Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

[Guest]

Ineresting panel discussion regarding LEAP-2020's slightly sensationalist prediction of the US being a high probability zone for civil unrest as the global financial crisis deepens. They are being regarded a bit skeptically by Mssrs. Golub and Huyghe, but surprisingly, it is Rick MacArthur, publisher of Harpers, who puts in a word indicating that this is not outside the realm of the possible in his view.

Could not find a way to embed this video. If Rajiv can figure it out (he seems our resident Video embedding troubleshooter, can he please embed it?). The interview is conducted by France24.com - a news entity I am unfamiliar with. Came across this link on a browse elsewhere. I've always tended to hold LEAP 2020 at arm's length finding their calls a bit overwrought, but they get taken a little more seriously elsewhere.

Apparently LEAP 2020 gets ten million readers monthly, with a majority of them originating from the US. Not a small footprint in terms of swinging consensus opinion.

PANELISTS ARE:

Rick MacArthur - Publisher - Harper's Magazine
Philip S. Golub - Prof. of International Relations - University of Paris
Francois Bernard Huyghe - Special Adviser - Institute for International & Strategic Relations
Franck Biancheri - LEAP 2020

VIDEO PANEL DISCUSSION HERE


Thursday, March 12, 2009

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civil war - financial crisis

From the crisis to civil wars?

Friday 27 February 2009
Beware: one crisis can easily hide another. A highly respected think tank warns of massive social and civil unrest in areas that have been badly affected by the financial crisis. Will consumer societies turn on themselves?

Debate

Friday 27 February 2009

[Rajiv]

Re: Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

When all else fails use iframe

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[junkacc]

Re: Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

Stuff like this happens on the periphery first. Nothing that a few engineered wars (pakistan-india perhaps) and flag waving won't fix. Throw in a few foreign terrorist "incidents", for good measure. If all else fails, allow another Timothy Mcvain and portray them as the mad fringe to unify against.

A smart Timothy Mcvain would target the banksters, a modern boston tea party if you will, but I don't think they'd let that happen.

[Rajiv]

Re: Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

If all else fails, allow another Timothy Mcvain and portray them as the mad fringe to unify against.

Well there was this

Report: Slain US Nazi hated Obama, had parts for 'dirty bomb'

Trust fund millionaire James G. Cummings, an American Nazi sympathizer from Maine who was slain by his wife Amber in December, allegedly had the radioactive components necessary to construct a "dirty bomb," a newly released threat analysis report states.
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[LargoWinch]

Re: Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

Thanks Luke for the clips. More gloom and doom!

[cobben]

Re: Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

Hadn't seen this, thanks, will watch it later when daughter's asleep.

leap2020 has tended to be right but early imho.

odd if the majority of their subscribers are in the US, their main language is obviously French (that in itself a sort of warning sign, no offence intended), and the English version of their report is always available later than the French version, on occasion a whole day later.

[cobben]

Re: Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

"Stuff like this happens on the periphery first. "

??

not when it's crunch time for the empire . . .

or, this time might be different:



Core versus far field global order breakup: Fate of Japan
http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8093

[D-Mack]

Re: Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

This Harpers guy has a correct view on Obama, but his constant right wing militia McVeigh stuff seems over the top.

[tastymannatees]

Re: Panel Discussion on Plausibility of LEAP 2020's Prognosis of Civil Unrest in Various Nations

This Harpers guy has a correct view on Obama, but his constant right wing militia McVeigh stuff seems over the top.

Let's not forget Ruby Ridge - Guy had been to a couple of militia meetings probably more social than activist. Government set up a command center, surveillance, pushed the guy into selling them a sawed of shotgun he did not really want to sell and then they shoot the dogs, They shoot the 14 year old kid in the back and then they shoot the pregnant wife while she was holding the baby. Guy was a little strange but so are a lot of people and he certainly did not deserve that.

FBI commander at Waco was Richard Rogers, the same man who had been in charge at Ruby Ridge.

the 1993 siege of David Koresh's Mount Carmel commune in Waco, Texas, where four law-enforcement officers were killed and nearly 90 civilians – men, women and children – massacred by being shot and/or burned alive.



Koresh could have been picked up off the street at anytime, same with the guy at ruby ridge without killing everybody in sight

The left is has always been over paranoid and maybe the militias are not so far off base. After all we had 8 years of bush(I am no fan of Bush either) and he did not massacre Peta, ACLU, Acorn,communist party members and their families.