Editor’s Commentary: There seems to be an awakening happening around us. All I have is a feeling based on anecdotes, but I don’t think I’m being too optimistic when I say the people are becoming more cognizant that things are going crazy in the world and most of those things are being manufactured.
A healthy distrust of the official narratives is spreading. We’re seeing our various channels growing rapidly. We’re seeing fewer comments about how I’m just being paranoid or fearmongering for some sort of grift. There’s a spirit of chaos spreading among the masses, but it’s being accompanied by a spirit of awareness reaching others.
The challenge that I always have to remind myself to take into account is that the fatigue that comes from a constant flow of bad news can have debilitating effects. In my mission to inform the people of the evil machinations of the various forces arrayed against us, I have to remember that my personal hope for the future does not always translate in the midst of all the bad news. My faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior allows me to see all of the turmoil with an understanding that our story is going to get darker and darker until the ultimate light shines at the end.
There are many solid reasons to despair but there’s a tremendous reason to rejoice. The world will continue to get crazier every day, just as our Bible tells us it will. We must do everything in our power to fight the good fight. For me and the rest of you out there who are fighting by spreading the truth, it’s so important to make sure we accompany the bad news we share with the good news of the Gospel.
Otherwise, we’re no better than secular conspiracy theorists who stoke fear for the sake of fear.
Keep all of that in mind as you read the article below by Michael Snyder from End of the American Dream. We share the truth because we must. We know that the vast majority of things happening in the world today are pointing toward horrors on the horizon, but knowing that the horrors precede eternal life should help you work through the negative feelings this world invokes. If you think things are going crazy, it’s because they are. But you’re not alone. God will see the faithful through. Here’s Michael’s article…
Death, Destruction and Violence Everywhere You Look…
I have been called a “doom and gloomer” because I talk honestly about the things that are going on in our world. But I am not actually a “doom and gloomer” at all. In fact, I am wildly optimistic about the future. Every piece of “bad news” is also a piece of “great news” if you look at it from the proper perspective. All of human history has been building up to a grand crescendo, and we get to be here for it. So even though there is death, destruction and violence all around us, this is not the end. Once we get through the “birth pains” that we are experiencing now, everything will be completely different. But it is certainly true that we have a whole lot of pain to go through before we get there. The “perfect storm” that we are experiencing now will greatly intensify, and one major crisis is just going to lead directly into the next one.
Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. We were originally told that the unprecedented environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio only killed a few thousand animals, but now officials are admitting that more than 40,000 animals have died…
Last week, officials said they believed that the Ohio train derailment had killed 3,500 aquatic animals. On Thursday, they provided a new estimate, pushing the total to more than 43,700 animals within a 5-mile area.
Mary Mertz, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, said on Thursday that the new estimate comes amid updated calculations.
Sadly, the final death toll is likely to be far, far higher.
Meanwhile, it is being reported that a mysterious “white dust” has been falling out of the sky in West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania…
#BREAKING
“white dust” falling out of the sky event in Maryland and West Virginia.
Residents described it as a “fine ash feel
Reports from Allegany County, Maryland, WV and Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/YMwxpfU3C2— Mekal Shan (@mekalshan) February 24, 2023
At this point, it is unclear if this “white dust” has anything to do with the disaster in East Palestine.
Hopefully there is no connection.
One thing that I have noticed is that many people will descend into fits of rage at the smallest provocation these days.
Right now, a video of a student beating a teacher to a pulp because she took away his Nintendo Switch is going viral all over social media…
The story is this teacher took away his Nintendo and he chased her down and beat the hell out of her.
What is wrong with these kids… https://t.co/83wPdja2yt
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) February 24, 2023
Sadly, this is far from an isolated incident.
At this point, wild school brawls have become increasingly common all over America.
Here is just one example…
https://twitter.com/eclipsethis2003/status/1628825911633104896
Of course our schools are just a reflection of what is going on in our society as a whole.
Violence is everywhere, and media coverage of one major shooting just bleeds over into coverage of the next one.
Just a little while ago, a shopping mall in Syracuse, New York had to be evacuated because of shots that were fired there…
🚨#BREAKING: Multiple shots fired at Destiny Mall USA⁰⁰📌#Syracuse | #Newyork⁰
Right now dozens of authorities, along with SWAT are responding to multiple shots fired inside destiny mall USA in Syracuse New York. The mall is on lockdown as Police are currently instructing… pic.twitter.com/7UpPpm8vDI— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 24, 2023
Over in Europe, officials are trying to figure out why excess deaths are absolutely soaring all over the continent.
What in the world could possibly be causing this to happen?…
Personally, I'm mad at President Putin for causing excess deaths to spike, preventing local health authorities from looking into it, and then tricking our media into ignoring it. Only an actual monster would do that! pic.twitter.com/T8Jz6Mz8nu
— Chris "Adequate Citations" Martenson, PhD (@chrismartenson) February 21, 2023
Speaking of Europe, someone apparently decided that it would be a good idea for the U.S. to fly B-52 bombers that are capable of dropping nuclear warheads within a couple hundred kilometers of the Russian border…
https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1629117954347474944
And a military official in Austria just publicly admitted something that he was not supposed to admit…
https://twitter.com/GraphicW5/status/1622645303269523457
As I discussed earlier today, we really are on the brink of global war.
The Chinese claim they want peace, but they have been preparing for war too…
😳Meanwhile in China pic.twitter.com/cKNp8NSjPs
— Truthseeker (@Xx17965797N) February 24, 2023
Meanwhile, on Russian television pundits are actually talking about “waking up” the Yellowstone supervolcano with nukes…
Attention, United States!
Russian propagandists discuss "waking up" the Yellowstone volcano with nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/tu5kJv6Ww0
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) February 23, 2023
Over the past several years, we have seen so much death, destruction and violence.
But so much more is on the way.
We truly do live in apocalyptic times, and I fully expect global events to accelerate even more during the months ahead.
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Article cross-posted from End of the American Dream.
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.
Editor’s Note: Heaven’s Harvest IS a sponsor, but the warnings of this article are real and would be written even if we didn’t have a survival food sponsor. With that said, those who take advantage of what they offer can use promo code “Patriot” for 15% off.
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.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
