Officials had been greatly puzzled by a “mystery disease” that has been making dairy cattle in Texas, Kansas and New Mexico very sluggish and has been causing them to produce much less milk.  So they decided to do some testing, and we now have the results.  It turns out that the mystery illness is actually “the same strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) that’s been in the U.S. for two years”…

A mystery illness that’s impacted dairy herds in the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and Kansas now has a diagnosis: Influenza A. USDA says genetic sequencing revealed it’s the same strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) that’s been in the U.S. for two years.

APHIS says the “National Veterinary Services Laboratories” detected Influenza “A” in samples from several impacted herds in Texas, Kansas and New Mexico. The virus is carried by wild waterfowl, which experts think is how the illness is spreading.

The experts did not think that bird flu would be a threat to dairy cattle.

Unfortunately, the experts were wrong.

Scientists were able to confirm the presence of the bird flu by testing samples of milk from sick cows…

According to USDA, as of March 25, unpasteurized, clinical samples of milk from sick cattle collected from two dairy farms in Kansas and one in Texas, as well as an oropharyngeal swab from another dairy in Texas, have tested positive for the virus.

Now that bird flu has been identified as the culprit, dairy farmers are being urged to strictly implement “all standard biosecurity measures”…

Officials are strongly advising dairy producers to use all standard biosecurity measures. They note it’s important for producers to clean and disinfect all livestock watering devices and isolate drinking water where it might be contaminated by waterfowl. Farmers are also being asked to notify their herd veterinarian if they suspect any cattle within their herd are displaying symptoms of this condition.

I was quite shocked to learn that this was happening right here in our own country.

The good news is that all milk from sick cows is being kept out of the food chain…

“Also, routine testing and well-established protocols for U.S. dairy will continue to ensure that only safe milk enters the food supply. In keeping with the federal Grade ‘A’ Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO), milk from sick cows must be collected separately and is not allowed to enter the food supply chain. This means affected dairy cows are segregated, as is normal practice with any animal health concern, and their milk does not enter the food supply. Consumers in the United States and around the world can remain confident in the safety and quality of U.S. dairy,” the statement said.

Will we eventually get to a point where entire herds of dairy cows have to be killed in order to prevent the spread of the disease?

Let’s hope not.

Earlier this month, we learned that a goat in Minnesota has also tested positive for bird flu…

A goat in Stevens County, Minnesota, has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), becoming the first U.S. detection of HPAI in a domestic ruminant. The goat contracted the virus after a poultry flock on the same premises was depopulated in February due to the virus. Following the confirmation of HPAI in the goat, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health quarantined all other species on the premises. The Board said is working with USDA to investigate the transmission of the virus in this case.

It appears to be just a matter of time before the bird flu starts becoming a significant threat to humans as well.

According to Dr. Chris Walzer, “dozens of mammalian species” have already been infected…

In January, Dr Chris Walzer, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Executive Director of Health, in a statement, said: “It (H5N1) has infected over 150 wild and domestic avian species around the globe as well as dozens of mammalian species. The bird flu outbreak is the worst globally and also in US history, with hundreds-of-millions of birds dead since it first turned up in domestic waterfowl in China in 1996.”

We better hope that the bird flu does not mutate into a form that can spread very easily among humans.

Because according to the NIH, bird flu can have a death rate of more than 50 percent in humans…

As of November 2022, 240 cases of human avian influenza A (H5N1) virus have been confirmed from the Western Pacific Region since 2003 with a case fatality rate of 56%.

A global bird flu crisis would be far worse than anything that we have experienced during the past several years.

Just try to imagine the panic that would ensue if H5N1 were to start killing millions of people around the world.

Hopefully that will not happen any time soon.

Earlier today, I did come across an article about a 21-year-old student in Vietnam that was just killed by H5N1…

A student in Vietnam has died of H5N1 bird flu, according to the country’s Department of Preventive Medicine.

The 21-year-old man developed symptoms of fever and a cough on March 11. A week later, he presented at Ninh Hoa Medical Center in Vietnam’s eastern Khanh Hoa province, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia and transferred to Khanh Hoa General Hospital.

The student tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza on March 20, and further tests conducted two days later at the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute showed the patient was infected with the H5N1 subtype.

Let us pray that this was just an isolated incident.

Meanwhile, other pestilences continue to spread all over the planet.

For example, dengue fever has become a major problem in Brazil, and now government officials in Puerto Rico have declared a dengue fever epidemic…

On Monday, government leaders in Puerto Rico declared a dengue epidemic after a spike in cases of the mosquito-borne disease hit the island.

From the start of the year through March 10, there were 549 cases, including 341 hospitalizations and 29 severe cases, according to the most recent data provide by the Puerto Rico Department of Health. Cases are concentrated in cities including San Juan, Bayamon, Guaynabo and Carolina.

I have been repeatedly warning my readers that global pestilences would be one of the major themes of the next several years.

Bird flu has already killed hundreds of millions of birds, and now it is spreading in mammals.

A widespread bird flu outbreak among humans would have the potential to be absolutely catastrophic, and so we will want to watch this story very, very closely.

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Today I’ve got something really important to share…

A Complete Guide On Finding (& Using) A Survival Hatchet

Because I think hatchets are a very underrated survival tool.

But only if you choose the RIGHT one.

And nowadays, there’s an overwhelming number of brands and types on the market.

• So you must learn what features and qualities are best.
• And which ones you should avoid at all cost…

That’s what we’ll cover today in this guide…

TOPICS IN THIS GUIDE…    ↓(click to jump)

• Survival Axe Vs. Hatchet
• Basic Parts Of A Hatchet
• Amazing Hatchet Techniques
• The Many Survival Uses
• Pros And Cons Of A Hatchet
• New Hatchet Designs
• Should YOU Carry One?
• The Exact Hatchet I Carry

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Survival Axe Vs. Hatchet

A hatchet is a type of axe.

It’s the smallest version of an axe with a hammer on the backside.

For example:

There are several categories of axes, such as Felling Axe, Forest Axe, Small Forest Axe, and Hatchet.

The hatchet is the axe in the smallest group.

A hatchet head weighs in the 1 to 3 lbs. range; it has a 3 to 5-inch blade and a 10 to 16-inch overall length.

These measurements are rough estimates since there are no exact standards for an axe to be considered a hatchet.

But hatchets are the lightest, shortest, and smallest axes available.

↓ New Gerber Bushcraft Axe and Hatchet

Basic Parts of A Hatchet

There are two essential parts of an axe or hatchet.

The blade and the handle.

It’s all there is to an axe or hatchet.

However, there are many facets of these 2 basic parts, such as:

1. Heel of Bit
2. Bit/Blade
3. Toe Of Bit
4. Axe-Side/Cheek
5. Poll/Butt
6. Belly
7. Shoulder
8. Back
9. Throat
10. Grip
11. End Knob

The Head

If you want a good hatchet, the head will be the most important part, so make sure its quality is high.

The head of your hatchet must cut…and cut well.

This is determined by sharpness (duh!) and the bit thickness.

