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John As I understand it there were minor Mayday 'riots' around that area on Monday - actually the events in the virtual spaces of the internet and the paranoid reactions within the transnationals were more interesting than the riot itself. On thursday, 27 transnational corporations in London stopped functioning because of the latest virus attack... Anyone know if this was connected to the Mayday protests ?. sdv John Lindsay wrote: > I was interested last nite to be turned off a bus at Elephant and > Castle and have to walk to Waterloo, where police had closed the > streets.. I don't know how large this cordon was, but we are talking > miles not yards from parliament sq.... for a demo of 3k? and this was > incidently after 10pm! > > Apart from the impact on public transport, I wonder whether we are > seeing the state setting its agenda by talking up the significance of > something which managed to make all the front pages this morning... > > and preparing for a new mayor whose response was completely predictable? > > sorry to bore capital and class with such parochial matters :) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%