A Dead Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon, and Scientists Are Thrilled


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Feeling Afraid: 33 Powerful Reminders For When You Feel Afraid


Feeling Afraid: 33 Powerful Reminders For When You Feel Afraid

“To feel afraid is natural. To rise above your fears and realize that you are far greater than what frightens you, that is supernatural. Strive to become supernatural and your fears will melt away.” ~ Luminita D. Saviuc

WHEN YOU FEEL AFRAID

When you feel lost, frightened and all alone, know that you can do something about it. You can take charge of your own thoughts and feelings, and shift yourself and your life in a totally different direction. 

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You have this great power within you. 

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And it is my hope that the reminders I will share with you below will inspire and empower you to make use of this great power that lies dormant within you so that you can start making the shift from fear to courage, love and greatness. 

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33 Powerful Reminders For When You Feel Afraid

1. Fear not, you are of the nature of the lion.

”Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.” ~ Elizabeth I

2. The release from fear is the the beginning of healing.

“Every situation properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal.” ~ A Course In Miracles

“All healing is essentially the release from fear.” ~ A Course In Miracles

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3. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~ Nelson Mandela

4. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead anyhow.

“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.” ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

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5. Fear is the cheapest room in the house. You deserve to live in better condition

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” ~ Hafiz

6. Do not be afraid. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

”Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ~ Marie Curie

7. Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

”Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” ~ Dale Carnegie

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8. Expose yourself to your deepest fear and fear vanishes.

”Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” ~ Jim Morrison

9. Look fear in the face.

”You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

10. Fear is nothing but False Evidence Appearing Real.

“.. Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real.” ~ Nick Vujicic

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11. Make up your mind and fear will disappear.

“Where there is fear, it is because you have not made up your mind.” ~ A Course In Miracles

12. Feel the fear and do it anyway!

“Feel the fear and do it anyway!” ~ Susan Jeffers

13. The antidote to fear is to take full responsibility for yourself.

“What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.” ~ Maya Angelou

14. Prove yourself strong when they expect you to be afraid

“Always do what you’re afraid to do. … I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.” ~ E. Lockhart

15. Fear is really nothing and love is everything.

“Fear is really nothing and love is everything. Whenever light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished. What you believe is true for you.” ~ A Course in Miracles

16. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” ~ A Course in Miracles

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“If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess, and crowd it with images that do not exist.” ~ A Course In Miracles

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17. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” ~ 1 John 4:18

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18. You can’t serve two masters. You have to choose one—fear or love.

“If you want to be happy, if you want to experience the many wonders of life… you have to let go of fear. .. You can’t serve two masters. You have to choose one—fear or love—and based on the one you choose your life will either be happy or unhappy.” ~ Luminita D. Saviuc

19. The one who is always afraid is the ego.

“If you identify with the ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty. Whenever you respond to your ego you will experience guilt, and you will fear punishment. The ego is quite literally a fearful thought.” ~ A Course in Miracles

20. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

“Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” ~ 1 John 4:7-8

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21. Be still and know that you are safe.

“The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict; for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. . . . What you remember is a part of you. For you must be as God created you… Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace of the remembrance of God, still shining in your quiet mind.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer

22. If God is for you, who can be against you?

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” ~ Romans 8:31

“The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” ~ Psalm 118:6

23. Fear no evil.

“Even though I walk through the darkest valley,I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” ~ Psalm 23:4

“When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” ~ Proverbs 16:7

24. Cast all your anxiety on the Divine.

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” ~ 1 Peter 5:6-7

25. You are far more powerful than you believe.

“Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.” ~ Neville Goddard

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26. Fear is such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job?

“Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job.” ~ Hafiz

27. Life opens up opportunities to you.

“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.” ~ Jim Carrey

28. Peace of mind is an internal matter.

“Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward.” ~ A Course In Miracles

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29. Be strong and courageous.

“Fear not, for I Am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” ~ Isaiah 41:10

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” ~ Joshua 1:9

30. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you

“If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be.” ~ Meister Eckhart

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31. Be not so afraid of dying that you forget to live.

“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.” ~ Henry Van Dyke

If you lack forgiveness, you are giving your Light away and absorbing the dense emotions of those you cannot seem to forgive… Give not your Light to those who have proven not to be a friend to you.

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32. Do not be afraid. God is with you wherever you go.

“When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” ~ Deuteronomy 20:1

33. If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.

“if there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.” ~ African proverb

And these are the 33 powerful things you should always remember when you feel afraid. May they inspire and empower you to rise above fear and become powerful and courageous being you have always been.

