Suddenly everyone were shocked!

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Image: The NY Stock Exchange  (here)

More than a munching and hard to stomach

More than just a mouthful leading to the New Year

Bread and butter issues seem to take center stage lately

Events dogged the headlines

Some found themselves in awkward and dangerous situations

Some others  punished violently

Physically they were life threatening or lives were snuffed

Hostage taking in Sydney which left 3 dead

Taliban attacks on schoolchildren with 129 dead

Suddenly everyone were shocked

But these were the immediate

Far worst came by earlier centered on killings

Garner in Staten Island

Brown in Ferguson

Rice from Cleveland

Compounded by unpopular Grand Jury decisions

That tore into the very fabric of race relations

Interspersed in between a Senate hearing

on waterboarding brought torture into the open

No fear for everyone else were likely to be tortured too!

Further and for far longer not unlike those at Guantanamo

Oil dropped to an unimaginable USD52 per barrel

With a prediction of a mind-boggling USD32 in 2 year’s time

And the Dow bubble hovering at 17,000 to plunge

to 6000 also in 2 years

Economic implications and trade imbalances

would bring issues impacting on life in general

and when the US sneezed we

 in other parts of the world got the cold too

Bread and butter issues would greatly

feature from now on and Wall Street pundits were already smirking

 ‘don’t say we didn’t tell ya!’

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