“Everything Is Fine”: The Skeptics Mock As Plagues And Disasters Erupt All Around Us

“Everything Is Fine”: The Skeptics Mock As Plagues And Disasters Erupt All Around Us

Michael Snyder

No matter how bad things get, some skeptics will simply never admit that what we are experiencing is unusual. We live at a time of seemingly endless wars, growing global hunger, alarming outbreaks of disease and constant natural disasters, but they just keep telling us that everything is fine. Russia and Ukraine are absolutely pummeling one another, Iran and Israel are firing ballistic missiles at each other, and we are facing severe shortages of oil and natural gas in the months ahead. Meanwhile, global food production will be way down this year thanks to a historic fertilizer crisis, unprecedented drought and a “Godzilla El Niño” that is on the way. I just don’t understand how some people can be so cavalier about all of this.

Everything is being shaken, and that includes the ground underneath our feet.

Less than 24 hours ago, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake absolutely rocked the Philippines…

At least 32 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck an island in the Philippines, causing landslides and buildings to collapse into rubble.

Eyewitnesses on Mindanao in the south of the country said people rushed out their houses into the streets for safety as the ground shook, while footage of a school in Digos showed young children screaming as the earthquake causes an outdoor structure to collapse.

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake also triggered tsunami waves exceeding a metre that impacted nearby coastlines.

This was an immensely destructive quake, and there was a tremendous amount of panic as numerous large buildings suddenly collapsed…

Of course most of us will have totally forgotten about this disaster by tomorrow because the news cycle will be feeding us lots of new things to focus on.

But one of these days “the Big One” will hit the west coast of the United States.

In fact, scientists have determined that the amount of tectonic stress that has built up in Southern California is at the highest level ever recorded…

Since the last major earthquake to affect the wider Los Angeles region, the Fort Tejon earthquake of 1857, with a magnitude of 7.9, tectonic stress along the fault segments has built up continuously during a prolonged quiet period that has long concerned researchers, given the potential for a large future rupture.

In a new study led by Dr. Liliane Burkhard of the Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences (WP) at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern, an international research team modeled 1,000 years of earthquake history along the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems to estimate the present-day stress loading at Cajon Pass. Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Science Center in Pasadena, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego were involved.

The results show that tectonic stresses in the region have reached and, in some cases, exceeded the highest levels of the last millennium.

Right now, 41 volcanoes are currently erupting around the world.

But the skeptics insist that there is nothing to be concerned about.

They are also telling us that we will get through the global energy crisis just fine too even though the “absolute operational minimum floor for the global oil system” will be hit just a few short months from now…

The absolute operational minimum floor for the global oil system is estimated to be about 6.8 billion barrels. Below that, the system will simply not function. On our current trajectory, the world will reach that point in September, if not before. It turns out there really weren’t 8.5 billion barrels of available oil inventories across the world at the beginning of the war, only 8.5 billion minus 6.8 billion, or 1.7 billion. Big difference!

The moment we reach “tank bottoms” actually comes before we reach operational minimum. Technically, “tank bottoms” refers to the sludge that builds up on the bottoms of storage tanks, which must be periodically cleaned out and disposed of or processed to extract valuable products. In this context, this moment is when practical commercial storage runs very low, so as not to be a reliable buffer between current supply and demand. That’s when a bidding war will begin, and oil prices are likely to spike to $150 a barrel or higher, oil industry executives say. That moment is not far away, even as the world sleepwalks through the greatest oil crisis in history.

Meanwhile, the New World screwworm continues to pop up in even more locations in the Southwest…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday confirmed three additional cases of New World screwworm, including two in Texas, according to the agency’s animal health arm.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said the two Texas cases affected a calf in La Salle County and a goat in Gillespie County.

APHIS clarified that a fifth case reported earlier on Monday in a dog in Andrews County would be reclassified as the first case detected in New Mexico. The veterinarian who reported the case is located in Texas, the agency said, but the dog resides at a household in Lea County, New Mexico, which borders Texas.

The size of the U.S. cattle herd is already the smallest that it has been since 1951.

So what is going to happen if the New World screwworm starts spreading like wildfire?

