Sociological Changes

[Gerard Zwaan]

February 23, 2011. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ahmadinejad-predicts-mideast-unrest-coming-to-america/ Iran's president said Wednesday he is certain the wave of unrest in the Middle East will spread to Europe and North America, bringing an end to governments he accused of oppressing and humiliating people. "The world is on the verge of big developments. Changes will be forthcoming and will engulf the whole world from Asia to Africa and from Europe to North America," Ahmadinejad told a news conference. Ahmadinejad said the world was in need of a just system of rule that "puts an end to oppression, occupation and humiliation of people." [and from another] This correlates with what the Zetas said about the 8 of 10, "These sociological and political dramas are part of the 8 of 10 scenarios, as well as geological and astronomical features. This is the next chapter." http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/zetatalk-fame The Zetas did say that Ahmadinejad is STO . Did he got his information from reading ZT or is there more too it?

 

Ahmadinejad is speaking as a leader of a Muslim country, viewing the Arab Spring as an uprising against colonialism, imperialism, and western corporate influence. This stance is expected of him because of his political role in Iran. The article makes much of Ahmadinejad's criticism of Gaddafi and his brutal treatment of his people. This is to differentiate between an Arab leader who was considered a puppet, as was Mubarak, and Gaddafi who was considered a leader who resisted western influence and control and thus should be a brother to his people. Does Ahmadinejad read ZetaTalk and have an inside track on the Transformation, the pending 8 of 10 scenarios? Yes on both fronts, as despite disbelief that Ahmadinejad is a Service-to-Other individual, he is a sleeper like Obama, awaiting his opportunities to make a difference in the world. He gives a hint as to the sequence of revolt and discontent - from the Arab Spring to Asia, then Africa, then Europe and thence to N America.

Source: ZetaTalk for June 18, 2011

 

Note: This blog is about his prediction. Keep in mind that political debates are not allowed on the poleshift ning.

[Sevan Makaracı]

The situation in Turkey is really.... violence. Police using gas bomb bullets for head shot,  torturing their own people, police vehicle run over a girl..... and looks like people will not quit until government resigns.

[Kris H]

Unrest, state of emergency in Kyrgyzstan.

http://m.aljazeera.com/story/20136102814129580

[Kris H]

An overview of the situation in Turkey: http://m.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/may/31/istanbul-park-p...

Some calling it a Turkish Spring, like the Arab Spring previously.

[Kris H]

Major clashing of protesters and soldiers in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. National media there not reporting on it. http://www.livestream.com/revoltistanbul

[Gerard Zwaan]

Thousands of anti-capitalists block access to European Central Bank...

[Kris H]

Oops, I meant Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan border Afghanistan.

[Kris H]

In addition to my previous post regarding India prepping for a limited war, I saw this item while I was on vacation: http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/12622

It talks about Russian troop deployments in former SSR Tajikistan, along its border with Afghanistan. Is this really to guard against Islamic militants? Or is it in preparation for Indian refugees? Tajikistan is the nearest point of the CIS to India. Also, no mention s of additional troops Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan, which also border Pakistan. No worries about the Taliban there, I guess. (Sarcasm included)

[Tracie Crespo]

http://news.msn.com/world/4th-night-of-riots-blurs-swedens-happy-re...

4th night of riots blurs Sweden's happy reputation

 

Reuters Photo. A car set on fire burns in Kista, Sweden, on the 4th night of rioting.

                         1 day ago                            By MSN News with wire reports                          

 

Sweden's image as a generous, happy country is challenged as riots rage for the fourth day in immigrant suburbs of Stockholm.

 

STOCKHOLM — Hundreds of youth have torched cars, burned down a restaurant and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers.

Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says at least 30 cars were set ablaze across western and southern Stockholm early Thursday. Firefighters said they have "never before seen so many fires raging at the same time," the Associated Press reported.

Why are Swedish youths rioting?

                   

        

Rioting youth also burned down a restaurant in Skogas, south of Stockholm.

Lindgren says a 16-year-old girl was briefly detained on suspicion of preparing an arson attack, but was later sent home to her parents, the AP said.

