The Health Ranger�s top ten predictions and
global forecast for 2018 (and beyond) � must read
by: Mike Adams
Many global events are converging toward a clash in 2018, but it�s also going to be
a very positive year in many ways, too.
To help you assess what�s likely to happen in 2018 and beyond, review these top predictions.
Remember, of course, that no list of predictions is 100% correct, but reviewing them should
trigger you to consider these possibilities and plan accordingly.
#1) Domestic (short-term) economic boom in the USA, but long-term bubble implosions could
be triggered at any time The passage of the tax reform bill by the
GOP will cause a massive influx of business capital into the United States as corporations
are no longer strongly incentivized to offshore their domestic profits.
This will spell huge gains in GDP growth (possibly even reaching 4.5% annualized GDP growth by
the end of 2018), renewed job creation, plummeting unemployment rates, and so on.
Expect to also see a drop in the number of Americans on food stamps and unemployment
assistance.
The federal treasury is also likely to see an increase in tax revenues, not a decrease,
as more corporations decide to pay the 21% and keep their profits at home.
Despise this, the U.S. stock market remains wildly overvalued, as does the bond market,
real estate market and cryptocurrency marketplace in general.
Each of these markets is just one trigger event away from a cascading correction that
could ripple through the system.
My analysis, therefore, is that we are looking at an extremely polarized spread of likely
outcomes for 2018 in terms of the markets.
Either the markets are going to be very good, or very bad (due to a trigger event), with
very little possibility of outcomes in between those two extremes.
Make up your own mind about your personal finances, but my assessment continues to reach
the conclusion that safekeeping your assets in land, gold and physical forms is the safest
bet for the near future.
(The world�s wealthy usually invest in gold, land and museum-quality art.)
#2) Military action involving North Korea My analysis of converging events points to
a very high likelihood of military action involving North Korea taking place in 2018,
perhaps as early as the Spring of 2018.
Several things are pointing us in this direction:
The continued testing of nuclear warheads and ICBMs by North Korea, posing a legitimate
threat to the world.
The need for the military industrial complex to shore up public support for its existence
and high funding levels.
A popularity push by the Trump administration in advance of the 2018 mid-term elections
(wars almost always make national leaders more popular).
There are, however, serious risks associated with any attack on North Korea.
These risk include:
The likelihood of mass casualties in Seoul, South Korea, due to retaliatory attacks by
North Korea.
Nearly all casualties would be innocent civilians.
The likelihood of North Korea also attack major shipping ports for South Korea and Japan,
causing severe, long-term global economic chaos and disruptions (would would be a �black
swan� event that would reverse the market boom prediction No. 1, above).
The wildcard possibility that North Korea successfully deploys a high-altitude EMP weapon
against North America, plunging the nation into an all-out �Mad Max� collapse scenario,
with an estimated 90% casualty rate of the U.S. population within the first year after
such an event.
The possibility that either North Korea or China could retaliate against the United States
with an aggressive cyber warfare attack on U.S. infrastructure (see below for more details).
The best scenario in all this?
The U.S. successfully carries out a �surgical� assault against North Korea to eliminate its
leadership while disabling as many missile weapon systems as possible.
Any casualty count under 100,000 innocent civilians should be considered a �success�
in such a scenario, as Kim Jong-Un has promised to unleash artillery, short range and long
range missile systems if attacked.
#3) FDA, DEA wage war on cannabis derivatives such as CBD oil (but their efforts fail)
With the blessing of Jeff Sessions, an anti-cannabis throwback to the days of �Refer Madness,�
the FDA and DEA are likely to announce renewed efforts to criminalize CBD oil and other cannabis
derivatives.
These efforts, I predict, will ultimately fail due to the massive outcry by citizens
as well as well-funded legal challenges by the cannabis industry.
The domestic cannabis industry has likely already surpassed $1 billion in annual revenues,
and there�s plenty of money to fund legal challenges to restrictive regulatory assaults.
In addition, the rising opioid crisis has created a humanitarian narrative for the availability
of CBD oil, which is increasingly being used by soldiers and veterans as an alternative
treatment for chronic pain.
The government cannot stop CBD at this point without a near-uprising across both consumers
and private industry.
CBD, it seems, will survive any efforts to subject it to prohibition.
THC, on the other hand, will likely remain illegal at the federal level for many years
to come, unless Trump himself intervenes and declares his support for nationwide decriminalization
(which would be a brilliant strategy for his 2020 re-election).
#4) 2018 mid-term election results disappointing for Democrats
Barring some major game-changing event that results in President Trump resigning from
office (not a likely outcome), the 2018 mid-term elections will prove disappointing to the
Democrats because they won�t be able to gain control over both houses of Congress
(as they currently hope).
