The human species is a curious one. It has dominated planet Earth by exterminating a long list of species and ecosystems. And now, having nearly run out of other living systems to poison, burn or exterminate, humanity has set its sights on its final target: Humanity itself.
This is the end game. The self-inflicted extermination of the human race.
The means by which the final extermination takes place is now becoming increasingly clear.
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter believes it will be global nuclear war. He now says that 2023 will be humanity’s last year on planet Earth, and he challenges anyone to prove him wrong.
From the Deborah Armstrong channel on Medium.com:
“We are on the cusp of thermonuclear war,” said Maj. Scott Ritter. He recalled his former mentor, General Polk, who served under President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. “You know how we avoided war during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Diplomacy. Old fashioned diplomacy. Americans talking to Russians and Russians talking to Americans.”
“But today, we don’t talk. Yeah, we have our intelligence heads meeting in Ankara and other places around the world, but this isn’t a negotiation. We are in the midst of not just a heightening of tensions, but we lack the mechanisms to resolve these tensions. There is no diplomatic action worthy of the name between the US and Russia today.”
Or will it be bioweapons?
Other experts we’ve interviewed believe the final extermination chapter will come in the form of an “End of Days” bioweapons release… perhaps timed to make the 2024 election impossible. Bioweapons engineering hasn’t paused at all in the aftermath of the covid revelations. If anything, it’s clear that the US Department of Defense is accelerating its deployment of biological weapons, not pulling back.
Still others believe a global famine that’s being deliberately engineered will spell the end of western civilization. I recently interviewed Michael Yon in studio — that interview will run this week on Brighteon.com — during which I asked him about the Ukraine / Russia war and its outcome. His answer was sobering: The war in Ukraine was put in place on purpose to cause widespread famine across Western Europe.
Over the weekend, Breitbart.com published a story that confirm Yon’s analysis. It carries the headline, “Global Food Crisis — Ukraine Farming Sector Won’t Recover for at Least 20 Years: Study.” From that story:
According to a report from the Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine’s farming industry has been severely damaged during the past year of fighting with Russia, with staple crops such as maize, oats, rapeseed, and rye not expected to recover to previous production levels until at least 2050. Other sectors such as barley, sunflower, and wheat are meanwhile not expected to recover to pre-war levels until 2040.
On top of that, the US is now sending depleted uranium tank munitions to the region in an effort to disperse radioisotopes across all the farmland there, rendering the region contaminated for generations to come. The impact on the global food supply — reaching far beyond Western Europe — will be catastrophic. As Breitbart reports, Ukraine routinely produced, “10 per cent of global wheat exports, 15 per cent of barley and corn, and over 50 per cent of sunflower oil.”
Thanks to the war which was provoked by the USA and NATO by baiting Russia into a war over Ukraine, that food production is now essentially zero. Worsening the global famine scenario that has been deliberately set into motion, NATO countries deplatformed Russia from the SWIFT financial transaction system last year, making it impossible for Russia to export both fertilizer and the natural gas used to manufacture that fertilizer. As a result, farm fields across Western Europe are right now being abandoned in astonishing numbers, and both food inflation and food scarcity are sharply worsening.
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Below, I list some of the most obvious reasons why humanity will not survive much longer on planet Earth. It doesn’t mean every last human will perish, but that the current constructs of human civilization — and the vast majority of people who depend on that construct — are in the process of being vaporized.
Eleven signs that humanity is doomed
1) Up to 80% of people are stupid enough to take a depopulation bioweapon injection because they were told it’s a “vaccine.” This demonstrates that humanity is too stupid to survive at current levels. If 4 out of 5 people are gullible enough to line up and be injected with bioweapons — while lecturing everyone else for being “anti science” — there’s not much hope for the species as a whole.
2) Rapid cognitive decline is spreading across all countries where bioweapon jabs were administered in large numbers. Critical thinking is all but gone. Public education is nearly non-existent, and high school graduates can’t do basic math.
