![]() They are the new normal, and France must prepare a sustained response.Īs a presidential candidate, Macron committed to progressively raise the defense budget to meet NATO’s defense spending target of 2 percent of GDP by 2025. However, the recent multiple and inter-linked crises with security implications at home and overseas are not a flash in the pan. With the 2015 terrorist attacks in the background, the updated 2014-2019 military planning law ended the 35-year long decline in the defense budget, increasing it by 3.8 billion euros for the 2016-2019 period. Money is clearly crucial to meeting France’s defense needs. Below are the ten main defense challenges, in no particular order, that await the presidency of Macron. Although the unexpected twists and turns of recent history demand a certain humility when making forecasts, one can still wager that geopolitics will remain eventful over the next five years. Now is the time to consider the main defense challenges France will face with Macron at the helm. That is indeed a political “revolution” - the title of his campaign book. The winner, France’s youngest-ever president, has never held elected office before, and is not a member of any political party. For the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic (since 1958), both final candidates were outside the bipolar, mainstream left-right party system. Paul Guercio and George Hart have provided several MERLIN Timetraks® to accompany their appearance on the 10/16/13 program.Emmanuel Macron will be the next president of France. News segment guests: Gerald Celente, Robert Zimmerman Website(s): She lamented that some stores are on their way to becoming diabolical "retail zoos" where customers are the exhibits. The end game for this, she believes, is that stores want to charge different prices for different people, and customers will have to aim their cell phone at a product to get their specific price. Based on the shopper's specific demographic, the store might beam out an ad or message tailored to that person, she explained. It also includes many timetraks of celebrities and world events.įirst hour guest, privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht reported on a supermarket's plan to track shoppers with "smart shelves" that are integrated with Microsoft Kinect technology which can detect their age, gender, and physical traits. ![]() Offered at 99 cents for a one-week trial, the app allows people to enter specific dates and view a graphical interface that shows how the peaks and valleys play out over a given time frame. They also talked about their TimeTraks app available for Apple and Android smartphones and tablets. Guercio also cited the year 2021 as a time we might see a nuclear event, based on charts of when previous nuclear activity first occurred. ![]() Jeb Bush's timetrak during this time frame isn't going anywhere, he added. NY Governor Cuomo, with Rand Paul running as a third-party candidate (see charts below). He predicts that it will be NJ Governor Christie vs. Looking at possible candidates for the 2016 US presidential election, Guercio doesn't see Hillary Clinton running, or landing in the primary if she does run. "The timetraks for the United States indicated that this year and continuing for several years would be periods of extreme chaos and tension," he noted. For instance, for Apple Computer, you can run the birth dates of Steve Jobs, the corporation, and important product release dates, "and if they all have timetraks going crazy with high activity at a given moment that tells you that's a moment in time to really pay attention to," Hart explained. Their charts won't tell you whether something is good or bad off hand, but you can triangulate several related dates for further interpretation. Futurist Paul Guercio and physicist George Hart of the Merlin Project discussed their software-based forecasting technology and the graphical snapshots of time, called Timetraks, it generates. ![]()
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