VRA’s TROUBLES (2)

President John Dramani Mahama

By Ekow Mensah

The Headache brought on to the Volta River Authority (VRA) by the compulsion to supply VALCO with cheap electricity is most certainly troubling.

Apart from making it impossible for the Authority to raise resources for its expansion and maintenance of equipment, studies have shown that 50 percent of the subsidy enjoyed by VALCO benefit only foreign off –takers.

50 per cent of the subsidy calculated by the World Bank to be US $150 million a year, amounts to US $ 75 Million per anum.

This calculation is based on the fact that downstream producers take up around 50 per cent of VALCO’s 1 potline production and the remainder of the aluminium is exported.

Shockingly, VALCO says it requires a minimum of two potlines to be viable.

This would simply mean that VRA- Government of Ghana subsidy will double to US $300 million per anum and worsen the current conditions of the Authority.

Confidential sources in the energy sector say that the massive state subsidy for  VALCO makes no contribution to local job creation and provides no basis for an integrated national aluminium industry.

They say that the VRA’s contribution to the subsidisation of VALCO would most likely repeat the story of the near collapse of the Ghana Commercial Bank under the weight of the mounting debts of the Tema oil Refiner (TOR) in earlier years.

The Insight believes that such a scenario would have a huge negative impact on the entire national economy in view o the fact that electricity is central to all production. 

Editorial

PLAYING WITH SYMPTONS

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is not offering anything new when it comes to managing the national economy.

The press conference held by the party to focus attention on the state of the nation economy failed to look at the fundamental causes of Ghana’s under development and the prescription for economic revival was extremely shallow. 

It is indeed a shame that the NPP continues to dwell on the payment of judgement debts to Woyome and others as the main causes of the financial difficulty facing the country at the moment.

In our view, the fundamental problem of the Ghanaian economy is that is structured solely for maximising the profits of so-called investors in the colonial metropolis.

It is not designed to solve the problems of the people of Ghana including unemployment, lack of access to social services and malnutrition.

 The only way of ending current economic difficulties is to exploit Ghanaians resources for the benefit of the people of Ghana.

The Neo-colonial control of the Ghanaian economy needs to be brought to an end quickly.

NPP SPEAKS ON ECONOMY

Below is the full text of a statement on the state nation economy issued by the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

NPP Chairperson Jake Obetsebi Lamptey

On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 the Minister of Finance came to Parliament to deliver the NDC administration’s Budget Statement and Economic Policy for the 2013 financial year.

It was a hogwash of assorted patchworks and propaganda. But it was presented as a set of remedies to give the nation a breakthrough, a new beginning and to provide a bail out from the myriad of problems including the huge public debt; the lamentable fiscal deficit, the humongous arrears, unbridled overspending, worsening unemployment, deteriorating utility services, and failing social services. Somehow, government managed to hope that the 2013 budget statement and economic policy would propel real national development in the various sectors.

Six months on, ladies and gentlemen, the economy is in tatters, and things are getting worse. Government is no longer in denial. There is now consensus that the economy is in bad shape. This is why it is lamentable that the president is sounding from the rooftop that wherever he has gone to, he is being commended for managing the economy well. He chastises Ghanaians as the only people who do not see his good works.

But what are the facts?

SIGNS OF A TROUBLED ECONOMY

On the 22nd May 2013, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana gave a review of Ghana’s economy. The MPC report confirmed the everyday experiences of Ghanaians; that prices of goods and services are rising, partly because of increased fuel prices. Economic activities have slowed down, and both business and consumer confidence have weakened. Lending rates are on the rise because of excessive government borrowing domestically. Electricity and water supply have been erratic and inadequate, shooting up the cost of doing business in the country. At the same time, credit to business is drying up, so they cannot borrow and grow their activities. Lending rates now hover around 30 percent. The result of all these is that industry is suffering badly. And as it is to be expected, corporate profit and tax revenues have fallen below target (a shortfall of 14 percent) in the first quarter.

