violent protest shakes troubled london district after police shooting

'panic on the streets of london, burn down the disco': tottenham cars & bldgs ablaze as 26 cops hurt & 42 arrested*
from voanews: Several British police officers were injured and a number of people arrested when rioting broke out late Saturday in a depressed district of London, Britain's capital. A protest over the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man by police on Thursday that started peacefully suddenly turned violent. Several buildings, cars and a double-decker bus were set on fire before order was restored. The crowd numbering in the hundreds also broke shop windows and looted stores, pushing carts full of stolen goods down the streets of the Tottenham district of north London. Police are now patrolling the district with concern of more trouble later on Sunday. The rioting was the worst London has seen in years. Tottenham, home to a large number of ethnic minorities, has a history of racial tensions. It was the scene in 1985 of one of the most violent riots in Britain's history during which a police officer was hacked to death when Afro-Caribbean youths in a deprived housing estate of Tottenham went on a rampage.

related uk riots/geopolitiks updates:
police 'stood back and let protestors take over streets'*
uk police arrest over 200 as london riots continue*
video: uk columnist says "i don't call it rioting, i call it an insurrection"*
video: guardian on the ignored london riots context -
333 deaths in police custody, 0 convictions*
london riots investigation confirms police planted bullet & lied, murdered 'man did not open fire'*
mark duggan death: ipcc 'may have misled journalists'*
government prepares troops, martial law*
surprise! budget cuts lead to rioting…a 90yr history*
london rioters destroyed 144yr-old family store*
video: govt mulls kill switch for twitter & facebook, army on streets*
byrne claims 'mad people' in brussels are running ireland*
former ukraine leader tymoshenko arrested on contempt charge*
tensions rise in ukraine after tymoshenko arrest*
russian president says US had role in georgian conflict*
66th hiroshima anniversary: photos of 1945 atomic bombings on japan*

markets go wild after imf head kahn arrested for sexual assault

from washington post: A New York criminal court judge denied bail to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, after he was charged with attempting to rape a housekeeper at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn, also charged with a criminal sex act and unlawful imprisonment, made his first courtroom appearance after being pulled off a Paris-bound plane minutes before takeoff Saturday afternoon. Prosecutors had planned to bring him before a judge Sunday before deciding to delay a day so they could search him for physical evidence. Authorities allege that Strauss-Kahn, 62, attempted to rape a housekeeper at the Sofitel in Midtown Manhattan, where he was staying; police said she later picked him out of a lineup. He planned to plead not guilty, according to his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, who has defended a number of high-profile clients...

korean crisis escalates grand chessboard tension

north korea attack may be response to drills
from danger room: It’s not the diplomacy-minded former president who is ready to spy, it’s the secretive nuclear submarine named for him. The surveillance and attack capabilities it’s supposed to have could keep the tense situation on the Korean peninsula from spiraling out of control. In the wake of yesterday’s North Korean artillery barrage against a South Korean island, the U.S.S. George Washington is sailing to South Korea to participate in joint exercises.

A statement from the Navy’s Seventh Fleet, which patrols the western Pacific, says the drill was planned before the “unprovoked” North Korean attack, but will demonstrate “the strength of the [South Korea]-U.S. Alliance and our commitment to regional stability through deterrence.” In other words: to stave off another attack, not to initiate a retaliation.

The George Washington aircraft carrier is equipped with 75 planes and around 6,000 sailors. But it’s not coming alone. It’s got the destroyers Lassen, Stethem and Fitzgerald with it, and the missile cruiser Cowpens in tow. Rumor also has it that the carrier strike group will link up with another asset in area: The undersea spy known as the Jimmy Carter, which can monitor and potentially thwart North Korean subs that might shadow the American-South Korea exercises.

According to plugged-in naval blogger Raymond Pritchett, word’s going around Navy circles that the first surveillance assets that the United States had in the air over yesterday’s Korean island battle were drones launched from the Jimmy Carter.

video: tarpley on the collapse of irish zombie banks, provoked korean crisis escalating world financial breakdown crisis

related updates:
new US plan in afghanistan: 'awe & shock'*
petraeus duped by afghan imposter*
nato backs security handover plan for afghanistan*
nato: the armed fist of the global police state*
israeli pm asks for pollard's release as part of freeze deal*
ex-aipac official threatens to uncover mass spying at israel lobby*
reichstag security tightened over terror concerns*
german police want army to help protect public*
staged attack in germany could be used for mass arrests of govt critics*
federal judge orders cia to release records on secret experiments on soldiers*
mumbai marks second anniversary of terrorist attacks with prayers, vigils*

can watered-down 'audit the fed' bill be strengthened in committee?

from paul joseph watson: While many are expressing disappointment and even despair that the Senate voted down Ron Paul’s audit the Fed bill while passing a weakened version, Congressman Alan Grayson is confident that the stronger provisions of the original House amendment can be added in Committee, ensuring the Federal Reserve doesn’t get off the hook, as Congressman Paul has warned.

