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Store management called Upland police at 2:44 a.m., asking for assistance in dealing with customers who were “fighting inside,” said Lt. Jim Etchason. About 300 people were in the store, which had remained open all night as a security precaution after a Wal-Mart worker on Long Island, N.Y., was trampled to death last year on Black Friday when a surging, impatient crowd rushed the doors after the store opened. But in Upland, employees said, customers began tearing into merchandise that had been shrink-wrapped and were supposed to be opened at 5 a.m. “This was without a doubt the worst I’ve...

It seems like there was a bit of a kerfuffle in Paris that has him fuming mad. An internet marketing company decided to stage a promotional stunt: they were going to drive a bus through the city throwing money at passers-by. The event was advertised heavily (Duh - it's a marketing company) and attracted large crowds. So large, in fact, that police became nervous at the size of the crowd, estimated at 7,000 strong, and its composition — young, low-income males from bad parts of Paris' suburbs. Given the risk of violence and traffic chaos caused by the crowd, the...

Neo-Nazis took to the streets in Arizona and Minnesota this weekend, a new boldness that officials say echoes the homegrown terrorism of the 1990s. James Verini talks to the extremists leading the charge. A year after President Obama's election, hate groups are feeling bolder than they have in over a decade, and their usually insular anger is beginning to spill into the public realm. This weekend, the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, held rallies in Arizona and Minnesota. Those demonstrations came on the heels of similar actions in Southern California, where epithet-spewing white supremacists were forced to disband by...

Yesterday marked the 30th anniver sary of the capture by Khomeinist "stu dents" of the US Embassy in Tehran, triggering the 444-day hostage crisis. The Iranian public seized the chance to reject the regime -- even as the surviving hostage-takers have largely come to regret their actions. For months, Iran's state-controlled media had tried to build up the day as a "turning point" for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's troubled second term. The occasion was supposed to highlight Ahmadinejad's "victory over the American Great Satan" and Washington's implicit acceptance of Iran's nuclear project in recent talks in Geneva and Vienna.

VIEWED from the outside, things have been going quite well for Russia recently. The United States has scrapped, at least for now, the plan to base missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. Germany and Russia seem to have overcome opposition in Europe to their Nord Stream pipeline, despite fears that it will solidify Russia’s dominance of the European natural gas supplies. Oil prices have recovered from the disastrously low — for Russia — levels of last winter. And, far from buckling under pressure from the United States over sanctions against Iran, Russian leaders felt confident enough to...

Seems like a shame that only the early birds might get to read this thread..as in the replies: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362878/posts

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Thousands of people jammed into Cobo Hall and lined up around the building to seek out housing aid from the federal government. It quickly turned into a mess with reports of fights and nearly a stampede. People started lining up around midnight, but the real chaos broke out near the front entrance that leads to the ballroom. Thousands of people jammed into too tight of a space. There were reports of fights and people passing out in the crowd.

Is this week's revelation that water ice is more prevalent on the moon than scientists expected a "game-changer" for future spaceflight, as some experts think? Actually, the rules of the game for going beyond Earth orbit haven't changed - but the latest findings could bring new attention to options in the old playbooks.

Here are some stories from a student news outlet, about the riot police on the U of Pitt campus. http://www.pittbriefly.com/

China to send 'harmony makers' to Urumqi 7,000 officials being sent to Urumqi after last week's deadly protests "Harmony makers" meant to ease tensions after demonstrators clashed with police Demonstrators were demanding better police protection after attacks Han Chinese accuse Uyghurs of attacking people using hypodermic needles (CNN) -- China is sending 7,000 officials to the western city of Urumqi after last week's deadly protests over a strange series of syringe stabbings, state-run media reported. The officials, known as "harmony makers," are meant to ease tensions after demonstrators, demanding better police protection, clashed with police for two days. The unrest...

