(Substack)—America First Report, Discern Report, Patriot TV, and our sister sites have endured plenty of digital hostility over the years — but the last several days have brought something new. Our servers have been hit repeatedly by coordinated attacks coming from IP addresses in Lanzhou and other cities across China. For the first time, the Chinese Communist Party appears to be directing real resources toward probing our defenses. They have been relentless. They have been persistent. And they have failed every time.
What makes this interesting is the same thing that makes it obvious: we don’t store user data, financial information, or anything of material value that would interest a typical criminal hacking ring. There is no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow. Which means this isn’t about money. It’s about ideology. It’s about silencing dissent. It’s about targeting truth.
For years, we’ve reported on the CCP’s efforts to infiltrate the United States at every level of society. We’ve warned about their exploitation of our open borders during the prior administration. We’ve covered their theft of U.S. technology, their partnerships with cartels, their espionage programs, their propaganda pipelines, and their willingness to co-opt or compromise American politicians. We’ve discussed their influence operations inside the Democratic Socialist movement, including figures like Zohran Mamdani. And we’ve told the truth about Beijing’s hold over members of Congress in both parties — including why Mitch McConnell remains in office long past the point where most Americans assumed he would step aside. When foreign intelligence owns your vote, retirement becomes inconvenient.
Now, suddenly, their IPs are bombarding our network.
Coincidence? Of course not.
The pattern is familiar. For years, Iranian hackers have taken an interest in our work. Washington, D.C. cyber-operators have taken occasional swings as well. But China’s involvement is new. And in the world of geopolitical tension and information warfare, a new aggressor usually means you’ve hit a nerve.
The encouraging part is that, by the grace of God, none of their attempts have succeeded. Our security infrastructure is strong, our team is vigilant, and there is absolutely no risk to our readers. You can surf our sites safely. The attacks aren’t about breaching your data; they’re about finding weaknesses they can exploit to silence platforms that refuse to bow to the woke-globalist-authoritarian script.
When the CCP goes after a publication, it’s because that publication is saying something they don’t want the world to hear. They attack prominent conservative sites routinely for that reason. The fact that they now see us as worthy of their attention says more about the influence of our collective network than any traffic chart could ever show.
Is it frustrating? Absolutely. Is it dangerous? Not to you — and not to us, as long as we remain vigilant. But is it flattering? In a way, yes. Because in warfare — digital or otherwise — nobody wastes ammunition on a target that doesn’t matter.
The last several days have brought attempted breaches, persistent probing, and nonstop noise from overseas networks. But they haven’t breached our walls, they haven’t slowed our work, and they haven’t changed our mission. If anything, they’ve strengthened it. When tyrants take notice, it means you’re telling the truth loudly enough that they can hear it from across the world.
We aren’t going anywhere. The CCP can keep firing. We’ll keep publishing. And as long as their attacks grow louder, we’ll know we’re exactly where we’re supposed to be: right over the target.
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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.