The Senate last night voted 96-0 in favor of a compromise amendment that requires the GAO to conduct a one time audit of the Federal Reserve that will focus on which financial institutions received over $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds during the peak of the economic crisis.

However, the Senate voted down 37-62 Senator David Vitter’s audit the Fed amendment, which mirrored Ron Paul’s version that was passed by Congress.

flight 253 updates: patsies, privacy, lockdowns & more

obama to probe network of moles behind christmas patsy fiasco?
from webster tarpley: Officials in the Obama White House are considering the possibility that the Christmas day attempt by Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Mutallab to blow up an airliner about to land in Detroit was deliberately and intentionally facilitated by unnamed networks inside the US intelligence community. This was the gist of a report by Richard Wolf delivered in this evening's [jan5] edition of cable network MSNBC’s Countdown program, hosted by Keith Olbermann. This report comes on the eve of a special White House interagency conference convoked by Obama to deal with the massive systemic failure of US intelligence in allowing the Yemen alumnus Mutallab to board the Amsterdam to Detroit flight while allegedly carrying a PETN explosive device on his person.

Wolf attributed his account to top officials in the Obama White House. The intentional sabotage of US antiterrorist screening procedures would explain why Mutallab had been able to use his US visa, escape interrogation and special searches, and board his flight, even though he was festooned with every red flag in the annals of airport security. If Wolf’s report is accurate, these Obama officials may be pulling on a thread which could begin to unravel the entire secret structure of illegitimate power which has afflicted this country — in this case, the apparatus which manufactures terrorist incidents for political purposes of mass manipulation, dictatorship, and war.

tarpley update: obama flubs his first bay of pigs moment as terror moles escape purge

related updates:
northwest flight 253 intelligence failure:
negligence or conspiracy*
northwest flight 253: mounting evidence of US complicity in terrorism*
the strange case of umar farouk abdulmutallab*
underwear bomber false flag to be exploited to renew draconian patriot act*
watchlists grow; obama to meet with security team*
given everything that's happened, shouldn't we at least ask?*
richard clarke: incident what we need to 'get over' privacy fears*
airports set to become primary peddlers of child porn with body scanners*
military-industrial complex to make a killing from body scanners*
mi5 knew of mutallab's uk extremist links*
the next false flag: an attack on the US embassy in yemen*
questions mount over attempt to bomb detroit-bound jetliner*
obama's war on yemen*
yemen dismisses al qaeda threat as 'exaggerated'*

another christmas arrest uncovered -
same route, same airline, same day, different flight
from the end run: On the day of the Flight 253 incident, reporter Michael Rosenfield of WXYZ in Detroit appeared live on CNN during the evening news and reported that, earlier that day, another passenger was arrested on a different flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Same route, same airline, same day. This report appears to have been corroborated by a woman who was apparently a passenger on that flight in an on-camera interview; an interview which was even played at least once on CNN on December 25. However, the media subsequently blended this separate incident with the widely-reported “failed bombing” incident. Hence, the many media reports of Mutallab “screaming about Afghanistan” despite the fact that the witnesses actually describe him as being amazingly calm and totally silent. The End Run deconstructs this apparent, suspicious, and convenient misreporting.


explosive reached ireland after failed test
from rte news: A quantity of explosive, found in a flat on Dorset Street in Dublin this morning, was brought into Ireland following a failed security operation in Slovakia. The explosive was one of eight pieces of contraband planted by the authorities in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers at Bratislava Airport in Slovakia last weekend as part of a test of security procedures. Seven were detected by airport security, but the eighth - 90g of research development explosive or RDX - was put in the luggage of a Slovakian electrician who lives and works in Dublin. The 49-year-old unwittingly brought the material to Dublin when he returned from Christmas holidays.

