This isn’t what a civilized society is supposed to look like. We aren’t supposed to have vast mobs of very angry young people rioting, looting and generally going nuts all over the country. But this is what our nation has become.
Our major cities have become cesspools of lawlessness where violence can literally erupt at any moment. But if Americans are this eager to riot and loot now, what is going to happen once we are in the midst of a severe economic recession? Needless to say, harsh economic times are certainly not going to improve the mood in this country.
It appears that Monday night is Kansas City’s turn to experience civil unrest. According to Time Magazine, protests “have erupted” even before the sun has gone down…
Protests have erupted in Kansas City, Mo., after a Black teenager was shot in the head and arm by a white homeowner late last week after accidentally ringing the wrong doorbell.
Ralph Yarl, 16, has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. He was shot after he went to collect his two younger brothers on Thursday after 10 p.m., according to police. Police said Yarl mistook the address 115th Terrace for 115th Street, where he was shot.
Any time a young person dies a tragic death like this, we should all mourn. Unfortunately, for a lot of people any sort of an incident like this is used as an excuse to riot, loot and burn things down.
And sometimes the criminals don’t need any sort of an excuse at all. Less than 24 hours ago, hundreds of looters completely gutted a gas station in Compton…
Sheriff’s deputies in Compton are returning to their patrol duties Monday following a chaotic weekend that involved a series of street takeovers and a mob of looters that left a trail of destruction at local stores.
Video captured a wild scene at an Arco gas station near Alondra Boulevard and Central Avenue early Sunday morning where a large group was caught on video bum-rushing an Arco gas station and stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise, all while the clerk on duty hid inside.
The video shows one man breaking the glass door while dozens of looters crowd behind him. Moments later, the group was seen grabbing everything from drinks, snacks, alcohol and even condoms.
Go back and read that first sentence again.
The mainstream media is actually admitting that criminals are taking over entire streets in Los Angeles right now.
And the police are admitting that they couldn’t do anything about the looting because they were so greatly outnumbered.
Watching hundreds of young men work together to loot a gas station should send a chill down all of our spines.
In this case, there was absolutely no political motivation for the attack. These young men just saw an opportunity to steal, and they gleefully took advantage of it…
The day before that, there was a massive riot in downtown Chicago that made headlines all over the nation, and a “huge brawl” erupted at a Chicago White Sox game…
A huge brawl broke out at Saturday’s Chicago White Sox game for over two minutes with several spectators involved.
Fists were flying all over the place before a woman was dragged from behind over a row of seats on the first-base side.
One lone security guard attempted to make peace, while another pair of women were throwing haymakers at one another.
If we are seeing this much chaos while economic conditions are still at least somewhat relatively stable, what will things be like once millions of Americans become truly desperate?
Earlier today, I was quite alarmed to read former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli’s assessment of the economy…
Former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli issued a grim warning over the U.S.’s “very complex” economy, cautioning consumers that middle market companies are under “tremendous pressure.”
“I think we’re going to see a lot of bankruptcies. Like Bed, Bath and Beyond. We got Walmart not only laying people off, but closing stores. We got Accenture laying people off. We got Amazon closing distribution centers. So I think there’s a tremendous-mixed message,” Nardelli said during an appearance on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast.”
The former CEO continued, saying that the “complexity” of the U.S. economy is “different than anything I have seen in my 52 years.”
Sadly, he is quite right.
So many companies are going to go out of business in the months ahead.
In fact, we just learned that David’s Bridal has just filed for bankruptcy…
David’s Bridal filed for bankruptcy protection days after the company announced it would lay off more than 9,200 employees across the nation.
The wedding retailer said in a press release Monday that its stores would remain open and fulfill orders without delay as the company looks to sell all or some of its assets. Its online platforms will also remain available to help with customers’ wedding planning needs.
As economic conditions deteriorate, Americans are going to increasingly turn to debt as a short-term solution, and this will particularly be true for financially-distressed young people that don’t have a lot of resources…
Many young adults overwhelmed by financial stress cope by ignoring the problem.
