Meanwhile in Libya

Meanwhile in Libya...

"On 15 May, a diplomatic source briefed by Western intelligence officials stated that, beside the tribal rivalries plaguing the country, there was concern about a growing presence of Islamist militants in some areas, specifically the city of Derna. The source said that hundreds of Islamist militants were in and around the town, and there were militant training camps where weapons were also provided. He said one official had described the area as "a disaster zone." Tensions had reportedly grown between local people and the militants. According to the source, the previous month, a number of town residents went to a camp on the outskirts of the city and forced militants to leave. One of the indicators of the militant inter-factional were also the recent spate of car-bombings in Derna..."   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Libyan_factional_fighting

French Aggression in Libya

The absurdity of an imperialist "no-fly zone"

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French version of George W Bush, apparently wants to scrub Libya of anybody he perceives as "scum" (term he used to describe the rioting French youth in 2005 back when he was the French version of Giuliani). Distracting the French people from economic turmoil at home with a foreign adventure against a socialist country with better economic growth rates than France itself may even appear as foolproof.

This probably seems less funny to secular socialist Algeria next door (especially if the rumors of Algeria and secular socialist Syria aiding Gaddafi's airforce prove to be true). The oil rich Algeria has adequate experience with being butchered by the French. If Libya falls to Western corporate oil interests (such as British oil majors who were driven out like vipers by Gaddaffi in the 70s and of course Italy's Eni) then Algeria will be the next obvious target.

Intuitively, the people of the region understand that the West must not be allowed to create an unstable puppet state in eastern Libya. Such a state would allow NATO bases which would then proceed to exert their own repulsive version of financial oligarchic "democracy" as practiced in EU and USA. We recently saw protests near US embassy in Tunisia telling Hillary Clinton to get lost.
 
The mere existence of NATO threats against majority of Libya's people (rebels at most have support from 30% of the population) demonstrates that Western leadership vastly underestimates the neural ability of well educated young Arabs to comprehend hypocrisy. The go ahead given by Robert Gates to ongoing Saudi invasion of Bahrain (to aid Sunni monarchy busy decimating the demonstrations of 70% Shia population a few miles from an American navy base) is prime example. NATO generals may have the neural structures of old men and racist tendencies of old school imperialists but it is laughable that they would actively engage in such double standard simultaneously! They might have gotten away with training the government of Yemen in demonstrator and separatist suppression (Yemeni gov snipers shot over 40 demonstrators this week in cold blood) while decrying Gaddaffi's response in an age before the Internet. Now they just appear as pompous nincompoops. This shows Soviet-esque levels of regional public relations incompetence.

Having said this, eventually the Northern Hemisphere will unite economically and politically in a police block that will extend major influence into the Southern Hemisphere. However, France can't just take over from United States and lead a pack of other European corporate owned hyenas for this to happen. It is a historically unworkable model for the post-American multipolar world to try to take on a form of an imperialist coalition styled on the old yankee model. EU and North America (starting with England, USA, and France) must first have a wave of regime changes and embrace democratic non-oligarchic systems of governance. This will positively influence other Security Council members. Only after the Western banker tyrannies undergo massive changes will the UN security Council be unified enough to begin to engage in genuine human rights dialogue with the Southern Hemisphere.

As for France, it looks like they've been emulating America's economic and social rot in the 1980s. We can expect Sarkozy to call Gaddaffi a mad dog any day now. Algeria (which has won its own domestic war on Islamic terrorists and is now engaged on an economically successful 5 year plan) should openly begin to support Libya and perhaps threaten to freeze French financial assets. If they are not proactive the hyenas are guaranteed to turn their gaze to the next target to sink their imperialist teeth into. I doubt Vietnam would be comfortable with France or America trying to overthrow its neighbors and creating an impudent no fly zone next to its border.

To conclude, how would Sarkozy respond if Marseille, second biggest city in France, fell to French anti-bankster rebels? We can be sure this backstabbing midget would put it under brutal siege (if not level half of it). You know, to get that "scum" out.

Libya, Wisconsin, Watson

A Recap of February 2011

This short month has seen a number of revolutionary developments:

1) A poorly carried out American engineered betrayal and removal of an old puppet and secular friend Hosni Mubarak (showing to the world the growing incompetence of CIA at getting rid of even so called dependents)
2) A wealthy, growing, and secular Libya exploding (oil blessed 6 million Libyans are more comfortable than Russians on average)
3) Scott Walker, an incompetent Koch brothers puppet overreaching and finding that even American workers are refusing to roll over and die
4) Unveiling of a rather remarkable intuition software by IMB corporation via successfully promoting itself (second most highly watched Jeopardy game of all time)

Libya

Muammar al-Gaddafi is an example of an extraordinary and very powerful human animal. At roughly the same very young age that Castro took Cuba, Gaddafi took a much larger piece of territory that was, in many ways (proximity to Europe and oil), in a lot more danger from imperial powers. He managed to remove the old Anglo-American corporate puppets and then turned his energies into forceful transformation of his herd. We see this pattern again and again with many high spirited historic individuals. After they take care of domestic or imperial powers they proceed to exert their thought on repeated domestic top down restructuring.

In the process, Libyans not only became wealthy but continued wealth generation to the moment of recent protests. This country is a perfect demonstration of a political science proposition that revolutions mostly happen not when the economy is contracting but when economy is expanding but is perceived to not be expanding fast enough and/or equitably enough. Libya demonstrates to elites everywhere that very gradual shrinking of the economic pie (see Western world in last 40 years), lack of college education, and birth control are THE essential tools to prevent revolutions. The rapid generation of wealth creates too many expectations in the minds of the peasants, expectations that are vulnerable to even small shocks and outrages. Much easier to create fatalistic pessimistic cattle that viciously fights each other over ever smaller crumbs falling from rich man's table (see Americans).

Gaddafi, just as Gulgencio Batista had, grew soft and less competent in his old age. This age old problem is completely understandable if you lead a rich and productive life as they had. One slides into incompetence very very gradually to notice by introspection. But that often beats handing everything over to spoiled rich playboy children, to an elderly right hand man, or to some feisty 30 year old who hasn't similarly tested himself in battle. It appears that for this reason, real social progress can almost never be fully evolutionary but manifest itself in revolutionary jumps. For evolutionary growth, a faction of elites should at the very least attempt forceful visionary top down restructuring every 1-2 generations to capture the imagination of youthful human animals.

Gaddafi did the best he could and attempted a number of top down shake ups after taking power (a.k.a. real changes people could believe in). His green book provides a number of ideas for people across the political spectrum (yes there are even ideas for Tea Partiers on running multiethnic societies on a local decentralized level). Lets give a few examples:


"Domestic servants, paid or unpaid, are a type of slave. Indeed, they are the slaves of the modern age."

"The freedom of a human being is lacking if his or her needs are controlled by others, for need may lead to the enslavement of one person by another. