News Stateside by Richard of Danbury, D.S.G....Ecuador looks like a good place to be

Economics…

Global Food Reserves Have Reached Their Lowest Level in Almost 40 Years

Sadly, the truth is that food prices have already been steadily rising in the United States in recent years. We have come to accept this as "normal", but these horrible price increases are really squeezing the budgets of middle class families and we certainly don't need food prices to start going up even faster.

http://thetruthwins.com/archives/global-food-reserves-have-reached-their-lowest-level-in-almost-40-years

Edit. Sadly, the forces of darkness will use this situation to spread the Culture of Death around the globe, through birth control, abortion, and euthanasia. Rather than helping people to help themselves through providing instruction on how to raise food at home, they will continue to rely on the Big Ag industry to selectively provide or withhold food supplies to manipulate markets to the highest prices. Now we have the GMO seeds with their predator gene to stop reproduction of the parent plants so we must go hat in hand to the patent holders to get next year’s supply of seed stock. …and so it goes when God and His laws are taken out of the reproduction process. If you haven’t yet made plans to do so get prepared for a backyard vegetable garden for next year. Better yet, see about some backyard rabbits and hens. Learn canning and other ways of stocking up. Whatever self-sufficiency you can accomplish now do it before things become more scarce and more expensive.

Rumors of Wars…

Syria conflict 'could set whole region ablaze'

The Syria conflict risks setting the region "ablaze", International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has warned, as clashes broke out across the border with Lebanon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9616641/Syria-conflict-could-set-whole-region-ablaze.html
Beirut bomb kills anti-Syrian intelligence official

A prominent Lebanese intelligence official opposed to President Bashar al-Assad was killed in a huge car bomb in Beirut in another sign that Syria's civil war is dragging its volatile neighbor into the conflict.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/us-lebanon-explosion-idUSBRE89I0N620121019

Edit. What a segue, the first article vindicates, illustrates, and proves the second. This is only the beginning.

Health and Wellness: formerly called Emerging Illnesses (Pestilence)…

Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

According to Michael Doyle, a microbiologist from the University of Georgia, using feces to feed fish and shrimp is quite common in Asia. Many fish and shrimp that we eat spend their entire lives swimming around in a disgusting pool of animal feces…

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/asian-seafood-raised-on-pig-feces-approved-for-u-s-consumers.html

Edit. Why! O…why, in this land of plenty, do we have to import much of anything? The simple answer is Globalization. Our government, in accord with UN mandates, treaties, and trade agreements, override the health of American people for the sake of the New World Order.

The Times They are a Changin’…

Concerned Roman Hoarded Gold To Protect Against Hyperinflation At the Outer Reaches of Roman Empire

…judging on the sporadic nature of his bury, this gold bug from the 4th century, was totally freaking out about currency devaluation and government taxation.

http://silvervigilante.com/concerned-roman-hoarded-gold-to-protect-against-hyperinflation-at-the-outer-reaches-of-roman-empire/

Edit. Well you can chalk this up to the more things change the more they remain the same. It seems that during times of declining empire people flee to basic raw materials as a hedge against future uncertainties. To be sure, this illustrates that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.