Some tune out bank and credit-card balances, lose track of their spending and rack up debt. Average credit-card debt rose 29% to $5,800 in March from a year earlier for millennials and increased 40% to $2,800 for Gen Z, Credit Karma said. Younger people were also more likely to have paid late fees or taken advances from their credit cards, a survey from NerdWallet found.
Unfortunately, U.S. banks are starting to get really tight with their money, and so that means that credit lines will be reduced and fewer credit cards will be issued.
A lot of people will soon find that they are maxed out and are unable to get more credit.
And all of this comes at a time when the U.S. money supply is steadily shrinking…
The U.S. money supply contracted for the third consecutive month, and is declining at the fastest pace since the Great Depression, new Federal Reserve data show.
In February, the M2 money supply – a benchmark for how much cash, bills, bank deposits, coins, and money market funds are circulating throughout the national economy – tumbled 2.24 percent from the same time a year ago, down from negative 1.7 percent in January. This represented the third straight month of a contracting money supply.
There is so much economic pain on the horizon.
And the American people are certainly not mentally or emotionally equipped to deal with hard times.
So we better hope that our leaders can find a way to artificially prop up the economy, because if they are unable to do so there will be much more rioting, looting and chaos ahead.
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Article cross-posted from The Economic Collapse Blog.
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.
I envision a lot of dead bodies, probably what the left wants. Are these thieves and rioters the children of the corrupt election workers who are selling out their country? Destroying the only refuge on the planet where freedom still exists for a few dollars in their pockets.
Just start shooting….
That’s easy. It will be like a civil war. The left will immediately start robbing and looting the soft targets like grocery stores. When that’s quickly gone they will start going house to house in mobs. Those who haven’t bugged out but prepared none the less, will seriously whittle down there numbers. Those that are left in cities that by that time will he blockaded will turn on each other in a cannibalistic hell. When it’s all over, there won’t be any leftist left.
They will be joined by the illegals who are angry that America is not an endless fount of riches. They will just take what they believe they are entitled to. It’s gonna get ugly.
Already firemen will not go to certain parts of Seattle without police escort. Stupid Dems are cool with that. Stupid voters keep voting dem Dems into office. So goes the evolution.
This latest episode of the lefts plan to destroy America was planned and funded by someone. Lets find out who and take care of business. Anyone who believes this destruction was an organic happening that occurred on it’s own is just stupid.
Say it with me. George Soros. With a lot of help from Barack Obama.
Remember the Communist Agitators we used to learn about in School.
Yeh well, they’re alive and thriving. Look for them at the Universities.
It was not organic and never was. Humanity is being Terraformed for a purpose which of course is not in our best interest. This many people can’t go nuts all the same time unless there is an outside force manipulating their minds. You can call it Satan, The Devil, or even evil spirits, but I’ll guarantee this won’t stop unless we use bullets to wake up those who are so afflicted !!!
I agree it is evil, but the crowds are manipulated by main stream media and social sites, they talk amongst themselves and know what they can get away with, just like the illegals coming in. Yes it may get violent, people should organize in their neighborhoods, make defensive plans, harder to take 5 out with good weapons and training than defending one household at a time, once it starts people will organize quickly.
Take away the 2nd amendment, (as progressive/liberal/socialists continue to push for), and these events will get much worse. Defund our police, and only criminals will be in charge. Who controls Joe Biden? Certainly it isn’t his ‘not a doctor’ wife.
90% of the population WILL NOT survive, it’s gonna be nice and quiet again.
And my little Mom & Pop Shop just keeps going. For 30 years it’s just been myself and my wife. Some prices have gone up, naturally, thanks to Joe Dementia. Business is good.