Another plague that is deeply alarming authorities is playing out in central Africa…

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 544, in the wake of the US’s health protection agency warned the outbreak could become the largest on record.

The epicentre is in DRC’s Ituri province, where Africa’s top public health agency, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), have said there have been 515 confirmed cases out of Congo’s total of 544. At least 91 are confirmed dead, with a further 19 cases and 2 deaths in neighbouring Uganda, according to the two countries’ health ministries.

The number of confirmed cases is much higher than we were being told a few days ago.

But that isn’t the real story.

The real story is that hundreds of people have been dropping dead, and it appears that Ebola is the culprit.

But they won’t be added to the total that are “confirmed dead” until testing is complete, and that could take a while.

At the same time, hunger is rapidly growing in impoverished nations in Africa and elsewhere, and many major food exporting countries are experiencing severe drought.

Here in the United States, we have been experiencing our worst spring drought ever…

The United States experienced its worst spring drought on record last month, with more than 60% of land in the lower 48 states experiencing moderate drought or worse.

The drought has sparked alarm among farmers and environmentalists across the country, who warn that food supplies may be impacted and wildfires may blight areas where they are not usually seen.

The dry conditions are concentrated in the southeast, where moderate to exceptional drought covered 99.81% of the region at its peak in April, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Severe to exceptional drought covered more than 80% of the region, the highest level in April since the monitor began collecting data in 2000.

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that drought conditions stretch from coast to coast.

In fact, you could literally drive all the way across the nation without ever leaving areas that are being stricken by drought.

That is crazy.

And as if all that wasn’t enough, now a “Super El Niño” will make drought conditions in much of the country even worse.

According to the Daily Mail, it is now being projected that the “Super El Niño” that is coming “will likely be the strongest ever recorded”…

The brewing super El Niño will likely be the strongest ever recorded, new predictions suggest.

The latest modelling from the European Centre for Medium–Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) shows that sea temperatures will be well above average later this year.

Scientists measure the intensity of El Niño using the Niño 3.4 index, which records sea surface temperature anomalies between 5 degrees north and 5 degrees south latitude, and 120 degrees west and 170 degrees west longitude.

We have never experienced anything quite like this.

Meteorologist Ben Noll is warning that equatorial waters in the Pacific are likely to be much warmer than during any previous El Niño in all of history…

In almost every scenario, temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean will climb 3°C (5.4°F) above average by December.

However, some worrying simulations show that the sea surface will be more than 4°C (7.2°F) warmer in this critical region.

Ben Noll, a meteorologist and global weather writer at the Washington Post, wrote on X: ‘Almost every scenario now reaches past +3˚C, with a cluster of high–end scenarios in excess of +4˚C. This outlook now depicts the strongest El Niño on record.’

There will be monster droughts, unprecedented heatwaves, widespread crop failures and horrifying levels of global hunger.

Tens of millions died during the Super El Niño of 1877 and 1878.

How many will die this time around?

Of course the skeptics are not moved by any of this.

They insist that we have faced tough times before and have always come through them.

So they believe that everything will be just fine somehow.

Meanwhile, tech billionaires have been constructing giant underground bunkersin anticipation of the chaos that is ahead…

American tech billionaires have taken it a step further, with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg installing a 5,000-sq-ft underground shelter at his compound in Hawaii with its own energy and food supplies and blast-resistant doors.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman has a reinforced concrete basement under his home, while Peter Thiel, the billionaire chairman of Palantir, previously filed plans for a bunker-style compound in New Zealand.

We really are living during one of the most apocalyptic eras in human history.

Sadly, what we have experienced so far is not even worth comparing to what is eventually coming.

The chaotic years that are ahead of us are going to be absolutely insane.

But many of the skeptics will just keep on mocking until disaster suddenly overtakes them and they are no longer able to mock anything at all.

Exclusive: Girl Kept from Church, Bible, and Christian Friends by Portland Judge Awaits Appeals Court Ruling

Exclusive: Girl Kept from Church, Bible, and Christian Friends by Portland Judge Awaits Appeals Court Ruling

Lowell Cauffiel

Despite her love of Christianity, a young Maine girl has been prevented since 2024 from going to church, attending religious holidays, being “exposed” to the Bible or other scriptural literature, and even having Christian friends — all because of a judge’s order in a parental rights case.

