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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:
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