If the area immediately behind the blade edge widens quickly, it will have a tough time getting good penetration, no matter how sharp the blade is.

Plus, it will tend to glance off a tree when swinging at a sharp angle instead of biting into the wood.

You also want to keep the head of your hatchet nice and smooth.

Any unnecessary abrasions or dings on the head (or cutting edge) will reduce penetration efficiency.

The Handle

The two primary aspects of a hatchet handle are the overall length and material.

The longer the handle, the better your ability to generate swing speed and force.

However, longer handles tend to weigh more and don’t fit in packs or bug out bags as easily.

Handle materials typically come in one of three options: metal, wood, or fiberglass.

Metal handles are strong and durable but are the heaviest of the three material options.

Wood handles are a decent choice since they are also rugged but can get slick if they get oil or lubricant.

You don’t want your hatchet slipping out of your grip mid-swing (that would be bad).

My favorite is the fiberglass handle.

Especially a hollowed-out fiberglass handle with a nice rubber grip.

Why? Because fiberglass is reasonably strong but light.

If it’s hollowed out, you’ll reduce weight significantly, and as long as it has a nice rubber grip, it won’t accidentally slip out of your hands.

Of course, I’m biased toward carrying my hatchet in my bug out bag.

So this type of handle might not be optimal for someone who isn’t planning on carrying it on a hike, backpacking, or bugging out.

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Balance

It’s always good to ensure your hatchet has a good balance.

It is preferable to have the balance point of an axe or hatchet be located on the handle right up against the head.

This balance location offers the best control for both swinging and carving tasks.

↓ Top 10 Best Hatchet For Survival and Bushcraft

The 3 Survival Hatchet Techniques

There are three basic hatchet uses:

1. Chopping
2. Splitting
3. Carving

1. Chopping

A hatchet is an excellent tool for chopping smaller trees.

The larger a tree’s trunk size, the longer you chop.

Larger axes make large tree chopping easier, so remember this fact when choosing which trunk to attack with a hatchet.

Correct chopping technique is a vast topic, and I won’t cover it in the article.

However, I will say that you should plan your top and bottom attack angles to equal the trunk’s diameter.

So if the trunk is 4 inches thick, your total top and bottom cut gap should also be about 4 inches.

Check out this video for even more hatchet-chopping techniques and advice.

↓ Choosing A Proper Hatchet

2. Splitting

Splitting wood is necessary to make kindling.

It’s a relatively straightforward skill, but there are a couple of things to note when doing this with a hatchet instead of a full-sized axe.

First, I recommend you split wood from your knees and not stand up.

Hatchets are much shorter than standard-length axes, so if you try splitting a chunk of wood standing up and miss…the hatchet is going into your leg.

Also, don’t split wood on the ground.

This will prevent your hatchet from hitting the ground. Hitting the ground with your hatchet will ding the blade and damage your cutting edge…making it less effective.

↓ You’ve Been Splitting with a Hatchet Wrong!

3. Carving

To carve properly, slide your hand up to the head of your hatchet.

Now, slide the head of your hatchet down a piece of wood.

With this grip, you can control your bite angle pretty well, and you’ll also have a lot of leverage to power through sections as needed.

I find it easier to do rough wood carving with a hatchet than with a survival knife.

However, I prefer a sharp survival knife over a hatchet for detailed carving.

↓ Wooden Gransfors Bruks Axes

Maintaining Your Hatchet

Just a quick note on the maintenance of your hatchet…it’s very straightforward.

Maintain the blade sharpness like a knife by touching the edge with a sharpening stone.

Keep it dry, so it doesn’t rust, and that’s about it.

Also, you should learn how to sharpen your hatchet properly.

Another fantastic in-depth video from Wranglerstar.

↓ How To Sharpen An Axe

Here’s a solid Beginners Guide To Hatchets by Ross Gilmore that goes into more detail about choosing and using a hatchet.

Here’s a more in-depth guide to axe use.

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Uses Of A Hatchet In Survival

Making a Fire

The hatchet is much more efficient than a survival knife for chopping and splitting wood for making kindling.

Plus, you can use the hatchet blade to strike a piece of flint to throw some sparks onto fine tinder.

Sounds easy, right?

Not so fast…it won’t be easy the first time, but if you follow this video by IA Woodsman, you’ll soon be a pro.

↓ Hatchet and firesteel fire

He makes it look easy…

Making Feather Sticks

Feather sticks help to create the fine kindling you need to help start a fire using sparks.

This is a must-learn skill for anyone in a wet weather climate such as the Pacific Northwest.

Why? Because creating a feather stick allows you to get to the dry portion of a limb.

Have you ever tried to light wet wood? Not smart.

Instead, create a feather stick with fine, dry feathers that will catch on fire with much less effort.

↓ Feather Sticks With Axe

Building A Shelter

You don’t have to have a hatchet to build a survival shelter, but it makes it much easier and gives you more options.

With just a survival knife (and no hatchet), you will have to limit the size of your shelter’s support branches or waste a ton of time and energy using a knife to cut your limbs to size.

Bottom line:

A survival hatchet will slash your shelter build time significantly.

Self Defense

Hatchet or Tomahawk throwing is an art, but it can be deadly if learned—just another survival self-defense tool to add to your arsenal.

You can never have too many self-defense skills.

↓ Throwing a Hatchet – Survival Skills

Make A Splint

You don’t necessarily need a hatchet to split a couple of pieces of wood for a makeshift splint, but it can do it…and quickly at that.

Chop Foods

Grip way down on just the head of the hatchet blade to make a nice chopping knife.

If your hatchet blade is sharp, it will slice through even soft foods such as tomatoes.

It will do fantastic on hardy foods such as chopping potatoes, onions, carrots, etc.

Make A Spear

You can quickly take a solid limb and make it into a sharp spear.

Just point the end of the limb you intend to add a point to and chop at an angle, swinging away from you.

Within minutes, you’ll have a very sharp, very effective spear or jabbing stick.

Hammering Stakes

You can use the backside of your hatchet as a hammer, perfect for hammering in shelter stakes.

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New Innovative Hatchet Designs

I recently stumbled across this innovative hatchet on the market.

While it might not be for everyone.

However, I felt it was worth sharing as another option and innovative design to appreciate in the hatchet market.

↓ Farson Hatchet: Unique Bushcraft Tool

Main Benefit Of Carrying A Hatchet

Well, this one is easy…we just covered all the uses of a hatchet above, so obviously, those are all pros.

Adding to the pros, carrying a hatchet gives you more versatility and options than a survival knife and weighs much less than an axe.

However, we touched on the one big con to carrying a hatchet: weight.

Whenever we’re talking about hiking, backpacking, or bugging out, we must consider weight.

3 lbs. might not seem like a lot, but when you add up all the other gear you are considering carrying…it all adds up.

Should You Be Carrying One?

The controversial Survival Hatchet…to carry or not.

We only have so much room in our bug out bags.

So we must justify every piece of survival gear we own, especially when talking up to 3+ extra lbs.

However, after weighing all the pros and cons, I believe the answer is yes if you’re backpacking, hiking, or bugging out.

That’s why I added one to my bug out bag checklist.

