The following post is speculation based off of observations of developments in global finance and politics over the past couple decades, and foreshadowing from major geopolitical figures. I do not mean to fearmonger, and merely write this for others to consider and brainstorm how it might affect their future should it come about. If there is already a thread that touches on this, feel free to close or merge this, though I did not see the specific topic from a forum search.
The coming Global Police State
We are well on our way in moving towards a globalized society where individual freedom and privacy are rapidly becoming distant memories. As time goes on, I believe this environment will grow increasingly totalitarian, freedoms will increasingly disappear, and the phenomenon will spread over most of the world. Likely it will take many years to fully achieve (as is necessary to boil a frog), but signs point to this becoming a reality in the near future.
A brief history of recent times
Before we get to the near future, I think it's important to briefly go over our recent past and how we've arrived at the present state. In the Western world, governments lacked a political adversary with the fall of the Soviet Union.
An adversary is critical for the enacting the hegelian dialectic in geopolitics. To briefly explain this, the hegelian dialectic is the process of creating a desired solution through an artificial conflict. By creating an enemy, governments can justify greater centralization of power, the removal of personal freedoms, and the murder of millions to advance political goals. In an environment where no enemy exists, populations would be much more resistant to the removal of personal freedoms and extrajudicial powers.
9/11 was the catalyst for the deep state to remove personal freedoms, and expand their mass surveillance programs in the US. In Europe, I believe the human trafficking of millions of refugees from MENA (Middle east and North Africa) is a forerunner for false flags and the justification of Europe's counterpart in the "war on terror" and their version of the patriot act.
The "war on terror" created the groundwork for the building up of the surveillance and security apparatus is the new normal in today's society. Some commentators have regarded it as a "turnkey totalitarian state", in that we have the full technical capability of enacting a totalitarian regime, but as of yet, have not rolled it out fully. Others have noted the construction of "FEMA camps", and the DHS purchasing billions of rounds of hollow point ammunition. Legislation such as the 2009 NDAA allow for the kidnapping and detention of US citizens without trial. Based on what our ruling regimes are capable of, it's hard to deny that we already live in a totalitarian police state, albeit one which is relatively peaceful and prosperous.
Before totalitarian powers can be fully rolled out, the ruling class may find it more effective to create a worldwide crisis that would force most of the world's population into a state of desperation. People who are facing being cut off from all means of providing for their families, or placed in a state of intense starvation are more desperate and willing to accept loss of freedom in return for survival and comfort. This can be seen through history from the rise of communism in Eastern Europe and China.
Priming the Global Financial Implosion
The global financial crisis, and perhaps even before that, the job market was hollowed out. Availability of full time jobs quickly shrunk, a permanent underclass reliant on government hand outs and disability payments was fostered, and the working and middle classes were squeezed further and further out of options for employment. The increase in fixed costs such as rent payments and enacting health insurance as mandatory have quickened the destruction of wealth among the middle classes.
On the corporate front, many of the large companies have taken on trillions of dollars of debt to finance share buybacks in order for executives to grant themselves higher bonuses. This is good for executives and to make their stock valuations appear more attractive, but the debt has not gone towards productive investment like increased hiring of full time employees or investment in productive assets. Many of these companies are now fully dependent on the cost of debt to remain near record lows, and any rise in debt yields will force them into bankruptcy.
On the government front, most countries across the globe have long crossed the point of no return when it comes to national debt and the ability to support it. Over the past decade, the world's most unprecedented campaign of debt creation has been conducted on a global scale, pushing interest rates across the globe near 0% levels, sometimes even in the negative. This has created a bubble in everything, increased the cost of living, and allowed the fallout of extremely risky investments to be pushed further down the road.
When the next global financial hits, and I think it will be done intentionally, and soon, it will take the entire global economy with it. Governments and corporations will be completely bankrupt, and people will be facing mass unemployment on a scale never before seen. It will require a complete restructuring of the entire global financial system. This is the crisis that will be created in order to bring about a new cashless global financial currency which will be the centerpiece of the global totalitarian state. From the ashes of this crisis rise the phoenix of a new currency, which will be the instrument of global control.
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The Financial shift to China
While the western economy has been hollowed out, the global financial pole has shifted to China. Ever since the 70s, prominent geopolitical actors such as the trilaterals have admired China's system of government as an ideal future state. Earlier in the first decade of the new millenium, these same actors (see Soros' interview on China from 2009) have announced their faith in China as the future global powerhouse.
In the past decade, Russia and China have been importing hundreds of tons of gold every year while the west has been selling. It's a possibility that the paper gold price has been suppressed to facilitate this process. This gold could be useful in a post crash scenario if a country desired to put up gold as collateral to keep their debt financing costs down and prop up their currency.
