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Title: The Handling of the Economic Crisis May Lead to Civil Unrest
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URL Source: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
Published: Jun 9, 2011
Author: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
Post Date: 2011-06-09 15:21:10 by Capitalist Eric
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CNN's Jack Cafferty notes that a number of voices are saying that - if our economy continues to deteriorate (which it very well might) - we are likely headed for violence, and civil unrest is a growing certainty. Watch the must-see CNN viewer comments on this issue: var VideoID = "15271"; var Width = 425; var Height = 344; Why Are People So Angry? Numerous high-level officials and experts warn that the economic crisis could lead to unrest world-wide - even in developed countries: No wonder former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski ... warned the Council on Foreign Relations that: For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. There are only a few pockets of humanity left in the remotest corners of the world that are not politically alert and engaged with the political turmoil and stirrings that are so widespread today around the world. *** Poster Comment: Some comments from the poll: Paul From Austin Texas June 8th, 2011 2:54 pm ET Jayne June 8th, 2011 2:55 pm ET Mark in Oklahoma City June 8th, 2011 2:58 pm ET Bull June 8th, 2011 3:00 pm ET Stephen Paul June 8th, 2011 3:01 pm ET Terrence Cain June 8th, 2011 2:43 pm ET Carl June 8th, 2011 2:43 pm ET Annie, Atlanta June 8th, 2011 2:46 pm ET pat, Idaho June 8th, 2011 2:48 pm ET Ed from Texas June 8th, 2011 2:48 pm ET bonnie from NJ June 8th, 2011 2:49 pm ET Alex in Bremerton, WA June 8th, 2011 2:50 pm ET Cathy June 8th, 2011 2:51 pm ET Wilhelm von Nord Bach June 8th, 2011 4:07 pm ET Michelle June 8th, 2011 4:10 pm ET
Why are people so angry?
Well, nations around the world decided to bail out their big banks instead of taking the necessary steps to stabilize their economies (see this, this and this). As such, they all transferred massive debts (from fraudulent and stupid gambling activities) from the balance sheets of the banks to the balance sheets of the country.
The nations have then run their printing presses nonstop in an effort to inflate their way out of their debt crises, even though that effort is doomed to failure from the get-go.
Quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve is obviously causing food prices to skyrocket worldwide (and see this, this and this).
But the fact is that every country in the world that can print money - i.e. which is not locked into a multi-country currency agreement like the Euro - has been printing massive quantities of money. See these charts.
Moreover, the austerity measures which governments worldwide are imposing to try to plug their gaping deficits (created by throwing trillions at their banks) are causing people world-wide to push back.
As I warned in February 2009 and again in December of that year:
Unemployment is soaring globally - especially among youth.The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The “widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” “An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home,” it went on. “Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD [the Department of Defense] would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance,” the document read.
"The global economic crisis ... already looms as the most serious one in decades, if not in centuries ... Economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they are prolonged for a one- or two-year period," said Blair. "And instability can loosen the fragile hold that many developing countries have on law and order, which can spill out in dangerous ways into the international community."***
"Statistical modeling shows that economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they persist over a one-to-two-year period."***
“The crisis has been ongoing for over a year, and economists are divided over whether and when we could hit bottom. Some even fear that the recession could further deepen and reach the level of the Great Depression. Of course, all of us recall the dramatic political consequences wrought by the economic turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, the instability, and high levels of violent extremism.”
Blair made it clear that - while unrest was currently only happening in Europe - he was worried this could happen within the United States.
[See also this].
Others warning of crash-induced unrest include:
And the sense of outrage at the injustice of the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer is also a growing global trend.
Countries worldwide told their people that bailout out the giant banks was necessary to save the economy. But they haven't delivered, and the "Main Streets" of the world have suffered.
As former American senator (and consummate insider) Chris Dodd said in 2008:If it turns out that [the banks] are hoarding, you’ll have a revolution on your hands. People will be so livid and furious that their tax money is going to line their pockets instead of doing the right thing. There will be hell to pay.
Of course, the big banks are hoarding, and refusing to lend to Main Street. In fact, they admitted back in 2008 that they would. And the same is playing out globally.
