3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK / Venezuela's collapsing economy

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3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK / Venezuela's collapsing economy

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3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK

Venezuela's collapsing economy receives $5 billion from China

** 3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e150803




Contents:
Big losses expected Monday when Greece's stock market reopens
Puerto Rico to default on Tuesday
Venezuela's collapsing economy receives $5 billion from China
Venezuela in border dispute with Guyana
Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Greece, Athens stock market, Eurogroup,
Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla,
Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, Hugo Chávez, John Kelly, China,
Guyana, British Guiana, ExxonMobil, Iraq, Syria, Turkey,
Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh

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Re: 3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK / Venezuela's collapsing economy

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Will civil war break out in Greece? A mean a real civil war like after WW2? I think the average Greek will just emigrate and never look back. Greece will become black, like the rest of Europe.

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Re: 3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK / Venezuela's collapsing economy

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Venezula --- learning the hard way --- just like? ----------------------


CEO Hikes Minimum Wage To $70K, Capitalist Tragicomedy Ensues

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-0 ... edy-ensues

"Meet 31-year-old Dan Price.

Dan is the CEO of Seattle-based credit card payments processing firm Gravity Payments, and three months ago, he did a funny thing.

After talking with a friend who confessed to having difficulties making student loan payments and rent each month on an annual salary of $40,000, Dan decided to set a $70,000 per year pay floor at Gravity."



" All he wanted to do was improve the lives of the 120 or so people who worked for him and after reviewing some literature on the subject, he decided that $70,000 was the level at which workers start to experience "an enormous difference in [their] emotional well-being."



"First, some employees felt it wasn’t fair to indiscriminately give everyone a raise. That is, some felt Gravity should at least pay lip service to the notion that there's a connection between higher pay and performance and because the new pay plan didn't seem to acknowledge that link, the company lost some workers."

"Two of Mr. Price’s most valued employees quit, spurred in part by their view that it was unfair to double the pay of some new hires while the longest-serving staff members got small or no raises."

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From "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand

"Well, we got what we asked for. By the time we saw what it was that we’d asked for, it was too late. We were trapped, with no place to go. The best men among us left the factory in the first week of the plan. We lost our best engineers, superintendents, foremen and highest-skilled workers. A man of self-respect doesn’t turn into a milch cow for anybody. Some able fellows tried to stick it out, but they couldn’t take it for long. We kept losing our men, they kept escaping from the factory like from a pesthole – till we had nothing left except the men of need, but none of the men of ability."
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The hard facts of reality

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Re: 3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK / Venezuela's collapsing economy

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Even with greater oil deposits than Canada or Saudi Arabia, Venezuela still finds itself in worse shape than Greece. Welcome to Latin America.

How's the Stalinist line working out for you?

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Re: 3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK / Venezuela's collapsing economy

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Venezuela should be interesting to watch. It's been 57 years since the last Crisis era ended with the overthrow of the Marcos Pérez Jiménez dictatorship and the signing of the Pact of Punto Fijo (was was made by the two largest political parties to make sure military dictatorship never happened again). Venezuela is in the late stages of its Unraveling era (which probably started with Chavez's election) and everything is falling apart. The demonstrations last year fizzled out, but things are still tense and people are getting desperate over the shortages. The mood is ripe for the Crisis catalyst.

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Re: 3-Aug-15 World View -- Turkey returns to war with the Kurdish PKK / Venezuela's collapsing economy

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Aerro wrote:Venezuela should be interesting to watch. It's been 57 years since the last Crisis era ended with the overthrow of the Marcos Pérez Jiménez dictatorship and the signing of the Pact of Punto Fijo (was was made by the two largest political parties to make sure military dictatorship never happened again). Venezuela is in the late stages of its Unraveling era (which probably started with Chavez's election) and everything is falling apart. The demonstrations last year fizzled out, but things are still tense and people are getting desperate over the shortages. The mood is ripe for the Crisis catalyst.
And which way will it go? -- I think not good. Wish otherwise.

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