GOOD LUCK, GOODLUCK!
My talk at the TTP Rendezvous is always entitled The Map of the Future. With the invaluable help of Google Earth wizard Dan Barak, we travel across the globe in search of those countries whose future is in doubt, and discuss how the map of the world may look very different tomorrow than it does today.
Thus the same title but ever-changing content. That is especially true at this moment, as global change is accelerating so quickly. It’s coming at a pace that can be disorienting, that can be either frightening or exhilarating depending on your perspective.
We all know that history doesn’t stand still, but now it’s stomped on the gas pedal. So here’s a preview of the ride around the world we’ll be taking at Rendezvous X in Vegas. Let’s start with a country run by a guy whose real name, believe it or not, is Goodluck. That’s President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria.
Nigeria is large in size, twice that of California, and enormous in population – four times California’s with 155 million folks who have an average IQ of 67 and life expectancy of 48, and are divided into 250 ethnic groups speaking 500 languages. 50% of them are Moslem, 40% are Christian, 10% are folk-religion animist.
What possessed the crazy imperial Brits to aggregate this gigantic dog’s breakfast of humanity into a single 19th century colony, then give it independence in the 20th is beyond rational explanation. So it is ironic in the extreme that the most honest presidential election in Nigeria’s history – last weekend, April 16, electing Goodluck Jonathan – may well break Nigeria apart.
Goodluck is Christian, you see, and Nigeria’s Moslems are murderously enraged that one of them wasn’t elected. Since they live mostly in the north, while the Christians and animists live mostly in the south (they merge in the middle), the odds of the country dividing into Northern and Southern Nigeria have begun growing exponentially. It will be genocidally bloody in the country’s center. Good luck, Goodluck.
There are lots of places in Africa ripe for break up, but what about Europe? Look around and you’ll find places like Bosnia coming unglued, but step back and you see the whole place fracturing – namely the European Union and the Eurozone.
The EU mandarins in Brussels are daily becoming more deranged in their desperation to impoverish people in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, the list keeps growing longer, in order to pay off German and French bank loans. They would rather have Greeks starve than the idiot investors in those loans take a haircut.
Little wonder, then, there’s a Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay movement demanding Greece default on the German-French bank loans, then get out of the euro and return to the drachma. The protestors have no idea how impoverishing this will be (all imports including oil will go to the moon), but they certainly are right to say investors and banks greedily stupid enough to loan Greece money need to share the pain.
Will the map of the Middle East be staying put? Fat chance. The Arab Spring revolts and revolutions are just the beginning. Changes in the map from Morocco to Pakistan are coming. Some will be marginal, others will be wholesale, and in Vegas we’ll sort out which is which.
Now let’s hop over to South America and talk about vampires in Peru.
Fascist-Marxist politicians are like vampires, for there’s no getting rid of them as they keep coming back to life. Ollanta Humala, for example. I wrote about him in The Amazon Trapeze back in January, 2006 when he seemed poised to win the Peruvian presidency.
If he had, he would have been sure to plunge Peru into border wars with Chile and Colombia (see the article), but he lost out of the blue to Alan Garcia, who has been great for Peru but can’t run again.
Sure enough, Humala is back, winning a plurality in the first presidential round on April 10, and looks to defeat Keiko Fujimori (daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori who is now in prison) in the run-off on June 5.
Humala is a staunch ally of Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, and hates America fully as much as they do. The forces of fascism in South America will be on the rise again.
The forces of fascism sure are on the rise in China, which now has a government of Red Princes – the children of the first generation of ruling Chicoms – determined to keep their perks, power, and corrupt millions no matter what the cost to regular Chinese.
The big geopolitical question regarding China is, what country will the Chicoms go to war with? Russia over Siberia? The US over Taiwan? Or India over water? We’ll take a close look in Vegas at all three, and the latter especially.
But where on earth are the forces of fascism rising the fastest? You know the answer. Tragically, in our own America.
That America would become a Fascist Police State – TSA perverts are only one example of which there are vastly more – seems incomprehensible. Yet it is coming to pass right before our eyes, just as predicted in Atlas Shrugged.
Here’s the bottom line: if Zero is re-elected in 2012, America will not survive his second term intact. Texas will secede, and other producer states will follow, leaving the parasite states to fend for themselves.
Our fate may be that of Nigeria’s. Good luck, Goodluck, and good luck to us. Neither Goodluck nor we have much time. I’ll see you in Vegas.