If you needed another reminder why this year’s midterm elections are so important, Barack Hussein Obama II is back to make the case: Democrats intend to seize control over artificial intelligence and shape it to their advantage. The former president, who has refused to exit the political stage a decade after leaving office, wants his communist-curious comrades to scare voters about potential threats from AI in the final weeks of election season (Remember when we used to vote in person and tally all those votes in a single day?)
Obama is a blowhard, but he knows how to tap into voter fears for maximum political leverage. When he entered the White House, race relations between black and white Americans were at a historic high. Obama enjoyed extremely high approval ratings because Republicans who voted against him hoped that his presidency would heal any remaining racial wounds.
Instead of embracing that goodwill and uniting Americans in common purpose, Obama and his attorney general wingman, Eric Holder, jumped at every opportunity to pour salt in those wounds. Even though crime statistics proved otherwise, Obama and Holder insisted (with the help of a compliant news media) that law enforcement officers were abusing and murdering black Americans.
By the time his divide-and-conquer presidency came to an end, race relations between black and white Americans had deteriorated; Democrats were screaming, “Black lives matter!” and, “Defund the police!” in the streets; and domestic terrorists had assassinated numerous police officers across the country. Obama used the imaginary problems of “systemic racism” and police brutality to stoke fears, resentments, and racial divisions.
Obama has a long track record of inciting public fears and using those fears as political weapons. His decision to start banging the apocalyptic drum over AI is no different. Just as he inexcusably convinced half the nation that police officers were murdering black Americans, he is now working to convince voters that unregulated AI means certain doom.
Obama’s not against the technological reality of artificial intelligence; he just wants to make sure Democrats are in complete control of it. This is what disciples of Big Government do: They write laws, rules, and regulations that give preferred companies monopoly power within a given industry, and in return, the corporate beneficiaries of these unfair privileges do Big Government’s bidding.
This is the leftist, globalist, crony-capitalist model of governance throughout the West. First, governments conjure a problem that can be used to scare the public. Then their partners in the corporate news media hammer that problem until the public demands government action. Finally, governments propose new laws that infringe upon the public’s freedoms while allocating new powers to the fearmongering governments. Scaring people until they beg for more government is how authoritarianism and totalitarianism take hold.
For decades, the best example of this government-run con game has been the “global warming” bugaboo. Over the last fifty years, Western governments have told us to be afraid of a cooling planet, then a warming planet, then a changing climate, and now extreme weather. Their constantly revised temperature predictions, shoddy science, and fake statistics have not stopped them from frantically ringing the alarm about a coming apocalypse that they use to terrify children. “The science is settled!” Obama and his globalist friends all exclaim.
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Lucky for us, the leftist-globalists have a “solution”: Carbon taxes, expensive “green energies,” and expansive government regulations just might save the day! If we allow governments to control every part of the economy, some people could survive. It’s amazing when you think about it. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old, but we humans were on our way to killing it until we discovered that paying more in taxes fixes “global warming.”
Of course, more taxes and regulations do produce a lower standard of living for the average person, which means that some percentage of the population must be sacrificed for the “greater good.” The Ancient Aztecs who sacrificed humans to appease their weather gods must have been the “progressives” of their day.
Just as people were starting to see through the “climate change” con, Western governments gave us the “Reign of COVID Terror.” Anthony Fauci and his government health bureaucrats funded a dangerous research project in communist China that ended up infecting most of the planet.
Rather than admit that government scientists had once again killed a lot of people, Western governments saw an opportunity to push totalitarianism upon their populations. We got lockdowns, small business bankruptcies, school closures, mask mandates, experimental mRNA concoctions falsely labeled “vaccines,” quarantine camps, and “vaccine” passports.
Online public debate was censored. Church congregations were arrested for praying together. In the United States, the whole Bill of Rights was thrown out the window. But pharmaceutical companies made tons of money! And Big Box stores such as Amazon and Walmart saw record profits after governments forced all their smaller competitors to close up shop! It’s almost as if Big Government and Big Business conspired to screw over billions of people!
We didn’t have to shut down the planet to survive COVID. We could have taken Anthony Fauci’s Chinese bioweapon project in stride. There was no reason for Westerners to curl up into balls and embrace mass panic. But governments told us that tyrannical edicts were the only acceptable “solutions” to a public health emergency that they created.
They told us that, unless we consented to totalitarianism, we were all going to die! It was the “global warming” model of governance turbocharged to regulate us into total submission in record time. Just as is the case with every other globalist information war against the public, the blueprint remained the same:
- Scare the public with a new problem.
- Encourage the public to demand a government solution.
- Provide a “solution” that transfers power from the public to the government.
The era of AI has arrived, and here we go again! AI tech bros are publicly hyperventilating about how their creations will probably murder us all. Wall Street and City of London speculators are promising that society will soon collapse.
Big Government priests such as Obama are warning that the situation is dire unless bureaucrats seize more power. The corporate news media are blaring the same sirens that they use for “global warming” and COVID. All the smartest, wealthiest, most powerful people and institutions are screaming in unison: Regulate us before we hurt you!
Should we do it? Should we once again demand that governments come up with “solutions” that coincidentally take freedom and power away from us and hand those priceless heirlooms over to them? Or will we pause to consider how much of today’s AI fearmongering resembles the “global warming” and COVID fearmongering of the recent past? Will we ponder whether governments have our best interests at heart or theirs?
After all, Barack Obama doesn’t come out of retirement unless there’s a golden opportunity to scare people into handing his friends more power.
If the Democrat Party takes control over AI, all the “politically correct” lies that run amok today will become cybernetic “truths.” AI will tell us that some women have penises and that some men give birth. It will regulate market transactions in order to “save us” from “global warming.”
It will rewrite history in order to hide the fact that communism killed well over a hundred million people last century. It will falsely identify President Trump’s MAGA movement and other political parties that defend national sovereignty as being ideologically equivalent to Hitler’s Nazis.
Leftist, Marxist, globalist points of view will become the default settings for the greatest information repository ever created. If Obama and his fellow travelers secure a government monopoly over AI, they will use it to advance their totalitarian playbook.
When Barack Obama tells you to be afraid, he wants to take something from you. If you don’t let him scare you, he can’t succeed.
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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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