(End of the American Dream)—Just when you think that things can’t get any crazier, somehow they do. We live at a time when the thin veneer of civilization that we all once took for granted is rapidly disintegrating all around us. Some people still behave rationally, but a lot of people don’t. Decades ago, the lunatics were an extremely small minority on the fringes of society, but today there are countless lunatics that are actually in positions of power. Just look at some of the mayors that our major cities have been electing recently. What we are witnessing would be funny if it was the plot of a Hollywood comedy, but since it is real life that we are talking about what we are witnessing is extremely tragic. What is considered to be “normal” is being turned upside down in hundreds of different ways, and our entire society is descending into a state of constant chaos.
When I was growing up, there is no way that Lindsay Clancy would have been considered a national hero by millions of Americans.
In those days, they would have locked her up and thrown away the key.
But in 2026, killing her three children has made her an instant celebrity.
Just a few hours ago, her lawyer went on Good Morning America and suggested that President Trump should pardon her…
Lindsay Clancy’s outspoken lawyer, Kevin Reddington, directly appealed to President Trump early Tuesday to pardon the killer mom.
“Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady – the type of person she is and what she’s been through – and consider a pardon,” he told “Good Morning America” when asked what was next for Clancy after her high-profile case ended in a mistrial Friday.
The veteran 75-year-old lawyer made no mention of how he expected Trump to get involved, given that Clancy is only facing state charges, which presidents have no power to pardon. He also did not say if he hoped such unprecedented intervention would stop a second trial or save the killer if she were convicted.
Are you kidding me?
When I saw the footage of this interview, I was absolutely flabbergasted.
What would cause him to believe that President Trump would ever do such a thing?
And since he has been practicing law for decades, shouldn’t he understand that the president cannot pardon someone for a state crime?
That guy is just crazy.
Speaking of crazy, Meranda has discovered some very strange coincidences between the Lindsay Clancy case and another case that occurred precisely three years earlier…
How can it be possible that there are so many parallels between those two cases?
Was Lindsay Clancy aware of the first case?
If she was, does that make Lindsay Clancy a copycat killer?
Of course there have been other women that have followed Lindsay Clancy’s example since her case started receiving national attention.
I think that it would be better for our country if such cases were resolved very quietly.
Let me shift gears and discuss another chaotic story that has been in the news.
By now, you have probably heard about the unruly passenger that was duct-taped to a chair on American Airlines Flight 618.
Well, now we have the whole story.
The mainstream media doesn’t seem to want to talk about this, but the reason why the unruly passenger was duct-taped to a chair was because he had violently assaulted bestselling author Jonathan Cahn…
The mystery passenger at the center of the viral American Airlines Flight 618 incident has been identified as #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Cahn.
As Charisma previously reported, the Dallas-Fort Worth-to-Newark flight was diverted to Baltimore Sept. 3 after passenger Arthur Lundeen, 67, allegedly became disruptive and violent. Lundeen was ultimately restrained with duct tape and zip ties before being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and second-degree assault. But amid the viral reports of yelling, chaos and an outburst involving Jesus and hell, one central figure remained unidentified: the passenger seated directly beside him.
Now, Cahn says that passenger was him.
“I was the unidentified passenger,” Cahn reveals. “And I was actually attacked 30,000 ft in the sky. I was attacked on that plane.”
This incident could have been so much worse.
Jonathan Cahn has released a video in which he gives us details that have not been revealed by the mainstream media yet…
The next person that you sit next to on a bus, on the subway or on a plane could be a total nut.
You just never know.
Our modern reality is just so messed up.
Every day I come across news stories that would have been unthinkable decades ago.
For example, we are about to observe the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and the Girl Scouts are now giving out awards and patches for practicing Islam…
Girl Scouts can now earn awards for learning about Islam, practicing Muslim traditions and even introducing non-Muslim friends to Islamic practices.
The National Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting has developed four religious awards for Muslim Girl Scouts. The medals themselves bear the words, “GIRL SCOUT OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH.”
