PROMPT
explore deeply what happened to ICE AGE FARMER youtuber, who was revealing the coordinated attacks against food infrastructure. the covid was put upon the world and IAF vanished. where is he, what has he been up to?
RESPONSE
Short version: he didn’t disappear off the face of the earth, but he did get hit hard (doxxed, de-platformed, de-banked), went quiet for a couple of years, and has now resurfaced under the name UNSHADOWED, while also quietly restarting the Ice Age Farmer site and podcast.
I’ll walk through it in a clean timeline.
1. Who he is / what he was doing
Ice Age Farmer = Christian Westbrook, a California-based permaculturist/homesteader who built a channel around the idea that:
- global food supply is being deliberately restructured,
- “climate” and “pandemic” policy are tools for centralized control, and
- the answer is decentralised, local food sovereignty. (ice age farmer)
From about 2018–2021 he:
- ran the Ice Age Farmer YouTube / BitChute / Odysee channels;
- spoke at The Greater Reset events about “The Greater Food Transformation” and “heart resonance” as a guide to life decisions; (ice age farmer)
- did high-visibility interviews with James Corbett and others about “Ice Age Farming” and the engineered food crisis; (The Corbett Report)
- by late 2021 his own site shows him warning of engineered food shortages, lockdowns on unvaccinated farmers/truckers, and systematic destruction of food infrastructure. (ice age farmer)
This is the period you’re remembering: during COVID he was one of the louder voices tying pandemic, climate, and “Great Reset” agendas directly to food.
2. The hit: think-tank targeting, WaPo piece, and de-banking
In a June 2025 essay titled “What happened to Ice Age Farmer?”, published at The Burning Platform, Christian himself explains what went down. (The Burning Platform)
Key points in his own account:
- Named as a “key actor” by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
- ISD is a well-funded “counter-extremism” / “disinformation” think tank (Gates Foundation, Open Society, UK/US/Canada government money, etc.).
- Their October 2021 report “Climate Lockdown and the Culture Wars” explicitly singled out Ice Age Farmer as a “key actor” undermining mainstream narratives on climate/pandemic. (The Burning Platform)
- Follow-up ISD article
- A May 2021 ISD piece (later removed, preserved only via archive) used one of his videos as an example of “conspiracist culture warriors,” tying his audience and recommendation graph to QAnon, Russian disinfo, 5G-COVID, Mercola, etc., even though he hadn’t actually linked to those channels himself; the connections were built from YouTube recommendations and sites that linked to him. (The Burning Platform)
- Washington Post “climate misinformation” piece
- In January 2022, The Washington Post ran an article titled roughly “Election misinformation helped fuel the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Now, climate misinformation threatens the planet.”
- That piece named “Ice Age Farmer” and used his full real name, which he describes as being effectively doxxed and publicly lumped in with Jan. 6-type narratives. (The Burning Platform)
- Aftermath he describes: employer, bank, and platforms
According to him, very shortly after the WaPo article:
- His employer became aware of the piece;
- His financial accounts were locked “for security purposes”;
- Facebook began tagging his posts as “Russian disinformation.” (The Burning Platform) He characterizes this as a coordinated effort to neutralize him—think tank → mainstream press → corporate/banking response. He explicitly says he sees it as a “coordinated censorship” operation that identified him as a threat and worked to remove him from the field. (The Burning Platform)
- Collateral damage: loss of homestead, income, identity
He writes that the combination of losing income, being de-banked, and other “frictions” for his family meant he ultimately lost his homestead and livelihood and went through a full collapse of his previous identity as “Ice Age Farmer.” (The Burning Platform)
So: this wasn’t just YouTube demonetization. By his own telling, it was a multi-front pressure campaign that hit platform access, employment, and banking all at once.