The following podcast discusses how the spike protein bioweapons (administered via vaccine jabs) are causing widespread cognitive damage and mental retardation across the human species:
3) The masses have become too fat, lazy, stupid and apathetic to resist tyranny. We live on a “welfare planet” where people surrender to authoritarians in order to receive stimulus money and handouts. Rather than making any real effort to contribute to a better future, the majority of people are focused on figuring out how to extract as much fake fiat currency as possible from a dying system that has already betrayed them.
4) We’ve poisoned the food supply with biosludge, pesticides and herbicides, to the point where “forever chemicals” now contaminate most farms in the United States. We’ve poisoned the oceans and waterways with atrazine and microplastics. We’ve poisoned the skies with industrial pollution, and globalist corporations are pushing terraforming operations to deplete CO2 from the atmosphere and kill off most plant life on the planet, further accelerating global famine and social chaos.
5) We’ve largely lost the ability to reproduce. Sperm count and motility is plummeting. Female infertility is exploding. Birthing centers are closing down in huge numbers and new births are collapsing in the post-vaccine era. Children who are being born suffer from higher rates of autism, infertility and neurological defects than at any time in human history, and abortion factories are aggressively carrying out mass murder of human babies while the political Left celebrates it.
6) LGBT culture wars are targeting mothers, fathers and families as a malicious effort to halt the sustainability of the human race. They mutilate reproductive organs of children and call it “gender affirming care.” They murder healthy babies and call it, “Women’s reproductive health.” They vaccinate young children with neurotoxins to induce autism, mental retardation and infertility. The LGBT cult has merged with the authoritarian state to mandate state-sponsored zealotry of perversion, homosexuality, pedophilia, human trafficking and child rape. The net result is fewer children maturing to adulthood with any innate reproductive capabilities remaining.
7) Human institutions suppress innovation to protect corporate interests. Free energy technology already exists but is being systematically marginalized and mocked. Cures for cancer have existed for decades but are attacked by the pharma-controlled medical establishment. Solutions for scalable, pesticide-free food production already exist and can feed the entire world, yet they are suppressed in favor of GMOs and pesticides that financially benefit powerful agricultural giants. Where innovation is allowed to be rolled out — such as with AI systems — it is weaponized to brainwash or suppress human knowledge rather than enhance it. There are no large institutions remaining on planet Earth that prioritize the advancement of human knowledge at all. Instead, they focus on suppressing knowledge, truth and transparency in order to keep humanity in the dark about the planetary-scale extermination that has already begun.
8) Humanity’s current political leaders have no knowledge of what makes a sustainable civilization, and they routinely make policy decisions that lead to suffering and collapse. They are motivated to push policies based on virtue signaling and delusional myths (such as climate change) rather than the reality of sustainable living. They seek power at the expense of redundancy or decentralization, and in their quest for power, they subject all of civilization to disastrous consequences that are leading to cascading collapse. Much of this is deliberate. Some is inadvertent. But the results are the same: Disaster and chaos.
9) Humanity is suicidal and builds weapons of mass destruction that threaten not just themselves but the entire planetary ecosystem. Nuclear weapons are just one example. AI systems, similarly, pose an existential threat to the very existence of humankind. Humanity also builds and unleashes biological weapons — such as covid and covid “vaccines” — against fellow human beings, actively working to achieve global depopulation by any means necessary, including unleashing self-replicating bioweapons into the wild. These actions are catastrophic and will only lead to collapse of human civilization. Right now, we stand on the verge of global nuclear annihilation, and almost no one is speaking out against the insane, incompetent and power-crazed US government that is driving us to that annihilation scenario at full speed.
10) Humanity has lost all touch with reality on the subject of money and finance, leading to an inevitable global debt collapse that will plunge humanity into destitution and chaos. Somehow, world leaders have been brainwashed to believe that debt doesn’t matter and that literally endless money printing is sustainable and even healthy for an economy. Through their fiat currency counterfeiting (printing) operations, they sap the product of other people’s labor, leading to monumental waste of talent and the misallocation of resources, making survival exceedingly difficult for billions of human beings. While honest money would solve many of these problems, the global elite who control the banking cartels don’t want honest money. They want total domination over the world’s money, even if it means destroying human financial sustainability and resilience in the process. They want to maintain control even if they bring human civilization to its knees.
