Kyrgyz Opposition Seizes Presidential Building

Protestors have seized the presidential administration building in the capital city of Bishkek and installed their own "people's government," a key opposition leader says.

"Opposition leaders are already in the government palace where a new people's government has been formed," said lawmaker Temir Sariyev.

Sariyev added that Roza Otunbayeva, the former foreign minister has been appointed as the head of the new government.'

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Nationwide Strike Paralyzes Greece, Rioting Spreads to Spain

Central Athens echoed with the angry chants of tens of thousands of protesters demonstrating against the Socialist government's austerity measures, as major unions staged a 24-hour nationwide general strike.

The Wednesday march was marred by violence when a group of about 20 youths broke away from the march and started throwing Molotov cocktails and heavy objects at police, damaging bus stops in Athens' Syntagma Square, where the Greek parliament is located.'

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Tens of Thousands of Chinese Fight the Police in Shishou

It was a dramatic weekend in the relatively small city of Shishou in Hubei province.

Tens of thousands of rioters torched a hotel and overturned police cars, accusing the authorities of trying to cover up the murder of a 24-year-old man as a suicide.

The deceased, Tu Yuangao, was the chef of the Yong Long hotel. According to the cops, he committed suicide by jumping off the roof of the building and left a note.

However, witnesses said there was no blood on the scene and Tu's body was already cold just after it hit the ground. His parents were surprised that he left a suicide note, since he was allegedly illiterate.

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Afghans Riot Over Air-strike Atrocity

Shouting "Death to America" and "Death to the Government", thousands of Afghan villagers hurled stones at police yesterday as they vented their fury at American air strikes that local officials claim killed 147 civilians.

The riot started when people from three villages struck by US bombers in the early hours of Tuesday, brought 15 newly-discovered bodies in a truck to the house of the provincial governor. As the crowd pressed forward in Farah, police opened fire, wounding four protesters. Traders in the rest of Farah city, the capital of the province of the same name where the bombing took place, closed their shops, vowing they would not reopen them until there is an investigation.

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Thai Troops Open Fire on Protesters in Bangkok

Anarchy reigned in parts of Bangkok this morning following the Thai military's pre-dawn raid on anti-government protesters who had blockaded parts of the city.

Thai soldiers in full combat kit used tear gas and fired automatic weapons to clear the red-shirt protesters from the Din Daeng intersection near the Victory Monument in central Bangkok, injuring at least 70 people. Nineteen people were admitted to hospital, four – including two soldiers and two civilians - had gunshot wounds.

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Spring of Rage: Why Wait For Summer

A story magically appeared in one of the mainstream newspapers recently which announced the likelihood of a Summer of Rage (protests about the economy) in Britain.

I wrote about that in a post I called Pre-empting violent protests.

Now a story has been put out by The Times to tell us that we may not even have to wait until the Summer…

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Police Arrest 300 in Paris Riots Over Economic Crisis

MORE than 300 rioters were arrested in Paris as baton-wielding gangs clashed with police in protests over President Nicolas Sarkozy's handling of the financial crisis.

At least 10 police officers were seriously injured in the Place de la Nation, in the east of the French capital, where 85,000 people completed a largely peaceful protest.

Nationally, some three million showed their anger at President Sarkozy.
As fires were lit and shop windows smashed soon after 8pm last night, riot police unleashed rounds of tear gas at a mob of about 750 youths.

Fighting broke out on all corners of the square, with police snatch squads moving in to arrest ring leaders. Chants of "Sarkozy resign" were heard, as what appeared to be well organised gangs went on the rampage in surrounding streets, targeting banks and other symbols of capitalism.

By midnight there had been at least 300 arrests, with 49 charged with serious public order offences.

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Summit Police Fear Attacks on Hotels Used by the G20 Leaders

Anarchist groups and environmental activists are already collaborating on a series of demonstrations, which are being advertised with slogans such as “Storm the Banks” and “Bash a Banker”. One website urges demonstrators to “express their rage” and promises “a day of f***ing up the summit and other adventures” on April 2.

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Brzezinski: ‘Hell, There Could Be Even Riots’

Brzezinski fears class warfare. Not Mika. Zbigniew. And not Barney-Frank-on-Meet-the-Press class warfare. Real, blood-in-the-streets riots.

Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser expressed his concern about the possibility of riots on Morning Joe today. To stave them off, he proposes the creation of a voluntary National Solidarity Fund, whose contributors would be those who made out very well in recent times.

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Crowds Riot In France Over Economy

Way to go!

Government To The People: Drop Dead!

He had two jobs and had turned his life around. He also had many friends.



For any crime of this nature, committed by a civilian, a "police report" would be mandatory within hours of the event; especially when there were three videos of what happened. The officer's gun is in police custody, the officer is a FEDERAL police officer, as BART is a federal agency: So procedures should have been clearly followed immediately. Yet, it is now a week later and the officer has still not even been interviewed, according to the 'chief' of BART police. Yesterday he quit the force, so that he would not have to give his version of events: and this sparked the riots!

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CIA Preparing To Install Military Government In Greece?

The increasingly violent riots in Greece could be the curtain raiser for a military coup d’etat and the installation of a new government more friendly to U.S. hegemony as a countermeasure to increasing Russian influence over the Balkan state.

It wouldn’t be the first time the CIA has assisted in such a venture - they aided the 1967 installation of a U.S. friendly military junta known as the Regime of the Colonels ostensibly to prevent Greece from falling under Soviet control, a fascist cabal which was later overthrown in 1973.
The coup was achieved with the active support of such groups as the LOK Special Forces, which was part of Operation Gladio, NATO-controlled black-ops forces that carried out false flag attacks across Europe to eliminate left-wing political organizations.

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In Athens, Middle-Class Rioters Are Buying Rocks. This Chaos Isn't Over

How much tear gas can a nation take? How many stones can it collect? To ask such questions of an EU member state that is supposed to be as sophisticated as it is modern might seem far-fetched, even silly.

To ask them four years after that country basked in the glory of staging one of the most successful Olympic Games might be considered absurd. But yesterday, as Greece entered a second week of pitched battles between rock-throwing protesters and riot police - with security forces turning to Israel and Germany to replenish depleted reserves of toxic gases to contain the angry crowds - such questions did not seem foolish. Or, I'm sad to say, remotely absurd.

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'Social Revolution' In Greece?

THOUSANDS of protesters rampaged through the heart of Athens yesterday, burning and looting shops on a third day of riots sparked by the killing of a teenager by police.
Tear gas filled Syntagma Square outside Greece's parliament as police clashed with left-wing demonstrators, beating some with batons and detaining others.Anger over the 15-year-old boy's killing has turned to resentment over economic hardships and could topple the unpopular conservative government.

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What Are The Greek Riots Really About?

We've been told that the ongoing riots in Greece were prosecuted by anarchists as a reaction to the Greek police's shooting of a 15 year old boy on Saturday.But is this really what lies behind such an outpouring of civil unrest? Is the official reason for the rioting just a cover to paper over some real problems facing the Greek government? Take a look at the common thread in all of these reports:

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Iceland Riots Precursor To US Civil Unrest?

Riots and protests in Reykjavik calling for the government of Iceland to resign have increased following a financial catastrophe that has wiped out half of the krona’s value and put one third of the population at risk of losing their homes and life savings. Could similar scenes of civil unrest be repeated in the United States as the economy continues to implode?

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