To make matters worse, donor inflows, within the first four months of 2013, have also fallen below target. Grant disbursements from our development partners was 38 percent lower than the budget target and 37 percent lower than the outturn recorded during the same period of 2012. The consequence of the decline in both domestic and foreign inflows is that our deficit (excess of expenditure over income) in the first quarter has escalated out of target (by 28 percent). What this suggests is that we are unlikely to achieve even the outrageously high deficit of 9 percent programmed into the 2013 budget statement.

To reflect these gloomy realities of the economy, the Bank of Ghana has increased the policy rate to 16 percent.

FROM GOVERNMENT’S OWN MOUTH

Ladies and gentlemen, a day after these startling revelations, the Minister for Finance, on behalf of the Mahama administration, issued a statement explaining government's perspectives on the state of the economy. The statement confirmed all the serious challenges facing the economy and went further to reveal more bad news: While inflows are not doing well, government concedes that their spending is growing, largely because they are paying so much interest on already borrowed money.

In government's own words, "Interest payments for the period was GH¢1,633.9 million or 46.2 percent higher than the budget target. The domestic interest component was GH¢1,408.9 million and 55.0 percent higher than the budget target of GH¢909.1 million. These costs reflect the high cost of domestic borrowing in 2012 to finance capital projects and liquidity gaps."

Ladies and gentlemen, the reckless expenditures of the 2012 election year are now catching up with all of us. Unfortunately, it is the ordinary people who now have to bear the effects of the bad expenditure behaviour of the Mahama government during the 2012 elections. In 2012 alone, the NDC administration illegally overspent their budget by GH¢4.8 billion. With hindsight, the government now realise that they have misconducted themselves.

We will return to this point shortly, but we proceed now to recount for your information some of the reasons for the poor state of the economy.

SINGLE DIGIT INFLATION PROPAGANDA

For a long time, government’s response to every issue on the economy was that they had achieved single digit inflation. Even when Dr Mahamadu Bawumia and the NPP questioned the disconnect between that single digit inflation and other economic indicators such as lending rates and cost of living, the NDC government refused to abandon their single digit inflation propaganda. The propagandist met that statement with their usual scornful and haughty attitude.

Fortunately or unfortunately, that controversial single digit inflation has also evaporated into thin air. In the last three months, this inflation has been in double digits peaking at 11.2 percent in May 2013. With the eminent increase in taxes, inflation will shoot further up. The NPP support the re-constitution of the inflation basket and further efforts by the Ghana Statistical Service to make the inflation figures more representative of realities in the markets. Now, government have no excuse or choice but to abandon the propaganda and fix the ever rising lending rates and ever increasing cost of living.

PUBLIC DEBT

Ladies and gentlemen, one of the signs of the bad economic management this country has been subjected to is the alarming rate at which we are accumulating public debt. And indeed, it is also one of the causes for our economic woes. As we have previously pointed out, the Mills-Mahama administration inherited a total public debt of US$8billion (paragraph 94 of 2009 Budget Statement), equivalent to GH¢9.5billion or ¢95trillion at the beginning of 2009. This figure is the total debt stock from independence up to December 2008. The NDC government insisted that this was caused by “profligate expenditure”.

Now, within 4 years and a half, this debt has escalated to GH¢38.5billion. On the average, therefore, Ghana under the NDC is adding GH¢6.4billion or ¢64trillion every year to its public debt. A great chunk of this total debt, indeed, 55 percent, is from domestic borrowing. In fact, in 2012 alone, government borrowed in excess of GH¢7.1 billion from the domestic market when they had projected to borrow GH¢2.7 billion. What this means is that government has been competing with, and squeezing out private enterprise from borrowing from the banks. This trend explains the reason interest rates on government bills (91-day, 182-day and 1-year fixed note) have risen from about 11 percent in December 2011 to about 23 percent in December 2012. This represents an increase of over 100 percent in just 12 months. This has caused lending rates to rise. Private enterprises cannot access capital to grow their business in order to employ the youth. Unless we change cause, the unemployed youth will continue to roam the streets without employment with all the attendant social vices.

