I scream from the top of my lungs: "What's going on?"
Lessee...The drums of war are banging for Iran with the contrived scenario that they attempted to murder a Saudi Arabian emissary. Unlikely. Plus, even if true, isn't that a Saudi Arabian problem?
With the waning American military might and the rising Chinese dragon the Iranian 'situation' is merely part of the Pentagon's plan to destabilize the middle east while we still have the means to do so. Wesley Clark listed all those countries (7) who would fall in a prescient speech here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBgRAWHJ89U. So far, 5 down, two to go.
American civil unrest is taking shape as throngs of unemployed, angry, and ostensibly disjointed citizens gather in more and more and cities across the land. No doubt the current administration will look to unify these disparate groups in a desperate attempt for re-election.
World economies are destined to fall and the crystal ball puts American insolvency third in the list. It'll be Asia first, then the EU, and finally us that topple when the tenuous threads of economic cohesion finally break. No one, naturally, wants to be first and each block is doing their level best to delay the inevitable. Note: the very last construct to be dismantled once the money runs out will be the military involvement in foreign lands. If that requires raiding private pensions, 401s, and the like then so be it. That the citizenry is loathe to continue these foreign entanglements is of little import as the grand plan of a centralized new world order trumps all. To wit...
The Vatican has selflessly volunteered to host (control) a central world bank hoping to usher in a new world currency. More and more power in the hands of fewer and fewer tyrants bodes poorly on those outside the inner circle. The times they are a-changing.