3. The “vanishing”: 2022–2024 quiet phase
From the outside, what people saw was:
- YouTube channel nuked / throttled;
- Telegram and other feeds that had been very active suddenly stopping around late 2021–mid-2022 (a Reddit thread notes his last Telegram post was on 11/8 and that he “went dark 31 days ago” from that point). (Reddit)
- As of late 2023, Wikispooks’ biography of Ice Age Farmer listed him as “inactive since May 2022.” (WikiSpooks)
During this period, supporters online were speculating that he was missing, dead, in hiding, etc., but there was no official missing-person case or credible report of his death. It was an information vacuum plus a lot of concern and rumor.
From Christian’s own 2025 reflection, that “silent” window looks like:
- intense anger and confusion (“mad at God” in his words) about being led to build the channel and then seemingly being told to stop;
- years of soul-searching, prayer, and what he calls “recovery, healing and rebuilding of life” after losing his homestead and role;
- realizing that if he just kept fighting in the same way, he was in some sense feeding the machine he opposed—providing data for AI training, being used as a token “extremist” in think-tank reports, and so on. (The Burning Platform)
So the inside story is not “he got grabbed and disappeared,” but “he was hit hard enough that he chose to pull back, regroup, and re-orient,” under heavy pressure.
4. Re-emergence as UNSHADOWED (and revival of IceAgeFarmer.com)
By 2024–2025 he starts to surface again in a more explicit way:
- UNSHADOWED Substack / brand
- A Substack titled UNSHADOWED (formerly known as Ice Age Farmer) appears, with the tagline “don’t fight the shadow. integrate it.” (Unshadowed)
- Posts there (where we can see snippets) talk about the “poly-crisis” / “omni-crisis,” grand solar cycles, weakening magnetosphere, and the need to integrate the “shadow” (personal and collective) rather than just fight the system. (Unshadowed)
- 2025 interview with Derrick Broze
- In October 2025, Derrick Broze (The Conscious Resistance) runs a long conversation titled “Tackling Your Shadow & the Omni-Crisis with Christian Westbrook (Ice Age Farmer)”.
- The show description is very explicit: he is “formerly known as Ice Age Farmer, now reporting under the name Unshadowed.”
- In that interview he explains why he dropped out of public life for a couple years, including the attacks he faced, ongoing health battles, and his spiritual/philosophical journey. (iHeart)
- IceAgeFarmer.com is active again
- His main site IceAgeFarmer.com is currently live and publishing. The front page lists new podcasts from late September 2025:
- “Building the Beast System: Microbes, AI & Total Surveillance”
- “Global Emissions Surveillance & Digital Product Passports”
- These pieces describe Climate TRACE emissions tracking, digital product passports, Palantir, DOD’s Tellus project, and genetically engineered microbes as part of a global bio-surveillance/control architecture—very much in line with his old themes, but integrated with the UNSHADOWED framing and cross-linked to Substack. (ice age farmer)
- Ongoing presence as a permaculture / food-sovereignty consultant
- He also runs a personal site under his real name advertising permaculture/homestead consulting, microgreens to organic farms, etc.— “deep experience in permaculture design, holistic homestead gardening, hydroponics, aquaponics, water harvesting, herbal medicine, and foraging.”
- Alt-media references confirming he’s “back”
- James Corbett’s July 2025 open thread points readers toward “the latest from Christian Westbrook, aka the Ice Age Farmer,” linking to UNSHADOWED posts about aerial RNA spraying of crops. (The Corbett Report)
So: he’s not gone. He’s operating under a slightly different banner (UNSHADOWED), with more emphasis on inner work/shadow integration, while still drilling into technocratic control of food, biotech, and surveillance.
5. So where is he now, and what’s he doing?
Based on public information (and trying not to over-speculate):
- Location: He was originally California-based. Wikispooks still lists California as his residence as of its last update in 2023, but he hasn’t publicly advertised an exact location since. (WikiSpooks)
- Work / focus:
- Writing and videos under UNSHADOWED, covering:
- technocracy and food,
- climate/biotech surveillance,
- spiritual/psychological aspects of resisting the “omni-crisis.”
- Continuing the Ice Age Farmer podcast stream, now often embedding UNSHADOWED videos and using IceAgeFarmer.com as a hub that points to Substack, Telegram, Odysee, etc. (ice age farmer)
- Offering permaculture and food-sovereignty consulting, reinforcing the “grow your own, decentralize your food” message.
