(Discern Report)—”Who controls the food supply controls the people,” said Henry Kissinger.
This first tenet of his three-steps to centralized globalist domination is manifesting before our eyes in a nation that once opposed Marxism by default. Cities across the country are toying with the concept of government-controlled grocery stores for the sake of equity, climate change, and a nutritional nanny state.
This initiative is not only being driven by Democrats in government. “Charitable” organizations and lobbyist groups are working behind the scenes to sell the concept of State-Owned Enterprises to usher in a new era they hope will yield the Socialist States of America.
And it’s not just theoretical. According to Manic Contrarian over at Red State, this threat is already manifesting…
In the heart of Chicago, a radical and socialist plan is being pushed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. This plan seeks to establish government-controlled grocery stores in areas where inflation and rampant theft have crushed private businesses, leaving residents trapped in what are being described as “food deserts.” And shockingly, or perhaps not so shockingly, other cities across the nation are contemplating following suit at the urging of advocates for so-called State Owned Enterprises.
This government-run grocery store solution may sound enticing on the surface. They promise affordable and nutritious food, support for local producers, and economic growth. But that’s just empty rhetoric. In reality, we’ll see government bureaucracy stifle innovation, diminish choice, and impose rationing measures that infringe upon our freedom to make our own decisions. Wherever government inserts its heavy hand, inefficiency and scarcity follow.
Literally everything that government touches is harmed, spoiled, or completely ruined. That’s the nature of a nation that was built on the concept of limited government but that has seen government power surge for over a century.
Government-controlled grocery stores are, unfortunately, quite easy to sell to a desperate public. We live in a time of contradiction where the vast majority of Americans do not trust government but far too many call on government to fix our problems. This is why we are stuck in a loop of government creating problems for them to be called on to fix.
The current food crisis is being camouflaged by rampant inflation. Most Americans see increased prices at the grocery store as indicative of the overarching economic challenges, but in reality the food crisis is outpacing standard inflation because the food supply itself is under attack.
What makes matters far worse is the delay between food supply challenges and their day-to-day impact at grocery stores. While food prices are clearly up by a great deal, they will go up far higher next year because the effects of supply shortages are months or even years in the making, depending on the product. Many of the foods that are sold at the grocery store today are still part of the 2022 supply. Once our diminished production starts impacting the shelves, we’re going to see prices skyrocket even more than they already have.
Now is the time to become as self-sufficient as possible. Stock up on staple foods that can be stored for the long haul. Get out of cities as quickly as possible. Start gardening at the very least. Get chickens if possible. Do whatever you can to get ahead of any food crash that may soon come. Unless things change for the better very quickly, a full-scale food crisis will come very soon, at which point government-controlled grocery stores will basically become ration distribution centers.
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.
We think Marxism pretty well emerged in the 2000 election when a member of the pro–CCP Bush family was running against a member of the pro–Soviet family, Al iGore!
The rubes truly believed Bush to be a “conservative” –– the ultimate gullibility!
// Who controls the food supply controls the people,” said Henry Kissinger. \\
THAT was Kissinger quoting DAVID ROCKEFELLER, please!
The Rockefeller Plan, now rebranded as The Great Reset, devised in the 1950s, implemented in 1973 when DR flew onboard Air Force One to China with his two minions, Nixon and Kissinger — — originally intended for 1960, why the Rockefeller brothers pressured Eisenhower to deport top missile physicist at the Pentagon, Dr. Tsien, to China as a gift to Mao –– but old man Joe Kennedy interfered with Th Plan by getting his son elected, who then acted unexpectedly in the presidency, working on behalf of the American workers and citizenry!!!
And in May/June of 1963, JFK committed the sacrilige against the Rockefeller brothers and Wall Street bankers: he rejected their demand to support the amending of Section 25 of the Federal Reserve Act, issued EO11110, renegotiated ths oil contracts between Indonesia and the Rockefeller oil companies, Caltex and Stanvac, and made firm his commitment to withdraw all US military advisors from Vietnam beginning by late November!
At the end of June 1963, the CIA dispatched agents to meet with French assassin–for–hire, Jean Rene Souetre in Lisbon while contacting another CIA contract killer, Belgian criminal Mozes Maschkivitzan, a legendary assassin too little known!
The murders of the THREE: JFK in Chicago and President Diem and his brother in Saigon, planned for Nov, 2nd didn’t quite go as planned as JFK’s trip was cancelled due to a tip from an FBI informant in Dallas, Lee (Oswald), but the brutal assassinations of the Diem brothers occurred, with President Kennedy later slaughtered on Elm Street in Dallas!
A Secret Service agent, ABRAHAM BOLDEN, became aware of the organized Chicago plot and attempted to contact the Warren Commission with that data, wrongfully trusting them as an upright entity, and Agent Bolden would be forced into a psych ward where he was drugged, then later railroaded into prison by the false testimony of a CIA–connected mobster, similar to how Army crypto operator Pfc. Eugene (Barry) Dinkin was forcibly institutionalized as was USAF crypto operator, Sgt. David Christensen!
Unsung American heroes!!!
So, now the theft will be by the government workers instead of the criminal invaders. CHECK. THE JOKE IS THAT THEY ACTUALLY THINK THIS MIGHT WORK! LOLLOLOLOL HA HA HA HA HA
I am a big fan of standing in line for four hours just to be told that the store is out of everything. Better be getting in line at 4:00 AM. Stupid ideas for stupid people.
It is in a blue state, who cares?
you can just imagine what the food would be like and the quality wouldbe in the dumps. The green crazies start pushing vegan and cricket food. The stores will go broke in a matter of a few years at best. The employees would be all welfare types and folks who could never hold jobs in a real business.
And the predictable result will be bare shelves and rationing. The left acts as if their disastrous ideas have never been tried before.
While the Mayor bemoans Shoplifting Deserts…
But will Government Bread lines be Gluten Free? THAT’S the real question.
Military commissary used to be a very good deal. No more. Hasn’t been for years. Think a Govt owned grocery store will be different than a commissary?
I’ve told you this since the fairy got in office. Obama 3.0! This is how they’ll get the masses to eat bugs! Get to know Jesus Christ and then get to know your local farmers.Have you found something worth dying for? If not you will never truly live! Bible prophesy unfolding before your eyes and this is just the stage being set. Hells coming to earth. Are you death ready? Christ promises eternal life, the world promises chaos! Make your move, your just about out of time! Oh yeh, no surprises here, this story was told over 2000 years ago. Read the Bible, you won’t be surprised any more!