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"anti-austerity movement"


For the past few months, TiR has been doing an informal, unscientific survey of the shifting fortunes and popularity of the above phrase, through a regular check on its number of Google hits.

The results we've found so far are as follows:

date                                    number of hits

Dec. 6, 2010                      2240

Dec. 15, 2010                    3530

Jan. 25, 2011                    2090

Feb. 25, 2011                    4530

today                                 14100

Wow, those result certainly blew up during the past month. What could be the cause?

One thing to do with it might be this event yesterday in London.

The current top search result is a statement by the Anarchist Federation, posted here.

posted by TiR at 7:01 AM