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It's Not an Arab Revolution ... It's a GLOBAL Revolution
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While the revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other North African countries may seem like an "Arab revolt", it's actually worldwide.
Protests involving thousands of protesters have recently been held in:
- Halabja, Kut, Sulaimaniya and other Iraqi towns
- And elsewhere
Predicted Years Ago
The
worldwide riots are not mysterious or unforeseeable. They've been
predicted for years, and are a direct result of the bad policy choices
made by most nations worldwide.
The Bank for International
Settlements - the world's most prestigious financial agency, nicknamed
the "central banks' central bank" - warned in December 2008 that the
bailouts and other bank rescue programs were putting nations were
transferring risks from private companies to nations.
As I noted at the time:
BIS
points out in a new report that the bank rescue packages have
transferred significant risks onto government balance sheets, which is
reflected in the corresponding widening of sovereign credit default
swaps:The scope and magnitude of the bank rescue
packages also meant that significant risks had been transferred onto
government balance sheets. This was particularly apparent in the market
for CDS referencing sovereigns involved either in large individual bank
rescues or in broad-based support packages for the financial sector,
including the United States. While such CDS were thinly traded prior to
the announced rescue packages, spreads widened suddenly on increased
demand for credit protection, while corresponding financial sector
spreads tightened.In other words, by assuming huge
portions of the risk from banks trading in toxic derivatives, and by
spending trillions that they don't have, central banks have put their
countries at risk ....
The Root Cause: Bad Economic Policy
Specifically,
nations around the world decided to bail out their big banks instead of
taking the necessary steps to stabilize their economies (see this, this and this).
As such, they all transferred massive debts (from fraudulent and
stupid gambling activities) from the balanced sheets of the banks to the
balance sheets of the country.
The nations have then run their
printing presses nonstop in an effort to inflate their way out of their
debt crises, even though that effort is doomed to failure from the get-go.
Quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve is obviously causing food prices to skyrocket worldwide (and see this, this and this).
But the fact is that every country in the world that can print money - i.e. which is not locked into a multi-country currency agreement like the Euro - has been printing massive quantities of money.
By way of example only, the Economic Collapse Blog provides the following charts:
The U.S. is printing lots of money.....
The Bank of England is printing lots of money.....
The EU is printing lots of money....
Source: The ECB
Japan is printing lots of money.....
China is printing lots of money.....
Source: The People’s Bank of China
India is printing lots of money.....
Moreover,
the austerity measures which governments worldwide are imposing to try
to plug their gaping deficits (created by throwing trillions at their
banks) are causing people world-wide to push back.
As I warned in February 2009 and again in December of that year:
Numerous
high-level officials and experts warn that the economic crisis could
lead to unrest world-wide - even in developed countries:
- Today, Moody's warned
that future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger social unrest
in a range of countries from the developing to the developed world,
that in the coming years, evidence of social unrest and public tension
may become just as important signs of whether a country will be
able to adapt as traditional economic metrics, that a fiscal crisis
remains a possibility for a leading economy, and that 2010 would be a
“tumultuous year for sovereign debt issuers”.
- The U.S. Army War College warned in 2008 November warned in a monograph
[click on Policypointers’ pdf link to see the report] titled “Known
Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy
Development” of crash-induced unrest:
The
military must be prepared, the document warned, for a “violent,
strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked
by “unforeseen economic collapse,”
“purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health
emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The
“widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the
defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend
basic domestic order and human security.” “An American government and
defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic
order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security
commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at
home,” it went on. “Under the most extreme circumstances, this might
include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United
States. Further, DoD [the Department of Defense] would be, by necessity,
an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in
a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance,” the
document read.
- Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said:
"The global economic crisis ... already looms as the most serious one in decades, if not in centuries ... Economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they are prolonged for a one- or two-year period," said Blair. "And instability
can loosen the fragile hold that many developing countries have on law
and order, which can spill out in dangerous ways into the
international community."***"Statistical modeling shows that economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they persist over a one-to-two-year period."***
“The
crisis has been ongoing for over a year, and economists are divided
over whether and when we could hit bottom. Some even fear that the
recession could further deepen and reach the level of the Great
Depression. Of course, all of us recall the dramatic political
consequences wrought by the economic turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s in
Europe, the instability, and high levels of violent extremism.”Blair
made it clear that - while unrest was currently only happening in
Europe - he was worried this could happen within the United States.[See also this].
