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2011-08-10 The Grand Turk

Turkey: Debt Growing, Currency Sinking, Kurds outbreeding Turks

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Posted by Lord Garth 2011-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 It's a shame!

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-08-10 03:24|| 2011-08-10 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 The Kurds are ascending, and they know it. For many years they were as troublesome as the Jews were before they had Israel. Restless and combative no matter where they lived, with a clear focus of what they want. And this tends to give a people a lot of intestinal fortitude.

The Kurds are also like the Jews because of that rare attribute that makes them *appreciate* high intelligence in their leaders. My jaw about dropped when I first heard Kurd spokesmen speak, in perfect American English and with the persuasive abilities of a top notch lobbyist. I knew then that they would quickly curry favor with Washington.

And now that they effectively have their own country, albeit within Iraq, it has made the Kurds in Iran, Turkey and Syria extra "itchy". Not to migrate to Iraq, but to expand Iraqi Kurdistan into a "greater Kurdistan".

Since they cannot do this by force of arms, they are doing with the other tool at their disposal, population increase, whether consciously or not.

Yet ironically, at the same time, the Arab world is in decline in a major way, demographically. They are depressed and unhappy, being caught between the nastiness of Islam and the nastiness of authoritarian socialism, and they are sick to death of both of them.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-10 10:24|| 2011-08-10 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 I should have defined "current account deficit".

It is essentially the balance of trade adjusted for foreign aid and various interest and dividends coming into the treasury from foreign holdings. The US current account deficit is about 4%.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-08-10 13:20|| 2011-08-10 13:20|| Front Page Top

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