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LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) - The Islamic State has been referred to as "al Qaeda's JV team" by President Obama and they are widely viewed as the angry little brother of al Qaeda, or as just another terrorist organization bent on hatred of Israel and the West. However, these off-the-cuff, and frankly, cavalier assessments are absolutely wrong.  Instead, the Islamic State could be regarded as a genuinely "evil" organization by western standards. Their leadership is seeking nothing less than the apocalypse and they have a very specific vision of how to trigger that event.
Here are some need-to-know facts about that Islamic State that may shock you.

Chris Wright - Forbes

As an investor, one has to say there was a lot of downside. Lebanon is unable to elect a President; it hasn’t had one for about 10 months now. It is digesting more than a million Syrian refugees whose arrival has dramatically strained every possible resource in a country which has a population of 4.4 million. And it is fighting off the threat of both ISIS and Hizbollah at the same time. Yet despite these headwinds, Lebanon raised $2.2 billion of debt, including $1.4 billion of 15-year paper, paying just 6.65% (and a lower-still 6.2% on a 10-year tranche), about three per cent tighter than most other countries with the same credit rating.

How?