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Hatchet vs. Knife

There are just some things you won’t be able to do efficiently enough with a survival knife alone.

Sure, you can do most things with a good survival knife, but as Rocky Mountain Bushcraft states in their thorough hatchet vs. knife article:

One thing is certain though, when it comes to pure chopping power, hatchets are clearly the undisputed “king.”

If you have a well-designed hatchet with a sharp blade (and have the room in your pack), I suggest you add one.

I shouldn’t replace a survival knife, but I prefer to carry both if possible.

The Hatchet I Carry

I carry the Gerber 14 Inch Hatchet.

Why? Mainly because it only weighs 22.57 oz. (1.4 lbs.).

If you’ve read many of my blog posts, you probably know how much I focus on weight and keeping it reasonable.

So, of course, I’m always looking for high-quality, rugged, proven gear that holds up over time but is also lightweight.

That’s exactly what my survival hatchet is: high quality, rugged and lightweight.

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This article was originally published by Rhoda Wilson at The Daily Exposé.

The Global Public-Private Partnership (“GPPP” or “G3P”) is a global network of stakeholder capitalists and partners, including global corporations, philanthropic foundations, think tanks, governments, non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”), academic institutions, global charities, labor unions and selected “thought leaders.”

G3P fosters public-private partnership cooperation between an international intergovernmental organization, such as the United Nations, and private companies. 

G3P controls global finance and the world’s economy.  It sets world, national, and local policies via global governance and then promotes these policies using corporate media, which are also “partners” within the G3P.

Often these policies are devised by the think tanks before being adopted by governments, which are also G3P partners. Government is the process of transforming G3P global governance into hard policy, legislation, and law.

G3P is multistakeholder governance which is a key target of UN Sustainable Development Goal 17.

In the following, Escape Key describes how G3P works in practice using a simplified model and the example of a fictional project for the restoration of mangroves in Suriname.

“It’s the biggest scam ever devised and will empty the public coffers and drain the middle class of the West while stealing prime lands in third-world nations,” Escape Key wrote.  “Let’s run through how it works.”

By Escape Key (“Esc”)

The entire scheme can be approximated using the below flowchart. Sure, detail is missing in some regards, like the creation of the (politically expedient) “best available scientific consensus” which typically comes courtesy of Universities and NGOs, both of which generally receive generous ‘research grants’ courtesy of ‘philanthropes’ representing the ‘private investor’ which you can however find in the below. I highlight specifically this one, as it’s probably the most important link left out.

But the point here is to put the dynamic in simple terms, and consequently, some nodes will have to go.

Step 1 – Project Creation

It doesn’t really matter what said project is, but let’s say it’s claimed restoration of mangroves in Suriname, on a geographical range (‘landscape’) where some unfortunate native South American tribe has lived for many generations.

Step 2 – Assembling the Project Team

The Project Team is responsible for locating the “participating stakeholders,” as well as settling on the scope of the project itself, and its management structure. Said stakeholders could comprise a selection of NGOs, governments, representatives of the public, private… or even “indigenous peoples,” should the budget allow (no, really).

Step 3 – Locate the initial set of ‘stakeholders’

It doesn’t matter too much at this stage if any are “bad fits” (i.e., disagree with the project direction), but the first set of “stakeholders” is assembled, after several rounds of interviews and submitted forms, allowing said project team to discard those least likely to “fit in.”

Step 4 – Clarify who the decision makers are

In short, the project team here can decide that all the “participating stakeholders” are merely there in an advisory capacity. But should any at this stage cause a problem, hey, now’s a great time to “iterate” said, which, in short, means replace them with others who are more compliant. Because “agreement” is very, very important when it comes to these projects.

Step 5 – Objective clarification

At this stage, the project details are discussed and clarified – i.e., which geographic range is of interest, the duration of the project, and exactly what to “restore.”

At this stage, if further “participating stakeholders” disagree, these can then be “iterated,” ensuring everyone is “in agreement.” And finally, should the best available scientific consensus disagree, the project team can wholesale override all “participating stakeholder” input and just adopt that as policy.

And naturally, the management should be “adaptive,” meaning regardless of the scale of the disaster, or random changes halfway through the project – hey, they were simply following the “best available science,” and consequently, no further action needs to be taken, and certainly no legal action.

Step 6 – Project Details

With all “participating stakeholders” in “agreement” – as all those in disagreement were “iterated” out – three primary decisions are reached. Which geographic range must be “restored” (i.e., the “landscape”), the duration of the project, and which type of “ecosystem service” is of interest. In our case, the “landscape” – or “seascape” – is a patch of land/sea with mangroves in Suriname, the “ecosystem service” of interest is carbon credits and lease duration – let’s put that at 10 years.

Step 7 – The Blended Finance Deal

These three input parameters are then handed to the Global Environment Facility, which will structure a “blended finance deal” and go to find investors.

Step 8 – The Blended Finance Investors

With said deal structured, we need investors. We shall ignore claims of all others but two including “philanthropic capital,” because, in the grand scheme of things, those are utterly irrelevant.

Blended finance is titled as such because it draws in different types of investors, representing “different expectations.” In short, the private minority investor, and the much larger public investor – generally, the Multilateral Development Banks funded through public taxation.

And while the public shoulders the vast, vast majority of risk, the private receives a far more generous return. These “deals” are incredibly one-sided affairs.

Step 9 – The Lease

At this stage, we have a carbon credit lease for mangroves in Suriname, with a 10-year duration. What this essentially means is that all the carbon dioxide sucked out of the air by those mangroves in Suriname – or could equally be e.g. forests in Indonesia or Siberia; in short, ‘carbon sinks’ per the 1992 UNFCCC framework treaty – have been turned into carbon emission permits, because the flip side of the carbon coin is called a source and these require netting.

Net Zero, so to speak.

Step 10 – The Natural Asset Company

To extract maximum value from these carbon emission permits, the lease is placed into a holding company of type Natural Asset Company (“NAC”) and floated on the stock exchange. As these permits soon will be in short supply – as supply is gradually curtailed per the Paris Agreement as we close in on 2030 – their price will almost certainly rapidly increase vastly.

And, sure, while NACs were delivered a temporary setback, they will be pushed again and again until they pass. It’s just a matter of locating the right distraction. Or stock exchange, even.

Step 11 – Offsetting

The 1992 UNFCCC Framework Treaty not only made mention of “carbon sinks,” but also emitting “carbon sources,” like farming or energy (electricity generation, car emissions, …). The concept of “offsetting” relates to whatever a “carbon source” is alleged to emit, this requires netting out with a “carbon sink.”

And that means a farmer – or oil producer – now will be required to buy large quantities of “carbon emission permits” from those Natural Asset Companies – yes, those, now vastly increased in price.

Step 12 – Inflation

With farmers, energy producers, and transportation experiencing vast increases in input prices, they have no option but to push this onto the consumer, through cost-push inflation. And this leads to higher prices in supermarkets and more expensive fuel and heating.

Step 13 – The (largely) Western Taxpayer

And the people represented by governments, fully signed up for this scheme, will now feel the full brunt of said inflation. The West will be hit, full-force.