11) Humanity’s efforts to completely destroy planet Earth — through terraforming, mass agricultural poisoning, nuclear weapons testing, microplastics pollution and more — will sooner or later attract the attention of non-Earth civilizations that will decide to eradicate humans from the planet and claim it for themselves. That’s because Earth is a cosmic gem, rich with natural resources (such as rare elements and liquid water) that are valued throughout the universe. Earth has many other properties that make it ideal for almost any biological life form, and if humans are stupid enough to keep destroying the planet at such an alarming pace, sooner or later a more intelligent species will intervene and eradicate the “human plague.”
Some people believe this process has already begun, and that non-Earth entities might actually be guiding the terraforming operations under the guise of “climate change” to alter Earth’s atmosphere and make it inhospitable to the current biomass life forms that inhabit the planet (including human beings).
If humanity proves to be too stupid and self-destructive to manage planet Earth, after all, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that someone else is probably happy to take over and do a better job.
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Five Things New “Preppers” Forget When Getting Ready for Bad Times Ahead
The preparedness community is growing faster than it has in decades. Even during peak times such as Y2K, the economic downturn of 2008, and Covid, the vast majority of Americans made sure they had plenty of toilet paper but didn’t really stockpile anything else.
Things have changed. There’s a growing anxiety in this presidential election year that has prompted more Americans to get prepared for crazy events in the future. Some of it is being driven by fearmongers, but there are valid concerns with the economy, food supply, pharmaceuticals, the energy grid, and mass rioting that have pushed average Americans into “prepper” mode.
There are degrees of preparedness. One does not have to be a full-blown “doomsday prepper” living off-grid in a secure Montana bunker in order to be ahead of the curve. In many ways, preparedness isn’t about being able to perfectly handle every conceivable situation. It’s about being less dependent on government for as long as possible. Those who have proper “preps” will not be waiting for FEMA to distribute emergency supplies to the desperate masses.
Below are five things people new to preparedness (and sometimes even those with experience) often forget as they get ready. All five are common sense notions that do not rely on doomsday in order to be useful. It may be nice to own a tank during the apocalypse but there’s not much you can do with it until things get really crazy. The recommendations below can have places in the lives of average Americans whether doomsday comes or not.
Note: The information provided by this publication or any related communications is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. We do not provide personalized investment, financial, or legal advice.
Secured Wealth
Whether in the bank or held in a retirement account, most Americans feel that their life’s savings is relatively secure. At least they did until the last couple of years when de-banking, geopolitical turmoil, and the threat of Central Bank Digital Currencies reared their ugly heads.
It behooves Americans to diversify their holdings. If there’s a triggering event or series of events that cripple the financial systems or devalue the U.S. Dollar, wealth can evaporate quickly. To hedge against potential turmoil, many Americans are looking in two directions: Crypto and physical precious metals.
There are huge advantages to cryptocurrencies, but there are also inherent risks because “virtual” money can become challenging to spend. Add in the push by central banks and governments to regulate or even replace cryptocurrencies with their own versions they control and the risks amplify. There’s nothing wrong with cryptocurrencies today but things can change rapidly.
As for physical precious metals, many Americans pay cash to keep plenty on hand in their safe. Rolling over or transferring retirement accounts into self-directed IRAs is also a popular option, but there are caveats. It can often take weeks or even months to get the gold and silver shipped if the owner chooses to close their account. This is why Genesis Gold Group stands out. Their relationship with the depositories allows for rapid closure and shipping, often in less than 10 days from the time the account holder makes their move. This can come in handy if things appear to be heading south.
Lots of Potable Water
One of the biggest shocks that hit new preppers is understanding how much potable water they need in order to survive. Experts claim one gallon of water per person per day is necessary. Even the most conservative estimates put it at over half-a-gallon. That means that for a family of four, they’ll need around 120 gallons of water to survive for a month if the taps turn off and the stores empty out.
