The Zombies 2015 - 2017 Part 2

UPDATED 12 MARCH 2016
 
3.     Zombies Attempt To Sabotage The West

• Collapse of physical on-the-street retail sector, especially in North America;
• Large shopping malls gutted by vacancies and dereliction;
• Low level retail staff laid off;
• Mass employment migration to fast food outlets and restaurants;
• Increasing automation in fast food outlets and laying off staff;
• Attempt to ban cash will affect low level workers the most;

 

• Higher taxes, shrinking tax bases, attempts to impose "innovative" taxes and fines;
• Trade protectionism and tariffs, including sanctions;
• Further crashes in real estate prices - notwithstanding current asset bubbles;
• State and private pensions raided to fund debt servicing;
• Cuts in government programs, austerity measures;

• Widespread social unrest, rioting, looting and crime;
• Entire Western cities bankrupt;
• Increasingly belligerent Political Correctness;
• Increasingly belligerent Policing with quasi-military tactics;
• Massive reduction in human rights and personal liberty;

• Increased regulations....if it ain't illegal, it's forbidden....
• Massive economic and social dislocation in the West. Emergence of ultra-rich and impoverished middle class;
• Social and economic resentment growing;
• Unaffordable health care;
• Asset confiscation without recourse to the legal system;

• Confiscation of customer's bank accounts via Bail-Ins to support insolvent banks;
• Negative Interest Rates to penalize depositors;
• Growing numbers of Westerners surrendering citizenship and moving to the East, Latin America and the Caribbean;
• Westerners in denial that despite mounting evidence, their living standards are falling to Third World Level. 
• Massive delusions that Westerners are still living in the "First World" or a "Developed Country".

• Growing panic to patch up disintegrating alliances and outmoded institutions like NATO and the EU with coercion used to keep them together;
• Refugees swamping Western countries as a result of West's foreign and military policies, economic sanctions and neo-imperialism. Realization that the "Arab Spring" was instigated by the West to re-draw the map of the Middle East in their favour;
• Growing Muslim diaspora in the West will trigger economic and demographic shifts;
• Race and Religion becoming social, political, economic and military issues;
• Increase in bigotry, racial profiling and gratuitous aggression; 

• Incessant War Frenzy, vocal and actual belligerence, militarism, patriotic appeals, allegedly "noble" causes like "democratic values" and "humanitarian intervention";
• Huge risk of hubris and unintended consequences, with potential to backfire; 
• Black Swan events;

Coming Up in Part 3:  The Financial Trap Facing The West