- How he frames his disappearance:
- As the result of a coordinated censorship/pressure campaign (ISD → WaPo → employer/bank/platforms);
- plus a deliberate choice to step back, heal, and return with a wider lens so he isn’t just a useful foil in think-tank narratives. (The Burning Platform)
There’s no credible evidence that he’s dead, imprisoned, or “vanished” in the sense of being off-planet. He’s alive, still talking about coordinated attacks on the food system—just under a new banner and with a more explicitly spiritual/psychological framing, after being hammered pretty hard for the original Ice Age Farmer work.
Summarized: His most recent pieces (Climate TRACE, microbes, Palantir, etc.) as a kind of “Ice Age Farmer 2.0” briefing on where he thinks the food-control agenda is now.
Here’s the quick picture of what he’s been putting out lately, and then the deeper breakdown.
From his revived podcast feed and UNSHADOWED/Substack activity, his post-hiatus “return run” (Sept 2025) is basically four tightly linked reports:
- The Biotech Coup: Microbes to Rule the World (part 1)
- Building the Beast System: Microbes, AI & Total Surveillance (part 2)
- Global Emissions Surveillance & Digital Product Passports
- UK/Palantir to “Transform Lethality”, Accelerate “Kill Chain”
All four are about a single integrated system: synthetic microbes + bio-surveillance + climate/emissions surveillance + Palantir-style AI command = the “beast system” that can be used to control food, land, and populations.
His feed was dormant after mid-2022 and then suddenly shows these three long new reports plus the shorter Palantir piece, all dropped together around Sept. 26–28, 2025. (Listen Notes)
1. “The Biotech Coup: Microbes to Rule the World” (Sept 26, 2025)
Official description (from his feed):
“There is an active effort to modify the substrate of life on our planet: to recolonize the very soil on the surface of the Earth with genetically engineered microbes. Millions of acres of U.S. farmland have already been inoculated. The soil itself is being re-formatted from a natural ecosystem into…” (Listen Notes)
What he’s arguing
- He says we’ve moved beyond GMO crops to GMO microbes as the real battlefield: engineered soil microbes, nitrogen-fixers, pest-control microbes, carbon-capture microbes, etc., are being released across millions of acres of farmland, effectively “re-installing” a new biological operating system into the soil. (Listen Notes)
- He leans on a Friends of the Earth report on genetically engineered microbes, which really does warn that these products are being tested or deployed at scale with minimal oversight and potentially irreversible ecosystem effects (horizontal gene transfer, ecological disruption, etc.). (Friends of the Earth)
- He frames this as a “coup” at the base layer of life: not just tweaking crops, but re-colonizing the substrate (soil microbiome, water, even gut flora) with patented, controllable organisms, tying farmers and ecosystems to corporate IP.
How it ties into attacks on food / infrastructure in his view
- Earlier he was talking about fires, shutdowns, cyberattacks, and regulatory choke points on farming and food plants (those 2022 “War on Food” episodes). (Listen Notes)
- In the Biotech Coup piece, he’s basically updating that thesis:
- Stage 1: wreck or destabilize existing food systems and soil fertility (regulation, “climate” rules, attacks, economic pressure).
- Stage 2: offer synthetic biology and engineered microbes as the “solution” (self-fertilizing crops, nitrogen-fixing microbes, carbon-sequestering soil bugs).
- Endgame (in his framing): whoever controls the engineered microbe platforms and their IP controls food production itself, because native fertility and native microbiomes have been displaced.
2. “Building the Beast System: Microbes, AI & Total Surveillance” (Sept 26, 2025)
This is explicitly presented as Part Two of the same report.
