There is a frustrating contradiction when it comes to the way public information is assessed for factual truth. For decades, prominent news organizations have steadily lost credibility. Fewer Americans than ever believe what The New York Times, CNN, NPR, or even the AP publishes as the “objective” record of current events.
At the same time, however, alternative, competing descriptions of current events are almost entirely ignored. No matter how compelling or factually sourced a story might be, it is largely disregarded until mainstream corporate news institutions are willing to recognize its validity.
This annoying state of affairs was highlighted last week after Dr. Anthony Fauci refused to testify before the Senate. Although the man holds one of Joe Biden’s get-out-of-jail-free autopen pardons, Fauci cowardly asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than a hundred times.
With a general pardon in hand that presumably allows him to get away with past acts of mass murder, he could put himself in legal jeopardy only by not telling the truth while under oath at the hearing. So long as Fauci avoided newly committing perjury, there was no risk to his liberty. The fact that he nevertheless remained mum the whole time revealed a particularly guilty conscience: Fauci could not bear the thought of admitting to the world that he told numerous lies in the past.
To be sure, Fauci’s lies are huge and unforgivable. He lied about COVID arising from inter-species transmission in an outdoor meat market rather than from a bioweapons laboratory re-engineering coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.
He lied about not having partially funded deadly coronavirus research at that lab as part of a workaround to American regulatory prohibitions against such dangerous projects. He lied about COVID’s lethality, especially with regard to young or healthy bodies. He lied about the efficacy of simple masks to prevent viral transmission. He lied about the need to close schools and businesses. He lied about the need for draconian home confinements. He lied about the effectiveness of the experimental mRNA injections that he called “vaccines.” He lied about the proven effectiveness of alternative treatments. He lied about the effectiveness of natural immunity.
His lies were profound, and because mainstream news institutions refused to question anything he said, his lies were the only bits of information allowed to circulate in the public sphere. So-called “journalists” not only repeated verbatim exactly what the government’s chief medical bureaucrat claimed to be true but also cheered social media platforms for censoring competing points of view.
“Reporters” working for The New York Times and CNN were enthralled by Fauci’s perceived professional prestige and institutional authority. Why? Because they are enamored of their own perceived professional prestige and institutional authority. They worship glory and accolades; they are slaves to appeals to authority; they care nothing for the pursuit of truth.
This is why so many “journalists” jumped to defend Fauci’s honor after his embarrassing refusal to say anything truthful. MSNOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell insisted that the dishonorable doc had “done more in service to this country than…the entire current United States Senate combined.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper pretended that he wasn’t having dinner parties with Fauci while the rest of America was kept in lockdown and isolation. And CNN “media analyst” Brian Stelter continued to ignore how both Jake Tapper and Dana Bash developed unethical personal relationships with Fauci while CNN’s “journalists” portrayed the health bureaucrat’s lies as unquestionable “truths.”
If you need a reminder of just how sanctimonious and authoritarian mainstream media mouthpieces were during the Reign of COVID Tyranny, watch this video montage of Jake Tapper and other hysterical fearmongers demanding that Americans submit to the COVID police state and do everything Fauci required of them.
In that video, Fauci menacingly tells Americans, “Now is the time to do what you are told.” Around that time, CNN’s quack medical expert, Dr. Leana Wen, argued that the “unvaccinated” should not be “allowed” to leave their homes.
Almost a year after Fauci privately admitted in his diary that COVID had not emerged from a wet market, NPR was pumping out this propaganda on its social media accounts: “A new poll finds 40% of respondents believe in a baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was created in a lab in China. There is zero evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.”
NPR lied. The laboratory origin of COVID was not a “baseless conspiracy theory.” There was plenty of evidence available in late-2019 and early-2020 to support the theory that the virus had escaped (inadvertently or intentionally, we still do not know) from a Chinese pathogen lab. “Scientists say” is just a lazy rhetorical appeal to authority that real journalists do not use as an intellectual crutch.
But NPR is a propaganda outfit. Its people are incapable of making arguments backed by reasonable evidence. This is the same institution, after all, that covered up Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop story during the 2020 presidential election by lying, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
Instead, NPR parroted the lies of fifty-one Deep State Intelligence propagandists who undermined the election by falsely attributing Biden’s laptop to “Russian disinformation.” NPR also never stopped pushing the Russia Collusion Hoax.
With regard to COVID, the so-called “experts” and mainstream “journalists” were wrong about everything. Nevertheless, with an astonishing mix of pseudoscience, moral blackmail, and blatant hypocrisy, they arrogantly demanded that Americans believe everything they said. Six years later, even after Fauci has been exposed as a murdering fraud, the same “experts” and “journalists” refuse to admit their culpability for excusing crimes against humanity and discarding the Bill of Rights’ protections for Americans’ personal freedoms.
And because they will not relent in defending their past lies, we cannot properly move beyond the COVID crimes committed against us. Our society is stuck, enveloped in a discredited narrative that our “prestigious institutions” refuse to correct.
Yet the mainstream media’s COVID disinformation campaign is only one instance of a multi-front information war against the public. Mainstream corporate news institutions have proven incapable of telling the truth. They get every big, consequential news story dead wrong.
These same propagandists spent years telling us that President Trump was a Russian spy and that Russian President Vladimir Putin rigged the 2016 election. Despite breathless coverage that occasionally gets regurgitated to this day, neither news story was true. While mainstream media mouthpieces hypnotized the public with lies, they covered up three real monumental stories:
- Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for the Steele Dossier that framed Donald Trump as a Russian agent.
- The American Intelligence Community used Clinton’s fraudulent dossier as an excuse to spy on Donald Trump.
- Furthermore, the Obama administration had been spying on all of the Republican candidates prior to Trump’s nomination.
The institutional press — the so-called “guardians of the First Amendment” — ignored the greatest political scandals in our lifetimes. Why? Because they support Clinton and Obama completely and will do anything to destroy President Trump. That’s not “journalism”; that’s information warfare.
Together, the Russia Collusion Hoax and the Reign of COVID Tyranny proved just how monstrously dishonest mainstream “journalists” really are. There is nothing too preposterous for them to present as “truth” if doing so advances their preferred political narrative.
Given that this is the case, a reasonable person must assume that everything a credentialed member of the press says is a lie. Strangely, some of the biggest names in news still seem to believe that they have credibility. For the life of me, I cannot tell whether “journalists” suffer more from hubris or incurable idiocy.
Hat tip to Timothy A. Miller and condolences for the loss of his son.
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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