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Willem Buiter: The US Must Prepare For Savage Austerity
In an interview with Tom Keene yesterday, Citi strategist Willem Buiter, alongside Howard Davies chairman of the London School of Economics, said that "savage austerity" is in the US' future. "The only question was really the timing and the
composition." Alas, for that to happen it would require an overhaul of the entire US kleptocratic oligarchy, and the entire premise of tenured politicians, who don't realize that in addition to boosting revenues, sometimes outlays have to be trimmed as well. Of course, as this is precisely the fatal flaw of Keynesianism, we can only commiserate with Buiter, who calls it exactly right. Too bad that even the possibility of actual austerity in the US would result with riots so severe it will make the ongoing economic freeze in France seem like the peak of Chinese economic growth.
In discussing the ability to postpone the inevitable domestic austerity, Buiter notes that "the U.S. will still be able to borrow for a while at
“risk-free rates” , even when there is risk, because its markets remain bolstered by the
dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency. It won’t last forever, that buffer of protection. Market discipline is being eroded by the burden
of unsustainable deficits." Which of course explains why the market continus trading as if each day will be its last, and risk on, risk off is the only thing that matters, as only those with the fastest selling systems feel insulated in their hope they can dump positions during a bidless market.
And lastly, Buiter calls out the Treasury on its hypocrisy of condemning others of performing currency manipulation, when the Fed's QE2 threat is the biggest FX intervention move ever, and furthermore, at least others retain some dignity by doing their operations in the open. While the Fed, like a coward thief in the night (stealing from the middle class) can only operate by undermining the credibility of its currency by monetizations. The last part is ours.
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Good, bring "savage austerity" the fuck on. I don't get shit from the government, I fend for myself, am fiscally responsible and work hard. I'm tired of seeing my son's future in this kleptocratic state go through the floor.
Two wrongs make a right! Everyone deserves a free house free food and free healthcare! No justice no peace! No blood for oil, no sweat for money!
Make sense man
You sound like a moron Alcoholic. You may be onto something re the banks but this country is living fat and happy off the future earnings of our youth. That's bullshit and you know it.
bla bla bla future generations. Distraction technique, they are living off the backs of this generation, right now. Yes force austerity to save future generations.......lol. Yea, like the patriot act, it's just temporary until we balance our budget, I swear some of you clowns are clueless.
Those calling for savage austerity will instead have austerity forced on them by savages.
Sounds more like a satirical character to me.
If he's for realz, then he is definitely a moron, but I don't think he is.
lol, 27 flags, yep...
I still got it.
yambag says what?
May you be skewered from eye socket to asshole and then placed on a spit so that your flesh can be roasted by a searing gale of farts which issues forth from the haunches of Satan. Then, I hope you are hollowed out and used as a prophalactic for thorn cocked demons that squirt battery acid from their engorged penises. Other than that, have a nice day.
Not to be argumentative, but I suggest the prophylactic usage comes first, the roasting second.
Alcoholic, fuck you, fuck your kids and fuck your dog...an enabling society has helped to create this mess. I'm all for helping those who can't help themselves, but for everyone else, get off the crack pipe, go to work. Hard work pays! I started with nothing, made a lot and have lost most of it because of the banksters, but I am not going to cry or whine and ask for a hand out. A level playing field and opportunity are enough for me. Its lazy fucktards like you who in one way make my life easier and in another way bring it all down.
Amen
why don't we start with some corporate and military austerity before we decide to reach into the already empty pockets of the bottom 90% of the country's population?
No doubt, The financial kleptoz are the ones pushing this Austerity shit.
The self flagellating TeaTards(TM) are corporate tools, an amazing example(still happening) of propaganda.
I don't post much on this site, because it's full of them.
I'm with you, man. hang in there, they will hang themselves in the end. No scam like this can ever be for ever.
Guillotines is what I'm thinking about manufacturing.
Just default already!
If I reach into someone's empty pocket, will I get anything but lint? And isn't the point of austerity to stop reaching into everyone's pockets and stop spending? How about cutting 50% of all Federal expenditures. Depts of Energy,HUD, HHS, Education, etc all shut down. Recall all troops from overseas. Raise SS retirement age to 75. Shut down the Fed and start issuing silver certificates. How is that for austerity?
agreed , kill the machine, let our people live!
[aw-ster-i-tee]
–noun, plural -ties.- austere quality; severity of manner, life, etc.; sternness.
- Usually, austerities. ascetic practices: austerities of monastery life.
- strict economy.
- military - aim weapons, empty magazines
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Tyler, come on?
Gotta say "savage austerity" sounds like "protect the privileged" to me. Austerity isn't going to hit the kleptocrats and bankstas for their ill gotten gain - it's just going to take a whack at the lower 97.5% of us who are going to have to further temper our aspirations and expectations for the future.
Some austerity.
"savage austerity" sounds like "protect the privileged"
BINGO!
Amen
No one said don't make the elite pay. I want to see them all (the oligarchs, the free shit crowd, etc.) get screwed.
Just because someone mentioned only one of the groups, it doesn't mean he's wrong.
There are many freeloaders among "the lower 97.5%".
@Ivanovich
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but "savage austerity" implies not only massive cuts to government spending (which is obviously necessary) but also massive tax INCREASES. I can assure you it won't be pleasant for anyone.
Prudent people who don't rely on the government will still get f*cked over. I know the tea party likes to believe this won't happen but just look at history, the hard working individual always gets f*cked over.
Fine, if that's what it takes to righten the ship, so be it. I'm sick and tired of paying for 99 weeks of unemployment, bailing out anyone and anything (bank, homeowner, etc) who wasn't fiscally responsible enough or lacked intelligence to realize they shouldn't have bought/invested in what they did, while I bought the right size house while making sure I could make the payments on it.
There is a difference between having a safety net in the economy for those who are less privledged and creating a NANNY state where over 40% of the people (as of this moment) get government assistance.
If that pisses off some of you folks, you'll pardon me if I don't lose sleep over it.
I think "savage austerity" is coming sooner or later whether those who want to keep the government transfer payment gravy train going want it or not. The only question is: do we kick the can down the road for a little while longer and make the savage austerity even savager.
Keynesianism Loves the Total State
http://mises.org/daily/3693
I agree totaly! BRING ON savage austerity to this stupid nation full of greedy spoiled lazy brats!
There will never be austerity in the US. The FED will impeach it.
Oh, yes there will be. Only one iPad per family. 3D TVs limited to one per household. Only 10 12-pacs of soda per person per week. Rationing coupons for Happy Meals. Just you wait and see.
+31.1035
I'm surprised you of all people failed to note that Buiter is the fool who equated Au with seashells. The Tylers are fickle, spanking one moment, lauding the next.
I agree with his equating of AU with seashells and beads, WTF is the difference! Just objects with 'implied rarity' big fukin deal, who NEEDS gold for anything? No one!
Gold is a ruler for value, because it is in constant supply, and most of it is in human hands, so there is little supply fluctuation. When a thing is of constant supply, it's "price" in terms of goods is a direct measure of society's consumption preference. As such, it does, in fact, have value. By itself, it has no use, just like a ruler has no use by itself, but bring in multiple humans each of whom have different goods and desires, and it suddenly becomes a very nice transaction facilitator and store of value.
So yes, I need gold to conduct business.
Any measure of value depends on the situation youre in, if I ran into you out in the desert and I had a bottle of water and a Krugerand, which on would you find most valuable?
WTF - 1 iPad per family, that's cruel & unusual, come-on, we're not commies here...
Too bad that even the possibility of actual austerity in the US would result with riots so severe it will make the ongoing economic freeze in France seem like the peak of Chinese economic growth.
Only if that "austerity" takes away the NFL, Dancing with the Stars or Glee, will there be rioting. People will continue to bend over and take whatever is thrown at them as long as you keep them entertained. That's how power works. Keep throwing them reality tv shows for free over the air and there won't be anything close to a riot.
Any rioting would be limited to the usual suspect parts of our big cities. This would be nothing like France, with major highways shut down by "snail" operations, ports and fuel depots shut down, and culturally native mainstream citizens marching and approving.
No, any eighteen wheelers doing snail operations would get swatted down by the law here, same deal with blockades of fuel depots and refineries and such. With high levels of public support.