The draconian restrictions have been in place for some 18 months as Emily Bickford and her daughter Ava, 13, wait for a decision on an appeal to the state’s Supreme Court eight months ago after Portland District Judge Jennifer Nofsinger issued the shocking ruling in late 2024 as part of a dispute between the girl’s parents.

Not only has the ruling impacted the lifestyle and pursuit of happiness by both mother and daughter, on its face it appears incompatible with the founding principles of the United States.

The right to worship granted by the First Amendment is not in the grip of any judge to grant or abolish, the Portland mother told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview this week.

“That is not theirs to take away,” Bickford said. “It’s in our Declaration of Independence. Our forefathers knew we had inalienable rights given by God. God gave us the freedom to worship him, and there’s no government that can take that away from us.”

The long-awaited decision in the appeal could influence judicial decisions in similar cases across the U.S., says Matt Staver, attorney and founder of Liberty Council, the religious rights advocacy group which has taken on the appeal of the lower court’s decision.

“Liberty Council doesn’t usually get involved in the general domestic dispute kind of case unless there’s a significant religious liberty component,” Staver told Breitbart News exclusively this week. “And this one screamed of having a religious liberty violation that got our attention.”

There are tens of thousands of separated or divorced parents in the U.S. in shared custody arrangements, which sometimes result in differences between parents as they try to “co-parent.”

Staver continued, “If this ruling is allowed to stand, it could set a precedent enabling courts to strip Christian parents of the right to raise their own children in accordance with their faith.”

In making her decision, Staver said, the judge relied on author and “cult expert” Dr. Janja Lalich, a California State University sociologist professor, who described Calvary Chapel of Portland as “cultic” and its pastor of as having a “Moses complex.”

“So, a Moses complex, I guess, is somebody who’s a strong leader, somebody who is confident in their beliefs,” Staver said.

Staver continued:

And what’s what makes it “cultic?” Well, because they believe in heaven and hell. Eternal life. They believe in angels and demons. They believe in salvation through Jesus… The pastor teaches the Bible “verse by verse, chapter by chapter.” And that alone makes this a cult. And so, if that makes this a cult, then every religion, every Christian religion is a cult. Every Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, they’re all cults, because they all have the same thing in common. They all have that similarity of belief.

Calvary Chapel, a fast-growing evangelical denomination, has more than 800 churches in the U.S. and another 200 internationally.

Staver also noted the judge was hostile to monotheistic belief since the complaint by the attorney for the father and the judge’s order wrote “god” in lower case.

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Iran’s Unprovoked Ballistic Missile Attack On Israel Is A Big Development, But Is Anyone Truly Surprised?

Iran’s Unprovoked Ballistic Missile Attack On Israel Is A Big Development, But Is Anyone Truly Surprised?

Erick Stakelbeck

You could say this past weekend was full of “non-surprises.”

Beginning on Sunday, Iran launched multiple rounds of ballistic missiles at Israel. This marked the first such attack since the ceasefire came into effect last April—but it’s not as though the regime had not already broken the agreement time and time again. And yes, after setting the Middle East back on fire, Iran threatened to launch even more attacks.

It’s a very big development, no doubt, but are you really surprised?

This is who Iran’s regime is, and this is what they do. It’s all mayhem, murder, lies, and double talk. It’s been that way for 47 years. Until this regime is decisively defeated and removed from power, the madness will continue.

The latest flare-up began in Lebanon, where Iran’s proxy Hezbollah has been launching daily rocket and drone barrages at the Jewish State. Villages and towns in northern Israel have been evacuated, and several Israeli soldiers have lost their lives. Israel had to respond.

On Saturday, the IDF launched airstrikes against a Hezbollah hideout in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The message was sent. But Iran wanted to send a message of its own.

Remember, Hezbollah is the crown jewel of Iran’s terror proxy network, and if Hezbollah is destroyed, it represents a major blow to Iran’s mad mullahs and their plans for regional domination—including the destruction of Israel. So, despite the ceasefire and ongoing peace talks with the United States, Iran decided to launch a flurry of ballistic missiles. Israelis were back in bomb shelters, and the country was once again on high alert.