As I noted in February:Agence France-Press reports today:
The International Monetary Fund stands ready to help riot-torn Egypt rebuild its economy, the IMF chief said Tuesday as he warned governments to tackle unemployment and income inequality or risk war.
America needs to face squarely a centrally important new global reality: that the world's population is experiencing a political awakening unprecedented in scope and intensity, with the result that the politics of populism are transforming the politics of power. The need to respond to that massive phenomenon poses to the uniquely sovereign America an historic dilemma: What should be the central definition of America's global role?
[T]he central challenge of our time is posed not by global terrorism, but rather by the intensifying turbulence caused by the phenomenon of global political awakening. That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing.
It is no overstatement to assert that now in the 21st century the population of much of the developing world is politically stirring and in many places seething with unrest. It is a population acutely conscious of social injustice to an unprecedented degree, and often resentful of its perceived lack of political dignity. The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches.
Watch an excerpt:
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That turmoil is the product of the political awakening, the fact that today vast masses of the world are not politically neutered, as they have been throughout history. They have political consciousness.
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Politically awakened mankind craves political dignity, which democracy can enhance, but political dignity also encompasses ethnic or national self-determination, religious self-definition, and human and social rights, all in a world now acutely aware of economic, racial and ethnic inequities. The quest for political dignity, especially through national self-determination and social transformation, is part of the pulse of self-assertion by the world's underprivileged
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We live in an age in which mankind writ large is becoming politically conscious and politically activated to an unprecedented degree, and it is this condition which is producing a great deal of international turmoil.
That turmoil is the product of the political awakening, the fact that today vast masses of the world are not politically neutered, as they have been throughout history. They have political consciousness.
Postscript: Violence Is Not the Answer
As I've repeatedly noted, I am against violence for a number of reasons, the most important being that people advocating violence have probably not thought through George Orwell's analysis that:Ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance.
While I agree on the urgency of fundamentally changing things so that our nation (and world) aren't driven over a cliff, I believe that - instead of violence - other methods must be found.
Take that energy of being willing to die to protect your and your family's freedoms, and put it into demanding change in an effective manner.
Dylan From Olympia, WA June 8th, 2011 2:53 pm ET
My hope is that people have enough decency to be kind and not hurt each other. However, money is a prime motivator for crime and as more people become poor crime is almost guaranteed to rise.
If we continue down the road we are on and if Medicare is scraped along with other programs that help the old and the poor it just could. Violence in our country would start in suttle ways like vandilism and trespassing that would require inforcement thus turning violent. My hope is we are able to have change without violence of any kind.
Just in case a fat cat CEO who is outsourcing our jobs reads this, I'm going to say the chances are high. You won't be safe in your gated community or on your yacht or at your third, fourth or fifth vacation home.
Obama better forget about that money pit called Iraq-Afghanistan and start focusing on getting those Public works jobs that he promised, or he will need those troops over here to maintain order in the streets. People are only going to put up with his economic incompetence for just so long.
JACK I'm 70 yrs. old and I fully believe that I will see violence in this country before I'm gone and it will not only be the the economy that causes it. Just look what is going on along our borders. The american people have had enough mark my words.
Jack I'm expecting violence in the near future. There is a heavy simmering fear that our government has won and is running amok out there. Our government is no longer of the people, by the people or for the people and we're going to see the lid blow off soon. No one in Washington cares a damn what Americans need, want or expect, it's all about their getting ahead and getting their sexting out there. Fed up in Nashville, In.
Steve
Honestly Jack, I am quite surprised that there has not been riots in the last three years since this recession went into full swing. I am also shocked no one has formed a group to march onto the white house lawn to protest the financial crisis we're in. I don't know if things are truly stewing but I wouldn't be surprised if something bad was about to happen.
Terrence Cain
Big Spring, TX.
Jack, Great question today. The chances of violence is very possible. We the people are sick to death of seeing our corrupt worthless political leaders robbing us blind, giving aid to every country, when we need it here first. Allowing an illegal alien invasion, and not doing a thing to stop it. Watching our worthless elects getting richer with every passing day, so yes, it's very possible and about time. If nothing is done, and soon, these corrupt idiots will sell us and our once great country down the road. By the way, I live in the corrupt state of Illinois, where all of our govenors serve 2 terms, the first in office, the second in prison.