However, I do predict the following:
Democrats are likely to gain some seats in both the House and the Senate (mostly in the
House).
There is a small but real possibility that Democrats could regain control of the Senate.
I do not predict Democrats regaining control of both houses.
This is all subject to change if bombshell if revelations come out in the months ahead,
of course.
Other political predictions for 2018:
The Republican investigations into the DNC / Clinton / Comey / Mueller deep state gain
major traction.
2018 may be the year that deep state operatives actually get indicted for colluding to steal
the election for Hillary.
The UraniumOne investigation also makes major headway.
But Hillary will likely never be charged, even if the truth comes out in full.
President Trump gets one more SCOTUS nomination before the 2020 election, but this may not
take place in 2018.
#5) Cyber attack!
2018 is the year we�re likely to start seeing large-scale cyber attacks carried out by nation
states.
There is already suspicion that the Atlanta Airport power outage was a �test run�
for a cyber attack on the U.S. infrastructure, and it is will known that both North Korea
and China possess highly capable cyber warfare operations.
For this reason, the most likely scenario that would initiate acts of cyber warfare
is a U.S. attack on North Korea (see above).
This attack could be met with a significant cyber warfare retaliation attempt by both
North Korea and China, possibly with the technical assistance of Russia behind the scenes.
Keep in mind that the most likely targets of cyber attack are infrastructure centers
in developed nations.
In particular, water treatment facilities, nuclear power plants, oil refineries, airports
and transportation systems are all prime targets.
For this reason, all informed citizens should double down on their prepping in 2018 in order
to be able to ride out a sustained outage of a critical infrastructure system (such
as the power grid).
#6) Middle East tensions go into hyperdrive, with Biblical prophecy ever closer to playing
out in Syria The Trump administration�s recognition of
Jerusalem as Israel�s capitol � something Obama, Bush and Clinton all promised to do,
but never did � has predictably heightened tensions in the Middle East.
This is the part of the world where events can go ballistic with startling speed and
ferocity, so watch this area closely in 2018 � 2020.
Some dynamics to consider:
The Pentagon has ISIS on the run in Syria, now that President Trump has reversed many
of the Obama-era policies that favored terrorist groups such as ISIS.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama was a �sleeper cell� for Muslim extremists, and he handed
Iran the funding and capabilities to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran intends to use those nuclear weapons to destroy Israel and its allies.
Obama is complicit in these activities, and it has already been learned that Obama ordered
U.S. investigators to back off a Hezbollah terror group linked to Iran, allowing them
to run cocaine trafficking operations on U.S. soil.
Biblical prophecy from Revelation seems to be coalescing into astonishing accuracy, with
many analysts of Biblical scripture believing a nuclear detonation takes place in Damascus,
Syria, as Israel fends off a coordinated attack involving both Iran and Russia.
The U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel�s capitol, for example, checks off a box on
the many events leading up to �Armageddon,� according to some analysts.
#7) More terrorism on U.S. soil (and more FBI cover-ups)
2018 will see new acts of terrorism on U.S. soil.
Points to consider:
The political Left in America will continue to deny the Muslim radicalization behind terrorism
on U.S. soil, pretending that ISIS radicalization has nothing to do with the attacks.
This denial will also, of course, be shared by the left-wing media.
The FBI has lost nearly all credibility now, due to both the complicity of James Comey
and Peter Strzok in the Clinton/deep state election operation, but also because the FBI
was exposed as a wildly corrupt and even criminal operation in its handling of the Bundy Ranch
prosecution and trial.
(The trial has now been declared a mistrial, and some FBI operatives are probably facing
their own criminal indictments in the near future.)
Smaller acts of false flag left-wing terrorism will be carried out on U.S. soil to be blamed
on �right-wing extremists� and �Trump supporters� in order to continue the Left�s
delusional narrative of hate.
These could include vehicle assaults or small explosives, sometimes masked as �hate crimes�
against minority groups.
Larger acts of domestic terrorism will be pursued by ISIS-linked operatives.
These acts include large-scale shootings, large bombings and perhaps the deployment
of an airborne dirty bomb, which requires nothing more than a Cessna, some old medical
equipment and a simple chemical explosive mixture.
The government will continue its cover-up of the Mandalay Bay / Las Vegas shooting,
which has now been thoroughly exposed as a multi-person �team� operation involving
at least one helicopter.
ISIS has already claimed responsibility for the shooting, but no proof has yet emerged
that the shooter had made the switch to radical Islam.
(The corrupt FBI is also running this investigation, leading many to suspect the FBI knows this
is ISIS terrorism but is covering up for ISIS, just as Obama did.)