Ninety people have been arrested after fighting erupted at a right-wing protest in a busy shopping street. A planned demonstration in Birmingham against Islamic fundamentalism, by The English Defence League, resulted in angry clashes with anti-fascist campaigners. Gangs of men and youths hurled bottles at one another and pelted riot police with bricks as trouble erupted in the New Street area of the city, close to the main train station. The disorder, which involved around 250 people, spilled onto the adjoining Bennetts Hill - a street lined with a number of pubs popular with shoppers.

Birmingham’s top Muslim leader urged his followers to “vent their feelings” against anti-Islamic protesters during a weekend rally that ended in violence and dozens of arrests, The Times can reveal. Muslims were encouraged by the Birmingham Central Mosque to counter-demonstrate during Saturday’s protest in the city, which was organised by the right-wing English Defence League (EDL). It is understood that Muslims were encouraged to confront the protest against the advice given by the West Midlands Police to community leaders to stop their followers from attending.

Thomas Fitzgerald never knew what hit him. One minute he was riding home from his night-shift job and stopping his bike at Broad and South Streets to watch a mob scene that appeared to be getting out of control. The next, he told a Philadelphia judge yesterday, he was waking up four days later from a medically induced coma, with his hearing impaired and his memory scrambled. Two other witnesses yesterday helped piece together Fitzgerald's lost minutes as they described how, about 11:30 p.m. May 30, the 53-year-old bicyclist was set upon by eight young males, beaten, and left unconscious...

Indian villagers have gone on the rampage after police tried to enforce a ban on an annual stone-pelting ritual that often leaves people dead or injured, a local official said. Officers trying to uphold the ban in two villages in Madhya Pradesh were subjected to a hail of stones themselves on Friday and were forced to withdraw, Nikunj Srivastava, a district civil servant, told AFP. The angry mob then got their way and the centuries-old ritual went ahead as usual, causing at least two serious injuries. "As soon as the festival started and villagers from both sides came to know...

MARION, Ala. – Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats. Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK. The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night....

BURGIN, Ky. (AP) - Rioting inmates started several fires at a central Ky. prison, and damage to several buildings was so extensive that officials have to bus some of the facility's 1,200 prisoners elsewhere, police said Saturday. State police Lt. David Jude said firefighters had extinguished the blazes set at the medium-security Northpoint Training Center in a rural area 30 miles south of Lexington. Buses started to transport the first prisoners shortly after 6 a.m., but it wasn't immediately known where they were going and whether all the inmates would have to be moved. "To me it would seem like...

(English-language translation) SAN JUAN - A long riot left an undetermined number of people injured, including police officers, on busy Universidad Avenue in Río Piedras early Friday morning. The [Commonwealth] Police [Department] released a brief report about the incident in which it is mentioned that five San Juan municipal police officers were injured, but no mention is made of how many civilians were hurt during the brawl in which officers several times threw tear-gas bombs at the mob which, in turn, threw cans and stones at police. Sergeant Wilberto Soto with the Municipal Police told Commonwealth Police officers that the...

PARIS — Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will be the site of a National Guard riot control drill Thursday morning to prepare in the event of a panic over distribution of serum to treat the swine flu. The school on Route 26 at the Paris-Norway town line has been designated by state officials as a distribution site for the H1N1 flu vaccine. The drill is to prepare for a worst-case scenario should the serum have to be transported from Augusta and people rush to get it. On Thursday morning, four or five National Guard Humvees will travel from Augusta to...

Obama Says Bush Ignoring 'Quiet Riot' Among BlacksTuesday, June 05, 2007 HAMPTON, Virginia — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a "quiet riot" among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago. The first-term senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building. "This administration was colorblind in its incompetence," Obama said at a conference of black clergy, "but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long...

Hundreds Hurt in 11-Hour California Prison RiotSOLOMON MOORE Published: August 9, 2009 LOS ANGELES — Rioting inmates smashed and burned a large California prison on Saturday night and Sunday morning, injuring 250 prisoners and hospitalizing 55. The 11-hour riot, at the Reception Center West at the California Institution for Men in Chino, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, broke down along racial lines, with black prison gangs fighting Latino gangs in hand-to-hand combat, the authorities said. No prison employees were injured, no deaths were reported, and no inmates escaped, state officials said. But 10 of the 33 prisons in...

