Toronto the Good: 19,000 police protect the Gee-Twenty summit delegates, including heads of countries

The typical fate of G-8 Summits is riotous anarchists in the streets (presently under the name Black Block anarchists), and some burnt cars, certainly some smashed business windows in main thorofares often with myriads of onlookers and shoppers on foot along the sidewalks and the curbs.  And, oh yes, I woud imagine, the usual ganglion of dogooders with a protest on their minds.  Did I mention clobbered heads of the Anarchos?  Or, according to the latest published account, some 550 persons arrested?

Stay out of the street!

Someone from the monastery made a meditative tour down to Queen Street, Queen East and DeGrassi or thereabouts (later, I learn that the exact street location is the intersection of Eastern Avenue and Pape Avenue, where the police have set up a Detention Center for detainees acquired during the fracas on Yonge Street, or wherever it was.  Latest: An estimated 550 persons are being held at 629 Eastern Avenue, at a film studion that been converted into a temp prison for serious troublemakers at the G8/G20 summits.  At least 300  are being held at 629 Eastern Ave, at a film studio that has bee converted into a temporary prison for G8/G20 those resisting the G8/G20.

The G20 itself stumbles on, after lavish TV introductions of the org's official delegates by Canada's Chief Diplomat, Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.  In their proceedings starting the next day they reached an agreement in terms largely favourable to Europe's situation, as the European leadership presently sees the future.  The goal will be to lower the deficit in each country by one-half come the determined date in 2k13.

The USA agrees to the formula,  while arguing that too-fast a reduction coud lead to instablities in the global economy, in the third-word especially.

Brazil and the UN's Ban Ki-moon said they didn't want an all-out assault on the deficit in the "rich, industrialized countries."  Such a move woud unsettle third-world countries, they said.

-- EconoMix