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Guest Post: Federal Reserve Policy Mixed With Extreme Weather Has Put The World On A Fast Track To Revolution And War
From David DeGraw of AmpedStatus
Federal Reserve Policy Mixed With Extreme Weather Has Put The World On A Fast Track To Revolution And War.
There are many factors that clearly demonstrate why it would be disastrous for the Federal Reserve to repeat their vicious Quantitative Easing (QE) policy. If you want to know a significant reason why they cannot get away with another round of QE, here is an equation for you:
(Quantitative Easing + Extreme Weather = Revolution + World War III)
From the very beginning we knew that the Federal Reserve’s QE program was going to cause the cost of food to rise and the dollar to decline in value, and that these intended results would lead to an increase in poverty and civil unrest. Now there is a new study that gives us some more proof of this obvious fact:
Are food prices approaching a violent tipping point?
A provocative new study suggests the timing of the Arab uprisings is linked to global food price spikes, and that prices will soon permanently be above the level which sparks conflicts….
… there is a specific food price level above which riots and unrest become far more likely. That figure is 210 on the UN FAO’s price index: the index is currently at 234, due to the most recent spike in prices which started in the middle of 2010 [coinciding with QE2].
Lastly, the researchers argue that current underlying food price trends – excluding the spikes – mean the index will be permanently over the 210 threshold within a year or two. The paper concludes: “The current [food price] problem transcends the specific national political crises to represent a global concern about vulnerable populations and social order.” Big trouble, in other words….
The next part of the study identifies that the serious unrest in North Africa and the Middle East also correlates very closely with [the QE2] food price spike. Bar-Yam also notes: “Several of the initial riots in North Africa were identified in news stories as food riots.” From there, the researchers make their prediction of permanently passing the 210 threshold in 12-24 months. [read full report]
In other words, if the Fed engages in another round of QE, the global unrest that they have already ignited will go hyperbolic.
Before getting into the details on how the Fed deliberately made these food prices spike, let’s look at another new study, which also helps demonstrate the obvious, extreme weather is linked to war:
Climate cycles linked to civil war, analysis shows
Changes in the global climate that cut food production triggered one-fifth of civil conflicts between 1950 and 2004
Cyclical climatic changes double the risk of civil wars, with analysis showing that 50 of 250 conflicts between 1950 and 2004 were triggered by the El Niño cycle, according to scientists.
Researchers connected the climate phenomenon known as El Niño, which brings hot and dry conditions to tropical nations and cuts food production, to outbreaks of violence in countries from southern Sudan to Indonesia and Peru.
Solomon Hsiang, who led the research at Columbia University, New York, said: “We can speculate that a long-ago Egyptian dynasty was overthrown during a drought. This study shows a systematic pattern of global climate affecting conflict right now. We are still dependent on climate to a very large extent.”…
Mark Cane, a member of the team, said global warming would have greater climatic impacts than El Niño, making it “hard to imagine” it would not provoke conflicts. [read full report]
Put all these factors together and you have, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution [and/or] World War III.”
In summation, Ben Bernanke and the Fed’s economic central planners were clearly aware of the hostile climate and weather patterns when they engaged in QE2. The Fed’s infamous policy, as I said before, “deliberately threw gasoline all over those brush fires. QE2 was another economic napalm bomb from the global banking cartel.” They knew that they were deliberately attacking (sacrificing) tens of millions of people, but that was secondary to keeping their global Ponzi scheme going by pumping another $2.1 trillion into their fraudulent, insolvent banking system through both QE programs. This is why Ben Bernanke is guilty of crimes against humanity.
Now, let’s revisit what I’ve been reporting on for the past year:
I: Centrally Planned Economic Repression
The IMF has a well-worn strategy that they use to conquer national economies. As I warned four months ago, we have now progressed into Step 3.5: World Wide IMF Riots. Back in October, in a TV interview with Max Keiser, we discussed leaked World Bank documents that revealed the IMF’s strategy. I stated the following:
“They have a four-step strategy for destroying national economies…. We are about to enter what they would call Step Three. Step Three is when you’ve looted the economy and now food and basic necessities all of a sudden become more expensive, harder to get to. And then, Step 3.5 is when you get the riots. We are fastly approaching that….
