But it’s not just the food supply chain we need to be worried about. In July 2017, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order concerning the security of US supply chains caused by decades of deindustrialization, Free Trade, and lopsided trade policy. Interestingly enough, President Joe Biden signed a similar Executive Order in February. It is not just gadgets and consumer products that are the concern here.

The US Military’s ability to procure needed supplies to arm and support itself in military conflicts is of great concern. As Loren Thompson of Forbes points out: “The moment is fast approaching when America’s military will be unable to equip itself for modern warfare without relying on Chinese suppliers. So if the war is with China, there’s a good chance the US military would be defeated.”

Beijing voiced specific threats and warnings via its state-run English language mouthpiece Global Times, which recently wrote, "Australia's military is too weak to be a worthy opponent of China, and if it dares to interfere in a military conflict for example in the Taiwan Straits, its forces will be among the first to be hit."

All of this comes as the United States also this week announced it will send its only Asia-Pacific carrier presence to Mideast waters in order to assist with the Afghanistan withdrawal this summer - a move which Republican Congressional hawks lamented as leaving the US exposed in a "priority theater".

Rabobank noted on the USS Ronald Reagan's impending departure from waters off Japan that "For the first time in a long time, the US has no aircraft carrier in the Pacific. The symbolism is clear: and it leaves some wondering what might happen if push comes to shove."

As the drought worsens in California, the state has already had more than 900 additional wildfires than it did at this point in 2020. Which itself was a record-breaking year that resulted in more than 4% of the state’s land burned. This year’s fires have burned about five times as much land as they did last year at this time.

California’s mountains and foothills will see above-normal wildfire activity from June to August and possibly even into the fall. Keep in mind, about 94% of California is experiencing drought conditions ranging from moderate to exceptional. The drought isn’t coming. It’s here. And whatever you think might be the causes, there are no signs that any reasonable solutions will be discovered or implemented any time soon.

But now everything has changed. In this day and age, current members of Congress such as US Senator Marco Rubio openly talk about UFOs on television. Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid just had an article about UFOs published by the New York Times, and even Barack Obama is publicly answering questions about their existence. So why has there been such a dramatic shift? Have our intelligence agencies finally come to the conclusion that the American people are ready to handle the truth? At this point, the corporate media is running stories about UFOs almost every single day, and many of those articles are about the much anticipated report that is expected to be released next month…

Needless to say, I do not expect our intelligence agencies to reveal everything that they know about UFOs in this report. In fact, I anticipate that there will only be a small amount of new information. But the fact that our intelligence agencies will publicly acknowledge the existence of UFOs in this report still makes it the most significant UFO disclosure ever. This would have never, ever happened in the old days. Something has changed, and it appears that a concerted effort is being made to prepare us for something.

We like to think that we have all the answers, but we don’t. The truth is that our knowledge is extremely limited, and we should be willing to be honest about our limitations. As for UFOs, it should be okay to admit that there is quite a bit that we don’t know about them yet. But at this point it is exceedingly clear that the UFO phenomenon is very real, and I believe that the stage is being set for a deception of epic proportions.

In my latest book, I sound the alarm about what hyperinflation will eventually do to our economy. We are literally in the process of becoming Venezuela, and most Americans have absolutely no idea how horrific that will be. In Venezuela today, almost everyone is a millionaire, but just about everyone is also living in poverty because the money is absolutely worthless. We don’t want to end up like that, but that is the road that we are on.

We should be taking emergency measures to get inflation under control, but instead Joe Biden has decided that this is the perfect time for a spending spree. Inflation is one of the hallmarks of a socialist economy, and another thing that we commonly see in socialist systems are shortages. At this moment, we are witnessing the most severe shortages that the US has experienced in my entire lifetime.

The slogan is an aspirational bid for the state of Israel to be wiped off the map of the world. To quote from the original Hamas charter: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it just as it obliterated others before it… The day of judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.”

Yet this and other dangerously loaded language is not being voiced solely by radicals or extremists. It has become a regular feature of mainstream political debate in Western societies. From journalists in major media organisations, trade unions, acclaimed intellectuals in universities, in the halls of the United Nations and, more disturbing still, from elected members of parliaments across the Western world.

Police and public reported data details that from January through March of 2021, the homicide rate rose by 28% from the same period last year in 20 major cities across the country. Homicides had already previously risen by 30% in 2020. Everyone should be able to agree that we are very rapidly going in the wrong direction.

On the west coast, authorities are facing other sorts of problems. The number of people that died from drug overdoses in San Francisco was twice as high as the number of people that died from COVID last year, and addicts continue to litter the streets with thousands upon thousands of used drug needles. Street crime is completely out of control as addicts endlessly search for money for their next hits, but city politicians keep insisting that they can handle this crisis.

Crime is on the rise from coast to coast, but before I end this article I would like to discuss one more type of violence that we have seen in recent days that is especially chilling. Israel’s conflict with Hamas sparked a huge wave of anti-Jewish attacks, and many of these incidents made international news… There is so much hatred for Jewish people out there right now, and the recent military conflict in the Middle East brought much of it to the surface. Sadly, the level of hatred is likely to go even higher as our society comes apart at the seams in the months and years ahead.

The Indonesian dictator, Suharto, received loans for tanks and warplanes that were used to slaughter hundreds of thousands of people. The Indonesian people are expected to repay those loans. The same is true of many countries that used to be run by dictators. Britain and the US helped to keep these dictators in power, against the wishes of their people, yet the people are still expected to repay their dictators’ debts.

Most people think of loans as having two parts, the capital and the interest. In the international world there is a third part – the conditions that come with the loan. This is arguably the most important part. Countries that want to borrow can be more easily persuaded to follow the guidance of advisors from rich countries, to privatise their industries, and to open up their markets for further exploitation by big corporations.

In order to qualify to have the debts written off, countries have to implement these same policies. The manipulation of these debts is a means of helping rich countries and their corporations take control of resources and trade in poor countries. Many of these countries have effectively been conquered economically. The interests of banks and investors are considered more important than the lives and health of billions of people.

“Given the dramatic levels of debt-financed spending by the federal government and the potential this could trigger an inflationary nightmare, ensuring America’s gold reserves are both secure and fully accounted for has never been more important,” wrote Representative Mooney in a recent letter to his congressional colleagues about HR 3526. “At the same time, Russia and China are presently accumulating physical gold at a rate that experts believe could soon threaten the financial dominance of the United States and, by extension, our national security,” Mooney continued.

Meanwhile, there is evidence the US Treasury may have sold, swapped, leased, or otherwise placed encumbrances upon some of America’s gold over time. However, federal government officials have strongly resisted disclosure of these activities for decades. “People are rightly concerned about the state of America’s gold holdings,” said JP Cortez, policy director at the Sound Money Defense League. “The lack of transparency by the Federal Government has hobbled public confidence. The Gold Reserve Transparency Act will ensure our gold reserves are accounted for.”