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UK Riots: Have you been affected?

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nudone:
History repeats itself (no surprise there, humans are pretty dumb after all), this article sums things up quite well: http://neweconomics.tumblr.com/post/8688511600/its-the-1780s-all-over-again

Talk about rebels without a cause.

lanux128:
a search in Wikipedia for "London riots" returned this article.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_riots

Renegade:
From the second video tomos posted:

"It's an insurrection."

History repeats itself (no surprise there, humans are pretty dumb after all), this article sums things up quite well: http://neweconomics.tumblr.com/post/8688511600/its-the-1780s-all-over-again

Talk about rebels without a cause.
-nudone (August 10, 2011, 10:23 AM)
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From that article:

No, but the official explanation – “sheer criminality” – while it is certainly true, does not seem quite adequate.
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Interesting... Has a ring of truth in there.

40hz:
Fortunate for the participants that it's the UK and not the USA.

We'd already have the military out if this were happening here.

Good luck and best wishes to everybody in the UK. Sorry to see you're going through this no matter which side of the fence you're on.  :(

rjbull:
History repeats itself (no surprise there, humans are pretty dumb after all), this article sums things up quite well: http://neweconomics.tumblr.com/post/8688511600/its-the-1780s-all-over-again

Talk about rebels without a cause.
-nudone (August 10, 2011, 10:23 AM)
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1780's?  Newbies.  Try reading Summer of blood: The peasants' revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones.

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