"1st
Great War of the 21st Century": Off With Their Heads 2.0
04 May 2011By Stephen Lendman
In 1980, pioneer trends strategist Gerald Celente
founded The Trends Research Institute. He also
authored Trends 2000 and publishes quarterly Trends
Journal updates, providing timely, comprehensive,
accurate business, economic, political, social,
technology, and other forecasts on "over 300 different
trend categories."
His "1st Great War of the 21st Century" was just
released, a comprehensive analysis discussed below,
including facts like "(o)nly 45.4 percent of Americans
had jobs in 2010, the lowest rate since 1983 and down
from a 49.3 percent in 2000. Last year, just 66.8
percent of American men had jobs, the lowest on
record."
Because of high unemployment and rising prices,
especially affecting food, energy and healthcare, "the
natives were more than just restless, they were in
revolt." No longer believing rosy scenarios, "they
took to the streets and manned the barricades," more
abroad than at home.
It fulfilled the beginning of a Trends Journal
prediction: "Off With Their Heads 2.0," saying:
"As long as economies decline, unemployment rises,
taxes are raised while services are cut, and those at
the top get richer and ever more powerful, what
happened in Tunisia" will spread globally.
Years from now, this tiny MENA nation (Middle
East/North Africa) fired "the first real shot of 'The
1st Great War of the 21st Century' " over poverty and
democratic reform, not religion. Except for an
insurgency/now imperial war in Libya, popular
uprisings then engulfed the entire region.
In fact, however, in 2010, public outrage erupted
earlier in, and continued sporadically in Greece,
France, Britain, Iceland, and elsewhere over bread and
butter issues, the same ones affecting billions.
However, the common "recipe for social upheaval"
exists globally, including poverty, unemployment,
rising prices, high-level corruption, and unresponsive
governance has billions around the world near the
breaking point, even in America and Western
democracies.
It's one of several reasons for Obama's strategically
timed bin Laden death announcement, despite clear
evidence he died in December 2001 from kidney failure.
Nonetheless, claiming a key "war on terror" victory
bolsters his approval rating when it's sagging, and
provides a timely boost to keep waging it across
Eurasia, including perhaps against other countries yet
to be attacked.
"By the time 'The 1st Great War of the 21st Century'
is officially declared,' said Celente before Obama's
May day announcement, "why it happened and who was
behind it will have been obscured. Scapegoats will be
found and sacrificed, as the underlying causes will be
twisted to inflame patriotic fervor to rally nations
against a 'common' enemy.' "
Will this "war to end all wars" be so widespread and
deadly enough to convince people that no others can be
tolerated. So far, however, life goes on, especially
in America where people obsess more over bread and
circuses than events affecting their lives. For how
long is at issue as public despair and depravation
grow.
Up to now, "the public....by and large, buys (official
deception) to the predictable unhappy ending. Until,
or unless, this vicious cycle is broken and the fraud
is exposed for what it is: no 'Change that Anyone Can
Believe In' is possible." For sure, not with Obama as
president, in bed with big money wanting more of it.
In other words, no matter how often they're fooled, as
long as majorities buy the big lie, politicians will
pursue policies harming their welfare and futures.
Only sustained US popular uprisings can change things
- not protests, strong public anger expressing real
demands for sweeping change, accepting nothing less.
So far, "the 1st great war of the 21st century" is
ongoing mainly across Middle East and North African
countries, being treated "largely (as an) Arab
Awakening (from) decades of torpor" into yearning for
social democracy.
For economist Paul Craig Roberts, its ingredients
include "rising food and energy prices, high
unemployment, and corrupt, unresponsive governments,"
explaining them as follows:
-- rising food and energy prices stem from Federal
Reserve-caused dollar debasement, eliminating
"position limits on speculators, and globalism, which
replaced viable agricultural communities with
monocultures."
-- creating unemployment by waging war on US workers,
eroding unionism, offshoring jobs to low wage
countries, privatizing public services, cutting wages
and benefits while transferring massive wealth amounts
to America's super-rich already with too much, and
public officials remaining unresponsive to growing
needs.
Roberts says "retrogress(ing)....America into
one-class-rule lit another fuse." It remains for the
spark to ignite it.
Calling the global economy fragile and interdependent,
Celente says another "9/11 magnitude strike anywhere
would cause a financial panic everywhere. Governments
could (declare) a bank holiday," limiting money access
and withdrawals. "Or a cyber attack (or natural
disaster) could sabotage the entire system," crashing
it altogether.
"Taken separately, the facts and stats were already
sufficiently alarming, but" connecting them "add(s) up
to the Great War." It won't simply be "a conflict
between two great, polarized powers and their allies,"
though that may be part of it.
Instead, it "will be manifest as the World at War:
class wars, tax wars, ethnic wars, civil wars,
territorial wars, resource wars," and in some places
perhaps "religious wars," among other reasons why
intolerable conditions provoke extreme reactions.
Currently, events are developing in plain sight, but
aren't recognized for what they are, including "(s)tudents
on the ground, protesters in the square, fighter jets
in the air, drones from afar," and sooner or later
"bio-chem weapons, dirty bombs and nuclear" ones with
far more destructive power than against Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
Celente's advice: "Prepare, Survive, Prevail" or
perish.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached
at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog
site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to
cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on
the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive
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