joan rivers not allowed on flight due to 'suspicious passport'
from sawfnews: Comic Joan Rivers was barred from getting a flight - because airline officials deemed her passport "suspicious". The acid-tongued star was trying to fly from Costa Rica to Newark airport in New Jersey. But as she tried to board, the 76-year-old was pulled to one side after a Continental Airlines security agent checked her details. Her passport reads: "Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers." Rosenberg was her late husband's last name. The fashion-loving Rivers said afterwards: "If I were going to make up an alias, I wouldn't pick Rosenberg. I'd pick Jolie or Pitt... I can tell you Donna Karan does not make anything that hides a bomb." She told a US newspaper: "I tried the tears; they didn't work. I tried reasoning. I couldn't bribe because I didn't have any money... I said 'I'm going to have a heart attack over this,' so the woman called the paramedics." She eventually managed to get a flight home the following morning, she says.

newark terminal locked down; search continues for man
from abc: Authorities were searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night at Newark airport, and flights were grounded and passengers being re-screened, an air safety official said.

video: tsa surveillance cams didn't work at newark


update: military blogger michael yon detained & handcuffed by tsa in seattle airport; says we must stand up to tsa thugs
from paul joseph watson: A war reporter who was detained, interrogated and handcuffed at Seattle airport for refusing to answer personal questions about his income has warned that Americans need to start standing up to TSA thugs because entering the country is now a more stifling experience than some of the worst police states on the planet.

“No country has ever treated me so badly,” Michael Yon wrote in a Facebook message. “Not China. Not Vietnam. Not Afghanistan. Definitely not Singapore or India or Nepal or Germany, not Brunei, not Indonesia, or Malaysia, or Kuwait or Qatar or United Arab Emirates. No county has treated me with the disrespect can that can be expected from our border bullies.”

“Yon was taken aside by the TSA and asked a series of questions, many of which seemed to have no bearing on national security. Finally when asked what his personal income was, he refused to answer because he felt it was none of their business. At this point they handcuffed and detained him until he was eventually released by Port Authority police because the TSA had no legitimate grounds to hold him,” reports Blog Critics.

Yon said that his experience was par for the course when entering America and not a manifestation of the Christmas Day attack.


1/7 updates:
dutch authorities claim no accomplice in airport; contradicts eyewitness account*
natl security adviser: airline bomber report to 'shock'*
publishers dumbfounded by airplane book ban*
ottawa ordered airline scanners months ago*
breaking the will of the people: the real purpose of body scanners*
newark video released while amsterdam video remains under wraps*

video: helen thomas hits the fundamental points:
you never explain why they want to do us harm!
what's their motivation?


1/8 updates:
inverted body scanner image makes 'genitals eerily visible'*
nctc head michael leiter kept skiing after christmas bomb attempt*
security officials ignore flight 253 witness*
tsa agent arrested at lax: "i am god, i'm in charge"*

new world next week - dec31

It's the end of the decade, but unfortunately, that won't put a stop to the propaganda being spread by the powers-that-be & their corporate media cronies. For this episode of The New World Next Week, James Corbett of CorbettReport.com & James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com uncover the latest moves toward a cashless society, the Obama/Interpol Executive Order & the 24/7 hype of al-CIA-da terror.

Story#1: National Irish Moves to Cashless Banking
Video: Cashless Society with Implanted Microchip by 2017

Story#2: Obama Gives Diplomatic Immunity to Interpol by Executive Order 12425
Obama grants Interpol immunity as foreign 'assets' assigned to US homeland

Story#3: Govt Allowed Plane Bomber to Attempt Attack
Change: More Christmas-time Terror & Suspicious Characters

James Evan Pilato returns to the airwaves on New Year's Day with the long-awaited 151st episode of MediaMonarchy.com - but in the meantime, don't miss the end-of-a-decade mixtape featuring some of the best music from the last 10yrs http://ur1.ca/iryw ... For more articles, videos, podcasts & open-source intelligence, please visit The Corbett Report http://ur1.ca/iryy ... And, of course, the information war will continue into the new decade as we ask for your continued support of the New World Next Week.

national irish moves to cashless banking

from irish times: It might sound like a contradiction in terms, but for the first time one of the main Irish consumer banks is moving to cashless banking in all its branches. National Irish Bank has written to thousands of its customers this month informing them of a “new style of banking” in which branches will not handle over-the-counter cash transactions. The letter says branches will no longer handle cash withdrawals and lodgements, night safe lodgements and foreign currency cash. Branches will continue to lodge cheques, drafts and postal orders and issue drafts. Customers are advised to obtain cash from “ATMs nationwide” or to seek “cash-back” on their debit cards... The Irish Banking Federation said it was not aware of any other main banks introducing cashless banking at this stage, though a spokesman added that “they would all love to”.

mi5 'planned to blow up sinn fein headquarters'

from belfast telegraph: The British Security Services plotted to blow up Sinn Fein's Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer has claimed.

