The situation in Greece hits home with me because I visited Athens on some business not long before the first Greek riots of 2008 broke out. I went all over the place (Syntagma Square, Monastiraki, the Parthenon, Piraeus, you name it) and had a very good impression of Athens. I stayed in an area of the city called Omonia, which has a reputation for being seedy but didn’t seem dangerous compared to North Philly, West Baltimore or Camden. So I returned to The Banana Republic of America (formerly the USA), and a few weeks later, all hell was breaking loose in Athens. It was chilling to turn on the news and see so many of the places I visited around Syntagma being trashed.
And here’s another thing that’s chilling: the type of unrest we’re seeing in Greece is coming our way here in The Banana Republic of America (BRA). Gerald Celente has often said “When the money stops flowing down to Main Street, the blood begins to flow on the street,” and the blood will definitely be flowing like rivers in the streets of BRA cities. The violence will take two forms: (1) there will be riots and widespread political unrest like we’re seeing in Greece, Spain and other parts of Europe, and (2) there will be a plague of violent crime like we’re seeing in Ciudad Juarez and Caracas. Former construction workers and former IT professionals will be the kidnappers, drug traffickers and carjackers of tomorrow. Formerly middle class Greeks don’t like being shoved into Third World poverty; nor do formerly middle class Americans.
Sadly, things are going to get even uglier in Greece, and they’re going to get really ugly in the BRA as well. To quote Gerald Celente again, the blood will be flowing in the streets. God help us.
- El Pollo de Oro
