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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 20-Apr-2011
20-Apr-11 World View -- Increased concern over riots in Yemen

Web Log - April, 2011

20-Apr-11 World View -- Increased concern over riots in Yemen

Britain and France sending military advisers to Libya

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com.

Britain and France sending military advisers to Libya

Britain and France will send military teams to join the rebels in Benghazi, Libya, to provide advice, logistics and intelligence training. British Foreign Secretary William Hague insists that this is not an escalation, and is compliant with the UN enabling resolution, even though it forbids foreign occupation forces, since the military teams will not be involved in any fighting. However, Libya's foreign minister said that the plan would prolong fighting, and once again called for a ceasefire. BBC.

UN Security Council and Gulf Cooperation Council concern over Yemen

Security forces in Yemen have killed at least four people and wounded hundreds more after opening fire on demonstrations on Tuesday. The six-nation Gulf Security Council has offered to mediate, but the protesters refuse to consider any mediation until president Ali Abdullah Saleh steps down. Uprisings are going on all around the Mideast, but a sign of the seriousness of the one in Yemen is that the United Nations Security Council is meeting to discuss this particular crisis. Al-Jazeera

Violence continues in Syria after 48-year-old emergency rule law lifted

Syria's government says that it is close to lifting its draconian emergency rule law, instituted 48 years ago, thus fulfilling the promise made last week by president Bashar al-Assad in his nationwide television address. However, there was a fresh massacre on Tuesday, as security forces opened live fire against protesters in Homs, Syria's third largest city. Syria is in a generational Awakening era (like America in the 1960s-70s), and al-Assad's concession will only infuriate the young demonstraters further. Guardian

Cuba's Communist Party Congress ends with promises, promises

Last September, Cuba surprised the world by announcing the end of Cuba's communist economy. (See "16-Sep-10 News -- Cuba's seismic shift has global implications.") On Sunday, the first Communist Party Congress in 25 years ended, with promises of nearly 200 economic reforms aimed at boosting Cuba's freefalling economy. However, reform promises were not kept in previous party congresses. Miami Herald

Donald Trump surges in presidential public opinion polls

Donald Trump's potential run for president in 2012 is widely considered to be a joke, and for all I know, it is. But he is surging in public opinion polls, and from the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the significance of his candidacy is that he's highly nationalistic. Highly nationalistic candidates do poorly in most eras, but in a generational Crisis era, anxious, xenophobic voters often turn to nationalistic candidates in a big way. This has happened in many European countries, most recently Finland. "The world is just destroying our country. These other countries are just sapping our strength. OPEC is sapping our strength. Let the other countries worry about themselves," said Trump. VOA

(Comments: For reader comments, questions and discussion, see the 20-Apr-11 News -- Bahrain riots raise tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia thread of the Generational Dynamics forum. Comments may be posted anonymously.) (20-Apr-2011) Permanent Link
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