Globalist Fueled Revolutions in Northern Africa and the Middle East

Gerald Celente's Top 11 Trends of 2011

9. Youth of the World Unite
University degrees in hand yet out of work, in debt and with no prospects on the horizon, feeling betrayed and angry, forced to live back at home, young adults and 20-somethings are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. Filled with vigor, rife with passion, but not mature enough to control their impulses, the confrontations they engage in will often escalate disproportionately. Government efforts to exert control and return the youth to quiet complacency will be ham-fisted and ineffectual. The Revolution will be televised … blogged, YouTubed, Twittered and….


Jeff Rense interviews Gerald Celente on Economic Crisis, Arab Revolutions and Upcoming War, February 10, 2011

Police Open Fire on Anti-government Protesters in Djibouti

February 18, 2011

Bloomberg - Police have opened fire on demonstrators in Djibouti, the Horn of Africa nation that hosts the only U.S. military base on the continent, according to the leader of an opposition party.

“The police are confronting demonstrators,” Mohamed Daoud Chehem, head of the Djibouti Party for Development, said by phone from the protest in the capital, Djibouti. “They have opened fire,” he said, without being able to specify if anyone was injured or what type of ammunition was used.

Chehem earlier said that as many as 20,000 people had joined the protest against President Ismail Guelleh, and that he expected numbers to swell to 50,000.

Anti-government protests across North Africa since January ousted the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia, while similar demonstrations have occurred in Algeria and Libya. In Djibouti, Guelleh’s People’s Rally for Progress party has ruled the country since independence in 1977. The 63-year-old leader, who was elected in 1999, amended the constitution in March to allow him to extend his rule by two more six-year terms.

Exiled Djiboutian opposition leader Abdourahman Boreh, who is currently in London, put the number of protesters today at as many as 5,000. The demonstration may extend beyond today, he said in a phone interview.

“We will see how it goes,” Boreh said. “This is the first day. We will see how the government reacts.”

The U.S has had a base in Djibouti since 2001, while former colonial power France also has 3,000 troops stationed in the country, which is smaller than the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The republic borders the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and is seen as a strategic location in the U.S.-led fight against terrorism and piracy.

Last month, Boreh called for elections scheduled for April to be delayed by as much as a year and for international monitors to oversee an electoral roll that includes 130,000 to 140,000 of the population of about 865,000.

Djibouti ranks 148th out of 169 countries ranked in the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index, which measures life expectancy, education and living standards.

Saudi Arabia Worried Protests Will Spread There

February 18, 2011

AFP - A SENIOR member of the Saudi royal family has warned that the oil-rich country could be harmed by the uprisings sweeping the Arab world unless it speeded up reforms.

Prince Talal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud told BBC Arabic that "anything could happen" if King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz did not proceed with a program of political transformation.

"King Abdullah ... is the only person who can carry out these reforms," the prince told the broadcaster.

"On his departure, may that be in many years to come, latent trouble will surface and I have warned of this on many occasions. We need to resolve the problems in his lifetime," the prince added.

Talal added that if Saudi authorities "don't give more concern to the demands of the people, anything could happen in this country".

Talal has long called for reform in Saudi Arabia and formed the liberal political group "Free Princes Movement" in 1958 in reaction to the hostility between former kings Saud and Faisal.

Because of his involvement with the Free Princes Movement it is unlikely that Talal, a former ambassador to France, will ever become king.

Leaders throughout the Arab world are anxiously studying the spread of protests which have already unseated the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt.

Bahrain is the latest country to be consumed by crisis after the army deployed across the capital Manama yesterday and vowed "strict measures" to restore order after a police raid on anti-regime protesters killed three people.

"Well, what is happening in this area surprised me frankly," Talal admitted.

"I did not expect it and nobody else expected what happened. That means any nation in this world, especially the Third World, could surprise with such uprising."

Libyan Troops Attempt to Put Down Unrest in East

February 18, 2011

Reuters – Thousands of people protested in Libya's second city of Benghazi on Friday over a security crackdown that has killed dozens of people but failed to halt the worst unrest of Muammar Gaddafi's four decades in power.

Opposition activists said protesters were fighting troops for control of the nearby town of Al Bayda, scene of some of the worst violence over the past two days, where townspeople said they were burying 14 people who were killed in earlier clashes.

Residents said that by evening the streets were calm but there were conflicting accounts about whether opposition activists or security forces were in control of the town.

Protests fired by uprisings in Tunis and Egypt have produced unprecedented scenes in a country tightly controlled by Gaddafi. By contrast to Egypt, where protests forced President Hosni Mubarak from power, international media access is limited.

The privately-owned Quryna newspaper said that in Benghazi, focal point of demonstrations against Gaddafi, thousands of residents gathered for the funeral processions of the 14 protesters killed in clashes there. Thousands more gathered in front of Benghazi court building.

"The (funeral) procession included thousands of citizens, and thousands of people in front of the Benghazi court said prayers for the victims," said the paper, which is based in Benghazi.

The New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch said that according to its sources inside Libya, security forces had killed at least 24 people over the past two days. Exile groups have given much higher tolls which could not be confirmed...