Crisis overload

[whosinpower]

Maybe it is just me....but it seems as if 2011 is one crisis piled on top of another....

Earthquake in New Zealand...
Financial meltdown and bankruptcy of Ireland....
Protests and riots in Great Britain over austerity....protests across the EU.....
Uprisings in Tunesia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain,Iraq, Saudi Arabia - hae I forgotten any - probably....
Earthquake in Japan....
Tsunami in Japan....
Nuclear disaster in Japan....
Libya goes rogue and kills great swathes of its own people.....
And lest we forget....
Afghanistan is still a big problem....
Iraq is still a big problem.....
Domestic issues on American soil that is driving hundreds of thousands of citizens to the streets in protest....

And it is only March 19.....I am sure I have forgotten some....but the rising tension and anxiety is palpable. Increasing skepticism and scorn of leadership across the globe. Maybe it is because we, as a worldwide community are more connected now than ever and it has always been this way, I just did not pay attention....I am not sure. This feels like a growing phenomenan of unknown quality or quantity with a very uncertain/unstable future.

I am not about to say...it is only going to get worse....but sure would like to hear a little good news today.

[okieinpain]

1. it's always been like this. n/t.

[lutefisk]

2. Not really-- hasn't been this bad in the 162 year history of Wisconsin, for example.

It is a bad year, as years go, domestically as well as internationally. Not bad on a WWII scale, obviously, but not shaping up well at all. And the year is less than a quarter of the way through.

:hi:

[boobooday]

3. Nowhere to go but up?

:hide:

[Turbineguy]

4. Consider this:

Looking at the Fukushima situation. The problem will not be fixed by politicians, bankers, managers, bean counters, stock speculators and others of that ilk. It will be fixed by people who know how to turn wrenches.

[Angry Dragon]

5. But the rich have more money and are doing fine

so everything is good