09 | August | 2011 | Controversial News, Controversial Current Events

London’s burning: social breakdown or a criminal case?

A wave of riots and robberies has swept through London since the weekend, following the death of Mark Duggan from Tottenham, presumed by the police to be a member of a street gang linked with Jamaica crime. Conflicting reports about Duggan’s death are continually surfacing. The watchdog, Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said that it was awaiting “further forensic analysis” …

Posted By: Intentious Guest Contributions
Date: 9th August 2011
Comments: 4
Categories: Crime, Events, Multiculturalism, People, Politics, Law
Tags: BBC, Birmingham, Camden, Clapham, community, criminality, Croydon, economics, Ed Miliband, Egypt, Enflield, ethnicity, family, Hackney, Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, IPCC, justice, Labour Party, Law, Leeds, Lewisham, Liverpool, London, Mark Duggan, murder, Nottingham, parental responsibility, police, policy, poverty, recession, Scotland Yard, social unrest, The Guardian, Theresa May, unemployment, united kingdom, unlawfulness, violence, Zeinobia

Stock Market Takes Escalator to Hell

On Monday morning, TechDirt.com posted an short and insightful piece about the total silliness of people overreacting to S&P downgrading US debt from AAA to AA+, from their tongue-in-cheek “How-To-Read-A-Market Department”. Here it is for your reading pleasure… interspersed with some pictures to lighten the mood: You may have heard (or, at least, I hope you heard) that, late Friday, S&P downgraded the …

Posted By: Andrew Beato
Date: 9th August 2011
Comments: 0
Categories: Business
Tags: Arnold Kling, Bond credit rating, Credit rating, Credit rating agency, Federal government of the United States, Friday Night Videos, Moody's, Paul Krugman, Standard Poor, Stock market, United States, United States public debt

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