**What about you? What is the one thing that helps you when you feel afraid? You can share your comment below 🙂

9/11 Responders More Likely to Carry Genetic Mutations Tied to Cancer


Clonal hematopoiesis seen in 10% of firefighters, medical personnel on the scene after WTC attack

A photo of New York City Firefighters and first responders surveying the rubble of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.

Firefighters and emergency medical personnel who were among the first to respond to the World Trade Center (WTC) attack on Sept. 11, 2001 harbor significantly higher rates of genetic mutations associated with blood cancers and other inflammatory diseases, researchers have found.

A full 10% of WTC responders exposed to particulate matter from the burning twin towers had evidence of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) on deep targeting sequencing, as compared with 6.7% of non-WTC-exposed firefighters, reported Amit Verma, MBBS, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and colleagues.

The difference amounted to a threefold higher likelihood of CH among the WTC responders after controlling for age, sex, and race/ethnicity (OR 3.14, 95% CI 1.64-6.03, P=0.0006), according to the findings in Nature Medicine.

The data “demonstrate that environmental exposure to the WTC disaster site is associated with a higher burden of CH, exceeding that expected in normal aging, and establish a rationale for mutational testing of the larger WTC-exposed population,” the group wrote.

“These blood mutations are not only associated with an increased risk of blood cancers, but also associated with increased risk of heart disease, lung disease, and other inflammatory diseases,” Verma told MedPage Today in an email. “Finding these mutations can lead to preventive measures such as heart checkups, controlling cholesterol, checkups for early signs of cancer — the best way to cure cancer is to catch it early.”

“These findings suggest that sequencing tests can be used for not just firefighters, but also police force, EMT workers, and others affected by the WTC exposure,” Verma added.

In a previous study, investigators demonstrated that WTC exposure among first responders was associated with an increased risk of monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance — a precursor of multiple myeloma. This suggests that “sufficient time has now elapsed after exposure for the manifestation of other premalignant conditions,” wrote Verma and Colleagues.

In their current study, the authors collected blood samples from 481 deidentified WTC-exposed New York City firefighters (n=429) and WTC-exposed emergency medical personnel (n=52) from 2013 to 2015. These samples were assessed for DNA isolation and sequencing. Control peripheral blood samples were obtained from 255 firefighters from the Nashville, Tennessee area who had comparable baseline demographics.

In the WTC-exposed group of responders, the authors identified 48 individuals with 57 CH-associated mutations, compared with 17 individuals in the non-WTC-exposed firefighter cohort.

The association between WTC exposure and CH on multivariate analyses were maintained when the researchers removed the WTC-exposed emergency medical personnel and only compared the exposed to non-exposed firefighters (OR 2.93, 95% CI 1.52-5.65, P=0.0014).

It was also maintained when they restricting the analysis to those whose smoking status was available (smoking status was not linked with CH):

  • All exposed responders: OR 3.05 (95% CI 1.54-6.06, P=0.0015)
  • Exposed firefighters: OR 2.78 (95% CI 1.39-5.59, P=0.004)

The frequency of somatic mutations in WTC-exposed first responders showed an age-related increase, and predominantly affected the DNMT3A (16 of 57) and TET2 (7 of 57) genes.

In order to determine the effects of WTC particulate matter exposure on hematopoietic stem cells in vivo, Verma and colleagues administered wild-type mice with doses of WTC particulate matter considered to be equivalent to the exposure experienced by first responders. They observed a significant expansion of hematopoietic stem cells in the treated mice 30 days after exposures, with no significant change in other populations.

First Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy OK’d in Lung Cancer


FDA approves nivolumab plus chemotherapy in resectable, non-small cell lung cancer

FDA APPROVED nivolumab (Opdivo) over a computer rendering of a tumor in the lungs.

The FDA approved nivolumab (Opdivo) in combination with chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for adults with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Bristol Myers Squibb announced.

According to the company, the approval marks the first for an immunotherapy-based treatment prior to surgery in NSCLC, and was granted for use irrespective of patients’ PD-L1 status based on findings from the CheckMate-816 trial.

“Given the rates of disease recurrence in patients with resectable NSCLC, additional treatment options are needed that can be given before surgery to help improve the chance of successful surgical treatment and support the goal of reducing the risk of cancer returning,” said trial investigator Mark Awad, MD, PhD, of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in a release.