Step 14 – Taxes

Incidentally, it’s not the only direction from which the West will be hit. Recall those MDBs in step 8 above? Yes, their funding will also come, courtesy of said Western taxpayer. Taxes will increase, and subsidies will be reallocated, leading to even further price increases as the plan very much is to strip “harmful” subsidies from farming and energy.

Step 15 – The Biodiversity Restoration

Now, the GEF project outlined in step 7, using the “landscape” outlined in step 6 (mangroves in Suriname), requires “restoration,” and this is where the Convention on Biological Diversity rears its ugly head. And said “biodiversity restoration” will also be paid for using MDB funds, i.e., Western taxes.

Step 16 – The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

The “restored” “landscape” itself will typically be located on either a “Biosphere Reserve,” or a “Heritage Site,” both of which are UNESCO projects. But from where do said sites originate? Who submits these, and why?

Step 17 – The Debt-for-Nature Swap

Well, those reserves typically come courtesy of highly indebted third world nations, or should said not be, the aim is to have territorial rights handed over to “indigenous peoples,” who then will be pressured or bribed into accepting a such swap.

The objective of the swap is to eventually cause a debt spiral, eventually leading to circumstances of the exploitation rights of said lands being fully handed over to said UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. And those swaps, of course, are also financed courtesy of those MDBs, and ultimately, the Western taxpayer.

Step 18 – The Reward

While some rewards will be handed back to the MDBs through those blended finance deals, the simple fact is that the associated risk easily outweighs the gain.

Consequently, the gain is actually privatised and some of said can then be used to finance further GEF blended finance deals. But most will make it back to…

Step 19 – The Private Investor

Said gain will actually filter back to the private investor, who may or may not be selected as a stakeholder for the project in the first place. Hey, he might even be on the project team, or even fabricate the latest and greatest politically expedient “best available scientific consensus.”

Step 20 – The Net Result

Consequently, the net result of this “new economy” is that third-world nations will see their lands – or perhaps more correctly, the rights of exploitation thereof – stolen, all of it will be financed by the Western taxpayer, transferred to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, from where it will be “restored” through the Western taxpayer, and monetised for “ecosystem services” in GEF blended finance deals using more Western taxpayer cash, though practically entirely financially benefitting the Private Investors.

It is the biggest scam ever devised, and it needs to come to a prompt halt.

Further reading:

• What Is the Global Public-Private Partnership, Iain Davis, 6 October 2021
• Seizing Everything: The Theft of the Global Commons – Part 1, Iain Davis, 12 October 2021
• Seizing Everything: The Theft of the Global Commons – Part 2, Iain Davis, 7 November 2021
• A Destructive Plan to Transform the Global Financial System Under the Guise Of “Climate Change”, The Exposé, 20 January 2022
• UN’s goal to reduce carbon emissions is a scam to enable the rich to become richer off the backs of the poor, The Exposé, 14 January 2023
• Global Public-Private Partnership on Unlimited Hangout

Let’s face it…

“Super storms”… natural disasters… pandemic threats… rolling blackouts…

More than ever, we face a number of ugly threats outside of our control that have the potential to turn our world upside down at a moment’s notice.

That’s why those of us who are “awake” to these facts are preparing for the worst.

Unfortunately, I’ve found that most people have trouble finding the money they need to do their prepping.

This causes many to hold off and wait simply simply because of the cost, so, instead of prepping, they just hope for the best.

Trust me… the last thing you want is to look your family in the eye during a life-threatening disaster and “wish” you’d done more to prepare when you had the chance, so here are…

3 Ways To Prep Your Survival Gear On A “Super Budget”

The first thing you must do is to actually budget in your “prep money”.

Most everyone – no matter how strapped – can free up a few bucks by looking at where you’re currently spending your income.

For example… skipping just one Friday night eating out could give you a good $30-$50 that could buy you a bunch of survival supplies that will be there to serve you LONG after that Friday night.

Go through your current expenses and see what you can free up temporarily while you take action on getting better prepared.

Now, here are some ideas of what to do to get the most out of your prepping budget …

1. Slightly-Used Survival Gear

Garage sales are a secret love of mine (I admit it!) and I’ve found LOTS of barely-used camping gear and tools for just a few measly bucks that are perfect for prepping.

I also scour my newspaper’s classified section for anyone selling guns, camp gear, or other items, as these people are really easy to bargain with because they’re trying hard to unload their stuff.

(BTW… both options will help you fine-tune your bartering skills!)

2. Buy “Generic” In Bulk

You don’t need name-brand supplies in order to be prepared.

In a disaster, generic macaroni & cheese is going to taste the same as the expensive name brand stuff and the cheaper tools at your local Walmart will do just fine when it’s time to board up the house or make short-term repairs.

Same goes for “bartering supplies” like cigarettes, coffee, and alcohol – the desperate won’t care if it’s the cheap stuff when they’re jones’n for a fix.

Want to know more? Check out these related articles on our site:

• How to Manage Your Prepping Budget
• How to Prepare on a Budget
• Build a 6-Month Food Stockpile on a Tight Budget

Since the time of Moses, only nine red heifers have been sacrificed.  Now, a “massive altar” for the tenth red heifer sacrifice has been built in Israel, and there is a tremendous amount of speculation that it could happen soon.  In September 2022, five red heifers were flown from the state of Texas to the land of Israel.  Since that time, one of them has been disqualified, but the other four continue to be candidates for a red heifer sacrifice.  As I discussed last week, there was “a practice run of the purification ceremony” in 2023.  But an official ceremony must be conducted before the heifers get too old to be used for such a sacrifice.

So will a red heifer be sacrificed in Israel in 2024?

According to CBS News, a “massive altar” has already been constructed.  In the video that I have embedded below, you can see footage of this altar starting at the two minute mark…

I was absolutely floored when I first saw that.

A red heifer sacrifice would need to happen on the Mount of Olives, and the land where the sacrifice would take place is owned by Rabbi Yitshak Mamo…

According to those working on the project, the ceremony of the red heifer needs to be performed on the Mount of Olives, and in a place that would have looked directly into where the Temple stood. The land directly east of the Temple Mount, purchased 12 years ago, meets both of those standards.

Rabbi Yitshak Mamo owns that land on the Mount of Olives. Mamo is with Uvne Yerusalim, a group that preserves Israel’s history and works to educate future generations.

Concerning the specifics of the land, he told CBN News, “It had to be exactly at the front of the place that the priest that made this ceremony can see the Holy of the Holy Place.”

But the clock is ticking.

If the heifers get too old, they will no longer qualify.

During a recent public appearance, Mamo explained that “we are very close to the third year of these cows”…

“If there is any [mathematicians] here, so you can understand that we are very close to the third year of these cows,” reveals Mamo. “Which means that with the help of God, we will get permission from God and from the people to make the ceremony. And then we can be pure.”

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz that we could actually see a red heifer sacrifice very soon.

Last month, All Israel News reported that the Temple Institute wants to conduct a sacrifice “before Passover 2024”…

As of now, four of the heifers remain blemish-free and, according to Temple Institute rabbis, they hope to carry out the ceremony before Passover 2024.