China was recently included in the IMF's SDR basket of currencies a few years back. In 2014, they surpassed the US as the world's largest economy (look at the GNP figures instead of the GDP). With the creation of the AIIB and the massive infrastructure investment push through the one belt, one road initiative, China has solidified itself as the world's most important country for global trade. Yuan swap facilities have been set up across the globe in recent years, providing the infrastructure needed to allow the Yuan to become the basis for the next global reserve currency. With the introduction of the Petroyuan a few weeks back, countries who are not energy independent will begin to offload their dollars and begin to trade increasingly in yuan. The yuan will be used to trade for China's exports (such as rare earth materials), as well as oil (through the petroyuan).
The US will retain some degree of resilience through it's agricultural carrying capacity, geographic isolation, and fading military might, but it will be increasingly marginalized in global trade. Increasing energy independence and growing domestic problems will force the US to become more isolated. The next generation of anti ship missiles and long range fighters may make the US wary of committing its carrier fleets to the South China Sea. China's infrastructure investing, manufacturing might, currency stability, and global trade dominance mean it will become the pole of the future global economy.
A glimpse into the Future police state society
As China is destined to become the next unipolar world power, the ruling class have already begun to roll out the totalitarian infrastructure on a trial basis there. Look for these tools of social control to become increasingly expanded across the globe during times of crisis. Consider how they control society in the Uigher region, and how that could be expanded to control society on a wider scale. Weapons as simple as knives will become tightly controlled, and holding political or religious beliefs that are against the political goals of the ruling party may prevent someone from holding employment and being able to feed their families.
They are also rolling out a "social credit system". This system punishes people who commit thought crime, and encourages people who believe what the state wants. Those who commit acts or hold beliefs against the state will find themselves closed off from credit, but also may be prevented from traveling in trains and air planes. As times become more desperate, you can see how this system can be used to control the beliefs and actions of people. If you want access to jobs or the ability to buy food, you must hold the correct beliefs. If you hold the wrong beliefs, you can find yourself cut off from your bank account and from the ability to buy and sell.
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-soc...ned-2018-4
If rolled out on a global scale, it's easy to see how a combined system of mass surveillance and tight control of access to a cashless, globalized financial system could be used as a method of full spectrum dominance of the populace. Threatening people with starvation and rewarding people with greater access to luxuries would provide an all encompassing system of fear and incentive towards rigidly following the official narrative without question. Making such a global financial system cashless would prevent people from surviving and doing business outside of the system, and making it the only legal global currency would prevent the possibility of using any alternative financial systems.
Predicted Timeline of Events
These are the order of events I'd look for to see if this hypothesis holds any water. I'm not confident enough on when the specific timeline in years would be, since I think the actors who create these events create developments based on certain changeable conditions, so a specific time frame may not be as useful as looking for specific events.
Global Financial Crisis (2018 or later)
With a decade of zero interest rates and the world's largest expansion of debt in history, the global economy is ripe for an implosion. This cycle has seen debt go into nearly every sector of the global economy, and almost everything is in a bubble. The next global crisis will create an unprecedented global recession.
Global economic desperation
The next crisis will create enormous economic desperation across the globe. Even though the global economy never recovered from 2008, it will further implode. Companies and governments will go bankrupt, more people will be laid off, services will contract or disappear. There will be riots and potentially military conflicts or civil wars. It will be the justification for the creation of a restructuring of the global financial system and will wash away the debts from the previous world order.
IMF issues SDRs to stabilize the global system
The IMF will issue trillions in SDRs (Sovereign Drawing Rights, an existing pseudo global currency) to prop up the global economy. This will be the basis of the future global currency, and global financial centers and the SDR will increasingly be based off the yuan, possibly backed by gold.
The global economy increasingly shifts to China
China will solidify itself as the pole of the global economy, and increasingly dictate diplomacy based on their political interests.
Countries begin to emulate China and implement global trade infrastructure
China will be held up as the example of a country which successfully navigated the global crisis, and this will be used to justify the rolling out of police state infrastructure in the rest of the world. It may become a conditional requirement China demands of potential trade partners.
What you Can do
This doesn't sound like a great time for humanity, and ultimately, I think such a totalitarian system will fail, as it always does. However, were it to come to fruition, it will still be a difficult time to survive for men yearning to be free. While it may be impossible to completely escape it, the following is what I believe may make the experience more tolerable.
The coming Global Police State
We are well on our way in moving towards a globalized society where individual freedom and privacy are rapidly becoming distant memories. As time goes on, I believe this environment will grow increasingly totalitarian, freedoms will increasingly disappear, and the phenomenon will spread over most of the world. Likely it will take many years to fully achieve (as is necessary to boil a frog), but signs point to this becoming a reality in the near future.
A brief history of recent times
Before we get to the near future, I think it's important to briefly go over our recent past and how we've arrived at the present state. In the Western world, governments lacked a political adversary with the fall of the Soviet Union.