“The approval of nivolumab with platinum-doublet chemotherapy marks a turning point in how we treat resectable NSCLC and it enables us to use immunotherapy and chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for patients before surgery,” he added. “Today’s announcement reinforces the need to increase the rates of NSCLC screening and early detection, and for patients to discuss treatment options with their providers.”

In CheckMate-816, 358 patients with resectable NSCLC (tumors ≥4 cm or node positive) were randomized 1:1 to receive either nivolumab combined with platinum-doublet chemotherapy or platinum-doublet chemotherapy alone before surgery.

Investigators found that the immunotherapy-based combination resulted in a statistically significant improvement in event-free survival (EFS), with a 37% reduction in the risk of progression, recurrence, or death (HR 0.63, 95% CI 0.45-0.87, P=0.0052) compared with chemotherapy alone.

The nivolumab group had a median EFS of 31.6 months (95% CI 30.2-not reached) compared with 20.8 months (95% CI 14.0 to 26.7) for patients treated with chemotherapy alone. In addition, a pathologic complete response rate of 24% was observed in the nivolumab group compared with 2.2% with chemotherapy alone (P<0.0001).

A prespecified interim analysis for overall survival resulted in an HR of 0.57 (95% CI 0.38-0.87), which Bristol Myers Squibb noted “did not cross the boundary for statistical significance.” Data from the trial are expected to be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in April.

As for safety, serious adverse reactions occurred in 30% of patients receiving nivolumab plus chemotherapy. Serious adverse reactions occurring in more than 2% of patients included pneumonia and vomiting, with no fatal adverse reactions occurring in patients who received the combination therapy.

The most common adverse reactions included nausea (38%), constipation (34%), fatigue (26%), decreased appetite (20%), and rash (20%).

Adverse reactions leading to the discontinuation of the combination therapy occurred in 10% of patients, and 30% had at least one treatment withheld for an adverse reaction.

Insulin Biosimilars Expected in 2024; Dexcom’s CGM for Hospital Use; Tymlos for Men?


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The nonprofit drugmaker Civica announced plans to make three types of lower-cost insulin — biosimilars of Lantus, Humalog, and Novolog — which are expected to be available in the U.S. by 2024. (Reuters)

The FDA granted breakthrough device designation to Dexcom’s continuous glucose monitor (CGM) for use in a hospital setting, the company announced.

The Endocrine Society updated its policy for journal authors changing their names — designed to support transgender or nonbinary authors, as well as those who change their names due to marriage, divorce, religious conversion, or other reasons — allowing for name changing without a public announcement through a correction notice.

Radius Health submitted a supplemental new drug application to the FDA for the subcutaneous injectable abaloparatide (Tymlos), looking for an indication in men with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture. The supporting findings from the phase III ATOM study will be presented at this year’s American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Annual Meeting.

Following the huge demand — and subsequent supply shortage — of the obesity drug Wegovy (semaglutide), maker Novo Nordisk has more than doubled its sales targets by 2025. (Reuters)

That being said, a new report from GlobalData predicted that Novo Nordisk will “successfully overcome the supply challenges surrounding Wegovy in the second half of 2022 and that the drug will likely become a blockbuster therapy for obesity from 2023.”

And in related news, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review said it plans to compare the clinical efficacy and value of the following obesity treatments: subcutaneous semaglutide (Wegovy), phentermine/topiramate (Qsymia), liraglutide (Saxenda), and naltrexone/bupropion (Contrave).

Lipid profiling — also know as lipidomics — can help to pinpoint one’s risk for developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (PLOS Biology)

Ross Procedure Best for Fixing Aortic Valve in Younger Patients?


Propensity-matched analysis may suggest it’s time for “Ross Centers of Excellence”

A medical illustration of the Ross Procedure

The Ross procedure was associated with a “striking” survival advantage over bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery for young and middle-age adults in a propensity-matched analysis.

Over a mean 14.5 years of follow-up among a cohort of consecutive patients getting either procedure, Ross recipients had a hazard ratio of 0.35 for all-cause mortality (95% CI 0.14-0.90) compared with patients who underwent bioprosthetic AVR, with seven (6.5%) versus 21 deaths (19.4%), respectively.