They are named “Bismillah,” “In the Name of Allah,” “Qurat ul A’in” and “Muslimeen.” According to the committee, the awards emphasize the “theory and practice of Islam.”
Other Islamic programs available to Girl Scouts include patches connected with Ramadan and special times of prayer. The National Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting even offers a Hajj patch and “Hajj Passport” for learning about the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
What in the world has happened to the Girl Scouts?
When I was a kid, it was such a respected organization.
Sadly, those days are long gone.
The weather is going crazy too.
In Nagoya, Japan more than 104 millimeters of rain just fell in a single hour…
Torrential rain pounded central Japan on Tuesday, prompting an emergency flood warning for a major river in the region, as roads, railway tracks and other infrastructure were inundated, and local authorities urged residents in some areas to immediately seek safety.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its highest flood warning, Level 5, for the Shonai River, which flows through Gifu and Aichi prefectures. About 104 millimeters of rain fell in an hour in Nagoya under the influence of an autumn rain front.
The city government called on residents in parts of Chikusa, Moriyama and Meito wards to take immediate action to ensure their safety.
What a nightmare.
On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Hurricane Marie has been pummeling the California coast with enormous waves, and a massive 30 foot by 30 foot sinkhole just appeared right in the middle of Nicolas Cage’s driveway…
Nicolas Cage’s Malibu mansion has been rocked by a massive sinkhole that has swallowed the beachfront home’s driveway.
Photos of the destruction show the once-palatial property sitting on the edge of a massive crater that has taken down the driveway, a portion of the adjacent street and a portable restroom.
The luxurious residence, which Cage purchased for $10.5 million in 2024, has now been sectioned off with various orange construction cones.
Unfortunately, I think that the weather is only going to get crazier in the months ahead.
Of course the same thing could be said about the major military conflicts that are raging in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
The Russians have greatly escalated the bombing of Ukraine, and now they have suddenly decided to close Germany’s consulate in St. Petersburg…
More tit-for-tat between Russia and Germany amid a deepening diplomatic freeze related to the Ukraine war: the Kremlin announced on Monday that it is closing Germany’s consulate in St. Petersburg, with operations ordered to by suspended by September 18.
“It was the German authorities who, once again, provoked a new round of escalation in bilateral relations,” the Foreign Ministry stated, charging that Berlin “bears full and complete responsibility” for the consequences.
Relations between Russia and Germany haven’t been this bad since the end of World War II.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is normally very careful with his words, but even he is saying that what we are witnessing is “the start of a real war” with Germany…
The strongest words out of Moscow have come from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this weekend. While the US delegation of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in Russia for a 3-hour meeting with President Putin, he said that a “real war” between Russia and the West is emerging.
He asserted to a Russian state TV reporter: “This is, by and large, the start of a real war. They expelled the consulate general from Bonn. They’re closing the Russian House in Berlin. I remember that before the start of the Second World War… They want war again.”
In the Middle East, there have been some significant developments just within the past few hours.
First of all, the IRGC has announced that it has captured a very advanced unmanned submarine that the U.S. was operating near the Strait of Hormuz…
Iran on Tuesday claimed that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy had captured an advanced unmanned American submarine near the entrance of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, adding another dramatic dimension to the months-long conflict in West Asia.
According to a statement broadcast by Iranian state television, the IRGC said its naval forces intercepted the US military vessel at dawn during what it described as a “complex intelligence and operational action.” Tehran claimed the submarine was among the most modern unmanned and autonomous underwater systems operated by the United States.
That is very alarming, because that could potentially give the Iranians access to sophisticated technology that they do not currently possess.
Secondly, Fox News is reporting that the U.S. military is conducting a new round of airstrikes near Kharg Island…
An Iranian response is coming.
There should be very little doubt about that.
So it appears that another round of fighting has erupted.
We live at a time when we are constantly being bombarded by one crisis after another.
Continual chaos has become our “new normal”, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon.
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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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