{"id":39879,"date":"2018-10-30T06:37:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39879"},"modified":"2018-10-30T06:37:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:37:25","slug":"the-consequences-of-system-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39879","title":{"rendered":"The Consequences of System Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Consequences of System Failure<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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In short, every major political institution has\u00a0been increasingly discredited as Brazil has spiraled deeper and deeper into a dark void. And from the abyss emerged a former army captain and six-term congressman from Rio de Janeiro, Jair Bolsonaro, with\u00a0the slogan \u201cBrazil above everything, God above everyone,\u201d and promises to fix everything with hardline tactics.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 From today\u2019s Intercept article:\u00a0Jair Bolsonaro Is Elected President of Brazil. Read His Extremist, Far-Right Positions in His Own Words.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been only a little over two years since the people of Great Britain surprised the world by voting to leave the European Union. Just a few months later, this nascent trend of political shock continued with the election of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

This tectonic shift toward political upheaval has continued to spread throughout much of the world, with Italy and Brazil being two more recent examples. That something very major and very global is happening is undeniable at this point, yet everyone seems to have their own pet reasons for why it\u2019s occurring. I continue to stick to the same thesis I\u2019ve had for nearly a decade, which is that the dominant global economic\/financial paradigm led and managed by the U.S. has failed and is experiencing a slow, painful and dangerous death.<\/p>\n

This reality was temporarily papered over by the shady and extremely corrupt financial bailouts of a decade ago. An event that focused all government resources on rescuing the already rich and powerful, while keeping bank executives out of prison.<\/p>\n

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They claim they “prevented another Great Depression.”
\nIn reality, they just bailed themselves out and created the wild political environment we have today.<\/p>\n

2:01 PM – Oct 29, 2018<\/a><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ten years ago, all of America\u2019s resources were irresponsibly and aggressively marshaled toward the sole purpose of resuscitating a dead system and keeping it on life support.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Consequences of System Failure In short, every major political institution has\u00a0been increasingly discredited as Brazil has spiraled deeper and deeper into a dark void. And from the abyss emerged a former army captain and six-term congressman from Rio de Janeiro, Jair Bolsonaro, with\u00a0the slogan \u201cBrazil above everything, God above everyone,\u201d and promises to fix […]<\/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":[2,5,6],"tags":[90,5582,93,7844,279,284,1464,6174,21004,827],"class_list":["post-39879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-brazil","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-italy","tag-michael-krieger","tag-system-failure","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879","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=39879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39880,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879\/revisions\/39880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}