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I'm really beginning to think that all this doomsday civil war crap is to put all the people who really want change into a state of fear so that they won't do anything but stock up on ammo, get a ham radio, download hard copies of the bill of rights, listen to Alex Jones and sit around in a state of constant panic planning a series of underground tunnels in their back yard.
The r3volution is a peaceful movement. We don't want collapse, we want a gradual waking up of the masses, a real change of public opinion and subsequently real change in the role and scope of government in general.
I'm just tired of all the collapse propaganda, I distrust all these kinds of articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
Millions of people were persecuted in the violent factional struggles that ensued across the country, and suffered a wide range of abuses including public humiliation, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, sustained harassment, and seizure of property. A large segment of the population was forcibly displaced, most notably the transfer of urban youth to rural regions during the Down to the Countryside Movement. Historical relics and artifacts were destroyed. Cultural and religious sites were ransacked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of excess deaths.[2] Estimates of the death toll range from 18 million[3] to 45 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/world/europe/15iht-bulgaria.4.16989483.html?pagewanted=all
Politics is played to the death in Bulgaria, where the lives of politicians can be as cheap as spent bullets and murky business groups wage a murderous struggle for their cut of everything from real estate deals to millions in European aid.
During a furious political season last year, the home of the chairwoman of a municipal electoral committee was set on fire and the garages of mayors were firebombed.
In the meantime, government spending continued to be high and corruption was rampant. Argentina's public debt grew enormously during the 1990s and the country showed no true signs of being able to pay it. The IMF, however, kept lending money to Argentina and postponing its payment schedules. Massive tax evasion and money laundering explained a large part of the evaporation of funds toward offshore banks.
In addition to the corralito, the Ministry of Economy dictated the pesificación, by which all bank accounts denominated in dollars would be converted to pesos at official rate. This measure angered most savings holders and appeals were made by many citizens to declare it unconstitutional.
After a few months, the exchange rate was left to float more or less freely. The peso suffered a huge depreciation, which in turn prompted inflation (since Argentina depended heavily on imports, and had no means to replace them locally at the time).
The economic situation became steadily worse with regards to inflation and unemployment during 2002. By that time the original 1-to-1 rate had increased to nearly 4 pesos per dollar, while the accumulated inflation since the devaluation was about 80%
Monthly inflation of 10-20%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monthly_inflation_in_Argentina,_2002.png