I just posted something current eventish/end daysish on my other blog, and thought I'd post this one here because it's more current eventish than end daysish -- a bit of history on New Orleans and why it's a key city, Katrina, etc.
There's plenty in current events for our children to learn from -- plenty.
by Chuck Missler
The American nation was built on the vast farmlands that stretch from the Alleghenies to the Rockies, and it was that farmland which produced the wealth that funded American industrialization. It was through the efforts of the American farmers who, amazingly, could produce more than they could consume and then sold their excess crops in the east and in Europe. It was their savings that provided the founding capital of American industry.
But it was not just the extraordinary land or the farmers and ranchers who alone set this process in motion. Rather, it was also the geography - the extraordinary system of rivers that flowed through the Midwest and allowed them to ship their surplus to the rest of the world. All the rivers flowed into one - the Mississippi - and the Mississippi flowed to the ports in and around one city: New Orleans.
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