Violence spread from the north to the south of the city Wednesday as groups of youth pushed through Stockholm's suburbs casting stones, breaking windows and setting cars alight.           

Local media said a police station office was set on fire in the southern suburb of Rågsved, where several people were detained. No one was hurt and the fire was quickly put out.

The attackers waited for nightfall before setting out, defying a call for calm from the country's prime minister and damaging stores, schools, a police station and an arts and crafts center in the four days of violence.

"I think there is a feeling that we need to be in more places tonight," said Towe Hagg, spokeswoman for Stockholm police. One police officer was injured in the latest attacks and five were arrested for attempted arson.

Selcuk Ceken, who works at a local youth activity center in Hagsatra, said between 40 and 50 youths threw stones at police and smashed windows, then ran off in different directions. He noted the people were in their 20s and seemed well organized.

"It's difficult to say why they're doing this," he said. "Maybe it's anger at the law and order forces, maybe it's anger at their own personal situation, such as unemployment or having nowhere to live."

The riots appear to have been sparked by the police killing of a 69-year-old man wielding a machete in the suburb of Husby this month, which prompted accusations of police brutality. The riots then spread from Husby to other poor Stockholm suburbs.

"We see a society that is becoming increasingly divided and where the gaps, both socially and economically, are becoming larger," said Rami Al-khamisi, co-founder of Megafonen, a group that works for social change in the suburbs.

"And the people out here are being hit the hardest ... We have institutional racism."

The riots were less severe than those of the past two summers in Britain and France but provided a reminder that even in places less ravaged by the financial crisis than Greece or Spain, state belt-tightening is toughest on the poor, especially immigrants.

"The reason is very simple. Unemployment, the housing situation, disrespect from police," said Rouzbeh Djalaie, editor of the local Norra Sidan newspaper, which covers Husby. "It just takes something to start a riot, and that was the shooting."

IDENTITY CHECKS

Djalaie said youths were often stopped by police in the streets for unnecessary identity checks. During the riots, he said some police called local youths "apes."

The television pictures of blazing cars come as a jolt to a country proud of its reputation for social justice as well as its hospitality towards refugees from war and repression.

"I understand why many people who live in these suburbs and in Husby are worried, upset, angry and concerned," said Justice Minister Beatrice Ask. "Social exclusion is a very serious cause of many problems, we understand that."

After decades of practicing the "Swedish model" of generous welfare benefits, Stockholm has been reducing the role of the state since the 1990s, spurring the fastest growth in inequality of any advanced Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economy.

While average living standards are still among the highest in Europe, successive governments have failed to substantially reduce long-term youth unemployment and poverty, which have affected immigrant communities worst.

Some 15 percent of the population are foreign-born, and unemployment among these stands at 16 percent, compared with 6 percent for native Swedes, according to OECD data.

Youth unemployment in Husby, at 6 percent, is twice the overall average across the capital.

The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riots represented a "gigantic failure" of government policies, which had underpinned the rise of ghettos in the suburbs.

As unemployment has grown, the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party has risen to third in polls ahead of a general election due next year, reflecting many voters' worries that immigrants may be partly to blame.

ASYLUM NUMBERS RISING

While many of the immigrant population are from Nordic neighbors closely tied to Sweden by language or culture, the debate has tended to focus on poor asylum seekers from distant war zones.

Out of a total 103,000 immigrants last year, 43,900 were asylum seekers, up almost 50 percent from 2011. Nearly half of these were refugees from fighting in Syria, Afghanistan or Somalia, and will get at least temporary residency.

Among 44 industrialized countries, Sweden ranks fourth in the absolute number of asylum seekers, and second relative to its population, according to U.N. figures.

Policing in Stockholm has already been the focus of controversy this year, with allegations that police were picking out darker-skinned immigrants for identity checks in subway trains.

[Kris H]

Here is an article saying that India is preparing for limited war with Pakistan and China. Is it just coincidence that those countries represent the two options for escape from India by land? I think not. It sounds like they are preparing for border skirmishes as people will try to flee doomed India.

http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/12521?utm_source=feedburner&utm_...

[Gerard Zwaan]

Foreign journalists deported as Bahrain engulfed by pre-F1 protests