When Brian Deese, Director of the National Economic Council, famously referred to the “Liberal World Order” last week, conservative pundits and news outlets rightly jumped on the globalist reference. But what was missed by most is that Deese isn’t just a Democrat true-believer in building back better and surrendering our sovereignty. He’s a plant who ran BlackRock’s notorious ESG program between his stints in the Obama and Biden regimes.
Here’s the video that sparked the outrage:
Guys relax — $5 gas is a small sacrifice to make for the future of the Liberal World Order
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 1, 2022
On the latest episode of The JD Rucker Show, I dove into Deese’s colorful history and discussed how BlackRock is doing more than just pushing for woke policies. They may be running the show at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Deese is either their emissary or one of the people calling the shots.
Deese started his political career as top economic advisor for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008. When she lost, Deese moved over to Barack Obama’s campaign in the same role. He graduated from Yale Law School a year later while working for the Obama regime.
Deese was appointed as a special assistant to the president for economic policy, serving in the National Economic Council before being named deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget in the summer of 2013.
Following the departure of John Podesta, Deese took over his brief on climate and energy. Unlike Podesta, who served as Counselor to the President, Deese was promoted to the position of Senior Advisor to the President. In this position, Deese played an influential role in negotiating the Paris Climate Agreement in December 2015. Along with Katie Beirne Fallon, Deese helped to negotiate the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act, which replaced the budget sequestration and increased federal spending by $80 billion over two years. In February 2016, the President tapped Deese to oversee the Supreme Court nomination process, which led to the President’s nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on March 16, 2016.
He joined the Biden regime and is now the 13th Director of the National Economic Council.
So, what happened in the gap between his stints with the Obama and Biden regimes? He went to work for Blackrock in 2017 and left them, conspicuously, in December 2020, just in time to take his newly acquired New World Order marching orders into a high position with the White House.
While with BlackRock, he was the Global Head of Sustainable Investing. Deese led BlackRock’s Sustainable Investing Team which “is focused on identifying drivers of long-term return associated with environmental, social and governance issues.”
Yes, Deese ran BlackRock’s ESG initiative, the destructive private component of the New World Order’s plans to use public-private partnerships to usher in The Great Reset. Today, he’s working both sides of that particular partnership. Is he a liaison or is he one of the shot-callers? It could go either way.
ESG represents the most powerful tool the globalist elites are using to bring The Great Reset forward. While they rig elections and infiltrate governments to handle the public side of the public-private partnerships they envision, ESG is the tool through which to control the private side. They influence and oftentimes control major corporations through ESG, making companies beholden to their whims.
The parallel’s between the left’s ESG and the fundamental values that drive many on the right are striking. They look to Environment, Social, and Governance as their battle arenas while we look to Religion/Faith, Culture, and Politics as arenas in which we fight the good fight. The parallels are clear once we examine what ESG really is.
The “Environment” component is their religion. They worship this world, driving them to want to protect it at all costs. The “Social” component represents wokeness, or as it has been known as for decades, Cultural Marxism. This is how they intend to destroy families and make government supreme. Their version of “Governance” is not just through elected (or installed) politicians. They view The Great Reset’s future as a technocracy through which public-private partnerships allow the elites to have unprecedented direct control over our lives.
This is an existential threat. Under normal circumstances, we could address it together. Today, there are so many existential threats we’re facing that ESG has barely been a topic of discussion. We need that to change. We need to get the word out and form industrial-strength activist groups to fight them. Lastly, we need to take care of ourselves. This is why we recommend precious metals so fervently. You can get gold or silver bullion from Our Gold Guy or move your retirement through a gold or silver IRA through GoldCo.
I talked about all of this on the latest episode of The JD Rucker Show.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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