Given the current debt burden of the country, each Ghanaian including the person who has been born today, right now, as we deliver this message, owes GH¢1540, that is, ¢15.4 million. This does not include the $3billion Chinese loan nor does it include the US$1 billion Eurobond money government is seeking to raise. If the chunk of this huge debt has gone into highly dubious and wasteful so-called judgment debt payments to such recipients as Isofoton, Construction Pioneers, Waterville and Agbesi Woyome, then we can understand why the economy is on its knees.

ARREARS

Ladies and gentlemen, another critical matter that is responsible for the bad state of the economy is arrears accumulation. In accusing the NPP of “profligate spending” in 2009 the NDC stigmatized the NPP for “distressing the economy” with “huge arrears” amounting to GH¢1.8 billion (please refer to page 5 of 2010 Budget Statement). Well, at the end of 2012, government arrears had hit GH¢5.4 billion of which GH¢4.8 billion was incurred in 2012 alone!

These are debts owed to suppliers of goods and services, including small and medium businessmen and women such as road contractors, health service providers, students on scholarship abroad and capitation grant to schools. This also includes amounts owed to COCOBOD, NHIS, DACF, GETFund, SSNIT, BoG, OMCs among others.

In blaming the Kufuor’s administration for what was referred to as the distressing arrears amounting to GH¢1.8 billion, the Minister of Finance at the time charged that “a large portion of the arrears arose from contracts that were in clear breach of the procurement law” (page 5 of 2010 budget). What proportion of the contracts violated the procurement law, the Minister did not say. The truth of the matter is that today, over 95 percent of all major government contracts are by either sole-sourcing or selective tendering. Wherever and whenever selective tendering and sole-sourcing occur, red flags must be raised; chances are that the country is not having value for money.

GOVERNMENT INDEBTEDNESS TO SOE’s

Fellow countrymen and women, government is also hugely indebted to many state owned enterprises (SOEs) to the tune of over GH¢3.1 billion. As at ending December 2012, government’s indebtedness to such petroleum sector entities i.e. BOST, GNPC, TOR, NPA, GNGC, PC amounting to GH¢1.5 billion (¢15 trillion). The utility-related agencies like VRA, ECG, and GRIDCO are owed in excess of GH¢1.6 billion. This figure does not include the total of GH¢796 million illegal fuel price margins the court ordered government to refund to the consolidated fund.

Government’s indebtedness to SOE’s which stands at GH¢3.1billion and arrears to goods and services providers which stands at GH¢5.4 billion bring all to a total of GH¢8.5 billion. Therefore, it is tragic but not surprising that the public utility companies and businesses are collapsing, bringing with it job losses and rising unemployment.

SPENDING OUTSIDE BUDGETED APPROVALS

And as if that was not bad enough, government, in 2009, overspent the approved budget by GH¢300 million (i.e. ¢3trillion); the over-expenditure shot to GH¢800 million (¢8 trillion) in 2010. The over-expenditure for 2011 was over GH¢1.3 billion or ¢13 trillion. In spite of this trend, however, the nation never imagined that over-expenditure alone for 2012 could amount to a stomach churning and mind-blowing GH¢4.8 billion or ¢48 trillion!

Within this shell of a figure, the respective overshooting by the respective MDAs is as follows: Ministry of Interior GH¢19 million; Ministry of Health GH¢27 million; Ministry of Education GH¢60 million; Ministry of Environment, Science & Technology GH¢60 million; Ministry of Energy GH¢70 million; GYEEDA GH¢200 million; Ministry of Roads and Highways GH¢270 million; Ministry of Youth and Sports GH¢350; Office of Government Machinery GH¢650 million, including GH¢15 million for guinea fowl business, and GH¢33 million for tree planting, all in the name of SADA.

