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by Martin Armstrong

March 31, 2014

from ArmstrongEconomics Website

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All governments had better open their eyes for we are on the brink of a major convergence between both the 'Cycle of Civil Unrest, Civil War & Revolution' and 'International War.'

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Both of these models converge and as I pointed out at the Cycles of War Conference, this is the first time we have seen this convergence since the 1700s.

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This is no plain modern event with civil unrest erupting because of an interconnected world.

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These are grassroots uprisings cross-fertilized perhaps from a world contagion yet they often have similarities - corrupt governments.

• Turkey

• Ukraine

• Thailand

• Venezuela

• Bosnia-Herzegovina,

...are all middle-income democracies with elected leaders besieged by people angry at misgovernment, corruption and economic sclerosis.

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These days it is no longer just dictators who have something to fear from the crowd.

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This is the promise of Marxism that centralized planning and false promises are coming home and governments are too corrupt and incompetent to deliver what they have claimed for decades.
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• Communism is dead.

• The socialistic agendas that have lined the pockets of government and filled the coffers of banks is over.

• The national debts are on average composed of 70% interest payments not programs to help the poor as marketed.

• The debts that keep growing with no intent upon paying anyone back are draining the national productivity and turning the people into economic slaves.

• The standard of living has declined and it now takes two incomes to survive where one use to be just fine.

• Women won the right to work and lost the right to stay home.

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The promises that you save for the future have collapsed into dust as interest rates have been driven lower making savings utterly worthless.

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There is no such thing as saving and living off your fixed income. The elderly are being driven back into the work force and the whole ideas that a generation believed in are vanishing before their eyes.

So it is no longer communists and dictators that are the targets.

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All governments are now the targets and when the economy turns down after 2015, the threat of civilization will be pulled apart by the self-interest of politicians clinging to power to the detriment of the people.
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