We've been spoonfed tax breaks for the rich and bailouts for the bankers for so long now, I'm not sure we have it in us to fight for ourselves anymore.
Another promise by Obama broken, how long does he expect this country to hold on? Another recession, and he doesn't care–civil war!!!
There's a good chance they may start eating the rich.
Although I grew up in the "make love not war" 70s, I am pretty angry about what is going on. I myself would probably not ever use violence, but I think the powers that be need to understand that there is a great deal of anger out here. It is very difficult to read the news, such as today that although we gave Afghanistan billions in aid it helped nothing. Why are we doing that, my friends are losing houses, jobs, taking $8 – $10 hour jobs out of desperation and we are throwing money at a lost cause that is only making some corrupt officials very rich on my tax dollars. I really want to know when someone is going to pay attention.
I've heard it said, "Revolution is only two missed meals away." So if climate change turns the wheat belt back into a dust bowl and social programs get cut, Jack, watch out! We should take a lesson from the Romans. "Bread and circuses" kept the population pacified until the money ran out.
Let's see, gangs of 10 or more are beating up innocent people in Chicago for no reason other than money, gardens in the suburbs are being pillfered for vegtable plants , and flowers, ...... I think it's the tip of the ice berg that we are encountering- can you imagine what's going to happen when this gets into full swing?
did the concentration of weath among the aristocracy trigger violence during the French Revolution, Jack? how about the Russian Revoluton or Germany in the 1930's? so YES if it gets to the point where average working Americans feel totally hopeless and can't feed their families, it could lead to violence. happened more than people know during the "Great Depression".
If prices of gas, groceries and necessary items don't come down soon and if people can't get jobs to support their families then violence is definitely probability. We are a crumbling nation. Our politicians need to spend a month living on our wages and have to pay for groceries and gas and pay bills on OUR salaries and not theirs. They have NO idea what we working class citizens have to go through on a daily basis. I am surprised that American's haven't converged on Capitol Hill in protest already. Its coming. The unrest in the middle east is only a drop in the bucket to what could happen here. WAKE UP AMERICA and stand up for your rights.
Michelle – Dover, DE
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#1. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
The Handling of ANYTHING May Lead to Civil Unrest
Erica is our resident drama queen Happy Quanzza (aka Quay whom you may know as Client 9) is the resident Queen and Boofer is the resident Dick.
Don't you mean dick inspector and admirer? Also don't forget Padlock the Gnu tax on patience. If there is a story to be twisted or distorted, he's the boy for the job.
Dummy and rat-boy reading from the same disinformation handbook... How predictably boring. Rule of Disinformation #3. Create rumor mongers. Avoid discussing issues by describing all charges, regardless of venue or evidence, as mere rumors and wild accusations. Rule of Disinformation #17. Change the subject. ...find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more manageable topic. Rule of Disinformation #18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how “sensitive they are to criticism”. How typical, to utterly ignore the entire subject of the thread... just show up, throw some shit, and see what sticks. Thanks for playing, dummies.
#6. To: Capitalist Eric (#5)
That's what they do bro. The libTURDS have a new internet boss, that creep Lee; and this crap will get worse as the year goes on. ChiTown corruption for EVERYBODY! But I imagine that AMERICANS still have something to say about THAT eh? It's fixing to get flat "interesting". Chaos, DEATH! and confusion to America's enemies! May they eat dirt, and drink sorrow and failure forever. AMEN!
Erica...quit spamming threads with your bullshit.
Do you mean like your illustrated insults?
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#3. To: war (#2)
"Erica is our resident drama queen Happy Quanzza (aka Quay whom you may know as Client 9) is the resident Queen and Boofer is the resident Dick."
#5. To: war, Ferret Mike (#3)
"Erica is our resident drama queen Happy Quanzza (aka Quay whom you may know as Client 9) is the resident Queen and Boofer is the resident Dick."
Rule of Disinformation #5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule.
Replies to Comment # 5. How typical, to utterly ignore the entire subject of the thread... just show up, throw some shit, and see what sticks.
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Rule of Disinformation #5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule.
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