An IRA informer was asked to place the bomb in the offices on Kevin Street in the summer of 1971, according to George Clarke, a retired Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch Detective Sergeant.

The counter-terrorism officer, who left the police more than 20 years ago, said the security services eventually decided not to go through with the attack, but not before he had put the proposition to his source.

He made the claims in Border Crossing - his newly published memoir of his time working in the RUC's intelligence unit.

geopolitiks: war crimes, world power & secret talks

1st order of business for post-lisbon eu:
appoint war criminal as president*
irish voters on track to approve eu overhaul*
ballot box problems, broken laws cast doubt on irish lisbon referendum result*
ireland poll breaks eu's lisbon treaty deadlock*
irish referendum outcome is null & void:
video shows suspicious pre-dawn movement of ballot boxes*
eu draws up plans to establish itself as 'world power'*
honduran coup leaders tighten grip*
fmr japanese finance minister nakagawa found dead at home*
italy's highest court strips berlusconi of immunity protection*
suicide bomber kills 5 at un office in pakistan*
el-baradei says nuclear israel #1 threat to mideast*
USrael army chiefs hold secret talks on iran*
webster tarpley: iceland political leader calls for debt moratorium as govt crumbles*

updates from 10/8:
erdoğan: take heed of protestors' voices while drawing new world order*
quarter of world population is muslim, survey shows*
frédéric mitterrand admitted to paying for sex with 'young boys’ in thailand*
french culture minister embroiled in pedophilia row*

geopolitiks: landslides, lockerbie, bodysnatchers & bombs

japanese election upends long-ruling party*
opposition party wins by landslide*
yukio hatoyama named prime minister*
lockerbie convict hospitalized amid questions over prognosis*
rothschild said to start fund*
as lisbon looms, rothschild replaces merrill to advise on irish banking rejig*
pinochet purges arrests ordered*
former israeli pm ehud olmert indicted*
'israeli bodysnatchers': palestinian organ story has government in frenzied denial mode*
el-baradei calls iranian threat 'hyped'*
assassin hid explosives in body in failed attack on saudi prince*
bombs explode in athens & thessaloniki*
athens stock exchange hit by leftwing car bomb*
anti-terror mock exercise held in pakistan*
gunmen kill mexico police deputy*
video: gunmen kill 18 people at a drug rehab in mexico*

corbett report: episode096 - lisbon cometh

from corbett report: Conceived in iniquity and born in sin, the EU is the model dictatorship for the oligarchs and globalists who are seeking to centralize their power in large regional governments. The Irish David defeated the EU Goliath in their Lisbon Treaty referendum last year... but we all know the EU bureaucrats won't take no for an answer. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we talk to professors and activists about how the free people of the world can stop the globalists in Europe.

download episode096 [55mb mp3]


related video: no to lisbon*

video update: economics 101:
bob chapman on sound money vs fiat money
from corbett report: Bob Chapman of The International Forecaster joins us to discuss sound money and fiat money. We discuss the gold standard, why it was dropped by Nixon, and the current Federal Reserve fiat system.


previous episode: 095 - the biometric control grid

police state int'l: cctv, checkpoints, provocateurs & yoo

san fran suburb, tiburon, may install license plate cameras*
big brother flies into antelope valley calif with 'crime-fighting' eyes*
penn state police, ohio highway patrol, ny state police & US border patrol team up for 'traffic enforcment initiative'*
july 4th parade + constitution = banned for life?*
US launches review of terror warning system*
terror alert system getting overhaul*
IT central & dhs to debate over real id & the pass act*
spy memo author yoo to america: no apologies for tapping you*
india to issue 1.2b new biometric id cards*
video: n. ireland rioters 'were bussed in to provoke violence'*

