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It’s been nearly eight years since the death of Carrie Fisher, the beloved actress renowned for her iconic portrayal of Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise. Fisher died on a flight from London to Los Angeles on December 23 after she suffered a cardiac arrest. Despite prompt emergency medical intervention and being rushed to a hospital upon landing, she never regained consciousness. Recently, Fisher’s longtime friend, James Blunt, reminisced on her death and also shared his perspective on what he believes contributed to her sudden death. James made this revelation in a recent interview to discuss his new memoir, Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story, citing that the actress facing immense pressure working in Holywood might have played a significant role in her untimely demise. James Blunt claimed Carrie Fisher was pressured to look ‘thin’ for her role in a ‘Star Wars’ sequel STAR WARS: EPISODE IV-A NEW HOPE, Carrie Fisher, 1977. TM & Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved./courtesy Everett Collection Blunt, who formed an unexpected friendship with Fisher during the production of his debut album, Back to Bedlam, and even lived with the iconic actress and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, at their Los Angeles home, revealed that he spent time with Fisher just a day before her untimely death. RELATED: Paul Simon Describes Marriage To Carrie Fisher As An ‘Emotional Upheaval’ The musician recounted that Fisher was thrilled about reprising her role as Princess Leia in another Star Wars sequel. However, he also noted that she appeared to be under significant stress from studio executives who pressured her to maintain a specific body weight for the role despite her age. James Blunt arrives for the SeriousFun Childrens Network London Gala 2013 at the Roundhouse, Camden, London. 04/02/2013 Picture by: Steve Vas / Featureflash James Blunt says Carrie Fisher’s death was heightened by her drug usage The singer revealed that the immense pressure she faced eventually became too much to bear, causing her to relapse into drug use despite having achieved several periods of sobriety in the past. Reflecting on her tragic demise, Blunt expressed his belief that her death was not merely a result of cardiac arrest, as official reports stated. 27 December 2016 – Carrie Fisher, the iconic actress who portrayed Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, died Tuesday following a massive heart attack. Carrie Frances Fisher an American actress, screenwriter, author, producer, and speaker, was the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. File Photo:01 May 2006 – Westwood, California. Carrie Fisher. Geffen Playhouse Annual “Backstage at The Geffen” Gala, 2006. Photo Credit: Byron Purvis/AdMedia He concluded that the toxicology report painted a more accurate picture of what happened. According to the report, a dangerous cocktail of drugs, including cocaine, heroin, MDMA, and methadone, was found in her system; he suggested that this mix of powerful substances was ultimately responsible for her untimely demise. Click for next Article The post James Blunt Claims Carrie Fisher ‘Started Using Drugs Again’ Before Death Because ‘Star Wars’ Execs ‘Pressured’ Her To Be Thin appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A

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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Today, we’re going back to basics. If you’re an experienced prepper, you probably have all of these covered. But if you’re a new prepper, then these are the areas you need to focus on first.  The journey into disaster preparedness can be overwhelming, but focusing on a few essential areas can make the process less daunting. Starting with essentials like food, water, and shelter, and expanding to include tools, first aid supplies, communication, and reliable sources of light and warmth, this article outlines ten key areas every prepper should cover.  1. Communication In a major disaster, communication systems will likely go down. Cell phones may not function, and landlines could be down as well. You’ll need to have a way to find out what is happening beyond your four walls. Knowledge is power. You’ll also want to reach out to loved ones.  Have a battery-powered or hand-crank radio to receive emergency broadcasts and updates. Consider investing in a solar-powered charger for your electronic devices. Get some quality two-way radios as well. If you need to separate from the family to get supplies or information, you'll be able to stay in contact with them.  2. Documents Keep important documents like identification, insurance policies, and medical records in a waterproof package inside a fireproof box. Consider making digital copies and storing them securely online or on a portable drive. Additionally, have some cash in small bills because ATMs and card readers might not be working during an emergency. Once the dust settles after a disaster, you'll need to prove who you are and if you have an insurance claim, you’ll need your policy information.  