Your Guide To A World On Fire (2025 Edition)

by | Oct 12, 2025 | Newsletter | 34 comments

If you’ve been paying any attention at all to world events, you’ll have noticed something remarkable recently. Fiery, youth-led protests are threatening the government in country after country.

Identified as “Gen Z Protests,” these youth uprisings have been sweeping the world in recent months, from Madagascar to Peru to the Philippines to Nepal to Indonesia.

What on earth is going on here?

As it turns out, I’m not the only one asking this question.

After noting this worldwide protest phenomenon in a recent edition of New World Next Week, I made reference to my 2019 article, “Your Guide to a World on Fire.” Then, lo and behold, I received this comment from Corbett Report member angie.j:

James, is there an update to this 2019 post (“World on Fire”) for 2025?

Thanks for asking, Angie! There wasn’t such a follow-up when you posted that comment, but your wish is my command, so here we go!


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34 Comments

  1. The World on Fire phenomenon that was occurring in 2019 couldn’t have happened at a worse time.

    Or looked at another way, the launch of the scamdemic just a few months later could have been deliberately scheduled when it was, to snuff out the worldwide dissent.

    It looks like these 2025 World on Fire protests are simply carrying on where the 2019 protests left off.

    • Well, as James said, in this very article, we shouldn’t be surprised if another ‘event’ is coming. The Scamdemic shut down the protests with stunning success. They could certainly do something similar. Why mess with success?

      BTW, I instantly new the scamdemic was an obvious fraud despite all of the propaganda and the ‘social proof’ of even my friends and family who had previously championed exposing the ‘conspiracies’ of 9/11, 7/7, OKC, etc. I immediately, and loudly, defied the nonsense. One of the reasons I was so sure from day 1 was because of an Infowars report released right before the nonsense hit us in late winter 2020. It showed Samoa under strict martial law and forced universal vaccination, after the people there protested. The trigger there was infants being killed while getting the measles shots. Even the police and politicians were not allowed out of their houses; only the military. (This event is ironically being used to smear RFK, as he went down there to investigate, and support the aggrieved natives.

      • Yeah there were so many clues that gave it all away.
        I saw Event 201 way before the scamdemic was declared.
        Foolish of them to give away their playbook in advance.

        Tabletop exercise hosted by The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on October 18, 2019.

        Come on, you gotta be kidding me.
        What a coincidence!

        And yet… the masses still bought into it all.

        • That is why we are ‘non-essential.’

        • Oct 18th just happens to be Bill Gates Birthday. He will be 70 years old this Oct 18th. It might be perceived by him as a good time to release the next depopulation bomb.

          I see no letting up in the chem trails and many people here in Michigan have come down with Covid-25 (including me). It was said by a friend’s Doctor to have more Spikes, thus I assume it to be more contagious. I had Covid-19 back in March of 2020 (never got a shot).
          Anyway, my immune system was not ready for this.

  2. Martin Armstrong says that his computer program (which has yet to be wrong) predicts a 100% chance of Nuclear War within the next few months.

    How do you prepare for that?

    • Truth seeker

      I don’t think a full scale war where people are trading cities like it’s 1970 is very likely- where is the war meant to happen? The good news is that (unlike “on the beach” the north and south hemispheres probably would isolate most of the contamination in their own half iirc.

      If India and Pakistan or Iran and Israel go at it I don’t think anyone in the west needs to worry too much…..you might want some iodine tabs but even without them you would “probably” be fine…..it’s not like Europe actually got wrecked by all the crap that poured out of Chernobyl, though you would want to stay away from contaminated meat and dairy products for a few years. You would probably be fine with some stored water and food and staying inside for a week or two while the worst fallout decays……the danger of fall out drops off fast as it’s just dust wiyh fast decaying radioactive compounds in it and unless your able to see the blast you won’t get gamma rays from it- iirc Hiroshima had some folks in a bank vault a few hundred yards from the explosion and they didn’t even die from the gamma radiation because the walls were so thick……tyou might want to look at how much protection your house provides (not much) and stay away from walls and windows to minimize radiation from fall out but , again, most areas would have minimal fallout.

      https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/potassium-iodide-radiation

