The year 2025: Oil, dollar out; Russia, Islam in

Found this AP news story on the Yahoo front page. This all seems entirely likely in my eyes and I would like to know what all of you think. Could Russia be the power base for the coming NWO? Has this all been in the works for years or even decades? Is it possible that "the powers that be" are moving their money and other resources to Russia and eastern Europe in order to set up their new one world government? Please let me know what you all think.

* WASHINGTON – Global warming could be a boon to Russia, a European country could be overrun by organized crime and the U.S. and its dollar could further decline in importance during the next two decades, says a U.S. intelligence report with predictions for the world in 2025. The report, Global Trends 2025, is published every four years by the National Intelligence Council to give U.S. leaders insight into looming problems and opportunities. The report says the warming earth will extend Russia and Canada's growing season and ease their access to northern oil fields, strengthening their economies. But Russia's potential emergence as a world power may be clouded by lagging investment in its energy sector, persistent crime and government corruption, the report says. Analysts also warn that the same kind of organized crime plaguing Russia could eventually take over the government of an Eastern or Central European country. The report is silent on which one. It also says countries in Africa and South Asia may find themselves unstable and ungoverned, as state regimes collapse or wither away under security problems and water and food shortages brought about by climate change and a population increase of 1.4 billion. The potential for conflict will be greater in 2025 than it is now, as the world's population competes for declining and shifting food, water and energy resources. Despite a more precarious world situation, the report also says al-Qaida's terrorist franchise could decay "sooner than people think." It cites its growing unpopularity in the Muslim world, where it kills most of its victims. "The prospect that al-Qaida will be among the small number of groups able to transcend the generational timeline is not high, given its harsh ideology, unachievable strategic objectives and inability to become a mass movement," the report states. The report forecasts a geopolitical rise in non-Arab Muslim states outside of the Middle East, including Turkey and Indonesia, and says Iran could also be a central player in a new world order if it sheds its theocracy. The report, a year in the making, also suggests the world may complete its move away from its dependence on oil, and that the U.S. dollar, while remaining important, will decline to "first among equals" among other national currencies. U.S. global power also will likely decline, as Americans' concerns about putting resources into solving domestic problems may cause the United States to pull resources from foreign and global problems.

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I also sometimes feel that this time is economically bad for USA... thought Russia is getting stronger...

seems like we are going to have bipolar world soon... definately the powers are shifting... or atleast fading

In fairness.. just because the number one war maker in the world is now stepping down from the limelight after 20 odd years does not mean the world is going to fall apart.

There will obviously be trouble in the future.. there always is.. we just have to deal with it.

Russian political control and government stability is getting stronger by the day, unless there is a large scale war, Russia will not collapse into chaos.

The EU/US will be the western power base, China and Russia will more than likely be separate but Russia will hold ties to the EU.

China and the middle east are ones to watch if the upcoming talks between the EU and Russia end well and the US pulls their stupid missile system plans for eastern europe.

The NWO's powerbase isn't within one country but rather global. Still the same Zionists and masons will control the world. Although to the average person there maybe powershift but in reality nothing will change.

I was about to post this...lol but yea pretty scary thought having Russia ruling the world, the Islam religion at its highest point, and increased hunger and droughts in Africa...reminds me of the song Mad World.

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I dont get why Russia is vilefied, we have more in common with them then we have with the likes of turkey!
The way i see it, it should be all of north america, the EU and russia as one power block, we all have christianity in common and our cultures are pretty much the same, that way when Asia wakes up we will be able to deal with them effectivley.
Maybe throw south america into the mix aswell as there culture is pretty much the same as ours, just gotta elevate them to first world status first! then once were done subdueing Asia we can concentrate on the middle east........

If the majority of the first-world gets off oil, the slow to adapt, backwards nations can use oil 'til the cows come home. Although I suspect they will get mad because they don't have their own internal markets. Russia had huge oil stocks, but when the U.S. got Saudi Arabia to lie about how large the size of their oil reserves were in the 80s world oil prices plummeted, ruining Russia's best source of export dollars. This is one of the main factors of the downfall of Soviet Russia. Well the same thing could happen to capitalist Russia. You see, even with the messianic power of free markets, Russia could end up screwed over if the U.S. and Western Europe give up oil. This would make them REALLY mad and belligerent and could hurt the U.S. without some kind of foreign investment/free money thrown their way. Maybe the auto-companies could start offshoring their manufacturing to Russia to provide jobs to hungry proletarians in one of the world's most economically unbalanced nations. Clearly, the U.S. and Europe would have to do something to assuage the poverty that giving up oil could cause in some of these oil exporting countries.

Imagine the U.S. gets a really smart, ballsy president, who pushes the country towards green energy (windmills and solar, not stupid stuff like hydrogen like and ehthanol) with the vigour that the U.S. military industrial complex had in WWII. Oil exporting countries would be down a lot of revenue, and might get mad, and they might want to make war with the U.S. for cutting them out of the global economic equation.

But, on the other hand, if oil is no longer used to run cars or generate power, maybe economies of scale will kick in, making the remaining stock of oil (now being depleted much slower) more costly for consumers. Oil has a million uses right now, power generation and vehicle operation being but two of them. Prices for plastic and fertilizers might go up a hell of a lot. Will this be enough to hurt the economies of the freshly greened U.S.? I dunno, but it's interesting to speculate that getting off oil could end up enriching the oil rich states and impoverishing the Green Countries.

Just throwing out some counter-intuitive or odd sounding scenarios that seem plausible to me.

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