At 20 years, the difference remained significant (9.6% vs 25.1%, P=0.028), Maral Ouzounian, MD, PhD, of the University of Toronto, and colleagues reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Other outcomes that also significantly favored the Ross procedure in the 108 matched pairs of patients in an analysis with death considered as a competing risk were:

  • Reintervention (HR 0.21, 95% CI 0.10-0.41)
  • Valve deterioration (HR 0.25, 95% CI 0.14-0.45)
  • Thromboembolic events (HR 0.15, 95% CI 0.05-0.50)
  • Permanent pacemaker implantation (HR 0.22, 95% CI 0.07-0.64)

Bicuspid aortic valve was present in 75% of patients, and aortic stenosis was the indication for 49%. Median age was 41 years, with a range from 17 to 59. Exclusion criteria included active endocarditis, acute aortic dissection, end-stage renal disease, and emergency surgery.

Prior series had also suggested a benefit to the Ross procedure in restoring normal life expectancy to young and middle-age adults, which bioprosthetic AVR doesn’t do in this population. Similar propensity-matched results also showed superior survival with the Ross procedure compared with mechanical valve implantation.

“However, patients in the Ross series tend to be carefully selected,” Ouzounian’s group noted. “Some have argued that the excellent long-term outcomes observed in these cohorts may be related to favorable patient characteristics rather than the operation itself.”

While the propensity score matching in the study couldn’t rule out unmeasured confounding, the two groups yielded comparable cohorts who were “young, generally healthy, and presented a low surgical risk.”

“If these findings are reproduced in other specialized centers with sufficient expertise, the Ross procedure may be considered the preferred option for selected young and middle-aged adults undergoing AVR,” the researchers concluded.

However, an accompanying editorial noted that “these findings are remarkable in their magnitude but should again be interpreted with caution.”

Direct comparisons at other centers are needed in particular because a single expert surgeon did all of the Ross procedures and most of the rest in Ouzounian’s study, which “limits the external validity of the results for nonexperts in aortic root reconstructive surgery,” wrote Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Still, such a large survival benefit “is more likely a reflection of the fundamental differences in biology and hemodynamics between the pulmonary autograft and a prosthetic valve” than experience or patient selection, they argued.

Because it’s a more complex procedure for which the special surgical skill and experience are limited, perhaps the time has come for “Ross Centers of Excellence,” based on publicly reported case volumes, operative mortality, and so on, they added.

“Cardiologists will play an important role in expanding the accessibility to the Ross procedure, by appropriate referral to selected surgeons in their center or region so Ross experience can be concentrated, while patient safety remains the foremost concern,” El-Hamamsy’s group continued. “In this era of large data collection, patients deserve no less than to know the scientific community is transparent, and importantly, dedicated to their safety, health, and wellness.”

Global crop collapse now a certainty… widespread famine to plague planet Earth from 2022 – 2024… it is set in motion and cannot be stopped


A convergence of horrifying events have set into a motion an irreversible collapse of food production and crop harvests that will lead to global famine all the way through 2024. These events cannot be stopped for the simple reason that plants take time to grow. You can’t create crops instantly, and if they don’t get planted (or they get destroyed), there’s no instant replacement.

The reasons for the coming global famine include:

  • Floods and droughts causing sharp drops in crop production in China, Russia and the USA, among other nations.
  • Economic sanctions against Russia causing a halting of exports for food and fertilizer.
  • War in Ukraine, leading to a halting of the 2022 planting season for wheat, corn, soy and other crops.
  • War in the Black Sea, blocking ship movements in the ports (such as Odessa) which normally export crops.
  • The Biden admin’s shutting down of fossil duel production in the USA, adding significant costs to fertilizers and agricultural operations.
  • Global fiat currency money printing, making food inflation reach atrocious levels.

Importantly, all this coalesces into two primary problems that will now accelerate across the world:

  1. Food SCARCITY
  2. Food INFLATION

Scarcity, of course, means there’s no remaining supply no matter what the cost. Inflation means the food that is available will be significantly higher in price. Both of them cause people to panic, ultimately leading to widespread civil unrest (see below).

Understanding farm and crop inputs

Farmers are right now reporting a roughly 300% increase in their cost to produce crops such as wheat. This is due to three primary inputs:

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  1. The cost of fertilizer and seed.
  2. The cost of fuel to power agricultural equipment.
  3. The availability of tractors and other equipment (and their parts) in order to carry out mechanized agricultural operations.

Importantly, all three of these inputs are heavily strained due to the conditions mentioned above.

In addition to these factors, fuel costs significantly elevate transportation expenses to transport grains to grain storage and milling providers. Thus, rising fuel costs hit farmers twice: First for the cost of running their equipment, and secondly in the transportation costs.

