Sunni & Shia Tensions Rise in Middle East
Protesters stormed and ransacked Saudi Arabia’s embassy on Sunday after gathering to denounce the kingdom for executing a prominent Shia cleric. They stormed the embassy, smashed furniture, setting the embassy on fire, and threw papers from the roof. They were eventually cleared away by the police, Iran’s ISNA news agency reported.
On Saturday, Saudi Arabia announced it had executed 47 prisoners convicted of terrorism charges, including al-Qaeda detainees and Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr who had rallied protests against the government. It was the execution of al-Nimr which had been expected to increase sectarian tensions across the entire region and deepen the hatred between Sunnji and Shia minority in Saudi Arabia’s not to mention with the Shia in Iran.
Indeed, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Jaberi Ansari had been quoted on the state-owned English-language Press TV warning that the Saudi monarchy would pay a heavy price for its policies while a Iranian cleric, Hossein Nouri Hamedani, said this would raise significant tensions.
Turkey Civil War – Is it Coming?
Turkey seems to be going really to fight ISIS, its military actions have struck far more Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) targets than ISIS targets, leading many to suspect that the government is using ISIS as an excuse to reignite the civil war against the PKK and intimidate the Kurdish population. This is something we should pay attention to. On top of this, Turkish President Erdogan has defended his efforts to broaden his powers actually citing Hitler’s Germany as an example where the presidential system had worked.
The Solution – Debt & Taxes
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I was given your Solution DVD for Christmas by my son. I just began reading your blog for days. This has been an eye opening experience and it has even opened a dialog with my son. So you can teach old dogs new tricks. So my conclusion is that we can step ahead and that we may not overcome death, but taxes do seem to lead nowhere but more taxes. Do you think they will adopt your solution?
ANSWER: We have sold many SOLUTION DVDs on Amazon. It seems to be a great gift to get others to pay attention. Glad that worked with you. The more people who watch this and at least enter the debate, the more likely we can see this solution take hold. But keep in mind, this solution would ONLY emerge after we crash and burn and the current system becomes unsustainable.
We are spending per month, even at these low interest rates, over $20 billion in interest per month on average. What happens when rate rise? The system starts to exponentially collapse. Our problem will be that they are increasing taxes and becoming abusively aggressive in tax enforcement, they they are destroying exactly what made the world economy flourish. But all they care about is holding on to power so they will continue to screw down on society in their own self-interest.
It does not really matter looking at debt as a percent of GDP for the GDP includes government expenditures and fails to realize that it is extracting a portion from society to fund itself which wastes productivity since government does not create anything. Therefore, if government is 100% of GDP as in communism, 33% to 50% in socialism, then the debt to GDP ratio becomes delusional. All countries are in trouble because they are operating on a system that is unsustainable.
Attempted Assassination of Nigel Farage
The Daily Mirror reports the attempted assassination of Nigel Farage. Someone tampered with his car to ensure the wheels would fall off which driving on the motorway at high speed.
A Mile of Pi
They printed out Pi and rolled it out for one mile showing that there are cycles of repeating sequences within Pi and that every number does not evenly appear.
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