This year, the Jewish people will celebrate Passover on April 22nd.

That is about a month away.

During a recent broadcast, Glenn Beck also discussed the possibility that a red heifer sacrifice could happen in the very near future.  The following is an excerpt from a transcript of that broadcast…

If you’re going to rebuild the temple, you need to purify it.

And purifying it, according to the book of numbers, chapter 19, is a heifer. A red heifer ceremony. That results in the creation of ash and water mixture.

And that cleanses the entire nation of Israel. From ritual impurity.

And then the ceremony requires some of the blood to be sprinkled at the front of the tabernacle. That later became the temple.

It usually took place at the Mount of Olives, where they are planning on doing this again in the coming days.

It is essential for all aspects of the temple, and temple worship to take place.

In addition, anyone participating in temple worship, would be required to be sprinkled with the ash water.

Beyond that, even without the presence of a physical temple, the ceremony, would be — would allow the general population to be ritually cleansed and remove much of the religious prohibition for a Jewish presence, on the Temple Mount.

When are they planning on doing it?

Well, they imported these red heifers before October 7th.

We now know that Hamas said, that this was going to — this was part of the reason, because they’re going to use the red heifers to purify the temple, which is desecration to them.

Purifying them, so they can then, actually, go up, and even if there’s no temple. They can pray as if they were in the temple.

They’re going to do this, passover weekend. So Easter weekend.

There has been a lot of speculation on social media that a red heifer sacrifice could potentially take place on March 29th because the “Sabbath of the red heifer” begins at sundown that evening…

Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 5784 begins at sundown on Friday, 29 March 2024 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 30 March 2024. This corresponds to Parashat Tzav.

Shabbat Parah (“Sabbath [of the] red heifer” שבת פרה) takes place on the Shabbat before Shabbat HaChodesh, in preparation for Passover. Numbers 19:1-22 describes the parah adumah (“red heifer”) in the Jewish temple as part of the manner in which the kohanim and the Jewish people purified themselves so that they would be ready (“pure”) to sacrifice the korban Pesach.

I have not been able to find any confirmation that a sacrifice will happen on March 29th.

So I don’t know if we will see anything happen on that date or not.

But I do believe that the Temple Institute fully intends to conduct a red heifer sacrifice at some point in 2024.

And when that happens, Israel’s enemies are going to go haywire.

As CBS News has reported, Hamas has actually admitted that the red heifers were one of the reasons why they attacked Israel on October 7th…

When Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida began a speech marking the 100th day of the war in Gaza, one confounding yet eye-opening proclamation escaped the headlines. Listing the motives for the Palestinian militant group’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, he accused Jews of “bringing red cows” to the Holy Land.

The cows he was talking about are red heifers, which now graze at a secure, undisclosed location in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Some Jews and Christians believe they’re key to rebuilding the Jewish temple that once stood in Jerusalem, and to beckoning the Messiah.

Once Israel’s enemies realize that a red heifer has been sacrificed, they are going to go absolutely nuts.

So this is a really big deal.

Let’s keep watching and praying, because it appears that events in the Middle East are about to get very, very interesting.

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About the Author: Michael Snyder’s extremely controversial new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned)  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  You can connect with Michael on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and sharing his articles on your own social media accounts is definitely a great help.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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Today, I’m extremely excited to share my latest discovery…

You see, until recently, I’d never heard even heard of Zote Soap.

But once I did, I bought a bunch of this underrated stuff right way!

Why? Because it’s THE ideal soap for all sorts of every day uses:

TOPICS IN THIS ARTICLE…    ↓(click to jump)

• What Is Zote Soap Anyway?
• Popular & Odd Uses For Zote
• Is Zote Good For Your Skin?
• Zote Good For Your Face?
• Using Zote For Laundry
• Making Laundry Detergent
• Best Zote Bars For Sale

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What Is Zote Soap Anyway?

It’s a solid bar of laundry soap originally produced in Mexico.

It was popular with families who had limited access to machine washing.

Because when hand washing clothes with a washboard, bars are better than liquid, right?

It combinations the following ingredients:

• Animal fat (beef tallow)
• Coconut oil
• And citronella

This earthy combination of fat and oil provides superior cleaning power.

The citronella oil gives it a vibrant scent and helps removes odors from your clothes.

And it includes an optical brightener which helps keep clothes bright and white.

Today, most Zote Bars are white.

But originally, they were pink in color.

But regardless of the color, you’re getting a natural cleaner in bar form.

And its bar shape means it’s easy to stow in large quantities.

7 Popular Uses For  Zote

This soap has many popular uses, many beyond “cleaning.”

So let’s check out some of these “interesting” applications:

1. Laundry

Its primary function is a washing bar, perfect for laundry products.

This natural fabric softener makes it ideal for clothes washing.

But it’s especially effective on stubborn stains as well.

The high-fat content cuts through and breaks up grease and grime.

So it’s excellent for pretreating stains before washing.

Again, if you are off-grid, it is perfect for handwashing.

The bar is non-abrasive, so handwashing all your clothes works well.

And will leave behind a fresh citrus scent for days.

But it’s a soft bar, so grating it into flakes is easy.

Then you can use these flakes as makeshift laundry soap in a washing machine.

2. Body Wash

Leave your liquid soaps, shampoos, and conditioners behind when heading out on your next camping or hunting trip.

Instead, with just one bar, you have everything you need for personal hygiene.

It’s a whole-body wash for everything, including your hair and torso, and is gentle enough for babies.

3. Rashes & Bites

You can also use Zote for skin irritants.

Poison ivy is always a concern when in the bush, so add a bar to your IFAK Medical Kit.

This soap will take the sting and swelling down fast.

So if you get attacked by mosquitos, it will reduce the itchiness and swelling.

It also is an effective deterrent for bugs due to its strong citronella scent.

Showering with it can help keep bugs away.

Or you can leave a few parts out around your camp.

4. Animal Repellant

If you have a problem with bugs and rodents, your answer is a few Zote Bars.

Besides mosquitos, this bar will do wonders for all kinds of critters.

Rats and mice hate the smell.

And it will keep deer out of your garden with a few flakes around.

Note: Be careful, as the citrus smell has been known to attract bears.

5. Fish Bait

Yeah, you heard me right.

You can use small chunks of Zote as catfish bait.

And it’s a simple recipe of:

• 14oz Zote
• 1/4 cup bacon fat
• 1/4 cup water
• 3 pinched garlic cloves

Melt it down, pour it into small molds, and you got a proven fish bait for your next fishing trip.

↓ Trotlining With Zote As Bait!!

6. Plumbing Repairs

This use seems odd, but some folks clean you can temporarily fix a leaking pipe.

Mix some Zote with sugar to make a paste that will clog a leak.

It’s not a permanent solution, but it might get you through the night.

7. Freshener

Bad odors are everywhere…

But you can freshen up an entire house with a few well-placed bars.

