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What is the issue

What is the issue

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2017-01-13
So it is here, the New Year is upon us and from a numerology perspective, if you continue adding the numbers of the year together you eventually end up with an answer of 1. Very positive, a very good sign that 2017 is going to be a great year. Well getting here has been very entertaining to say the least and we can only hope for the best, because we have not been getting much of the best lately.

The ridiculous financial idea to create a class of super rich with the hope that there would be a "trickle down" effect really blew up in our faces, or at least in the faces of the poor and the working class. I would like to advise the super rich to start spending and to spread it around and please do it quick. The rest of your fellow earthlings really need the money.

So with my glass raised to the heavens I toast the past, to the successes that made it bearable and the losses that we can now leave behind us as we use them as stepping-stones to grow into our very bright future.

I toast our collective future, bright as a nuclear flash, hopefully only proverbially because the childish way that our leadership is behaving might just have many nuclear flashes going off. Kim Jong-Un with his threat of an intercontinental nuclear warhead and the American war machine going after every country in the world that still owns its own central bank. Well that's what the rumour says anyway.

So we can hope that our parliament will grow a backbone and start acting like the parliament that we deserve as the rainbow nation. There's always hope. We can hope for more responsible journalism and a death to fake news. I'm appalled at the release of unsubstantiated reports about Donald Trump being bandied about on international news stations. It is such poor form and just makes those news stations look like rumour mongering propaganda institutions. If only we all could see straight through the bull schlaker. Rex Tillerson offered some wisdom recently when he said that the US needs to move Russia from a constant adversary to a partner. The whole world would benefit from that.

The blatant just keeps getting even more blatant and I wonder where will they stop Reports of fifteen thousand American troops and heavy military equipment scheduled to arrive in Poland any day now first makes me wonder who is in control in the Polish Government And second, what is the objective of this army, this virtual invasion, in Eastern Europe I can only think of NATO's failed attempt at taking control over the Ukraine. What other objective could they have over there Please, I don't know everything, but it would be nice if I did.

Then there is the mad rush for the South China Sea where a third of the world's trade passes through a narrow channel. Everybody wants the South China Sea, even America, who is so far away it begs logic.

Hang in there it is going to get interesting soon. All the best to you and yours.