Thankfully, no one was hurt by these Iranian missiles, and damage appears to be minimal. Israel’s first instinct—and rightfully so—was to respond with overwhelming force and strike Iran.

It is absolutely intolerable to have missiles raining down on your country. Would Americans just sit back and absorb ballistic missiles bombarding the U.S. mainland? Of course we wouldn’t! No one would.

In fact, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, just a few months ago, responding to Iranian attacks on American targets, stated: “If you fire at a U.S. Navy ship, what are we supposed to do? Say, oh, there’s a ceasefire, we’re not going to shoot down your drone? That’s a stupid question. That’s a stupid position to take. Of course we fired back at them. They were shooting at us. That’s what I would expect to do. Only stupid countries don’t shoot back when you’re shot at, and we’re not a stupid country.”

Let me reiterate that clear statement: “Only stupid countries don’t shoot back when you’re shot at.” Agreed! Which is why it was so confusing when President Trump tried to restrain Israel yesterday, urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to respond to Iran’s unprovoked missile attack.

The president wants a deal with Iran—a deal which will not be worth the paper it’s written on. Trump was concerned that if Israel responded, it would jeopardize this Iran deal, which the president keeps assuring us is “very close.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu rightly ignored the president on this and retaliated. To not do so would have only emboldened Iran to carry out further strikes. This is how the Middle East works, and always has. If you give a bully there an inch, they’ll take a mile.

Israel launched major attacks against targets throughout Iran, including against a petrochemical complex that is key to Iran’s ballistic missile program.

“Iran and Hezbollah are weaker than ever, and we are stronger than ever,” Netanyahu stressed. “But our struggle against them is not over yet. Over the past day, Iran and Hezbollah tried to impose a new equation on us. And that equation is intolerable and completely unacceptable. They thought they could fire from Lebanon and Iran at Israel and we would not respond. That did not happen, and it wil not happen. Not on my watch. As I have done for decades, I stand firmly for our right to act against our enemies. That is exactly how we acted now.”

Iran went on to fire several more missiles at central Israel, bringing the total to 24 Iranian missiles launched at Israel within 24 hours. All of them were either intercepted or fell into open areas—thank God. At the same time, another Iranian proxy, the Houthis, joined the fray from Yemen and fired two missiles at the Jewish State.

Meanwhile, President Trump is asking both sides to hold their fire as he works towards a deal.

Folks, here’s the problem. We have been working towards a deal for two months, and Iran’s regime still does not seem willing to end its nuclear program, give up its enriched uranium, end its support for proxies like Hezbollah, end its development of ballistic missiles, and open the Strait of Hormuz for safe passage.

Now, I don’t know what the regime’s minions say in private negotiations with U.S. officials, but in public, they seem to be growing more belligerent by the day.

Operation Epic Fury was an incredible accomplishment, destroying Iran’s Navy, Air Force, and air defenses. It further decimated its ballistic missile stockpiles and nuclear program, and eliminated many top Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The U.S. and Israel work side by side to bring the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism to its knees.

For the past two months, we have tried a ceasefire. It hasn’t worked because a deal takes two to tango. President Trump’s a dealmaker; he knows that better than anyone. He knows that Iran is led by Islamic jihadist fanatics.

Up until now, Trump has made all the right moves when it comes to Iran, over both his first and second terms. He is the first American president to confront this demonic regime. He has earned the benefit of the doubt… but it’s become very clear that the time for talk is over. The longer talks drag on, the more emboldened the Ayatollahs become.

Let’s finish the job.

God willing, in doing so, we not only free the Iranian people, but we will also send a message to tyrants around the world—that includes Islamic terrorists who are slaughtering Christians in places like Africa right now.

Why Israel Refuses To Leave Hezbollah Alone: Preventing Another October 7

Why Israel Refuses To Leave Hezbollah Alone: Preventing Another October 7

PNW STAFF

As President Trump works to preserve a fragile peace process with Iran, the Middle East once again finds itself on the edge of a wider war.

