• For those who don't think water isn't a future security threat: 50% of all freshwater drawn from U.S. sources each year is used to cool power plants... AND ...while 40% of Fortune 1000 Companies say a water shortage would be 'catastrophic' or 'severe' to their business, only 17% have made preparations for such a shortage

• 60% of our nation's fossil fuel needs are imported.
  The last refinery built in the United States was 1976.
  The last nuclear power plant built in the U.S. was 1977.

• During the Civil War, the Confederacy actually began executing a plan to conquer Mexico and Brazil, and even had 20,000 ex-rebels flee to Brazil where they established the Confederate colonies of New Texas and Americana.

• After reviewing the most recent DoD statistics on the Iraq and Afghan wars, a Harvard professor projects the total medical care cost for U.S. vets of these conflicts will exceed $500 trillion. That is equal to the total projected amount of spending on both wars combined.

• With a 2009 budget of $651.2 billion, the U.S. military budget is now bigger than all other countries in the world combined. It is 8 times bigger than the next biggest spender, China.

• The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that by 2030, crude oil demand will soar to 118 million barrels a day as energy consumption soars in developing countries like China and India