{"id":21986,"date":"2016-10-16T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2016-10-16T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:19:33","slug":"alastair-crooke-end-of-growth-sparks-wide-discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21986","title":{"rendered":"Alastair Crooke: \u2018End of Growth\u2019 Sparks Wide Discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nNotre Dame Gargoyle, Paris France, 19th century\u00a0<\/center>Former British diplomat and MI6 \u2018ranking figure\u2019 Alastair Crooke quotes my September 26 article\u00a0\u201cWhy There is Trump\u201d<\/a>\u00a0so extensively in this article for Consortium News that I thought I might as well post the whole thing here at the Automatic Earth too. The other sources he also quotes -John Gray, Stephen Hadley among them- help to put my points in a solid perspective, which is nice to see. I can only hope that this will open more people\u2019s eyes to the fact that in the end of growth and centralization, we are witnessing the\u00a0\u201cmost important global development in decades.\u201d<\/b>Here\u2019s Alastair Crooke:<\/p>\n

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Raul Ilargi Meijer, the long-standing economics commentator, has\u00a0written<\/u><\/a>\u00a0both succinctly \u2013 and provocatively: \u201cIt\u2019s over! The entire model our societies have been based on for at least as long as we ourselves have lived, is over! That\u2019s why there\u2019s Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no growth. There hasn\u2019t been any real growth for years. All there is left are empty hollow sunshiny S&P stock market numbers propped up with ultra-cheap debt and buybacks, and employment figures that hide untold millions hiding from the labor force. And most of all there\u2019s debt, public as well as private, that has served to keep an illusion of growth alive and now increasingly no longer can.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese false growth numbers have one purpose only: for the public to keep the incumbent powers that be in their plush seats. But they could always ever only pull the curtain of Oz [Wizard of Oz] over people\u2019s eyes for so long, and it\u2019s no longer so long.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what the ascent of Trump means, and Brexit, Le Pen, and all the others. It\u2019s over. What has driven us for all our lives has lost both its direction and its energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alastair Crooke: \u2018End of Growth\u2019 Sparks Wide Discontent Notre Dame Gargoyle, Paris France, 19th century\u00a0Former British diplomat and MI6 \u2018ranking figure\u2019 Alastair Crooke quotes my September 26 article\u00a0\u201cWhy There is Trump\u201d\u00a0so extensively in this article for Consortium News that I thought I might as well post the whole thing here at the Automatic Earth too. […]<\/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":[2,3,6],"tags":[14457,2674,5582,13701,370,391,14458,13924,14459,10522],"class_list":["post-21986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-automatic-earth","tag-brexit","tag-discontent","tag-globalization","tag-growth","tag-john-gray","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-stephen-hadley","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986","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=21986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21988,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions\/21988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}