Over the past 24 hours, Iran launched another round of missile attacks against Israel following Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, threatening to unravel weeks of diplomatic efforts aimed at stabilizing the region. Israel has now retaliated destroying numerous Iranian targets across the country.  Trump continues pushing for a broader agreement that could reduce tensions between Israel, Iran, and their respective allies, but the latest violence highlights a reality many outside observers fail to understand.

For Israel, the Hezbollah problem cannot simply be negotiated away.

To many diplomats, Hezbollah is merely one piece of a larger regional puzzle. To Israel, Hezbollah represents an existential threat sitting directly on its northern border--a threat that Israeli intelligence believes recently came within moments of carrying out a second October 7.

That context is critical to understanding why Israel continues to push aggressively against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon despite international pressure, ceasefire discussions, and ongoing peace negotiations. Israeli leaders are not simply fighting today's battles. They are attempting to ensure that a nightmare they believe was narrowly avoided can never happen again.

The reason is chilling.

According to recent reports, hundreds of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force fighters moved toward Israel's northern frontier during the recent conflict, advancing south of the Litani River as Israel was focused on confronting Iran. Their operational plan was reportedly known as "Conquer the Galilee"--a large-scale cross-border assault intended to overwhelm Israeli border communities, seize hostages, and inflict mass civilian casualties in a manner strikingly similar to Hamas' October 7 massacre.

This was not a theoretical exercise.

For years, Hezbollah openly trained for precisely such an operation. Videos released by the group showed commandos storming mock Israeli villages. Senior Hezbollah leaders repeatedly boasted about one day "liberating the Galilee." The Radwan Force, named after Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, was specifically created as an elite assault force capable of penetrating Israeli territory and conducting offensive operations.

Following Hamas' October 7 attack, Israeli intelligence began taking these threats far more seriously.

Then came reports that Hezbollah fighters were actually moving toward the border.

Fortunately for Israel, this time intelligence systems worked.

The IDF reportedly identified the infiltration in real time and launched operations that eliminated the attackers before they could reach a single Israeli community. The commander allegedly involved in planning the assault, Ahmed Ali Balout, was later killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut.

Had the operation succeeded, the consequences would have been catastrophic.

The physical casualties alone could have rivaled or exceeded those of October 7.

For a nation as small and interconnected as Israel, that type of trauma would reverberate for generations. Every family knows someone serving in the military. Every community is connected through networks of friends and relatives. A second October 7 would not simply have been another terrorist attack--it would have been a profound psychological blow to the very idea that Israel could protect its citizens.

This explains why Israel's campaign against Hezbollah goes far beyond retaliation for rockets.

Israel's objective is prevention.

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What Happens When Machines Become The Majority On The Internet?

What Happens When Machines Become The Majority On The Internet?

BY PNW STAFF

For decades, the internet was fundamentally a human creation. Every website, every comment, every search, every purchase, and every viral trend ultimately traced back to a real person sitting behind a keyboard. That reality has now changed.

According to Cloudflare, one of the largest internet infrastructure companies in the world, automated bot traffic has officially surpassed human traffic online. More than 57 percent of requests hitting the websites it monitors now come from bots, AI agents, and automated systems, while less than 43 percent come from actual people.

That milestone may sound like a technical curiosity reserved for programmers and network engineers. In reality, it could represent one of the most significant transformations in the history of the internet—and one that will eventually affect everyone.

For years, discussions about artificial intelligence focused primarily on what AI could create. Could it write articles? Generate images? Produce videos? Answer questions?

Now we are entering a new phase.

AI is no longer simply creating content. It is becoming an active participant in the internet itself.

Imagine a human shopper browsing five websites before making a purchase. An AI shopping assistant might scan 5,000 websites in seconds. AI research agents can visit thousands of pages while gathering information. Automated systems can monitor prices, compare products, collect data, generate reports, and interact with websites continuously without human intervention.

The result is an internet increasingly populated by machines talking to machines.

That raises a much bigger question: What happens when humans are no longer the primary audience online?

For the average person, the most immediate impact may be the quality of information itself.

Much of today's internet already suffers from fake reviews, clickbait articles, manipulated social media engagement, and AI-generated spam. As bot traffic grows, distinguishing between genuine human experiences and machine-generated content could become even more difficult.

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