We are headed to, as the IMF said, and as they plan, Step 3.5: IMF Riots. That’s what’s coming…”
Fast-forward four months to today, and now we see country after country rebelling against high food prices. Since our October interview, food prices have spiked 15%. According to new World Bank data, since June 2010, “Rising food have pushed about 44 million people into poverty in developing countries.”
As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced another round of Quantitative Easing (QE2), those of us paying attention knew that the trigger had been pulled and Step Three had been executed. It was a declaration of economic war, an economic death sentence for tens of millions of people – deliberately devaluing the dollar and sparking inflation in commodities/basic necessities. It was a vicious policy that would impact people from Boston to Cairo.
When QE2 was announced, I warned: “Food and Gas Prices Will Skyrocket, The Federal Reserve Just Dropped An Economic Nuclear Bomb On Us.” I also wrote: “The Federal Reserve is deliberately devaluing the dollar to enrich a small group of a global bankers, which will cause significant harm to the people of the United States and severe ramifications throughout the world…. The Federal Reserve’s actions are already causing the price of food and gas to increase and will cause hyperinflation on most basic necessities.”
To be clear, there are several significant factors contributing to rising food prices, such as extreme weather conditions, biofuel production and Wall Street speculation; but the Federal Reserve’s policies deliberately threw gasoline all over those brush fires. QE2 was another economic napalm bomb from the global banking cartel.
In a recent McClathy news article entitled, “Egypt’s unrest may have roots in food prices, US Fed policy,” Kevin Hall reports:
“‘The truth of the matter is that when the Federal Reserve moved on the quantitative easing, it did export inflation to a lot of these emerging markets…. There’s no doubt that one of the side effects of the weak dollar and quantitative easing has been rising commodity prices. It helped create this bullish environment for commodities. This is a very delicate balancing act.’
It’s a view shared by Ed Yardeni, a veteran financial market analyst, who reached a similar conclusion in a research note to investors…. He joked that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke should be added to a list of revolutionaries, since his quantitative easing policy, unveiled last year in Wyoming, has provoked unrest and change in the developing world.
‘Since he first indicated his support for such a revolutionary monetary change… the prices of corn, soybeans and wheat have risen 53 percent, 37 percent and 24.4 percent through Friday’s close,’ Yardeni noted. ‘The price of crude oil rose 19.8 percent over this period from $75.17 to $90.09 this (Monday) morning. Soaring food and fuel prices are compounding anger attributable to widespread unemployment in the countries currently experiencing riots.’”
The people throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa, on the fringe of the Neo-Liberal economic empire and most vulnerable to the Fed’s inflationary policies, are the first to rebel. [read full report]
The conclusion that we reach, the unfortunate reality of our current crisis: the Federal Reserve and global economic central planners have declared war on us. We are under attack.
We must remove Ben Bernanke from power and hold him and the rest of the global banking cartel accountable. We must also break up the “too big to fail” banks. This a message I, along with many others who have analyzed our economic situation, have been repeating over and over for the past three years.
Hopefully, a critical mass of people will soon understand this reality and back it up with non-violent civil disobedience before riots and violence rip our society apart. For these reasons, let’s all go to Wall Street on September 17th and show these tyrants that we’ve had enough.
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Today it will be announced there will be no QE3, we're skipping to QE4 this time.
QE3 is swap lines to the Europeans.
Plus ZIRP to vulture HFs attacking the Euro in currency war mayhem. Carry trade and derivative pile ups. That's what makes Benocide both global financial gamekeeper and friend of Oligarchical poachers! Total schizophrenia heading nowhere, unless you be a soothsayer who can see the light behind all the false mirrors and Ben's immaculate vision of the future!
Excellent article!
Ever since Pax Romana - despots could maintain their grip on power by making a pact with the populace - bread & circuses in exchange for sullen complacency. But when bread ran short; riots ensued!
Consider how food shortages beginning in 1845; led to revolutions in 1848; led to the Crimean war (an unresolved conflict) leading inevitably to WW I; not to mention a series of financial upheavals (including the Depression) and inexorably to WW II. Chaos theory applies to history no less than other disciplines.
Now consider how recent food shortages led to similar revolutions today (such as the “Arab Awakening"), resulting in political upheaval and more wars; all in all, a remarkably similar reprise of history.
