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There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored

There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored
Police in riot gear in Enfield, north London, on Sunday night. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters Since the coalition came to power just over a year ago, the country has seen multiple student protests, occupations of dozens of universities, several strikes, a half-a-million-strong trade union march and now unrest on the streets of the capital (preceded by clashes with Bristol police in Stokes Croft earlier in the year). Each of these events was sparked by a different cause, yet all take place against a backdrop of brutal cuts and enforced austerity measures. The government knows very well that it is taking a gamble, and that its policies run the risk of sparking mass unrest on a scale we haven't seen since the early 1980s. With people taking to the streets of Tottenham, Edmonton, Brixton and elsewhere over the past few nights, we could be about to see the government enter a sustained and serious losing streak.

Riots in London - Alan Taylor - In Focus Riots that erupted in London neighborhoods over the weekend spread to four other cities yesterday, as hundreds were arrested and at least one person was killed. What began as a protest against the police shooting of Tottenham resident Mark Duggan spread quickly into general rioting and opportunistic looting -- what Prime Minister David Cameron has called "criminality pure and simple." For three days now, buildings and vehicles have been smashed and set on fire, while stores and warehouses were looted. Police have been unable to do much to slow the mayhem. Tonight, some 16,000 police officers will be deployed to London's streets in an effort to quash the worst unrest in the city in decades. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A hooded youth walks past a burning vehicle in Hackney on August 8, 2011 in London, England. Protestors face off against riot police lines on Tottenham High Road on August 6, 2011 in London, England. A car burns on a street in Ealing, London, on August 9, 2011.

British government begins stealing its peoples’ bank deposits ahead of the global financial collapse. | PRESS Core – Evidentiary News, World News, Special Reports, Technology, Health, Videos, Polls, Free energy, Cures, War Crimes, Crime Against Humanity, Posted by PC Latest news , World news Monday, August 8th, 2011 A police officer ordered by the government to rob the people. It happened before and it is starting again. Government confiscating (stealing) the people’s life savings. Just like in 1929 the British government began its theft of the people’s life savings just before the Great Depression. In March of 2011 the British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered British police to execute Operation Rize - raid and seize the entire contents (art, gold ingots, gold dust, jewelery and cash) of nearly 7,000 safety deposit boxes from three vaults in London. The British government instructed the police to arrest anyone who went to the vaults to try and recover the contents of their safety deposit boxes. When word spread about the government raid and theft of the contents of their safety deposit boxes people rushed to the bank vaults. Armed robbery of bank safety deposit boxes by London Police On November 24, 2008, U.S. {*style:<b> </b>*}

London, Egypt and the complex role of social media Revolutions and riots pre-date social media. Deep unrest, a history of oppositional organizing, economic downturns, corruption, and the relatively neutral position of the military are all factors that have impacted Egypt. These far more dramatically shape the realities experienced in a country with 85 million people, under 5 percent of whom use Facebook and 1 percent use Twitter. While activists and younger, wealthier, and educated citizens may connect with one another and build strong ties via these technologies, legitimate grievances and community organizing more directly played a role in mobilizing the masses. Confronting these grievances by cutting off or hacking a communication technology, as one British lawmaker said should be done to Blackberry in London, fails to address the deep-rooted dissatisfaction that drove people to take to the streets. Social media are part of a much larger matrix of tools and intentions that rally masses.

Panic on the streets of London. I’m huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn. The BBC is interchanging footage of blazing cars and running street battles in Hackney, of police horses lining up in Lewisham, of roiling infernos that were once shops and houses in Croydon and in Peckham. Last night, Enfield, Walthamstow, Brixton and Wood Green were looted; there have been hundreds of arrests and dozens of serious injuries, and it will be a miracle if nobody dies tonight. This is the third consecutive night of rioting in London, and the disorder has now spread to Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol and Birmingham. Politicians and police officers who only hours ago were making stony-faced statements about criminality are now simply begging the young people of Britain’s inner cities to go home. Violence is rarely mindless. Months of conjecture will follow these riots. "Yes," said the young man. Eavesdropping from among the onlookers, I looked around. Noone expected this.

London’s Burning: Mindless Violence Matched with Mindless Reactions from the Public | Orwellwasright's Weblog I don’t know what’s depressed me more over the last few days, the riots or the response to the riots from members of the public on forums, social networking websites and elsewhere. Until now, I’ve been living under the delusion that most people at heart have a fair sense of right and wrong and the importance of a level-headed, sane response to events such as the swathe of riots which swept the UK over the last few days (and may well continue sporadically over the next few days). Judging by most of the responses I’ve heard or read from people, however, I’ve clearly had my head floating somewhere up above in the clouds. I can understand perfectly well and accept why the rioters are being categorised as “mindless yobs”, “hooligans”, “violent thugs” and so on. One friend of mine came across a group on Facebook offering support for the Metropolitan Police and their efforts to quell the riots. Alexis de Tocqueville is alleged to have once said, “People get the government they deserve.”

Noticias - Londres 2012: ¿Qué atleta olímpico serías tú? I depict a riot | Art and design Mob captured ... an engraving of the Gordon riots of 1780. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images These are the worst social upheavals in London in living memory, say police. What about beyond living memory? The capital has seen some spectacular riots and rebellions. The early ones were not filmed or photographed, but can be seen in old paintings and prints. In an illumination from a medieval manuscript of Froissart's Chronicles, the king and his lords in their pageantry confront an army of poor men in front of the towers and spires of London. King Charles I was not so lucky in the 1640s, as his quarrel with parliament degenerated into war. Neither the 1381 peasants' revolt nor the English civil war have much in common with the rioting and looting in London in August 2011, but there is far more of a parallel with the Gordon riots in 18th-century London. The Gordon riots were not pretty. The Gordon riots surely were the biggest in London's history to date.