      Aloha and beta rays are nasty, but dont penitrate too deep thru shielding so again, stay away from walls and windows and maybe have an expendable wash off the roof….;) and push your book shelves into a circle and sit inside. 🙂

      If the war was in Asia it might get bad with fall out blowing over (Europe would probably be fine)

      If there was a small scale war then living near major airports or bases might be bad, but the US is pretty big and plenty of places would hardly know anything had happened except for the supply disruptions (ou and the grid would probably be down ) so while people would die it would be Katrina style- horrible but survivable. The loss of the power grid would be the big killer, most water is local so chances are water would be online in a few weeks.

      Dont live in a target zone and you have a good chance of being fine….but honestly if you literally can’t do anything about it (because you like living in a target zone) it’s not worth excessive worry IMO.

      • Duck,

        How rosy can you get?

        Full scale thermonuclear war, with tens of thousands of hydrogen bombs, each one making the atom bombs that blew up Nagasaki and Hiroshima seem like firecrackers in comparison?

        Posit to say, no one will be posting on TCR to find out how anyone’s fared.

        At least not for a long, long, long, long time.

        Cheers, my friend.

        • Candle light

          Fear porn is useless unless you know what KIND of “….Full scale thermonuclear….” Danger we are actually facing. I can listen to Alex Jones if I want scary and useless intel.

          WHO will be fighting this hypothetical war? Pakistan and Russia have very different capabilities…..

          WHERE will it be fought? A regional war with India and China or Pakistan wint exist for Americans outside tjeir screens……

          WHAT are the goals of the combatants? Are they Israel going Full Samson or China trying to scare the US off Taiwan?

          HOW will they fight it?Conventional forces supported by nukes or full 1980s MAD?

          Not getting at you personally but the Hollywood thinking of how war works doesn’t pan out in real life- there has to be a series of real world events that follow one from yhe other and that determines if we see

          “…..tens of thousands of hydrogen bombs,….”

          Or

          just India and Pakistan stinking the world out as they roast each other en mass.

          The bombs themselves are probably NOT the big killer in a small scale atomic war. EMP and power grid failure would be the big killers in the west

          “…. each one making the atom bombs that blew up Nagasaki and Hiroshima seem like firecrackers in comparison…”

          Unless they are trying to MAD each others cities off the map (again, whi and why?) the bombs biggest danger to civilians will be FALLOUT and failure of the power grid…not the actual blast.

          You can plan and act to mitigate those a bit…..or you can panic and get led around by fear just like we were during Coof.

          If you live by an airbase or vital infrastructure you would be in trouble but “most” people would probably not even see the flash or hear the bang….again, the power and water and supply issue would be the killer

          “…no one will be posting on TCR to find out how anyone’s fared…”

          THAT is true, but while we can post here let’s ask sensible questions and not pretend we are back in the days when a computer hiccup could have ended civilization….fear porn is just porn, actual fear based on information is useful.

          • Duck,

            Ironically, after I left my fear porn post, I went on Netflix and randomly started to watch “Billionaires’ Bunker”. Pretty crappy production, but the twist at the end of the 1st episode was pretty funny. If you’re so inclined, check it out.

            But, anyway, it may have been a bit hyperbolic of me to compare atom bombs to firecrackers in comparison to H-bombs. But, H-bombs are on average 1,000 times more powerful.
            My fear porn is indeed based upon, as you say, full 1980s MAD. Though, has anything changed to preclude such a scenario?
            I don’t think so. Have the players gotten that sophisticated so as to decide among themselves how they will play the game in advance so things don’t get out of control? lol
            Who’s to say what might happen if India and Pakistan go at each other, what sort of conflagration may ensue, and what other actors may suddenly decide the time is right to go and do their thing – say Israel with Iran, for instance, and who may follow suite?
            We don’t need to fully understand the “why” or know the script, or pre-planning, or whatever top secret agreements there may be between friends and/or foes, alike, to understand that stuff can go awry.
            What if some idiot ruler gets it in their head to press the proverbial button, or better yet, that five years from now some critical AI system installed for the same purpose (by truly stupid people, and there’s plenty of them) makes a fatal calculation? Gets its data wrong?

