{"id":51061,"date":"2024-07-12T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=51061"},"modified":"2024-07-13T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T18:24:11","slug":"a-man-made-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/a-man-made-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man-Made Famine","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-51064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-Fields2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-Fields2.jpg 1194w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-Fields2-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-Fields2-1024x965.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-Fields2-768x724.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HAY<\/strong> season is just wrapping up for me (which is why I have been absent of late). Today, as I was heading to the last field to harvest, I was taking notice of the crops around me. As far as the eye could see, almost all of them are canola. This is (now) a genetically modified seed that is sprayed with glyphosate (aka. Roundup) several times before harvesting.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Glyphosate is now linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/fill-the-earth\/\">sperm reduction<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-poisoning\/\">cancer<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> The end product is not something you can eat, at least, not directly. The seed is turned into various products such as canola oil or margarine \u2014 but not an edible like wheat, barley, or rye.\u00a0 <br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To see all these canola fields at this time strikes me as very odd.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Of course, farmers are planting canola because that is the crop that is most profitable.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> After all, according to the World Food Programme&#8217;s website,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Conflict, economic shocks, climate extremes and soaring fertilizer prices are combining to create a food crisis of unprecedented proportions. As many as 309 million people are facing chronic hunger in 72 countries. We have a choice: act now to save lives and invest in solutions that secure food security, stability and peace for all, or see people around the world facing rising hunger.<\/strong> \u20142024, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/global-hunger-crisis\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">www.wfp.org\/global-hunger-crisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51065 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.44.33@2x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.44.33@2x.jpg 1616w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.44.33@2x-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.44.33@2x-1024x975.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.44.33@2x-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.44.33@2x-1536x1462.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd because, if there is a global food crisis, why aren&#8217;t world leaders calling for the agricultural sector to grow as much wheat or other food staples as possible? According to President Joe Biden, the Russian-Ukraine conflict itself will produce global food shortages: &#8220;We did talk about food shortages. And it&#8217;s going to be real.&#8221;<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">March 24, 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/biden-warns-real-food-shortage-220310491.html\">yahoo.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The agricultural market was already experiencing problems due to COVID-19 restrictions, and 11 states have agricultural export restrictions \u2014 the global shortages caused by the Ukraine War are likely to increase these trade limitations. Moscow and Beijing have also implemented export bans on fertilizer or components used to manufacture them. The inability to fertilize will lower crop yields. The trade bans work to increase panic and generate additional price spikes. The countries that have the greatest import-dependent populations will see their populations\u2019 food supply contract and suffer hunger and possible famine.<\/strong> \u2014 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2022\/Jul\/31\/2003046336\/-1\/-1\/1\/14%20SLOBOHICKOFF_COMMENTARY.PDF\">Great-Power Competition and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine<\/a>&#8220;, Jul\/August 2022, Dr. G. Douglas Davis &amp; Dr. Michael O. Slobodchikoff (Dr. Davis sent an email to me noting that the main image above mirrors the Ukraine flag&#8230;)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And in America, over a hundred food processing plants of various kinds have been mysteriously damaged or burned down in the past couple of years,<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">see a list <a href=\"https:\/\/wltreport.com\/2024\/01\/31\/stunning-map-shows-all-food-processing-plants-that\/\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> alongside cyber attacks.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">&#8220;The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is informing Food and Agriculture (FA) sector partners that ransomware actors may be more likely to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons, disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and negatively impacting the food supply chain. The FBI noted ransomware attacks during these seasons against six grain cooperatives during the fall 2021 harvest and two attacks in early 2022 that could impact the planting season by disrupting the supply of seeds and fertilizer.&#8221; \u20142022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/Media\/News\/2022\/220420-2.pdf\">www.ic3.gov\/Media\/News\/2022\/220420-2.pdf<\/a> <\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> So why aren&#8217;t politicians joining together, like Joseph of old, to literally fill our granaries with food for a present and impending crisis? Why aren&#8217;t we expanding herds, distributing food, and preparing for the inevitable?