{"id":62785,"date":"2022-05-31T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62785"},"modified":"2022-05-31T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T22:22:17","slug":"global-banks-privately-prepare-fordangerous-levels-of-imminent-civil-unrest-in-western-homelands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62785","title":{"rendered":"GLOBAL BANKS PRIVATELY PREPARE FOR\u2018Dangerous Levels\u2019 of Imminent Civil Unrest in Western Homelands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleMeta\" class=\"grid__articleMeta\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-fabrica-headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2022\/05\/17\/global-banks-privately-prepare-for-dangerous-levels-of-imminent-civil-unrest-in-western-homelands\/\"><span class=\"fhb-line fhb-line--all-caps fhb-line--fs-s fhb-line--lh-xs\">GLOBAL BANKS PRIVATELY PREPARE FOR<\/span><span class=\"fhb-line fhb-line--fs-default fhb-line--lh-xs\">\u2018Dangerous Levels\u2019 of Imminent Civil Unrest in Western Homelands<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"featured \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive wp-post-image lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-1308x872.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 492px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-1308x872.jpg 1308w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-654x436.jpg 654w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-327x218.jpg 327w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"910\" height=\"607\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-1308x872.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-1308x872.jpg 1308w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-654x436.jpg 654w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-327x218.jpg 327w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PA-54688668-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption>Portland Protests. Photo: Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"bodyText\">\n<p><strong>Nafeez Ahmed reports on financial institutions preparing for social breakdown as a result of energy and food shocks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Global banks and investment firms are bracing themselves for an \u201cunprecedented\u201d upsurge in civil unrest in the US, UK and Europe as energy and food price spikes are set to drive costs of living to astronomical levels,\u00a0<em>Byline Times<\/em>\u00a0can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The information comes from the head of a \u2018financial institutions group\u2019 \u2013 which provides expertise and advisory services to\u00a0other banks, insurance companies, and other\u00a0financial institutions \u2013 at one of the largest investment firms in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The senior investment executive, who spoke to\u00a0<em>Byline Times<\/em>\u00a0on condition of anonymity because the information he revealed is considered highly sensitive, said that contingency planners at top financial institutions believe \u201cdangerous levels\u201d of social breakdown in the West are now all but inevitable, and imminent. An outbreak of civil unrest is expected to occur anytime this year, but most likely in the coming months as the impact of the cost of living crisis begins to saturate the lives of \u201ceveryone\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Well-to-do middle classes will find it hard to afford staple foods and pay bills. So we are anticipating dangerous levels of civil unrest that could spiral into an unprecedented social crisis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The executive works at a leading Wall Street firm which is considered a systemically important financial institution by the US Financial Stability Board. These are institutions whose functioning is considered critical to the US economy, and whose failure could trigger a financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLOBAL BANKS PRIVATELY PREPARE FOR\u2018Dangerous Levels\u2019 of Imminent Civil Unrest in Western Homelands Portland Protests. Photo: Alamy Nafeez Ahmed reports on financial institutions preparing for social breakdown as a result of energy and food shocks Global banks and investment firms are bracing themselves for an \u201cunprecedented\u201d upsurge in civil unrest in the US, UK and [&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":[2,6],"tags":[29438,2132,21423,314,4052,9602,2092,13351,11935,32928],"class_list":["post-62785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-byline-times","tag-civil-unrest","tag-energy-shortages","tag-financial-institutions","tag-food-shortages","tag-global-banks","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-price-inflation","tag-social-breakdown","tag-western-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62785","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=62785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62786,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62785\/revisions\/62786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}