A World On The Verge Of War?






Zero Hedge
September 17, 2012

Here is a summary of where the world stands: –

– Unable to reach a compromise over the weekend, South Africa is now in an all out labor strike, with the police again firing rubber bullets at miners with lethal escalation guaranteed

– Back from vacation, the once again penniless citizens of SpainGreece, and Portugal have resumed protesting austerity

– US embassies attacked, in many cases with numerous casualties, in EgyptLibyaTunisia, Morocco, Sudan, LebanonIndia, Balgadesh, Indonesia, and others.

– Japan “appropriating” China-contested islands provoking a firestorm of retaliation including demands for “war with Japan

– The Japanese ambassador to China dying mysteriously

– Netanyahu telling Meet the Press Iran will have a nuke in six-seven months and must be stopped beforehand

– Warships from more than 25 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, launching a military exercise in the Straits of Hormuz

– A third US aircraft – the CVN-74 Stennis – carrier is en route to Iran with an ETA of about 10 days

– And finally, a potential catalyst to light this whole mess on fire, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announcing that its troops are now on the ground in Syria.

    From Reuters:

    Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are providing non-military assistance in Syria and Iran may get involved militarily if its closest ally comes under attack, commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari said on Sunday.

    Jafari’s statement is the first official acknowledgement that Iran has a military presence on the ground in Syria where an 18-month-old uprising has left tens of thousands dead.

    Western countries and Syrian opposition groups have long suspected Iran has troops in Syria. Iran has denied this.

    “A number of members of the Qods force are present in Syria but this does not constitute a military presence,” Iranian news agency ISNA quoted Jafari as saying at a news conference.

    Qods is an IRGC unit set up to export Iran’s ideology. It has been accused of plotting attacks inside Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

    Jafari did not indicate how many IRGC members were in Syria but said they were providing “intellectual and advisory help”.

    The Islamic Republic has backed Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad since the crisis began and regards his rule as a key part of its axis of resistance against Israel and Sunni Arab states.

    Jafari also said Iran would change its policy and offer military backing if Syria came under attack.

    “I say specifically that if Syria came under military attack, Iran would also give military support but it … totally depends on the circumstances,” he said.

    Next up: satellite photos somewhere “confirming” beyond a reasonable doubt that weapons of mass destruction are being prepared for usage, and a preemptive war is the only way to not only preserve peace, but to be awarded the Nobel prize in said activity.

    What is perfectly obvious to anyone but the most jaded and biased, is that the West will use any opportunity of conflict escalation which in turn will send crude, and gas, prices soaring, to commence the launch of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve release, arguably at just the right time to push down gas prices, which as we showed on Friday have never been higher on this day in history. “Right time”, because any SPR release will have the short-term benefit of boosting Obama’s re-election chances even more, even if it means surging gas prices after the election.

    The reality of course is that the bulk of upside pressure on commodity (crude and gas included) prices is as a result of the Fed and ECB’s recent monetization expansion and liquidity tsunami, which does the usual: soothes the symptoms for a few weeks, crushes volatility and creates the impression that all is well…. if only to lead to yet another far more grave outcome. And since there is now officially no limit much debt the Fed will monetize, there is so no limit on how high commodity prices will go.

    So while in reality any war, supposedly one which is “regional” and “contained” will merely be a smokescreen to the central banks officially taking over ownership of the insolvent developed world, the likelihood is that a war will neither be “regional” nor “contained” as both countries that make up the axis of a future hard-backed currency, China and Russia, have already made it quite clear that any intervention by the US in regions they themselves consider strategic, such as the Senkaku Islands, Syria and/or Iran, will result in retaliation.

    And retaliation by one or more rising superpowers to another fading superpower, will inevitably lead to yet another World War.

    Needless to say, nobody could possibly foresee war as the outcome to the global depression ver 2.0: certainly not the Princeton historian who will be, more than anyone else, responsible for it.


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    20 Responses to “A World On The Verge Of War?”

    1. U.S.M.C. General and 2 time recipient of the Medal of Honor said it best, “War is a racket” !

    2. And that was General Smedley D. Butler.

    3. bla, bla, skippy, bla, bla.

