The Zimbabwe dollar took roughly five years to completely lose the confidence of its people. But because the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency all bets are off in terms of time lines.

If the bankers, financiers, politicians and corporate interests don’t bring about the destruction of America, the Chinese will do their damndest to ensure it happens.

We wanted to know how much money we owe our retirees, and how much of that money we don’t have.

While TSA gaterapes grannies in diapers at our local airports and steams ahead on expanding enhanced pat-downs and searches to all public venues including train stations, sporting events and malls, the real security holes are completely ignored.

How much do you trust that NASA will let us know of an imminent threat to Earth that might include asteroid impact, massive solar flare, coronal mass ejection – or perhaps something worse?

Do these law enforcement officers realize their role in the death of America?

The impact on commodity and stock markets was almost instantaneous, with oil trading down $4 today and stocks swinging back and forth at least a hundred points on the Dow.

The people in charge of our monetary, economic and fiscal policies have no clue what to do. They have fired all of the bullets they had and nothing is working. Fundamentally, we’re worse off now than we were four years ago.

Let’s face it, flying isn’t exactly the most comfortable experience one can engage in. Usually, and this is stereotypical of us, those pajama pants are being modeled by female college co-eds. Not once has this ever been an issue. Up until now, that is.

We urge our readers not to panic, but as always, remain vigilant. The world can change from one day to the next.

Some of the key elements we will witness in a depressionary-style economic collapse that happens over several years as opposed to an overnight collapse. Civilizations past have all experienced their own form of collapse, most of them falling off the planet over many years and decades. We view this type of breakdown as one of the most likely – a system that falls apart slowly, with progressing violence and volatility.

If we’re going to be investigating Christian militants and others who are responsible for undermining the rule of law and posing a threat to this country, the agencies responsible should do this in concert with investigations that include analyzing upper echelons of our government, Congress, corruption in law enforcement (on all levels) and financial conglomerates.

Perhaps Tom Ball believed that his death would lead to a similar explosion of protests as those that occured in Tunisia…