There are some big riots going on in England right now

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The UK has a long history of rioting/rebellion by the disenchanted, since Magna Carta .

It usually leads to minor reforms of voting or something. This takes some of the steam out of the situation for some decades while injustices and resentment continue to smoulder.

The usual small minority lot always seem to be getting the best of everything:-
covering themselves in gold braid in the army, navy etc
awarding each other with shiny medals, civil ranks etc
hogging most of the wealth to build large country estates etc
 
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Not so. Discussions about social mood changes are vastly more relevant to financial markets than any hot air about earnings, macro outlook or whatever else.
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I Like this. My Opinion, and don't have a logical idea of how to support
my opinion.

One of the threads, I've been following here on ET,
gave me one of the Marine type boot camp wallops to the brain,
in the gut, everything in short.
I felt like my brain was broken for a little while, yesterday.
I was wishing for a starting over to learn how to invest , trade, make money.
And Wow, got it!

ThanksET. I had been on ET years ago, and gotten some crazy idea,
I could learn to understand the market.
Long story short, Bad experience, stopped looking at the markets, and
just recently bought a stock, after going to Vegas, and overcoming my
fear of gambling.
Sorry to ramble a bit. But, we see news, we listen to it, and are fed so much of it, (I am a news addict, I guess, or was) that maybe we start to
not be able to think anymore.
Couple that with facebook, and all the other passive streams of information
that we become accustomed to, I think the average person, me, just gets
hypnotized and can't analyze or think for themselves.
So what does this have to do with the riots. Have to search what's not obvious.
 
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Is it possible the riots have stopped because all the good shops have been looted and they're all just staying in to look at the shit they have?
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Nothing but dollar stores left:D
cheers
john
 
This is a case of having one lion is better than a 100 sheeps, simply put they didnt have good people in charge of the police
 
I'm thinking that we are only very early on in the world class worldwide meltdown of Socialism. If people are rioting now they are going to be a real mess when things actually do become unliveable... For the US, my only hope is that we come out of it with our Constitutional rights... they have been trampled a bit by the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs so maybe as the funding dries up for such folly we will get some of them back...
 
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I'm thinking that we are only very early on in the world class worldwide meltdown of Socialism. If people are rioting now they are going to be a real mess when things actually do become unliveable... For the US, my only hope is that we come out of it with our Constitutional rights... they have been trampled a bit by the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs so maybe as the funding dries up for such folly we will get some of them back...
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We'll said.
 
Give me a break, this is oldest trick on book about mass population controls, Chinese did this same thing in Tibet before hosting Olympic, first let some lunatics run wild on street, then, government can come in and taking crack on everybody who don't listen and obey the governments.

burning down old buildings and looting small businesses are very legitimate reason for police to crack on all people. Land developers are ready to build after government hand out big juice contracts, Insurances company can raise their insurance policy premium later, and criminal are going to vacation in jail. Everybody wins, except the taxpayers, of course.
 
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I'm thinking that we are only very early on in the world class worldwide meltdown of Socialism. If people are rioting now they are going to be a real mess when things actually do become unliveable... For the US, my only hope is that we come out of it with our Constitutional rights... they have been trampled a bit by the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs so maybe as the funding dries up for such folly we will get some of them back...
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Tony Blair did alright though. $1million per year from JP Morgan, nice cosy job as UN ambassidor for peace ( he only started 5 wars ) and now worth an estimated $70 million.

Might as well give up on the war on drugs. Just like Prohibition in the USA in the 1920s - doomed to failure and enriched the Mafia.

Decent people can't afford to be in many cases now and have to resort to criminal grabbing too.

The young looters are behaving just like ......er politicians ( the expenses scandal ) , bankers etc. but on a micro scale. Every country is now gripped by the "PIGSTY" culture of greed - thanks to the USA
 
Sales of Baseball Bats soar in the UK

As just about everyone knows wandering around with a gun in your hand is not an option open to the average Englishman when civil disorder erupts. In fact, owning a handgun of any kind, by anyone (yes, even single shot target pistols of the Olympic kind: the team has to do its practice outside the UK), is illegal.

So, when civil disorder does erupt, as it has done in those riots, said average Englishman needs to be creative as to what weapons can be used for defence. Amazon UK quickly suspended sales of police style batons, so the sales of baseball bats have soared.

Sales of one type of aluminium truncheon rose 50,000% within 24 hours, entering the top-10 bestselling items in the sports category. Before they were de-listed, two different “police-style” truncheons had seen sales increase more than 400-fold overnight, though from a low base.

Strangely for an Englishman, as baseball is not one of the sports we play, this is a subject I know something about. For one of the things I do in my day job is supply the scandium which is used to make the various “scandium aluminium” baseball bats. So I can offer advice on which type of bat should be purchased.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/08/11/amazon-uks-soaring-baseball-bat-sales/
 
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