      I have been following PP for a couple of years now and the tred I have noticed is that the people who write articles and the editors that publish them here all have one thing in common:

      THEY FEARMONGER BETTER THAN THE PTB IT NEVER STOPS!

      Most stories on this site are negitive and designed to instill anger in the readed about the percieved wrongs.

      Does ANYTHING good ever happen in YOUR world Alex Jones Co.?

      THE LAST STAND Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 3:45 am

      Good news does not sell…

      DaCajun87 Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 6:40 am

      tell me something gooing on good plese let me know. util this obamanation called obama is out of office or dead politicallay nothing good will be happening. Obama is the black angel of death.

    4. Not until Damascus is in a smoldering heap ! It’s still too early yet, wake me up when you see the flash of light.

    5. Hey Alex why don’t you remove that kanker up your ass with a pair of tweezers! Then you might smile more, lower your voice and look on the bright side of life ….for once.

      DaCajun87 Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 6:42 am

      hey burntumbra you need to pull that obama belief out of you @ss and wake up before its to late to save your way of life as you know it and love it.

    6. burntumbra you really are missing the whole point here. It’s not a matter of looking on the “bright side”, It is a matter of opening your eyes and seeing the reality. You best remember that Alex has spent most of his life at this and thank God he raises his voice! He is trying to get YOUR ATTENTION!

      Dandroid Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 8:03 am

      Is there a bright side? As of now I dont see it. It seems the entire mid east is burning, Japan and China are about to start their engines, the west cant get enough war and bunrtbubba and spys want to sing happy songs..

    7. and as far as bla, bla, skippy, bla… if ya don’t want to hear it log out. Simple

      spymyeyes Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 7:43 am

      well dian3….

      why dont you try taking a look at all those PP archives.

      You will notice the trend of blaming bush for the concentration camps, the war, the take-over of america, the police state, hes going to declaire martial law and suspend the elections, on, on, on.

      They are the same old yired arguments just delete bush….now type in obumbles…..next fill in blank with oromney……and the beat goes on so alex can push his “emergency disaster supplies” because YOU NEED THEM RIGHT GODAMN NOW OR ELSE YOU WILL ALL DIE, DIE, DIE,!!!!!!

    8. “We’re all going to die.” (c) Lenny Bruce (Cuban Missile Crisis).

    9. zombies programmed to act programmed to acheive the NWO divide and conquer

      such a pathetic planet but much more pathetic humans???? sheeple,zombies FANATICS…..

    10. Dam Obama flunkies invading this site also. Open your eyes and be prepared the antichrist they call obama is close to his goal of destroying everything we know. He is prepared to deliver the world (your world as you know it) to satan himself in the form of world war and economic destruction world wide.

    11. Don’t forget the war for drugs: blogdelnarco.com/2012/09/ejecutan-a-17-personas-en-tizapan-el-alto-jalisco/
      17 more bodies found on the road in Mexico.
      (sorry mechanical translator)
      “At least 17 corpses were located this morning in a stretch cartwright of the Municipality of Tizapán High, which is adjacent to the state of Michoacán. In accordance with municipal police officers, they received the report of the find about 9:45 of this Sunday, and the stated point was in the precincts of the kilometer 38 more 100 of the Highway Guadalajara-Morelia. Shortly after 10:00, the fact was corroborated by the officials from what they requested the experts’ presence of the Institute Jalisciense of Forensic Sciences and of ministerial agents so that they were taking charge of the corresponding investigations. To saying of the police officers, the bodies present traces of violence and they are stretched in a breach to a few meters of the route earlier mentioned, they all were men and they were tied by chains and cords. Also he declared that these persons were murdered in another point and then thrown in the place where they found them.”

      Dandroid Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 8:04 am

      Now that was a war worth fighting…

    12. speechless

    13. Protests and small riots have been common around the world forever. It is the normally kept out of the news by the department of tourism. I suspect that a particular group in the media has a small agenda in mind lately.

    14. Israel just wants to dominate Iran forever and deny them nuclear arsenals. They don’t care if they’re going to destroy civilization with their insane activities and childish issues that have no basis in reality.

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A World On The Verge Of War?