Feed description:
“The genetically engineered microbes we discussed in Part One of this report aren’t just wiping out the natural biosphere to fix nitrogen. In this video we’ll explore the DOD’s Tellus project that offers a blueprint to the microbial architecture of the global bio-surveillance system, and how this design has been implemented and is now being…” (Listen Notes)
Key pieces he connects
From his article/segments as re-posted and discussed on sites like SOTT: (Sott.net)
- DoD’s “Tellus” concept
- He focuses on a Defense Department concept where “ubiquitous sensing & reporting microbes” are envisioned as a core layer of a planet-wide bio-surveillance grid.
- These engineered microbes would live in soil, water, and even on/in humans, continuously sampling and sending data about environmental conditions and health states up to a command system.
- Ginkgo Bioworks as the real-world implementation
- He points to Ginkgo Bioworks as “the foundry of synthetic biology,” citing mainstream coverage: Ginkgo builds custom microbes for agriculture, industry, and biosecurity, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars, including Gates-linked money and big government contracts. (Ginkgo.bio)
- He notes Ginkgo’s BIO-RADAR biological surveillance network being used to detect H5N1 bird flu, and its grants from the Gates Foundation and work with ARPA-H and the CDC on pathogen detection and biosecurity. (Sott.net)
- He argues this looks like pre-deployment of a “platform”: massive synbio capacity and an in-place surveillance network waiting for “the right crisis” so it can be flipped on as a global bio-control mechanism.
- Microbes as sensors + actuators
- He emphasizes that these microbes aren’t just passive sensors: they are programmable, able to respond, change behavior, or produce compounds in reaction to signals.
- In his narrative, that means the same infrastructure that “monitors” the biosphere can be re-programmed to actively shape or harm it.
- “Total surveillance grid” beyond microbes
- In the same long piece, he reminds viewers of his earlier work on:
- Climate TRACE (Al Gore’s coalition using satellites/AI to track emissions in near real-time). (Climate TRACE)
- 5G + blockchain + AI supply chains and GMO “bio-barcode” spores for tracking goods.
- Trash/recycling cameras and “circular economy” monitoring.
- WEF-promoted forest/rural surveillance networks. (Sott.net)
- He argues microbes are the keystone, embedding data collection into every living system, feeding into a Palantir-style AI command platform.
His bottom line in this piece
- He explicitly calls this a “planetary bio-surveillance grid” and says it represents the “irreversible replacement of natural biology and the instrumentalizing of life itself into the technocratic control grid.” (Sott.net)
- In his framing, the same control structure that can watch soils, animals, and human bodies can also, by policy, firmware, and IP control, decide who gets to grow what, where, and under what conditions.
3. “Global Emissions Surveillance & Digital Product Passports” (Sept 28, 2025)
Feed description:
“Climate TRACE tracks emissions from over 660 million sources in near real-time. That data is already flowing into supply chains, digital product passports, and carbon scoring systems, enabling enforcement on farmers, landowners, and consumers. This video breaks down the architecture of control that…” (Listen Notes)
What he focuses on
- Climate TRACE as global emissions panopticon
- Climate TRACE is a real project: a coalition founded in part by Al Gore that uses satellite imagery, remote sensing, and AI to estimate CO₂ and other emissions from power plants, industrial facilities, ships, etc., worldwide, with detailed facility-level data. (Climate TRACE)
- He emphasizes its scale (“hundreds of millions of sources”) and its near real-time resolution, arguing that it’s effectively a live “climate ledger” covering the planet.
- Digital Product Passports (DPPs)
- He pulls in the EU’s Digital Product Passport plans: under the Green Deal, the EU wants products like batteries, textiles, and building materials to carry a digital record of their composition, origin, and environmental footprint, accessible across the whole supply chain. (ECESP)
- Officially, DPPs are for circular economy and recycling; in his view, they become “compliance tags” that can be checked or revoked at any node in the chain.
- Carbon scoring & enforcement
- He argues that once you have (a) real-time emissions monitoring (Climate TRACE), and (b) detailed traceability for each product (DPPs and supply-chain traceability), you can assign carbon scores to everything: farms, shipments, products, companies, even individuals. (Listen Notes)
- He then says this data is already being plugged into ESG regimes, green financing, climate regulations, and “net-zero” mandates, and that non-compliant actors can be choked off from markets, credit, permits, or even basic access to food or fuel.
