The importance of history and how it's a window to the future.
"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice." ~ George Washington, over 200 years ago
When you realize that pornography is the number one business on the web, you get an idea where our hearts, minds, crotches, souls, and money are. We get what we pay for.
Terrorism is increasing because two powerful economic forces fund it - oil and drugs. Just because terrorism isn't in the news doesn't mean it's not here.
How is crime related to financial crisis? When governments print money, taxes and inflation go up, the middle class becomes poorer, poverty increases, discontent rises, and crime goes up.
Today, terrorists are smarter, use technology such as Google Earth for reconnaissance, and employ Internet navigational aides to locate, attack, and disappear with precision. In Afghanistan, young militants use $29 programs from Radio Shack to intercept messages between troops, planes, and drones in the air. In other words, terrorism is all around.
In 1993, an Al-Quaida truck bomb shook the World Trade Center. Eight years later, in 2001, they took down the World Trade Center with passenger jets. It's been nine years since the last major attack. Are we overdue for another major, news making attack?
The press is filled with happy, optimistic news. Those in power don't want you or me to run for cover. It's up to each of us as individuals to be vigilant and prepared.
"The police cannot prevent crime. We can only investigate once a crime has been committed." I say it this way: "It's up to me to take care of myself. If I'm expecting the government to take care of me, I'm in serious trouble." ~Robert Kiyosaki
