Let’s revisit the tumultuous second half of 2021. Dementia-addled President Joe Biden executed a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August that resulted in the killing of thirteen servicemembers. Having spectacularly failed America’s warfighters, he transitioned quickly to the ongoing “fight against COVID.”
No cost was too great or burden too onerous in the federal government’s war against microscopic organisms. Billions were funneled to pharmaceutical companies (aka Democrat Party donors) to pay for witch doctors’ experimental elixirs. Billions more were funneled to “news” platforms and “non-governmental” organizations (all on the USAID dole) to push the White House’s preferred COVID narratives and censor dissent. In-class learning remained strictly limited. School desks were transformed into walled enclosures discouraging human contact.
Masking requirements became only more elaborate and superstitious with time. Any restaurants or small businesses that wished to avoid bankruptcy were forced to comply with ever-changing COVID edicts. Members of the military were sacrificed as gene-therapy guinea pigs for Big Pharma. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration threatened to prevent un-“vaccinated” workers from making a living. Crazy Joe Biden promised a “winter of severe illness and death” for any American refusing to be a biochemical test subject.
It was twenty-first-century totalitarianism disguised as health policy. It was the unholy alliance of State and corporate power (what’s that called again? — oh, right, fascism!). It was persecution in the name of “Science.” It was total insanity.
And just as the whole thing looked as if it were going to spiral out of control — when it seemed likely that “just-following-orders” medical doctors and troupes of dancing nurses would goose-step across the country with poison-dripping needles in their hands in search of the “noncompliant” — the COVID police state began crumbling. One moment Biden’s Antifa shock troops were doxxing dissenting scientists and terrorizing their families online, and the next moment the loony-leftist brownshirts all time-traveled back to Nazi Germany.
One moment Democrats were erecting COVID concentration camps and threatening to separate un-“vaccinated” parents from their children, and the next moment the tyrants-in-training shelved those plans for a later date. One moment the Department of Labor was forcing Americans to choose between medical experimentation and unemployment, and the next moment the Biden administration was pretending that it would never bully Americans into becoming pharmaceutical pincushions against their will. It was as if the COVID clowns packed up their crazy circus and skedaddled out of town in the dead of night.
To be sure, the circus left a trail of destruction in its wake. Grocery store floors were still painted with arrows meant to direct human-cattle along the most antiseptic paths. Government buildings still proudly displayed signs cautioning visitors to stand six feet apart while simultaneously assuring everyone, “We’re all in this together.” Big Pharma radio and television commercials continue to sell fear to this day. Even in more liberated Republican-leaning areas of the country, it’s not unusual to run into stray hypochondriacs hurling insults at strangers for refusing to cover their faces with thin paper masks.
The COVID Nazis mass-produced crazy, and the most delusional among us made sure to stock up for decades. Still, 2022 marked the beginning of the end of COVID’s relentless pressure campaign.
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The “Reign of COVID Terror” did not come to an end because high-ranking members of the Biden administration saw the error of their ways. The pandemic-loving sadists did not wake up one morning, look at the COVID police state that they had constructed with a toxic mixture of threats and censorship, and conclude, “Wow, we really are some evil fascists.” Some observers have argued that Democrats began to pull back on their COVID authoritarianism because they were fearful of the prospect of huge midterm election losses later in the year, but that explanation doesn’t quite pass muster.
COVID fearmongering, after all, was the electoral gift that allowed Democrat operatives to flood the 2020 election with fraudulent mail-in ballots. There’s no reason to think that they had become skittish about rigging future elections with never-ending health “emergencies.”
What seems most probable to me is that an unreported phenomenon emerged in the winter of ’21-’22. I think that public resistance to the government’s COVID tyranny was quietly reaching a fever pitch, and those in power were becoming increasingly worried about losing control. The first reports of “vaccine”-related injuries were making it past the Biden regime’s censorship protocols, and Americans had begun to learn that — contrary to public health officials’ slurry of lies — the mRNA injections were neither safe nor effective.
The propaganda press was struggling to cover-up stories of young, healthy athletes having heart attacks on playing fields because thousands of horrified viewers were witnessing the tragedies in person. As the Biden administration was gearing up to mandate these experimental injections on children, parents had begun to suspect that the much vaunted “vaccines” might not be the “medical miracles” that the government had long claimed. Social consciousness regarding both COVID and the government’s response to the virus rapidly changed during this short interval.
Remember, the National Security Agency and similar espionage organizations around the world monitor all of our electronic communications. Every phone call, text message, email, and social media post that we create is collected, stored, and analyzed. The CIA, FBI, and NSA pretend that they don’t spy on Americans, and the Supreme Court pretends that the federal government isn’t violating Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights every minute of the day, but the national security surveillance state tracks everything we say.
As appalling as that reality is, it is a statistical goldmine for predicting human behavior. The ongoing aggregation of trillions of data points reflecting the moods and concerns of the human population in real time must provide a kind of crystal ball for those empowered to spy on the world. With that kind of insight, predicting trends in the stock market would be relatively easy. No wonder central banks and spy agencies seem to employ so many of the same people.
I’ve always wondered exactly what that data was saying at the beginning of 2022. What was the NSA reading in Americans’ private emails and digitized phone conversations that persuaded the Intelligence Community to temper its strategic exploitation of COVID fanaticism? I have a feeling that public opinion was shifting so quickly against COVID authoritarianism that there were predictive indicators for mass rebellion in the United States and elsewhere.
Interestingly, this was also the time period when “Freedom Convoy” truckers began forcefully protesting COVID mandates in Canada. By successfully closing down trade routes between Canada and the U.S., organizers forced tyrant Justin Trudeau to take the extraordinary step of invoking the Emergencies Act, a type of martial law action that Canada’s COVID authoritarians used to seize protesters’ bank accounts and other assets.
The government response was such an over-the-top assault against free speech and political dissent that many politicians in Europe and America denounced Trudeau’s actions as deeply undemocratic. Although Canadian leftists succeeded in dispersing the “Freedom Convoy,” they provided a glaring example of thuggish government behavior during the “Reign of COVID Terror.”
If Western governments intended to use COVID as an excuse to introduce mandatory digital passports and central bank digital currencies and to justify government-directed censorship of dangerous “disinformation,” those dystopian dreams suffered real setbacks at the beginning of ’22. COVID propaganda was backfiring. The World Economic Forum’s cabal of globalists was forced to find a new reason for Westerners to submit to its twenty-first-century brand of technocratic totalitarianism. For those suspicious of coincidences, consider this small but curious data point: the “Freedom Convoy” ended on February 23, 2022. The War in Ukraine started the very next day.
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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.
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