            What came first, the nuclear capability, or Dr. Strangelove?

            Fear porn? Hmm, I’m not so sure about that. But, I’ll tell you one thing, it’s truly weird to contemplate; that’s for damn sure.

            • Candle light

              Yes, it’s certainly not a good thing if they start throwing nukes around. That said, there are plenty of ways to die that you can’t do anything about- the question was ‘what can you do’ and the answer is a fair bit “maybe”….what you can Not do anything about is not worth worrying about.

              I don’t have Netflix, so cant watch the show. Netflix is run by blood of Freud via Mr Proaganda himself Edward Bernays. Not even kidding when I say Netflix is more of a danger than nuclear war these days…..if you want to have your own media you can set up KODI or Jellyfin on an old PC and either steal media off the net or rip from DVDs.

              But anyway back in topic
              Yes, your right a war would be terrible….but again how terrible depends on WHO and WHY is fighting.

              Also a war doesn’t just happen- there are steps and serieses of actions that have to happen and plenty of incentives to not move to the next step.

              As horrible as such a war would have been even then there would have been plenty of survivors around the globe. There would be plenty of places today that wouldn’t even know a war happened, and others where they’d just notice the power failure and the end of supplies.

              “…Though, has anything changed to preclude such a scenario?…”

              Not exactly, but it would be a lot harder to make it happen today.

              There was AFAIK no plan even back then to just start trading cities – wars have aims and there is no aim served by that. Sure it COULD happen, and if it does most people can kiss their ass good bye, but it’s not particularly likely to happen IMO and if it does there is nothing to do except what you can do (like I listed, dont be in the blast zone, stay inside for a couple of weeks and take some iodine tabs)

              There are fewer systems to deliver the weapons today then back then….there is nothing like the same number of conventional forces as then, and we are not bound into two united military alliances that are primed and intergreated to act at the same time…..even if one side was to first strike the US or Russia Eastern Europe and Western Europe would not automatically start shooting off nukes. If there was a desire to whack off milky of our own people there are plenty of easier and less wasteful ways to do it, tbh.

              • I would hope that the basic principle of MAD still stands as a reasonable and logical deterrence against letting the missiles fly.

                Though, I’d still say tactical, limited use of nuclear weapons on however small a scale, incorporating it into strategic , military planning of any sort, is simply playing with fire.

                But, all in all, you’re probably correct that it’s use, if it came down to it, would be limited, if not very stupid and short-sighted.

                I lose sleep over drinking coffee at night, not necessarily over thoughts of nuclear annihilation.

                Unless, of course, the adversarial rhetoric that’s been floating around for the last couple of years dramatically ramps way up and an autocratic leader’s ego suddenly starts to feel like it’s got nothing left to lose…the world be damned…..
                You never know, right?

        • From the interview Greg Hunter did on USAWatchdog with Martin Armstrong it would appear that Israel has aggressively started 7 wars and is working on getting the American Government to attack Russia. This would indeed create the Armageddon that the Terrorist State of Israel has been working on since it was created.

          Getting Trump to surprise attack Iran while pretending to be negotiating for peace shows the world that Trump is Netanyahu’s pawn.

          Supplying U.S. made missiles to Ukraine with the intent of hitting Moscow is too stupid to be stupid!

          • That’s true- but much as the Jews would love to start a war that hurts Russia they would not survive it themselves.

            If the US and Russia get into it who will give Israel money and protection in the Middle East (even assuming the Russians didnt just toast the tiny little country out of spite, in the confusion?) and where would Jews be welcome after starting a big war? It’s not like after ww2 when they owned the media and were in alliance with the non Jew elites.

            Jews do tend to get crazy at this point in the cycle but I don’t think their actual leaders are stupid.

  3. Usually the links in these newsletter articles go to a relevant source, not this time. So many of the links are dead, at least for me. Here’s a few that didn’t work when I clicked on them:

    The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

    “Gen Z protesting”

    “Gen Z Protests”

    “Gen Z Rage”

    “staggering”

    And, amazingly enough (because these things tend to be so well edited), I found the following double “the” sentence: but in Serbia, the the question of how such an event…

    I’d love to be able to get to the reference material, so just saying…

  4. Lest I be repetitive…Our recent past is our foreseeable future, because neither the ideology nor the power-centers profiting from it have changed.

