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Super Committee Deadlock: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
Ellen Brown
It is no great surprise that with only days to go, the congressional “super committee,” given the herculean task of carving an additional $1.2 trillion out of the federal budget, has failed to reach agreement. Why should six Republicans and six Democrats with diametrically opposed views agree in a few weeks, when Congress couldn’t shake hands on it after months of wrangling, despite the guillotine blade of a federal default hanging over their heads?
Will the UN insist on Fair Trials for Ex-Regime Loyalists in Libya?
by FRANKLIN LAMB
Benghazi, Libya
Ashraf al-Hujuj
An affable gentleman, “Mahmoud” ushered this observer into the Benghazi People’s Court (Mahkamat al-Sha’b) and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where on December 19, 2006, the current NTC leader and long term CIA favorite, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, twice upheld death sentences by firing squad against a Palestinian doctor, Ashraf al-Hujuj, and five Bulgarian nurses Kristiyana Valtcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka, and Snezhana Dimitrova. The death sentences were requested by the Libyan prosecutor in his opening statement four months earlier, in the final appeal in the fake HIV show trial case # 607/2003 held at the criminal court in Benghazi.
The appellate judge in the case was none other than the current head of the NATO-installed Libyan National Transition Council (NTC) Mustafa Abdul Jalil, whose formal legal education consisted of sitting in on some Sharia law classes. Following his appellate decision in the case, and for other services rendered to the former regime, Jalil was rewarded with the post of Minister of Justice. He served loyally in that position until American associates encouraged the intensely ambitious Minister to resign on February 24, 2011, the day he joined the Benghazi based uprising, as “leader.”
Do Border Collies have ESP?
By Robert Singer
Last year Bart and I went to a lecture at the UCLA Law School. We purchased a parking permit and entered the parking structure P2 at level 5 and found a parking place on level 7. We exited the parking structure on level 1 and headed up Charles E. Young Drive East (CEYE) to Dodd Hall.
After the presentation we had lunch at the Lu Valle Student Commons where a student of Professor Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel) made the mistake of admiring Bart. She was familiar with Diamond’s answer to "Yali's 'Cargo' Question: Why they are so rich and we are so poor?” She liked my answer much better: “We” are so rich and "they" are so poor, because we in the East-West civilizations came from feudal societies and they in the North-South were “Caste.” Consumerism is anti-thetical to the Caste System because it requires a focus on pleasure and a conviction that it is right to seek the satisfaction of selfish desires in this life. The Question of Questions.
Bart and I exited the commons at the rear and found ourselves on Charles E. Young Drive West. Not sure of the way back, I looked down and told Bart to “find the car!” [1]
Here is a map of Charles E. Young, the campus, and the parking structure.
Click here to read the entire UCLA adventure and how I incorrectly came to the conclusion that Bart and his nephew, Jeddy, used their cognitive map: a powerful memory of landmarks to demonstrate, the sensu Tolman defintion of novel short-cutting to “find the car!”
The dogs weren’t taking a novel, or any kind of, short cut back to the parking garage.
They found the car based on dead reckoning. [2]
I agree with Andrew Bennett, “the cognitive map, the sensu Tolman, O’Keefe and Nadel defintion of novel short-cutting is no longer a useful hypothesis for elucidating the spatial behaviour of animals, and that use of the term should be avoided.” [3]
Bart, Jeddy, Reilly use an extra-normal sensory perception of changes in the earth's magnetic field to “find the car!”
On October 27, 2011, I went on a hike with my three dogs and a woman writer friend (WWF). The hike confirmed that my dogs don’t take short cuts but at the same time the hike supported study about a “heretofore undiscovered magnetic telepathic mechanism” dogs may be using to “find the car!”
A British psychologist study together with numerous accounts confirmed that dogs and even cats are capable of traveling long distances to find their way home [as opposed to find the car, which would be much harder] was, according to researchers, not conclusive.
Criminalizing OWS Protesters
by Stephen Lendman
On November 14, the Northern California ACLU and National Lawyers Guild (NLG) sued the Oakland Police Department (OPD) in federal court for "egregious constitutional violations" against Occupy Oakland protesters.
A temporary restraining order was sought to stop them. On November 14, hundreds of riot gear clad police forcefully evicted encamped Oscar Grant Plaza protesters at 5:00AM. At a same day press conference, Mayor Jean Quan said:
"We have to bring the camp to an end."
The ACLU-NC and NLG sued OPD on behalf of videographer Timothy Scott Campbell. Other plaintiffs include Kerie Campbell, Marc McKinnie, Michael Siegel, and NLG Legal Observer Marcus Kryshka.
