Recently, several key officials and key military personnel in Iran have threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if they are attacked by Israel. Or they just might close it because they are pissed with the world. Now, given that 40% of the world’s oil passes through this strait currently, you can imagine the type of problem that would cause. Lets also discuss what would happen is a US backed Israel attacked Iran. A major concern is that China and Iran are very good buddies, and while China may frown on Iran closing down the straight, they most likely would not go to war with the US and Israel. But, they could impose sanctions on the US. Although it would hurt the Chinese economy since the majority of Chinese exports come to the US, they would do it out of political and strategic spite to bend the US to coming to some sort of quick agreement to not back Israel.

So what is the fall out? The American economy will plunge into darkness. If Chinese sanctions are imposed on exports Wal-Mart will close up shop very quickly, followed suit by many other large retailers like Kmart, Sams, and Ikea would suffer, while they are a Swedish store, the majority of their products are made in China. Ikea does not first ship their product from China to Sweden they ship from China to the US. So there would have to be some creative shipping involved. Granted the US is not Ikea’s only country they sell to, but it would hurt their profits because Americans are some of the top consumers of Ikea products.

Forget about $4/gallon gas try $8/gallon. How can you work at McDonalds making $9/hr when it costs you your entire pay check to fill your car up twice in one week? Let’s assume you take $1440 home a month, you need to subtract $640 in gas if it was at $8/gallon.

How long do you think it will take to club a couple baby seals in Alaska to drill for oil now? How about drilling off the coast of Florida?

Has it ever been this bad before?

In Austin: A shooting, a man held up in a house that was then lit on fire.
In Virginia, a lunatic guns down 32 people
In Somalia, War is currently raging with Islamic/Muslim extremists
In France a new president run off between the far right and the far left. They both have to deal with things like a Muslim population that houses potential insurgents that - have made clear they want to turn France into a Muslim state.
In Isreal the terrorist group Hamas urges Palestinians to up rocket attacks to kill more Jews.
In Iran, the country continues to push its agenda of backing Hamas and Hesbolah. Iran previously kidnapped British troops and coerced them into stating they had come into Iranian waters.
Syria, backs Islamic fundamentalists.

A lot of people talk about intolerance and peace and how we should be tolerant of religions and shoot for peace. Looking at the world view, it seems one religion feels differently. Apparently there are a lot of “Militant Islamic” groups and they continue to get financial backing. Can religions take over countries in modern days? Why does one feel that Islam is the only religion? What is the breaking point for civil society?