Dear Friends,
It seems to me, 2015 was a notable year in many ways, things that happened will effect humanity for generations, some for the better and some for the worse. Each year has important events and every action of our leaders and each of us forever changes future human history. The march of time goes on, and while we have no ability to stop or turn it back, we have a great deal of power over the future. In order to understand our role in human history, the change of years gives us an opportunity to examine what has happened, in the light of what was intended and what we were told. Of course hindsight is 20-20 but if we don’t use it we might as well be blind. Now that we have entered 2016 let’s look back at 2015 to see how it has effected the future.
Humanity is again experiencing mass migration. Desperate people in Central and South America are sending their unaccompanied children to the US. Socialism has failed them for the last century, and even though they have gone all in and voted outright Marxists into power, their lot has only degenerated faster for it. How hopeless must one be to send a child without parent or guardian to a foreign land? Imagine the fear of a parent who would do such a thing. It makes the heart weep. Perhaps this marks the high tide of socialism in South America, or maybe it is just a lull, before the poor people of those countries vote for their own oppressors again.
Perhaps the event with the most profound effect on the future of humanity is the invasion of Europe by young Muslim men claiming to be refugees. Even as Europe refuses asylum to the Christians who are being systematically exterminated in the Middle East, anyone who questions the mass migration of people who have no interests at all of assimilation, are called racists, (which is a sure sign the new class leaders in Europe don’t want to debate their agenda on it’s merits). This year shows every sign that Europe will be inundated again with tens if not hundreds of thousands of people looking to permanently change the culture, religion and demographics of Europe forever. Where that will lead is both clear and obvious but must not be said for fear of being name called.
2015 saw the rise of commercial space launches. This is a hopeful sign for the future of humanity. Jeff Bezos Blue Origin launched and landed a suborbital reusable rocket. Elon Musk’s Space X successfully launched cargo to the International Space Station, landed a used 1st stage and made progress with the Dragon capsule. They had setbacks when an unmanned cargo ship exploded and they failed to land a booster on a barge they had fitted for such a thing. Virgin Galactic it would seem, has abandoned its plan to use a 2 plane system for it’s sub orbital launch system, after a tragic failure that led to the death of a pilot but is pursuing a rocket booster as a 1st stage instead. NASA had a triumph with it’s imaging of Pluto. The pictures sent back highlighted there is so much we still don’t know about the solar system. Robotics advanced drastically bringing us closer to the zero unit cost of labor.
The Islamic State (IS) went from a rag tag bunch of lunatics to a state. They have successfully exterminated Christianity from the territory they control and run a lucrative oil business. Despite Obama’s predictions they were a “Jayvee team” and that IS was contained they have cleaned Obama’s clock. Out maneuvering him at every turn. Today the IS is on the march around the world, from Iraq and Syria to Libya and Afghanistan, IS conquering territory around the Middle East. It will be a difficult trick to link up their disparate territorial gains into one large state, but given Obama and world”s leaders clear incompetence, or villainy, there is a very good possibility that could happen. Then IS would be a power to contend with, possibly requiring a world war to stop the modern equivalent of the Nazis.
Turkey has brought the world to the brink of world war between Russia and NATO. By supporting IS, buying their oil, conniving with Iran in a gold smuggling ring to get around the sanctions and finally, shooting down a Russian military fighter jet with Turkey’s proxies murdering the pilot as he parachuted to the ground, in violation of every international treaty, Turkey has endangered the world. Turkey has fully broken from the secular state constitution Ataturk set up and has a despotic government in Erdogan. Turkey will bear watching this year.
Finally, the world economy is going into a major recession, signs that point to this are, the volume of container shipping is collapsing, oil is in a glut despite lower output, interest rates have to be kept at or below zero else the economies of Europe, Japan, China and the US will crumble, the “junk” bond market is blowing up, and the resource producing countries are already in recession because of the global slowdown in demand for raw materials. Moreover, currency debasement has become the norm. Never in human history have so many nations debased their currencies at the same time, but given the history of various nations debasing their currencies, the blow back will be epic. Maybe leading to the collapse of Central banks or even central banking itself.
2015 saw human migration like has only happened prior to the world wars, the very nature of Europe is changing, IS is expanding at an ever increasing rate, the coming global recession and Turkey has become a criminal state but remains part of NATO, all of which greatly increase the likelihood of a world war. There were some positive notes, in space science humanity has opened the final frontier up to the power of the market system, which was the catalyst that opened up the New World. These are not the only news stories of 2015 of note, but in my opinion, these events have the greatest chance of altering the course of humanity forever. Of course, something none of us even heard about could change the course of future human history, because of the butterfly effect.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
