Michael Snyder, a writer for The Economic Collapse recently published a piece at Lew Rockwell’s blog, predicting what kind of year 2025 might turn out to be. To be quite frank, it’s not good. The question he posed specifically is whether or not this year could end up looking one of those disaster movies from the late 1990s and earlier 2000s. You know, like “Armageddon,” “Comet,” “Volcano,” and “2012.” That sort of thing.
Well, Gallup did a poll that demonstrated there are a whole lot of individuals in the U.S. who are not feeling as optimistic as you might think following a big win by President-elect Donald Trump. In fact, a majority of Americans feel that 2025 will be filled with “political conflict, economic difficulty, international discord, increasing power for China and Russia, and a rising federal budget deficit”…
Americans foresee a somewhat challenging year ahead for the country, based on their predictions for various aspects of U.S. affairs and daily life. Majorities of U.S. adults think 2025 will be a year of political conflict, economic difficulty, international discord, increasing power for China and Russia, and a rising federal budget deficit.
Snyder says he’s in agreement with that assessment of the year ahead. He notes that we as a country are currently facing major struggles both from within and without and our economy is not currently on a healthy trajectory. The writer also pointed out that the one thing that could end up making matters significantly worse is another health crisis in a similar vein to COVID-19.
And guess what is sweeping across the country as we speak? Bird flu. A lot of government officials have been trying to drum up fear over this virus, just like they did with COVID, saying that it’s now become inevitable that we’ll have a bird flu pandemic among humans. They seem to be awfully comfortable making that prediction. Are they aware of something we aren’t? Fishy indeed.
Already, we are starting to see public officials freak out. The state of California recently declared a state of emergency, and now it is being reported that Arizona has detected bird flu in the wastewater in the cities of Phoenix, Tempe and Surpris. Bird flu has been detected in wastewater in multiple metro Phoenix cities, county health officials confirmed Monday.
Routine wastewater surveillance in Phoenix, Tempe and Surprise — the three cities in the county where monitoring occurs — confirmed the presence of avian influenza, according to a press release from the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH). The influenza subtype, which includes bird flu as H5N1, has been detected in multiple locations in the Valley in the past couple of months.
Bird flu, meanwhile, is spreading at lightspeed across the country impacting cattle herds and flocks of poultry all over the place. Over 123 million birds, the vast majority being turkeys and chickens, have bit the dust. A farm located in Darke County, Ohio said almost a million chickens have been infected with the illness.
Ohio agriculture officials are investigating after avian flu was detected in nearly one million chickens in Darke County. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza was detected in Darke County on Dec. 27, involving 931,302 chickens. Since it’s an active case, the ODA did not identify the individual farms.
Even cats are dying in huge numbers due to this virus.
Let’s shift gears and talk about another big fear for people this year: war.
“The U.S. and Israel are openly talking about conducting a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear program, North Korea is threatening to invade South Korea, and long-range NATO missiles continue to hit targets deep inside Russia. In response, the Russians just fired missiles at Kyiv,” Snyder wrote in his report.
Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine on Tuesday, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones. Ukraine’s air force reported a ballistic missile threat at 3:00 a.m. (0100 GMT), with at least two explosions heard in Kyiv minutes later. Another missile alert was issued at 8:00 a.m. followed by at least one explosion in the city. Missile debris fell in the Darnytskyi district of the capital with no reports of casualties or damage, the local administration said.
Then you have Chinese President Xi Jinping talking rather boldly about “reunifying” with Taiwan — change that word out with “invading” — and claiming nobody will be able to stop it from happening.
No one can stop China’s “reunification” with Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s speech on Dec 31, laying down a clear warning to what Beijing regards as pro-independence forces within and outside of the island of 23 million people. In the past year, Beijing has stepped up military pressure near Taiwan, sending warships and planes almost daily into the waters and air space around the island in what Taiwanese officials view as a creeping effort to “normalise” China’s military presence.
And, as usual, the Middle East is a complete and total mess as Afghanistan is gearing up for war with Pakistan.
Fears of an all-out war erupting between Afghanistan and Pakistan are rising after the Taliban sent troops to the border as the two countries continue to trade deadly strikes. The Afghan Taliban has unleashed a series of devastating artillery strikes on Pakistani military checkpoints along the tense border, sparking fears of a full-blown conflict between the two neighbours. The hardline Islamist group boasted it had obliterated ‘several’ Pakistani positions and mobilised battalions of fighters to confront any retaliation from Islamabad, in a chilling show of force.
Sprinkle talk of volcanoes off the coast of Oregon, earthquakes, major hurricanes, and all sorts of disasters on top and you have a soufflé of total misery for the people of our world.
We need to be on our knees regularly, praying for God to grant us repentance as a nation and deliver us from these disasters before they strike.
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