(End of the American Dream)—Will we soon see rioting in major cities all over America? The city on the west coast that has the most people living in it illegally is Los Angeles, and we have already seen what happened there. The city on the east coast with the most people living in it illegally is New York, and we have been witnessing quite a bit of civil unrest in the Big Apple this week. But I am even more concerned about the city of Chicago. It is one of the most lawless major cities in the industrialized world, and according to Google AI it is home to a very large number of migrants…
It’s difficult to provide an exact number of undocumented immigrants in Chicago as official statistics aren’t readily available. However, a recent report from the Migration Policy Institute estimated that roughly 511,000 undocumented immigrants reside in Illinois, with a significant portion (36%) located in the city of Chicago itself. This suggests a large, but not precisely known, undocumented immigrant population within Chicago.
There are about 11,000 police officers in Chicago.
Needless to say, they are vastly outnumbered.
When push comes to shove, President Trump is probably going to have to call in the National Guard.
On Tuesday, a driver plowed through a massive crowd of protesters in downtown Chicago, and one woman was seriously injured…
A driver plowed through a group of protesters Tuesday in the Loop, apparently striking at least one pedestrian, as thousands marched through downtown Chicago protesting the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration raids.
In a scene witnessed by a Sun-Times reporter, the driver was stuck between police vehicles on State Street. Officers sought to guide her away from the crowd and asked her to turn right on Monroe Street, but she instead turned left, heading into the crowd.
One officer tried to get the driver to stop and pulled on the driver’s-side door handle, but the driver sped off.
Shortly after the car plowed through the crowd, it appeared to hit a woman who fell to the ground.
The woman that was injured is 66 years old, and she suffered a broken arm.
Then on Wednesday, protesters flooded into the downtown area once again…
Anti-ICE protests have erupted in Chicago, including a massive gathering downtown on Wednesday evening, prompting crowds to flood the streets.
There were some incidents of vandalism, and one 66-year-old woman was injured when she was hit by a car on Tuesday.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claimed the city’s police have responded appropriately in managing crowds at immigration protests in recent days.
Just like we saw in Los Angeles, there have been reports of protesters hurling objects at law enforcement officers. It isn’t going to take much for things to spiral out of control.
Meanwhile, we continue to see crazed leftists get arrested in New York…
They shouldn’t have trouble making bail.
Cops cuffed 86 demonstrators at a rowdy anti-ICE rally in Lower Manhattan Tuesday, among them the daughter of a Moroccan actor, a self-proclaimed poet from an upscale college and a coed whose family owns a posh home in the Hamptons, The Post has learned.
“My sense is, the vast majority of the 2,500 people that were there, were there to protest peacefully,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Fox 5 News. “There was a smaller group of a few hundred where we did have to make arrests. Some of them were looking for trouble.”
There are about 36,000 police officers in the Big Apple.
So the truth is that New York is in better shape than Chicago, but there still won’t be enough law enforcement personnel to deal with what is ahead.
Interestingly, it is being reported that Chicago and New York are two of the cities where the Trump administration will be deploying ICE tactical units…
Donald Trump is set to deploy ICE tactical units to five Democrat-run cities amid the riots in Los Angeles as Gavin Newsom nearly broke into tears while blaming his administration for inciting the California chaos.
The military-style units are set to storm New York City, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and northern Virginia, MSNBC reported. Four of those five are heavily blue cities, while northern Virginia contains the Democrat enclave of Alexandria.
But will that be enough?
Of course not.
And we aren’t just seeing unrest in the major cities.
On Tuesday, there was an ICE raid in Omaha…
Immigration authorities raided an Omaha meat production plant Tuesday morning and took dozens of workers away in buses, leaving company officials bewildered because they said they had followed the law.
The raid happened around 9 a.m. at Glenn Valley Foods in south Omaha, an area where nearly a quarter of residents were foreign born according to the 2020 census.
As the raid was happening, “local agitators” were causing all sorts of chaos…
During the bust, local agitators began showing up to harass agents and impede federal vehicles.
Young thugs can be seen pelting departing SUVs with rocks and projectiles, shattering at least one window, according to Flatwater Free Press.
Other agitators climbed onto a Suburban, forcing officers to physically remove them on several occasions.
Is the National Guard going to be sent to Omaha too?
Needless to say, they can’t be everywhere.
In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has just deployed the National Guard to San Antonio…
The Texas National Guard has been deployed to San Antonio as demonstrations against ICE raids are planned.
Governor Greg Abbott sent the guard members to the Alamo City Tuesday night.
The move comes as protestors plan to demonstrate against raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers.
In a statement, Abbott warned that he is going to do whatever is necessary “to uphold law and order across our state”…
“The State of Texas stands ready to deploy all necessary personnel and resources to uphold law and order across our state. Texas National Guard soldiers are on standby in areas where mass demonstrations are planned in case they are needed. Peaceful protests are part of the fabric of our nation, but Texas will not tolerate the lawlessness we have seen in Los Angeles. Anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property will be swiftly held accountable to the full extent of the law.”
What we are witnessing is extremely serious.
I have been warning my readers about the tremendous civil unrest that would be coming for years, and now it is upon us.
Everyone is focused on Los Angeles right now, and rightly so, but I think that eventually Chicago is going to be one of our biggest problems.
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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.
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.
