In the article entitled The London Riots and How They Will be Used to the Elite’s Advantage, I mentioned that one of the direct results of the riots would be the accrued surveillance of mobile communications. Well, unfortunately, it is happening. Here’s an article from the Guardian. Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that [...]

In the article entitled The London Riots and How They Will be Used to the Elite’s Advantage, it was stated that the riots would be used to justify a greater control, and surveillance censorship of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger. Well the UK government has recently proposed several drastic measures aiming to control the flow of information through social networks, all of which can easily lead to abuse and state censorship such as: The interception and  disclosure of messages by authorities, [...]

In the article entitled The London Riots and How They Will be Used to the Elite’s Advantage, I described how the prolonged crises can be used to justify illegal actions and police state tactics – on a global scale. We saw a perfect example of this last Thursday when the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco shut down mobile communications when word got out that a protest was being planned against a police killing. Here’s an article about this extreme response and its [...]

Originally triggered by a case of police brutality, the London riots soon became a generalized expression of malcontent from today’s young proletariat. The cramming of the unprivileged into neighbourhoods resembling ghettos combined with continued police oppression has always been an explosive combination. The Los Angeles riots of 1992 and the French riots of 2010 took place in very similar circumstances. While it is obvious that many rioters have absolutely no political agenda except for the looting of a few bottles of liquor, the riots are [...]