{"id":15550,"date":"2015-12-22T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15550"},"modified":"2015-12-22T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:39:02","slug":"six-signs-that-2016-will-be-much-worse-than-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15550","title":{"rendered":"Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
A Turbulent Year<\/strong><\/div>\n
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In the course of 2015 we have witnessed several events that had, and will have, negative repercussions on individual freedom. Orwellian totalitarianism is increasingly creeping into our everyday lives. How much more intrusive will the violations of our liberties become and for how long will the establishment get away with this? These are questions that remain unanswered.<\/p>\n

\"YesWeScan\"United we move toward a perfectly monitored society\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 the US Congress has just passed the controversial CISA spying law \u2013 the worst possible version of it \u2013 by sneaking it into a budget bill. This utterly corrupt method of enacting laws that would not get passed on their own because they are such a huge affront to decency and civilization has become the norm in the \u201cland of the free\u201d \u2013 which ironically is \u201cexporting democracy\u201d by force of arms all over the world!<\/p>\n

With regards to the financial system, no real solution was found to issues such as those in the euro zone. Furthermore, the financial system as a whole once again got deeper into debt. For how much longer can central banks and governments continue kicking the can down the road without any real reform? I will try to answer these questions and identify trends for 2016 by looking at six key issues that have had an impact this year.<\/p>\n

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    Geopolitical Developments\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We have witnessed a number of troubling geopolitical developments during this past year. From the continuing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, territorial disputes between Japan and China, the escalating proxy war in Syria, the refugee crisis in Europe, the rise of religious tensions all over world to the rise of the Islamic State, the world has become increasingly unstable.<\/p>\n

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    Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015\u00a0 A Turbulent Year In the course of 2015 we have witnessed several events that had, and will have, negative repercussions on individual freedom. Orwellian totalitarianism is increasingly creeping into our everyday lives. How much more intrusive will the violations of our liberties become and for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[2291,4568,1769,317,765,1796],"class_list":["post-15550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-2291","tag-cisa","tag-corruption","tag-financial-system","tag-surveillance","tag-us-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15551,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15550\/revisions\/15551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}