+1 - the only rioting we have here is looting, usually only by people who have identified an excuse for looting (not an actual vested interest)
It will go something like this: my EBT card was not activated at 12AM on the 1st, therefore I will kill the convenience store owner and steal all his scratch-offs.
The one model in Europe that touches of actual riots is any incident of police enforcement that harms a perp of middle eastern or north african descent. I think we see similar things here, for example with the Rodney King situation. BTW, are you a P.E.? because lots of nerds worked hard to get their P.E. status and we have to respect that when choosing pseudonyms.
I'm a MechE but never got my PE. I pretty quickly switched over to programming.
Tha handle comes from my alma mater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Wreck_from_Georgia_Tech
We need a name for this -- something the media can latch onto -- something like "Detroiting for your Dinner..."
Suggestions?
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Only black people are smart enough to understand when someone is f-ing with them and respond by protesting, ergo - white people are mostly (97.55%) dumb schmucks.
Too true Harry. They've got so many other levers in hand too.
1) Legalize prostitution (I think Craig's List has done yoeman service in sluttifying America).
2) Legalize Pot
3) Legalize sleaze/porn in a bigger way
4) Pump up the Propaganda
and on and on....
I see it's going to be the few that get away and stay free, truly.
Buns and Butter for the masses.
Guillotine for the patsies..
Guns and Shutter for the "odd" one's (yes, you!)
And Off/Under planet for the elites.
But for now, let us enjoy the circus...
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com
"3) Legalize sleaze/porn in a bigger way "
When you talk about levers in hand, this isn't the first thought that... comes... to mind.
No additional commentary required:
Escapism & Distraction As a Social Control During the Roman EmpireEscapism and distraction are social controls that can be employed by a governing body to hide inadequacies or divert attention from themes that can cause malcontent among the populace. It is important to distinguish between the two; distraction refers to anything that can take the attention of the populace away from the inadequacies of the government where as escapism refers to specifically removing the minds of the individuals from the situation that they are in, in order to escape anything that brings discontent to their lives.
Distraction
Distraction was a tool that could be used by Emperors both to divert attention from current objectionable events. Impending risk of warfare increased anxiety within Roman society, the development of gladiatorial spectacle could both demonstrate the continuing competence of the governing body of Rome, even during a crisis (Futrell 2006). Not only could the gladiatorial spectacle distract the citizens from contemporary issues but it could also "erase public memories of political blunders" in the past (Shelton 1998, p333).
Distraction from warfare was an obvious connection, however distraction could also be used to keep "the populace amused and out of mischief" (Lewis and Reinhold, 1990, p142). Auguet (1994, p185) further added weight to this view by describinggladiatorial spectacle as "a first rate means of keeping people amused". Grant (1967, p104) also agreed with this concept exclaiming that Emperors expressed the wish that the "potentially unruly and dangerous city population" be "amused", also adding the idea that this would and keep them "quiet".
As stated earlier (see Literature Review) the first reported date of the gladiatorial spectacle was in 264 BCE and at the time of the First Punic War. The second recorded date of the gladiatorial spectacle was not until 216 BCE again coinciding with a year of war in which the battle of Cannae took place (Shadrake 2005). This leaves a gap of almost 50 years in which there is no record of any gladiatorial spectacle having taken place in the Roman Empire. It seems too much of a coincidence that these two sets of gladiatorial spectacle positioned almost 50 years apart, just happened to fall on times of conflict. A more likely explanation is that these gladiatorial spectacles were put on to distract the people from the turmoil of war. Another explanation is that there were gladiatorial spectacles that fell within this 50 year gap, but they were not particularly noteworthy, and greater publicity was generated for these two recorded games again for the purpose of distraction of the masses.
Escapism
Escapism could well be the biggest factor in social control that gladiatorial spectacles had over its audience. In contemporary society there are a number of escapisms that are available even to those who do not have a large disposable income. Some of the most popular escapisms in modern society such as television, the internet, film, and computer games were not accessible to the Romans. Granted they had food, literature and recreational games, but none of these can draw comparison with the hold that television and the internet has on society today. This is where the gladiatorial spectacles came into play; they provided the audience with a complete distraction from their mundane day to day lives. The comradery of sitting amongst their peers, the historical stories that some of the spectacles told, and the opportunity to wrap oneself up in the glory of Rome, provided the ideal escape from issues of war, disease, political unrest that may have otherwise had a more detrimental affect on the psychology of the population.
Kyle (2007, p301) stated that attendees of gladiatorial spectacles, utilised them to "escape their deplorable living conditions". Shelton (1998, p334) further elaborates declaring that political figures hoped that these diversions would "take people's minds off problems like unemployment and food shortages". According to Shelton (1998, p349) viewing the gladiatorial spectacles would allow "people who themselves felt powerless and brutalised" to find "some satisfaction in watching the infliction of pain on others".
http://ezinearticles.com/?Escapism-and-Distraction-As-a-Social-Control-During-the-Roman-Empire&id=1994197
It used to be bread and circuses, now it's iPads and American Idol. What's new? What's changed?
Simple enough ned, everythign has gone virtual.
Pleasure, pain and their related causal factors and effects have become virtual.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com
circuses, there's an app for that, and this
Perhaps the prospect of savage austerity and resulting savage social unrest is what The Creepy One has in mind here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y
What shape will this NCSF (National Civilian Security Force) take? Will it pull from military? Weaponry? Fall under Homeland Security? Relations with military, police, Guard? How will it be received by the citizenry?
The Creepy One loses his checkbook in Jan. He will use executive orders to the max but he won't have the money to do much mischief.
Personally, I think we are all in for a little "savage" austerity, regardless of geography.
Maybe we can all use it too.
But this... "Alas, for that to happen it would require an overhaul of the entire US kleptocratic oligarchy, and the entire premise of tenured politicians,"
n Why? In India, auserity measure have no impact on the political class. They can always justify expense as being in national/state/local interest.
Austerity is for the plebs.... how much of a squeeze McPopulation can take is the factor...
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com
why do you think everyone is shorting them. they have not even started talking about how they want to start saving sometime in the future.
Where will you run?
Where will you hide?
Lullabies
To paralyze
Fat and soft, pink and weak
Foot and thigh, tongue and cheek
You know I'm told they swallow you whole
Skin and bone
Cutting boards and hanging hooks
Bloody knives, cooking books
Promising you won't feel a thing
At all
You left out the woodchipper.
I'm disappointed.
Buy gold buy silver, the future is bleak, and frees you.
Ignore the manipulation going on by the cartel and corrupt CFTC. In the end the USD will be scrap paper.
A job being done on gold as we speak. Which corrupt judge will refuse to find against them? Except no case will ever be bought.
Come on China hurry up and set up a competing market.
Forget gold and silver shiny objects, buy high quality firearms and lots of ammo to keep them well fed.
Tyler, you give the conditioned mind of the average American way too much credit. There will be no substantial riots in the USA until the pain of remaining chained gets much worse than is currently experienced. Much worse.
People won't riot until they begin to believe they have nothing left to lose by rioting, let alone actively protesting. The concept of intentionally and deliberately pushing back against their abuser has been conditioned out (I would say beaten out) of the psyche over the past few generations.
Our ego will not allow us to recognize that the vast majority of us act similarly to the abused and beaten spouse who gazes out the open front door while wishing it were possible to be free. Just the threat of retribution from the perceived authority in the house is more than enough to keep the spouse from crossing the threshold.
A conditioned mind is a terribly difficult thing to free.
Definitely on the same page with you here. Keep the masses distracted and entertained. Has worked so far and will for some time to come.
And then, the scariest people won't be the tattooed mook on the street, it will be the country clubbers. The poor people will just be poorer. Some have much further to fall than others.
Damn straight Dagney.
Agreed. See my reply to your post above.
II disagree. I believe America will riot the most fiercely. This is a nation that riots over "Winning" an NBA championship.
Please note the bold faced "substantial riots" in my comment. In a nation of well over 300 million, even a few hundred thousand is considered an itch that is easily ignored. Besides, with the National Park service no longer counting those who actually do show up in DC to protest, who says you had more than 10,000?
Considering France, Greece, even Germany can regularly turn out 2 or 3 % of their population to protest "minor" items, what makes anyone think America will turn out 5 or 6 million, let alone the 10 or 20 million that would be the excuse needed before martial law is declared?
