Religion

Saudi Arabia has said it is breaking off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid an escalating row between the two country’s over the Saudi execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. Reuters news agency reported that the Saudi Foreign minister has asked Iran’s diplomatic mission to leave the country within 48 hours. While according to ccording to Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV, Saudi Arabia has evacuated its diplomats from Tehran. Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei called Sheikh Nimr a “martyr” who had acted peacefully.

Full scale replicas of the ancient 15-metre Temple of Bel entrance in Syria are to be built in Trafalgar Square and Times Square. Some believe that the structure is one of the few remaining parts of the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel in the Syrian city of Palmyra. It is apparently unknown if the Palmyra Arch was fully destroyed by ISIS over the past year.

The S&P 500 closed 2014 at 2058.90 and is currently trading below that level as the market opens. For the sake of faith in The Fed's "control" and trust in central planners ability to do "whatever it takes," it appears NYFed better "get back to work" soon to save the world.

Never mind that almost everything else is lower for 2015.

A group of US tourists recently filmed what appears to be a UFO entering a portal in the sky above CERN headquarters in Switzerland.  CERN is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Section51-ufo.com reports: More people have become more aware of the CERN project aggressive ambitions to explore the unknown ‘dark universe” many have pointed to signs that have people troubled if not terrified by the parade of symbolism used at the CERN facility itself.

ISIS have begun harvesting human organs after a group of scholars ruled that the taking of organs from captives was allowed.  The January 31st document says that taking organs from a living captive in order to save a fellow Muslim’s life is permissible. The Times Of India reports: Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the authenticity of the document. US officials say it was among a trove of data and other information obtained by US special forces in a raid in eastern Syria in May.