Gerald Celente "What you are seeing now are brushfires ... Europe is next ... we are on the doorstep of the first great war of the 21st Century"
He has been right about a lot of things over the last 5 years ... depending on your viewpoint lets hope he is/isn't (delete as applicable) right this time ...
[Greg the Bunny says: has Celente been reading WhiteyRoundEye's posts?]
[WhiteyRound Eye says: I have noticed Celente talking about this more and more lately. I think he needs to clarify his position on it though. He is essentially correct in stating that we are witnessing the beginning of a Global Conflict. But I think that a differentiation needs to be made as to the make up of the conflict.
For years the Trends Journal has been tracking the very real attempts by the Global Powers to spark a world war that was to resemble World War 1 or World War 2. Thus sparking World War 4 as a large scale conventional war between armies of the two opposing Empires.
This war of course would not be a decisive play between "Freedom" on one side and "Enslavement to an Evil Empire" on the other as it would be pushed on us all in the State run Medias of the world. It would merely be an accounting exercise designed to cull a large portion of the worlds population and decide who gets to sit as the top head honcho in the World System that would follow.
But the world system to be rolled out would STILL be the same. Both 'sides' are essentially pushing for a similar looking future. The question is who gets to be head honcho Moscow-Beijing axis or London-Washington axis. Either way its a dismal future ahead for us all.
And this Great War would ALSO have served as a huge distraction in order to prevent the people from doing exactly what they are now doing rising up en mass around the world against it all. So I think this type of war described above that the Trends Journal was originally warning against is a good thing to speak out against and demand that it not be allowed to happen. And so far people have won out on that one as the opening decisive act of that war was to be the bombing of Iran which to date has been able to be thwarted every time.
However the Global Conflict we are now witnessing break out is a GOOD thing. Far from resembling World War 1 or 2 World War 4 is looking even more like World War 3 did. A global uprising of anti Colonial and Anti Imperial movements like we saw sweep the world, especially in Africa Asia and the United States, in the 60's and 70's during what many consider to have been World War 3.
However it is even better than that conflict was. As we are seeing some astounding scenes of solidarity on the ground between the various movements. So if the Revolutions hold then it seems very unlikely that these new Governments of the People are going to start declaring conventional wars on each other between the 'Nation States' as things progress. Indeed the more countries can fall into the hands of the people in the coming weeks the better. And the more short circuited any large scale mechanised death style war will be.
Indeed we are seeing some astounding scenes where people armed with rocks, sticks and their bare hands are overwhelming well armed Tank Columns. Something seriously big has just shifted on the planet no matter which way you look at it. And so let us hope that unlike World War 3, which petered out before the gains the people made at the time could be consolidated, that this conflict carries all the way through and does indeed bring the world into a better state of being.
I haven't actually read all of the Trends Journal Max is referring to there so maybe Celente gets into it all more deeply in there than he has been on his interview circuit. He is correct however in stating that World War 1 was the final stage of Feudalism and the collapsing world order that had begun a full hundred and twenty or so years earlier with the French and American revolutions.
However unlike now the World Powers were able to set up World War 1, a highly contrived war that really did not need to happen and thus the people were for the most part confused and distracted by that slaughter and did not fully purge their societies of the Royalist remains. And so the horror that was the Treaty of Versailles was allowed to come into existence that really set the stage for the next hundred years of conflict.
So far the attempts to set up World War 4 as a great "Clash of Civilisations" has failed and so a great mass of people power will now tear this world order down and hopefully the worse elements of the Treaty of Versaille with it.
Celente is also right to suggest that this Great Intifada is headed for Europe next. As we saw with the astounding scenes over the weekend of thousands clashing in the Croatian capital Zagreb. Most analysts had always assumed that the EU countries in particular the PIIGS would be the first to explode and only once Europe was well in flames would the rest of the continent follow suit. For NON EU Nations to already be blowing up is a sign that the convulsion about to rock Europe will be every bit as speedy and destructive to the World Tyrants as the one currently burning across Africa and the Middle East.
One must not overlook how much of Africa is being affected by the Egypt moment as well. Too often the western media is only focusing on "our" Oil countries. But Egypt inspired uprisings have now also occurred in Cameroon, Zimbabwe and South Africa. And possibly many more I have not had time to research. So Celente IS right this is about to go global. But I think in a much more positive way than it was previously touted to do so.
So my "Trends Outlook" then would be get ready to see Africa, Europe, then Asia and the North Americans will be neck and neck for who erupts there first and then finally the Oceania region to fall like dominoes one by one.
The only wild card in this will be South America. It has already had some disturbances on the streets of several of its cities. And lets not forget it was South America where the neoliberals tested all this carnage. First with Chile and then Argentina. Once the social engineers saw how successfully these economic practices destroyed those countries economies and plunged them into horrible mass death dictatorships they then began exporting the model out to the whole world. So South America has the longest history of all with some of these things we are seeing now.
However South America ALSO has a number of radical leaders in place who may take the necessary steps to stave off the troubles growing there even more. Although it has been quite disheartening to see Chavez falling for the Gaddafi lie of late. Just because he stays in a tent instead of a fancy hotel when he travels to the UN does not make him the peoples man he claims to be. Look at all his recently exposed links to US banks and British and Italian Oil companies. We will do a more in depth post on all that soon.
However if these leaders wake up out of their stupor and begin to remove South America from the Globalised system and begin putting in place policies that assist the people over the Corporations and make some radical steps towards improving the rights of the numerous indigenous populations across the continent maybe any large scale continent wide uprising in South America will be avoided. We will have to wait and see.]