BTW the constitution was suspended nearly a decade ago. Yeah, I missed the news bulletin as well.
Too right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XewaP8BkVck&feature=player_embedded
John, I think what you refer to are nothing more than violent outbursts of pent up petulance conditioned into the American mind and a (probably planned) temporary dysfuntion in the police state extant in The Corporate Entity of the UNITED STATES.
France is a riot. Greece was a riot.
America will just fall asleep in front of their 120 inch plasma, mesmerized.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com
PS: Sold some gold yet? Think about it and move some over to Ag. Still a 2 week window. Or so.
I'm sure the social model the Elites would like to see is along the lines of THX1138 or Owell's 1984.
Though "Player Piano" is the one most likely :-), always did have a soft spot for vonnegut.
There's still the chance it all goes pear shaped and we end up in Mad Max territory.
Zombie apocalypse would be the more cathartic scenario, though probably no lab has come up with an engineered virus that would produce the Hollywood effect we are looking for. Reality would be less entertaining.
Many folk being asked to wake up. Of those being asked all feel the experience, but few will overtly leave the mass experience, most will fall into the meat grinder.
Even with eyes open it is very possible that all preparations are for naught. I may fall into the meat grinder as well, but until that point I will try not to.
/Land of Struggle, Land of Denial/
First Stage of Depression in War: I can prepare better than everyone else and I will survive.
Second Stage: There are only a certain number of bullets and if I stay low I can make it through
Last Stage: We are all going to die.
I believe it is possible, by one's intention alone, to be of another mind than the person standing right next to you. To have a different experience even though the events may seem exactly the same. To that end I struggle.
Watch out for a new war, soon coming to a locale near yours. Rally 'round the flag, singing America the Beautiful in candlelight, etc. after someone launches (or we finds satellite photos of trucks carrying sinister stuff that can be launched for) an "attack" on us.
Agreed.
False (flag) wars have been used since ancient times to distract and occupy the minds of an oppressed people. Read some Egyptian, Greek or Roman history if anyone doubts this to be true.
And yet the average American reacts as if slapped in the face when you try to broach this subject in polite or even private company. Just another example of the conditioned and corralled mind refusing to leave through the wide open front (barn) door.
Your friends and acquaintances are most likely upset because of your stubborn refusal to admit that America has raised false flag operations to an art form.
I heard the CIA found suitcases in China. And we all know what that means.
AS long as people can buy beer with food stamps everything will be A-OK...
CD...no society ever rioted that had Home Theater
60" Plasma: MUCH better way to be kept appeased than that bland Soylent Green.
CG: People are not as "conditioned" as they are realistic. We already live in a fascist state with emboldened jack-booted thugs sitting in their aggrandized cars on every street corner.
This "police state" we have created cannot wait for the riots to start--until their paychecks fail to appear in the debit account.
I for one disagree that Americans have all turned into weak-kneed idiots. That certainly may represent a good proportion but that is also the same proportion you see on television.
We would have riots in the street this very day if it weren't for the fact that the jack-booted thugs are positioned and ready. This isn't a free country in which a protest can really gather steam.
Wait until the fascists don't get their paychecks.
You say "realistic: I say conditioned. Show me the actual functional difference.
Read your history. The jackboots are ALWAYS paid first. ALWAYS. If that means that the rest of the country is declared a free fire zone to acquire the "money", so be it. The decent into hell is rarely rapid, but instead a slow meltdown. This gives the population enough time to rationalize and justify its inaction and constant concessions to the abusers.
And equally important, it gives the jackboots time to acclimate to using ever greater brutality directed against those around them. This is a sad fact of thousands of years of world history and iPhones and Chevy Volts won't change this. It can change if we want it to, of this I am certain. But as long as people are "realistic" they will allow themselves to be abused.
See, one can believe what ever they wish to believe. But the ultimate conceit we Americans indulge in is that somehow we are different than all those who came before and all those who currently share this earth.
Well, we aren't different other than the degree in which we play within our denial and self deceit. There were plenty of realistic Jews, Russians and Gypsies who found themselves in the ovens and crematoriums. Our denial is in believing this will never happen again. It has already started and we just don't wish to look.
There is a way out. But you can never find your way out of anything until you understand where you are now. As long as we wish to believe that things won't get worse, they will get worse. Consider what has gone down over the last 10 years. It's the slow drip drip of the leak that allows us to believe that the 5 feet of standing water in the basement isn't really that bad.
Time to wake up and find some pumps.
it is with great and heartfelt dissappointment that i agree with you. Of the 300 million how many are aware?
So few of us . Until folks hang out their windows and shout "i wont take it anymore" At that pot banging point when even granny finally gets it....its too late.
Seems to me the well educated and aware folks of like mind oughta quit wasten time, unify and ACT dammit folks it aint enuff to sit and type while we drown in lies and paper.
Authority is not given , but taken. Taken by action.
while many off you speak of the failings of the sheep and corpies, those of you who still trade, use the dollar to make dollars are still part of that show.
Its a criminal market and anyone still in it for profit is a criminal as well in my book of what is moral.
Common decensy requires those politicians who are honest(rare animal) to step down and remove themselves from the criminal gang or be part of it.
profit seekers will no doubt junk this , and thats fine. You know who you are and have to live with yourself. Without honor we are less than common animals.
No riots unto soccer is the main sport here, and hulliganism proliferates.
Plus, it is such a pain to commute from the suburbs to do a protest thingy. Just too much effort...and my kid is doing a choir thing at the PTA meeting, and then there is a 24 hour sale at SpendMart. No time for protesting, not now. Not ever.
Just keep most of us kinda gainfully employed and our collective psyche will remain too placid to protest.
Not only will the vast majority tolerate extremely hot water in the collective pot, but it helps immensely if others are in the same pot. People will suffer horrible indignities as long as they can suffer with others. Misery loves, no demands, company and the masters of propaganda and control know this all to well. Just as long as we all suffer equally, we will suffer greatly.
We must understand the methods and weapons being used against us if we are to resist. It is the conditioned mind who claims that discussing our plight is being negative or defeated. It is the propagandists who tell us to be happy in our misery, to keep a stiff upper lip and a straight back. It is the mind of the defeated who accepts his or her misery as long as we don't talk about it.
I for one will never stop talking so that others may needlessly suffer in peace.
You don't impose "savage austerity" on an already pissed-off, well armed populace. You cull that heard by conscripting them in yet another world war.
Does anyone seriously believe this is going to end any other way?
Dozens of ballistic missile submarines cruising the depths with their dozens of MIRVed SLBMs on full alert mean that, no, there won't be a world war on the WWII model, with great powers duking it out Normandy style, or Okinawa style, or in big naval exchanges on the high seas.
I predict a second period of great international suckage much like that which occured (past tense) in WW III, which already transpired. Lots of proxy wars in the third world plus grinding stalemates a la Norks vs South Korea, or U.S. vs communist bloc writ large, with most of the suckage happening on the side of the collectivists.
A big juicy patriotic "golly gee gotta save 'Merka from dem zips!" Slaughterhouse Five!
Long live the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo.
World Wide Coliseum Games for the Owners.
"Jonathan! Jonathan! Jonathan!"
Ladies and gentlemen, will you stand please for the playing of our Corporate Hymn.
The real show starts (started?) with suicide-by-Cern: smash the "universal" particles to free the "strangelets" (strange stranglers and stranglettes) from the God particle. He/She/Them is a wave you dumbass PHD Shiva bitchez!
Hollowean kiss hollow earth goodbye unless hollow moon (Zeta base) comes to the rescue. Cool thing is - we all instantly perceive the next aspect of timelessness. All for One and One for all aboard the freedom spiral!
Domestic anger will be EASILY directed toward an external enemy.
5 minute hate.
We have always been at war with ________________.
Etc.
Ragheads?
Doesn't really matter, does it?
Eurasia (Why won't this show up crossed out?)
Eastasia!
Amercans? Sacrifice?
Does not compute. Does not compute.
Hogwash, We sacrificed our media and a couple thousand of "our boys" to bring freedom and Democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan.
I can see americans going out in the streets and rioting, As long as there is a WiFi tower and an ATM machine in the area.
On this point we agree, Tyler.