FISCAL DEFICIT

The ever-widening fiscal deficit is yet another indication of our ailing economy. In 2008, the NDC inherited a fiscal deficit of GH¢1.98 billion (6.6 percent of GDP). The NDC insisted that, in 2000, the deficit Rawlings’ NDC left was GH¢260 million. And that, at the end of Kufuor’s 8-years, the deficit had soared to a huge amount of GH¢2.6 billion (even though they knew it was GH¢1.98 billion). They further claimed that the size of the deficit had “distressed the economy” (page 5, 2010 Budget Statement), accusing the Kufuor government of “reckless expenditure-spree”. Instead of correcting the GH¢1.98 billion the NDC administration complained about, they went on to run a huge and unprecedented deficit of GH¢8.7billion (12.1 percent of GDP). Indeed, the frightening reality now is that, as indicated by the Bank of Ghana, government deficit shot out of target by an unbelievable 28 percent in the first four months of 2013. This figure would have been worse if government had fulfilled its statutory commitments such as payments into the District Assembly Common Fund, Ghana Education Trust Fund, National Health Insurance Fund, the Pensions Funds, etc. As pointed out earlier, this suggests that we are on the path to another unprecedented deficit, far beyond the already high target of 9 percent programmed into the 2013 budget.

DECLINING ECONOMIC GROWTH

Ladies and gentlemen, we have already highlighted the verdict of the Bank of Ghana on the slow growth of the economy this year, and its attendant decline in both business and consumer confidence. This negative development is not new. Over the past four years and half, there has been unsatisfactory economic growth in spite of the fact that the nation has had so many opportunities. In 2008, the economy grew in real terms by 8.4 percent. The nation had at that time not started to benefit from crude oil export. That was the economy NDC inherited. Crude oil came on stream in 2011 and real GDP growth increased to 1 percent (per the revised GDP figures). A huge chunk of that rate, indeed, almost half of it, came from the crude oil export and not from any strategic effort by government.

Ladies and gentlemen, in 2012, the economy grew by 7.9 percent, both oil and non-oil sub-sectors put together. As already mentioned, in 2008 the non-oil economy grew by 8.4 percent. In 2009 under the NDC the traditional or non-oil economy grew by a mere 4.0 percent; in 2010 it grew by 8.0. None of these two growth rates in the pre-oil economy matches the 2008 growth rate recorded by the NPP administration. The 2011 growth of 15 percent, half of which is oil generated and the 2012 growth of 7.9 percent, also oil- fueled, if disaggregated, both do not match the 2008 growth rate of 8.4 percent. Obviously, the oil proceeds are not being used to grow the economy.

GOVERNMENT’S SOLUTION TO THE ECONOMIC MESS

How is government responding to the Ghana’s economic crisis?

In government’s own words, "Interest payments for the period was GH¢1,633.9 million or 46.2 percent higher than the budget target. The domestic interest component was GH¢1,408.9 million and 55.0 percent higher than the budget target of GH¢909.1 million. These costs reflect the high cost of domestic borrowing in 2012 to finance capital projects and liquidity gaps."

The truth is that, what government is referring to as the financing of “capital projects and liquidity gaps” is nothing but the financing of NDC campaign in the 2012 elections. The vehicles, the laptops, the bags of sugar, the perfumes, and the many assortment of items donated to get votes in the 2012 elections has combined with incompetence and mismanagement to bring our economy to its knees. The Mahama administration is now seeing the effects of their misdeeds. What should follow should be repentance and commitment to bring more prudence into their economic management strategies.

But strangely, government's posture is something else! To solve the economic crisis facing us, government intends to go out there and borrow more money to spend. That is government's solution to the problem. The Mahama administration is making arrangements to borrow up to US$1 billion from the international capital market to support the budget and service our debts. What this means is that government has borrowed so much domestically that we cannot find money to pay the interests so we are going to the international bond market to borrow more money to come and pay the interest on the money we borrowed previously. This is government's strange solution to the problem!

And the Mahama government is still not being honest and straight forward with Ghanaians on our borrowings. About two months ago, the Minister of Information, Hon. Mahama Ayariga intimated that the government of Ghana has now sorted out every relevant documentation and that the $3billion Chinese facility is on its way to Ghana. When the NPP and other observers advised that there were problems with the procurement arrangements of the facility, and that government should act cautiously, we were castigated for being ignorant of the facts and not wishing the government well.

Whatever it was, the Minister of Finance and his team were in Parliament about three weeks ago to amend significant portions of the original contract, because, according to them, there were operational challenges in accessing the loan. And the amendments were passed with maddening speed.

