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Why We’re Sliding Towards World War
Paul Craig Roberts – former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, listed by Who’s Who in America as one of the 1,000 most influential political thinkers in the world, PhD economist – wrote an article about the build up of hostilities between the U.S. and Russia titled, simply: “War Is Coming”.
Similarly, Ronald Reagan’s head of the Office of Management and Budget – David Stockman – is posting pieces warning of the dispute between the U.S. and Russia leading to World War 3.
Trend forecaster Gerald Celente – who has been making some accurate financial and geopolitical predictions for decades – says WW3 will start soon.
Investment fund manager and adviser Martin Armstrong has charted the “cycles of war” back to 600 BC … and says that we’ll have major wars between now and 2020. He has written pieces recently entitled, “Why We will Go to War with Russia“, and another one saying, “Prepare for World War III“.
Investment adviser Larry Edelson – who has long studied the “cycles of war” – recently wrote:
This year … we will also be hit by another ramping up of the related war cycles.
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All part and parcel of the rising war cycles that I’ve been warning you about, conditions that will not abate until at least the year 2020.
Former Goldman Sachs technical analyst Charles Nenner – who has made some big accurate calls, and counts major hedge funds, banks, brokerage houses, and high net worth individuals as clients – says there will be “a major war”, which will drive the Dow to 5,000.
Veteran investor adviser James Dines forecast a war as epochal as World Wars I and II, starting in the Middle East.
What’s causing the slide towards war? We discuss several causes below.
Debt, Economic Collapse and Distraction
Martin Armstrong – who studies cycles, and managed multi-billion dollar sovereign investment funds – argues that war plans against Syria are really about debt and spending:
The Syrian mess seems to have people lining up on Capital Hill when sources there say the phone calls coming in are overwhelmingly against any action. The politicians are ignoring the people entirely. This suggests there is indeed a secret agenda to achieve a goal outside the discussion box. That is most like the debt problem and a war is necessary to relief the pressure to curtail spending.
Armstrong says the same thing caused Turkey to shoot down a Russian fighter jet over Syria:
This mess lies squarely in the hands of the Obama Administration and then to have the audacity to pretend Turkey had a right to defend its airspace when not being attacked is just too much. These people NEED war to distract everyone from the Sovereign Debt Crisis that is causing the collapse of governments for a system of borrowing year after year with ABSOLUTELY no intention of ever paying any debt off.
The same logic applies to Europe and other countries …
Armstrong writes:
Our greatest problem is the bureaucracy wants a war. This will distract everyone from the NSA and justify what they have been doing. They need a distraction for the economic decline that is coming.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Kyle Bass notes:
Trillions of dollars of debts will be restructured and millions of financially prudent savers will lose large percentages of their real purchasing power at exactly the wrong time in their lives. Again, the world will not end, but the social fabric of the profligate nations will be stretched and in some cases torn. Sadly, looking back through economic history, all too often war is the manifestation of simple economic entropy played to its logical conclusion. We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.
Billionaire investor Jim Rogers notes:
A continuation of bailouts in Europe could ultimately spark another world war, says international investor Jim Rogers.
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“Add debt, the situation gets worse, and eventually it just collapses. Then everybody is looking for scapegoats. Politicians blame foreigners, and we’re in World War II or World War whatever.”
Economist and investment manager Marc Faber says that the American government will start new wars in response to the economic crisis:
A Handful of People Make a Killing Off War
War is very good for a handful of defense contractors and banksters who make huge sums from backing unnecessary war.
America is now officially an oligarchy. And a high-level Bush administration official – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – says that the oligarchy controls American war-making decisions.
So the people who stand to make a killing from wars push the government into fighting them.
Voodoo Economics
Many influential economists and talking heads hold the discredited belief that war is good for the economy.
Therefore, many are overtly or more subtly pushing for war under the mistaken view that it will help the economy.
Challengers Give Declining Empires “Itchy Fingers”
Historians say that declining empires tend to attack their rising rivals … so the risk of world war is rising because the U.S. feels threatened by the rising empire of China.
The U.S. government considers economic rivalry to be a basis for war. Therefore, the U.S. is systematically using the military to contain China’s growing economic influence.
