At the writing of this commentary, the April 2024 solar eclipse is still nearly twenty-four hours in the future. Nevertheless it can be stated with great confidence that, regardless of other circumstances, neither the eclipse itself nor any possible action taken by the US Government or United Nations in conjunction with it will be apocalyptic in nature. The sole exception to that prediction would be if Jesus Christ returns during that time to rapture His Church. However, that seems unlikely, given that He stated that no man will know the day hour of His return. Also, the path of totality crosses the Northeastern part of the Country, including the State of New York.
Still, no historical precedent for fears specifically linked to past eclipses, exists. But this fact has hardly dissuaded the enormous clamor of catastrophic conspiracies being attributed to the event. Prognostications abound of possible opportunism by those in power to exploit the unusual circumstances for their final assault on our Constitutional Republic. Rather than appreciate this stunning spectacle of God’s creation, too many are instead consumed by foreboding and dread.
Sadly, that pattern is all too familiar. Two decades and a few years back, when the calendars rolled around to fall of 1999, Americans were dealt a similar Chicken-Little Tsunami of Y2K fear mongering and cries of impending doom. And as the clocks went past 12:01 am January 1, 2000, all those shrill voices of inescapable calamity faded into oblivion, though many enjoyed significantly fatter bank accounts from their duplicity and manipulations.
The last total solar eclipse across America occurred less than a decade ago in August of 2017. It had a much longer path of totality stretching across the entire continent. So if the sun being blocked in shadow was itself a trigger for disaster, it stands to reason that we should have suffered far more devastation than the doomsters predict for this one.
That begs the question of just what has changed so drastically in the intervening seven years? The realities of astrophysics are still what they have been since the Creation. The actual mechanics of an eclipse are no different than they ever were. Yet while we are rightly admonished to not stare directly at the sun without proper eye protection, and aside from a few local infrastructures and cell networks being a bit overloaded by the enormous influx of visitors, something is very different in 2024. The apprehension is widespread and palpable.
While real science hasn’t changed, America itself has, and certainly not for the better. Back in 2017, Donald Trump was President and we were on course to recovery from the malignancy of the Obama years. The border was being closed down (despite every effort at stalling by leftist Democrats and RINOs), the American economy was being dragged up from the abyss that Obama had told us was our inevitable fate. ISIS had been eliminated from the world stage. And the Nation was optimistic about its future.
So of course the leftists/Globalists and their Deep State minions were in a panic. A foundational premise of Marxism is that a flourishing Nation is impossible to take down with socialist lunacy. Something had to change quickly! First on the list was the “Russia Russia” hoax, by which President Trump was maligned to the point of a baseless impeachment, with the only “evidence” being a single, totally innocuous phone call to Ukraine. But from that treasonous ruse came a litany of accusations and slander, ultimately proving to be totally without merit. No problem for leftists though. Just move on to a new narrative of lies and attacks. And it hasn’t stopped to this day.
When 2020 arrived, it was obvious that the Country was still feeling energized and optimistic, likely spelling doom for Democrat prospects. So the fear mongering went into high gear with the onset of the Wu-Flu. Yet the real pandemic of that episode was not a virus with obviously enhanced symptoms. Instead, the deadlier disease unleashed on America, and across much of the world was the vast power grab by every despot wannabe holding any public office. Consequently, actual lives were lost in great numbers, not merely from the virus, but from deliberate efforts by leftists to give it every “gain of function” through deliberate infection of the elderly, along with the rise in suicides among those rendered despondent over deliberately excessive and onerous “health measures.”
Still, when November of 2020 rolled around, it was glaringly obvious to any honest and reasonably sensible person that Trump would walk away with the Election. So of course leftists/Globalists had to cheat in order to steal it. And that is just what they did.
However, the actual vote manipulations, vast though they were, only represented one part of a double strategy. Another major component of the theft was the massive, coordinated propaganda blitz to mock and castigate anyone who dared question the “legitimacy” of the election. This Alinsky onslaught against the truth was premeditated and fully orchestrated, and clearly intended to suppress any opposition to what we all saw. Even before all the phony votes were tabulated, every Fake News outlet from coast to coast was declaring in unison that the 2020 election was “the most secure in history.” Nothing to see here!
Since then, the damage on America has been as relentless as it has been deliberate. The Biden Cabal not only dropped the ball in Afghanistan, but did so in the specific manner that would wreak the most harm to American prestige and credibility on the world stage. No less intentional is the disaster on America’s Southern border, which is hemorrhaging in broad daylight. Illegal invaders don’t even have to wait for the brief extra darkness of an eclipse to flood across in ever greater numbers. Our Government welcomes them in, providing them every avenue to infiltrate the Nation.
Top Government “law” enforcement agencies such as the FBI and DOJ, once hallowed bastions of justice and decency, are now widely regarded with suspicion and cynicism by Americans who are appalled and disgusted at how they’ve been weaponized. Things are just as abominable within the energy and economic sectors. Here again, the disaster was premeditated and purposeful. A dangerous anti-America element has wormed its way throughout the halls of power, and it has no intention of stopping its eradication of the Nation we once knew and loved.
So if Americans want to do what’s best to fight the real dangers facing us, we need to be discerning. The more “Chicken Little/Boy Who Cried Wolf” scenarios the propagandists can concoct, with no real “calamities” to follow, the more apathetic and indifferent Real America will become, even in the face of an actual onslaught. Yet the enemy is now in our midst. And it will inflict far more devastation and tragedy on us than any passing shadow. Don’t get distracted America. Stay on target!
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Christopher G. Adamo is a lifelong conservative from the American Heartland. He has been involved in grassroots and state-level politics for many years, seeking to restore and uphold the Judeo-Christian principles on which our Nation was founded. He is author of the book, “Rules for Defeating Radicals,” which is the “Go To” guide for effectively confronting and overcoming the dirty tricks of the political left. It is available at Amazon.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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