However, I don't think we're going to get anything like the French riots. So far, the closest we've come to rioting is people marching to IMPOSE austerity on the government. In France, 70% of the population supports the leaches. Here, we're appropriately screaming about the public unions raping the population.
Everywhere except California, that is. That place is basically france with worse food and terrible fashion.
Suspect unreported crime will skyrocket - especially burglary and theft
Savage Austerity in the US? Invest in companies that specialize in morgues and mass disposal of corpses (for those that won't even be able to afford a trip to the morgue.)
There is a very large group of US citizens that cannot deal with austerity of any type. They will be left to die and will.
AUSTERITY FOR ALL!! (except the ruling elite, of course)
Tyler, excellent on pointing out that US riots would be FAR out of control by any comparison, as other nation's share a level of homogenaity that the US does not. This economic crisis is about to expose the major rift/failure in the American social model. Sooo, race war, or war-war. But war, and soon, and how. "Fixes" everything
the metro areas will get the worst. They riot, flip and burn cars, smash windows, etc. when their favorite team wins OR loses. What do think will happen when you take away their free shit from the gov't......don't touch my cheese man, seriously.....
I think it will take only a little spark for the Party to start.
The gas fumes keep the lighter/match/spark from igniting.
Austerity means :
Protect war criminals and fraudulent banksters above all else. (The enema is within).
Loot the social security trust fund.
Keep telling folks jobs will return while guaranteeing the exact opposite in every respect.
Buy more ships and drones. (and hire more spooks and private militia which we cannot count!)
Protect gluttony in the form of oil instead of weening off it as much as possible - which should be priority number one in terms of national security!
Add more subsidized corn syrup to the shit we call food. (keep um fat and stooopid)
I could not agree more.
Absolutely! Austerity will not touch the fat cats or their precious military industrial complex. They would rather granny continues eating Fancy Feast so she can pay her electricity bill and afford her prescriptions.
Savage Austerity means austerity for you.
I said it below and I will say it again.
Americans are way too fat to protest well, much less revolt or riot. You don't see french waddling like fat fucking penguins in their streets!
Since the days I first noticed the sound walls going up around cities, I thought they would be used to close and keep out the coming insurrection. But, I believe they will be used to keep- in -the elites who failed to get out early. The battles will be fought at the open intersections. It would'nt take more than a couple of hundred boxes of roofing nails dumped on the interstaes aroung DC to grind everything to a halt.
if i lived on the east coast i would already have done that and more. Trix are not just for kids. I also like super glue on bank atms and doors. lets not forget when it get cold this winter and oil @ 120.00 what great fires those 4,000sqft houses make. Its enough to warm your heart
They are also useful for besieging the cities. Seal them off, have a food-for-guns program for one month, then send Blackwater in.
TWO TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR.
ANY COMBINATION OF SPENDING REDUCTIONS OR TAX HIKES.
THAT'S WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO BALANCE THE BUDGET AND FULFILL ALL FUTURE PROMISES.
THAT'S GOING FROM A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT OF 7% OF GDP TO A STRUCTURAL SURPLUS OF 7% OF GDP.
THAT'S A 14% SWING FOLKS.
Rodney Kings riots part deux.
Most people accepted austerity gladly and patriotically during WWII.
Just sayin'.
Re austerity: The U.S. has over 737 military bases on foreign soil. How about starting there?
In 2010 dollars, the defence budget in the year 2000 was 350 billion.
Today, it topped at 700 billion.
Worth it?
They were just phasing out napalm for white phosphorus when I joined the military. To paraphrase the line by Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now, I really did love the smell of napalm when in the field as an observer .... My ride at the time was the F4, which could be seen and heard from miles away and had a radar cross section roughly the size of a small house that made it a fairly easy target. So to now watch an F22 pirrouet in the sky above, and then blow by at mach+ without the need for burners is pure joy. Worth it? You bet!
You can fly your D4D ... Desk 4 Drawers, you schmuck, and whine about how much is being spent to keep you free to whine about military expenditures. Let's see how far your social spending gets you when some inner city creep jacks you for your Hummer.
Right on. Our enemies would love to see us disarm. Better we stock up on munitions and send Israel all they need. Jihad and Chinese imperialism don't know from savage austerity. Savage, yeah.
I don't know if the "Swiss Model" I heard about as a kid is still in force, but if so, I vote for that. What do I mean?
The appropriate defense is to arm-to-the-teeth and every adult [never convicted of violent crime] with top-notch weapons and ammunition... and top-notch training. Then leave them alone for years, decades, centuries at a time (except for upgrading weapons and training as appropriate).
Almost no other military is required. I suppose today some percentage of such a citizen defense force should have silos in their backyards with GPS guided missles and connection to satellites for targeting information as necessary. Today, there is little need for navy, since the most efficient technology is now remote controlled and autonomous weapons that could be manned in a similar way.
While some safeguards are appropriate, it is crucial to avoid having any top-down control system. What every tyrrant knows, a whole population of individualists with power to take individual actions is impossible to defeat. This is, essentially, the kind of advantage that gave the USSA such a hard time in Vietnam with scattered self-directed enemy who could make opportunistic application of their resources without need or delay of command and control hierarchy (but local communication and collaboration as and when appropriate).
It is very difficult to tell whether virtually all americans have become utter pantie waste or not. To be sure, they certainly spend millions if not billions as much time complaining and talking than they spend planning, implementing, and practicing the downfall of the predators-that-be and forces of tyranny.
I hope the obvious evidence is misleading. I hope [many] americans have a line in the sand (actually, more like a "trip wire") that switches their modus-operandi from "moan, grown, ignore, sanction and support the predators" to "all out shooting war" once some triggering event signals "the second revolution has arrived". I am not optimistic. I hope I am wrong.
Americans won't riot??? Really????
Here are list of THE MOST DEADLY riots from the 20th Century. Check out the 19th Century too. Look at the United States listed many times. No cute flags, pre-printed banners from Union head quarters. Nope, just blood on the street. When there is A REAL REASON to loose life and limb, sacrafice life and family, there WILL BE RIOTS in the USA. Not the cute European coom-ba-ya variety. No, Rveolt American Style -- with guns, blood and violence.
For all you arm chair 'anarchist', Step away from the computer and quit contemplating your navels. Violence is not something you talk about from the comfort of your keyboard.
Bloody Sunday massacre in St. Petersburg.
- 1901 - Denver Riots, (Denver, Colorado, United States)
- 1901 - New York Race Riots, (New York City, New York, United States)
- 1901 - Pierce City Riots, (Pierce City, Montana, United States)
- 1902 - French School Riots, (Brittany/Savoy, France)
- 1902 - Liverpool Riots, (Denver, Colorado, United States)
- 1903 - Kishinev pogrom, (Kishinev, Russia, now in Moldova)
- 1903 - Bloomington Race Riot, (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
- 1903 - Motormen's Riot, (Richmond, Virginia, United States)
- 1904 - Vaccine Revolt, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- 1905 - French Anti-Clerical Riots, (France)
- 1905 - Hibiya Incendiary Incident, (Japan)
- 1905 - Broome riots, (Australia)
- 1905 - Bloody Sunday (1905), (St. Petersburg, Russia)
- 1906 - Atlanta Riots, (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
- 1907 - Bellingham riots, (Bellingham, Washington, United States)
- 1908 - Springfield Race Riot, (Springfield, Illinois, United States)
- 1910 - Tonypandy Riot (South Wales, UK)
- 1910 - Nationwide riots following the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4
- 1911 - Champagne Riots, (France)
- 1913 - The Rite of Spring riot, May 29, 1913 (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France)
- 1916 - Everett massacre, (Everett, Washington, United States)
- 1917 - St. Louis Strikebreakers Riot, (St. Louis, Missouri, United States)
- 1917 - East St. Louis Riot, (St. Louis, Missouri & East St. Louis, Illinois, United States)
- 1917 - Springfield Vigilante Riot, (Springfield, Missouri, United States)
- 1917 - Conscription Crisis of 1917, (Quebec, Canada)
- 1917 - Houston Riot (1917), Houston, Texas, United States
- 1918 - Rice Riots of 1918, (Japan)
- 1919 - Battle of Bow Street, (Bow Street, London, UK)
- 1919 - May Day Riots, (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
- 1919 - Red Summer, (United States)
- 1919 - Chicago Race Riot, (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- 1919 - Luton Peace Day Riots, Luton U.K.