Competition for Resources Is Heating Up
In addition, it is well-established that competition for scarce resources often leads to war. For example, Oxford University’s Quarterly Journal of Economics notes:
In his classic, A Study of War, Wright (1942) devotes a chapter to the relationship between war and resources. Another classic reference, Statistics of Deadly Quarrels by Richardson (1960),extensively discusses economic causes of war, including the control of “sources of essential commodities.”A large literature pioneered by Homer-Dixon (1991, 1999) argues that scarcity of various environmental resources is a major cause of conflict and resource wars (see Toset, Gleditsch, and Hegre 2000, for empirical evidence).
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In the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), Chile fought against a defensive alliance of Bolivia and Peru for the control of guano [i.e. bird poop] mineral deposits. The war was precipitated by the rise in the value of the deposits due to their extensive use in agriculture.
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Westing (1986) argues that many of the wars in the twentieth century had an important resource dimension. As examples he cites the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962), the Six Day War (1967), and the Chaco War (1932–1935). More recently, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was a result of the dispute over the Rumaila oil field. In Resource Wars (2001), Klare argues that following the end of the Cold War, control of valuable natural resources has become increasingly important, and these resources will become a primary motivation for wars in the future.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (and many world leaders) admitted that the Iraq war was really about oil, and former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill says that Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11. And see this and this. Libya, Syria, Iran and Russia are all oil-producing countries as well …
Indeed, we’ve extensively documented that the wars in the Middle East and North Africa are largely about oil and gas. The wars in Syria and Iraq are about pipelines. The war in Gaza may be no exception. And see this. And Ukraine may largely be about gas as well.
And James Quinn and Charles Hugh Smith say we’re running out of all sorts of resources … which will lead to war.
Central Banking and Currency Wars
We’re in the middle of a global currency war – i.e. a situation where nations all compete to devalue their currencies the most in order to boost exports. Brazilian president Rousseff said in 2010:
The last time there was a series of competitive devaluations … it ended in world war two.
Jim Rickards agrees:
Currency wars lead to trade wars, which often lead to hot wars. In 2009, Rickards participated in the Pentagon’s first-ever “financial” war games. While expressing confidence in America’s ability to defeat any other nation-state in battle, Rickards says the U.S. could get dragged into “asymmetric warfare,” if currency wars lead to rising inflation and global economic uncertainty.
As does billionaire investor Jim Rogers:
Trade wars always lead to wars.
Given that China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa have joined together to create a $100 billion bank based in China, and that more and more trades are being settled in Yuan or Rubles – instead of dollars – the currency war is quickly heating up.
Indeed, many of America’s closest allies are joining China’s effort … which is challenging America and the Dollar’s hegemony.
Multi-billionaire investor Hugo Salinas Price says:
What happened to [Libya’s] Mr. Gaddafi, many speculate the real reason he was ousted was that he was planning an all-African currency for conducting trade. The same thing happened to him that happened to Saddam because the US doesn’t want any solid competing currency out there vs the dollar. You know Gaddafi was talking about a gold dinar.
Senior CNBC editor John Carney noted:
Is this the first time a revolutionary group has created a central bank while it is still in the midst of fighting the entrenched political power? It certainly seems to indicate how extraordinarily powerful central bankers have become in our era.
Robert Wenzel of Economic Policy Journal thinks the central banking initiative reveals that foreign powers may have a strong influence over the rebels.
This suggests we have a bit more than a ragtag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. “I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising,” Wenzel writes.
Indeed, some say that recent wars have really been about bringing all countries into the fold of Western central banking.
Runaway Inequality
Paul Tudor Jones – founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation and the Tudor Group, which trade in the fixed-income, equity, currency and commodity markets – said recently:
This gap between the 1 percent and the rest of America, and between the US and the rest of the world, cannot and will not persist.
Historically, these kinds of gaps get closed in one of three ways: by revolution, higher taxes or wars.
And see this.
War Is Destroying Our National Security, Our Democracy and Our Economy
We spent trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yet we’re now less safe after 13 years of war.
Never-ending wars are also destroying our democratic republic. The Founding Fathers warned against standing armies, saying that they destroy freedom. (Update). Perversely, our government treats anti-war sentiment as terrorism.
