Riders of The Apocalypse Approach

Are you ready?

End of the world as we know it
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0406vip-mcpherson0406.html
You might feel fine, but high oil cost, scarcity mean American Empire is about to come crashing down Guy R. McPhersonUniversity of Arizona professorApr. 6, 2008 12:00 AM
Peak oil spells the end of civilization. And, if it's not already too late, perhaps it will prevent the extinction of our species.M. King Hubbert, a petroleum geologist employed by Shell Oil Co., described peak oil in 1956. Production of crude oil, like the production of many non-renewable resources, follows a bell-shaped curve. The top of the curve is termed "peak oil," or "Hubbert's peak," and it represents the halfway point for production.The bell-shaped curve applies at all levels, from field to country to planet. After discovery, production ramps up relatively quickly. But when the light, sweet crude on top of the field runs out, increased energy and expense are required to extract the underlying heavy, sour crude. At some point, the energy required to extract a barrel of oil exceeds the energy contained in barrel of oil, so the pumps shut down.
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Most of the world's oil pumps are about to shut down.We have sufficient supply to keep the world running for 30 years or so, at the current level of demand. But that's irrelevant because the days of inexpensive oil are behind us. And the American Empire absolutely demands cheap oil. Never mind the 3,000-mile Caesar salad to which we've become accustomed. Cheap oil forms the basis for the 12,000-mile supply chain underlying the "just-in-time" delivery of plastic toys from China.There goes next year's iPod.In 1956, Hubbert predicted the continental United States would peak in 1970. He was correct, and the 1970s gave us a small, temporary taste of the sociopolitical and economic consequences of expensive oil.We passed the world oil peak in 2005, and we've been easing down the other side by acquiring oil at the point of a gun - actually, guns are the smallest of the many weapons we're using - paying more for oil and destroying one culture after another as the high price of crude oil forces supply disruptions and power outages in Third World countries. The world peaked at 74.3 million barrels per day in May 2005. The two-year decline to 73.2 million barrels per day produced a doubling of the price of crude. Later this year, we fall off the oil-supply cliff, with global supply plummeting below 70 million barrels/day. Oil at merely $100 per barrel will seem like the good old days.Within a decade, we'll be staring down the barrel of a crisis: Oil at $400 per barrel brings down the American Empire, the project of globalization and water coming through the taps. Never mind happy motoring through the never-ending suburbs in the Valley of the Sun. In a decade, unemployment will be approaching 100 percent, inflation will be running at 1,000 percent and central heating will be a pipe dream. In short, this country will be well on its way to the post-industrial Stone Age.After all, no alternative energy sources scale up to the level of a few million people, much less the 6.5 billion who currently occupy Earth. Oil is necessary to extract and deliver coal and natural gas. Oil is needed to produce solar panels and wind turbines, and to maintain the electrical grid.Ninety percent of the oil consumed in this country is burned by airplanes, ships, trains and automobiles. You can kiss goodbye groceries at the local big-box grocery store: Our entire system of food production and delivery depends on cheap oil. If you're alive in a decade, it will be because you've figured out how to forage locally.The death and suffering will be unimaginable. We have come to depend on cheap oil for the delivery of food, water, shelter and medicine. Most of us are incapable of supplying these four key elements of personal survival, so trouble lies ahead when we are forced to develop means of acquiring them that don't involve a quick trip to Wal-Mart. On the other hand, the forthcoming cessation of economic growth is truly good news for the world's species and cultures. In addition, the abrupt halt of fossil-fuel consumption may slow the warming of our planetary home, thereby preventing our extinction at our own hand.Our individual survival, and our common future, depends on our ability to quickly make other arrangements. We can view this as a personal challenge, or we can take the Hemingway out. The choice is ours.For individuals interested in making other arrangements, it's time to start acquiring myriad requisite skills. It is far too late to save civilization for 300 million Americans, much less the rest of the planet's citizens, but we can take joy in a purpose-filled, intimate life. It's time to push away from the shore, to let the winds of change catch the sails of our leaky boat. It's time to trust in ourselves, our neighbors and the Earth that sustains us all. Painful though it might be, it's time to abandon the cruise ship of empire in exchange for a lifeboat.

I has surgery today for an injury while playing football, my text will be shorter for a few weeks. Grace and Peace brothers and sisters

Rider of the Apocalypse: Famine

Soaring price of food 'leads to riots'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/07/nriots107.xml

Grains Gone Wild

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/opinion/07krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

As Famine, Death, Hell and the Anti-christ approach, what will people do? The wise will take refuge in the Creator. He has made us many WONDERFUL promises. Consider these:

<< Psalm 37 >>

3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

We don't know exactly when the rapture will occur, but we do know it's before "the day of the Lord." With the day of the Lord coming into full view on the horizon, what will men do?