An adversary is critical for the enacting the hegelian dialectic in geopolitics. To briefly explain this, the hegelian dialectic is the process of creating a desired solution through an artificial conflict. By creating an enemy, governments can justify greater centralization of power, the removal of personal freedoms, and the murder of millions to advance political goals. In an environment where no enemy exists, populations would be much more resistant to the removal of personal freedoms and extrajudicial powers.
9/11 was the catalyst for the deep state to remove personal freedoms, and expand their mass surveillance programs in the US. In Europe, I believe the human trafficking of millions of refugees from MENA (Middle east and North Africa) is a forerunner for false flags and the justification of Europe's counterpart in the "war on terror" and their version of the patriot act.
The "war on terror" created the groundwork for the building up of the surveillance and security apparatus is the new normal in today's society. Some commentators have regarded it as a "turnkey totalitarian state", in that we have the full technical capability of enacting a totalitarian regime, but as of yet, have not rolled it out fully. Others have noted the construction of "FEMA camps", and the DHS purchasing billions of rounds of hollow point ammunition. Legislation such as the 2009 NDAA allow for the kidnapping and detention of US citizens without trial. Based on what our ruling regimes are capable of, it's hard to deny that we already live in a totalitarian police state, albeit one which is relatively peaceful and prosperous.
Before totalitarian powers can be fully rolled out, the ruling class may find it more effective to create a worldwide crisis that would force most of the world's population into a state of desperation. People who are facing being cut off from all means of providing for their families, or placed in a state of intense starvation are more desperate and willing to accept loss of freedom in return for survival and comfort. This can be seen through history from the rise of communism in Eastern Europe and China.
Priming the Global Financial Implosion
The global financial crisis, and perhaps even before that, the job market was hollowed out. Availability of full time jobs quickly shrunk, a permanent underclass reliant on government hand outs and disability payments was fostered, and the working and middle classes were squeezed further and further out of options for employment. The increase in fixed costs such as rent payments and enacting health insurance as mandatory have quickened the destruction of wealth among the middle classes.
On the corporate front, many of the large companies have taken on trillions of dollars of debt to finance share buybacks in order for executives to grant themselves higher bonuses. This is good for executives and to make their stock valuations appear more attractive, but the debt has not gone towards productive investment like increased hiring of full time employees or investment in productive assets. Many of these companies are now fully dependent on the cost of debt to remain near record lows, and any rise in debt yields will force them into bankruptcy.
On the government front, most countries across the globe have long crossed the point of no return when it comes to national debt and the ability to support it. Over the past decade, the world's most unprecedented campaign of debt creation has been conducted on a global scale, pushing interest rates across the globe near 0% levels, sometimes even in the negative. This has created a bubble in everything, increased the cost of living, and allowed the fallout of extremely risky investments to be pushed further down the road.
When the next global financial hits, and I think it will be done intentionally, and soon, it will take the entire global economy with it. Governments and corporations will be completely bankrupt, and people will be facing mass unemployment on a scale never before seen. It will require a complete restructuring of the entire global financial system. This is the crisis that will be created in order to bring about a new cashless global financial currency which will be the centerpiece of the global totalitarian state. From the ashes of this crisis rise the phoenix of a new currency, which will be the instrument of global control.
While the western economy has been hollowed out, the global financial pole has shifted to China. Ever since the 70s, prominent geopolitical actors such as the trilaterals have admired China's system of government as an ideal future state. Earlier in the first decade of the new millenium, these same actors (see Soros' interview on China from 2009) have announced their faith in China as the future global powerhouse.
In the past decade, Russia and China have been importing hundreds of tons of gold every year while the west has been selling. It's a possibility that the paper gold price has been suppressed to facilitate this process. This gold could be useful in a post crash scenario if a country desired to put up gold as collateral to keep their debt financing costs down and prop up their currency.
China was recently included in the IMF's SDR basket of currencies a few years back. In 2014, they surpassed the US as the world's largest economy (look at the GNP figures instead of the GDP). With the creation of the AIIB and the massive infrastructure investment push through the one belt, one road initiative, China has solidified itself as the world's most important country for global trade. Yuan swap facilities have been set up across the globe in recent years, providing the infrastructure needed to allow the Yuan to become the basis for the next global reserve currency. With the introduction of the Petroyuan a few weeks back, countries who are not energy independent will begin to offload their dollars and begin to trade increasingly in yuan. The yuan will be used to trade for China's exports (such as rare earth materials), as well as oil (through the petroyuan).
The US will retain some degree of resilience through it's agricultural carrying capacity, geographic isolation, and fading military might, but it will be increasingly marginalized in global trade. Increasing energy independence and growing domestic problems will force the US to become more isolated. The next generation of anti ship missiles and long range fighters may make the US wary of committing its carrier fleets to the South China Sea. China's infrastructure investing, manufacturing might, currency stability, and global trade dominance mean it will become the pole of the future global economy.
