Shifting into the New Year: What to expect

Hard economic times are ahead. The American dollar is at the end of its life. Its status as a reserve currency is in an unstoppable decline. The shutdown that occurred in October was never solved, the debt ceiling was raised until January 15 and the administration was given a blank cheque to continue on its growing police state. Both Russia and China have distanced themselves from the dollar in the past couple of weeks and the writing is on the wall. With this coming crash happening next door, you can be sure we won't be unaffected. We now know that CSEC is the American version of the NSA and we are all very much in the same situation as they are.

The cleanup of Fukushima reactor 4 began this month and will be ongoing for about a year. There can be no errors and no more severe earthquakes in the region or something several times more catastrophic than Chernobyl could take place. Radiation from Fukushima has already been found in Europe so it has already been through there too, and anything else that may happen will affect us as well. In the coming weeks, the sun's poles are set to shift.

As the Syrian situation falls significantly out of the main picture due to an unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing its government, the new big threat has become Iran. Admittedly, even if Syria was overthrown, Iran would still be the next target. The Geneva 5 + 1 talks with Iran were a success, it seems. Israel and Saudi Arabia are extremely opposed to Iran's having any nuclear rights. Saudi Arabia has already purchased nukes from Pakistan and has them ready at any time. Although the U.S. conducted the talks with Iran and made a deal with them, they have said they will side with Israel. As soon as the deal was reached, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned up Obama and essentially changed the state of the deal with Iran by saying he would send a team of his advisors to the U.S. to “finalize” the agreement. The biggest nuclear problem in the east is Israel, who through its intimate relationship with America has a stockpile of nuclear weapons bigger than any other in the region.

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