Youth Uprisings in the U.S. Will Mimic European Youth Uprisings, Just as Designed by the NWO

Student Unrest Over California Budget Cuts

March 10, 2011

Epoch Times - A student rally turned into a standoff with campus police on March 3 at Wheeler Hall on the Berkeley campus. A group of eight students crawled out of fourth floor windows onto the ledge and six linked themselves together with plastic tubes. For seven hours they declared their grievances about budget cuts at the university and the effects these are having on student education.

Through negotiations all involved in the incident were released by 9:30 p.m. that evening.

Some are critical of the current protest leaders, because they seem to lack the organizational skills of their predecessors. Reports from students indicate that the fervor of previous protest movements on campus is not there.

The Berkley campus is not new to protests. In the 1960s freedom of speech was the rallying cry at a park used for rallies and protests. During the Vietnam War, 30,000 stood their ground in opposition to the war at this park.

Today, the nature of the student body is more moderate. But, the pressure of the current economic climate is a concern for many involved in obtaining an education that may make the American dream a reality in the future.

Fiscal Trauma on Campus

California’s $12 billion budget deficit for 2011 has resulted in a $1.4 billion reduction in the operating budget for California’s higher education systems. California community colleges, the University of California, and California State University are affected.

With large numbers of Teaching Aides (TAs) no longer on the payroll and a 38.5 percent increase in tuition and fees, and fewer courses, the situation is challenging.

The smaller classes and courses will reduce student registrations by some 350,000 according to a report from Chancellor Jack Scott's for California community colleges alone.

UC Students Respond

Om Alladi, a junior majoring in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, feels rather indifferent toward the consequences of the budget.

“I don’t really see any difference in my living standard from now to 5 years ago, [except] gas prices have gone up maybe,” he said.

Despite having attended university since 2008, before budget shortfalls started to affect the UC system, Alladi has been unable to discern any concrete consequences of the budget crisis.

“I suppose I became more aware of it, but the budget crisis has had very little effect on me,” he said.

With regard to the student protests at Berkeley,

He feels that they are “well intentioned, but misdirected,” and predicted that the protesters “won’t be successful.”

Jiachen Yang, a freshman at UC Berkeley majoring in Computer Science, harbors similar sentiments toward the cuts from the UC system.

Like Alladi, he said that he hasn’t “felt the impact, so I don't feel anything” toward the change, seeing it more as a mere “reduction in staff and bureaucracy members.”

Having a firsthand perspective on the protests on campus, Yang said that he has “not yet seen any good come out of the protests last week, though plenty of students are frustrated at the disruption to their midterms,” due to a fire alarm being set off at a large building during a test session, which he attributed to protesters trying to maximize disruption and garner more attention.

Cole Robert, a physics major at UC Irvine, feels more or less indifferent to the effects of the budget crisis.

“Personally no, I really don’t have a job at the moment, I don’t know if [the tuition increases have] affected my parents in any way.”

Over time, the current crisis may have a greater effect on many students who might be unable to register for classes or had hoped to become a TA while working on a more advanced degree.

The Ripple Effect

The effect on education in California, and even the nation, becomes more striking as one looks at the statistics. Chancellor Jack Scott stated,

“The California community colleges enroll more than 70 percent of the public undergraduate student population in California and 25 percent of all students enrolled in a community college nationwide.”

Also noted in his report,

“In 2010, Hispanics for the first time surpassed the 50 percent mark of California’s K-12 population.” This speaks well for integration within the school system, however, “College success rates among Latinos and blacks are disproportionately low.”

This does not bode well for the upcoming generation of workers in California and beyond.

Trends Analyst Predicts Global Youth Uprising, ‘Progressive Libertarians’ in 2011

January 11, 2011

The Raw Story - An American trends analyst told a Russian news service recently that in 2011, young people from industrial societies around the world will unite on the Internet to overthrow increasingly ineffective elements of globalism that have driven their economies into depression.

In a wide-ranging interview with Russia Today (RT) on Monday, Gerald Celente made the bold prediction along with a raft of other prognostications on humanity's growing trends.

As founder of the Trends Research Institute, Celente has made a number of highly accurate predictions in the past, including the rise of gold as an alternative store of monetary value and the popularization of hyper-local, organic food commodities. He also accurately foretold the economic collapse, predicting at the start of 2008 that it would happen later in the year.

Thanks to his track record, Celente has been featured by a raft of mainstream media outlets and has a strong following among American libertarians.

His overall prediction for 2011: Get ready for the cyber wars.

"[The Internet is] exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude and the double dealing going on that [governments] don't want the public to know about," he told RT. "The more freedom of information that goes out, they're going to start using cyber war and the war on terror to take that Internet freedom away from America."

He predicted a rising tide of government and private intervention online, with entities acting alongside each other to shut down speech they dislike.

"But in 2011, the game's gonna run out," he said. "...On one end, it's a wake-up call and on the other hand it's [an effort to] screw the people."

"What we saw in England, again with 'off with their heads,' what we saw in Italy with the students taking to the streets, you're gonna see in Spain, you're going to see in Ireland. You already saw it in France. Figure it out.

The US is going to be slower, but it's going to happen here at a different level. Remember, the US has been beaten down and pushed down. You're going to see a revolution world-wide. What's going to unite them in this cause is another major trend: Journalism 2.0.

"The Internet has become the great connector. They all know what's going on. They're all Facebook. They're all together. They have a system where they're interacting and relating. It's a different kind of social network than the other one, but the same."

He added that cyber war and cyber crime -- the likes of which targeted companies that refused to do business with WikiLeaks -- will escalate throughout the year.

"The worse conditions get, the more you're going to see cyber crime. The worse economic conditions go globally, the more you're going to see cyber wars. It's going to be a new element of warfare. It's an Internet nuclear bomb waiting to go off. You can bring down entire financial systems, stop bank transfers. You can blow apart, without ever having to light a fuse, a whole stock exchange... Every major computer-connected industry or service is a potential target for cyber war."

He predicted that government-sponsored cyber war would ultimately follow economic sanctions that fail to produce desired results.

Celente also predicted the rise of "progressive libertarians" in the US, which had already begun as early as 2007 when Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) became popular among not just conservatives, but progressive youth as well.

The hybridization would be "libertarian in the sense of government staying out of people's lives," he said, and progressive "with the government having control of issues where they can make a difference."

This video is from Russia Today, broadcast Jan. 10, 2010.

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