A glimpse into the Future police state society
As China is destined to become the next unipolar world power, the ruling class have already begun to roll out the totalitarian infrastructure on a trial basis there. Look for these tools of social control to become increasingly expanded across the globe during times of crisis. Consider how they control society in the Uigher region, and how that could be expanded to control society on a wider scale. Weapons as simple as knives will become tightly controlled, and holding political or religious beliefs that are against the political goals of the ruling party may prevent someone from holding employment and being able to feed their families.
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-soc...ned-2018-4
If rolled out on a global scale, it's easy to see how a combined system of mass surveillance and tight control of access to a cashless, globalized financial system could be used as a method of full spectrum dominance of the populace. Threatening people with starvation and rewarding people with greater access to luxuries would provide an all encompassing system of fear and incentive towards rigidly following the official narrative without question. Making such a global financial system cashless would prevent people from surviving and doing business outside of the system, and making it the only legal global currency would prevent the possibility of using any alternative financial systems.
Predicted Timeline of Events
These are the order of events I'd look for to see if this hypothesis holds any water. I'm not confident enough on when the specific timeline in years would be, since I think the actors who create these events create developments based on certain changeable conditions, so a specific time frame may not be as useful as looking for specific events.
Global Financial Crisis (2018 or later)
With a decade of zero interest rates and the world's largest expansion of debt in history, the global economy is ripe for an implosion. This cycle has seen debt go into nearly every sector of the global economy, and almost everything is in a bubble. The next global crisis will create an unprecedented global recession.
Global economic desperation
The next crisis will create enormous economic desperation across the globe. Even though the global economy never recovered from 2008, it will further implode. Companies and governments will go bankrupt, more people will be laid off, services will contract or disappear. There will be riots and potentially military conflicts or civil wars. It will be the justification for the creation of a restructuring of the global financial system and will wash away the debts from the previous world order.
IMF issues SDRs to stabilize the global system
The IMF will issue trillions in SDRs (Sovereign Drawing Rights, an existing pseudo global currency) to prop up the global economy. This will be the basis of the future global currency, and global financial centers and the SDR will increasingly be based off the yuan, possibly backed by gold.
The global economy increasingly shifts to China
China will solidify itself as the pole of the global economy, and increasingly dictate diplomacy based on their political interests.
Countries begin to emulate China and implement global trade infrastructure
China will be held up as the example of a country which successfully navigated the global crisis, and this will be used to justify the rolling out of police state infrastructure in the rest of the world. It may become a conditional requirement China demands of potential trade partners.
What you Can do
This doesn't sound like a great time for humanity, and ultimately, I think such a totalitarian system will fail, as it always does. However, were it to come to fruition, it will still be a difficult time to survive for men yearning to be free. While it may be impossible to completely escape it, the following is what I believe may make the experience more tolerable.
- Give yourself plausible deniability: Understand the rhetoric and criteria used by the official narrative to suss out thought criminals, and think about how to give yourself ammo should you be accused of political heresy. Example: In 5 years, there's a political backlash against Trump voters, the voting record becomes public and former voters face social backlash. You could argue you voted for him to force social awareness of the problems in society, when voting for Hillary would have allowed us to continue to ignore them, etc. Even if you're not sincere about it, you could use it as a chance to troll people and force them into a situation of doublethink and thought crime, discouraging their involvement with you.
- Anticipate future events, and take steps to maneuver through them: Look at where society is going, and always try to be ahead of the game rather than reactive. Example: You see that society is going towards a surveillance state that could possibly used against us to persecute us based on political affiliation in the near future. Instead of deleting your facebook, you post random articles that are either politically benign or in tune with the official narrative. i.e. "10 ways to go green this spring"
- Create alternative plans: If you have the resources or skills, consider other locales or regions. Even if this may become a global phenomena, certain countries and regions may be slower to implement all the aspects of them due to infrastructure, efficiency, and corruption.
- Become as self sufficient as possible: Should you ever reach the event where you're cut off from a globalized system of trade, or economically marginalized as a result of your beliefs, it helps to be self sufficient to decrease the leverage over you. Gain access to sources of fresh water, and a means of sustenance. Maybe you don't need to go all out prepper, but even a little bit could help. Remember the pareto principle, the most effective 10% of effort can often give you 90% of the results. If you have a house, that might mean simply having a rain water catchment and filtration system, and a modest garden of staples.
- Form small, tight communities: On the last point, even better if you're in a small community that is self sufficient. You can provide a support structure for each other, and trade in certain goods which one or the other might not have. It will be harder to turn people against each other in a community where people rely on each other