The CIA and the Pentagon have both noted that this global financial crisis is taking its toll on World Economies and that is a real problem for world peace.
In fact, as economies crumble so do societies, and civil unrest can lead to revolutionary over throw with already weak governments.
In the Middle East Oil prices are way down causing huge economic problems.
  With China's factories shut down many former farmers are going back to rural communities, where droughts are causing wheat crop failures.
In Argentina soybean commodities have collapsed.
Rice commodities are way up and 3.
5 Billion people eat rice every day, especially the poor.
Nations like Nigeria, Iran, Mexico, Venezuela, and Russia are in a severe situation due to oil demand putting oil barrel prices at $35 per barrel.
  World Trade is down, our trade deficit is the lowest in years, and shipping lines are almost at a standstill and this is causing extreme hardship in many countries.
There are many square miles of cars parked that have been off-loaded at the ports sitting and waiting, with no dealerships that want them.
There are cargo containers stacking up.
  These issues have barely made it into the mass media, but these little news headlines you are reading really do matter, even if you do not quite see the whole picture.
We must all read deeper, ask more questions and think about what we are reading and how this affects our future.
  Although in the US we have felt some economic stress, we must not forget our trading partners and allies throughout the world whose nations are literally falling apart as we speak.
Think on this.