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Finding a way out
By Gerald Celente
IMAGINE growing up in a world
where war is endless, where images of death and
destruction are so pervasive, you don’t even pay
attention to them any longer – if you ever did.
Imagine growing up in a world where the populous
is so muted, worn and disengaged that it
allows – over and over – its leaders to drag the
masses into brutal wars based on flagrant lies,
repeating the same failed history over and over.
If you were growing up in such a world, how
would you cope? What would you do?
Perhaps you would bow your
head, plug your ears with headphones
and peck away endlessly
on your smart phone. You would
listen to fabricated music, or even
create it on your laptop and call
yourself a musician. You would
dress and present yourself like
your peers, being just fine with
the sameness that prevails around
you.
Your powerlessness would be
reflected in the poor state of your
physical, psychological and emotional
health.
You would rise up against abusive
power when motivated, but it
wouldn’t last long. You’re so beaten
down and defeated by the chronic deception,
lying and self-serving guile of your leaders that
your own self-respect and trust in your leaders
are now counted among the casualties. So
immersed are you in a world where too many
have allowed themselves to become packaged,
processed and homogenized like so much of the
food, fashion, music and media shoved down
Fear consumes the
post-9/11 world just
as it did in the days
following the attacks
– only on a deeper,
more subliminal level.
their throats, your yearning for true, genuine
expression is too difficult to hear.
This is what fear has done to us.
The epidemic of fear
Fear consumes the post-9/11 world just as it
did in the days following the attacks – only on a
deeper, more subliminal level.
As the United States and much of the world
prepared to mark the 13th anniversary of 9/11,
American President Barack Obama addressed
the nation on September 10, 2014.
Obama promised to “degrade,”
“destroy” and “eradicate” the terrorist
Islamic State “cancer” that
posed a “growing threat to the
United States.” It took him a mere
14 minutes to declare a war that
would be fought, in part, in Syria,
which, like Afghanistan, Iraq
and Libya, was innocent of committing
crimes or acts of aggression
against the United States but
were nevertheless attacked and
destroyed. It was the start of what
some said would be a 30-year war.
Thirty years!
I wrote in the summer 2014
edition of Trends Journal, while
dissecting President George W. Bush’s 9/11 addresses
to the nation, “Only a madman would
speak such words. Only frightened people
would believe them. And believe they did.
Scared to death, Americans were dumbstruck
with terror.”
What has changed between Bush’s 9/11 speech
in 2001 and Obama’s 13th anniversary declara-
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