econocrash: imf, cfr & protestors queue up for conflict

100s queue for low wage retail sales jobs in dublin

regulators shut banks in georgia, michigan, california & idaho
from bloomberg: Regulators seized banks in Georgia, Michigan, California and Idaho with total assets of $2.3 billion, bringing the tally of failures in the U.S. this year to 29, exceeding the total for all of 2008. American Southern Bank of Kennesaw, Georgia; Michigan Heritage Bank in Farmington Hills; and First Bank of Beverly Hills in Calabasas, California, were shut by state agencies. First Bank of Idaho in Ketchum was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was named receiver of all four. The seizures will cost the FDIC’s insurance fund a total of $698.4 million, with more than half of that tied to the failure of the California bank. While banks in the other three states are being taken over by institutions in their regions, the FDIC couldn’t find a buyer for First Bank of Beverly Hills, forcing the regulator to assume the company’s $1.5 billion in assets.

corporate cfr members get most of the bailout money

protesters, police clash near imf meetings in dc
from afp: Seven people were arrested near the International Monetary Fund's Washington headquarters on Saturday as they tried to stop meetings taking place inside, police said. "Six people were detained for vandalism offenses and a seventh was detained for assaulting a police officer," Washington police spokesman Quentin Peterson told AFP. Two banks were attacked in disturbances that began early on Saturday morning and were aimed at disrupting the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank. Police did not offer an estimate for the number of people involved in the disturbances, but organizer David Combs of the the Global Justice Action group said protesters numbered 300. Local media put the figure at closer to 100. "The aim of the protests was to express outrage at the IMF's long-standing (habit) of ignoring human rights and environmental concerns," Combs said. Protesters carried banners berating the Bretton Woods institutions and calling for an end to capitalism. They carried placards stating that "Capitalism is Crisis" and shouted slogans calling for the IMF to be shut down, before clashing with police. Law enforcers had earlier announced road closures around the IMF - which lies in central Washington, not far from the White House - until Sunday when meetings are scheduled to conclude. The World Bank on Saturday launched a 55-billion-dollar infrastructure investment program as part of efforts to help developing countries weather the worst global slump in decades.

freddie mac suicide story updated, now there’s a gun involved

update: clinton-era lawyer, mark levy of bethesda, kills himself over job loss

econocrash/geopolitiks: coming together & falling apart

cia adds economy to threat updates
(or, cia + wall street = the real threat)
from washington post: The daily White House intelligence report that catalogs the top security threats to the nation has a grim new addition, reflecting the realities of the age: a daily update on the global financial crisis and its cascading effects on the stability of countries through the world. The first Economic Intelligence Briefing report was presented to the White House yesterday by the CIA, the agency's new director, Leon Panetta, revealed at a news conference. The addition of economic news to the daily roundup of terrorist attacks and surveillance reports appears to reflect a growing belief among intelligence officials that the economic meltdown is now preeminent among security threats facing the United States. "We've seen the impact of a worldwide recession occur throughout the world," said Panetta, who described the agency's newest product at his first news briefing since his confirmation. Instigated at the request of the White House, the daily report will ensure that U.S. policymakers are "not surprised" by the aftershocks from bank failures and rising unemployment, he said.

cia: secret operations, drug money

urban warfare drills linked to coming economic rage
from paul joseph watson: Urban warfare training drills are taking place across the country as top analysts as well as officials predict a potential “summer of rage” across Europe and America as civil unrest from the economic fallout builds. Earlier this month, 150 U.S. troops from the U.S. Special Operations Command in what officials described as a “training event”.whizzed around the streets of New Orleans in military helicopters and even dropped bombs. An Iowa National Guard training exercise in Arcadia, Iowa, scheduled for April was originally billed as an “invasion” before public opposition caused the drill to be scaled back. The exercise included Guard troops patrolling streets, searching houses and confiscating firearms. No less than 2,200 U.S. Marines were also involved in urban operations training in Richmond, VIrginia, throughout January, drills that involved landing troops in populated areas, allowing military pilots to “familiarize themselves with the area.”

