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During the past week, there have been a series of disturbances across the United Kingdom that constitute one of the more serious episodes of civil unrest the country has experienced in recent years. In Belfast, nights of rioting followed a brutal knife attack carried out by Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese national, against Stephen Ogilvie, who lost an eye and sustained severe lacerations. The disorder that followed saw the burning of homes and targeted attacks on ethnic minorities. (more…)
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Professor David Betz is an academic whose area of expertise includes civil war. His title is Professor of War in the Modern World, and he teaches at King’s College, London, a highly respected university. He has been doing the rounds on alternative media for the last year or so predicting that civil war, or some variant, is imminent not just in the UK but across Europe. Recently, he made an interesting comment. If civil war or something similar starts in Europe, it will start in Northern Ireland. (more…)