Being near a fresh water source, whether it’s a river, lake, or well, is a best practice among experienced preppers. It’s necessary to have a water filter as well, even if the taps are still working. Many refuse to drink tap water even when there is no emergency. Berkey was our previous favorite but they’re under attack from regulators so the Alexapure systems are solid replacements.
For those in the city or away from fresh water sources, storage is the best option. This can be challenging because proper water storage containers take up a lot of room and are difficult to move if the need arises. For “bug in” situations, having a larger container that stores hundreds or even thousands of gallons is better than stacking 1-5 gallon containers. Unfortunately, they won’t be easily transportable and they can cost a lot to install.
Water is critical. If chaos erupts and water infrastructure is compromised, having a large backup supply can be lifesaving.
Pharmaceuticals and Medical Supplies
There are multiple threats specific to the medical supply chain. With Chinese and Indian imports accounting for over 90% of pharmaceutical ingredients in the United States, deteriorating relations could make it impossible to get the medicines and antibiotics many of us need.
Stocking up many prescription medications can be hard. Doctors generally do not like to prescribe large batches of drugs even if they are shelf-stable for extended periods of time. It is a best practice to ask your doctor if they can prescribe a larger amount. Today, some are sympathetic to concerns about pharmacies running out or becoming inaccessible. Tell them your concerns. It’s worth a shot. The worst they can do is say no.
If your doctor is unwilling to help you stock up on medicines, then Jase Medical is a good alternative. Through telehealth, they can prescribe daily meds or antibiotics that are shipped to your door. As proponents of medical freedom, they empathize with those who want to have enough medical supplies on hand in case things go wrong.
Energy Sources
The vast majority of Americans are locked into the grid. This has proven to be a massive liability when the grid goes down. Unfortunately, there are no inexpensive remedies.
Those living off-grid had to either spend a lot of money or effort (or both) to get their alternative energy sources like solar set up. For those who do not want to go so far, it’s still a best practice to have backup power sources. Diesel generators and portable solar panels are the two most popular, and while they’re not inexpensive they are not out of reach of most Americans who are concerned about being without power for extended periods of time.
Natural gas is another necessity for many, but that’s far more challenging to replace. Having alternatives for heating and cooking that can be powered if gas and electric grids go down is important. Have a backup for items that require power such as manual can openers. If you’re stuck eating canned foods for a while and all you have is an electric opener, you’ll have problems.
Don’t Forget the Protein
When most think about “prepping,” they think about their food supply. More Americans are turning to gardening and homesteading as ways to produce their own food. Others are working with local farmers and ranchers to purchase directly from the sources. This is a good idea whether doomsday comes or not, but it’s particularly important if the food supply chain is broken.
Most grocery stores have about one to two weeks worth of food, as do most American households. Grocers rely heavily on truckers to receive their ongoing shipments. In a crisis, the current process can fail. It behooves Americans for multiple reasons to localize their food purchases as much as possible.
Long-term storage is another popular option. Canned foods, MREs, and freeze dried meals are selling out quickly even as prices rise. But one component that is conspicuously absent in shelf-stable food is high-quality protein. Most survival food companies offer low quality “protein buckets” or cans of meat, but they are often barely edible.
Prepper All-Naturals offers premium cuts of steak that have been cooked sous vide and freeze dried to give them a 25-year shelf life. They offer Ribeye, NY Strip, and Tenderloin among others.
Having buckets of beans and rice is a good start, but keeping a solid supply of high-quality protein isn’t just healthier. It can help a family maintain normalcy through crises.
Prepare Without Fear
With all the challenges we face as Americans today, it can be emotionally draining. Citizens are scared and there’s nothing irrational about their concerns. Being prepared and making lifestyle changes to secure necessities can go a long way toward overcoming the fears that plague us. We should hope and pray for the best but prepare for the worst. And if the worst does come, then knowing we did what we could to be ready for it will help us face those challenges with confidence.
