Shocking News for May 20th, 2026 -- Please relax and hear me out
Stuff you don't hear on "the news" -- from a working news reporter
A trusted source tells me that the world is entering “the most severe systemic economic breakdown in modern history.” You need to know this before it happens, before the economic shock arrives. Nothing to worry about right now, nothing to panic about. But this source says prepare, buy some extra cans of your favorite food, maybe, if you can, extra water, medications if you need them. An earthquake, a hurricane, a tornado, a tidal wave is coming, be ready, my source says. It’s May 20th, you have time for now. I will reveal this source soon — he is a scientist who says the people in charge worldwide are ostriches, heads in the sand. They’ll be hit by the shockwave just as we will. A number of important economic things are broken, not least of which is the Strait of Hormuz, which is talked about so much you want to tune it out. But it’s still here, and the lack of fertilizer will hurt farming, lack of a certain badly needed element from the Hormuz will hit computer chips and the lack of oil will knock down transportation — and it all adds up to shortages of food, gasoline, toilet paper (remember the pandemic?) and various other things. I’ll keep you posted, but I’m telling you this. I have nothing to sell. I’m a news reporter, that’s all, just some guy armed by facts and sources and I bring receipts. I don’t want your money — I actually do want your safety.
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Some extremely important supply chains never recovered from the pandemic, like basic supplies for airlines, which are now waiting years for new planes because the manufacturers are having a hard time getting parts. Have you noticed that more planes are full of people on popular routes? Sky Digest on YouTube, in a startling report, shows the odd cases of planes taking years from order to delivery while older planes are still sitting in the US western desert being cannibalized for parts. And the sale prices of used widebody jets are worth 80-precent more than they should be, planes nearing the end of their lives. Planes that were scrapped during the pandemic with expectation that new orders will arrive in 2023 or ‘24. Hundreds of planes are on order, years to wait for delivery. If you take a long-haul flight today it’s possible you’ll be on a plane that was supposed to be retired by now, Sky Digest says.
There are some planes on order that won’t likely be delivered until sometime in the 2030s. Aircraft mechanics are in short supply after many left that work during the pandemic and never returned. And note: jet aircraft are so complex that if you can’t get one important part, you can’t complete the craft until that part arrives. And this video from Sky Digest is two months old and there’s a new twist now — fuel prices way up. Things broken in 2020 are still broken, and more are breaking.
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Oil supplies are dwindling fast. Not oil itself, the storage of oil. “Tank bottoms are coming any week now.” Most of the oil that’s called “stored” is actually in pipeline, Jeff Currie said on CNBC via X. Diesel fuel, which runs trains and trucks, is running out quickly, as is motor oil, and in July it will be gasoline in the United States, but in portions of the world it’s already true, he said, and these people who say there’s nothing wrong are out of touch with the reality of where oil is and how much it’s really worth.
Oil starts to run out just when the annual vacation season opens in a couple of weeks. No turning back. Even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens tomorrow.
This is not doom and gloom, there are great things going on in the world. Hold on, but:
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In the capital of Russia, are there calls for President Vlad Putin to step down? The Enforcer on YouTube says yes, claiming Putin is scared, that Ukraine is bringing attacks on Moscow that are unprecedented, slipping through defense forces and bringing new devastation that mocks Putin’s hardline words. Enforcer claims that President Trump will restart the war in Iran within 48 hours unless there’s an new peace agreement. Several hundred Russians have been trained in drone fighting by Chinese agents and are now directing drones toward Ukraine. The secret side of these wars are how many other nations are involved, from North Korea to Turkey. And China supplying the Russian and Iranian armed forces.
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There are escalations in the Ukraine-Russia war and it’s important that you know this — no need to be surprised in the future if it continues getting bigger. This is just information, we all know there’s nothing we can do about it, but it is still hard to believe for most of us that people are dying in this war, and in the Middle East, when the world seemed peaceful and kind of calm just a little over four years ago, just as we were coming out of the pandemic, as if that weren’t bad enough. The last year most of us remember as calm in 2019. And plenty of us had our own big problems that year. This is just information for you to know, not scare you. Keep your mind on your life, remember each hour the people you love and offer them more love if you’re worried. This information is real, but no more real than your life.
And it is true that compared to 30 years ago, there are far fewer people living in poverty (both in percentage and in number) today. There are more than 1.5 billion fewer people living below the international extreme poverty line of two or three dollars per day today than in 1990. Source: The World Bank.
—NewsMike