By Vestnik Kavkaza
Oil will fall below $50 per barrel in 2015
According to the forecast of the influential British newspaper the Financial Times for 2015, the price of oil on the world market will fall below $50 per barrel. The growth of OPEC production, and hence offers and reduced energy demand will contribute to this. This situation may last until the end of the first quarter of 2015, and perhaps longer. However, this decline in prices, as well as the expected economic growth in developing countries, over time should lead to an increase in energy demand and rising oil prices.
US students are in debt
The state debt of US students on student loans in 2014 exceeded eight billion dollars. Debt, including loans from private sources, has reached a trillion and one hundred and thirty billion dollars. Back in 2007, the size of government loans for students was less than a hundred billion. According to statistics, about half of the graduates of American universities enroll into adulthood as debtors. The trend of recent years is that universities are becoming richer and the students are becoming poorer, writes cnsnews.com. The situation is so serious that the US government has launched several programs to assist debtors. However, solving one problem creates another for America. By forgiving the debts the federal government is transfering the responsibility for their payment to taxpayers.
Five Guantanamo prisoners will live a free life in Kazakhstan
The US Department of Defense announced the release of five more persons from Guantanamo Bay military prison. Two Tunisians and three Yemenis will move to a place of residence in Kazakhstan. They were held in jail without formal charges for twelve years. The US has repeatedly expelled former Guantanamo detainees to third countries, but this is the first time they have sent them to Kazakhstan. In recent months, the administration of Barack Obama has accelerated the release of the people held in Guantanamo Bay, which the president promised to close. 127 people are still behind bars.
Extreme Christmas shopping in America
New York police are investigating a robbery at the store "Macy's". Unknown "buyers" entered the store late at night on a truck for garbage collection and stole an ATM. Two hours later, police with the help of helicopters and specially-trained dogs managed to find the stolen ATM and catch one of the criminals. The search for the second one continues.
NYPD is on high alert
New York police received threats at their address. Members of several gangs of the city called on social networks for the killing of police officers on New Year's night. Representatives of the New York City Police said they are taking these threats seriously. After the murder of two police officers on December 20, the situation in the city has escalated. Over the past 10 days police have received 63 threats; 16 people involved in those were arrested.
Obama's backstage attempts to improve relations with Russia
President Barack Obama is attempting to establish a working relationship with Moscow for several months. According to Bloomberg's view, in December the president held a series of meetings with key US agencies, where it was decided to look for ways to cooperate with Russia on a number of bilateral and international issues. The publication notes that Obama in the past two years has shown that he is ready to take on responsibility in matters of foreign policy (such as Iran and Cuba), without regard for critics and the political opposition, but not on matters relating to Russia.
Oliver Stone: CIA is responsible for the coup in Ukraine
Famous American director Oliver Stone is sure that US intelligence services are involved in the coup in Ukraine, says "The Hollywood Reporter». According to Stone, the CIA are responsible for the violence in Ukraine in February 2014, in which more than a hundred people were killed. The director claims that third forces were responsible for the deaths and for fueling the conflict, but Western journalists prefer not to talk about it.
