{"id":14799,"date":"2015-11-25T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2015-11-25T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:12:06","slug":"why-were-sliding-towards-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14799","title":{"rendered":"Why We\u2019re Sliding Towards World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/11\/world-war-looms-unless-stop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why We\u2019re Sliding Towards World War<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Why Now?<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, listed by Who\u2019s Who in America as one of the 1,000 most influential political thinkers in the world, PhD economist \u2013 wrote an article about the build up of hostilities between the U.S. and Russia titled, simply:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2014\/07\/28\/war-coming-paul-craig-roberts\/\">\u201cWar Is Coming\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Ronald Reagan\u2019s head of the Office of Management and Budget \u2013 David Stockman \u2013 is posting pieces\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/mh17-the-exploitation-of-a-tragedy\/\">warning of the dispute between the U.S. and Russia leading to World War 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trend forecaster Gerald Celente \u2013 who has been making some accurate financial and geopolitical predictions for decades \u2013 says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DWzVchARv0Y\">WW3 will start soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investment fund manager and adviser Martin Armstrong has charted the \u201ccycles of war\u201d back to 600 BC \u2026 and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/princetoneconomicsintl.com\/store-products-services\/market-reports\/cycles-of-war-2014\/\">says<\/a>\u00a0that we\u2019ll have major wars between now and 2020. He has written pieces recently entitled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics.com\/2014\/07\/31\/russias-response\/\">Why We will Go to War with Russia<\/a>\u201c, and another one saying, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/2014\/07\/31\/russias-response\/\">Prepare for World War III<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Investment adviser Larry Edelson \u2013 who has long studied the \u201ccycles of war\u201d \u2013 recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swingtradingdaily.com\/2015\/02\/11\/crash-and-burn-phase-for-governments\/\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year \u2026 we will also be hit by another ramping up of the related war cycles.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>All part and parcel of the rising war cycles that I\u2019ve been warning you about, conditions that will not abate until at least the year 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-51911\"><\/span><br \/>\nFormer Goldman Sachs technical analyst Charles Nenner \u2013 who has made some big accurate calls, and counts major\u00a0<a id=\"_GPLITA_2\" title=\"Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/11\/top-economic-advisers-forecast-widespread-war.html#\">hedge funds<\/a>, banks, brokerage houses, and high net worth individuals as clients \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"says\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/former-goldman-sachs-analyst-charles-nenner-major-war-2012-dow-5000-2011-3\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a>there will be \u201ca major war\u201d, which will drive the Dow to 5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran investor adviser James Dines\u00a0<a title=\"forecast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/dines-prophesies-war-2012-05-28?Link=obinsite\">forecast<\/a>\u00a0a war as epochal as World Wars I and II, starting in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s causing the slide towards war? We discuss several causes below.<\/p>\n<h3>Debt, Economic Collapse and Distraction<\/h3>\n<p>Martin Armstrong \u2013 who studies cycles, and managed multi-billion dollar sovereign investment funds \u2013 argues that war plans against Syria are really about\u00a0<a title=\"debt and spending\" href=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics.com\/2013\/09\/03\/14202\/\" target=\"_blank\">debt and spending<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why We\u2019re Sliding Towards World War Why Now? Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, listed by Who\u2019s Who in America as one of the 1,000 most influential political thinkers in the world, PhD economist \u2013 wrote an article about the build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2120,195,1153,236,7959,376,7409,5479,2951,776,862,5510,891],"class_list":["post-14799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-david-stockman","tag-debt","tag-distraction","tag-economic-collapse","tag-gerald-celente","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-larry-edelson","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-syria","tag-war","tag-washingtons-blog","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14800,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions\/14800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}