Nostradamus Made Many Predictions, But...
He never mentioned Twinkies or Slim Jims.
Nostradamus.
There are those who take his prognostications seriously... and for good reason; whether coincidence or not, many have come to pass. Amongst his many quatrains are several very troubling predictions which seem to describe current events... were they to come to pass, it would not bode well for anyone.
More than one quatrain foretells a global famine... it's possible that time is now. With a war raging in Ukraine and no foreseeable end, Nostradamus' prediction of a worldwide famine grows ever more possible. Ukraine and Russia supply fully a quarter of the world's wheat supply with Ukraine being the largest exporter of the two; the planting season begins soon. It's highly unlikely that Ukrainian farmers will be tending to crops this spring.
There are nearly 8 thousand million people on planet earth, every one of them must eat. There's a delicate balance between fed and famine; a significant disruption in the supply of food would upset that balance. People can live without the internet, a smart phone, or Starbucks, but they can't survive without food. A 25% reduction in the supply of wheat... from which bread is made, would most assuredly upset that balance. Hunger causes people to do desperate things... the results would make a BLM riot seem like a poetry reading by comparison.
But Nostradamus isn't the only one predicting a famine. Whilst he's certainly no visionary... Joe Biden can barely remember his name, he did shuffle to the microphone last month whilst attending a meeting of the G7 and slurred these words, "Yes we did talk about food shortages. And it’s going to be real." Considering Joe Biden recently said that inflation would be "transitory," and his deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan was "an extraordinary success," it's reasonable to assume that when Joe Biden says "food shortages," it could very well mean famine.
Life on earth has always hung by a thread; many mass extinction events have wiped the planet clean in the past. Today, humans depend on a ready and accessible supply of water and food. When war on a crowded planet breaks out in the world's "breadbasket," and that supply is diminished, the thread by which we hang is drawn ever thinner. Nostradamus had visions of that thread snapping and, as unlikely as it is that he's the slightest bit prescient, so has Joe Biden, which should cause everyone to worry.
Nostradamus never mentioned them, but it might be wise to stock up on Twinkies and Slim Jims, just in case... they last forever.