Zero Hedge
September 17, 2012

Here is a summary of where the world stands: –

– Unable to reach a compromise over the weekend, South Africa is now in an all out labor strike, with the police again firing rubber bullets at miners with lethal escalation guaranteed

– Back from vacation, the once again penniless citizens of SpainGreece, and Portugal have resumed protesting austerity

– US embassies attacked, in many cases with numerous casualties, in EgyptLibyaTunisia, Morocco, Sudan, LebanonIndia, Balgadesh, Indonesia, and others.

– Japan “appropriating” China-contested islands provoking a firestorm of retaliation including demands for “war with Japan

– The Japanese ambassador to China dying mysteriously

– Netanyahu telling Meet the Press Iran will have a nuke in six-seven months and must be stopped beforehand

– Warships from more than 25 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, launching a military exercise in the Straits of Hormuz

– A third US aircraft – the CVN-74 Stennis – carrier is en route to Iran with an ETA of about 10 days

– And finally, a potential catalyst to light this whole mess on fire, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announcing that its troops are now on the ground in Syria.

    From Reuters:

    Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are providing non-military assistance in Syria and Iran may get involved militarily if its closest ally comes under attack, commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari said on Sunday.

    Jafari’s statement is the first official acknowledgement that Iran has a military presence on the ground in Syria where an 18-month-old uprising has left tens of thousands dead.

    Western countries and Syrian opposition groups have long suspected Iran has troops in Syria. Iran has denied this.

    “A number of members of the Qods force are present in Syria but this does not constitute a military presence,” Iranian news agency ISNA quoted Jafari as saying at a news conference.

    Qods is an IRGC unit set up to export Iran’s ideology. It has been accused of plotting attacks inside Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

    Jafari did not indicate how many IRGC members were in Syria but said they were providing “intellectual and advisory help”.

    The Islamic Republic has backed Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad since the crisis began and regards his rule as a key part of its axis of resistance against Israel and Sunni Arab states.

    Jafari also said Iran would change its policy and offer military backing if Syria came under attack.

    “I say specifically that if Syria came under military attack, Iran would also give military support but it … totally depends on the circumstances,” he said.

    Next up: satellite photos somewhere “confirming” beyond a reasonable doubt that weapons of mass destruction are being prepared for usage, and a preemptive war is the only way to not only preserve peace, but to be awarded the Nobel prize in said activity.

    What is perfectly obvious to anyone but the most jaded and biased, is that the West will use any opportunity of conflict escalation which in turn will send crude, and gas, prices soaring, to commence the launch of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve release, arguably at just the right time to push down gas prices, which as we showed on Friday have never been higher on this day in history. “Right time”, because any SPR release will have the short-term benefit of boosting Obama’s re-election chances even more, even if it means surging gas prices after the election.

    The reality of course is that the bulk of upside pressure on commodity (crude and gas included) prices is as a result of the Fed and ECB’s recent monetization expansion and liquidity tsunami, which does the usual: soothes the symptoms for a few weeks, crushes volatility and creates the impression that all is well…. if only to lead to yet another far more grave outcome. And since there is now officially no limit much debt the Fed will monetize, there is so no limit on how high commodity prices will go.

    So while in reality any war, supposedly one which is “regional” and “contained” will merely be a smokescreen to the central banks officially taking over ownership of the insolvent developed world, the likelihood is that a war will neither be “regional” nor “contained” as both countries that make up the axis of a future hard-backed currency, China and Russia, have already made it quite clear that any intervention by the US in regions they themselves consider strategic, such as the Senkaku Islands, Syria and/or Iran, will result in retaliation.

    And retaliation by one or more rising superpowers to another fading superpower, will inevitably lead to yet another World War.

    Needless to say, nobody could possibly foresee war as the outcome to the global depression ver 2.0: certainly not the Princeton historian who will be, more than anyone else, responsible for it.


    Print this page.

    Comment Rules


    20 Responses to “A World On The Verge Of War?”

    1. U.S.M.C. General and 2 time recipient of the Medal of Honor said it best, “War is a racket” !

    2. And that was General Smedley D. Butler.

    3. bla, bla, skippy, bla, bla.