• Put one in your closet, and your clothes will smell nice.
• Cut up a bar and put pieces in each drawer to freshen up your socks and underwear.
• Make a sachet with a zote-based potpourri mix as a room freshener.
• Do your boots reek? Put a half bar in each one, and they’ll be odor-free.

Other uses include:

• Degreaser & Lubricant – It’s like a bar of WD40!
• Washing dishes
• Scrubbing toilets/tubs
• Stuck zippers
• Cleaning tools and survival gear

And the list can go on and on.

↓ The Many Uses Of Zote Soap

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What Does Zote Do To Your Skin?

This natural soap is known to be gentle on the skin.

And it’s also great for washing hair…

So the whole family can use it for all personal hygiene needs.

It’s a natural soap, but you may want to check that you are not allergic to any ingredients.

This soap is used for various skin irritations and soothes swelling fast.

Plus, it speeds up the irritant healing process.

So it’s an excellent option for all skins, including sensitive ones.

Is Zote Good For Your Face?

Finding a safe for your feet is easy, but your face is different.

Why? Because most soap manufacturers add unnatural chemicals.

You know, those “ingredients” that you can’t even pronounce the name of.

So we should only wash our faces with the most “natural,” safe soaps, right?

And we should all wash our faces daily, so using a simple and natural soap makes sense.

It will provide a refreshing wash and help eliminate excess sebum that causes acne.

And any leftover pieces can be flaked and thrown into the wash, so there is zero waste.

You can even make a liquid hand soap by soaking it in water.

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How To Use Zote For Laundry

This stuff was initially made as a solution to dirty laundry.

And while it has many other uses, cleaning clothes is where it shines.

There are many different ways you can use it for laundry duties.

Let’s go over them now:

Hand Washing

Not everyone can access a washing machine, but Zote soap was designed for handwashing.

To soak your clothes, fill your sink or washtub with warm water.

Then start scrubbing them with a bar.

You can also use a washboard.

And some folks prefer hand washing delicates with a washboard.

After you wash, rinse the clothes until there is no more soap.

And then ring them out and hang them out to dry.

Pre Treatment For Stains

It’s a perfect product for stain removal before washing your clothes.

Oil, grass, dirt, and other messes will easily lift when you pretreat them before washing.

Make Your Own Wet & Dry Laundry Detergent

You can throw away the store-bought detergents and make your own with natural properties.

Here’s how to make your own Zote laundry detergent:

Liquid Soap

Boil 3 cups of water, remove the heat, and stir in some grated Zote until it dissolves.

Pour it into a large container with 3 gallons of water, 1 cup of baking soda, and 1 cup of Borax.

Stir it up again so everything dissolves, and you have an excellent liquid laundry soap.

You can make this in different-sized batches as needed:

↓ Make The Best Zote Laundry Detergent!

Powdered Soap

This combination is even easier.

Grate a Zote bar and mix it with Borax and soda ash in a 2-1-1 ratio.

Ensure it is well combined, and then store it in an airtight container.

Use 1 tablespoon for regular loads and 2 for filthy stuff.

↓ Zote Laundry Powder Recipe With Tips & Review!

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Where Can I Buy Zote Flakes And Bars?

This stuff can be hard to find in local Big Box stores.

Some specialty stores and survival shops may carry it, but it’s easier to buy it online.

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Final Thoughts

We all need clean clothes and bodies, right?

But instead of paying for new “unnatural” gimmicks, start using something good and simple.

Zote is that product, and it can do many other things too.

Make sure you stockpile this stuff and put some in every go-bag, bunker, and off-grid location.

Keep some at the cabin and some stash in your home too.

There are too many reasons not to use and stockpile some Zote Soap today.

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This article was originally published by Belle Carter at Natural News under the title: Brownstone Institute’s Bret Weinstein Attests That Federal Health Agencies, COVID-19 Cartel Members Are Systematically Deceiving The Public

Evolutionary biologist and Brownstone Institute fellow Dr. Bret Weinstein shared a sworn statement during a Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) roundtable meeting titled “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding?” at the U.S. Senate, hosted by Senator Ron Johnson on Monday, Feb. 26.

“I believe we must zoom out if we are to understand the pattern we are gathered to explore because the pattern is larger than the Federal Health Agencies and COVID Cartel. If we do zoom out and ask ‘What they are hiding?’ the answer becomes as obvious as it is disturbing: They are hiding everything,” he said as he opened his testimony. According to him, it was jarring for him as a scientist to speak with such certainty because they are trained to present ideas with caution, as hypotheses in need of a test. However, he said he is pretty sure and he has tested the idea that “We are being systematically blinded” by the “health authorities.”

He supported his accusation with an explanation. “The pattern is a simple one. You can test it yourself: Every single institution dedicated to public truth-seeking is under simultaneous attack. They are all in a state of collapse. Every group of experts fails utterly. Individual experts who resist, or worse, who attempt to return their institutions to sanity are coerced into submission,” he explained. He argued that they are marginalized or forced out if they don’t buckle.

“We are left in a fool’s paradise,” he continued. “Our research universities spend huge sums of public money to reach preordained conclusions. Professors teach only lessons that are consistent with wisdom students have picked up on TikTok – even when those lessons contradict the foundational principles of their discipline. Once proud newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post only report important stories after they have become common knowledge. Morticians must now raise the alarm over patterns missed by medical examiners.”

He also added that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has become an excellent guide to protecting your health, but only for people who realize you should do the opposite of whatever it advises. Finally, he emphasized how the Department of Homeland Security attempted to set up a truth ministry and declare an accurate critique of government as a kind of terrorism.

“But I can tell you that we are being systematically denied the tools of the Enlightenment and the rights guaranteed in our Constitution. We, those who remain dedicated to the values of the West, must fight this battle courageously. We must win, for if we do not stem the tide, the result will be a dark age that differs from prior dark ages only in the power and sophistication of the coercive instruments that will be wielded by those who will rule us,” he concluded his speech.

Johnson: Corruption now being exposed due to failed pandemic response

During the forum, Johnson and others talked about reports of problems with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a database maintained by two agencies, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Johnson received an email from a recently married man who learned his 36-year-old wife couldn’t have children after she got her second COVID-19 shot. He read the correspondence aloud during the said forum. “She chose a career, got the baby/family bug and now she can’t have children,” the husband said. “She cries, all the time. Apologizes to me like it’s her fault. Someone needs to make them pay. And we need safeguards so this doesn’t happen again.”

In a statement back in February to the Daily Signal, an FDA spokesperson argued that the VAERS system contains raw data and isn’t by itself conclusive. “The VAERS website is transparent about the system’s limitations,” the FDA spokesperson said. “When any member of the public opens the website, the user must then acknowledge reading and understanding specific information that includes, among other important details, ‘VAERS data available to the public include only the initial report data to VAERS. Updated data which contains data from medical records and corrections reported during follow up are used by the government for analysis. However, for numerous reasons including data consistency, these amended data are not available to the public.’” (Related: BMJ investigation finds that VAERS is broken, CDC not following maintenance standards.)

