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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.
There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored | Nina Power | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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In a blog post late last week, Twitter announced that it plans to open source Storm, its Hadoop-like data processing tool. Storm was developed by BackType , the social media analytics company that Twitter acquired last month. Several of BackType's other technologies, including ElephantDB , have already been open sourced, and Storm will join them this fall, according to Nathan Marz, formerly of BackType now of Twitter. Marz's post digs into how Storm works as well as how it can be applied. He notes that a Storm cluster is only "superficially similar" to a Hadoop cluster. Instead of running MapReduce "jobs," Storm runs "topologies."
In a blog post late last week, Twitter announced that it plans to open source Storm, its Hadoop-like data processing tool. Storm was developed by BackType , the social media analytics company that Twitter acquired last month. Several of BackType's other technologies, including ElephantDB , have already been open sourced, and Storm will join them this fall, according to Nathan Marz, formerly of BackType now of Twitter. Marz's post digs into how Storm works as well as how it can be applied. He notes that a Storm cluster is only "superficially similar" to a Hadoop cluster. Instead of running MapReduce "jobs," Storm runs "topologies."
Strata Week: Twitter's coming Storm, data and maps from the London riots - O'Reilly Radar
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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.
I depict a riot | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
The UK Riots Update >> TotallyCoolPix
After three days of chaos in London things were relatively quiet there last night. Not so in other UK cities. Rioting and looting were going on in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham to name but three major cities. Millions of pounds worth of damage to public and private property have been done, but the biggest cost is probably Britain’s image in the rest of the world. Let’s hope the culprits get what is coming to them soon.
Riots in London - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
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. Collected here are images of the violence in the U.K. from the past several days. [ 41 photos ]
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London's current mayhem has a history and some great art perfectly captures the terror and lawlessness of past upheaval These are the worst social upheavals in London in living memory, say police. What about beyond living memory?Ignore headlines about squatters, government proposals target Gypsies and travellers - offene Ablage: nothing to hide
Giles Peaker: Plans to criminalise trespassing where no damage has been caused will impact Gypsies, travellers and protestors (Ignore headlines about squatters, government proposals target Gypsies and ...)...
Ignore headlines about squatters, government proposals target Gypsies and travellers | Giles Peaker | Law | guardian.co.uk
The prime minister's confirmation that the government will be bringing forward legislation for the criminalisation of trespass and the proposed removal of removal of legal aid from trespassers in the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill amount to the most significant changes to the law of trespass in England and Wales for generations. The media response, carefully directed by spin, has been to focus on squatting and, all too predictably, on "protecting homeowners" from squatters. That this response is wholly and perhaps wilfully inaccurate about the current law is something we've addressed before . Of course, squatting is threatened by the proposals, but the ramifications run deeper and wider. The law of trespass to land has a long and deeply political history, too long to be examined here. But it has always been at the stress points of social history that it has come to the fore, where access to land and a place to live have been at stake.
"[...]We are all consumers now, consumers first and foremost, consumers by rig..." - offene Ablage: nothing to hide
We are all consumers now, consumers first and foremost, consumers by right and by duty. The day after the 11/9 outrage George W.Bush, when calling Americans to get over the trauma and go back to normal, found no better words than “go back shopping”. It is the level of our shopping activity and the ease with which we dispose of one object of consumption in order to replace it with a “new and improved” one which serves us as the prime measure of our social standing and the score in the life-success competition. To all problems we encounter on the road away from trouble and towards satisfaction we seek solutions in shops.The London Riots – On Consumerism coming Home to Roost
These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with randomly scattered explosives: one can be pretty sure that some of them, some time, will explode – but one can’t say with any degree of certainty which ones and when.Krawalle in England: "Diese Regierung hat die Zivilgesellschaft zerstört" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Kultur
Die nächtlichen Krawalle in England waren absehbar, sie sind eine direkte Folge der Politik der neoliberalen Regierung David Camerons - sagt der in London lehrende US-Soziologe Richard Sennett. Im Interview erklärt er, warum die britische Gesellschaft viele junge Leute isoliert und kriminalisiert. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Vier Nächte lang tobte ein gewaltbereiter Mob plündernd und prügelnd durch die Straßen englischer Großstädte. War so etwas zu erwarten oder gar vorherzusehen? Sennett: Angesichts der Veränderungen in England in den letzten zwei Jahren war es nicht unwahrscheinlich, dass es zu einer Explosion kommt. Die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit ist sehr hoch - nichts Neues, das war sie auch in den Boomjahren.“ Riots are about power, and they are about catharsis. They are not about poor parenting, or youth services being cut, or any of the other snap explanations that media pundits have been trotting out: structural inequalities, as a friend of mine remarked today, are not solved by a few pool tables. People riot because it makes them feel powerful, even if only for a night. People riot because they have spent their whole lives being told that they are good for nothing, and they realise that together they can do anything – literally, anything at all. ”
"Riots are about power, and they are about catharsis. They are not about poor ..." - offene Ablage: nothing to hide
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.
Panic on the streets of London.
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.