      I have been following PP for a couple of years now and the tred I have noticed is that the people who write articles and the editors that publish them here all have one thing in common:

      THEY FEARMONGER BETTER THAN THE PTB IT NEVER STOPS!

      Most stories on this site are negitive and designed to instill anger in the readed about the percieved wrongs.

      Does ANYTHING good ever happen in YOUR world Alex Jones Co.?

      THE LAST STAND Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 3:45 am

      Good news does not sell…

      DaCajun87 Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 6:40 am

      tell me something gooing on good plese let me know. util this obamanation called obama is out of office or dead politicallay nothing good will be happening. Obama is the black angel of death.

    4. Not until Damascus is in a smoldering heap ! It’s still too early yet, wake me up when you see the flash of light.

    5. Hey Alex why don’t you remove that kanker up your ass with a pair of tweezers! Then you might smile more, lower your voice and look on the bright side of life ….for once.

      DaCajun87 Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 6:42 am

      hey burntumbra you need to pull that obama belief out of you @ss and wake up before its to late to save your way of life as you know it and love it.

    6. burntumbra you really are missing the whole point here. It’s not a matter of looking on the “bright side”, It is a matter of opening your eyes and seeing the reality. You best remember that Alex has spent most of his life at this and thank God he raises his voice! He is trying to get YOUR ATTENTION!

      Dandroid Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 8:03 am

      Is there a bright side? As of now I dont see it. It seems the entire mid east is burning, Japan and China are about to start their engines, the west cant get enough war and bunrtbubba and spys want to sing happy songs..

    7. and as far as bla, bla, skippy, bla… if ya don’t want to hear it log out. Simple

      spymyeyes Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 7:43 am

      well dian3….

      why dont you try taking a look at all those PP archives.

      You will notice the trend of blaming bush for the concentration camps, the war, the take-over of america, the police state, hes going to declaire martial law and suspend the elections, on, on, on.

      They are the same old yired arguments just delete bush….now type in obumbles…..next fill in blank with oromney……and the beat goes on so alex can push his “emergency disaster supplies” because YOU NEED THEM RIGHT GODAMN NOW OR ELSE YOU WILL ALL DIE, DIE, DIE,!!!!!!

    8. “We’re all going to die.” (c) Lenny Bruce (Cuban Missile Crisis).

    9. zombies programmed to act programmed to acheive the NWO divide and conquer

      such a pathetic planet but much more pathetic humans???? sheeple,zombies FANATICS…..

    10. Dam Obama flunkies invading this site also. Open your eyes and be prepared the antichrist they call obama is close to his goal of destroying everything we know. He is prepared to deliver the world (your world as you know it) to satan himself in the form of world war and economic destruction world wide.

    11. Don’t forget the war for drugs: blogdelnarco.com/2012/09/ejecutan-a-17-personas-en-tizapan-el-alto-jalisco/
      17 more bodies found on the road in Mexico.
      (sorry mechanical translator)
      “At least 17 corpses were located this morning in a stretch cartwright of the Municipality of Tizapán High, which is adjacent to the state of Michoacán. In accordance with municipal police officers, they received the report of the find about 9:45 of this Sunday, and the stated point was in the precincts of the kilometer 38 more 100 of the Highway Guadalajara-Morelia. Shortly after 10:00, the fact was corroborated by the officials from what they requested the experts’ presence of the Institute Jalisciense of Forensic Sciences and of ministerial agents so that they were taking charge of the corresponding investigations. To saying of the police officers, the bodies present traces of violence and they are stretched in a breach to a few meters of the route earlier mentioned, they all were men and they were tied by chains and cords. Also he declared that these persons were murdered in another point and then thrown in the place where they found them.”

      Dandroid Reply:
      September 17th, 2012 at 8:04 am

      Now that was a war worth fighting…

    12. speechless

    13. Protests and small riots have been common around the world forever. It is the normally kept out of the news by the department of tourism. I suspect that a particular group in the media has a small agenda in mind lately.

    14. Israel just wants to dominate Iran forever and deny them nuclear arsenals. They don’t care if they’re going to destroy civilization with their insane activities and childish issues that have no basis in reality.

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