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Riots in Iceland, Latvia and Bulgaria
...The LSE economist Robert Wade addressing a protest meeting in Reykjaviks cinema recently warned that the world was approaching a new tipping point. Starting from March-May 2009, we can expect large-scale civil unrest, he said. It will be caused by the rise of general awareness throughout Europe, America and Asia that hundreds of millions of people in rich and poor countries are experiencing rapidly falling consumption standards; that the crisis is getting worse not better; and that it has escaped the control of public authorities, national and international. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-23 |
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