+ Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and pray.

A recent review of global news headlines should lead each of us to prepare for a very bumpy ride:

Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, 

but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 11:4

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Chance of global recession pegged at 100%   

Video: The worst has yet to come

Much closer to total destruction than you think

Roubini: 'perfect storm' coming

Crushing debt trap threatens to bring down whole of Europe

Britain prepares immigration restrictions

Kuwait finances in question

Huge sense of doom among 'Grexit' predictions

If Greece fails ...

Greece: public finances could collapse in a month

Are Greece's Euro fears causing bank runs?

Credit ratings slashed for Spanish banks

Unusual currency conversions reflect broad fears

Google word searches on "Bank Runs" spike

Italian banks shaken as slump deepens
Contingency plans for implosion of Eurozone

  The new normal? Japan nuke crisis continues

Fukushima contaminated water dumped, headed to US
Radiation detected in California tuna
California hits hard times

Real federal deficit dwarfs official tally

US: looming 'fiscal cliff'

The ignored war: 49 headless corpses found on Mexico border

Hizbullah proxies pose greatest threat to US

Warning: Prepare for 9/11 style terror

Iran has enough uranium for 5 bombs

Iran attack decision nears

Panetta: Ready to stop Iran

Syrian massacre: US military 'prepared to act'

6/3/12 UPDATE:
US adds more debt in 15 months than nation's total debt through 1984
'Beware rerun of great panic of 2008'
6/16/12 UPDATE:
How shockwaves will hit US if Greece drops Euro
6/19/12 UPDATE:
Syria, Iran, Russia and China plan largest war games in Mideast history