- 1919 - Boston Police Strike, (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
- 1919 - Pennsylvania Steel Strike, (Pennsylvania, United States)
- 1919 - Elaine Race Riot, (Elaine, Arkansas, United States)
- 1919 - Longview Race Riot, (Longview, Texas, United States)
- 1919 - Washington, D.C. Riot of 1919, (Washington, D.C., United States)
- 1919 - Bloody Saturday, (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
- 1919 - Semana trágica, (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- 1920 - Nebi Musa riots, (Palestine, British Mandate, later Israel)
- 1920 - Belfast and Derry riots of 1920 (Belfast and Derry, Ireland during July 1920)
- 1921 - Jaffa riots, (Palestine, British Mandate, later Israel, May 1–7, 1921 )
- 1921 - Belfast riots of 1921 (Belfast, Northern Ireland during July–December 1921)
- 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot, (Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)
- 1922 - Belfast riots of 1922 (Belfast, Northern Ireland during January–June 1922)
- 1922 - Herrin Massacre, (Herrin, Illinois, United States)
- 1923 - Hamburg Uprising, (Hamburg, Germany on October 23, 1923)
- 1923 - Rosewood massacre, (Rosewood, Florida)
- 1924 - Bhagalpur riots of 1924, (Bhagalpur, India)
- 1928-1929 - 1929 Palestine riots, (Palestine, British Mandate, later Israel)
- 1929 - North Carolina Textile Strike, (North Carolina, United States)
- 1929 - Auburn Prison Riots, (Auburn, New York, United States)
[edit] 1930sFires rage during the Bonus Army March
- 1930 - Sherman Race Riot, (Sherman, Texas, United States)
- 1931 - Joliet Prison Riot, (Joliet, Illinois, United States)
- 1931 - Chicago Eviction Riot, (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- 1931 - Hawaii Riot, (Hawaii, United States)
- 1931 - Greek nationalist riots (Nicosia, Cyprus)
- 1932 - Dearborn Massacre, (Dearborn, Michigan, United States)
- 1932 - Bonus Army March, Spring/Summer, Washington, D.C., United States
- 1933 - Arab Riot, (Palestine, British Mandate, later Israel)
- 1933 - Christie Pits Race Riots (Toronto, Canada)
- 1934 - U.S. Nazi Riot (New York City, New York, United States)
- 1934 - Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1935 - Souther Tennant Farmers' Union Riot, (Arkansas, United States)
- 1935 - Harlem Race Riot (New York City, New York, United States)
- 1935 - Regina Riot (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
- 1935 - Battle of Ballantyne Pier (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
- 1936 - Battle of Cable Street, (London, England)
- 1936 - Bhagalpur riots of 1936, (Bhagalpur, India)
- 1936-1939 Arab Revolt, (Palestine, British Mandate, later Israel)
- 1937 - Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- 1938 - Bloody Sunday (1938) (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
[edit] 1940sDead and wounded after the 'Direct Action Day' battle between Hindus and Muslims
- 1941 - Ossewabrandwag attacks on South African Union Defence Force February 1, (Johannesburg, South Africa)[3]
- 1942 - Battle of Brisbane (Brisbane, Australia)
- 1942 - Battle of Manners Street, (Wellington, New Zealand)
- 1943 - Zoot Suit Riots, (Los Angeles, California, United States)
- 1943 - Detroit Race Riot (1943), (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
- 1945 - Hanaoka mine riot by Chinese workers, Odate, Akita, Japan[4]
- 1945 - Halifax Riot, Canada
- 1946 - Direct Action Day, India[5]
- 1946 - Euclid Beach Park Riot August 23, Cleveland, Ohio
- 1946 - Nylon riots US
- 1946 - Bhagalpur riots of 1946, (Bhagalpur, India)
- 1947 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947, (Jerusalem, Palestine, British Mandate, later Israel)
- 1947 - Partition riots, India and modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh
- 1948 - Accra Riots, (Gold Coast, now renamed Ghana)
- 1948 - The Bogotázo, (Colombia)
- 1949 - Durban Riot, South Africa
- 1949 - Peekskill Riot (Peekskill, New York, United States)
- 1949 - Icelandic NATO Riot of the thirtieth of March (Austurvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland)
[edit] 1950s- 1950 - Maria Hertogh riots 11 December-13 December, Singapore
- 1953 - East German Uprising, June 16–17, 1953 (Berlin and Eastern Germany)
- 1955 - The Richard Riot March 17, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1955 - Hock Lee bus riots 12 May, (Singapore)
- 1955 - Istanbul Riots 6 September-7 September, Istanbul, Turkey
- 1956 - Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (October 23-November 10, 1956, Hungary).
- 1956 - Chinese Middle School riots 24 October-28 October, (Singapore)
- 1956 - Hong Kong 1956 riots, (Hong Kong)
- 1956 - Gal Oya riots, (Sri Lanka).
- 1957 - 1957 Steel Riots, July 12 - July 17, Newark, New Jersey.
- 1957 - Little Rock Integration Crisis (Autumn, 1957 Little Rock, Arkansas)
- 1958 - Nottingham race riots, (Nottingham, England)
- 1958 - Notting Hill race riots, (Notting Hill, London, England)
- 1958 - Sri Lankan riots of 1958, (Sri Lanka)
- 1959 - Tibetan riots against Chinese government, May 10–12, 1959 (Tibet, China)
[edit] 1960s- 1960 - Yamatani 1960 riot, August 1–3 (Tokyo, Japan)
- 1961 - Berlin Wall Riots, August 1961 (Berlin, West Germany/East Germany)
- 1961 - Kamagasaki 1961 riot, August 1–4 (Osaka, Japan)
- 1962 - Novocherkassk riots, June, (Novocherkassk, Soviet Union)
- 1962 - Ole Miss riot 1962, September 30, The University of Mississippi
- 1963 - Anti Chinese riot 1963, May 10, Jakarta and other big cities, Indonesia
- 1963 - Cambridge riot 1963, June 14, Cambridge, Maryland
- 1964 - National Stadium Tragedy Riot, May 24, Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru
- 1964 - Panama City 1964 flag riots, January 9–11 Panama City, Panama
- 1964 - New York City 1964 race riot, July 18–23 (New York City, United States)
- 1964 - 1964 Race Riots, July 21-August 2 and September 3 (Singapore)
- 1964 - Rochester 1964 race riot, July 24–25 (Rochester, New York, United States)
- 1964 - Divis Street Riots, July 1964 (Belfast)
- 1964 - Jersey City 1964 race riot, August 2–4 (Jersey City, New Jersey, United States)
- 1964 - Paterson 1964 race riot, August 11–13 (Paterson, New Jersey, United States)
- 1964 - Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11–13 (Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States)
- 1964 - Chicago 1964 race riot, August 16–17
- 1964 - Philadelphia 1964 race riot August 28–30
- 1965 - Watts Riot, August 1965, (Los Angeles, California, United States)
- 1965 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
- 1966 - Hong Kong 1966 riots (aka Kowloon riots), April 1966 (Hong Kong)
- 1966 - Easter Monday Riot, April 1966 (Glen Echo Amusement Park, Glen Echo, Maryland, US)
- 1966 - Division Street Riots, June 12–14 (Humboldt Park, Chicago, United States]])
- 1966 - Fire Hydrant Riots, July 1966 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- 1966 - Hough Riots, July 1966 (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
- 1966 - Hunter's Point Riot (San Francisco, California, United States)
- 1966 - Compton's Cafeteria Riot, August 1966 (San Francisco, California, United States)
- 1966 - Waukegan Riot, August 27 (Waukegan, Illinois, United States)
- 1966 - Benton Harbor Riot, August–September 1966 (Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States)
- 1966 - Atlanta riot of 1966, Sep. 6 (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
- 1966 - Sunset Strip curfew riots (Los Angeles, California, United States)
- 1967 - Bhagalpur riots of 1967 (Bhagalpur, India)
- 1967 - Roxbury riot, June 2 (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
- 1967 - Deutsch Oper House Riots, June 2 (Berlin, West Germany/East Germany)
- 1967 - Tampa Riots of 1967, June 1967 (Tampa, Florida, United States)
- 1967 - Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27 (Buffalo, New York, United States)
- 1967 - 1967 Newark riots, July 12–18, 1967 (Newark, New Jersey, United States)
- 1967 - 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–20, 1967 (Plainfield, New Jersey, United States)
- 1967 - Cairo riot, July 17 (Cairo, Illinois, United States)
- 1967 - Durham riot, July 19 (Durham, North Carolina, United States)
- 1967 - Minneapolis North Side Riots, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, July 19–20.
