Posted in Current Events, Discernment, Post-Modernism, Revelation 6:6 on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
from The August Review:
The most powerful of the latter-day pagan gods that have guided the destinies of humanity for the past two-score years is irredeemable debt. Before August 14, 1971, debts were obligations, and the word “bond” was to mean literally what it said: the opposite of freedom. The privilege of issuing debt had a [...]
Posted in Current Events, Discernment, One World Government, Post-Modernism, Revelation 6:6, Signs of The Times, abominations, prophetic on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Many people think that there are actual wheat and rice shortages, THERE ARE NOT. What is driving up the price of wheat and other commodities such as rice is speculation by greedy investors! With the Global Stock Markets being in the doldrums, greedy investors have been piling into commodity markets in order to make a [...]
Posted in Current Events, Revelation 6:6, Signs of The Times on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
from EurakAlert:
A WHEAT disease that could destroy most of the world’s main wheat crops could strike south Asia’s vast wheat fields two years earlier than research had suggested, leaving millions to starve. The fungus, called Ug99, has spread from Africa to Iran, and may already be in Pakistan. If so, this is extremely bad news, [...]
Posted in Current Events, Discernment, One World Government, Revelation 6:6, Signs of The Times, abominations on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Revelation 6:6:
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
from Der Spiegel:
Vast amounts of money are flooding the world’s commodities markets, driving up [...]
Posted in Current Events, Discernment, Revelation 6:6, Signs of The Times on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
from the New York Sun:
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips [...]
Posted in Revelation 6:6, Signs of The Times on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
from The Globe and Mail:
The recent outbreak of food riots is a warning sign that rising food prices could cause unrest and instability across the world, the UN’s top humanitarian official said yesterday.
Combined with the negative impact of climate change and soaring fuel prices, a “perfect storm” is brewing for much of the world’s population, [...]
Posted in Current Events, Revelation 6:6, Signs of The Times on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
from Bloomberg:
Be it ever so devalued, $1 trillion is a lot of dough.That’s roughly on a par with the Russian economy. More than double the market value of Exxon Mobil Corp. About nine times the combined wealth of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
Yet $1 trillion is the amount of defaults and writedowns Americans will likely witness [...]
Posted in Current Events, Revelation 6:6, Signs of The Times on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
from The Independent UK:
Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis
We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it [...]
Posted in Current Events, Discernment, Revelation 6:6, Signs of The Times on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
from The Houston Chronicle:
BB&T Capital Markets analyst said Monday corn rationing may be necessary this year, following a U.S. Department of Agriculture report predicting farmers would plant far fewer acres of corn in 2008.
According to the March Prospective Plantings Report, farmers intend to plant about 86 million acres of corn this year, down 8 percent [...]