- Former national security director Zbigniew Brzezinski warned
"there’s going to be growing conflict between the classes and if
people are unemployed and really hurting, hell, there could be even
riots."
- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned
the the financial crisis is the highest national security concern for
the U.S., and warned that the fallout from the crisis could lead to of
"greater instability".Others warning of crash-induced unrest include:
- The head of the World Trade Organization
- The head of the International Monetary Fund (and see this)
- The head of the World Bank
- Senator Christopher Dodd
- Congressman Ron Paul (radio interview on March 6, 2009)
- Britian's MI5 security agency
- Leading economic historian Niall Ferguson
- Leading economist Marc Faber and billionaire investor Jim Rogers
- Leading economist Nouriel Roubini
- Leading economist John Williams
- Top trend researcher Gerald Calente
- European think tank Leap2020
Unemployment is soaring globally - especially among youth.
And the sense of outrage at the injustice of the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer is also a growing global trend.
Countries
worldwide told their people that bailout out the giant banks was
necessary to save the economy. But they haven't delivered, and the
"Main Streets" of the world have suffered.
As former American senator (and consummate insider) Chris Dodd said in 2008:
If
it turns out that [the banks] are hoarding, you’ll have a
revolution on your hands. People will be so livid and furious that
their tax money is going to line their pockets instead of doing the
right thing. There will be hell to pay.
Of course, the big banks are hoarding, and refusing to lend to Main Street. In fact, they admitted back in 2008 that they would. And the same is playing out globally.
As I noted earlier this month:
Agence France-Press reports today:
The
International Monetary Fund stands ready to help riot-torn Egypt
rebuild its economy, the IMF chief said Tuesday as he warned governments
to tackle unemployment and income inequality or risk war.No wonder former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski ... warned the Council on Foreign Relations that:
For
the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically
activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. There are
only a few pockets of humanity left in the remotest corners of the
world that are not politically alert and engaged with the political
turmoil and stirrings that are so widespread today around the world.***
America
needs to face squarely a centrally important new global reality: that
the world's population is experiencing a political awakening
unprecedented in scope and intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming the politics of power.
The need to respond to that massive phenomenon poses to the uniquely
sovereign America an historic dilemma: What should be the central
definition of America's global role?[T]he
central challenge of our time is posed not by global terrorism, but
rather by the intensifying turbulence caused by the phenomenon of global
political awakening. That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing.It is no overstatement to assert that now in the 21st century the
population of much of the developing world is politically stirring and
in many places seething with unrest. It is a population acutely
conscious of social injustice to an unprecedented degree, and often
resentful of its perceived lack of political dignity. The
nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the
Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can
be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious
passions. These energies transcend
sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well
as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still
perches.***
That turmoil
is the product of the political awakening, the fact that today vast
masses of the world are not politically neutered, as they have been
throughout history. They have political consciousness.***
Politically
awakened mankind craves political dignity, which democracy can
enhance, but political dignity also encompasses ethnic or national
self-determination, religious self-definition, and human and social
rights, all in a world now acutely aware of economic, racial and ethnic
inequities. The quest for political dignity, especially through
national self-determination and social transformation, is part of the
pulse of self-assertion by the world's underprivileged***
We
live in an age in which mankind writ large is becoming politically
conscious and politically activated to an unprecedented degree, and it is this condition which is producing a great deal of international turmoil.That
turmoil is the product of the political awakening, the fact that today
vast masses of the world are not politically neutered, as they have
been throughout history. They have political consciousness.Watch an excerpt:
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Hostile groups? Oh that would be taxpayers who are tired of being robbed by govt union workers.
Haha seriously? Blame the unions? Redirect your energy to the real enemy. If you can't pick up on who that is while reading this website, I surely can't tell you.
