I totally agree with you Boldylocks. My take on this is that not only does the Bible say that there is a conspiracy among our world leaders and elitist wealthy people (see Psalm 2 and James 5), but there are also occult groups out there that have been planning this for years and have openly said so. For literal concrete evidence of this, one only has to visit the Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, Georgia--which I believe is just outside of Atlanta. This monument was erected in 1980, and spells out in no uncertain terms that they have a population rollback planned that will bring us down to 500,000,000 people. For some more brief information, see the following webpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

I personally believe that many of the plagues in Revelation are due to 'designer viruses' concocted in Illuminist laboratories, and they are simply waiting for the right time to spring these on the populations. This way they can kill literally billions of people, and no one will be able to point a finger directly at them and lay the blame at their feet. This of course would be quite different than a nuclear strike (which unfortunately is also prophesied particularly heavily against America in Is. 13, Jer. 50 and 51, and Rev. 18), which would kill many millions of people, but would also leave a trail of evidence as to who ordered the strike. There has been a strange series of unnatural deaths of many of the world's leading microbiologists in the past 5 years or so, which gives me a lot of cause for concern that things are really going to come unglued in the not-too-distant future. I don't mean to sound negative, this is just the world that we live in, and these events are simply the culmination and apex of man's fallen nature. I personally believe that God is unmasking man's true nature for everyone to openly see in the end times, and is trying to underscore our very real need for a redeemer.

Sorry for getting off on a tangent, I just get excited when I see others out there that are pointing these things out, as it is nice to be around people that are not afraid to speak out about these atrocities against mankind.

Jason