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For almost two years, by combining various points of view

(speculative, geopolitical, technological, economic, strategic and
monetary), we have continued to anticipate a major crisis in the
entire oil sector.
Today, no one doubts the fact that we are actually at that point,
and the GEAB must therefore anticipate the consequences of this
veritable atomic bomb, which has begun to blow up all the old
systems pillars: everything which we have known, international currencies, financial markets, the
US, the Western alliance, world governance, democracy, etc.
Global systemic crisis: the end of the West we have known since 1945

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Here, we would like to look back on a historic GEAB anticipation, that of Franck Biancheri in
February 2006, which announced the beginning of the global systemic crisis under the title the
end of the West we have known since 1945 (1). It will have taken nine years for this Western
world to collapse (or seven years, if we begin the process with the 2008 subprime crisis, as one
should really do) During these nine years, the GEAB has worked to educate on the crisis, with
the avowed aim of raising all the existing solutions to exit it as quickly and as painlessly as
possible. Apparently, outside the work carried out by the BRICS which, also anticipated by the
GEAB, got through a huge task to lay down the foundations of tomorrows world, the Western
world, meanwhile, has made some positive efforts here and there, signs of which we detect in
some places. But at the end of 2014, and after the huge destabilization caused by the crash of
Euro-Russian relations in the Ukrainian crisis, our team is struggling to put forward a positive
scenario for the coming year.
2015 will show the complete collapse of the Western world we have known since 1945. It will be a
gigantic hurricane, which will blow and rock the whole planet, but the breach points are to be
found in the Western Port, which hasnt been a port for a long time but, as will be clearly shown
in 2015, has been in the eye of the storm in fact, as we have repeatedly said since 2006. Whilst
some boats will try to head offshore, the Ukrainian crisis has had the effect of bringing some of
them back to port and firmly re-mooring them there. Unfortunately, its the port itself which is
rocking the boats and its those with the strongest moorings which will break up first. Of course,
we are thinking of Europe first and foremost, but more so Israel, the financial markets and world
governance.
Of course peace is at stake, a peace which is no more than a vain word, moreover. Ask China,
India, Brazil, Iran, etc., if the West still conveys any image of peace. As for democratic values,
what we show serves more as a foil than a model to the extent that the universal principle of
democracy is relegated to the value of culturally relativized concepts and finishes by serving
antidemocratic agendas of all ilks, in Europe and elsewhere. Yet its not the democratic principle
that is the problem (quite the opposite is needed to reinvent ways to apply it, in partnership with
the new emerging powers), but really the Wests inability to have known how to adapt its
implementation to societys new characteristics (the emergence of supranational political entities,
the Internet which is transforming the social structure..)
The oil crisis is systemic because it is linked to the end of the all-oil era
Lets return for a moment to the principal characteristics of this systemic oil crisis which we have
analyzed. To quickly summarize and to highlight the systemic nature of this crisis, to better
position our anticipations which follow, its the oil markets world governance system OPEC, which
has been undermined. The US, which was its master until around 2005 (2), has seen the arrival
of the emerging nations whose levels of consumption has inevitably made them joint masters.

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Oil consumption: in red, by the US, Western Europe and Japan; in blue, by the rest of the world.
Source : Yardeni / Oil market intelligence.Of course, it would have been necessary to
acknowledge this change by a reform of the old system of governance to put everybody in the
same boat. Instead, frightened by the idea of a rise in oil prices to which the US economy ( totally
dependent on oil, unlike Europe, and lacking any significant and coordinated investment in
renewable energy) was unable to resist, the US decided to break any rationale of global
coordination by creating a competing market, the shale market, intended to reduce prices.
Unfortunately, we know what competition in terms of access to energy resources leads to at
least Europe is supposed to know (3).

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US shale oil production Source : HPDI, LLCAnother strong trend is combining with this major
trend break, currently little mentioned in the media, that of the end of oil as the world economys
primary energy source. And it is this second factor that now makes the situation totally
uncontrollable. Prices are falling apart because the oil era is coming to an end and nobody can do
anything about it. We anticipated this many months ago (4) : China is creating an all electric car
fleet (5), and, in so doing, will turn the global car fleet into an all-electric one: once the technology
has been mastered and mass production becomes inevitable, all the world will go electric. We
anticipated that this transformation would be in place in less than 10 years and that, in five years,
the turning point as regards consumption would be reached. But a year at least has passed since
this anticipation. Speculators of all stripes are starting to see a horizon four years out (6).
In reality, peak oil is what LEAP calls a successful anticipation: putting it into perspective,
has allowed the problem to be avoided. Fear of a shortage and a price explosion, good and bad
avoidance strategies (renewable and shale), all combined with a huge economic downturn and,
as a grand finale, and an ecological agenda whose resumption we will see from this year (7), and
the world is ready to close the oil era except that, to this, the players existentially related to
this commodity will make themselves heard loud and long before disappearing.
Here again, so that our readers dont misunderstand: for a long time oil will continue to be used to
fuel the worlds engines and factories (it even has many years ahead of it again since the risk of
shortage has been postponed for several decades), but the era of sovereign oil is ending and, of
course, that constitutes a systemic change.
In the Telescope section we further examine the consequences of this systemic oil crisis,
particularly on the financial markets. These financial markets, which have well resisted six long
years of crisis, suffocating the real economy in their vice and proving the extent to which they
were the crux of the problem, will not be able to survive the shock that they are about to get, from
the oil industry on the one hand (a central player), and the dollar on the other (financial worlds
main tool). But, as if it werent enough, other bombs are ready to explode
Notes
(1) Source : LEAP/Europe2020, 15 February 2006
(2) In fact, the beginning of the rise in oil prices dates from 2003, and began to explode in 2006. But 2005 is a
recurring date as soon as we analyze price increases in terms of the emerging nations consumption instead of

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energy resources (source: Cambridge Journals, 09/1968), which is why, at the end of the Second World War, the
European Communities gave birth to the pooling of resources, the ECSC (source :Wikipedia ), a project which
should have remained one of the lightning conductors of European construction, whilst today the Ukrainian crisis
reveals the gaping hole in Europe as regards a common energy policy. And to say that some find that we suffer
from too much Europe!! Actually, European construction came to a halt in 1989 busy regulating the size of
cucumbers and freeing the rest: the European cucumber
(4) In our recommendations last January (GEAB N81) under the heading China goes electric . Source
:LEAP/E2020, 15/01/2014
(5) Source : Bloomberg, 09/02/2014
(6) For those who doubt the reality of this development there is the recent and incredible decision by Germany
(incredible because its completely counter intuitive to the current decline in oil prices) to bet everything on
renewable energy and package everything which is nuclear-gas-oil-coal to get rid of it Source :Deutsche Welle,
01/12/2014
(7) Last month we noted the very tangible results achieved in promises to reduce CO2 emissions, including from
the US, under Chinese leadership. And although the Lima Summit hasnt seemed to produce much in the way of

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