Police called to Rep. Murphy's town hall @ 11:22 am by Eric Zimmermann Protesters at one of Rep. Chris Murphy's (D-Conn.) constituent meetings yesterday were so unruly that police were called to the scene. Murphy was greeting constituents at a Stop & Shop grocery store in Simsbury, Conn., when protesters showed up chanting "No national healthcare!" and "Dump Chris Dodd!" the Boston Herald Reports. Finally, the store's management become so concerned at the protester's behavior that they called the police. No word on whether anyone was arrested, though the Herald reports the management simply wanted the boisterous protesters removed from...

KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian riot police fired tear gas and water cannons in clashes with several thousand antigovernment demonstrators who gathered in Kuala Lumpur Saturday to protest a long-standing law allowing detention without trial, raising the stakes in a long-running struggle for political power in the resource-rich but divided country. The law, known as the Internal Security Act, enables Malaysian authorities to detain indefinitely persons they consider to be security risks. In the past, al Qaeda-linked terrorists have been held under the provision. But opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and human rights activists say the law is also being used to...

Civilian Airports Commandeered, More Than 10,000 Paramilitary Police Diverted to Xinjiang to Maintain Security By chinafreepress.org (translation) Jul 10, 2009 - 4:26:58 AM (Image) Civilian Airports Commandeered, More Than 10,000 Paramilitary Police Diverted to Xinjiang to Maintain Security Boxun reports that regional airports and airliners have been commandeered in transporting 14,000 paramilitary police officers and troops from Jiangsu, Henan and Fujian provinces to Xinjiang following last week's violent uprising. A correspondent in Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport confirmed that flights were cancelled while the military deployment took place.

It wasn't your usual Saturday afternoon lunch at the Jack in the Box on North Grand Avenue on Saturday. Upon learning of his termination with the restaurant, a Jack in the Box employee went on a tirade, destroying two cash registers, a breakfast menu board, a drive thru headset, a milkshake mixer--- even two customer's meals. The 20-year-old employee was charged with criminal mischief greater than $1,500, which is a state jail felony. No one was injured in the employee's ‘rampage.’

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Chinese Riot Police Deployed in Urumqi

The Uighurs’ cry has echoed round the world The deaths in northwest China are, sadly, the inevitable result of the repression of Turkic peoples over six decades Rubiya Kadeer The massacre of Uighur demonstrators in the cities of Urumqi and Kashgar has been reported in every language, from English to Chinese to Portuguese to Arabic. While the intense repression against Uighurs is normally ignored by both the Chinese Government and the international media, the deaths of hundreds of protesters and the injuries of hundreds more has exposed the brutality of Chinese government actions toward Uighurs in a way that cannot...

URUMQI, China — Mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China's Xinjiang region Tuesday. The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence after a riot that killed at least 156 people. Members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group attacked people near the Urumqi's railway station, and women in headscarves protested the arrests of husbands and sons in another part of the city. Meanwhile, for much of the afternoon, a mob of 1,000 mostly young Han Chinese holding clubs and...

`Uighur Bloodbath Sparked by Fired Han Chinese Worker` JULY 07, 2009 08:22 The bloody clashes in China’s far western Xinjiang province were sparked by a rumor that intensified the long-standing tension between Han Chinese and Muslim Uyghurs, the British daily The Times said yesterday. The Times said Early Light toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong province, hired 800 Uyghurs in May and last month. A fired Han Chinese man held a grudge against Uyghurs on the belief that he was laid off due to newly hired Uyghurs. The man uploaded June 16 an online post that said, "Six Uyghur workers raped...

Chinese Han mob marches for revenge against Uighurs after rampage Jane Macartney, Urumqi Thousands of Han Chinese roamed in a mob through the streets of the western city of Urumqi today looking for vengeance after Sunday's deadly riots as China's leaders struggled to regain control of the country's only Muslim-majority region. Men and women of all ages, girls in high heels and young men in smart white shirts carried wooden staves, billiard cues, iron bars and even machetes as they surged through towards the main city bazaar. They were determined to wreak damage on the business heart of the Muslim...