Sadly, it looks like diesel fuel is headed toward $6 / gallon, and this is going to put severe upward pressure on food prices across the board. As I say in the podcast, elections have consequences… and rigged elections have dire consequences. (Joe Biden is punishing America with economic sanctions against our entire energy sector while having no such sanctions on Russia’s energy exports.)

Fertilizer costs have tripled, and fertilizer supply is growing scarce

Fertilizer prices have tripled and will likely go higher, especially as Russia has halted fertilizer exports and shut down natural gas pipelines to Western Europe. As a result, the fertilizer supply is growing scarce. About 5 billion people on the planet depend on fossil fuel-created fertilizer for their primary source of food. Thus, without fertilizer — if it were to go to zero — about 5 billion people starve to death.

I am not predicting the starvation of 5 billion people, since fertilizer production isn’t zero. But it is easily down by 25% – 30% right now, perhaps more, and that means somewhere approaching 2 billion people (or more) are going to face real famine / starvation in the crop seasons ahead. Very few people understand that food comes from fertilizer which is made using hydrocarbons. This is why left-wing activists are so eager to shut down pipelines, having no clue this will shut down their own food production as a result.

Extreme food scarcity to become apparent at the retail level this summer

There is a delay time between crop yield collapse and food scarcity at retail (grocery stores). Right now in March, we are eating the winter harvest of wheat. By late summer, we will be depending on wheat from the spring wheat crops around the world, and those crops just aren’t getting planted at the level necessary to feed the world.

The StrangeSounds.org website recently published a good overview of what they call the “wheat apocalypse.” From that article:

The wheat outlook looks grim… All over the world…

A limited supply of soft white wheat, the primary type of wheat grown in the Inland Northwest, has helped lead to a six-year low for wheat exports from the United States. That’s according to the USDA wheat report for February. The report also states that 71 percent of U.S. winter wheat is being hit by drought in 2022.

Egypt’s food security crisis now poses an existential threat to its economy. The fragile state of Egypt’s food security stems from the agricultural sector’s inability to produce enough cereal grains, especially wheat, and oilseeds to meet even half of the country’s domestic demand.

[China’s] Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Tang Renjian said that rare heavy rainfall last year delayed the planting of about one-third of the normal wheat acreage.

Drought has shriveled Canada’s wheat crop to its smallest in 14 years, and its canola harvest to a nine-year low, a government report showed on Monday.

Parched soils and record-hot temperatures in Canada’s western crop belt sharply reduced farm yields of one of the world’s biggest wheat-exporting countries and largest canola-growing nation. The drought has forced millers and bakers to pay more for spring wheat, and drove canola prices to record highs.

On top of all that, Hungary has halted all grain exports in order to protect its domestic supply. In this article on Natural News, author JD Heyes lists the countries most likely to experience serious disruptions due to food scarcity. They include Egypt, Thailand and the Philippines.

By this summer, food shelves are going to look frighteningly empty across America, Canada and Western Europe

The upshot of all this is that food shelves are going to look downright frightening in 2022, and for the shelves that actually have food, it’s going to cost perhaps twice as much. Some items might see prices triple.

Even Reuters is now openly reporting that a United Nations agency says food inflation has hit 20%. And those are slightly old numbers. By the time they factor in the summer and fall of 2022, it’s going to be much closer to 50%.

Shockingly, food basics are going to require a larger and larger percentage of workers’ paychecks, taking away their ability to pay for fuel (which is also skyrocketing) or to purchase clothing, housing, etc.

The only factor that may actually reduce the demand for global food is the global vaccine die-off caused by mRNA / spike protein injections that are killing people are record numbers. The covid bioweapon, after all, is a depopulation weapon.

The net result is going to be global uprisings and social unrest on a scale we’ve never seen before

As covered in today’s podcast (below), the net effect of all this is going to be global uprisings, chaos and social unrest on an unprecedented scale.

Ever heard the saying about “nine meals from anarchy?” That’s what we’re about to witness later this year, in 2022.

It doesn’t mean that every city will collapse into instant chaos, but food scarcity, food inflation and energy inflation will create conditions of extreme poverty and desperation among the population. As a result, you’re going to witness more of the following:

  • Flash mob looting of grocery stores, followed by increased security at grocery retailers.
  • Gunpoint robberies of people exiting grocery stores, carrying groceries.
  • Highway robberies of transport trucks that are delivering goods to grocery retailers (ripped right out of Venezuela).
  • Increased carjackings, home invasions and crime derived from desperation and starvation. (While Democrats continue to “defund the police.”)