Our regular readers may have noticed a lull in the action on Monday. This was unintentional but purposeful and actually quite exciting. My average day of sifting through content, doing my shows, and writing articles was replaced by phone calls, research, and testing that all surrounded one gigantic project: Discern.tv.
Nothing will change here. The same content that drives my passions of fighting radical leftism, globalism, and attacks against the faith will continue to make it to your screens, just as always. But as corporate media continues being shills for the globalist elite cabal and the vast majority in conservative media only focus on the subjects that won’t get them cancelled by their “sugar daddies” in at Google and Facebook, it has become blatantly obvious that America and the world need more honest, intelligent, and discerning media.
That’s why we’re launching Discern.tv.
Things are accelerating faster than expected. Perhaps it’s the appetite for the truth that’s prompting eagerness. I know I’m extremely eager, so much so I’ve had to stop myself from dropping everything and focusing solely on Discern. But we cannot get ahead of ourselves. As I always like to say, I’m in a hurry but I’m not in a rush.
Discern.tv will be a new channel through which patriots and anyone thirsty for truth can come. We are starting small with on-demand videos from a wide variety of sources, all curated and disseminated through our growing network. As the channel evolves, we will add more programs, including live TV. Therein lies one of our biggest challenges, but Lord willing we will be able to get the traction necessary to do what network television companies have failed to do: deliver the REAL stories to the masses.
Unlike most (all?) other channels, we are going to work it in reverse. Many in legacy media started on television and then moved toward their own websites. Others in new media launched on YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram and gained popularity only to find they couldn’t say certain things without risking getting banned. Many have been pushed off the platforms and are now rebuilding on Rumble or other freer speech video sites. Those who have been able to stay on the Big Tech platforms have had to water down their content and avoid anything the Silicon Valley “arbiters of truth” have denounced as anathema.
We are building from the website first. We will be hosting our videos on Rumble, Brighteon, Bitchute, Odyssey, and any other freer speech platforms that we believe will not be coerced into censorship. Unfortunately, none of these platforms are guaranteed to remain free speech advocates, nor are they guaranteed to be around in the future. This is why we are building such a wide footprint instead of taking the logical approach of focusing on a single platform. Lest we forget, it wasn’t too long ago that YouTube and Facebook allowed pretty much any content that wasn’t illegal or against copyright. Today, they censor their content rigorously.
Discern.tv won’t just be videos. We are going to publish articles and possibly even audio podcasts. If it’s quality content with the right messaging, we will find a way to post it on Discern.tv.
Once we reach a tipping point with our web presence, we will expand to the arenas where censorship still reigns. As long as our foundation is strong and resistant to “cancel culture,” everything else we build on top of it will be a bonus rather than a necessity. This is extremely important because it allows us to never self-censor for the sake of keeping our channel going. We’ve witnessed multiple examples of other conservative channels self-censoring (or getting banned when they didn’t) over the last couple of years.
We will expand to live TV on Roku and other streaming services, for example, but only AFTER we’ve established our web presence on its own. No platform can be considered safe indefinitely, not even the ones that currently embrace free speech.
This project is starting at just the right time. We have the benefit of seeing successes and failures from other networks as they navigated this “brave new world’ of woke Big Tech, corporate virtue signaling, and widespread cancel culture. While part of me wishes we could have been up and running in time to make an impact in the upcoming midterm elections, the other part of me realizes that launching now will give us an opportunity to grow around the problems we’re facing as a nation and a planet. As eager as I am to get going and reach the masses, I’m also humbled by the fact that we have been given an opportunity to launch just when we’re needed the most.
Contacting me through the form at Discern.tv will get you a single email. You won’t be joining a list nor will your email be sold to anyone. We will send out an email when we officially launch… and that’s it. You could always sign up for my free newsletter if you’d like, but filling out the form at Discern.tv is a single-use action.
Those who want to help us launch can learn more about what we’re doing and why at our GiveSendGo page. Of course, financial support is greatly appreciated as well. We need funds to hire patriots and to get the word out to the masses.
America needs this. Americans want this. We need discernment now more than ever. Please help us deliver it. The best way to help is by putting us in your prayers.
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.
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.
