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Another Times article also missed the mark, written by Ravi Somaiya headlined, "After British Riots, Conflicting Answers as to 'Why,' " saying:
National debate "puzzle(s) over what drove even some previously law-abiding people to steal. (It's) divided people into predictable camps."
Prime Minister David Cameron called it "mindless violence and thuggery," despite knowing what's going on but won't say. Others accurately blame a "culture of greed and impunity," as well as festering social injustice, also omiting what's key and unreported anywhere in the mainstream as expected.
Somaiya also quoted so-called experts, providing the usual explanations, stopping short of what's most important. For example, social psychologist Clifford Stott said bystanders often blame police, not rioters, and Pamela Rutledge noted that hammers can be used "to build something or destroy it. It's just a tool."
Somaiya's article left unmentioned what readers most need to know. A previous article explained, accessed through the following link:
Indeed it's about poverty, unemployment, inequality, and social injustice, but much more. It's about:
-- Big Money orchestrating everything;
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