It is highly unlikely that the United States government will be able to effectively roll out its planned central bank digital currency (CBDC) because in order to maintain it and keep it functional, there needs to be plenty of workers to maintain it – except those workers are either too sick to continue working or are already dead due to Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “vaccines.”
(Article cross-posted from Natural News)
The situation is tragic both for the human lives lost and for the U.S. economy, which will eventually collapse under the weight of too many broken systems and not enough employees to fix them and keep them going – so what will become of things once that critical threshold is breached?
Portfolio manager Ed Dowd appeared on the “Health Ranger Report” this week to discuss this pertinent issue, and to reveal what he believes could end up replacing a nationalized CBDC.
Since there are so few competent and available workers to maintain a CBDC at the nationwide level, Dowd believes it entirely possible that states could end up launching their own individual currencies.
“If this gets super creepy and weird, there’ll be states that break off, civil war, you know, you’ll have, like – during the Civil War, we had Confederate money – we’ll have different entities issuing their own money,” Dowd explains around the 13:45 mark in the below video – be sure to watch.
“That’s where we’re going eventually. There are going to be black markets, barterer, work trade.”
(Related: Check out this earlier interview with Dowd in which he unpacks in further detail the devastating economic implications of all the covid jab injuries, disabilities, and deaths.)
The only money that will be worth anything in the future is the kind that’s backed by SOMETHING
The coming financial collapse, by the way, would not be possible to the degree that it will soon occur – and boy is it going to be massive – were it not for the fact that the U.S. dollar is a Federal Reserve Note issued by private bankers who pegged it to nothing.
There is quite literally no end to the amount of U.S. dollars that can be printed endlessly to fund wars and other globalist activities, which is exactly what has been happening ever since the Federal Reserve was created back in 1913.
The rate at which the dollar is being diluted into oblivion is constantly speeding up, of course, and only in the past several years has it really become apparent just how much up poop creek this country really is, financially speaking.
The Health Ranger told Dowd that he actually hopes the state of Texas, where he lives, will launch its own state-level currency to prepare for the future. He says it can be backed by oil, gold, food, whatever, and ultimately hold more value than the worthless U.S. dollar.
“I would love to see Texas issue its own currency … if it were backed by … anything that’s real, versus this money-printing madness in D.C. and the Federal Reserve – another trillion here, another trillion there, another $100 billion for Ukraine, but nothing for the U.S. border?”
“Any kind of honest ledger would be better than what we have right now where our purchasing power is just stolen from us every single day.”
In Dowd’s view, it all depends on just how “kooky and weird” things become in the coming days. With a fake puppet “president” occupying the White House and a completely divided country, there really is no telling how dire things will get.
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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.
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.