When even that bastion of statist groputhink and legacy conventional wisdom accuses China of fabricating its most important economic number, then surely some violently volatile event is in the immediate future as China's goalseeked cognitive dissonance is forced to reallign with reality in an event which even the bank that does god's work on earth implies is now overdue.
From Goldman's David Kostin:
Scuffles broke out at a pro-migrant rally in Calais, France, with one resident brandishing a rifle and pointing it at the marchers. Russia Today reports: The footage, filmed Saturday, features a French family and their neighbors trying to prevent the not-so-peaceful demonstration from marching through the street that they live on. The conflict escalated quickly as two men started insulting the protesters who “didn’t like” that, photojournalist Frederik Sadones told RT. The protesters returned the insults and started throwing things at the men, bicycle tires among them.
Submitted by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com,
Parents will tell you the most difficult questions to answer sometimes come from their children.
Blackwater mercenaries are famed for shooting up Iraqi towns and civilians with impunity in the past, but in Yemen’s conflict the foreign mercenaries are having a hard time. Russia Insider reports: Blackwater Mercenaries Killed as Saudi-Led Invasion of Yemen Spirals Into Disaster A war that you never read about (with good reason) is the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen. This is mostly because responsible media outlets are too busy reporting on Russia’s bloodless “invasion” of Crimea, and also because Saudi Arabia bombs at least one hospital or center for the blind each week.
Europeans are struggling to come to terms with the wave of Mid-East refugees that have inundated the bloc over the course of the last 12 months.
The challenge, for those inclined to believe that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s multicultural utopia is feasible, is to adopt an open minded approach to the prospect of integrating millions of Muslim asylum seekers into a largely Christian society while retaining a healthy level of skepticism with regard to the prospect of unifying two vastly divergent cultures.