Johnson argued that elite institutions damaged their credibility during the pandemic. “I believe the growing corruption of science, scientific research, medical journals, federal health agencies, and, as a result, the practice of medicine, has been exposed in the failed response to the pandemic,” Johnson said. “To repair the damage that has been done, we must honestly and relentlessly pursue the truth.”

Watch the part of the Feb. 26 Senate proceedings below, where Weinstein shared his testimony.

 

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The kind of rampant civil unrest that has thrown Haiti into turmoil will happen in the United States and other wealthy western nations too.  At this point, it is just a matter of time.  Here in the United States, we have been adding millions upon millions of extremely desperate people on top of the millions upon millions of extremely desperate people that we already had.  Politicians in major cities such as New York and Chicago openly admit that they can’t possibly take any more migrants because the social services available for them have been completely overwhelmed, but more migrants just keep coming anyway.  We are creating an extremely explosive environment, and the pressure that is coming in 2024 and beyond could push things over the edge.

If you want an idea of what is coming, just look at what is happening in Haiti right now.  Following years of disastrous policies, the entire nation has descended into a state of chaos…

The Republic of Haiti has been sliding toward failed state status for much of the 21st Century, but over the past few weeks, the collapse escalated at a blistering pace. Following the assassination of president Jovenel Moïse in 2021, the prime minister and acting president Ariel Henry has failed to control the gang violence wreaking havoc on the capital, Port-au-Prince. With gangs now controlling as much as 80 percent of the city, Henry traveled to Guyana in February to sign a treaty allowing a contingent of 1,000 Kenyan police officers to patrol Port-au-Prince. But after the gangs shut down the airport and released thousands from prison, Henry was forced to announce his resignation from exile — and delay the police force deployment that could help bring order to the capital.

It would be hard to overstate how nightmarish conditions have become in Haiti.

One British news source is comparing the current state of affairs to “the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max”…

Haiti has been compared to the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max as gang chaos continues.

Gang leaders are still fighting despite absentee Prime Minister Ariel Henry agreeing to resign last week.

With Haitians awaiting the formation of a Transitional Governing Council that is set to take power before elections are held, gangs looted aid supplies over the weekend.

UNICEF said containers with “essential items for maternal, neonatal, and child survival, including resuscitators and related equipment” were snared by gangs in the capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday.

Apparently the Biden administration decided that it would be a good idea to open the floodgates for those that wish to leave Haiti and come here.

According to the Washington Examiner, so far the Department of Homeland Security has helped to relocate more than 130,000 migrants from Haiti in dozens of U.S. cities…

The Department of Homeland Security has guided over 130,000 illegal immigrants from gang-ravaged Haiti into dozens of unidentified American cities, but it won’t say where.

Many of the 133,000 arrived in just one city that the Biden administration won’t identify, according to a federal report reviewed by the Center for Immigration Studies.

The Washington-based CIS, which backs ending illegal immigration, said that many immigrants flew themselves to the unidentified cities, while others arrived through land ports only to be released to wherever they wanted to go.

Of course a lot more are heading our way.

According to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a boat carrying a group of Haitian migrants that had guns, drugs and night vision gear was recently intercepted off the coast of his state…

“Our Florida Fish and Wildlife offices interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potential illegal immigrants from Haiti in their boat. In their vessel, they had firearms, they had drugs, they had night vision gear, and were boating very recklessly, which would potentially endanger other folks,” DeSantis said at a press conference where he signed three pieces of legislation to deter illegal immigration.

“That vessel was interdicted near the Sebastian Inlet and those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation,” the governor said.

Needless to say, it isn’t just extremely desperate people from Haiti that are attempting to come to the United States in very large numbers.

Right now, our borders are under siege from “asylum seekers” that are coming to us from all over the globe.

Migrants have been taught that if they just say the right things about “seeking asylum” they will be let into the country.

And this isn’t just happening at the southern border.

Over the past couple of years, the number of migrants crossing over from Canada has been increasing at an exponential rate…

In fiscal year 2023, border officials encountered 189,401 illegal and inadmissible immigrants along the U.S.–Canada border, including at the ports of entry. Of those, 10,021 were caught crossing illegally between ports of entry.

In fiscal 2021, that number was 916.

Far more have been coming over the southern border.

Overall, we are witnessing a tsunami of migration that is far greater than anything that we have ever witnessed before.  The following comes from U.S. Senator John Cornyn…

Under President Biden’s leadership, we’ve seen an unprecedented crisis at our southern border, and an administration that proves time and time again that they simply don’t care.

Since President Biden took office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has logged more than 5.4 million illegal border crossings, plus at least 1.5 million “gotaways” – that is, border crossers who were detected by CBP technology, but who were never apprehended.

Once “asylum seekers” are released into this country, they could literally go anywhere.

One migrant from Lebanon that was encountered at the border actually admitted that he was a member of Hezbollah and that he was planning to go to New York City and make a bomb…

A Lebanese migrant who was caught sneaking over the border admitted he’s a member of Hezbollah, he hoped to make a bomb, and his destination was New York, The Post can reveal.

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by the US Border Patrol on March 9 near El Paso, Texas. While in custody, he was asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied, “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document exclusively obtained by The Post.

We were quite fortunate to have caught that guy before he did any damage.

But how many others have successfully entered this country through our wide open borders?

Our politicians go on and on about “threats to national security”, but it is all empty talk unless they are willing to secure our borders.

Because without secure borders, our nation will never be secure.

Unfortunately, more desperate people continue to pour over our borders with each passing day, and it won’t be too long before we reach a tipping point.

Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s extremely controversial new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned)  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  You can connect with Michael on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and sharing his articles on your own social media accounts is definitely a great help.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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Over the past several years, the cost of living has been rising significantly faster than paychecks have.  As a result, U.S. consumers have reached a breaking point.  Delinquency rates are spiking and bankruptcies have risen to a very dangerous level.  I have been hearing from so many people that are struggling to survive in this suffocating economic environment.  It has become increasingly difficult just to pay for the basics, and so many Americans have very little or no discretionary income to spend these days.  If you want evidence that this is having a major economic impact, just consider the fact that 1,000 dollar stores are going to be shut down.  If U.S. consumers were in good shape, that wouldn’t be happening.

The economic shift that we have witnessed since the turn of the decade has been nothing short of epic.

According to Zillow, the average monthly mortgage payment for Americans buying a home now is nearly double what it was in January 2020…

The real estate firm Zillow reports that since January 2020, the monthly mortgage payment on a typical U.S. home has nearly doubled. It’s up 96% in just four years.

According to Zillow, a typical buyer will now pay nearly $2,200 a month, with a 10% down payment. Meaning, homeownership now costs well above the 30% of median income that was once thought to equate to “affordable” housing cost in America.

And with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hovering around seven percent right now, there’s not a whole lot of light at the end of this tunnel.

If home buyers have to shell out twice as much for their mortgage payments compared to four years ago, they are going to have a lot less money to spend on other things.

And this is the primary reason why so many of our young people simply cannot afford to purchase a home right now.

At this point, you need to earn approximately $106,000 a year in order to “afford the median home in the United States”…

“After the surge in home-buying demand and mobility during the pandemic, and the doubling of mortgage rates, home-shoppers now need to earn $106,000 to afford the median home in the United States,” said Divounguy.