London's Puppet Obama Triggering Global War
By Jeffrey Steinberg and Nancy Spannaus
Nov. 1—As Lyndon LaRouche asserts in his "Qaddafi's Death," the larger significance of President Barack Obama's extrajudicial assassination of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, at the close of the illegal NATO regime-change operation, has now become crystal clear: Under British puppet Obama, the United States is leading the planet into a Third World War that will cause greater devastation and loss of life than the two world wars of the previous century.
There is no solution to this existential threat to the continued survival of mankind without removing Obama from office immediately, under clear provisions of the U.S. Constitution. Obama can be impeached for crimes already committed and well-documented (see following article), including the illegal Libya War and the assassinations of American citizens without due process. He can also be immediately removed from office under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which provides for the orderly replacement of a U.S. President who is physically or mentally unfit to serve.
Warmongers eager for more blood-letting
By Stuart Littlewood
What a spectacle they make of themselves, whooping and stomping to the frenzied beat of Tel Aviv's drum, their dumb-ass chant getting ever shriller.
You can read about it on a British government website.
"The UK and many other countries have serious concerns about the Iranian Government's policies," says the Foreign Office, "its failure to address serious international concerns about its nuclear programme; its support for terrorism and promotion of instability in its region; and its continued denial of human rights..."
I really thought they were talking about Israel and had got the names muddled up. But no... "On Iran's nuclear programme, we are actively seeking a solution through diplomatic engagement and sanctions to encourage compliance by Iran with the requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and six UN Security Council resolutions."
One Humanity: Revulsion against Man’s Cruelty
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to know that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.” John Adams
The people’s revolution in America, Europe and across the globe has articulated inspiration from the struggle of the Egyptian people against tyranny at Tahrir Square to emerge a force of courage and imagination for new thinking and change uniting the humanity against the tyranny of the few bankers, billionaires, politicians and blood sucking draculas of the so called democracy who have never known what is homelessness, poverty, unemployment and being outcastes in an overwhelming man-made class system of the few.
Retired CENTCOM Commander Warns of Iran Strike By Israel
by Lyndon LaRouche
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, who served as the head of the U.S. Central Command from 1991 to 1994, after he relieved Desert Storm commander Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, and who has spent more than 23 years in the Middle East, engaged in a dialogue today about the immediate danger of war breaking out in the Persian Gulf, started by an Israel strike against Iran.
"It is really frightening, I think," General Hoar stated. "From what I have read over the weekend, not from formal organizations, but from articles I received, everybody has the same story now: that Iran are the bad guys, that they're putting the nukes underground and that they're enriching uranium and they're experimenting with warheads. And you know, this is the same cast of characters that brought us Iraq....
America's Media War on Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Replicating Libya's model, Western generated uprisings began in March. Since then, Syria's been ravaged by violence. Hundreds have been killed, many more injured.
Civilians and state security forces have been affected. Conflict rages daily. Casualties mount. Regime change is planned to establish another US client state.
At issue Washington's New Middle East agenda. One country at a time is ravaged toward achieving America's goal of unchallenged regional dominance to Russia's borders.
Euro-US cold winter/ seething anger
Eric Walberg
The eviction of demonstrators last week is an ominous metaphor for ruling elites, whose own days are surely numbered.
As protesters fed up with the increasing injustices of the global economic system get chucked out of their latter-day Hoovervilles, Euro-American elites might consider when their turn will come. For the financial crisis facing Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and who-knows-where next is really about who pays for the past three decades of largesse.
The popular perception is that the ordinary people have been living “beyond their means”, a false and invidious conventional wisdom which masks the real nature of the crisis. For it is the elites across Europe and the Americas who have benefited most from the European Union, built on Reaganite neoliberalism, which in turn was fashioned to meet the needs of business. The neoliberal policies of all Western governments, “left” or “right” during the past three decades are the direct cause of the current highly skewed income distribution – by some accounts, worse than in any previous era of human history.
The supposed generous patriarch of this big happy family is Germany, with its hard workers and tidy streets. But while the Aesopian Greek hares are told they must tighten their belts and make do with less health and education, the fact that the Greek arms imports continue to grow -- importing German weapons and “defence” systems (against what threat?) -- is not mentioned. And it is not only weapons, but consumer goods from Germany that have displaced Greek products in the anonymous Euro-market, as Greece increasingly becomes northern Europeans’ decadent playground, albeit with more than its fair share of un- and under-employed.
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