The Founding Fathers – and the father of free market capitalism – also warned against financing wars with debt. But according to Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, the U.S. debt for the Iraq war could be as high as $5 trillion dollars (or $6 trillion dollars according to a study by Brown University.)
Indeed, top economists say that war is destroying our economy.
But war is great for the bankers and the defense contractors. And – as discussed above – governments are desperate for war.
So it’s up to us – the people – to stop wider war.
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There more truth in this than most of us will ever know.
Grow your own organic biodynamic, permaculture food then eat it, and then those heart issues won't be issues any longer.
Not true.
The origin of most disease in mental...spiritual.
The physical relam is just a manefestation of the mental.
This is a substantiated physical fact.
When the observers of the quanta decide the outcome then that is what manifests.
The quanta are the building blocks of all Physical Reality. Physical Reality must conform to the Quantum Reality.
As below, so above.
Quantum Physics has even begun to explore what some have deemed metaphysical.
No longer is there a fine line as that line has become quite blurry.
What is ironic is as we, as Physicists, become more proficient at resolving the details of the Quantum Universe, the blurryness of the line of distinction between the natural and the supernatural increases....becomes unresolved.
Taken in context with what Catherine Austin Fitts had to say about broken hearts, under the stresses of not having a beloved, the Brain secretes hormones that increase the manifestation of Heart Disease.
Love is that which is bestowed upon another. It is always a gift. Unrequitted love, or loss of the beloved , leads to the broken heart.
Perhaps a healthy diet may alleviate some of the manifestations of the symptoms of Heart Disease but it is far better to address the underlying causes, don't you think?
Love one another as you love yourself is not a command.
It is the recepie of life..
This is a brilliant explination for what Blindman posted, in the realm of physics. It is also the central message of the prophets of the ages. Disregard it at your peril.
"Physical Reality must conform to the Quantum Reality." Cart before the Horse? This is insane. No mathematics will ever unlock the mystery of existence. The horizon will keep receding and never be reached, no matter how advanced the theories become.
No. Not insane.
From the simple to complex is the nature of the Universe.
That is the Law of Entropy.
But you are correct that we will never get it right.
If you cannot understand that which is simple then just how can you understand that which is complex?
Quantum Mechanics deals with ELEMENTARY PARTICLES.
Now if I were to attend University before Elementary School that would be placing the proverbial Cart before the Horse.
That blurred line that I wrote about is known professionally as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
All that I know can be represented in the period which follows in the quotation, "."
All that I know that I do not know can be represented by the letter "o" in the quotations
The entire surface area of the Universe is representative of what I do not know, about that which I do not know.
And anybody who tells you any different has no sense of the grandeur of the Creation.
For every Math question which I can solve there are an infinite number of Math Questions that I do not have a clue on how to go about finding a solution..
Why do it then? Because the thrill is in exploration of that which is not known. Besides it enhances the quality of our meager existence.
e.g. One hundred years ago the odds are that we had never communicated at all as there wasno electronic computers and there was no internet.
The internet enhances the quality of life through the opportunity to expand one's knowledge.
No. That which I wrote is not what is insane.
What is insane is when the psychopaths pervert our discoveries and use that knowledge toward Global Annihilation.
America is on the verge of a dollar devaluation or an outright dollar rejection as a settlement for imports.
Wars are expensive and who is going to finance this next war? Can we fight a war when our currency devalues internationally?
Looks like we’ll be lucky to feed ourselves from our local food supply.
There’s talk of America becoming like Venezuela with inflation and shortages. Can Venezuella fight a war?
Slowly the western cartel’s income streams are being cut off like the decline of the Petro-dollar skimming racket and the cutting off of Afghan Heroin income to the CIA.
While the excuse for war may be for a distraction or blame for this dollar collapse, I hope the collapse will prevent the resources from being available to prosecute a war.
$ all time high. US joining w Saudi/Jordan/Egypt to defend $ against Russia/Iran. Also Saudi wants gas line thru Syria to take gas sales/power from Russia. This helps EU and UK.
Sliding towards war?
The way things are going, it's only a matter of time until they impose capital controls, a massive surveiliance state, militarization of local law enforcement, constitution free zones, arbitrary wealth confiscation/asset forfeiture, ban cash, curtail free speech (especially in universities), etc...