Nonsense written to scare the lemmings.
Wow! Lemmings, once falsely written about by a fake newsy who claimed they blindly ran off cliffs to their deaths, like Wiley E. Coyote?!?!
Sorry, chum, that was a falsehood about lemmings —— just endless Fake News and Fake Science!
Offering nebulous comments with ZERO counterpoints or refuting arguments is the definition of “airhead” and “space cadet” —– like E. Jean Carroll claiming she was raped in a busy store, or Christine Blasey Ford, claiming she had all these “witnesses” who never came forth — but airheads at the NY Times kept claimimg she was “credible” —— yet how could that be, with her past credit card theft and dishonesty, making her resemble Caroline Biden?!
Once had a run-in with a preppie juvenile delinquent named Christine Blasey, in Bethesda, MD, parking garage; police were called but they said she and her preppie friend were too well–connected to follow up on —- something about her daddy’s CIA connections and her friend the daughter of a Black congressman?!
Reality has a way of proving many wrong, bubba!
A realistic expectation (except for the “non-earth civilizations” part) from an intelligent person who does not have a Biblical world view. Read Revelation. The Millennial Reign of Christ is just ahead. Read Psalm 37:7-11
Do not fret–it only causes harm. For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, They shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; Indeed, you will look carefully for his place, But it shall be no more. But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
It is not the time to panic or forsake hope. Repent and be reconciled with God, seek Him while He may be found. Last call before wrath.
I agreed with the writer of this article until point #11.
SteveKerp – I completely agree with every word of your response!!!
I encourage everyone to re-read it carefully.
That was refreshing. Now back to our cartoon….
PHK THE LETTER PEOPLE!
FJB!! TRUMP WON!! 2020 and 2022 WERE STOLEN!! MAGA!! TRUMP 2024!! RELEASE THE PROTESTERS AND TAPES!! ASHLI BABBITT WAS MURDERED!!
Amen.
Now YHAT’S “real news! Old news but “real” nonetheless.
Being clinically blind is a challenge. Please forgive the… Errrr… Typo’s? I recommend a “Seeing eye” person for others who have difficulties… Oh, never mind!
Stop it, J.D.!
We know you have an incessant need for content and this drivel is available to you for free. But that writer has little credence as a futurist even though he has knowledge about health and consumerism.
Stop distributing this type of nonsense or you will risk losing the audience you have acquired (through your tremendous efforts).
“Little credence”???
So he’s not “CREDIBLE” like Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist at Stanford who studies how to fool the nation?!?!
Or credible like wackadoodle, E. Jean. Carroll, who has thw financial backing of billionaire Reid Hoffman, special friend to GEORGE SOROS and BILL GATES?!
Or not as “credible” as Dr. Hissy Hotez, who refuses to publicly debate ANYONE but is forever claiming any scientific fact to be “conspiracy theory”?
Reminds me back in the 1980s when I attempted to get CIA stooge Tom Braden, bankrolled by them to be a fake newsy and newspaper publisher, and stooge George Will to public debates —- always rejected — they ONLY follow those scripts they are handed!
Pretty much sums it up. My favorite is number one about the stupid people lining up to get da shot!
I’ve seen this coming for a few years now. We will kill ourselves off.
Fear mongering? It sure sounds like it.
Perhaps your fear is facing the facts, something most liberals like to ignore.
While there’s some truth in the article, it’s way over the top! Be prepared, be alert and persevere! Organize with like minded individuals. Friends, family and neighbors. Keep it local. Going it alone in isolation won’t work in the long-term.
Many of these things will happen by way of God’s judgment. But the faithful will be saved!
You got that right!!! Anyone should be able to see it coming.
So, is Mike Adams trying to out doom and gloom Michael Snyder? Didn’t Mike Adams hear that the extraterrestrials won’t allow humans to destroy the planet using nuclear weapons? And, if extraterrestrials are so advanced that they can travel inter-galactically, then why would they need to covet Earth’s water resources? If your civilization is advanced enough and your civilization can produce enough energy, then you can produce all the elemental atoms and molecules needed just like the like a star does during it’s lifetime.