                                                                                                                                 

140 slain as Chinese riot police, Muslims clash in northwestern city Eight hundred people are injured and hundreds are reported arrested in Urumqi. The Uighur demonstrators were protesting against racial discrimination. By Barbara Demick July 6, 2009 Firefighters are seen dousing a bus in Urumqi, the main city in Xinjiang, where China's ethnic Uighur minority is concentrated. Eight hundred people were injured and hundreds held as demonstrations against racial discrimination erupted into street violence. (Shen Qiao / New China News Agency / July 5, 2009) Reporting from Beijing - China's worst ethnic violence in years broke out Sunday in the...

Religious Jews have rioted in Jerusalem on the Jewish Sabbath for the second straight week. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews took to the streets of Jerusalem, throwing stones and scuffling with police. The demonstrators were protesting the opening of a parking lot on the Sabbath to accommodate an influx of Israeli visitors from around the country to Jerusalem's Old City. Jewish religious law forbids driving on the Sabbath and the Orthodox accuse the secular government and public at large of desecrating the biblical holy day of rest. Some demonstrators chanted that "Sabbath desecrators will die." Riots first erupted last month when...

“It could have been a lot worse.” So said Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Earl Paysinger of the downtown L.A. melee that followed the Lakers’ victory over the Orlando Magic last Sunday. If that’s the standard the LAPD is shooting for these days, the city is in big, big trouble. By the time the last of the Lakers’ “fans” were cleared from the streets that night, eight police officers had been injured, three businesses looted, and several cars and transit buses vandalized, all broadcast live from television news helicopters. You just knew there was a problem with LAPD’s response...

Riot Police attempt to hold the line and then start falling back. Riot Police retreat as protestors advance, and then the Polic break and run as protestors chase Please watch the video showing this. In a rock fight 10,000 protestors win "There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom. "All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse...

Police, Border Police, including anti-riot squads, spread out in Shfaram Wednesday to prevent the resumption of armed riots and clashes between the Druze and Christian communities that hit the town on Tuesday night. "These are not ordinary disturbances. These are very grave events that included fire arms, and only by luck officers were not hurt," a senior police officer said. The forces were deployed mainly between the town's Druze neighborhood and Christian homes in the town center after a night of riots during which four policemen were lightly injured by stones, and a riot control vehicle was damaged by gun...

A rally against the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is being held in Tehran, in defiance of a government ban on protests. AFP news agency says hundreds of people are taking part in the Tehran rally. Marchers have clashed with Ahmadinejad supporters, Reuters agency reports. Defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi said he would attend and urge calm. Mr Mousavi, a moderate, wants election results annulled, alleging fraud. Mr Ahmadinejad says the vote was fair. Following two days of unrest, the interior ministry said on Monday: "Some seditious elements had planned to hold a rally." It added: "Any disrupter of...

L.A. Lakers fans celebrated their NBA championship victory Sunday night (June 14) by rioting outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Eyewitness reports said that the police officers at the scene were being belted with rocks and bottles. There are also reports of fans starting fires, although it isn’t clear at this stage whether those fires included buildings or vehicles. One unconfirmed report says that at least one police vehicle has been set on fire.

Police arrested Stephen Lyde, 21, today and charged him with aggravated assault in what Capt. Laurence D. Nodiff, commander of South Detective Division, called the "vicious" and "brutal" beating of a 52-year-old maintenance mechanic who was bicycling home from work during the May 30 near-riots on South Street. Nodiff said that Lyde was one of eight males who knocked the victim off his bike and "brutally beat him to unconsciousness," leaving him with skull, rib and facial fractures, and internal injuries. The victim was on life support at Hahnemann University Hospital for days, Nodiff said, and remains hospitalized in stable...

A mob of furious neighbors of an 11-year-old girl raped on her way to school in Philadelphia won't be charged for beating a man wanted for questioning in the case.

