Comments on: Brits riot, Iranians crack a joke and the FED argue among themselves https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/ Author of THE DEBT GENERATION Thu, 06 May 2021 15:02:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Rebel Griot https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4687 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:31:08 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4687 If we leave it to our children to try to make the police accountable and redistribute wealth, with no leadership or guidance, we shouldn't be surprised if they do a messy job of it:

http://rebelgriot.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-are-we-leaving-it-to-our-children.html

]]> By: Crinkly & Ragged Arsed Philosophers https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4639 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:55:52 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4639 Strange isn't it when a republican Standard & Poor's downgrades America to double AA+ during the tenure of a Democrat President?

Even stranger when that Democrat President has to all practical purpose backed a Republican – cuts, but no tax rise motion – simply in order to have the funds for a second term in office.

Then we have the banks (financial shaman) who have been looting the public and their purse for years; and were finally, though not fully, exposed in the 2007/8 meltdown, are now blaming this continuing crises on the lack of political will and positive leadership.

It would seem they want the screws of austerity to be tightened by extracting even more of the spirit of endurance from the people who weren't allowed or considered worthy enough to either take part or be educated on the rules (if there are any) or the purpose of the game.

Meanwhile the markets are acting like suppurating toxic waste being liquidised to the point that would make a particle accelerator be defined as the epitome of serenity, and to what purpose?

Absolutely none except for the pockets of the wheelers and dealers – up, down, round and round its all grist to their commissions. What they can't stand is when the market is quiet and contemplative and they would go apoplectic should it ever be settled and content. Not only cant they stand it they couldn't afford it and like addicts they'll pay anything, irrespective of the effects it has on the non-junkies called, in general, society, in order to satisfy their addiction.

In effect London and any other conurbation in the UK along with those of certainly the Western World have been smouldering for some time which makes the eventual blaze inevitable.

It all becomes clear as soon as you contemplate and compare what you expect of a democracy as opposed to what you have got.

]]> By: Neil https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4638 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:20:45 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4638 Correction: it turns out that Alexis Bailey, the teacher who appeared in court in connection with looting in Croydon, is a man, not a woman. He lives in Battersea.

]]> By: Martin https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4637 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:06:48 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4637 Neil

"…Blackberries being used to communicate – hardly the standard possessions of the dispossessed."

The blackberry is *the* device of choice of the dispossessed.

]]> By: steviefinn https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4636 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:32:07 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4636 It's possibly because I am now much more aware, but the pace of events is staggering, blink & you will miss it. We seem to be descending into chaos.

One outcome of the rioting seems to be that old Joe Public now being sufficiently riled up will enable Cameron to justify the use of water cannon etc. Add agent provocateurs as in Greece to the peaceful demos that are coming with the inevitable application of more & more austerity measures & well, there you go.

Once again, I find myself hoping I am being paronoid.

@Bill, thanks for the link, it is now well shared.

]]> By: Neil https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4635 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:52:40 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4635 1132: BBC reporter at Highbury Magistrates Court tells BBC 5 live the first person who appeared in the dock this morning was a 31-year-old teacher called Alexis Bailey. She pleaded guilty to being part of the looting of the Richer Sounds store in Croydon.

]]> By: Ken https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4634 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:27:51 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4634 Young men, no future, with the perfect excuse that if the bankers got away with it we can too. Murdoch dumbs them down so they can be sold a lifestyle concept designed to make the rich richer. I think it's a case of you reap what you sow. It's not to say they are not opportunistic thugs but are they any different from the bankers? However, there is one difference: the bankers will be able to create a war and get the rioters conscripted. Can't see that happening the other way around can you?

]]> By: Tam https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4633 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:13:41 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4633 @Bill

Good call! I think the Alex strip has probably provided the most accurate mainstream media reportage of the entire financial crisis! If you wanted to explain the financial crisis to someone who doesn't understand it, you could do worse than giving them a few of the recent annuals…

]]> By: bill https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4632 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:41:48 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4632 Neil and everybody please check out the Alex cartoon in the Telegrap today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/alex/?cartoon=8692002&cc=8674102

It is spookily on topic and seems to back my view too.

]]> By: Mark Wadsworth https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4628 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:34:26 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/08/brits-riot-iranians-crack-a-joke-and-the-fed-argue-among-themselves/#comment-4628 I'm with Bill on this one.

Yes, the rioters are pretty repulsive, they're just thieves. Now, if you can imagine the economic damage they've caused and multiply it by several million, that's approximately the damage that bankers and Homer-Owner-Ists are causing. And the corporatists are as bad as the bankers and Home-Owner-Ists.

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