Audible:
Yep, the Politico-Public-Service-Union Axis. One hand washes the other, one cash flow is washed for the other.
- Ned
GW
ask yourself, if the BIS, US military, and others saw this coming, then why has American policy been to :
choke off domestic energy, coal, oil and gas
shut down the only practical solution to move beyond fossil fuel: nuke
convert a large portion of US corn production to fuel use
continue to artifically boost US food prices through subsidies, even in the face of record price increases.
pay farmers to NOT plant crops in a world that is starving
to keep the US borders open when mass migration is already a problem and an inevitable result of the predicted chaos
Why has all of the US preparations been in the form of implementing police state security against its citizens, instead of aleviating the potential sources of trouble?
the crisis were forseeable and they are being magnified and and exploited. look at who is profiting by this. not just monetarily, but politically.
welcome to the NWO. not just a slogan anymore, a description of what you are seeing happen right before your eyes.
stop being a reactionary and talking how. Start asking why and who.
I'll venture a guess to all of your questions with one answer: Because it adds to the coffers of the corporate oligarchy. Will that do?
People always want what they can't have. Even if we lived in the 'World of Star Trek' where everything is free and you only work to improve yourself because money does not exist, there would be groups of protesters who would want MORE and for others to have LESS. Just so they could keep score!
No Brainer......
Gobble di gook economy and TBTF bankstery+ Plutotcratic despotism. We're in a Walt Disney movie...Sleeping beauty. Wake me up when she sighs.
"Specifically, nations around the world decided to bail out their big banks instead of taking the necessary steps to stabilize their economies (see this, this and this). As such, they all transferred massive debts (from fraudulent and stupid gambling activities) from the balanced sheets of the banks to the balance sheets of the country."
Pretty much sums it up. Sacrifice the people to save the bank bondholders and you see what happens.
At the end, bondholders are people too. So it is people paying for people....
Yep, and soon enough it will be people eating people.
""Yep, and soon enough it will be people eating people.""
....Within a month we will see it is all about Food and Water for North Africa, and right cross Asia to China.
...Billions and billions of people starving
...Wars between Nations
...Gold/Oil/Silver will be sold for food!
Which makes Canada's four western Provinces who have a plethora of Natural Resources and only 12.5 million citizens...correct, only 12.5 million citizens....Led by gateway city, Vancouver BC...the safest quadrant on our planet folks.....
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/02/vancouver-bcworlds-most-liveable-cities.html
Hey... Arch Dick:
Stop with the Vancouver and Canada's four western Provinces BS already!
Yeah... we know!
I live in that "safest quadrant" on the planet and at this very moment I'm looking out my back window at a two foot high glacier forming between the house and the trees.
I've got deja -vu here - have i read this before on another thread??
arch-dick , stop peddling disintegration - belts will tighten, less obesity, less shit from china and folk get so sick of arabs we get off oil.
bout time.
if it does really go to shit then all you've said is that canada will be invaded before australia... that bit i like.
Maybe the arch duck works for the regional tourist office...
You deserve credit for pushing the button where it hurts the american psyche. That in itself is a tribute to your irrepressible search for truth. You are Tom Paine's son. If you are on the wrong track its no big deal. Asking the right question whatever the motivating compulsion, to ensure that there is no compromise on the essential, is the key. Period. Let the debate go on.
Irishman sums up the financial crisis in the 2 min video. for those who havent seen it....
http://nakedempire.wordpress.com/
Great link man, thats got it all.
Get that man a guinness.
absolutely bang on the button.... banking and political mess (corruption) explained in 2mins flat
Brazen smart ass SOB to bring up the Flatley issue, I am surprised his ass did not get decked.
(Irish know for their lack of temper control).
There was /is nothing humorous about losing your nation.
Brazen smart ass SOB to bring up the Flatley issue, I am surprised his ass did not get decked.
(Irish know for their lack of temper control).
There was /is nothing humorous about losing your nation.
BIS= Bull Shit In Spades...Chris Dodd Told me so ;-)