- 1967 - Memphis riot, July 20 (Memphis, Tenn., United States)
- 1967 - Cambridge riot of 1967, July 1967, a.k.a H. Rap Brown riot (Cambridge, Maryland, United States)
- 1967 - 12th Street Riot, July 23–29, 1967 (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
- 1967 - Milwaukee riot (July 30 - August 2, 1967), (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States)
- 1967 - Hong Kong 1967 riots, (Hong Kong)
- 1967 - 1967 Herbst, West German Harvest-time/Autumn Riots
- 1968 - Orangeburg, South Carolina riot and Orangeburg Massacre, (Orangeburg, South Carolina), United States)
- 1968 - Battle of Valle Giulia, March 1, 1968 (Rome, Italy)
- 1968 - 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, April 1968 (Washington, D.C., United States)
- 1968 - Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–12 (Baltimore, Maryland, United States)
- 1968 - Chicago riot of 1968, a.k.a West Side Riots, April 7–14 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- 1968 - Wilmington Riot of 1968 April 1968 (Wilmington, Delaware, (United States)
- 1968 - Kansas City riot of 1968, April 1968 (Kansas City, Missouri, United States)
- 1968 - Dutschke Easter Riots, April 11 (West Germany)
- 1968 - 68er Bewegunger, all 1968, especially May (West Germany)
- 1968 - May 1968 popular uprising (France)
- 1968 - JCH Riot in outrage over Hartwick College's schism from the Lutheren Church [www.hartwick.edu)]
- 1968 - Salisbury riot, May 18–20, (Salisbury, Maryland, United States)
- 1968 - Louisville riots of 1968, May 27, (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
- 1968 - Glenville Shootout, (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
- 1968 - Martin Luther King jr. riots (related: 1968 Chicago, Illinois riots, 1968 Washington, D.C. riots)
- 1968 - 1968 Democratic National Convention riot, August 1968, (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- 1968 - Rodney Riots, (Kingston, Jamaica)
- 1969 - Burntollet riot (near Derry, Northern Ireland on 4 January 1969)
- 1969 - 1969 Race Riots of Singapore
- 1969 - Czechoslovak Hockey Riots (1969)
- 1969 - Students of Tokyo University Riot, (Tokyo, Japan), January 18–19
- 1969 - Sir George Williams Computer Riot, (Montreal, Canada)
- 1969 - Stonewall Riots, June 1969, (New York City, New York, United States)
- 1969 - York Race Riot, July 1969, (York, Pennsylvania, United States)
- 1969 - Zip to Zap, May 9–11, 1969 (Zap, North Dakota, United States)
- 1969 - May thirteenth race riots, (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
- 1969 - Battle of the Bogside (Derry, Northern Ireland on 12–14 August 1969)
- 1969 - 1969 Northern Ireland Riots (throughout Northern Ireland on 14–17 August 1969)
- 1969 - Days of Rage, Oct. 1969, (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- 1969 - Murray-Hill riot, (Montreal, Québec, Canada)
[edit] 1970s- 1970 - Augusta Georgia Riot, May 1970, (Augusta, Georgia, United States)
- 1970 - Kent State shootings, May 1970, (Kent, Ohio, United States)
- 1970 - Hard Hat riot, Wall Street, May 8, 1970, (New York City, New York, United States)
- 1970 - Harakat Tahrir riots, June 17, 1970 El-Aaiun
- 1970 - Falls Curfew (Belfast, Northern Ireland on 3–5 July 1970)
- 1970 - Asbury Park Riots, July 1970, (Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States)
- 1970 - Fatti di Reggio, July 1970, (Reggio Calabria, Italy)
- 1970 - Koza riot, December 20, (Ryukyu Islands, United States, later Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
- 1971 - May Day Protests 1971, May 1971, (Washington, D.C., United States)
- 1971 - 1971 Springbok tour (Australia)
- 1971 - Camden Riots, August 1971, (Camden, New Jersey, United States)
- 1971 - Operation Demetrius (Northern Ireland on August 9–11, 1971)
- 1971 - Attica Prison uprising, (Attica, New York, United States)
- 1971 - San Quentin Prison riot, (San Quentin, California, United States)
- 1971 - Kingston Penitentiary riots, (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
- 1971 - Black Muslim Rally and Riot, (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
- 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- 1972 - Bloody Sunday (Derry, Northern Ireland on 30 January 1972)
- 1972 - Operation Motorman (Northern Ireland on 31 July 1972)
- 1973 and 1974 - Athens Polytechnic uprising, Greek student riots and revolution at National Technical University of Athens, military junta overthrown, (Greece)
- 1973 - Oklahoma State Penitentiary Prison Riot, (McAlester, Oklahoma, United States)
- 1973 - Ageo incident, Tokyo Metropolitan Railways Riot,(Tokyo and Saitama, April 1973)
- 1974 - Cherry Blossom Festival at the Richmond Stadium, (Richmond, Virginia, United States)
- 1974 - Ulster Workers' Council strike (Northern Ireland, May 1974)
- 1975 - Chapeltown riot Leeds, West Yorkshire ,England
- 1975 - Livernois-Fenkell riot (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
- 1975 - European cup Final 1975, Leeds United riot in Paris
- 1976 - Vitoria Riots, March 3 (Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain)
- 1976 - Kobe Festival Riot by motorcycle gangs (B?s?zoku), May 15 in Japan
- 1976 - Notting Hill Carnival Riot (London, England)
- 1976 - Soweto Riots (Soweto, South Africa)
- 1977 - 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots, January, 1977, (Egypt)
- 1977 - New York City Blackout riot, July 1977, (New York City, United States)
- 1977 - Sri Lankan riots of 1977, (Sri Lanka)
- 1978 - Rameeza Bee Riots, (Hyderabad, India)
- 1979 - Disco Demolition Night, (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
- 1979 - White Night gay riots, May 1979 (San Francisco, California)
- 1979 - Greensboro Riot/Shootings, Nov. 1979, (Greensboro, North Carolina, United States)
- 1979 - Southall Riots, (Southall, West London, England)
[edit] 1980s- 1980 - New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot, (Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States)
- 1980 - Chattanooga Riot of 1980, (Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States)
- 1980 - Arthur McDuffie riots, May 1980, (Miami, Florida, United States)
- 1980 - Gwangju Democratization Movement, May 1980, (South Korea)
- 1980 - St Pauls riot, April 1980, (St Pauls, Bristol, England)
- 1981 - 1981 Springbok Tour protests and riots, (New Zealand)
- 1981 - Brixton riot of 1981, (London, England)
- 1981 - 1981 Irish hunger strike (Northern Ireland in May, July, August 1981)
- 1981 - Toxteth riots (Liverpool, England)
- 1981 - Moss Side riots (Manchester, England)
- 1981 - Chapeltown riot Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
- 1981 - First Handsworth Riot, (Birmingham, England)
- 1982 - Nigerian Riots, Oct. 26, (Nigeria)
- 1982 - Endagskrigen (one-day-war riot) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 1982 - Washington Anti-Klan protest 1982, Nov. 1982, (Washington, D.C., United States)
- 1982 - Miami Riot, Overtown Riot, Dec. 1982, (Miami, Florida, United States)
- 1983 - Sing Sing Prison Riot, Jan. 10, (Ossining, New York, United States)
- 1983 - Indian Hindu-Muslim Riots, Feb. 14, (India)
- 1983 - Yatala Prison Riot, Mar. 22, (Adelaide, South Australia)
- 1983 - Brazilian Unemployment Riot, Apr. 4-5, (São Paulo, Brazil)
- 1983 - Polish Pro-Solidarity Riots, May. 1, (Poland)
- 1983 - Black July, Jul. 24, (Sri Lanka)
- 1984 - Tunisian Bread Riots, Jan., (Tunis, Tunisia)
- 1984 - Anti-Sikh riots, (Delhi, Kanpur, India)
- 1984 - Operation Blue Star (Amritsar, India)
- 1984 - Lawrence Massachusetts Race Riot, August 8, 1984, (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
- 1984 - Aggieville Riot, (Manhattan, Kansas)
- 1985 - Sudanese Food Riots, Mar. 6, (Khartoum, Sudan)
- 1985 - Sri Lanka Riots, Jun. 3, (Sri Lanka)
- 1985 - Guadeloupe Riots, Jun. 25, (Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe)
- 1985 - Drumcree riots (Portadown, Northern Ireland, July 1985)
- 1985 - Durban Riots, August 8, (Durban, South Africa)
- 1985 - Cape Town Riots, August 30, (Cape Town, South Africa)
- 1985 - Escalante Riots and Massacre, September 15, (Escalante), (Negros Occidental) (philippines)
- 1985 - Brixton riot of 1985, September 28, (London, England)
- 1985 - Second Handsworth Riot, September 11, (Birmingham, England)
- 1985 - Broadwater Farm Riot, Oct. 6, (London, England)
- 1985 - Johannesburg Riots, Oct. 9, (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- 1986 - South African Riots, Feb. 15, (South Africa)
- 1986 - EDSA I, Feb. 25, (Manila, Philippines)
- 1986 - Egyptian Conscription Riot, Feb. 25, (Egypt)
- 1986 - 1986 Sabah riots, Mar. 12, (Sabah, Malaysia)
- 1986 - Drumcree riots (Portadown, Northern Ireland, April and July 1986)
- 1986 - South Korean Student Riot, May. 10, (Inchon, South Korea)
- 1986 - Stanley Cup Riot, Montreal, Québec, Canada, May 24.