    Doesn’t matter how many ego named generations march and scream all you want, doesn’t change a thing but lets the controllers sharpen their knives and pull off another false flag that brings more closing down of freedoms.

    Just look at what Trump has or hasn’t done :-/ He was the chosen one by the right and his game all along has been to work with his fellow chabad cronies. No Fort Knox investigation; no Epstein revelations; no freeing of Julian Assange; no stopping of the Ukrainian nonsense; just more funding; giving the Zionists BILLIONS of dollars to murder, rape, and torture Palestinians, and on and on.

    Brzezinski spelled it 60 years ago:
    “We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans”
    >>Drain the swamp>> >>Make America Great Again>>
    – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
    “People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.”
    – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
    “The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.
    – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
    “Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

    The bureaucracy is still bloated and will be around long after Donnie is gone. We are not a Republic or a Democracy we are an Oligarchy. And they have taken us right into WWIII, it just isn’t on the web so folks don’t understand. Our food is dead, our skies are toxic, our “entertainment” is utter madness, our kids are screwed up, so are are adults.

    DO YOU THINK WE’RE GONNA LAST (song)
    https://old.bitchute.com/video/Kykg3jVHnrU4/

    • If enough people refuse to participate in the madness, the evil Oligarchs will have no power.

      And, it all starts with one individual calling out the bullshit, as others join in.

      • @TruthSeeker
        Indeed. I have spent decades on that quest.
        I just went over 100,000 visits to my music site attempting to wake up a few out there. Hell, they can’t even start any meaningful conversations in the comment box, perhaps 1 in a 7-800 :-/

        I call my music Brain Food as opposed to the controller’s mind control of Ear Candy.
        It is a tough shell to crack for sure. There are so many worrying about the what if’s and not the what is.

        TELL ME WHO (song)
        https://old.bitchute.com/video/1Ptxb4JUvHoO/

      • @TruthSeeker
        So last night I was watching some NFL replays of Sunday’s games and came across a video that was filled with so much hope for the younger folks to break the bonds. It is a band of 12 year old 5th graders covering past hit songs by Journey, The Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Adele, Sade, Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, etc. They are called the Graystones and just started up this year it seems and have gotten over 250 MILLION views on various social media combined.

        I watched about a dozen of their videos, lead guitar, bass, drums, keyboard and two girl vocalists are the basic but they get other kids from school to who play flute, sax, trumpet, etc. Here’s one that teared me up because I realized they are like a message to others like the seagull in Waterworld that landed on the hot balloon basket indicating land was near, in this case hope.
        FIFTH GRADERS!!

        I Can’t Tell You Why (Eagles)
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCIdMOt9iVk

  5. Mr Nordengard is cool and lays things out pretty clearly, but if your interested in that stuff Chris Knowles if the Secret Sun blog is a good source- he has probably done a series on every subject covered in the talk (I know he has done one on secret Star Trek) although he tends to go off of on tangents but is well worth listening to on some things.

    You could also read from the horses mouth and get “changing images of man” , I tried but it was too much like reading that gross yuval harari book “sapients” and I quit, but Jay Dyer has talks on that book.

    It’s a shame the great Constance Cumby has passed on, she was probably the first person to break this stuff at scale…..you can also listen to the Creepy Lucis trust triangles meditation online , you shouldn’t but if you do you will prob hear the same creepy voice that we meet in liberal churches before they go full sodomite. Always the same voice, always the same message

  6. Thanks for the compilation. Here in the US, it looks like Alex Jones’ predictions, from over 20 years ago, of coming martial law, are coming to pass. His documentary ‘Police State’ focused on that. He also showed how the LEFT-RIGHT PARADIGM, which is essential to the realization of long term NWO agendas, is very real and important. The documentary, Obama Deception, featured that very clearly. It was released as OBama first became elected.
    I have noticed the facebook left-right rhetoric has gotten even more heated and entrenched lately.