Connection back to food infrastructure
- He points out that farms and landowners are now direct targets:
- Emissions from fields, livestock, fertilizer use, and machinery can be individually tracked and attributed. (Listen Notes)
- That data can be tied to DPP-style documentation of food products, from seed to supermarket.
- In his framing, this is the “software layer” of the war on food:
- Fires, shutdowns, and regulations hit physical capacity.
- Climate TRACE + DPP + carbon scoring provide the digital enforcement mesh to ration, penalize, or shut down those who don’t conform — or who are politically inconvenient.
4. “UK/Palantir to ‘Transform Lethality’, Accelerate ‘Kill Chain’” (Sept 26, 2025)
Feed + Substack description:
- Short 4-minute report on the UK’s new strategic partnership with Palantir, which he calls “pretty wild.”
- He quotes directly from the UK government announcement: Palantir and the UK military will work together to “transform lethality on the battlefield” and to develop AI-powered capabilities across data analysis, intelligence, decision support, and targeting systems, specifically mentioning a “kill chain” that gives faster options for attacking targets. (Patreon)
The official deal (mainstream description)
- The UK government’s own release describes a strategic partnership to build AI-enabled military systems, including systems that fuse data from diverse sources into a “Digital Targeting Web” and speed up the kill chain. (GOV.UK)
- Independent coverage notes that Palantir will be central to data fusion, targeting, and AI decision support, and that some capabilities have been tested in Ukraine. (Defence Innovation Review)
- Palantir’s Gotham platform is marketed as an AI-powered kill-chain/targeting tool that integrates sensor data and helps select and prosecute targets. (palantir.com)
How he interprets it
- He highlights two things:
- Language of “transform lethality” and “accelerate the kill chain” coming straight from official UK sources. (GOV.UK)
- Palantir’s offer of “pro bono mentoring” to British companies, which he reads as a data play: “not about the profit, it’s about the data.” (Patreon)
- He folds this back into the bio-surveillance and climate grid theme:
- Palantir is already embedded in US and allied intelligence and health data systems (COVID-era health data, NHS data, etc.). (Wikipedia)
- In his words (expanded in the “planetary bio-surveillance grid” piece), ubiquitous sensing & reporting microbes, Climate TRACE, DPPs, and other data streams are all “reporting into Palantir’s command and AI control platform.” (Sott.net)
- The military “kill chain” then becomes, in his thesis, a template for civilian enforcement chains:
- Instead of kinetic strikes, the “targets” can be farms, businesses, or individuals, hit with financial, regulatory, or infrastructural punishments (carbon blocks, digital rationing, permit revocations, etc.).
The big picture of this new run
Putting it together, his post-hiatus work is making a systems-level argument:
- Biotech layer:
Engineered microbes recolonize soil, environment, and bodies — “re-formatting” life itself — via platforms like Ginkgo, funded by Gates, ARPA-H, etc. (Listen Notes) - Sensor & data layer:
Those microbes, plus satellites (Climate TRACE), IoT, waste-stream cameras, DPPs, and other sensors feed a planet-scale real-time data mesh on environment, emissions, farming, and human health/behavior. (Listen Notes) - Command & control layer:
Platforms like Palantir Gotham/Foundry and defense AI partnerships are built out under the banner of “national security,” “climate security,” and “public health,” but in his view serve as the central nervous system of a technocratic regime. (GOV.UK) - Food as primary lever:
Food infrastructure — farms, livestock, processing plants, and even individual diets — is one of the most immediately controllable outputs in such a system. What he used to describe as fires, plant shutdowns, and rationing he now re-frames as early kinetic and regulatory moves in a larger takeover where biology, data, and AI converge to make the food chain programmable and enforceable.
So, in terms of “what he’s been up to” since vanishing:
- He’s not just back, he’s expanded the original “war on food” thesis into a full-spectrum bio-technocratic control architecture, with microbes and AI as the core new emphasis, and Palantir/defense AI explicitly tied in at the top.