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>When the seven years of abundance enjoyed by the land of Egypt came to an end, the seven years of famine set in, just as Joseph had said. Although there was famine in all the other countries, food was available throughout the land of Egypt.<\/strong> (Gen 41:53-54)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51067 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.15.37@2x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.15.37@2x.jpg 1460w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.15.37@2x-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.15.37@2x-1024x944.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2024-07-12-at-13.15.37@2x-768x708.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, governments are preoccupied with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-big-lie\/\">Big Lie<\/a> of &#8220;climate change&#8221; and another virus, this time &#8220;bird flu.&#8221; Using the infamous and highly-manipulated &#8220;PCR test&#8221; (yes, the same one that was fraudulently used to inflate COVID numbers and eventually banned by some governments<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. documentary &#8220;Following the Science?&#8221; at 7:28 mark<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> ), healthy flocks or livestock are being tested &#8220;positive&#8221; for avian flu. As a result, the widespread deaths of these birds and animals is actually not from the virus itself:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span class=\"highlighter--highlighted\" data-highlight-id=\"0\">So far, the bird flu has mostly been a problem for birds. It\u2019s not the disease that\u2019s killing most of them, however \u2014 it\u2019s their owners.<\/span><\/strong> \u2014<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/23053296\/bird-flu-chickens-turkeys-cull-depopulation-ventilation-shutdown\">Vox<\/a>, <\/em>May 5, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article continues, &#8220;When chicken, turkey, and egg companies detect one infected bird, they kill the whole flock in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. And they\u2019re doing so using a variety of excruciating methods, including spraying birds with a suffocating water-based foam or closing off barn vents to raise temperatures so the birds die by heat stroke, a practice called ventilation shutdown, which can take 1.5 to 3.75 hours to kill them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Denmark has actually gone so far as to <em>discourage<\/em> food production by introducing the world\u2019s first emissions tax on agriculture, requiring farmers to pay for greenhouse gases released by their cows, sheep and pigs. Yes, a tax on animal farts.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_7');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_7');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_7\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[7]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_7\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">June 26, 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/world-news\/141514\/gassy-cows-carbon-tax-denmark\">the-express.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the mainstream media is all-in on attacking anyone as a &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; who questions the prudence (or ethics) of destroying the food supply \u2014 which immediately suggests that there <em>really<\/em> <em>is<\/em> something funky going on&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Man-Made Labor Pains<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-47949\" style=\"margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/globalpassport2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/globalpassport2.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/globalpassport2-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/globalpassport2-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/globalpassport2-768x1118.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/globalpassport2-1055x1536.jpg 1055w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/globalpassport2-1407x2048.jpg 1407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/>Of course, my questions above are rhetorical. It should be very clear, to those who are awake at least, that our leaders throughout the Western World are acting on a bizarre and coordinated agenda \u2014 and not one that is best for the people they represent. You cannot lockdown entire populations, damage the supply chain, create a mental health crisis, force experimental chemicals into their bodies, take away their freedom, and then destroy their food supply without such leaders being either completely incompetent&#8230; or somehow complicit, knowingly or not, in a greater agenda. And the greater agenda is to finally, utterly, destroy the foundations of the world as we know it precisely in order to &#8220;build back better&#8221; a world re-made in the image of the financial controllers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>At this period, however, the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons. No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself&#8230; that which is their ultimate purpose forces itself into view \u2014 namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism.<\/strong> \u2014POPE LEO XIII, <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus.html\"><em>Humanum Genus<\/em><\/a>, Encyclical on Freemasonry, n.10, Apri 20thl, 1884<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This also means a vastly depopulated globe and a revamped world order.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.<\/strong> \u2014Club of Rome, <em>The First Global Revolution<\/em>, p. 75, 1993; Alexander King &amp; Bertrand Schneider<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Long before the lingo of a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-reset\/\">Great Reset<\/a>&#8221; entered into contemporary parlance, prophetic Canadian author Michael D. O&#8217;Brien had these globalists pegged:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>They will unleash unprecedented horrors: famines, plagues, wars, and ultimately Divine Justice. In the beginning they will use coercion to further reduce population, and then if that fails they will use force.