hershey plant closes & heads down highway to mexico

clinton urges china to keep buying US debt
from afp: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday [feb22] urged China to keep buying US debt as she wrapped up her first overseas trip, during which she agreed to work closely with Beijing on the financial crisis. Clinton made the plea shortly before leaving China, the final stop on a four-nation Asian tour that also took her to Japan, Indonesia and South Korea, where she worked the crowds to try to restore America's standing abroad. In Beijing, she called on authorities in Beijing to continue buying US Treasuries, saying it would help jumpstart the flagging US economy and stimulate imports of Chinese goods. "By continuing to support American Treasury instruments the Chinese are recognising our interconnection. We are truly going to rise or fall together," Clinton said at the US embassy here.

new cbs news vp tied to abramoff scheme

get ready for mass retail closings
from yahoo finance: About 220,000 stores may close this year in America, says our guest, retail consultant Howard Davidowitz of Davidowitz & Associates. As more Americans save and spend less, it's clear there's too much retail space. Just visit Web site deadmalls.com and track retail's growing body count. And luxury retailers? They're on "life support," Davidowitz says. Among the brandname stores Davidowitz says are in trouble: Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Tiffany, Jeweler Zale Corp., Saks, J.C. Penney & Sears... Plus, earlier we discussed: Retail goods on sale -- perhaps permanently. And the 'worst is yet to come:' Americans' standard of living permanently changed.

video: the crisis of credit

plan to nationalize american banks
from the australian: The Obama administration is considering a plan to temporarily nationalise US banks in a historic departure for the world's champion of free markets, prompting fears of further steep falls in US and world share markets. Despite tepid denials from the White House, there has been a steady drumbeat of signals over the past few days indicating the bank plan is under consideration, including comments from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, who acknowledged that government takeover was a possibility.

is america ready for recession rage?

financial crisis sparks unrest in europe
from reuters: The global financial and economic crisis has sparked many protests in parts of Europe. Here are some details:

* BOSNIA -- Workers of Bosnia's only alumina producer Birac protested on Feb. 9 in Banja Luka, demanding salary payments and government support to offset falling metal prices.

* BRITAIN -- British workers held a series of protests at power plants, demonstrating against the employment of foreign contractors to work on critical energy sites...

* BULGARIA -- Police officers, banned by law from striking, have held three "silent" protests since December to demand a 50 percent pay hike and better working conditions...

* FRANCE -- Up to 2.5 million protesters took to the streets of France on Jan. 29 in a day of strikes and rallies to denounce the economic crisis but the strike failed to paralyse the country and support from private sector workers was limited...

* GERMANY -- Thousands of Opel workers from around Germany took part in a mass rally at the company's headquarters, demanding on Thursday that parent General Motors scrap plans for plant closures in Europe...

* GREECE -- Greek farmers protesting low product prices ended a two week blockade of a border crossing with Bulgaria on Feb. 7 when their demands for compensation were met...

* ICELAND -- Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned on Jan. 26 after protests. The first leader in the world to fall as a direct result of the financial crisis, he was replaced by Johanna Sigurdardottir, who heads a new centre-left coalition.

* IRELAND -- Nearly 100,000 people marched through Dublin on Feb. 21 to protest at government cutbacks in the face of a deepening recession and bailouts for the banks.

* LATVIA -- A new Latvian prime minister was appointed on Thursday after the four-party ruling coalition collapsed on Feb. 20 and the president called for talks to forge a new government to tackle a deepening economic crisis...

* LITHUANIA -- Police fired teargas on Jan. 16 to disperse demonstrators who pelted parliament with stones in protest at cuts in social spending...

* MONTENEGRO -- In Podgorica, aluminum workers demanded on Feb. 9 to be paid their salaries and an immediate restart of suspended production at the Kombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica (KAP), a Russian-owned plant.

* RUSSIA -- Hundreds of angry communists rallied in Moscow on Feb. 23 in protest at the Kremlin's handling of the crisis that has rocked the Russian economy, the latest in a series of demonstrations held across Russia as the economic crisis bites...

* UKRAINE - Hundreds of Ukrainians protested at separate demonstrations on Feb. 23, with some urging President Viktor Yushchenko to quit while others demanded their money back from banks hit by the financial crisis.

will the economic crisis split europe?

britain faces summer of rage
from guardian: Police are preparing for a "summer of rage" as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned. Britain's most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming "footsoldiers" in a wave of potentially violent mass protests.

warning for the west as crisis spills onto streets*
cia says drone attacks inside pakistan will continue*
greeks shut airports, services to protest economy*
mexico sending extra troops to violent border city*
after threats, juárez mayor in el paso*
ecuador says expelled US official was cia operative*
there are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history*