- 1986 - South African Riots, Jun. 9, (Crossroads, South Africa)
- 1986 - Spanish Riots, Jun. 21, (Spain)
- 1986 - Pakistani Political Riots, August 13, (Pakistan)
- 1986 - South African Riots, August 18, (Soweto, South Africa)
- 1986 - Battle of Ryesgade, Oct 14-22 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 1986 - South Korean Student Riots, Oct. 28, (Seoul/Pusan, South Korea)
- 1986 - Pakistani Riots, Oct. 31, (Karachi/Hyderabad, Pakistan)
- 1986 - French Student Riots, Nov. 27, (France)
- 1986 - Soviet Riots, Dec. 16, (Kazakhstan, United States)
- 1987 - Chapeltown riot Leeds, West Yorkshire ,England
- 1987 - Campus Revolt (South Africa)
- 1987 - Tampa Riot 1987, Feb. 1987, (Tampa, Florida, United States)
- 1987 - Pioneer Days Riot, (Chico, California, United States)
- 1987 - Iranian pilgrim riot, (Mecca, Saudi Arabia)
- 1987 - Lhasa Uprising of 1987, September 1987 (Lhasa, Tibet)
- 1987 - Atlanta Prison Riots, (Atlanta, United States)
- 1987 - First Intifada, Israel
- 1988 - Fremantle prison riot
- 1988 - Tompkins Square Park Police Riot, August 1988 (East Village, Manhattan, New York City)
- 1988 - Hot Biscuit Riot, Shreveport, Louisiana[6]
- 1988-1989 - Nanjing Anti-African protests, (Nanjing, China)
- 1989 - 1989 riots in Argentina
- 1989 - 1989 Sukhumi riots
- 1989 - Bhagalpur riots of 1989, (Bhagalpur, India)
- 1989 - SCI Camp Hill Riots, Sept 1989 (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, United States)
- 1989 - Dewsbury riot
- 1989 - Leeds United riots / Birmingham
- 1989 - Miami Riot 1989, Jan. 1989, (Miami, Florida, United States)
- 1989 - Tampa Riot 1989, Feb. 1989, (Tampa, Florida, United States)
- 1989 - Tibetan Anti-China Riot, Mar. 5, (Lhasa, Tibet)
- 1989 - Caracas Riots of February 1989, Feb. 1989, (Caracas, Venezuela)
- 1989 - Aftermath of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, (Beijing China)
- 1989 - South Korean Students Riots at Hanyang University
- 1989 - Romanian Revolution of 1989, (Romania)
- 1989 - Purple Rain Riot (South Africa)
[edit] 1990s - 2000- 1990 - Poll Tax Riots, (London)
- 1990 - Strangeways Prison Riot, (Manchester, UK), April 1 - April 25
- 1990 - Dinamo Zagreb-Red Star Belgrade riot, (Zagreb, Croatia, at the time part of Yugoslavia)
- 1990 - Salford, (Greater Manchester, UK), July
- 1990 - Hyderabad Riots - Over 300 Hindus killed after a Muslim Gangster was killed in an encounter with police.
- 1990 - 1990 Airin Riots, (Osaka, Japan), October 2 - October 5
- 1991 - 1991 Washington, D.C. riot in D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood, May 1991, (Washington, D.C., United States)
- 1991 - 1991 Moscow August Putsch, GKChP (Russian: ????) riot, or "August Coup Attempt", 19–21 August 1991, (Moscow, Soviet Union)
- 1991 - Crown Heights Riot, August 1991, (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
- 1991 - Ely Petrol Riots in Cardiff, Wales
- 1991 - Carlton leach riot, Essex, England
- 1992 - Los Angeles riots/Rodney King riot, April–May (Los Angeles, California, United States)
- 1992 - Toronto Riot Yonge Street
- 1992 - Bombay Riots - Riots in the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) after the demolition of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.
- 1992 - Riot of Rostock-Lichtenhagen, Rostock, Germany - most serious xenophobic riots in Germany after World War II
- 1993 - Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 riots, Moscow, Russia
- 1993 - 18 May Riot, May. 18, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1993 - Stanley Cup Riot, Montreal, Québec, Canada, June 9, 1993.
- 1994 - Stanley Cup Riot, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 14, 1994.
- 1995 - Brixton riot of 1995, (London, England)
- 1995 - Hyde Park Riot, July 1995, Leeds, West Yorkshire
- 1995 - Manningham Riot, June 1995, (Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK)
- 1995 - Drumcree riots, July 1995, (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- 1995 - Lansdowne Road Football Riots, English Hooliganism, (Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland)
- 1996 - Yatala Prison Riot, 6 May 1996, (Yatala Labour Prison, Adelaide, South Australia)[2]
- 1996 - Drumcree riots, July 1996, (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- 1996 - Parliament House Riot, 19 August 1996, (Canberra, Australia)
- 1996 - St. Petersburg, Florida Riot 1996, Oct. 1996, (St. Petersburg, Florida, United States)
- 1997 - Drumcree riots, July 1997, (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- 1998 - Denver Super Bowl riot, Jan 25, (Denver, Colorado)
- 1998 - Jakarta Riots of May 1998, (Jakarta, Indonesia)
- 1998 - Miami University Riots of May 1998, (Oxford, Ohio)
- 1998 - Washington State University student riot, May 1998, (Pullman, Washington, United States)
- 1998 - Drumcree riots, July 1998, (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- 1999 - Khaitan Riot, (Kuwait)
- 1999 - Michigan State University student riot, April 1999, (East Lansing, Michigan, United States)
- 1999 - Woodstock 1999 concert rioting, July 1999, near Rome, New York
- 1999 - Iran student riots, July 1999, July 1999, Iran
- 1999 - WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, November, 1999 (Seattle, Washington, United States)
- 1999 - 1999 Berlin riot
- 2000 - Riot at the Staples Center after Lakers win Championship, June 21, (Los Angeles, California)
- 2000 - Cochabamba protests of 2000, (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
- 2000 - October Riots, (Israel)
- 2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada, Israel
- 2000 - Riots between English and Turkish football fans break out in Copenhagen, Denmark after the final of UEFA Euro 2000, [3]
- 2000 - Chinese anti-corruption riot, [4] (Yangjiazhangzi, China)
- 2000 - Spanish anti-immigrant riots, [5] (Almeria, Spain)
[edit]Yes. And I can see that the US riots succeeded in changing the social, political and economic order several times.
There is a world of different in small (relative to the size of the nation) riots over mostly local issues and a nation changing uproar of massive and prolonged civil disobedience.