Time is short, repent, purify your minds and hearts in preparation to meet the Son of God, all glory and honor and praise and power be His forever and ever...AMEN

Grace and Peace

Riders of the Apocalypse: Famine

A 'Perfect Storm' Of Hunger
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-food1apr01%2C0%2C5185698.story

Kissinger's 1974 Plan For Food Control Genocide
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_kissinger_food.html

Analyst Predicts Corn Rationing In 2008
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5662307.html

Food Crisis Being Felt Around The World
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=412984

and writers saying things like this:
Then I got this really interesting email about UG99 wheat rust:
The best article is the farmandranchguide. I included some old sat. photos of how dust is moving around the planet. The one of Gobi Desert dust landing in Colorado, is particularly important. The rust has already spread globally. It will take about two years to fully become threatening. Once the spores reproduce, they will infest those areas for decades. Also note, the rust kills oats, barley and wheat. Few populations will be spared. Beer could also become expensive (there are severe restrictions on using fungicides on barley/hops, the residues kill the yeast).
There are some fungicides that can prevent or suppress the fungus, but those areas that are the most vulnerable, are least able to afford the cure. With so much of the global population dependent on 5-10 acre plots, they will be unable to utilize "modern technology as a North American farmer looking at $600 profits/acre. Spending $25 an acre is possible logistically and economically. That amount is insurmountable to a Pakistani farmer.
There exists a belief that Monsanto, Dupont and others, have nefarious reasons for including "suicide genes" into their proprietary seed strains. I personally know why they do it. It is business, not conspiracy. Let me explain.
I personally worked for several years, doing one very small part, in developing what was the world's best rice herbicide. We spent altogether, $230 million and 6 years bringing it to market. It was the most effective and safest discovered to date.
Consider developing a chemical that selectively kills only certain weeds or insects, while being able to spread it over large areas of the environment, on the very things people will eat, it is scientifically challenging beyond belief.
The herbicide was a money maker for sure. And of course we wanted to sell it in China. China stipulated that to sell it there, it had to be made there. Ok. So we built a plant. The workers (selected by the Chinese gov.), worked like dogs for 6 months. Then one day, nobody showed up for work.
Two weeks later, they were building "their" plant to make our chemicals that they had reversed engineered. They worked just long enough to steal everything they needed. They did not have time or money invested, so they undercut our price and drove us out of the country.
Again, I have worked helping to develop GMO seeds. If you do not include a "suicide gene", they just steal the hybrid. As you have said, the Global Business Environment is not a level playing field. If we steal from them, they sue us in our own courts. We are unable to do the same back. Separate case.
We have another well known product which we intentionally left out some key information in the patent. Sure enough, the Russians, Japanese and Chinese all reversed engineered the patent. They marketed their (ours) product as proof we were price gouging. Shortly afterward, theirs started to fail during use. All three went bankrupt and we ended up with a monopoly.
We also doubled our prices. Our little way of saying "f* you". Let me point out, we spent 23 years developing that product. That's right, 23 years. Little hard on the ATOI. (*methinks he meant ROI as we all know ATOI is ASCII to integer conversion in C++ - G)
Some background. I've spent 24 years doing Ag research, 12 of it doing Environmental Modeling of all economically relevant agriculture areas (globally). I looked at primarily Off-Target Impact of pesticides. This is how I learned about Global Warming before it became a buzz word. It is also why I put it all on the line, to jump into Fuel Cell research (reaction kinetics modeling), where I put in 6 years.. Bad move, different story.
Forget CO2 and global warming, it ain't us, but did not know it at the time. I still keep my hand in the modeling part. Which is why your time monks might be seeing a little of what I'm seeing. I think it is going to get real hungry out there, starting next year. (<----!!!!!! Note this point seriously!!!!! - G) 1. Severe food shortages in about two years. 2. The weak link in the food chain is not what you think. You'll have to "Google" it. Start with "Grain Elevators, bankrupt". They use Bridge Loans (credit) to buy billions of dollars worth of grain each year. Extrapolate this out to cattle feed lots (what do you think 100K head and feed cost x 1K feed lots). The credit is no longer there and you may see global famine, while bumper crops rot in the fields. The credit is from lower and mid-tier local banks. 3. One bushel of wheat for one barrel of oil 4. Commodity futures sounds swell, until the other side can not cover and walks on you. http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

Clean up your act, get ready, the Lord stands ready at the door, will He find faith on earth when He comes? Grace and Peace

The Horsemen Approach

In the wake of reports that global wheat inventories are the lowest in recorded history and that the world is only a few months away from mass starvation, a Zionist monkey sitting in a big white house in Washington signs off on legislation that mandates a huge swathe of America's food crops to be turned into ethanol to offset energy dependence on all the environmentally-friendly nations he has either destroyed or wants to.

According to the New York Times, in order to fill a 100-liter (26- gallon) tank of an SUV, an ethanol producer has to process a quarter of a ton of wheat: "This is enough wheat for a baker to bake about 460 kilograms of bread, which has a total nutritional value of about a million kilocalories, enough to feed one person for a year."

Alexander Sharon, a major food retailer, says that US wheat stocks are critically low and that the industry is at a crisis point: "I'm personally concerned that for the first time in history the US may have a serious food shortage if we don't do something soon."

http://www.rense.com/general81/normal.htm