What BS ! People were duped into taking a vaccine from a supposed trusted Government and not “SO STUPID” as the way the article is written.
What Nonsense! Number 11 is beyond a joke. It looks like you were desperate to right an article so you added a few nonsensical points to make it long enough. I’m disappointed in you.
Well, overall, the general population is pretty much stupid. They have a smart phone in one hand and have information available via internet to look up yet they choose to be completely ignorant of most everything by choice.
Don’t forget those killer bees!
For well over 80 years I have been a spectator of America in decline and questioned why the so-called smart, educated people not only allowed our country to rot, but acted to actually accelerate the process. I could think of no reason why any intelligent person would seek to destroy their own good life and the life of our great country. Then one day I discovered the common factor connecting it all together. Since then I have come to believe the problem is genetic, a common gene that is carried by the huge majority of the population. That is the gene of GREED… The top echelons of our government act and function driven by greed. Think about it, all the large mega-corporations act and make decisions based on greed. Our banking system is controlled by those driven by greed. Those who control our health and medical establishment make all their decisions (profit) based on greed. Even our military make all their decisions based on greed as war is very profitable to those who build weapons solely for the purpose of killing more people faster and cheaper. Most of our wars began under false pretenses just to make money. The greed even filters down to an individual level as so many people will do almost anything for money. The criminal elements of our population rob, kill, cheat and steal only to feed their desire for more money.
All of this is called capitalism to make it sound nice and desirable when it’s actually it’s just the accepted method to acquire more money by all those driven by GREED… If greed could be eliminated throughout the entire human population, everyone could live in paradise.
Big deal. I can produce over a dozen signs that any given person will get a big, hairy wart on the tip of their nose in their lifetime. I’m not impressed… With all of the reality swirling around us, I’m fed up with “NOT THE NEWS” but wild and useless predictions instead
it’s reached the point where REAL news has been overshadowed by the nonsense in our daily dose of “what the h_ _ _k is going on in the world around us” consumption…
Does everyone realize that most of the time that, that, “fire in your belly in righteous anger” is caused by manipulation of the English language by “writers” who “write” these stories to confuse and obfuscate reality in your mind? Or they are just seeking “sensationalism”. Anything to “heat up your blood”. Functional illiteracy doesn’t make it any better.
Zero factual counter argument or points —- just nebulous response —- pure Noam Chomsky!
In other words, blah blah blah!
Thanks for the non–input!
In kind with the articles “Blah, Blah, Blah”, ehhh? (That BEING the point). I appreciate your feeble attempts at condescension but your style needs a lot of work. Functional illiteracy is such a ‘sad’ thing…
And another nebulous, incoherent response —- very impressive. The proper term is “functional literacy” aliterate one!
When one doesn’t ‘have it’ one simply doesn’t ‘have it’. Public schools have done too many generations a terrible injustice!
P. S. It’s not my fault nor my problem when another person is functionally illiterate, but given the abject laziness of current and recently past public school students, it’s hard to blame it all on public schools. But I do make a valiant effort in defense of “lazy” students everywhere anyway…
Unfortunately, a very good article and synopsis!
I do not place a lot of faith in Scott Ritter, but have infinite respect for Michael Yon, whom I have been following for years!
COGNITIVE DECLINE is so dead on target —– simply too many topics either on the forbidden list or the rubes are too dimwitted to acknowledge: from the video streaming to CNN and ABC networks on Jan. 6 from the US Capitol Building, originating from the CCP–operated ghost web site, RISE IMAGES ——- to ignore DEI systems in place for what they actually are: communist political minder systems —- this is one dumbed down nation today!
Nah, the end is indeed coming soon, but it is happening and will continue to happen exactly as God’s word says it will happen, and for the reasons He has given.
Futurist, the ends per-exist in the means. To see where we’re going, look at what they’re doing.
Scott Ritter should stick with what he does best, dealing with Iraq’s imaginary weapons of mass destruction and child molesting.