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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 19-Apr-2011
19-Apr-11 World View -- 'Boots on the ground' in Libya

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19-Apr-11 World View -- 'Boots on the ground' in Libya

Chinese organized crime grows substantially in Russia

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com.

More talk of 'boots on the ground' in Libya

Muammar Gaddafi's forces are pounding the port city of Misrata with salvoes of rockets and artillery, including cluster bombs. Up to 1,000 people are thought to have died there, 80% of them civilians, including children. The logical solution is for Nato to provide "close air support" to the rebels, requiring "boots on the ground" in the form of special forces as forward air controllers to direct air strikes. However, technically this would require another United Nations Security Council resolution. Irish Times

Axel Poniatowski, chairman of France's foreign affairs committee, agrees, saying that Gaddafi plans to destroy Misrata, and will succeed without boots on the ground. He says that French commandos should be deployed on the ground in Libya to help guide air strikes. BBC.

Libyan assets will be hard to unfreeze

One of the proposals to help the Libyan rebels is to unfreeze Libyan assets that were frozen last month to keep them out of reach of Muammar Gaddafi, and make the assets available to the rebels. The U.S. is holding $34 billion in frozen assets, and billions more are held by European countries. However, any attempt to unfreeze those assets and make them available to the rebels would run into significant legal delays from Gaddafi supporters, and Gaddafi might even win in court. Reuters

Palestinians reaffirm plans to seek Palestinian state through U.N. in September

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed his plans to seek recognition from the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state in September. According to Abbas, the attempt might be blocked in the U.N. Security Council by a U.S. veto, but approval by the U.N. General Assembly would be legally binding. Bloomberg

Chinese organized crime grows substantially in Russia

Over the last several years, the number and brazenness of ethnically based Chinese criminal groups in Russia have grown substantially, to the point where Beijing-Moscow ties are threatened. Much of the crime involves "complete financial schemes and technical cleverness, the use of contemporary Internet technology, electronic payment systems, and a deep knowledge of financial monitoring and exchange procedures." Paul Goble

Number of Violent Neo-Nazis Rising in Germany

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency reports that the number of violent neo-Nazis increased by 600 to 5,600 in 2010. Spiegel

Young generation of Russians more intolerant of other ethnic groups

A survey of 1500 Russians found that younger people are less tolerant of people of other nationalities than their parents and other older people. 33% of young people said that they felt "anger" toward non-Russians, and 43% support a ban on immigration. These figures are lower for older generations. These findings are consistent with the Generational Dynamics principle that survivors of a generational crisis war reject xenophobia, and devote their lives to preventing any such horrible war of happening to their children, while each generation born after the war (Boomers and Gen-Xers in the case of the West) are increasingly xenophobic. Paul Goble

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