Even that, where are we now? Two years after Parliament approved the loan, Ghana has received just US$192 million out of the US$3 billion. The President, in order to avoid further embarrassment, has tasked the Finance Minister to look for other sources of funding for the gas project, because nobody seems to know when or whether the bulk of the China Development Bank loan will arrive. Can we not, for once, be told hard truths rather than bare-faced propaganda?

What is most worrying in all this is that the Mahama government simply does not understand or does not care (or both) that the economic mismanagement and slowdown resulting from its actions and inactions are worsening the lives of ordinary Ghanaians on a daily basis. Instead of looking within itself, reducing waste, fighting corruption and directing the savings into the productive sectors of the economy, government is rather seeking to squeeze more and more money from businesses and ordinary Ghanaians. Last week, government sent five different tax legislation to Parliament for approval.

1.       Communications Service Tax (Amendment) Bill that seeks to expand the scope of the tax and to squeeze more money from the telecommunications business;

2.      Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill that seeks to impose import duties on telephone handsets;

3.      National Fiscal Stabilisation Levy Bill that seeks to impose fresh tax on many businesses;

4.      Customs & Excise (Duties & Other Taxes) that seeks to impose fresh tax and import duties on plastic, plastic products, satellite phones, among others; and the;

5.      Special Import Levy Bill that is seeking to impose fresh import duties on a wide range of items, including outboard motors, condoms, cutlasses, fishing nets, charley-wo-tey (bathroom slippers), lanterns, energy saving bulbs, wellington boots, paracetamol, washing soap, cooking utensils, and many others.

The NPP, having been in government before, understands that the need could arise for any government to institute tax measures to raise money for national development. However, on this occasion, we do not need an economist to tell us that imposing all these tax measures at a go to squeeze money from businesses and ordinary Ghanaians will only hurt economic growth and lead to job losses and more poverty.

And to demonstrate their lack of confidence in the Ghana Revenue Authority as an institution, the Mahama administration has set up a tax force to oversee the collection of these taxes and the mobilization of revenue.

In summary, the NDC government’s solution to Ghana’s economic woes is: borrow money, tax Ghanaians, and spend. Yes, borrow money, tax Ghanaians, and spend; and in the process, create more opportunities for corruption, corruption and corruption.

IMPACT ON ORDINARY GHANAIANS

Ladies and gentlemen, these developments do have serious impact on the lives of people. The mismanagement and wastage mean that resources are diverted from programmes that will bring prosperity into wasteful expenditures and corruption. And diverting resources from social services because of wrong prioritisation leads to more poverty.  Funds that should go into improving our electricity and water delivery systems do not go there. The consequence is the dum-so-dum-so and water shortages we are experiencing in our homes and in our industries. Imprudent government borrowing escalates domestic lending rates, and here again, industry suffers. The slowdown in business leads to job loses; unemployment grows and people become poorer.

THE WAY TO GO

So, what should government do?

First government must restore fiscal discipline in all departments of the public sector. The government's economic management style, consisting of reckless spending, more borrowing and increased taxation will lead to economic suicide. In 2011 alone, the Auditor General’s report uncovered cash irregularities amounting to over GH¢2 billion. Government should take corrective measures to recover this amount immediately.

The Mahama government must tackles corruption earnestly and sincerely. It is clear that top government officials facilitated the payment of judgement debts to Isofoton, Waterville and Woyome but no prosecutions have been brought against them. We are rather left with Martin Amidu a former Attorney General to fight earnestly and sincerely against corruption.

Gargantuan payments in the name of judgement and settlement debts must cease, and all monies paid illegally recovered in accordance with Supreme Court orders. Inefficient spending and excessive spending on programs such as Guinea fowl development, tree planting and GYEEDA should be eliminated to avoid waste and corruption. The inter- ministerial investigation setup to look into the irregularities in GYEEDA is unacceptable. Government must commission a credible and independent investigation outside executive influence to look into the issues.

Second government should reduce its appetite for borrowing from both domestic and foreign sources. In 2013 alone, interest payments on debt are projected to be over GH¢3.2 billion, almost as much as the entire budget of the Health sector. The way to avoid excessive interest payments is not to borrow more. It just does not make sense. High domestic borrowing crowds out the private sector and collapses businesses thereby increasing unemployment. The administration must steer this nation off debt crisis. We have learnt lessons from the HIPC experience and we should not repeat it.