Hey wait a minute... Oh shit! (SARC)
"We’re Sliding Towards World War"
I sure hope so, because I am already old and don't have many years remaining, but once a world war breaks out, there will be abundant opportunity for getting retribution before I go to Elysium. I am day-dreaming about coercive collectivists, socialists, islamic cultists, propagandists ...
Slow down, gramps ...
I have slowed down terribly physically, almost all of it bad, but in one way surprisingly astonishingly good, due to my very much slower metabolism, my long-range shot groups at my advanced age are so tight that I could not even dream of shooting that tight when I was young. I have become as stable as a statue.
The islamic cultists have no fear of death because of their cult beliefs, and I don't have enough time remaining to be clingly.
[ Let slip the dogs of war, and damned be he who first cries, "Hold, Enough!" ]
"The islamic cultists have no fear of death because of their cult beliefs, and I don't have enough time remaining to be clingly."
Yeah, if you are talking about the extremists who butcher babies, women, children and old people. Those thugs think they are going to participate in an eternal fuck-fest directly under the nose of the Almighty. I imagine they will be disappointed.
Are you taking beta blockers? We're always jokingly bitching the old farts should be drug tested for em because they do so well in open class Field Target...
Be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Ghandi
The islamic cultists are rare as rocking horse shit unless manufactured. Better idea: build a garden and feed yourself and your neighbors.
thank you for your diligence and
focus mr. w. i do much appreciate all of
it.
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Catherine Austin Fitts: Trouble Coming with Federal Budget
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The power to make war was revealed to Adam and Eve when they disobeyed God and lost there innocence. These arts were past on to Cain, where bronze chariots and weaponry appear- out of no where- in the first city he built, Enoch
Enoch- the first imperial power, the first empire empowered by satan to exact retribution among malefactors,and unfortunately God's children as well.
Some real scholarship at work there.
If these fuckheads start WWIII, every one of those motherfuckers will be eventually strung up and charged with the mothers of all war crimes. There will be no disappearing to Brazil and Argentina. They will be hunted like dogs by an international coalition.
Its nice to dream about actual justice ....
Been watching TCM movies lately. Many movies made 1930's, 1940's and 50's are an education of the desired modern brainwashing. These hollywood patriot propoganda pieces are gems of showing the aims of today's MSM message. I do not think the path to war will be as easy this time around.
No wonder internet free speech is under fire.
our Propaganda is simply more subtle and sophisticated than say, Korea or China's in your face style-and much more dangerous
Only the losers...while this time there may be no winners, the least of the losers will still be the one's writing the history.
First time an army gets squeezed, they will launch and it's goodbye for everyone.
I do not think so. fukishima was maybe an observed test case, Chernobyl, Bikini. Hiroshima was not necessary it was a test tube.
I do not think that even psychopaths with billion dollar bunkers are willing to go full retard on this.
Psychopaths gonna psychopath. They can't help it, it is in them. That is why they should never have positions of power whether it is in politics, military, economics or religion. But we let them.
PISS ON IT - PUSH THE FRIGGING BUTTON ALREADY
I got nothing against the French nation BUT aim the first friggin nukes at the Rothschild estates in France and UK. No warning. Catch them when they are not wearing pretty hats at some horse race.
why not israel first, thats th eseat of power, it sure does wag the big dog od USA does it not?
These f*ckers have no country, just ambitions & Satan. Route every country & avoid civilians at all costs
Fecking zionists satanic jews...
It is much better to catch them when they are at some Horse race.
They may have underground and hardened shelter at their estate.
Better to given them Pollonnium tea.
DDT is a safe herbicide. Nothing like a shot of Dioxin with your greens to stay healthy /sarc
If used properly then yes DDT is as safe as any highly toxic insecticide.
I guess you would rather be dead than have a small buildup of chemical in your fatty tissues? Fine (and good riddance) but don't kill other people because of your predisposition to tyranny. Give them the choice of certain death or a chance for long and happy life.
But no, you are a progressive and the sentence is death to those who disagree.
The straight dope on DDT and the mother of all the eco-murderers.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2428/was-rachel-carson-a-fraud-...
The progressive stupid, it burns.
