*“Hunger is a silent visitor who comes like a shadow. He sits besides every anxious mother three times each day. He brings not alone suffering and sorrow, but fear and terror. He carriers disorder and the paralysis of government, and even its downfall. He is more destructive than armies, not only in human life but in morals. All of the values of right living melt before his invasions, and every gain of civilization crumbles.”* ~ [Herbert Hoover](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/209936.Herbert_Hoover)<br><center>![4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse](https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/763/412/large/david-masson-clio2.jpg)<sup>posting this I looked high and low for attribution, since this image is reproduced numerous times without credit, 
but I finally found it: [SOURCE](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/x1Xm2)</center></sup><center><h3>[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse](https://herkafadanses.com/en_us/four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/)<br>Revelation 6:5–6</h3></center>When the Lamb opened the third seal… I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand… Saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”<br>Black<br>It represents famines. Both World War I and World War II caused starvation as well as casualties. Various factors such as the nomination or unavailability of land due to war, people moving away from their villages, and the use of manpower in war instead of agriculture have caused famine and hunger. Furthermore, damage to nature, the increase of the human population, economic inadequacies and inequalities have also led to famine and hunger. A dinar used in the past was a day’s wages of a Roman soldier. The fact that a scale of wheat can be taken to a dinar and three scales of barley to a dinar during the period when the third horseman is running his horse indicates that not only the lack of food but also the purchasing power of the individuals will be insufficient to buy these foods. On the other hand, it is stated that there will be no waste in products such as olive oil and wine. In the old times, these foods were among the most expensive foods. This indicates that on the one hand, there will be poor people who can barely obtain even ordinary products such as wheat and barley because of poor purchasing power, while on the other hand, rich people with high purchasing power can consume more expensive products. These examples show that the factors that cause hunger and famine will not only be caused by lack of food but also injustice in the distribution of income will play an important role in this.<sup>[SOURCE](https://herkafadanses.com/en_us/four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/)</sup><br><br> - My initial title reads:<center><h3>THE FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR</h3>which is the title of this [Czech movie from 1965](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Horseman_Is_Fear)
![fear fifth horseman.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/thermoplastic/23uExLcg7L7kDohdHXun7VMFXDLRoLQU3fF5Spx8mh2y4FGqYk8o28hmYeeP3xsVrQZM6.JPG)[Image Source](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123368/)
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These past couple of days provided a torrent of bad news. Pushed into the background for now are Corona (a resurgence in the Fall ?) - what is foremost on the radar now is the war in the Ukraine. There was talk of food shortages because of it, but now it emerged that the second largest food producer, the Netherlands, has overshadowed even the Ukraine/Russia war with the latest news.<br>There are two videos that stuck out to me, so one at a time:
https://youtu.be/Lr1ob-JzSY4 
but the first one I saw and shared on Facebook was this one - and I ran it with this comment:<br>of course it is all just a Conspiracy Theory.
One comment stuck out to me:
"Using organic fertilizers, i.e. compost, requires the breakdown of organic material by bacteria. Sounds good, yes? Until the Greens realize that this process produces CO2. Then what?"
But then, there is good CO2 and bad CO2.
https://youtu.be/x4xJ2G1fjbw 
.... but then I couldn't help it, since it just came to mind, having watched SCTV decades ago:
Food shortages ? Financial problems ? Cooking with LaRue got it covered:
https://youtu.be/mrOgG_RNLcA
Returning to the seriousness of the situation, here is a article by Aljazeera:
<center><h4>[Why are farmers in the Netherlands angry?](https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2022/7/4/why-are-farmers-in-the-netherlands-angry)</h4>https://youtu.be/tb-x5-Z8uIM</center><br>another comment I added, since Sri Lanka was one of the hotspots mentioned on the Crossroads video : Sri Lanka 2019 - the "canary in the coalmine" - should tell us something:
> Quote"With the president’s nephew serving as agriculture minister, the government  implemented a blanket ban on chemical fertilizers, decimating Sri Lanka’s critical agricultural sector. As foreign reserves plummeted, the government was unable to pay for food imports – including the national staple of a country that was self-sufficient in rice growing before the fertilizer ban." <sup>[SOURCE](https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220621-as-global-food-crisis-looms-sri-lanka-offers-a-cautionary-tale)</sup>

There is one thing I want to throw into that mix: <br> Legalize Cannabis and use it in crop rotation - the organic solution - problem solved.
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