    Minor point of order: I was taken aback by reading this, “the Gen Z revolution has reached the shores of Nepal.”
    If you are mystified by my objection, please consult a map.

  7. Thanks for an excellent post/update, James!

    It cannot remain unsaid that the “Gen Z” anti-government protests which are currently taking place globally are happening at a time when more and more governments around the world (mainly of countries in the “Western” hegemonic domain) are “suddenly” introducing their plans (and in many cases, outright projects) to implement a digital ID “much needed” to fight whichever bogeyman a particular government is “especially concerned” with. It almost looks like a concerted, coordinated effort, which, if I recall correctly, James & James have already mentioned and discussed in an earlier edition of NWNW.

    On that note, I completely agree with the author’s assesment that this is but a stepping stone in TPTSBs game of “order out of chaos” and that the noose of Fungible Universal Basic Income, Social Credit Score and total societal control is quickly tightening around the neck of the “free world”. All that’s missing now is a new “Pearl Harbour event” to corral in the sheep and help speed up the destruction of the old “outdated” system…

  8. Here is an answer of a spiritual master to the state the world is in (starting at 44:26)
    https://www.youtube.com/live/f_xJqbGaCpQ

    By now, after many years of being very busy with all these subjects like Agenda 2030, genmanipulation, 5G, chemtrails, the workings of the predator class etc., I find the approach this man takes the most sanity-preserving one to take

    • Hello Miguel,

      Thanks for sharing the video of this peaceful fellow. Pretty humorous. I definitely agree, the man’s got a good attitude. As far as the question posed to him about where he thought the world was at these days, he was probably right about the temple cat’s feelings on the matter – totally bored.

      Correct! 🙂

  9. Thanks so much for updating this, James!

    Here’s a link to a video with someone advising what he believes are the goals and why he thinks the protests are being orchestrated similar to what others mentioned above. All very horrifying. Here’s a portion of what he says on the video copied below from this link where you can find the video:

    https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1971840359790510135

    “”Governments around the world aren’t just failing at random… The elites are trying to abolish governments.”

    “In places like the World Economic Forum… they are already talking about post-nation governance. A future where borders and politicians fade—replaced by algorithmic management.”

    “Smart cities run by code. Resources distributed by digital overseers. AI not just assisting government, but being the government.”

    “Which means the people would be trading flawed governments for something worse. A control system you can’t vote out, can’t question, can’t even see.”

    “The collapse of trust in governments isn’t an accident. It’s a setup.”

    “The replacement isn’t democracy reborn. It’s governance by machine, owned by the same few who hollowed out the old system.”

    I first saw this “post nation governance” video on tiktok and went looking for it elsewhere.

    There’s a site where one can go to easily sort in various ways, as well as to search, comments people make to youtube videos:

    https://hadzy.com/analytics/youtube/

    Does anyone know of a similar webpage one can go to one for TikTok comments?

  10. If someone liked Mr Nordgards thing in the Agentic State where he lays out very well the basic structure of the Lucis Trust types they might also like to hear Spencer Smith come at it from the opposite side.

    “The Charlie Kirk Files: Ep 14 – The Seven Mountain Mandate”

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iowg_00BVIk&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv

    For the Non Christian side there is The Farm Mach II , it also has some Epps in the NAR and Mormons (the weird Gnostics whi think god used to be some dude on a planet named kolob).

    If you draw this kinda stuff out on a board the branches end twisting back in on themselves as they try to converge on politics and spirituality. Always the same stupid ideas

    • No. The stupid idea is that we are alone.
      The chaos from “spirits” is bringing people into all kinds of sect-like thinking.

      Because of all the chaos, we started to think that atheism and materialism seems sane.
      But atheism and materialism is also the core of the WEF, banking and leftist insanity.
      It is just a different group of sects.

      • “…The chaos from “spirits” is bringing people into all kinds of sect-like thinking.…”

        Yes, pretty much all new age thinking is from demons.

        “…Because of all the chaos, we started to think that atheism and materialism seems sane.…”

        Yes, the plan appears to be to come at us from both sides…..undermine religion and then fill the vacuum with demon worship and spiritism. As I said they push political and spiritual movements wiyh the aim of convergence

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