A reason to riot - were the London riots caused by space storms?

Natural phenomena, a part of the predicted changes of the 2011-2012 period?

Higher casualty numbers in the wars, plummeting stock markets and the anarchic London riots made August quite a time in recent history. Were these events merely coincidental or were there other factors involved, tying these seemingly unrelated events together?

The blame is going to the politicians, petty criminals, rebellious youths, poor military strategy (is this really a new phenomena?), but could the cause of all the insanity really originate outside earth's sphere?

According to Reuters, the sun was throwing out pockets of highly charged particles into space in a display called "coronal mass ejections" or CMEs.

Three large CMEs were behind the US government scientists' warnings of solar storms that can cause electrical blackouts and the sight of phenomena such as the northern lights to be viewed as far south as England and Colorado. This explanation came from NASA, perhaps the most deceptive government agency of any country in known history.

Said SpaceWeather website: "Earth's magnetic field is still reverberating from a CME strike on August 5th that sparked one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in years."

It sounds like NASA and the rest of the government are getting as New Age as the best of them.

Some scientists believe that geomagnetic storms such as these affect the human race, altering their moods and influencing people into disruptive behavior through effects on their biochemistry.

Studies have shown that hospital admissions for depression rise during geomagnetic storms and that incidents of suicide rise.

In 2003, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said that these storms affected the stock market, as traders made more pessimistic decisions.

"Unusually high levels of geomagnetic activity have a negative, statistically and economically significant effect on the following week's stock returns for all US stock market indices," they reported.

More recently, there were multiple earthquakes along the eastern seaboard of the US. The market has dipped tremendously and recovered very well too since early August. The solar storms may have resided for the moment but scientists say they are on the increase and set to peak in the year 2013.

Are we watching the tremendous hand of nature take part in the shift of human consciousness that has been said to occur in and around the year 2012 by cultures from the ancient Mayans to the Native Americans and by various New Age prophets and Nostradamus himself?

Recently, we have watched scandals, both corporate and government, come to light, having emerged from the murky depths after years of secrecy and repression. There is increasing awareness of the cults surrounding and involved in all facets of governmental power around the world. What was kept in darkness is now coming into the light? What was secret is now open, in many aspects of the lives of people around the world. With the developments in technology, specifically social media, it is becoming more and more difficult for public figures to hide the more sordid aspects of their lives.

Obama is unable to hide his smoking and his (what some claim is "increasing") alcoholism. The awareness of the individual man across the globe is increasing and their is a mass shift in values taking place everywhere. Mankind is becoming increasingly aware that he has focused his values on the wrong things for too long. The minds of people are focused less and less on material values and increasingly on abstract, so-called spiritual values.

In the past, self help books (which are a strong indicator of the thought trends of the times) are shifting from the ideas of How to Win Friends and Influence People to those of The Secret a book which is influencing more industries and even politicians (perhaps even governments?) everyday.

This indicates a shift from focusing on outward attitudes to focusing on the power of the images that arise in the mind. Ideas of mind power were reserved for monks and secret brotherhoods in the past, but now they are becoming increasingly widespread. Are all these factors indicators that the changes the ancients predicted in and around the year 2012 are now coming to pass?