Hyperinflation/starvation in Zimbabwe - a glimpse of the future?

[ClarionCall]

Zimbabwe is in the grip of one of the great hyperinflations in world history. The people of this once proud capital have been plunged into a Darwinian struggle to get by. Many have been reduced to peddlers and paupers, hawkers and black-market hustlers, eating just a meal or two a day, their hollowed cheeks a testament to their hunger. Like countless Zimbabweans, Moyo has calculated the price of goods by the number of days she had to spend in line at the bank to withdraw cash to buy them: a day for a bar of soap; another for a bag of salt; and four for a sack of cornmeal.

The withdrawal limit rose on Monday, but with inflation surpassing what independent economists say is an almost unimaginable 40 million percent, she said the value of the new amount would quickly be a pittance, too. "It's survival of the fittest," said Moyo, 29, a hair braider who sells the greens she grows in her yard for a dime a bunch. "If you're not fit, you will starve."



http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/02/africa/02zimbabwe.php

[BlessedAssurance]

Made me think of this article:
UN warns over Zimbabwe food aid

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7647614.stm
About half the population of Zimbabwe could soon be in need of constant food aid and medical assistance, the UN's humanitarian chief has told the BBC.

John Holmes said three million people were already reliant on aid, and that figure could rise to five million.



Every article seems to point in one direction lately: New World Order...

[BlessedAssurance]

From the OP article:
Signs of a Calamity

Clues to the calamitous state of the country can be found even in recent articles tucked into Mugabe's mouthpiece, The Herald, the only daily newspaper he has allowed to keep publishing.

The bodies of paupers in advanced states of decay were stacking up in the mortuary at Beitbridge District Hospital because not even government authorities were seeing to their burial.

Harare Central Hospital slashed admissions by almost half because so much of its cleaning staff could no longer afford to get to work.

Most of the capital, though lovely beneath its springtime canopy of lavender jacaranda blooms, was without water because the authorities had stopped paying the bills to transport the treatment chemicals. Garbage is piling up uncollected. Sixteen people have died in an outbreak of cholera in nearby Chitungwiza, spread by contaminated water and sewage.

Shades of the early stages of the tribulation?

[Jacksmom]

so sad, just curious does anyone know the primary religion of zimbabwe (sp)?

[Kem]

From the OP article:


Shades of the early stages of the tribulation?

It sure looks like the early stages of what will become much more widespread during the tribulation. Many of the things that will be seen during the tribulation seem to be in the developing stages right now and could become full blown rather rapidly in my opinion.