The black horse follows the red and white as food shortages follows pestilence and war. As these three escalate, sorrows become tribulation and escalates. More violence will erupt as inflation spirals out of control and food shortages increase. People without enough food will be more susceptible to pestilence and so on and so on.

Some places will experience shortages before others but as time progress, the numbers will increase. In a short period of time, the whole world will be engulfed at varying degrees. People will demand resolution and the World Economic Forum is standing ready with a plan. The whole world will be deceived into servitude.

{See “Missing Links – Appendix IV” in main menu.}

A man with a plan?!?!

Across the big pond…

Higher Prices And Empty Shelves At German Supermarkets

And on the homefront…

12 Reasons Why It Is Impossible To Be Optimistic About The U.S. Economy

From the article:

Things haven’t looked this bad for the U.S. economy since 2008.  We are in the midst of the worst inflation crisis in decades, the housing market has started to collapse, some of the largest companies in America have begun laying off workers, and economic activity is slowing down all around us.  Of course Joe Biden is telling us that our economy is “strong as hell”, but that is just because he wants his party to do well in the upcoming elections.  

Ultimately, anyone that takes a truly objective view of things is forced to admit that the outlook for the months ahead is incredibly bleak.  The following are 12 reasons why it is impossible for any rational person to be optimistic about the U.S. economy at this point…

#1 According to a recent Gallup survey, two-thirds of Americans believe that economic conditions are getting worse.  When such a large proportion of the population starts behaving as though an economic downturn is coming, that actually makes an economic downturn even more likely.  So many Americans are starting to hold on to their money more tightly, and that is having lots of ripple effects.

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Move to the bottom of the class!?!?

Will 2023 Be The End Of The Middle Class?

From the article:

Inflation is systematically destroying our standard of living, and the middle class is shrinking a little bit more with each passing day.  The Social Security Administration just released wage statistics for 2021, and the numbers that they have given us are quite stunning.  

As you will see below, half of all American workers made less than $3,133 a month last year.  

Once upon a time, you could live a very comfortable middle class lifestyle on $3,133 a month.  But thanks to inflation, such a wage now puts you just barely above the poverty level.  The decisions that our leaders have been making are absolutely eviscerating the middle class, and that should deeply trouble all of us.

You can find the new Social Security Administration wage report right here.  The following are some statistics that I pulled out of the report…

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The supply chain depends on diesel!

Trucks and trains

Farms depends on Diesel!

Tractors and Harvesters

A Crippling Shortage Of Diesel Fuel Threatens To Devastate Western Economies

From the article:

In my entire lifetime, global supplies of diesel fuel have never been tighter than they are right now.  And that is really bad news, because the entire economy of the western world runs on diesel.  

If we suddenly had no more diesel fuel, virtually all of our trains, trucks and ships would stop running.  Needless to say, just about everything that stocks our store shelves comes to us via trains, trucks and ships.  

So the fact that there is not enough diesel fuel to go around is a really big deal.  Supplies have been declining for months, and at this point diesel inventories have fallen so low that we only have a 25 (or less depending on your source) day buffer remaining…

The U.S. is facing a diesel crunch just as demand is surging ahead of winter — with only 25 days of supply left, according to the Energy Information Administration.

National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told Bloomberg TV that diesel inventories are “unacceptably low” and “all options are on the table” to bolster supply and reduce prices.

Unfortunately, this is not just a problem here in the United States….

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Even dire warnings for 2023!

Oil Executives Warn That Next Winter’s Energy Crisis Could Be Even Worse

From the article:

Energy CEOs are warning that fuel shortages and skyrocketing electricity costs that the world is already facing will be far more pronounced in winter 2023 as the international market will have even less access to Russian energy, according to CNBC.

Households in the U.S. and Europe are struggling to pay exorbitant utility bills and face the prospect of blackouts as natural gas supplies remain tight with winter fast approaching. However, the crisis could drag on and become even worse during 2023’s winter months as the European Union will have fully banned Russian crude oil and previously imported Russian gas supplies will have likely run out, CNBC reported. (RELATED: JPMorgan CEO Tells US To Produce More Oil To Stave Off Energy Disaster)

“We’ve got a difficult winter ahead, and subsequent to that we’ve got a more difficult winter in the year ahead of that because the production that is available to Europe in the first half of 2023 is considerably less than the production we had available to us in the first half of 2022,” Russell Hardy, CEO of oil trader Vitol, told CNBC Monday during a panel at an energy conference in Abu Dhabi….

Global energy prices are already approaching “unaffordability,” with some people already spending half or more of their disposable income on energy, British Petroleum CEO Bernard Looney told CNBC….

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Wake up to the reality!

Everything Is Not Fine – The Cold, Hard Economic Reality Can’t Be Hidden

From the article:

They are trying really hard to convince all of us that everything is just fine.  But close to one-fifth of the U.S. population is skipping meals because food prices are too high.  And nearly 40 percent of our small businesses couldn’t pay rent in October.  

Our leaders are trying to put a positive spin on things, but the truth is that we are witnessing a tremendous amount of economic suffering all over the United States right now.  

The core consumer price index just surged to “the highest level since 1982”, and this is putting an enormous amount of financial stress on American families and businesses.

This week, I was stunned to learn that a survey that was just released found that 37 percent of all small businesses in the United States could not pay rent last month…

The survey of 4,789 randomly selected small business owners saw more than half of respondents say their rent is at least 10 percent higher than six months ago.

If you go back seven months, the majority said their rents had increased by at least 20 percent.

Moreover, the study found that roughly 37 percent of small businesses – almost half of all Americans working in the private sector – were left unable to pay rent in October.

Prior to getting this news, if someone had asked me to guess the percentage of small businesses that are currently unable to pay rent, I would have responded with a figure that was far lower.

So often, things turn out to be even worse than I thought they were.

If those small businesses continue to be unable to pay rent, they will eventually be forced to shut down.

So what will our communities look like if millions of small businesses suddenly close up shop on a permanent basis?…

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Amos 8:11-12 (KJV)

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

Isaiah 24:1-5 (KJV)

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Come out of Babylon for her judgement is near!

LOLGB+