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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>*}

ROYAUME-UNI • Jamais sans ma capuche Le dénominateur commun des jeunes pilleurs londoniens ? La capuche, toujours rabattue sur la tête, au milieu des flammes et du verre brisé. The Guardian revient sur cet accessoire typique du "délinquant", qui permet de passer inaperçu aux yeux de la société et devant les caméras de surveillance... On le craint, on le tourne en ridicule, on ne le comprend pas... Bref, le sweat à capuche est mal aimé. Pourtant, ce vêtement de sport utilitaire et extrêmement populaire fait son retour en force au beau milieu des émeutes et des voitures en flammes. En 2005, j’ai couvert les émeutes qui ont embrasé les banlieues parisiennes et j’ai interviewé les adolescents qui avaient participé de près ou de loin à ces événements. "Porter tous les jours des vêtements de loisirs ou de sport, c’est se démarquer de l’univers des bureaux [avec ses costumes] et de l’école [avec ses uniformes]", explique Angela McRobbie, professeur de communication au Goldsmiths College. Et il avait raison.

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.”

UK riots: teenager charged with BlackBerry incitement - Telegraph | Riots in London 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.

UK Police may ban future marches to prevent disorder Police may ban anti-Government marches through central London to prevent further disorder and strain on officer numbers. Martin Beckford, Heidi Blake and Steven SwinfordTelegraph The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, said that outlawing the demonstations was an option for the authorities but conceded it could anger protestors further. He admitted he was “very worried” about the effect on law and order in town centres and suburbs caused by large numbers of officers being sent to the centre of the capital. Despite widespread criticism over the policing of the protests, and warnings that the Met’s tactics risk leading to the death of an innocent bystander, Sir Paul said he was proud of the professionalism of the 3,000 officers on duty last week. Read Full Article RELATED ARTICLE:Citizens of Europe Rage Against the Machine RELATED VIDEO:INCREDIBLE Raw Video of UK Students Battle Police

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?”

teneleventen 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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