Insurance policies should be copied and stored in a separate place in case of a total loss of your home, car, or life. It’s a good idea to have a relative in a different state or city that you trust to have copies of these documents.  Copies of birth certificates should also be kept safe along with social security cards.  A copy of your will, trusts, and other financial records should be kept safe. Passports are something else you need to keep safe. 3. Fire You need to be prepared to live by fire. Fire means life. Fire can provide warmth, cook food, purify water, and signal for help. It’s a good idea to have outdoor cooking equipment in your stockpile. If you have a wood stove or fireplace, you’re already ahead of the game. If not, you’ll need to know how to build a fire ring to keep your fire contained. Have a supply of dry, seasoned firewood cut and ready in case of emergency. Save those old newspapers, lint from the dryer, and other material to make it easier to start a fire.  Have matches on hand. These are cheap and can be picked up for under a dollar. You can’t have too many matches.  Lighters are great and even after they’ve run out of butane, you can use the flint mechanism to start a fire.  Magnesium fire starters are a must. These are reusable. Depending on the brand and size you buy, you can get a hundred or more uses out of them. They are small enough to keep in your car, purse or briefcase.  4. First Aid A comprehensive first aid kit is indispensable in emergencies. You can never have too much first aid on hand. Remember, you are likely going to be your own doctor. You’ll need to be prepared to take care of minor injuries and some bigger ones like sprains, broken bones, and in some situation stitches. You’ll also want a first aid manual to guide you through medical emergencies as well. YouTube and Google will not be an option.  You can save money by building your own kit. The prepackaged ones are expensive and don’t always consider the larger emergencies that might come up. Along with the basics, make sure you include items specific to your family.  If possible, you’ll want to have extra prescription meds on hand. This can be tricky and isn’t always an option, but if you explain to your doctor that you're preparing for an emergency, they may prescribe you extra. Stock up on antibiotics.  Get familiar with herbal remedies.  Have a book on hand that identifies medicinal plants.  Epi pens are expensive, but if you or someone has a life-threatening allergy, you need to have a few.  5. Food Stock up on non-perishable food items that require little to no preparation. Canned goods, dried fruits, nuts, and protein bars are excellent options. Don't forget about dietary restrictions and preferences within your household. People always say if you’re starving, you’ll eat anything, which might be true. However, it’s going to be pretty tough to convince your five-year-old that cold beans are the only option. Food is a source of comfort and provides normalcy. People need to feel safe and comfortable in order to function at their best. If you have the option to stock the food your family likes and enjoys, why not do it? You’re going to have enough battles; this isn’t one you need to take on.  The freeze-dried meals are great, but they are expensive. Avoid buying the large buckets marketed as three-days of food. There is no one-size-fits all when it comes to food. Buy what you like.  Learn how to properly store food to make sure it stays fresh.   Have fishing supplies, traps, and hunting methods to procure fresh food.  6. Hygiene and Sanitation  Maintaining hygiene standards is crucial to preventing the spread of illness. Pack essentials such as soap, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and feminine hygiene products. Also include garbage bags, disinfectant wipes, and a portable toilet or supplies for makeshift sanitation facilities. Learn how to make a toilet out of a five-gallon bucket. Learn the ins and outs of digging a latrine.  Visit a camping store to check out showering options. Be prepared to deal with pests attracted to filth by learning about some natural repellants to keep you and your family free of the diseases pests carry. 7. Lighting Darkness can compound the challenges of a disaster. Invest in reliable lighting sources such as flashlights, headlamps, and lanterns. Ensure you have an adequate supply of batteries or rechargeable options. Candles can also provide illumination but use them with caution to prevent fire hazards.  Solar powered lanterns are an excellent option and are generally very bright.  A cheap option are the solar yard lights. They are a low light that can act as a nightlight or provide just enough light to allow you to see.  