Norway Never Happened, Just Ask The Police (Suppressed Video) By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor The Norway killings, more and more fully complicit police terrorism, Freemasons, Israeli agents, carefully timed slaughter, has gone silent. The other suspects, gone from the planet, disappeared, no names, just stories of arrests, even films of the suspects homes, but now as though it had never happened. A cascade. Murder of a SEAL team in Afghanistan, one more stage in the 9/11 coverup, cleansing the American military of the witnesses to the phony bin Laden theatre. Riots now in Britain, increasingly seeming staged by government agent provacateurs, we are told timed to bury questions about the Iraq inqury coverup. Then there was the Murdoch story, top government counter-terrorism officials quit, should have been arrested, waterboarded, should have brought down the entire government but, instead, a “pie thrower” gets 6 weeks in jail. All we have today for you is one simple video from CNN, suppressed, forgotten, but seeded with just enough to take it all down.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents: The Original Olympiads Another ruling pancratist, Polydamas of Thessaly, was the subject of much mythology. Among other things, he was said to have been so strong that, using only one hand, he could halt a chariot in full flight. Darius, the Persian King, hearing such tales, invited the Greek to his capital. After the tension of the contact sports, the race in armor—the last of the athletic events—may have provided some agreeable levity. We have no reliable evidence of how far the discus or the javelin was thrown, the length of the jump, or the speed of the runners. Slightly to the south of the stadium and in the direction of the river Alpheus was the site of the hippodrome, a sizable installation about half a mile in length, in which the horse and chariot races were run—a part of the festival known as the hippic events, which began in 680 B.C., at the twenty-fifth Olympiad, with the four-horse chariot race. The festival's many traditional contests were also varied from time to time by cultural events.

Mark Duggan hat nicht auf Polizisten geschossen Mark Duggan starb durch eine Polizeikugel, sein Tod löste die Gewalt in London aus. Nun ergab eine Untersuchung, dass der 29-Jährige selbst nicht geschossen hat - was die Polizei zunächst behauptet hatte. Am vergangenen Donnerstag sah alles noch ganz anders aus: Die Polizei behauptete, Mark Duggan habe das Feuer auf die Beamten eröffnet, als diese ihn festnehmen wollten. Daraufhin habe einer der Polizisten dem 29-Jährigen in die Brust geschossen - aus Notwehr. Nun hat Scotland Yard diese Version revidiert. Duggan hat nicht auf die Polizisten geschossen, so das Ergebnis einer Untersuchung der Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Duggans Familie hatte am Samstag zu einer Demonstration gegen die Polizei aufgerufen. Die Polizei ermittelte wegen organisierter Bandenkriminalität gegen Duggan. Laut der ersten Darstellung der Polizei feuerte Duggan zuerst auf die Polizei, ein Beamter überlebte angeblich nur durch Glück, weil die Kugel von seinem Funkgerät aufgehalten wurde.

Zionist Brownshirts in the UK Riots by Joshua Blakeney Football teams in England provide the ruling class with useful vehicles to divide and rule the working class. As part of the “social” side of football working class people are encouraged to get excessively drunk (i.e. kill their brain-cells to prevent them interpreting the world) and to fight each other which precludes them from uniting to fight their class oppressors. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (aka “Spurs”) is an interesting football team to focus on in light of the ongoing UK riots, the epicenter of which is in the Tottenham area. In a 2007 article in The Guardian Seth Freedman referred to… “Tottenham’s long-held reputation as a ‘Jewish’ team” which he called “a title which, while not particularly politically correct, is still an understandable epithet to apply to the club.” As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of London I was once listening to a Spurs supporting schoolmate spouting racist drivel about “Muslims destroying Britain’s society”. “What’s the EDL?”

2012 London Olympics: The First 9 Days - In Focus More than 10,000 athletes from 200 national Olympic committees around the globe have gathered in London for the 17-day 2012 Summer Olympic Games. So far, dozens of Olympic and world records have already been broken and more than 500 medals have been awarded. As we pass the Games' halfway point, here's a look back at some amazing events that have taken place in the U.K. over the past nine days. [62 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, on August 2, 2012. Douglas went on to win the Gold medal in the event. Mo Farah of Great Britain, shown on a giant screen as he receives his Gold medal for the 10,000 meter race on Day 9 of the London 2012 Olympic Games, on August 5, 2012. The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games, on August 3, 2012.

Scotland-Yard-Bericht: Mark Duggan hat nicht auf Polizisten geschossen  - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Panorama London - Am vergangenen Donnerstag sah alles noch ganz anders aus: Die Polizei behauptete, Mark Duggan habe das Feuer auf die Beamten eröffnet, als diese ihn festnehmen wollten. Daraufhin habe einer der Polizisten dem 29-Jährigen in die Brust geschossen - aus Notwehr. Nun hat Scotland Yard diese Version revidiert. Duggans Familie hatte am Samstag zu einer Demonstration gegen die Polizei aufgerufen. Die Polizei ermittelte wegen organisierter Bandenkriminalität gegen Duggan. Laut der ersten Darstellung der Polizei feuerte Duggan zuerst auf die Polizei, ein Beamter überlebte angeblich nur durch Glück, weil die Kugel von seinem Funkgerät aufgehalten wurde. Etwas mehr als zehn Kilometer von der Londoner Innenstadt entfernt, zählt Tottenham zu den ärmsten Gegenden Großbritanniens. Die bislang schlimmsten Ausschreitungen brachen im Jahr 1985 aus, nachdem eine Frau während einer Razzia der Polizei in ihrem Haus an einem Schlaganfall starb. News verfolgen alles aus der Rubrik Panorama

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