And in this regard, we call on the Bank of Ghana to obey the Bank of Ghana Act which places a limit on its lending to government but which the Bank of Ghana continues to ignore with impunity.

Third, there must be a focused plan to enhance revenue mobilization but not through increased taxation. Government must institute deep reforms in the Ghana Revenue Authority to enhance efficiency in revenue collection. Ad hoc measures such as the creation of a task-force headed by the Chief of Staff to collect revenue are at best comical. Our institutions must be allowed to work. The highly informal nature of our economy has resulted in a narrow tax base, encourages indiscipline and inhibits job creation. Formalising the economy begins by completing the National Identification System.

Fourth, these efforts must then be followed by a plan to revive the ailing agricultural sector of the economy. The government should target development in all four of Ghana’s breadbaskets to enhance productivity and production. Toward this end, the government must adapt the integrated approach to the agricultural sector that was proposed by the NPP and well executed partly under the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) project.

Fifth, job creation should be top priority for the government. Job creation reduces poverty, and strong local businesses are the key to ending poverty and bringing development. Government must stop paying lip service to the private sector. High lending rates, non-payment of contractors, dum-so dum-so, and excessive taxation only serve to increase the cost of doing business and will contract rather than expand the economy. Jobs cannot be created in such an environment. Addressing these challenges is key to growing the private sector and creating jobs.

Finally, government must appoint competent people to man the affairs of this nation rather than put square pegs in round holes as a way of rewarding party loyalists and cronies.

We thank you for your attention. 

Zionist game in Syria

US sponsored terrorist in Syria

By Arif Hussain

It has been almost two and half years when the enemies of humanity allegedly applied a well plotted mind-set in Syria. The aim was to topple the government of Bashar Assad, resultantly cutting blood supply to other organs of the resistance against Zionism.

The mechanism started with simple anti government peace demonstrations as usual. But a very few people knew that the wolves were hiding within the herds, with their skins changed. It was easy for the wolves to catch the black sheep; the black sheep then created havoc in the peaceful environment. 

The plot was so well planned that outside world received totally distorted news. BBC, Sky news, CNN, AL Jazeera, Fox News all started a hell of lies as were instructed. Killer was shown as the victim, oppressor as oppressed, criminals as peaceful demonstrators, rapists and throat cutters as freedom fighters. 

Then the long list of already written allegations started, Assad is killing the Al-Qaeda terrorists, Syrian army is oppressing the peaceful rapists and murderers, Assad forces are using force against innocent throat cutters and child abusers. The allegation of the use of chemical weapons was to be used at the act.

As per their plot they were fully optimistic to do their first victory breakfast in the palace of Bashar Assad within Weeks. May be they were expecting similar outcomes as that of Libya. But this time they were totally mistaken. It was Syria not Libya, Syria has been a professional player in resistance and it knew how to deal Zionist hounds. 

The Brave Syrian Arab Army's successive victories frustrated Zionists and their puppets 

It is not that hard for an army to fight a cross border war against another army. But when it comes to fight against blood thirsty Wahhabi and Salafi hounds hiding within cities, not every army dares to do so. Because these are not normal people, they don't belong to any religion, in their view it doesn't matter if the victim is an innocent child or an enemy fighter, a newly born baby or a dying old citizen, a newly married girl or a pregnant woman on hospital bed, all are equally sinful and all must die until they impose the racist thoughts of their Zionist masters. 

They are allergic to every person who stands for a just cause, who is truthful and resists injustice. And the most dangerous face of this dirty school of thought is that they fight in the name of holy Jihad. They are dressed in a once hijacked Islamic dress which was latter put on by the zio-muftis of Saudi Arabia. 

In spite of getting full financial, political, weaponry and strategic support from tens of Zionist countries, the salafi jihadists couldn't face the brave Syrian Arab Army's straight punches. The steadfast Syrian army with full support of the public has been able to drive them out from within several cities. Even with their strong machinery of false and diverted media reporting, the Zionists and their puppets were unable to stop the bravery stories of Syrian Arab Army to reach the outside world. The last report of Al Jazeera just one day before the Syrian army declared victory is worth mentioning here.

