Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution? Political Awareness.

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For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive... The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination... The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening... That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing... The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches...

The youth of the Third World are particularly restless and resentful. The demographic revolution they embody is thus a political time-bomb, as well... Their potential revolutionary spearhead is likely to emerge from among the scores of millions of students concentrated in the often intellectually dubious "tertiary level" educational institutions of developing countries. Depending on the definition of the tertiary educational level, there are currently worldwide between 80 and 130 million "college" students. Typically originating from the socially insecure lower middle class and inflamed by a sense of social outrage, these millions of students are revolutionaries-in-waiting, already semi-mobilized in large congregations, connected by the Internet and pre-positioned for a replay on a larger scale of what transpired years earlier in Mexico City or in Tiananmen Square. Their physical energy and emotional frustration is just waiting to be triggered by a cause, or a faith, or a hatred...

[The] major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.
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- Zbigniew Brzezinski

Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Co-Founder of the Trilateral Commission
Member, Board of Trustees, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Case in point:

http://www.businessinsider.com/your-guide-to-the-riots-happening-around-the-world-2011-1

England

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/28/cuts-protests-uk-uncut

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/education-12315841

Jordan

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011128125157509196.html

Egypt

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2011/jan/25/middleeast-tunisia

Yemen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_yemen_protests

Lebanon

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/lebanon/110125/riots-lebanon-hezbollah-hariri

Albania

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12253481

Tunisia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12144906

Greece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJZdWTiaJM

Algeria

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12134307

In 2000 there were 7 reported riots worldwide. No reported deaths.

In 2001 there were 16 reported riots worldwide. No reported deaths.

In 2002 there were 8 reported riots worldwide. No reported deaths.

In 2003 there were 9 reported riots worldwide. No reported deaths.

In 2004 there were 12 reported riots worldwide. No reported deaths.

In 2005 there were 19 reported riots worldwide. No deaths reported.

In 2006 there were 23 reported riots worldwide. No deaths reported.

In 2007 there were 26 reported riots worldwide. No deaths reported.

In 2008 there were 20 reported riots worldwide. No deaths reported.

In 2009 there were 37 reported riots worldwide. 27 dead.

In 2010 there were 55 reported riots worldwide. 3787 dead.


It seems as if the world is entering the beginnings of a new revolutionary era: the era of the ‘Global Political Awakening.’ While this ‘awakening’ is materializing in different regions, different nations and under different circumstances, it is being largely influenced by global conditions. The global domination by the major Western powers, principally the United States, over the past 65 years, and more broadly, centuries, is reaching a turning point. The people of the world are restless, resentful, and enraged. Change, it seems, is in the air. As the above quotes from Brzezinski indicate, this development on the world scene is the most radical and potentially dangerous threat to global power structures and empire. It is not a threat simply to the nations in which the protests arise or seek change, but perhaps to a greater degree, it is a threat to the imperial Western powers, international institutions, multinational corporations and banks that prop up, arm, support and profit from these oppressive regimes around the world. Thus, America and the West are faced with a monumental strategic challenge: what can be done to stem the Global Political Awakening? Zbigniew Brzezinski is one of the chief architects of American foreign policy, and arguably one of the intellectual pioneers of the system of globalization. Thus, his warnings about the 'Global Political Awakening' are directly in reference to its nature as a threat to the prevailing global hierarchy. As such, we must view the 'Awakening' as the greatest hope for humanity. Certainly, there will be mainy failures, problems, and regressions; but the 'Awakening' has begun, it is underway, and it cannot be so easily co-opted or controlled as many might assume.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22963

Is it time to stand up and be counted?
 
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I think a lot of this is down to rising food prices, if people are scared and hungry then they'll get angry and won't tolerate certain negative aspects in their society e.g. corruption.
 
scorza said:
I think a lot of this is down to rising food prices, if people are scared and hungry then they'll get angry and won't tolerate certain negative aspects in their society e.g. corruption.
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Very true, i have a fear the ever growing price of oil is about to start contributing. Petrol costs cutting into peoples money, leaving them with less and less each month.
 
For a start, those facts and figures are wrong. Just wrong, utterly and totally.

After literally 30 seconds googling I found this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ts-death-toll-from-Xinjiang-unrest-rises.html

Which has 100 dead in 2009 in just one riot, rather than the 27 dead claimed in your stats. That's enough to convince me that if I checked I'd find that the other stats were pulled out of someone's backside.

Just to prove my point, I found this for 2002:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4536199.stm

Which has over 1,000 deaths.

I always wonder about the sanity of people just making up stats and publishing them, I mean really, what IS the point?

:(
 
Robboftw said:
No. We're witnessing a load of violent thugs causing trouble, nothing new there.
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what people turning against their government because they are repressing them, I dont call that thugs, hopefully the british people will snap soon because its the same in this country they just do it through taxes and social welfare cleansing!
 
People are afraid of a bleak present and a bleaker future. When people are afraid they lash out. The Tunisians, Egyptians, Yemenis etc are afraid that they won't be able to afford food and fear leaders would not help them. Of course other factors are involved, such as political corruption and authoritarian regimes. Add those to the fear of higher food prices and you haven't got a population on the edge, you have one that has been pushed over the edge.
 
Upshot is; people riot all the time. Making up some figures to suggest that riots are increasing in frequency and ferocity does not mean that there's been some magical awakening, it just means that you either can't add up, or are no good at researching things.
 
Brzezinski should know whats what being a member of the trilateral commision and all these various other world steering commities like the bilderberg group ect .... its these groups that the so called politically conscious people around the world are going to destroy the plans of.....
 
meghatronic said:
And smashing up buildings or even mummies and looting. Yeah, really standing up.
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It is kind of standing up when they've attacked the buildings belonging to the ruling party and the police which have been a key tool of the authoritarian regime. Of course, I'm against the destruction of private property and the looting.
 
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