The FT said:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/90f9087c-4d3a-11e0-85e4-00144feab49a.html#axzz1GYRAzNBF
they must be running out of friends to call on
Bahrain calls for help as police are routed
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/90f9087c-4d3a-11e0-85e4-00144feab49a.html#axzz1GYRAzNBF
they must be running out of friends to call on
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They've always got Saudi, the richest dictatorship out there.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/17c7e73a-...9bb-11e0-8dba-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1GYRAzNBF
analysts and diplomats are warning that without significant political reform – including within the sprawling and spendthrift royal family, composed of about 7,000 princes who make up the House of Saud – the kingdom’s stability cannot be taken for granted
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/63652c86-46a7-11e0-967a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1G9yY3bNs
In Saudi Arabia protests and public displays of dissent are outlawed. The government has become increasingly nervous about the protests that have taken the Arab world by storm, toppling the Egyptian and Tunisian presidents, and which recently reached Oman and Bahrain. Saudi reformists had hoped that after King Abdullah returned from a three-month medical trip to the US and Morocco, he would announce reforms. Instead, he announced an estimated SR135bn ($36bn) in financial and unemployment benefit measures.
“This is a very proud family, they do not want to be seen as afraid of instability that is shaking other regimes,” said a western analyst close to members of the royal family. “They will take their time because they do not want to be seen as succumbing to pressure.”
Waleed Sulais, a Shia activist, said: “The government is very tense right now. The authorities do not like mosques or Friday sermons being used to discuss politics, they warned against it. But the numbers are increasing every day as people become bolder. There has to be serious steps [towards reform] or anger will explode.”
analysts and diplomats are warning that without significant political reform – including within the sprawling and spendthrift royal family, composed of about 7,000 princes who make up the House of Saud – the kingdom’s stability cannot be taken for granted
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/63652c86-46a7-11e0-967a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1G9yY3bNs
In Saudi Arabia protests and public displays of dissent are outlawed. The government has become increasingly nervous about the protests that have taken the Arab world by storm, toppling the Egyptian and Tunisian presidents, and which recently reached Oman and Bahrain. Saudi reformists had hoped that after King Abdullah returned from a three-month medical trip to the US and Morocco, he would announce reforms. Instead, he announced an estimated SR135bn ($36bn) in financial and unemployment benefit measures.
“This is a very proud family, they do not want to be seen as afraid of instability that is shaking other regimes,” said a western analyst close to members of the royal family. “They will take their time because they do not want to be seen as succumbing to pressure.”
Waleed Sulais, a Shia activist, said: “The government is very tense right now. The authorities do not like mosques or Friday sermons being used to discuss politics, they warned against it. But the numbers are increasing every day as people become bolder. There has to be serious steps [towards reform] or anger will explode.”
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Mickymoody
Some regimes will not submit. The people live as they do. Civil war will happen, but the dictorship will crush them. I expect it soon in the UK.
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Not another one - I`m going to support the New model Army Mk.2 Sod the Monarchy - bring on the Anarchy
China will be next; a colleague has just returned from China and he saw rioting in several cities including Guangzou. None of this has reached the media, as you would expect.
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