The "War On Terror" is a fraud

Webster Tarpley, American Historian and Author, gives an analysis of the War On Terror exposing the manipulations, lies and obvious Geo-Political strategy behind the whole of this manufactured edifice.

The lessons of history make it very clear why a regime which planned and executed such attacks should not be left in power - think "Reichstag Fire" and you'd be on the right track.

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New age of rebellion and riot stalks Europe

Iceland has no army, no navy and no air force - but it does have riot police.

On Tuesday night the black-uniformed troopers came out to quell the latest riots in Reykjavik, which erupted in front of parliament. The building was splattered with paint and yoghurt, the crowd yelled and banged pans, shot fireworks and flares at the windows and lit a fire in front of the main door.

Yesterday the protesters gathered again, hurling eggs at the car of Geir Haarde, the Prime Minister, and banging cans on its roof.

The transformation of the placid island into a community of seething anger - there have been half a dozen riots in recent weeks - is more than a regional oddity.

In Riga last week 10,000 protesters laid siege to the Latvian parliament; yesterday hundreds of Bulgarians rallied to demand that the Socialist-led Government should take action or step down, in a second week of demonstrations, and last month the police shooting of a 15-year-old Greek boy led to days of running battles in the streets of Athens and Salonika.

The protests went beyond the usual angry reflexes of societies braced for recession. The Greek riots heralded sympathetic actions across the world, from Moscow to Madrid, and in Berlin the Greek Consulate was briefly stormed. The Riga unrest spread rapidly to Lithuania. It is, some say, just the beginning: 2009 could become another 1968 - a new age of rebellion.

The LSE economist Robert Wade addressed about 1,000 Icelanders recently at a protest meeting in a Reykjavik cinema, warning that large-scale civil unrest was on the way. The tipping point, he said, would be this spring.

“It will be caused by the rise of general awareness throughout Europe, America and Asia that hundreds and millions of people in rich and poor countries are experiencing rapidly falling consumption standards; that the crisis is getting worse, not better, and that it has escaped the control of public authorities, national and international,” he said.

The global liquidity emergency became a full-blown crash so quickly that there was no time to hold governments to account. Now leaders all over Europe have declared themselves to be the saviours of the economy and are nationalising assets, extending loans and guarantees to failing banks and manufacturers. But the price is high: unemployment is starting to soar and cuts in public spending are hurting hospitals, schools and universities. Personal bankruptcies are at record levels.

Every segment of society has been hit, but it is the young who feel the pain most - and just as in 1968, it is they who are leading the rebellion.

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Protesters pelt car of Icelandic prime minister

The demonstrators, who were enraged by their government's handling of the financial crisis, pelted Geir Haarde's car with eggs and drink cans.

The protests have become a regular feature of life in the country's capital, Reykjavik, since the reopening of parliament after the Christmas break.

Footage on Iceland's RUV television channel showed bodyguards pushing angry protesters away from the car before riot police arrived and the prime minister was able to make his escape.

The latest demonstration left government buildings splattered with eggs and paint before protesters moved on to the parliament, the scene on Tuesday of violent clashes with the police.

Protesters lit fires in front of the parliament entrance, with some people igniting park benches, according to the police.

Johann Thorisson, the chief police inspector, reported that demonstrators had thrown eggs, cans and snowballs at the prime minister's car, but that he had not been physically attacked or harmed.

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Greek farmers attempt to invade Bulgaria in protest, border blockaded

About 100 Greek farmers with tractors invaded Bulgaria's territory briefly at about 1 am Thursday close to the Kulata Border Crossing Point, the BGNES news agency reported.

Many of the Greek farmers are reported to have been drunk. Their group was accompanied by teams from three Greek TV channels.

The farmers advanced with 15 tractors through the bridge on the Bistritsa River close to Kulata. They were met immediately by the Bulgarian border police, and told them they wanted to enter into Bulgaria as part of their ongoing protests against falling commodity prices.

The Bulgarian border police swiftly created a barricade of portable crash barriers, and managed to stop the invasion. Additional border policy units were sent to the spot, and the Greek farmers were explained that in order to enter Bulgaria, they first had to go through the Greek border crossing point at Promahon, and then through the Kulata checkpoint.

The Greek farmers retreated at about 2:20 am. There had been no clashes between them and the Bulgarian border guards.

At about 2:50 Bulgarian border police officers met with the Director of the Police Directorate in the Greek town of Seres Brigade General N. Rizos, who assured them all measures would be taken to prevent the same from happening again.

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Riots in Eastern Europe as crisis bites

Civil unrest is spreading in eastern Europe as the economic crisis hits the region harder than western states, with anti-government riots kicking off in Lithuania and Bulgaria in recent days and with Estonia and Hungary at risk.

On Friday (16 January), demonstrators attacked the Lithuanian parliament building in Vilnius with stones, smoke bombs, eggs and ice, breaking windows and calling on the government to resign.

Police dispersed the crowds - estimated to number some 7,000 according to authorities, with tear gas and rubber-tipped bullets - while Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius to hold called an emergency cabinet meeting. A total of 86 individuals were arrested.

Organised by the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation, the protest denounced public sector wage cuts and increases in taxes aimed at aiding the country's battered economy.

The violent protests come two days after similar events shook Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, and follows on from riots protesting International Monetary Fund (IMF)-agreed austerity measures in Latvia earlier in the week.

In Sofia last Wednesday some 2,000 students, farmers and green activists also took up stones, snowballs and bottles against their parliament building and demanded the government resign. A total of 150 were arrested and around 30 injured.

Last week also saw saw the biggest protest Latvia has witnessed since the demonstrations that led to the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. A crowd of young people broke away from around 10,000 peaceful protesters, overturning a police van and breaking windows at the finance ministry.

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Greek inspiration

But Latvian officials dismiss the idea that the protests are anything other than citizens frustrated at the collapse of their economies.

"It was just spontaneous," Inese Allika, Latvian diplomat, told the EUobserver. "Latvians are normally very quiet, and people obviously are seeing what is happening in other countries in the rest of Europe, such as Greece, and they thought 'Why are we so calm?'"

"There had been a huge economic boom in recent years, then all of a sudden, everything stops."

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