What you don't know...
What you don't know about what's happening in the big bad world at large can easily be dismissed as something you probably don't need to know about after all. But what you don't know about what's happening in your own lives, in your own business, in your own community, in your own country, and eventually in your own world is all tied in together, and it's a lot more important to you than you're giving it credit.
Right now one of your neighbours just had their identity stolen.
Right now there are professionally trained software engineers designing applications for organized crime to access, retrieve, amalgamate, analyze, corrupt, damage, use and abuse data about companies and executives from across the country and around the world. This data is being used to blackmail and extort the same executives that are running our major corporations; the same ones our government is bailing out at tax-payers' expense, and hundreds of others besides, in countries all over the world.
The data is being used to replicate identities and credit profiles of individuals just like your neighbour....just like you.
The data is being used to create fake versions of the worlds' most trusted brands so the company you *think* you're buying from may in fact not be them at all.
The data is being used to create pattern analysis for everything from electricity and utility usage rates schedules, to key products' logistics and delivery routes, which in turn is being sold to terror networks and enemy intelligence services. This data is being used to specifically target key infrastructure points here at home where electronic assaults are taking place testing to find out just what it takes to bring our infrastructure to its' knees at the touch of a few keystrokes. The data is being used by miscreant investors to artificially exploit price changes in energy resources like gas prices.
The data is being used to create false identities for illegal immigrants - providing the opportunities for them to live and work unnoticed, unchallenged, undetected. And these are not the generic well meaning illegal immigrants just trying to make a few bucks to send back to their destitute families, either.
The data is being used to launder financial resources not only of our nation's enemies, but of our international competitors abroad, making their financial transactions harder to monitor and our ability to compete with them dramatically ever more challenged.
I had a colleague recently explain to me that reaching certain levels of security on a particular project was not completely necessary because none of their customers would ever be likely to deliberately break the system my colleague was developing. That all changed once I pointed out that it didn't take thousands of potential accidents to produce a negative impact - it simply took one hostile, skilled, and motivated individual to bring their company to rack and ruin.
You see we live in a world of rapidly multiplying information, where information overload is no longer a theory, but a fact of life. To deal with that fact we have relied on our news services to provide us with more and more succinct information down to the point where today we only pay attention when they're voicing opinions in ear-splitting decibel levels.
It has become noise. Background noise. Like the noise of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, we have tuned out our receptors for the tell-tale elements of data that warn us of true impending disaster, true risk. So on occasion we take at face value the words of the talking heads as the gospel of the appocalypse and react accordingly only to discover that we missed not only the correct path of action, but the opportunities to turn the pending disaster into a rousing success.
And buried by that background noise is the sound of opportunity after opportunity knocking. We hear bad news by the minute, good news only by the year. Yet it surrounds us; it inspires us - it drives us to create, invent, invest, develop, design, promote, build, and begin with new opportunities every day. Every day new restaurants open up in every city, and most towns. Someone materializing their dreams of owning their own restaurant or small business; or developing a new product that they are about to unleash and unveil to the world to improve the lives of people just like you and me. Someone is developing a new medical technique, writing a new book, saving someone's life, rejoicing in a new birth. This *IS* Opportunity. And you will no more hear about it in the mainstream media than you will about your own birthday.
You are missing out on the top threats to your business, your investments, your retirement, your family and personal security, your community, your beliefs, and your country.
You are also missing out on the top resources, accomplishments, innovations, new developments, and opportunities that could change your life, you career, your country forever.
Join this blog. We'll start getting into the kinds of meaty details you will know you want to read more about. By minimizing your risks, analyzing your situation, and discovering opportunities that only we're seriously discussing can you improve your ability to achieve and sustain success.
To share one more important point before I close this inaugural blog:
From here on out I aim to make sure that both risks and opportunities are shared here as equally as possible. I'm not writing this blog with an eye to scaring the public into a panic - I'm writing to show you how to protect yourselves from unnecessary risks, how to find opportunities you never knew existed, and how to achieve your dreams and goals faster and easier than you ever thought possible. It's a synergy developed by recognizing the bad and dealing with it, and also identifying the good and maximizing it.
This is the ride of a lifetime. Cruise along with us on The Chris George Report - come aboard, we're expecting you.
C.G.
