The end of the world? - but for who?

The end of the world has been predicted and re predicted time and again, and in these days some people have stocked up on non perishable items, maybe even weapons, governments have built underground bunkers, seeds banks and are sending strange memos to government personnel:

NASA Sends Internal Memo ~ Family/Personal Preparedness Plan
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread714941/pg1

Various ancient texts have spoken about the coming shift or end of the world, a big change in the world as we know it. There have been many many theories as to what to expect and since all we have is theory I thought of sharing my own.

This whole time those of us who follow this type of stuff have looked at this from the perspective of us, the masses, but what if we switched viewpoint and looked at it from the view point of our corrupt leaders? What if we began to look in to this research from the point of view of the guilty, the rulers of this world?