A couple of weeks ago The WinePress issued a warning that the nation of Lebanon was on the verge of collapse and total grid-down, due to reported fuel and oil shortages.
It happened.
The entire electrical grid shutdown completely recently after the nation’s two main power stations ran out of diesel fuel, and their energy production fell below 200 megawatts. The WP reported a couple of weeks ago that they issued a statement saying they could generate 500 megawatts or less.
As it stands, the outages are suspected to last for days, though parts of the power have been temporarily restored. After one power plant failed this past Friday, the second one died yesterday, October 10th.
The Lebanese power network completely stopped working at noon today (10am UK time), and it is unlikely that it will work until next Monday, or for several days.
An official said
Now the nation plans to use their army’s reserve fuel tanks, but will not happen ‘anytime soon,’ Sky News reports.
Because of these shortages and loss of power, many of the Lebanese people are forced to deal on the black markets.
All of this ‘is part of a wider crisis, compounded by corruption and bad governance, which affects almost every part of life in Lebanon and has seen the Lebanese currency sink by 90% since 2019.’
Hunger And Food Inflation
As reported by Aljazeera, a worker named Mohammad at a smaller grocery store could be seen flipping through pages of a notebook listing all the names of customers who were indebted to the shop.
More and more people are struggling with money and asking us to let them pay later.
We have to try to be patient with them. Things have become much worse with the fuel crisis over the summer.
Many customers are focusing on the basic household necessities.
So, nobody is buying coffee as you can see – (pointing to dozens of jars on a shelf).
Most people go for bread, vegetables, and those dairy products in the fridge over there.
But even favorites like olive oil are hard to sell due to rapidly increasing prices.
‘Lebanon’s food crisis is not a recent development. The World Food Programme estimated that food prices have gone up by 628% in just two years, compounding Lebanon’s economic meltdown, which has plunged three-quarters of its population into poverty and devalued the Lebanese pound by about 90%.”
Our food prices are getting more expensive because we have to pay much more for the private generator provider to account for fuel price hikes.
And all our produce in those baskets over there have especially become more expensive, because the guy who delivers it to us from the vegetable market has to pay more for gasoline.
Mohammad would work 10 hours each day that earned him 900,000 Lebanese pounds = $47. Because of this, and with the help of some local charities, he can now afford to pay rent, but has had to cut back on meals and skips one every other day.
I definitely don’t eat meat anymore – that’s out of the question.
But thankfully, I can get by with no more with two meals a day.
Because of the fuel shortages and ever-weakening currency, the Lebanese economic ministry says they have had to raise the price of bread six times this year already.
Fuel and gasoline prices are continuing to increase, so we anticipate that food prices will continue to go up.
World Food Programme spokesperson Rasha Abou Dargham told Al Jazeera.
Aljazeera also reported on another family who is in dire straits, and has had to forgo many meals, and cutout many foods like meat out of their diet.
We now just buy bread, pasta, rice, and try to get onions, tomatoes, and potatoes whenever possible. We try to get the kids yoghurt and cheese once or twice a month because they really like it.
Walaa, a mother of four children; and whose husband prunes trees, but was injured because bombing attacks the previous, making it harder to work.
Walaa explained that her oldest child (12 years) only ways 17 kilograms (just slightly less than 37.5 pounds).
The family has had to resort to drinking the tap water because bottled water is just too expensive, and the tap has led to the children getting sick. Meats and fruits are also off the table because they are too high, but they will get chicken once a month. “It’s like a celebratory occasion when that happens.”
Because of that, she believes it has made her children lethargic and have less energy.
They get tired when we go for short walks.
‘According to the UNHCR, an estimated 90% of Syrian refugees in Lebanon now live in extreme poverty – amid a wider figure of 36% in the country,’ says the article.
That means they cannot afford what we consider the basic food items for survival. And this does not include meat, nor dairy products.
People who once never had issues with putting food on the table have suddenly plunged into poverty.
WFP’s Abou Dargham
Dargham says the hunger crisis is “unprecedented.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. [7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.Matthew 24:6-8
Surely, this would be headline news, right? Oh please, don’t kid yourself. For example, here were the headlines provided by AOL services:
Don’t be surprised, this is America after all: land of the slave, home of the sissy.
And it’s not just Lebanon, but other nations are facing all kinds blackouts and fuel problems. China is having their fair share. India is also facing a lot of these problems with rolling blackouts. Interesting that both of the most populated nations are having problems. And the U.K. has been facing a major problem with fuel shortages and panic buying.
Can you imagine just for a second what would happen in America, or other Western smartphone-worshipping nations, if we faced a blackout for just an hour tops? Oh boy…
Needless to say, you must be preparing. If you think for a nanosecond that this could not come to America, and then some, you must also believe in the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus. I have been told by many people, some who profess to be brothers or sisters in Christ, and they don’t want to face reality because it “scares them.”
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Proverbs 26:16
America still faces the very real possiblity that we could see a full-scale “Dark Winter.” Will it? Lord only knows, but I’d rather not wait to find out if it happens unprepared. Look, I am not saying I have all my bases covered and “ready to survive anything.” But, I am trying to warn people and make sure they are awake. What you do is your business and between God. I cannot hold your hand, nor can you mine. So, be doing research and preparing the best way you can. I will continue to do my best to provide my survival and off-grid tips and tricks when I can.
Also, because more people cannot afford meat anymore, what a “wonderful” opportunity for all these globalists to swoop in with their fake meats, that I have been reporting on to the point of ad nauseum.
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: [5] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.1 Timothy 4:1-5
If you are born again, remember:
[1] A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? [2] When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. [3] Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. [4] One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. [5] For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. [6] And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. [13] I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. [14] Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.Psalms 27:1-6, 13-14
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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