Grimaldus
FDA about to ban a new herbicide in the US.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fda-withdraws-approval-of-enlist-duo-2015-11
(source is BI so should be distrusted since they love GMO and herbicides there).
Jesus said "wars and rumors of wars" and we sure have those now. But "kingdom against kingdom" means WW and end times and we've passed that milestone, too; the 1st birth pang. What's the next labor pain? the coalition of nations that decide to invade Israel from the north. Ezekiel 38-9. This doesn't mean there isn't a WW preceding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBXPPTCo-9c
Be afraid, be very afraid.
War is the way the powerful hide their utter corruption and incompetence.
"a war is necessary to relief [sic] the pressure to curtail spending."
So why then is the Fed supporting ZIRP or even NIRP? To my mind TPTB want us to spend spend spend.
ISIS will be happy when WWIII happens. it will play right into their hand~
ISIS wont exist by the time WWIII happens, by then there will be no reason for false fronts.
I beg to differ, there will most certainly be a Caliphate and it will be a major player. That Caliphate may or may not be our beloved ISIS, depending on how this plays out, but the 'king of Gog' will be the ruler of a Turkish headquartered Caliphate.
We may have a nice shooting war in the next few months, the Anglo-Zio empire may end up with a bloody nose, but the end is not yet.
This describes the end...(I think)...
4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. So the woman is the west in all it's control forms, mainly the banking system, creating and running (riding) it's creation, jihadism in all it's forms...Rev 17 15 Then he said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth." Rev 18
19 They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.' 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!" Beware the Lamb!!!
the over banksters created isis to cover
their derivative book's lack of manifest
relevance.
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Wake up. Jesuits [ the intellectual assasins, secret police of the vatican] control this, the 2nd beast U.S.A. Since the formation of D.C. on land ceded by the dynastic catholic Carrol family[ of Mary-land],on through Pelosi, Biden, Kennedy et al; Jesuits through the control of Masonry with their cabalistic imagery - have wielded the God given power of retribution through the Federal Imperium. God allows satan to establish governments in the fullness of time, to allow his people the opportunity to repent and reject man's schemes for self governance.The one world satanic government is a black pope/white pope reality. These elites owe their allegiance to annu/isis/horus. Their IMAGERY is ENGRAVED all throughout .gov architecture.
What you say is probably part of it.
Although saying that the creator/father wants his children to be perpetual children or slaves does not sit right with me. What parent wants that?
I do think that the creator cares for those who want to follow and learn from him ... and who obey his laws, especially while children bound to this world.
Most of us are simply young, but I think that he wants his fallen ones to repent as much as he wants us to grown and learn to follow his path. This is a path the fallen ones seemingly do not want us to find... so that we die as ignorant children.
In the beginning there was a quark-gluon soup..............
Yeah? And where did that come from?
In the beginning there was the first chronon.
And either you have a chronon...or you do not.
10-40 seconds is the limit.
He cannot know what happened before that time.
The Creator transcends the Space-Time Continuum...and manifests Himself within as the Light.
God is Light. In Him there is no darkness.
How did the ancient writers who quilled tose word onto sheepskin know that it was the perfevt way to describe an Omnipresent, Omnicient, and Omnipotent God? They had no knowledge of the Special Relativity equations.
At c time ceases to exist. It is ZERO.
At c the distance traveled is ZERO. Distance is no longer traveled.
In fact you can be everywhere at once....at c.
And need I revisit the question at to what direction is South when one is at the South Pole? (The only direction available is North).
We have been down this path before, logicalman, and I.
He knows the Math. So do I.
He will use the Infinite Universe Model to counterargue my Fine Tuning Model. .
I will just retort that the Multiverse Model only decreases the probabilty of a Chance Manifestation and then there is the problem of the origination of the Multiverse.
It is "Old Hat". We have been down this path. And he is a good man after all.
He will see it. I have no doubt.
Most likely we are a Computer Simulation...in a Holographic Universe.
And God is just like the Architect in the Matrix Trilogy....a very Religious film.
Want to argue this, Neo.
Too late. You have already taken the Red Pill.
Ever hear of the Kennedy assassination?
Is it too late to draft Stockman, Celente and Armstrong? They're likely old farts so they don't have to worry about being drafted. I say we draft their kids first.