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A MAN HAS BEEN arrested in London following the discovery of a suspicious device on an underground Tube train yesterday.
London’s Met Police reportedly tasered the individual on a city street in north London in the early hours of this morning before arresting him.
Britain’s transport police were called to North Greenwich Underground Station yesterday morning following the discovery of the device.
A controlled explosion of the device was carried out some time later. The station was evacuated for several hours while the operation was carried out.
No one was injured during today’s arrest.
“Police discharged a taser during the arrest,” the police said in a statement. “No firearms were discharged.”
The 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorism acts.
He has been taken to a London police station where he remains in custody.
The police said the object in question was under intensive investigation.
“Officers are keeping an open mind regarding any possible motive,” it added.
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This has been coming for a long time. People are discarding their dogs because they cannot feed them. It’s $50 for a tin of dog food. It’s quite amazing that Socialism can bring a country with the largest oil deposits on the planet to a situation like this.
Then again, it is quite possible that there are external forces at play that will gladly strangle Venezuela economically in order to put in place a more favorable regime that will hand over all that beautiful black gold to private foreign interests.
@technoviking: It’s not socialism. It’s a dictatorship. There has never been a true socialist state. I’m not saying I’d want one but please don’t confuse this with real socialism
@Soccer T’s: i’m not confusing anything Mr T’s. Venezuela is and has been a socialist state. It is possible to have a Socialist dictatorship. Indeed, most dictatorships are Socialist/Communist because dictators always think they know whats best for the population and therefore must control everything and redistribute wealth.
@Soccer T’s:
Socialism requires a dictatorship.
@Jason Culligan: A real socialist state has never existed
@Soccer T’s:
Here we go again. The “Socialism has failed because it wasn’t my kind of Socialism” fallacy that’s trotted out by people that can’t admit that Socialism was a ridiculous idea in the 1800′s and it’s still ridiculous today.
Here is a list of current and former self-declared Socialist countries. Honestly, not exactly a list to be proud of:
@Jason Culligan: There are so many elements of socialism that we could incorporate into our lives but as long as people have this ingrained fear (created by the Americans) of the alternatives we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over. Social democracy looks like a damn good alternative to what we currently have. It may not be prefect but give me the Scandinavian model any day. Now I’m off to join the social democrats. Have a nice day
@Jason Culligan: You are talking about far left extreme socialism. Far right and far left are equally as bad as each other. There used to be a place in the middle where common sense prevailed.
@Soccer T’s:
Maybe in your head it ain’t, try tell that to these Venezuelans..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ON0xUMawg
@Lepanto: A YouTube video created by Fox News?? Or did you even notice that?? Give me Wikipedia over Fox any day!! The Americans have always had an ingrained fear of socialism. Most of the wars they start are based on this fear
@Soccer T’s: Time to give up T’s. You’re making a bit of a fool of yourself.
@technoviking: Alternative views are important when shaping the future of any society. Foolish in the eyes of a fool maybe!
@Soccer T’s: Nothing wrong with Alternative views if you can back them up. You have not and cannot. You’re just plain wrong.
@Soccer T’s:
Wikipedia you say, here you go.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavism
@Soccer T’s: It is a socialist state. You have to judge socialism in practice, not in what was supposed to happen according to a theoretical treatise from 1848. Just as you have to judge “capitalism” / liberal economic theory by what actually happens in practice, warts and all.
@Ben McArthur: Look above, 8 comments above, and look at what I said. The “warts” element is all that’s ever used as an argument against socialism. I am not a socialist. I do not want to see a far left extremist society! I repeat…..ELEMENTS of socialism need to be considered rather than shooting them down without consideration instead of continuing our match towards extreme capitalism which is failing the majority. There is a happy medium in there somewhere if people are willing to open their minds just a little.
@Soccer T’s:
We already have elements of socialism (eg. welfare) as do the UK (eg. NHS), as well as virtually every other ‘capitalist’ country.
I agree, neither far left socialism nor far right capitalism can ever work in the real world – we can only ever hope for a sensible mix of the two, which is what most democratic countries usually end up with.
Total free trade capitalism has never been tried either. There has always been taxes and regulations and tariffs and laws.
Every country has a mixture of capitalism and socialism.
“The 17-year-old boy was shot by gunmen on motorbikes who also threw tear gas canisters into a crowd of protesters, Amadeo Leiva, head of the Clinicas Caracas Hospital which treated him, told AFP.”
