Many factors can create challenges to how prepared you should be, and Mother Nature is only one of them.

Governments on the local, state and federal level are getting desperate amid underfunded retirement plans and bloated budgets. Going forward they’ll have no choice but to get more and more creative at how they “generate” revenue.

It’s not about making grand predictions; it’s about examining the logical odds, and the odds are high.

Russians do not forget, and they certainly do not forgive.

Contrary to popular belief guns can actually save lives. That’s the lesson we can learn from a recent armed abduction that left one perpetrator dead and another wounded.

This can only make sense in a scenario where Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the Obama Administration are now targeting average Americans and their local communities for intimidation, interrogation and the real possibility of future incarceration.

The mistakes have already been made. The instability is already in the system. We’re just waiting for the catalyst…

It’ll start with guns but will very quickly spiral into a police state not unlike World War II Germany or Communist Russia, where citizens were routinely outed by their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and children for any number of “crimes” against the state.

Tiny assassination drones must be understood as a revolutionary new kind of weapon, and there is firm historical precedent for dramatic sociopolitical shifts rising out of such revolutions.

It seems beyond that of just a typical narcissistic, arrogant, sort of, ‘I’m a leader of a big country and I feel tyrannical at the moment’ kind of attitude.

Zero tolerance policy in schools reaches new level of hysteria…

Do they have the power to detain and question a child without parental permission? Apparently they think they do…

Actual new home sales and housing starts currently rest very near half-century lows…

It’s economy-wide and in the next quarter or two we’re going to see it show up in bright lights to caterwauls of but nobody saw it coming!

In a currency collapse, your life savings will be wiped out. From this point on, the effect cascades like a roaring tsunami racing across the open ocean.

The notion that the global economy is in recovery and that the United States has exited the recession is a facade.

What are we teaching our kids when we send them to prisons for 13 years out of their lives?

This is not some conspiracy theory or sensationalist view of government operations. This is an actual military directive to be executed under orders from the President of the United States.