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014Michael D. O\u2019Brien,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-religion\/2221827\/posts\"><em>Globalization and the New World Order<\/em><\/a>, March 17th, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why, for me personally, one of the keys that unlocks the meaning of Matthew 24 and Revelation 6 is the fact that these &#8220;labor pains&#8221; and &#8220;seals&#8221; are, in fact, <em>man-made<\/em> \u2014 veiled descriptions of an eventual global \u201cconspiracy against life\u201d, as St. John Paul II put it.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_8');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_8');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_8\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[8]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_8\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-labor-pains-depopulation\/\"><em>The Labor Pains: Depopulation?<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_8').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_8', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> Hence, when Jesus described wars, famine (Mt 24:7), plague (Lk 21:11)\u00a0 and the rise of \u201cfalse prophets\u201d (Mt 24:11), it seems He was speaking of man-made chastisements driven by dangerous and deluded messianists:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Death battles against Life: a \u201cculture of death\u201d seeks to impose itself on our desire to live, and live to the full. There are those who reject the light of life, preferring \u201cthe fruitless works of darkness.\u201d Their harvest is injustice, discrimination, exploitation, deceit, violence. In every age, a measure of their apparent success is the <em>death of the innocents<\/em>. In our own century, as at no other time in history, the \u201cculture of death\u201d has assumed a social and institutional form of legality to justify the most horrible crimes against humanity: genocide, \u201cfinal solutions,\u201d \u201cethnic cleansings,\u201d and the massive \u201ctaking of lives of human beings even before they are born, or before they reach the natural point of death\u201d\u2026. Today that struggle has become increasingly direct.<\/strong> \u2014text of Pope John Paul II\u2019s remarks at Sunday Mass at Cherry Creek State Park, Denver Colorado, World Youth Day, 1993, August 15, 1993, Solemnity of the Assumption; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/catholicism\/library\/cherry-creek-remarks-and-farewell-address-12671\">ewtn.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-51068\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-walk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-walk.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-walk-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Canola-walk-768x889.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/>As the summer days roll along, and life continues to feel relatively &#8220;normal,&#8221; I am also acutely aware that we are almost certainly in between the hard labor pains.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_9');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_51061_1('footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_9');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_9\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[9]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_9\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-transition\/\">The Great Transition<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-labor-pains-are-real\/\"><em>The Labor Pains are Real<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_9').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_51061_1_9', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> Indeed, the very same scenarios that preceded COVID are being played out again&#8230; with global summits on avian flu&#8230; the media obsessively preparing the populace for the next pandemic&#8230; government leaders destroying the economy as fast as they can by inflationary policies and nonsensical &#8220;green&#8221; initiatives, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, time to get back on my tractor and make those last few bales. While I think it is imperative that you and I live in the present moment and that we continue to enjoy the life that God has given us as best we can without obsessing over these things, it seems to me that we ought to <em>physically <\/em>prepare to a degree as well \u2014 something I have rarely spoken about. If possible, have a few months of food in your stores and some other basic supplies. At the end of the day, however, if what seems to be coming transpires, we will all at some point be utterly reliant upon Divine Providence to carry us through \u2014 as much as Noah depended upon the ark to survive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And so the words of Our Lord Jesus are as relevant today as the moment He spoke them:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. 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href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-poisoning\/\">cancer<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_51061_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_2');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Of course, farmers are planting canola because that is the crop that is most profitable.<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_51061_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_51061_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_51061_1_3');\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_plugin_link\" ><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">March 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