Humint Events Online: Popular Uprisings Are On the Uprise Worldwide

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Popular Uprisings Are On the Uprise Worldwide

and the future looks grim:
The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But another perilous consequence of the crash of 2008 has only recently made its appearance: increased civil unrest and ethnic strife. Someday, perhaps, war may follow.

As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, they are likely to erupt into violent protests or to assault others they deem responsible for their plight, including government officials, plant managers, landlords, immigrants, and ethnic minorities. (The list could, in the future, prove long and unnerving.) If the present economic disaster turns into what President Obama has referred to as a "lost decade," the result could be a global landscape filled with economically-fueled upheavals.

Indeed, if you want to be grimly impressed, hang a world map on your wall and start inserting red pins where violent episodes have already occurred. Athens (Greece), Longnan (China), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Riga (Latvia), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Vilnius (Lithuania), and Vladivostok (Russia) would be a start. Many other cities from Reykjavik, Paris, Rome, and Zaragoza to Moscow and Dublin have witnessed huge protests over rising unemployment and falling wages that remained orderly thanks in part to the presence of vast numbers of riot police. If you inserted orange pins at these locations -- none as yet in the United States -- your map would already look aflame with activity. And if you're a gambling man or woman, it's a safe bet that this map will soon be far better populated with red and orange pins.

3 Comments:

Blogger K.L. Ashley said...

No uprising from 2/3 of the US morons. This level of stupidy and ignorance displayed by this collection must surely have no precedent on earth.

Washington Post reports that 2/3 of Americans support 17,000 new troops.

So we get them there before they come get us here, they say, to sell this? Do you they really explain how? I might have to get a tube to find out.

The US is supplying the Taliban weapon through the Pakistan “secret service”. The US just has to have a war. Syria is next. Jordan.

So occupy their land and kill their civilians with nasty air-strikes to win them over? Make them love you so that don't won't take down your tall buildings. Don’t get it, to be honest.

6:34 PM  
Blogger nickname said...

"BUENOS AIRES, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Argentina on Thursday blasted the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for saying the country, along with Ecuador and Venezuela, could be pushed into instability by the global economic crisis."

Is this a hint of:

1. U.S. backup position to keep the war economy on track in case
Pakistan warns the U.S. to keep out or else they may use tactical nukes to create problems in the region - thus forcing the U.S. to
look elsewhere for Obama's first war?


2. More of the same old American hegenomy aimed at our neighbors in South America - to make sure they don't get too uppity when it comes to practicing democracy that includes everyone and not just the wealthy and their U.S. corporate counterparts?

9:58 PM  
Blogger K.L. Ashley said...

The citizens have always had a choice. Vote 95 percent out, not in.

But stupidity prevails. Just tell them that the terrorists are coming. So try logic and reason. Hurts the brain.

9:27 AM  

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