"Syrian army backed by Hezbollah militants is heavily bombarding the city, rebels are facing very difficult situations in Al Qusayr but 80% of the strategic town is still under rebel control." 

Can you imagine that? 80% of the city was under rebel control just one day before people saw them running like mad dogs leaving their dead guys behind. This was just a single small example of how the Zionist media machinery has been working. 

Victory after victory, the Syrian Army is busting the group of cannibals, rapists and throat cutters. When the Zionists and their puppets saw that there are no chances of victory against the Syrian army, they desperately called for an emergency funny gathering at Doha to pass funny decisions. 

The funny conference of enemies of Syrian people at Doha
You may wonder how it comes that the conference was funny. Well it was funny because of the funny decisions made there. After hours of discussion the final conclusion was to supply the rebels with weapons for the sack of stability and peace in Syria. Isn't it funny? I don't know whether one should call this funny or madness, but i call it funnier that madness. Supplying war criminals with weapons to establish law and order is something really funny.

Regional dictators bear unnecessary fear of Iran's increasing regional and global influence 

One of the reasons why some Wahhabi states like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan follow the footsteps of hegemonic powers is they bear an unnecessary fear of Iran's regional and global influence. 

Unnecessary in the sense that Iran has not started a single war throughout its long history. It has not invaded any state so far or intended to do so in future. Just because it has politically and diplomatically defeated all the dirty plots of Western hegemony with extreme professionalism, resisted the barbarism against helpless from day one, shows the true face of Zionists and their puppets, supports democracy and condemns dictatorships. Thus it has become a cause of irritation for all the dictators in the region. 

They think that once the western powers defeat Iran's ideologies they will be able to continue with their dictatorships forever. The Islamic revolution of 1979 is continuously becoming an ideal movement for people deprived of democracy; it teaches oppressed people how to confront the single family rule. As the Arabian dictators can't digest this truth, they are trying to get under the arms of their Zionist masters. 

The World is totally fed up with the double standard hypocritical behavior of the West 

The false flag propaganda of nine eleven and the invasion of Afghanistan, the years long hunt for Osama and the final drama of his imprisonment in dark depths of sea, allegation of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and shameful return after mass destructing the country, the Libya's so called civil war, the war with Taliban in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen and friendly table talks with them in Qatar, the decades long so called hunt for Al Qaeda and support for them in Libya and Syria, the false flag Boston bombings and handling the self created situation with extreme un professionalism in nervousness, accusing other nations for spying and their own spies being caught and expelled by others, the so called nuclear talks with Iran and secret killing of its nuclear scientists. What else should i mention, every step they take is hypocritical, every decision they make is a double standard decision. 

Why all these wars and everything else happen? 

Well I am not going to write a paragraph on this. Everything is already mentioned and is as clear as water. I would rather prefer to write a single sentence. 

All this happens to flourish a minute racist entity: the Zionist state of Israel. 

The solution: Sunni scholars must come forward to stop further violence 

As the Zionists after failing to achieve their dirty goals are trying to give the bloodshed a sectarian dimension, as the devil is trying to play the last card in his hand. As the Wahhabi and salafi jihadists are covering their racist faces behind Sunni Islam, Sunni scholars must come forward and condemn the proxy war in strongest terms, it is mandatory for the Sunni Muslims to reveal the truth by declaring the Saudi fatwas as unjustified and non Islamic as they are. 

With their black slogan of fake jihad these salafi Zionists are able to encourage millions of illiterate Muslims to join them in their fight against Islam. From Quran they have only selected and memorized those verses which call for Jihad just to misguide innocent Sunni Muslims. They brutally murder those who do comparative study of Quran because it totally falsifies every single move they make. 

In such a scenario Sunni scholars are expected to take a firm stance against this fake Jihad. They can save millions of people from joining this dirty bloodshed and barbarism. If Sunni scholars from around the world openly condemn the false fatwas of Saudi muftis, they are going to defeat the Zionists in their extreme devastating plots against the Muslim world.