Back in 2020, the salary needed to afford the median monthly mortgage payment was just $59,000.

Of course it isn’t just housing that has become extremely unaffordable.

For the first time I can ever remember, the cost of burgers has become a major national issue…

I can’t imagine paying more than 20 dollars for a burger, fries and drink at a fast food restaurant.

But this is life in America in 2024.

Our leaders have created an inflationary nightmare.

The Biden administration continues to insist that inflation is a low, but that is a lie.

Another lie that we have been told is that the unemployment rate is low.

How can that be possible when we just witnessed the worst February for layoffs since Challenger, Gray & Christmas started keeping records?…

The pace of job cuts by U.S. employers accelerated in February, a sign the labor market is starting to deteriorate in the face of ongoing inflation and high interest rates.

That is according to a new report published Thursday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which found that companies planned 84,638 job cuts in February, a 3% increase from the previous month and a 9% jump from the same time last year.

It marked the highest layoff total for the month of February in data going back to 2009.

The Biden administration keeps telling us that there are plenty of good jobs available.

So why are so many highly qualified workers having such difficulty finding work?  Here is one example…

Since leaving a university research administration job last May, Kyle Clark has cast an ever-widening net in his search for a new position.

First the 30-year-old sought jobs in technical editing, a skill he honed at the university. Then he leveraged his administrative experience, applying for openings in insurance and project management. Finally, he tossed his hat in the ring for a job posting at a local big-box retailer, only to be told the store wasn’t hiring.

After fruitlessly job hunting in the Portland, Oregon, area, Clark moved in with his parents in Tennessee with no better results. Now he’s heading to Chicago to try his luck in the Windy City.

Why can’t Kyle Clark find a job?

He has submitted applications for approximately 250 jobs, and he hasn’t received a single offer…

The tally so far: about 250 applications, 14 positive responses, 12 interviews. No job offers.

“I am losing my mind,” Clark says, noting he has a four-year college degree and seven years of work experience. “I am just burned out. … I just want to be employed. I have skills, I want to work, and that’s what’s frustrating. I want to. Just let me.”

I have heard from so many others that are in the exact same boat.

So something is not adding up.

The rosy picture of the economy that the Biden administration is giving us simply does not match reality at all.

And now we have reached a breaking point.

Last year, the total number of bankruptcy filings in the United States was 18 percent higher than the year before…

U.S. bankruptcy filings surged by 18% in 2023 on the back of higher interest rates, tougher lending standards and the continued runoff of pandemic-era backstops, data published Wednesday showed, although insolvency case volumes remain well below the level seen before the outbreak of COVID-19.

Total bankruptcy filings – encompassing commercial and personal insolvencies – rose to 445,186 last year from 378,390 in 2022, according to data from bankruptcy data provider Epiq AACER.

Based on what we are seeing so far this year, I fully expect the final number for 2024 to absolutely crush the final number for 2023.

Meanwhile, it is being reported that corporate bond defaults were up by a whopping 80 percent last year…

Consumers aren’t the only ones defaulting on their debts: Corporate bond defaults were up massively in 2023, especially for high-risk junk debt, and the trend is continuing this year at a pace not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. Unsurprisingly, companies selling low-rated junk debt are being hit the worst.

Last year, according to S&P Global Ratings, corporate bond defaults increased by a disconcerting 80%. High interest rates coupled with high inflation have made it a struggle for companies to make good on their commitments even as waves of new bond buyers continue to arrive, eager to lock in higher yields before rates go down.

Many have pointed out that corporate bond defaults spiked like this just prior to the financial crisis of 2008 too.

We have entered such dangerous territory, and it appears that things will get even worse throughout the rest of this year.

Our leaders were able to delay the inevitable for a while by flooding the system with trillions upon trillions of dollars.

But now an economic nightmare has arrived anyway, and the days ahead are going to be exceedingly challenging for most U.S. consumers.

Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s extremely controversial new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned)  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  You can connect with Michael on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and sharing his articles on your own social media accounts is definitely a great help.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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Knowing who we are, and why we do things are fundamental to our existence. Without these, we tend to walk aimlessly through life and waste time and effort on unnecessary pursuits.

That is why I believe an initial analysis of where we are at, what we want, and where we want to go are very useful in our pursuits towards preparation. Personally, I believe a lifestyle centered around a good quality homestead with quality people around us is best.  The problem arises as to HOW to get there from here.  This is why the APN (American Preppers Network) was founded.  WE can make things happen together. No free-loaders, just good helpful support and direction from fellow seekers.

Here are some basic, yet crucial, concepts to address within your life to help you make more successes than failures!  We can do only so much in the world around us, so if each of us is aware of what we are personally looking for, we will be more apt to survive, and for the right reasons.

*** There are NO answers in this column, just suggestions! You must find your own answers, we are only able to help each other, and, in so doing, can we possibly realize and implement our own specific answers. ***
This is a different look at 10 important reasons FOR and AGAINST self preparation.  Firstly, it is possible that some of these reasons could go either way, for or against.  Why is this so? Well, just about every topic in society has opposing views, and for some reason, there are people out there who disagree with things that others find critically essential.  It will help each of us to ponder why any of these topics could be viewed differently from our own perspective.  If any reason you see below stumps you as to why someone could believe otherwise, ask around or contact me, and I can share with you some discussions with the ‘people’ I have encountered over my years, it probably will amaze you!

Reasons for Preparation:

__For__________________Against
_______Personal Survival_________
________Family Survival_________
___________Friends_____________
____________Cost______________
___________Freedom____________
____Purpose (why we are here) ____
_______Being Put on a List________
_____Alienation from Others_______
_______Maintain Society__________
______Too Difficult to Do_________

Questions to ask oneself:

Why Survive? What am I here for? Do I have a purpose? Is there a spiritual / religious reason for me?

Who do I want to survive with?  Family?  Friends?  Church members?  Why them?

Initial assessment:

I suggest you search through these other topics columnists here have written to see where you stand with them, and where you would like to go from here.

There are no ‘Right or Wrong’ answers here, just your own honest observation of your current situation. Remember, this is for your own use, so be honest.  This is when you ‘woke up’ to your situation, and it is up to YOU to decide where you go from here.  This can be kept and re-evaluated a couple of months in the future, to see your progress.  (Circle your current status in this area and make notes for you.)

Areas of your life:

Personal Health (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Family members’ health (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Financial status (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Focus: (Keeping your head on straight) (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Firestarting: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Food Preparation: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Food Storage: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Water finding: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Water Purification: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Water Storage: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Communications: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Map Reading: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Compass Use: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Mountaineering: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Personal Equipment: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Survival Equipment: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Medicine – Emergency: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Medicine – Hygiene: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Medicine – Survival: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Retreat / Survival location plans: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Transportation Emergency needs: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Homesteading: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Current Events: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Salvaging / Junking: (Status: Poor – Okay – Good – Great) Notes:
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Please let me know what you are looking for, I will find it for you.  We are here to help each other, and my take on it is to enjoy ourselves while doing it!

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