In other words, out of control violent socialist activists attacked a peaceful rally and killed a demonstrator who was there to protest the food shortages that socialism has created.
Where does that sound familiar:
No doubt Wally will be along soon to tell us all that the real problem is that Venezuela doesn’t have enough socialism.
@Jason Culligan:
Where has Wally gone, he defends and supports this dictatorship.
@Jason Culligan: They should lock up all those thick bozos that do nothing but incite violence
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000004269364/trump-and-violence.html
Bwahahahaha! You do crack me up!
But… I thought if we told the EU to stuff it, printed our own currency and massively expanded the state everythIng would be only marvellous? Or is there some devil lying in the details that the right-on set have failed to account for?
They have oil and hard left socialism what went wrong….It all seemed to work in Cuba without the oil…..
@8bitplebian:
The people calling for a potential exit from the EU are generally right leaning and pro-capitalist individuals. What you’re seeing in Venezuela is a left-leaning Socialist government that has failed due to economic mismanagement and terrible social policies.
Those who want to leave the EU generally don’t want to confiscate all farming land, factories and supermarkets and pretend that they know how to run an entire economy from the top.
@Jason Culligan:
“The people calling for a potential exit from the EU are generally right leaning and pro-capitalist individuals.”
Have another think about that Jason. The Shinners and AAA lads on this website who want out of the EU would not be right leaning and pro capitalist.
The EU is simply the bogeyman.
@Fred Jensen:
Sinn Fein aren’t anti-EU as a policy. In fact they’re fairly pro-EU as their Socialist policies rely on a sugar daddy somewhere to keep them going and soft borders between North and South help them reach their goal of a unified Ireland. The AAA are (thankfully) a fringe group with no real influence.
@Jason Culligan:
Surveys show that SF and AAA supporters are the most euro-skeptic in the ROI.
The truth is the EU is a convenient bogeyman for both extremes of the political spectrum. In the UK you have Tories/UKIP claiming the EU is a socialist plot, while simultaneously you have Jeremy Corbyn and those on the hard left claiming the EU is a Goldman Sachs run baby eating capitalist monster.
@Fred Jensen: True that. The EU is a scapegoat for everything these days, including most ridiculously our own entirely home grown property bubble, economic mismanagement and sunsequent recession.
@Fred Jensen:
SF opposed brexit
@8bitplebian:
In the words of Blackadder, the only flaw with the plan is that it’s complete bollocks!
The military, if they have the balls, should back the protesters against this Socialist excuse of a government.
@Lepanto: It’s far from a socialist government. It’s a dictatorship, simple as that
Supporters of Sinn Fein and paul Murphy take note
@Soccer T’s:
“It’s far from a socialist government. It’s a dictatorship, simple as that”
Show me one Socialist government that hasn’t eventually devolved into a dictatorship in history. Socialism mandates the confiscation of private property, the suppression of freedom of expression and control of free will.
Socialism requires a dictatorship to function.
@Jason Culligan: He doesn’t know what he’s talking about Jason. He doesn’t understand that you can have a socialist dictatorship!
@technoviking: When it comes to a dictatorship it really doesn’t matter what side of the political spectrum they claim to represent.
@Jason Culligan: Jason you’re obviously an educated guy. You know that’s not true. I’d expect that response from many here but not you.
@Soccer T’s:
You’re right, I am an educated guy which is exactly why I’m able to say that. I’ve studied Marxism and consider myself an avid history buff.
I can see that Socialism is a dangerous ideology with a long history of failures under it’s belt. Not one attempt at introducing a Socialist state has succeeded. They’ve either dialed back their Socialist policies (a la China) or collapsed.
@Jason Culligan: But everything is ‘a dangerous ideology’ to you Jason if it’s not your own!
@Jason Culligan: Have you ever considered politics? Your condescending attitude towards other (educated) people’s views along with your steadfast closed mind makes you a natural politician. Avoid philosophy and embrace politics
AAA will probably come out and describe this as a peaceful protest.
@Do the Bort man: unlikely, seeing as the AAA would be on the side of the socialist government.
That sling shot looks QUALITY
They talk of calling an election but where is it??
This conflict is based on race and class(which are closely related). The popular press do not not explain this. Venezuala has large blanco and mestizo populations and smaller black and pure ameridian and native indian groups.
The Blancos have always ruled (think Ulster Unionists on steroids) they are lost some recent elections (demoraphically they are reducing in size) and cannot accept that the Mestizo etc can run the government.
USA feel they can step in now in case the oil price rises (oil being the dominant source of wealth)
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