Jim Bakker Show - Seven Global Shifts - Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis
Aired: 2017-01-19
Duration: 02:41


=== Seven Global Shifts (02:21) ===

[00:00:00]  The National Intelligence Council, you've said that they anticipate seven global shifts.
[00:00:11]  What might the seven global shifts be?
[00:00:16]  We're seeing, you know, they begin in their analysis, much like I do, with the megatrends.
[00:00:23]  I'm pulling out my notes so I don't make sure I lose any of these.
[00:00:27]  And they talk about, you know, game changers and what the world is evolving to.
[00:00:32]  But I look at, for instance, the growth of the middle class.
[00:00:37]  I look at the advancement of technologies, which we've alluded to today.
[00:00:44]  We look at the widespread aging of the West.
[00:00:46]  Now, what does that mean?
[00:00:49]  Because the United States and Western Europe becoming older, that's encouraging immigration, immigration from poor, less developed countries, because we need working people.
[00:01:00]  That's what Angela Merkel called for, and they ended up getting 1.5 million people out in the Middle East and North Africa.
[00:01:10]  And so that's going to change the demographics of our country.
[00:01:14]  It's going to change the demographics a lot.
[00:01:16]  Urbanization.
[00:01:17]  Today, we find that we're becoming more of an urbanized world.
[00:01:24]  In 1800, there was one city in the world that had a million people.
[00:01:28]  That was Beijing.
[00:01:29]  In the year 2000, there were, what, 378 cities that had a million.
[00:01:37]  By the year 2025, which isn't long, we're going to have over 600.
[00:01:42]  Now, at some point, you know, in the next 15, 20 years, you know, 60% of the world is going to live in cities.
[00:01:50]  And in places like Africa, 85% of people are going to live in cities.
[00:01:54]  That has resource implications.
[00:01:57]  It has pandemic implications.
[00:02:00]  It has implications for the spread of ideologies.
[00:02:04]  And it also has, when you have combat, as a warrior, I look at how difficult it is to fight in cities.

=== People Going In All Sorts (00:33) ===

[00:02:13]  Technology, all of these implications.
[00:02:16]  So we deal with that.
[00:02:18]  Certainly, U.S. energy independence is critical.
[00:02:22]  I see a non-traditional spiritual movements are really skyrocketing.
[00:02:27]  People going in all sorts of bizarre directions.
[00:02:30]  They're abandoning the faith of their fathers and of their mothers, and they're going in just freakish sorts of directions.
[00:02:39]  We see others.