Unfortunately, patriotism is the final refuge of the scoundrel as the sequence of the Crimean to the 20th Century World Wars amply demonstrated. Desperate despots such as Bashar al-Assad or perhaps Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could recapitulate history by redirecting the anger of a hungry and desperate population to some apocryphal enemy outside their front door. Innocent Israel’s current fears are clear and cogent as recent and devastating history is vividly recalled.
Just as an Ottoman Empire in decline and retreat provided the mise-en-scène for previous upheaval; an American Empire in decline and retreat will also provide the occasion for similar cataclysm.
Mark Twain once observed: “History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme!”
Actually, I should have said ever since Pharoh, despots could maintain their grip on power by making a pact with the populace - bread & circuses in exchange for sullen complacency... or perhaps the Sumerians.
"Innocent Israel" ? ?
"Innocent Israel" !!
Consider - if Hamas and Hizbollah laid down their arms; peace would reign in the Middle East. If Israel laid down her arms; there would be no more Israel. Check out the Taaba Conference. Barak was about to give the pals everything they could hope for - including Jerusalem as capital of Palestine. Yet whenever the Middle East teetered on the brink of peace, Arafat and his ilk would renew the bloodshed!
This article is important!
The authors of the study predict the ensuing bloodshed will get worse as global warming accelerates conjuring apocalyptic images of war, pestilence and famine. One wonders out loud whether the fourth horseman of the apocalypse is a central banker.
Food shortages always provoke social upheaval and war. Just as an Ottoman Empire in decline and retreat provided the mise-en-scène for a 20th Century bloodbath; an American Empire in decline and retreat will also provide the occasion for similar cataclysm. This time the epicentre will be the Holy Land, not the Balkans on the premise patriotism being the final refuge of the scoundrel; such as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad or perhaps Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
You maggot , I just wasted a minute of my life speed reading that idiotic diatribe
'one wonders out loud'
Oooo! Does one ? Mr Chumney Warner?
If you are saying you don't like Jewish bankers of the apocalypse just say so.
Goddam
Ummm... did you even read my post. Your response is most incoherant.
Was just pulling your chain...and no i didn't really read it, I only read people I know are worth reading
I was out of my tree last night andI got upset at your name.... It insults anyone who has had acute priapism. Do u know what they do to you when you go to the ER with that? It's nasty...
But I apologize for being rude.
Food schmood it's still bullish.
But in all /sarc off/ I must agree that Teh Fed was and is waging war on every single person that did not directly benefit from QE, and that is over 99% of the global population.
Oh boy... This topic is too deep for me.
Violence is not an option. Cooperation certainly wont work. So what is the answer? Stand down. As you are able and your circumstances dictate, quietly refuse to participate any longer.
The tag line from BenVishnu Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech just got leaked:
Now I am become Debt, destroyer of Wealth!
This a message I, along with many others who have analyzed our economic situation, have been repeating over and over for the past three years.
What's that definition of insanity again?
"Quantitative Easing + Extreme Weather = Revolution + World War III"
F* Lunatics.. Take your pills..
I'd put it like this.
Irene + Peak Oil + QE - gold = Gone With The Wind (the last season)
Anyone up? Looking for a fight?
I think this article sums up very nicely how fucked our climate is of late...
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1831
Let the dominos start tumbling...
I just want to know when we invade or blockade California..
Hey you!
Wtf did the Romans ever do for us?
I'm talking to yo boy!
The only question is http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-long-till-great-collapse.html?
"When QE2 was announced, I warned: “Food and Gas Prices Will Skyrocket, The Federal Reserve Just Dropped An Economic Nuclear Bomb On Us.” I also wrote: “The Federal Reserve is deliberately devaluing the dollar to enrich a small group of a global bankers, which will cause significant harm to the people of the United States and severe ramifications throughout the world…. The Federal Reserve’s actions are already causing the price of food and gas to increase and will cause hyperinflation on most basic necessities.”
PEAK OIL WILL PRODUCE THE SAME TERRIBLE THINGS YOU HOLD QE2 RESPONSIBLE FOR.
EXCEPT UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE OF PEAK OIL WOULD PRODUCE THEIR ONSET FASTER.
Your little theory allows for the hope of correcting the errors of QE.
PEAK OIL offers no hope. It is the "country from whose bourn no economy returns."