#8) Cryptocurrency crackdown 2018 will be the year that central banks begin
to fight back against the growing phenomenon of cryptocurrency.
Manipulating the crypto markets is child�s play for the central banks, which will no
doubt engineer a panic selloff or cyber attack on the blockchain as a means to destroy the
credibility of crypto in the minds of the public.
In addition, we should expect to see the following tactics unveiled:
Mainstream media linking cryptocurrencies to acts of terrorism, human trafficking, money
laundering and drug running.
The linking of a major terrorism event (or false flag event) to Bitcoin as a way to start
the process of criminalizing it.
The eventual passing of a federal law that requires all cryptocurrency transactions to
be linked to identities (this law may take several years to pass, but the narrative will
be pushed heavily in 2018).
The eventual roll out of an NSA-controlled crypto that also shares power with the central
banks.
We�ll call this �FedCoin� for now, but it might as well be called �NSAcoin.�
Some people believe Bitcoin is already NSAcoin, and that it was introduced as a way to corral
the masses into the virtual currency pillar of a totalitarian police state society.
Remember: The establishment isn�t anti-crypto.
They�re just �anti� anything they don�t control.
They love the idea of crypto as long as they can track it, confiscate it and tax it.
Their next big move is to discredit Bitcoin and shift people in to a crypto system they
control.
#9) Secession gains steam surrounding 2020 election
This isn�t specifically for 2018, but the election outcomes of both 2020 and 2024 have
a high likelihood of being trigger events for a surge of activity in secession movements
in the United States:
Should Trump win re-election in 2020, the California (Left Coast) secession effort will
go into overdrive.
Watch for a kind of political civil war in California as the rest of the state seeks
to separate from the Left Coast, which has now devolved into a lawless welfare police
state where the Governor (Brown) just pardoned violent criminals to protect them from being
deported by the feds.
Should a Democrat win the White House in 2020 or 2024, the inverse will occur: Texas will
see a strong push for secession, possibly followed by Arizona, Louisiana and other states.
Either way, the United States has become the Polarized States of America, where liberals
and conservatives can barely coexist.
This split isn�t strictly based on states, of course: It�s more about urban vs. rural
philosophies, where people who live in cities tend to demand collectivism, communism and
totalitarianism, while those in the country demand individual liberty and small government.
In some ways, America is just one trigger event away from a civil war or armed revolt
by the Left, which stupidly believes it can somehow defeat the millions of armed patriots
across America, even when leftist protesters haven�t even learned how to cross the street
without getting hit by a truck.
#10) The truth about food contamination and pesticide residues goes global with the Health
Ranger�s food transparency project This prediction is 100% certain, since we�re
the ones launching it.
In 2018, we will begin publishing reference charts showing the actual pesticides residues
and heavy metals composition of popular off-the-shelf foods and supplements purchased from grocery
stores and retailers.
This is a world first, and it represents the start of a new era of food transparency where
consumers can finally see exactly what�s in the foods, superfoods, and dietary supplements
they�re eating.
(I�m the author of the popular science book Food Forensics, which already published heavy
metals numbers for 800+ foods, spices and supplements.)
I�ve been teasing about this project for a couple of years, but the kicker that got
this off the launch pad was our recent acquisition of a new pesticide extraction automation system
that processes 12 samples at a time using a cutting-edge solvent extraction technology.
This effectively eliminates the worst bottleneck in all pesticide labs, which is �sample
prep� or pesticide extraction.
Most labs use an approach called QuEChERS, which involves a tremendous amount of time
and labor, with lots of opportunities for mistakes by humans.
This new solution that we�ve just acquired makes quechers obsolete while allowing us
to batch process a dozen food samples simultaneously.
This is a game changer for the world of food science (and we are the first lab in North
America to have this technology, by the way).
Beginning next week, we start running mass spec acquisitions for off-the-shelf products
with an aim of running wide-spectrum mass scans (up to 1700 Daltons) to build the world�s
first �library� of the true chemical and elemental composition of off-the-shelf foods.
Our goal is to compile results for 1,000 products by the end of 2018.
All the results will be openly shared with the public for free, under the non-profit
Consumer Wellness Center.
This is a world�s first, sort of like the Human Genome Project for foods.
We are effectively �mapping� the chemical residues in food products, then making that
information available to the public for free.
(All results will be emailed out to GoodGopher mail users, which is a free, uncensored email
inbox that cannot be blocked by Google, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter.)
You can stay informed about this project by reading Natural News or visiting the Consumer
Wellness Center website.
In summary, be prepared for a tumultuous year in 2018.
It can also be a year of great achievements and economic expansion, so take advantage
of the opportunities while they last.
At some point, the party is over for the debt-funded American empire, and we likely won�t be
the �united� states of America for much longer.
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