I do have an idea, it’s crazy….but it’s an idea. If your a store that is confronted by a wild mob of Thuggers. You need to be well armed. If the mob still comes, fire at will. You’ll be sure to hit someone. The mob will turn tail quicker than you can say, “BOO”. Yes, there will a charges filed against you, but security videos will show that you were 110% justified in self defense.
The revolutionaries have elected MArxist district attorneys, that will charge you regardless of the law. If they cannot convict you, they will drain you of al your money and smear your name.
And that Raice is why everyone of them needs to be taken out behind the barn and taught a good lesson in Ethics and Morals. Preferably with a Louisville Slugger.
The pioneers always pay the price of FREEDOM. They pave the way for others.
Defend yourself, family and property and damn the consequences.
The problem is the blacks
a majority of this is in blue cities where the Obama entitlement syndrome is strong…I remember a few years ago when the EBT system went down for a day. there were almost riots at Walmart and other stores. I rarely shop inside stores anymore…best to stay away
No mention of the racial demographic causing the majority of these crimes?
Wonder why…
Ah, that’s OK, we don’t mind, it will give us some target practice.. When the young black youth take out all the cops, we’ll have to be able to defend ourselves, because there will be no one left to that job. If they riot in our neighborhood, they’ll be dead. WE’LL MAKE IT THAT SIMPLE !!!
There is a reason bullseyes are black.
Dilbert was right. You need to get away from “those” people. Change jobs, move your family. Whatever it takes.
It ain’t just Black kids. I saw White kids in the videos also. The Entitlement crowd.
No, you actually saw Hispanics, big difference. I know because my city has been invaded by them for the last 40 years.
The vast majority are black and the total black population in less than 13%. Even if you see a white person or 2 this is still almost entirely blacks. Time for the media to stop hiding that fact……
I was wondering what Scott was thinking now.
What you state is correct. If you can afford to move, prepare. If you live in an inner ring suburb of a state like Minnesota, Oregon, Mass, Michigan etc, places where the government does not presently enforce laws for rioting; move while you still can get value for your property. If you want to stay in your state (i am not sure why); move out to the small towns, that have a sheriff’s department that values the 2nd amendment and a town that has number of active churches. When there is nothing left to steal in these cities, they will go to the suburbs.
Also hot. Wait until it gets hot. The imbecile Biden supporters will blame President Trump.
With the government printing trillions, how does the M2 shrink?
I was wondering what Scott was thinking now.
Let’s call this what it is — not one white person was in the video. This was 100% brown & black. How about article titles and content reflect the truth?
Doubt it is going to any worse than 2020. In fact, don’t even think it will get that bad. This will blow over like all the others. The people who are most effected by the economic downturn don’t loot and riot anyway. Those who do will still get their ‘benefits’ from the government. In fact, you may see more desperate shop keepers shooting back cutting the looting down a bit but lots of anger at the DAs for prosecuting them. I see this article as just trying to scare people into buying gold and silver for their advertisers…..aka….fear porn.
That’s why gun sales are through the roof. Be prepared.
Only a few have dared to comment. Why are most of the looters, rioters, criminals in nearly 100% of random crime videos you see all over media, on the news, on tiktok, whatever other loser mobile apps, etc., all people of color? Yeah, there are some white folks in there too. They probably end up getting targeted and pummeled because. But nearly 100% are black, much fewer are hispanic or other. Could there be some kind of indoctrination of our people of color going on?? Gee, I wonder. BLM ‘ summer of love’ rioter turdballs. Riot at sporting events win or lose, street takeovers, thuggery on random corners & parks in Chicago or name your democrat hellhole city, when EBT system goes down, etc. Not surprising that American Marxist Democrat crap ideology leads to this, and local DAs not enforcing criminal law. What saddens me is that so many think it’s okay to act like this.
The other thing: these cowards all wear masks. It’s simple, the police need to start sniping mask wearers with salt pellets, or arrest them on sight. You wear a mask, it immediately means you’re up to no good, you’re trying to hide, you get fragged with a salt pellet and hopefully arrested.
We need more roof top Koreans again.