10-31-2019, 11:43 AM
** 31-Oct-2019 World View: Global protests
The BBC has done an interesting story on the spread of global
protests.
![[Image: BbcGlobalProtests-191030.jpg]](http://Media.GenerationalDynamics.com/ww2010/BbcGlobalProtests-191030.jpg)
The BBC noted that the number of countries with large protests has
grown dramatically in the last few months.
This is of course true. In this generational Crisis era, where
xenophobia and nationalism are occurring around the world, the growth
in the number of crises is not a surprise. Using Winston Churchill's
words, this is all "The Gathering Storm" that's leading to World War
III.
The story on global protests was triggered by the protests in Chile,
which have forced Chile to cancel plans to hold two international
conferences. One was an economic conference where Donald Trump and Xi
Jinping were supposed to attend and sign a trade deal, and the other
was a climate change conference.
The BBC report provided a one or two sentence summary for each
country. Here they are (my transcription):
While I was typing this, I hear UK labor leader Jeremy Corbyn describe
Brexit as the greatest crisis the UK has ever faced. And just a few
minutes ago the American House of Representatives just voted to take
the impeachment carnival another step further. So we can add the US
and US to the BBC list of countries in crisis.
We should also add Syria and Yemen to the list because they're
at war. Egypt is also in crisis.
And we should also add Iran to the list, because the protests in
Iraq and Lebanon are really not Sunni vs Shia, but are actually
directed against the influence of Iran.
All of the protests are based on worsening economies, and that's
happening because the growing debt bubble days have largely ended, and
so there is much less money in the world than there used to be,
meaning that there are many more people who cannot get money to buy
food with.
The world is being held together with duct tape and rubber bands, and
at some point a rubber band will snap, and that will lead to the first
declaration of war, and an escalating cycle of wars.
The BBC has done an interesting story on the spread of global
protests.
- Top row (L-R): Barcelona/ClimateChange/Russia; Middle row:
Bolivia/HongKong/Iraq; Bottom row: Ecuador/Chile/Lebanon
(BBC)
The BBC noted that the number of countries with large protests has
grown dramatically in the last few months.
This is of course true. In this generational Crisis era, where
xenophobia and nationalism are occurring around the world, the growth
in the number of crises is not a surprise. Using Winston Churchill's
words, this is all "The Gathering Storm" that's leading to World War
III.
The story on global protests was triggered by the protests in Chile,
which have forced Chile to cancel plans to hold two international
conferences. One was an economic conference where Donald Trump and Xi
Jinping were supposed to attend and sign a trade deal, and the other
was a climate change conference.
The BBC report provided a one or two sentence summary for each
country. Here they are (my transcription):
- In Lebanon, it started with the introduction of new charges
for phone calls on WhatsApp. On Tuesday after two weeks of protests,
prime minister Saad Hariri stood down.
- In Chile, a 4% rise in subway fares brought a million people there
out into the street.
- Ecuador's government has been forced to repeal a bill that would
have ended fuel subsidies.
- In Bolivia, they've been fighting street battles since the
election on October 20. President Morales is trying to hang on for a
fourth term.
- In Hong Kong, the unrest has moved well beyond the Extradition
Bill that sparked the protests, and is now being driven by a much
wider set of grievances.
- In Iraq, thousands have defied a curfew to demand more jobs,
better public services and an end to corruption. Some 200 people have
died there so far.
- In Russia, it was the exclusion of opposition candidates from
council elections.
- In Barcelona Spain, the jailing of separatist leaders from
Catalonia.
- And across the world in recent week,s we've had recent climate
change protests in more than 200 countries.
While I was typing this, I hear UK labor leader Jeremy Corbyn describe
Brexit as the greatest crisis the UK has ever faced. And just a few
minutes ago the American House of Representatives just voted to take
the impeachment carnival another step further. So we can add the US
and US to the BBC list of countries in crisis.
We should also add Syria and Yemen to the list because they're
at war. Egypt is also in crisis.
And we should also add Iran to the list, because the protests in
Iraq and Lebanon are really not Sunni vs Shia, but are actually
directed against the influence of Iran.
All of the protests are based on worsening economies, and that's
happening because the growing debt bubble days have largely ended, and
so there is much less money in the world than there used to be,
meaning that there are many more people who cannot get money to buy
food with.
The world is being held together with duct tape and rubber bands, and
at some point a rubber band will snap, and that will lead to the first
declaration of war, and an escalating cycle of wars.