Some 10,000 people storm hospital, clash with police in China's Chongqing BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific (c) 2009 The British Broadcasting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. No material may be reproduced except with the express permission of The British Broadcasting Corporation. Text of report by Hong Kong Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy on 14 May [Report: "Some 10,000 People Stormed a PLA Hospital for Refusing To Save a Dying Person and Clashed With Police, Resulting in 10 People Injured"] According to information obtained by this centre, yesterday a retired soldier who had participated in the 12 May rescue task accidentally...

A day of partying by college-aged residents of East College Avenue in Kent ended with Metro SWAT officers breaking up a crowd of hundreds of rioters, allowing firefighters to douse the couch-fueled bonfires burning in the street. At least 40 people were arrested after Kent police called in assistance from Metro SWAT and numerous other area police and rescue squads. Kent’s Prisoner Transport van and other vehicles made repeated trips from College Avenue to the emergency services staging area between Water, Day and DePeyster streets. Police radio traffic began heating up around 8 p.m., with reports of officers calling for...

Violent confrontation in the desert: employees at Inn 101, located on the Arava Highway en route to Eilat, rioted Saturday after being laid off, vandalizing the site and spray-painting a swastika on one of its walls. Police officers are currently searching for the suspects, who reside in east Jerusalem. The riot broke out after a company who operated two food outlets at the site decided to close them down following a business dispute with the inn's owner. Two of the laid off workers, who are east Jerusalem Arabs, were subsequently asked to vacate their room at the inn. After realizing...

This is some scary stuff. Celente has a history of being right in his predictions. Video on site

Protesters in the streets of London at today's G20 meeting and the silent, irate majority elsewhere have every reason to be "hurt, frightened and very angry," says Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for The Financial Times. While "nobody knows what's going to happen," Wolf notes recent forecasts from various international organizations are "pretty scary," including: * The World Bank expects the global economy to contract by 1.7% in 2009, and global trade to decline by 6.1%. * The OECD forecasts economic activity in the 30 industrialized nations it follows will shrink by 4.3% this year with trade among those nations...

G20 summit protesters have forced their way inside a Royal Bank of Scotland office in the City amid violent clashes with police as world leaders gather in London. Anarchists smashed windows of the building on Threadneedle Street near the Bank of England and looted office equipment and papers, throwing smoke grenades, chairs and eggs. A printer was seen being thrown out of a window as the group of protesters, many with their faces covered by bandanas, ransacked the office, despite a huge security operation to protect Europe's financial capital. Riot police have been deployed near the scene but the protesters...

An amazing set of photos from London. Monuments being boarded up, Ritz hotel boarded over. Capitalism isn't working Democracy is an illusion One currency One Country

Some 15 people, including the police commissioner's deputy, Insp.-Gen. Shahar Ayalon, were lightly wounded on Tuesday morning, during violence which broke out between Umm el-Fahm residents and Border Police forces after a right-wing march in the Arab city. Police reported that Israeli Arab protesters threw stones at the activists, but further escalation during the march was prevented by tear gas and stun grenades. The injuries were caused in scuffles which broke out as security forces dispersed crowds following the demonstration. According to Israel Radio, 12 people were arrested in the unrest. During the march itself, right-wing activists marched through the...

America's Next Top Model host Tyra Banks says she is "concerned" after an audition for her show ended with six people injured and three arrests. Thousands of modelling hopefuls were queuing outside a hotel in Manhattan, New York, when bedlam broke out. Police cancelled the audition but could not say what had sparked the panic. Banks and the show's producer Ken Mok said: "We are concerned by the events. We still don't know all the details of what triggered the incident."

26 police injured in fight with 200 oil workers, group says Fiona Tam 2009 ¦~ 3 ¤ë 15 ¤é South China Morning Post (c) 2009 South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved. At least 26 police officers were sent to hospital with injuries and three patrol cars destroyed in a scuffle with 200 angry oilfield workers last Sunday, a Hong Kong-based human rights organisation said yesterday. The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said more than 200 security guards from an oilfield in Jingbian county, Shaanxi province, equipped with steel helmets, wooden sticks and tear-gas...