional masculinity to such an extent that it can now be assaulted freely and openly.

Yes, a small percentage of old timers might get upset, but those that dominate our culture understand that young people are our future.

Speaking of young people, our system of education overwhelmingly favors female traits.  Boys are designed to be warriors and adventurers, and so sitting still at their desks and discussing their feelings all day does not come naturally to them.

Only 11 percent of our elementary school teachers are male, and that certainly doesn’t help either.  Throughout their school years, boys are constantly encouraged to behave more like girls, and traditional male behavior is steadily drummed out of them.

This system is not working for young males, and the numbers tell us this very clearly.

Just check out these statistics.  For every 100 girls in the same category, there are…

• 145 boys who repeat kindergarten
• 168 boys with communication disorders
• 180 boys who abuse drugs and alcohol
• 207 boys classified as having a learning disability
• 318 boys who die by overdose
• 237 boys diagnosed with ADHD
• 240 boys suspended from school
• 291 boys expelled from school
• 355 boys in public schools classified with emotional disturbance
• Boys over 14 are 4x more likely to die by suicide

Those numbers are absolutely staggering.

But the corporate media will never talk about them, because it isn’t politically correct to talk about a “crisis of masculinity” in the United States.

Not too long ago, the Brookings Institution conducted a study that found that more U.S. parents are concerned about their sons than they are about their daughters…

Americans are more worried about boys in general. Forty-one percent agree or strongly agree with the statement “I am worried about boys in the United States becoming successful adults,” compared to 33% saying the same for girls. 

In particular, the study discovered that most parents believe that their daughters exhibit more resilience than their sons do…

Parents are asked about how well their son(s) and/or daughter(s) cope with setbacks, intended as a measure of resilience, “stick-with-it-ness,” or grit. Parents see their daughters as more resilient, with 66% agreeing that “setbacks don’t discourage her. She doesn’t give up easily,” compared to 58% saying the same for their sons. Conservatives report higher levels of resilience in their children than liberals overall, and see a somewhat smaller gap in resilience between their sons and daughters on this question. Only half of liberal parents (50%) agree that their son is resilient, compared to 63% saying the same for their daughters, consistent with the higher levels of worry about sons among liberal parents reported above.

Are we raising an entire generation of young males that are not equipped to handle the tough challenges that real life will inevitably throw at them?

I think that is a fair question.

One of the primary reasons why our boys are not doing well is because so many of them are being raised without their fathers.  One recent survey found that an all-time record low 68.9 percent of U.S. children are being raised in a home that does not include two parents.

That is nearly a third of all American children.

Of course when a parent is missing, it is almost always the father.

And studies have shown that boys that are raised in a home without a father are much more likely to commit serious crimes…

The absence of fathers leads to more crime and more poverty. Society should be honoring the importance of fathers and intact families, but instead they promote, normalize, and encourage the further destruction of the family. 93% of our inmates are male, and 90% grew up without a father.

The nuclear family has been one of the fundamental building blocks of every great society throughout human history because the nuclear family works.

But now our social engineers intend to turn everything upside down.

In America today, any values that are “traditional” are bad, and new “values” that are the complete opposite of what Americans once believed are now considered to be “good”.

We have completely lost our way as a society, and if we stay on this path it will end in disaster.

But there isn’t much hope of turning things around, because people like me and you are not running things anymore.

At this point the inmates are running the asylum, and with each passing day the fabric of our society is coming apart a little bit more.

***Michael’s new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***

About the Author: My name is Michael Snyder and my brand new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America” is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book, I have written four others that are available on Amazon.com including The Beginning Of The End, Get Prepared Now, and Living A Life That Really Matters. (#CommissionsEarned)  By purchasing the books you help to support the work that my wife and I are doing, and by giving it to others you help to multiply the impact that we are having on people all over the globe.  I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe.  I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article.  The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions.  I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook, Twitter and Parler, and any way that you can share these articles with others is a great help.  During these very challenging times, people will need hope more than ever before, and it is our goal to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as we possibly can.

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