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- Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:13 pm
- Forum: International events
- Topic: Article about a divided and compromised ISIS
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Article about a divided and compromised ISIS
Interesting article about the Islamic State (ISIS) and how many formerly supportive people are turning against it: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/islamic-states-double-standards-sow-growing-disillusion/ar-BBonCK1?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=TSHDHP ISIS seems, in many respects, to be a new social elite that...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 7:08 am
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
To respectfully clarify, I really don’t think that Russia would have too much ability to dominate Western Europe if it were brazen enough to try that. Such attacks upon it would almost surely trigger a NATO response, no matter how many US tanks and other military equipment have been removed from tha...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:10 am
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
Very interesting scenario, Reality Check. I do think, however, during a Crisis Era, that if Russia actually got that hog-wild in gobbling up big chunks of Europe, that there would be inexorable forces causing Russia to eventually clash with both China and the United States. In other words, the Russi...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:06 am
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
Appreciate the report you posted. I think that the current Late Third/Early Fourth Turning ethos we seem to be currently in also affects much more than just financial thinking — even the craptastic Auto-Tuned, bad techno music and painfully bad rap and other pop that dominates today (along with the ...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 2:36 am
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
In fact, I think that the proverbial 1 percent has been able to get away with so much of what they’ve gotten away with due to this mode of staunch-solidarity-with-the-patricians thinking — and I think that quite a bit of it is not because of a fanatical desire or expectation in joining them wealth-...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 1:39 am
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
Thanks, Higgenbotham, for the kind, affirmative comments. I do agree that many Americans are surely sick of the government giveaways, which may act as a significant deterrent to some sort of guaranteed minimum income for Americans. I strongly conjecture, however, that there are possibly even more Am...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:43 am
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
Something that would likely allow the aforementioned financial game to be played considerably longer is to allow increasingly generous “production tax credits” to oil producers as well as to food producers, apparel producers, housing producers, etc., so that such producers can continue to produce p...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:22 am
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. These factors can lead to collapse when they converg...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:16 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
Moscow Expresses ‘Concern’ for Estonia’s Russian Community A Russian diplomat said Estonia, like Ukraine, needed to respect the rights of its Russian speakers A Russian diplomat voiced “concern” over Estonia’s treatment of its Russian-speaking minority on Wednesday, one day after Russia formally an...
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 3:29 pm
- Forum: Finance and Investments
- Topic: Financial topics
- Replies: 29822
- Views: 16777215
Re: Financial topics
However, based upon what I am discerning, I feel that even if Obama were willing to pony up very deep cuts to non-Obamacare Federal programs in order to save Obamacare, that there would still be the libertarian/individualist/paleoconservative contingent in the US House of Representatives which woul...