A great list. Where are we now ? Looking back at lists which made a brief moment of comment for the MSM and shepherded us into the arms of TPTB more each day. Revolution is needed, not rioting.
Wow! Quite a list.
I am just about as far from being a violent being as you can find. I've never had a physical fight in my life. I would always run when some bully wanted to start a fight in school years. Eventually I learned to squash fights with clever (very calculated) comebacks.
However, at this point in history in the USSA, violence is absolutely, positively necessary to overthrow the predators-that-be. The predators will absolutely, positively NOT give up their scam unless they suffer overwhelming physical defeat.
The predators-that-be have been increasingly hiring (with our money) and militarizing thugs to fight the battle for them. They have no intention of lifting a finger, physically speaking.
Therefore, when the violence begins, it is crucial that those individuals fighting the second American revolution avoid those paid thugs, refuse to fight them whenever possible, and spend 100% of their time, effort, focus, planning and execution on the top levels of the medusa/pyramid --- the predators-that-be themselves, especially including the "men behind the curtain" who attempt to hide their identity from widespread recognition of their involvement.
If less thoughtful folks riot and create general chaos, let that be cover for those in the thoughtful, self-conscious fighters for liberty, who eradicate the root and source of the predator problem (to invert the pyramid metaphor).
"Savage austerity" at the worst possible time.
This is not going to end well.
I think TPTB are just contemplating what's the easiest way to boil the frog.
Planting a nice flower garden on the path to the furnaces, so to speak.
What's easiest: austerity measures with boot to neck, or debt default via hyperinflation? Hm, decisions, decisions...
No way most of the US riots. We've past the point of potatoes. Won't happen.
Austerity does not achieve the stated objectives as put forward by these men.
A Keynesian America that cannot increase its goverment debt or a Friedmanite America that cannot increase bank credit is doomed to failure as the interest will increase in a exponential way as interest always do against a static money supply.
If you apply mathematical logic to this system then more and more people will be vapourised to pay a infinite amount of debt - maybe the plan is to now export Chinese to America so that they can sacrifice themselves against the blades of this Great Monetary engine.
We are now witnessing the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind as the authorities refuse to increase capital and persevere with a satanic system of stupendous monetory malice.
This is now the "system" of austerity in Ireland when in fact it is nothing of the kind - it is systematic capital destruction using a overvalued debt currency to vapourise all capital.
Volcker did it in the 80s to industrialise your country.
Now they will create a plantation or concentration camp to get a yield on their investments.
These men are psychopaths.
The perfect way for the Irish to screw their English "neighbors" would be to default on their debts to Europe.
The best way out of debt slavery.
Payback is a b!tch
I would pay $50 for ability to watch that legislative session on pay-per-view.
I keep repeating that inflation plus austerity is the best way to steal i.e., inflation in wages and bonuses for the super rich and deflation and austerity for the middle class.
Prices will go up for everything, but wages and benefits will decrease for the middle class. National Parks and forests will be sold dirt cheap to the corporations. The fees for every thing will escalate. Your SS income will be taken to support the MIC and the banksters...
The super rich will get less taxes, more bonuses, more corporate welfare, more corporate tax cuts.
Remember how it felt in the end of 2007 with gas prices escalating and raises deflating? Now it is coming back with a vengeance, but now they will not raise rates to cool down the overheated economy. They will tolerate overheating as Dudley and Evans stated to make up for lost inflation. LOL.
People will then necessarily cut down on consumption to make ends meet. Small businesses will suffer. The real econ will suffer, but the plutocracy will prosper.
What pisses me off is that people here welcome their own austerity.
Geez, talk about being brain-washed. All of you are a great example of the Stockholm Syndrome. (Calling Cognitive Dissonance for further clarification).
TPTB must be proud. They have succeeded in making the middle class identify with the agressor;
We are all Patty Hearst's now!
Get deprogrammed before it is to late.
Forced austerity or not, standard of living is ultimately going to fall. The bubble is still not popped. The longer they try to forestall the contraction, the further we're going to fall, one way or the other.
I think default is probably preferable to austerity, but neither will matter much in the longer term if the structural issues are not fixed.
You cannot have austerity in a system that just transfers debt - debt is not only eating labour , it is eating capital.
Soon there will be little capital left.
Again present policies do not make sense until you realise that these men are drunk with power and will burn everything to remain on top.
We are one giant Easter Island.
"We are one giant Easter Island."
Well said. Sad but true.
As time passes and the more Earth resembles Easter Island, the less future generations will remember a fertile living Earth, the less will they grieve their loss.
We're never going to see any meaningful effort to reign in spending and close the gap on our debts. There is just no way. This will end in some manner of default.
I posted this on another commentary. It's appropriate for this article.
Collapse of the USD and the resulting hyperinflation is realistically the only option the US Gov't has to emerge from this unfunded liability of $23,000,000,000,000.00. Otherwise, it's game over for the US. Hyperinflation will destroy any outstanding debt and with the emergence of a new currency within 24 months or so, guess what - the US emerges still as an economic world power.
Make no mistake about it - this scenario is being well understood and modeled in a number of back offices in Washington.
If you don't think so, then what's the solution to the $23,000,000,000,000.00 issue?
Why is it so acceptable that a bailed out bank can propose solutions? Their opinions should be met with some public lashings.
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/bankbailout/
The first step in savage austerity should start with cutting the number of govt employees by half. After the blood clots a little, do it again. From there you can start cutting entitlements from the people. Govt departments from top to bottom should be justified and re visited no less than every two years. Govt should get out of many theaters. The arts, news, physical fitness, business stimulation etc. If a business needs to be stimulated then quite possibly the market is telling you that the business is unsustainable to steal from the new most annoying buzzword of the day outside of "carbon footprint"
And which politician is going to propose this?
Nothing will change before the whole thing collapses. Which, frankly, I'm kind of looking forward to given the status quo.
So I am reading this article about how families in the US are cutting back on some of their lavish expenditures, and one woman notes that she and her circle of friends are going to cut back on their weekly evening of martinis and dinners out and instead will engage in weekly pot-luck suppers at homes of members of the circle.
Gee, that's what we did in the 50's and 60's, when we had a pretty good lifestyle. I also look back and remember our not-so-little 1500sf ranch which in comparison to today's 5000sf McMansion does seem a bit quaint.
Still the point is that we haven't even begun to scratch the surface on austerity. The Frenchies are whining because they might have to work to 62 before they can retire, and you would think that they are being asked to work to the death.
Then I see a blurb about a commercial shot by CAGW that portrays a Chinese professor in the year 2030 talking about the decline and fall of the US because it actually thought it could tax and spend its way out of trouble, and I hear that people are outraged that CAGW would have the temerity to portray this.
And schools have banned kickball and other sport-related elements of what we call recess because kids might get hurt, but then lament that johnny and susie are getting fat, ostensibly because of sodas, etc. being sold in the cafeteria or brownies being brought in on birthdays. Whatever. I am just glad I grew up in an era before they had apparently discovered cholesterol, because I ate a shitload of burgers and drank a tanker full of milkshakes and never got fat because we did play kickball, baseball, and football, and even survived despite the fact that we often did these things without helmets.
Oh, never mind, a few hardball brushbacks must explain my quaint memories and political incorrectness.
I'm just sayin, I think we have a lot of room for austerity before it even begins to hurt.
The Frenchies are whining because they might have to work to 62 before they can retire, and you would think that they are being asked to work to the death.
That's because they know if you give the devils an inch, they're gonna take a fucking mile. We haven't gotten that smart yet unfortunately.
US can't take severe austerity and the politicians know it.
The credit party is over. Time for the Tea Party and a return to the Constitution.
Listen to the whiny Liberals. They are huddled in cities, completely dependent on others for their food, water, warmth etc. Just wait until the grid goes down. That's 'electricity' for Obama voters. Are you with me still? We country guys and gals will be clinging to our guns and Bibles while Liberals Cannibalize each other. Bring on the riots. Country boys will survive. What do you think Ma, should we go fishing or hunting while we wait for the corn harvest?
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The Frenchies are whining because they might have to work to 62 before they can retire, and you would think that they are being asked to work to the death.
That's because they know if you give the devils an inch, they're gonna take a fucking mile. We haven't gotten that smart yet unfortunately.
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