A radical experiment in social chaos is about to be unleashed on the UK. Basically, the government has run out of money and they have try something, anything :

At the heart of this revolution is the idea that power shifts from the centre to the local level.

The chaotic world that Boles envisages is one in which different organisations set up in different areas, trying out different things; a mass experiment in which local people discover and pursue what they know works best. But critics fear that coalition "chaos" will be destructive, not creative.

Coalition ministers, en masse, have signed up to the revolution. They are acutely aware that Tony Blair feels he wasted his first term in power and are setting a scorching pace to avoid the same mistake. They want to transform profoundly the way the country is run by cascading power and responsibility down, wherever possible, from central to local level. It is the idea that they believe connects almost everything they do, and gives their administration a defining purpose. Power to the people – and away from the state.

Established bureaucracies and national structures – seen by the coalition as inefficient leftovers of Labour's "one-size-fits-all state" – are being swept away.

Sounds like the government might be looking for someone else to blame for what's to come.

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More than 1 in 5 Europeans are unemployed. That's an enormous number of bored, pissed off people who may soon be marching in the streets of all European capitals as Austerity 2011 continues to siphon money from the poorest to protecting the assets and wealth of the richest.

Protests are turning into daily events across much of England and Europe, many are peaceful, and protesters often are applauded and even joined by passers-by.

But why have Americans, outside of a few Tea Party events, been so slow to protest the relocation of their national wealth into the pockets of that nation's richest 2%?

Are they drugging the water supply?

Or Americans too hypnotised by a daily overloaded buffet of cable entertainment, sports & celebrity trivia?

What will it take before millions of Americans shut down their cities and disrupt the workings of their by now all too obviously corrupt political system?

Danny Schechter wonders the same :

So far, there has been little street activism in the United States. Perhaps it is because of the Christmas shopping season, the inundation of entertainment shows and sporting events or just so little oppositional leadership, especially among Democrats unwilling to challenge a Democratic President who has just negotiated a compromise deal with Republican tax cutters.

Only one Senator, Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont had the guts to take on Barack Obama in an eight hour and 37 minute near filibuster speech that drove up the ratings of CSPAN, the congressional TV channel.

David Seth Michaels, a political blogger, commented that: "it was the most important political speech - by far - of the past two years. Seldom, if ever, has anyone seized the spotlight to discuss and examine so thoroughly the plundering of the nation by its wealthiest citizens."

But his supporters did not pour into the streets, at least not yet.

When they do speak out, many prefer sending emails or organising Facebook pages. Where is the outrage and sense of solidarity or militancy? The unions are quiescent, the polls seem incapable of inspiring anyone. Has this generation been seduced by their Ipads and emails? Has everyone forgotten that call to get involved?

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