Glow sticks are another option for nightlights or moving around in the dark.  8. Shelter Your home may not always be a safe haven during a disaster. Have a plan and supplies for temporary shelter such as tents, tarps, or emergency blankets. These items can provide protection from the elements and maintain body heat if you need to evacuate or find yourself outdoors.  Identify a secondary shelter now, rather than in the moment. Look for somewhere that is not in danger of being flooded or in an area prone to high wind.  Learn how to make shelters from natural elements like branches, leaves, and so on.  9. Tools and Multipurpose Items A versatile toolkit is going to be critical after a disaster. You’re going to be on your own when it comes to making repairs around your house, including your vehicle. Everything will be hands on. You may not be able to use your power tools. Include items like a multitool, duct tape, rope, and a wrench or pliers. You can find lists of tools you’ll want to have.  Include a chainsaw (don’t forget this will need gas) or more reliably an ax or tree saw. You’ll need to chop wood for fires, repairs, and possibly to clear a road.  Don’t forget to include good work gloves to protect your hands.  Fire extinguishers are another must.  Gas shut-off wrench if you don’t already have one. 10. Water Water is fundamental for survival. This is going to be your most important prep and also your most challenging. Aim for at least one gallon per person per day for a minimum of three days. Additionally, invest in water purification methods such as water filters or purification tablets. These can help make contaminated water safe for consumption during emergencies. Get creative with your water storage. It’s not always feasible to store a fifty gallons of water in the house.  Consider water barrels outside. You can purify the water before you drink or use for cooking.  A swimming pool is another option. The chlorine used to keep the pool clean will evaporate in a couple of days. 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To those at the bottom of America’s economic pyramid, it feels like the economy has already collapsed.  When you can’t afford to put a roof over your head and you barely have enough food to eat, nothing else really matters.  During the Great Depression of the 1930s, millions of homeless Americans created large shantytowns known as “Hoovervilles” all over America.  Unfortunately, we are witnessing the same thing today.  Our homeless population is rapidly exploding, and those that have nowhere to live are creating shelters for themselves out of wood, cardboard boxes, tents, tarps, construction materials and whatever else they can find.  In some cases, very large shantytown communities are being established, and they are primarily populated by our young adults… During the Great Depression (1929 to 1933), 48 percent of the nation was homeless, living with relatives or in “shantytowns,” “Hoovervilles.”  Today, between 47 and 52 percent of young adults are homeless, living with parents or shelters, a direct result of Biden’s radical overspending, energy and immigration policies, inflation, and high interest, turning America into a giant “Bidenville.” One “Bidenville” that has been getting a lot of attention recently is located in Oakland, California. A video of that “Bidenville” that was posted on social media on May 31st shows “massive temporary houses built along service roads”… Shocking footage has emerged showing a gigantic ‘shantytown’ that has sprung up in Oakland, as the California city’s slide into crime-ravaged squalor continues. Michael Oxford, the host of CaliBased, posted a video on May 31 of massive temporary houses built along service roads that open up into main roads in Hooverville, Oakland. The footage showed trash strewn around scores of houses that were built of wood, tarp and other discarded materials. I write about this stuff all the time, but it is still hard to believe that so many people are living in third world conditions in the United States of America in 2024. Parts of Oakland are worse than a third world country. They just allow people to live in absolute squalor, wherever they choose. This looks like Hooverville during the great depression. Welcome to Oakland’s very own Gavinville. pic.twitter.com/L58uK2E6Sh — Michael Oxford – AKA The Santa Cruz Mountain Goat (@SCMountainGoat) June 1, 2024 The man that shot the video, Michael Oxford, used the term “absolute squalor” to describe the conditions that he witnessed… Particularly shocking was just how large the ‘shantytown’ is, with a lengthy stretch of road in the Bay Area city covered with the makeshift dwellings. Oxford could be heard calling the area a ‘shantytown’ that is ‘absolutely mindboggling,’ as he remarked how ‘insane it is that [city officials] allow this.’ He captioned the video, ‘Parts of Oakland are worse than a third world country. They just allow people to live in absolute squalor, wherever they choose. If you live in “wealthy America”, you may never even drive into areas where people are living like this. Your reality may be filled with tree-lined streets and rich people sipping coffee. But in the worst areas of Oakland, the lawlessness never ends. In fact, authorities in Oakland recently removed traffic lights at one major intersection and replaced them with stop signs because thieves were constantly stealing copper wire from the electrical boxes… The city of Oakland recently removed traffic lights from one busy intersection and replaced them with stop signs after the electrical boxes that controlled the traffic lights were repeatedly tampered with and copper from them was stolen. Local residents and those who own businesses in the area say the issue with the traffic lights stems from the nearby homeless encampment, which has grown over the years. The owner of a vehicle repair shop on the corner of the intersection, Tam Le, said the city is signaling that it is ‘giving up on us,’ by installing the stop signs. If you want someone to blame for this mess, you can blame the politicians in Washington. Thanks to the horrific inflation that they have created, approximately a quarter of the population in California is either living in poverty or is very close to living in poverty… Biden needn’t worry about losing California to Trump, but it has one of the nation’s highest rates of inflation, according to Moody’s Analytics, worsening its already outlandishly high costs of housing and other living expenses. It’s the biggest factor in California having the highest level of functional poverty of any state, 13.2% according to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 50% higher than the national rate. The Public Policy Institute of California, using similar statistical methodology, has found that a quarter of Californians are either living in poverty or financially close. More recently, the PPIC has explored the impact of inflation, especially on California families which struggle to pay for housing, food and other necessities. Sadly, this is just the beginning, because our economy is going downhill really fast. In May, pending home sales plunged to a depressingly low level… Well, the analysts had the direction right but magnitude was way off as pending home sales plunged 7.7% MoM – the biggest drop since Feb 2021 (and below the lowest estimate), leaving sales down 0.7% YoY… This is the 29th straight month of YoY declines for non-seasonally-adjusted pending home sales. This MoM decline pushed the Pending Home Sales Index back to record lows… Meanwhile, Zero Hedge reported that the Chicago PMI index fell so low in May that it suggested that “the economy is in a depression”… After unexpectedly slumping last month to 37.9, the Chicago PMI index cratered even more unexpectedly in May, when it defied hopes of a rebound to 41.5, and instead tumbled even more, sliding to a cycle low of 35.4 which was not only below the lowest estimate, but was staggeringly low. To get a sense of just how low, the last two times it printed here was during the peak of the covid and global financial crises… … which seems to suggest that at least according to Chicago-based purchasing managers, the economy is in a depression. I would agree with that assessment. Things are getting really bad out there. To top everything off, in May the Dallas Fed Services Sector survey was in contraction territory for the 24th month in a row… Despite Bernstein and Biden demanding the great unwashed realize just how great they have it in America, this morning’s Dallas Fed Services Sector survey offers some insights from actual real people in the actual real world trying to do actual real business… and it’s not pretty. For two straight years (24 straight months), the Texas Services sector has been in contraction (below zero) with May’s -12.1 print worse than expected. For context, the Great Recession of 2008/2009 also saw 24 straight months of negative prints… But if you live in “wealthy America”, you may not care about these numbers because you still live in a nice home and you still have plenty of nice things. Unfortunately, the number of people that can afford to live in “wealthy America” is shrinking with each passing day. And the gap between the wealthy and the rest of us just continues to get larger and larger. Ultimately, the stage is being set for a societal meltdown of absolutely epic proportions. The bottom 50 percent of the population only owns just 2.6 percent of all the wealth, and they are becoming very restless. When people have nothing left to lose, they become very desperate, and very desperate people do very desperate things. Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. 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”.  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.  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. The post During The Great Depression They Were Called “Hoovervilles”, But Today America’s Shantytowns Are Called “Bidenvilles” appeared first on The Economic Collapse.