When the retailer selling the cheapest goods in the world manufactured by slave labor can’t boost sales growth, then you know there’s a problem.

The argument that the next round of riots coming to America will be organized by our very own elected officials using pretexts such as race and class warfare is quite compelling considering the circumstances.

Hillary Clinton: “I think keeping that line of communications open and enabling people to share information, particularly at a time when there was not many other sources of information, is an important expression of the right to speak out and to be able to organize.”

Those may be the worst consumer confidence numbers in three decades, but we would not be at all surprised to see those headlines eventually turn into “the worst in a century.”

Main Street buyer beware. We might be getting played.

When the dollar collapses, all American illusions will collapse with it. Deep denial will turn into deep anger and will make all other global riots pale in comparison. America is deeply infused with arrogance, denial, narcissism, drugs and violence. There is no other society that I know of that has the degree of intensity and combination of these factors.

Questions about the downing of the SEAL Team Six Chinook helicopter over the weekend abound.

Rants like the one you are about to see are few and far between in mainstream corporate news America. MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan has had enough of the lies, manipulations and deflection of blame.

The people of Japan are learning first hand that they are collateral damage in a never ending public relations propaganda war.

These are difficult concepts to grasp for a society hellbent on instant gratification and weekly fad and trend changes. But in the grand scheme of things, natural cycles, especially financial, economic and political cycles, last for years, sometimes entire lifetimes.

What we may be witnessing now is the prelude to a third war that will encompass most of the world. If Iran is attacked it is difficult to predict how the Chinese and the Russians will respond, but considering their position on Libya, they won’t be happy about it. Couple that with trillions in their reserves that will be hyperinflated away and the battle for critical resources like oil, water and food, and we have a recipe for disaster.

Obama: All of this is a legitimate source of concern. Here’s the good news. Our problems are imminently solvable. And we know what we have to do to solve them.

These will be times that try our souls, our minds, perhaps even our existence. We urge our readers to remain vigilant and to continue preparing. We are entering a period of great turbulence, and it’s better to be prepared years in advance than to be a day late.

While some may argue that a mob cannot be stopped, consider that it may be made up of tens or hundreds of individuals, but not many of them know each other. And even if they do, we are hard pressed to believe that they have any loyalty to each other if bullets start flying.