tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post5545122479444018869..comments2023-05-15T07:11:30.874+02:00Comments on Leherensuge: British high officials acknowledge this crisis as the worst everMajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-41104712971860309082009-02-12T02:10:00.000+01:002009-02-12T02:10:00.000+01:00Well, the crisis is not just hitting the West: it'...Well, the crisis is not just hitting the West: it's global. Some of the major countries where you can foresee very dramatic epysodes are large overpopulated and poor nations like Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Indonesia... even China probably. The West is not anymore that all-encompasing. The USA has only like 5% of the global population, the wole world region of European culture, including Latin America and Russia can have something like 25% of the global population. Just like China alone. <BR/><BR/>And, well, this crisis is global: people have been pouring from all the corners of the planet into the richest areas; and not just people: all kind of merchandises and money are still circunnavigating the world every day. This, like global warming, is not something that will affect any single country alone: it will affect all countries and all regions and nearly every single individual on Earth. <BR/><BR/>And it's already happening as we type.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-72024470850901684002009-02-11T12:52:00.000+01:002009-02-11T12:52:00.000+01:00I think that this is a financial crisis more extre...<I>I think that this is a financial crisis more extreme and more serious than that of the 1930s and we all remember how the politics of that era were shaped by the economy</I><BR/><BR/>Having managed to ensure that in this crisis Britain will suffer worse than any other major state Labour like all other mainstream parties are now trying to paint themselves as a bulwark against an inevitable hypernationalist bandwagon. <BR/><BR/>I feel that Ed Balls` analysis fails to take into account that no Western country has the demographic milieu for such a dramatic political shift. Here is Gunnar Heinsohn on what really shaped the political movements of the Thirties. <BR/><BR/><BR/>" 30 per cent between 15 and 29. This means that if you take 100 males from a country, then 30 of them will be between 15 and 29.” [...]<BR/>Heinsohn emphasises that there are lots of wars and killings in history that do nor emanate from youth bulges. The Hitler movement and the Mussolini movement in the 1920s can be explained as youth bulge phenomena. The early Nazis and Fascists had an average age a bit below 30.The early Nazis and Fascists had an average age a bit below 30. The Bolshevik movement in the period around the 1917 Revolution can be described in the same way. But by the time Hitler started WWII, many German families were down to only one son. So Hitler’s attack in 1939 was not a youth bulge phenomenon. Neither was the Holocaust. The killing of the Jews was not caused by young German men wanting to take their positions, even though there are theories that make this claim."<BR/><BR/>No Western power has the young people that are the basis for such movements, especially the ones he seem to have in mind like the UK, Germany and France (Heinsohn again I'm afraid)<BR/><BR/><BR/>"France has 2 children per woman, but out of five newborns, two are already Arabic or African. In Germany 35 per cent of all newborns already have a non-German background," <BR/><BR/>The UK is no different, most schoolchildren in London are minority. So even with a war and recession (like WW1,Thirties) far worse than they are; hypernationalism is a non-starter. That is also true for movements of the left I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com