A collection of news links from the world: Tensions in Pakistan inflame after NATO helicopter strike reportedly kills Pakistani troops..
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Day: November 27, 2011
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Drones and consequences.. Pakistan/NATO relations come to a grinding halt
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Hunt in the wild: Shopping in America, 2011
Screen cap from YouTube Cops keeping the peace.. perhaps pepper spray would have been better in this story, where police slammed a grandfather to the ground at a WalMart, leaving him unconscious and bloody.. And his crime, you ask? People got rowdy in the game section. The man’s grandson got trampled, so he put the video game he was holding in his waistband in order to free up his hands and lift the boy out of the crowd… and then the cops moved in, slamming the grandfather’s head against the concrete floor.
This story could disturb anyone’s holiday spirit.…mayhem and misery is the only thing being found in the stories being reported about Black Friday, along with $2 waffle makers.“All of a sudden, you see this little boy run up and wailing and yelling, ‘Grandpa, Grandpa,’ and crying his eyes out”
And now, thankfully for Youtube, people can view the actions of the police and decide if they were justified..Heads slamming..facing mashing.. deals bashing. Shop, shop, shop, like no one cares.. party like it’s 1999. -
So this is Christmas
And what have you done? Shot a good neighbor.. in a store on the run?The Christmas shopping season mayhem began Black Friday, for better or worse. In many cases worse.The season actually began a bit earlier this year than others–many big box stores opened their doors late in the evening on Thanksgiving night. Before leftovers were even cleaned off tables, people in sweatpants and pajamas were shopping in long lines.And in many instances, they had to deal with violence and fellow shoppers acting out.In Los Angeles, a women pepper sprayed other shoppers who she wanted to keep away from the Xbox that she wanted.There were scuffles over $2 waffle makers, shootings, and people stomping on others including children.While stores are now saying that there were record shoppers on Black Friday, it’s questionable as to what the immediate “black” margin of profit they will get. Some stores offered 70% discounts.. others had just as many bargains as shoppers. More shoppers does not always equal more profit.But it did equal more headline news and fodder for comics who are ready to laugh at shoppers–or other nations ready to mock the West’s constant hunt for bargains and material items. Items that the Eastern world make under duress or just a dollar a day. -
NEW FEARS OF EURO FAILURE– AND WHAT IT COULD LEAD TO IF IT COLLAPSES
AFP Photo/Thomas Lohnes The European economy continues to travel down a rocky path.. But now the British government is privately warning of a Euro break up — and riots. According to TELEGRAPH reporter James Kirkup, the Treasury in Britain confirmed earlier in November that contingency plans began to be made for a collapse and unrest.Embassies have been instructed to prepare for significant issues. Some of those issues include the possibility that in the not too distant future, a citizen will not even be able to withdraw cash.The nightmare scenarios may appear unlikely, but the fears coupled with news of Italy’s impending collapse and the Euro’s constant troubles, it gets easier to imagine a world where these financial failures could occur.The shock waves of such an event would surely bring a heavy weight across the world. The albatross of bad investments and debt will cause other nations to suffer the same pain that the UK would deal with.Unemployment rates along with a bad financial mess, bank failures, and a breakdown of government order. This, again, is the very real fear in Europe, and it’s tough to assume that any economic breakdown would not lead to violent consequences or a collapse, whole or part, in social order.
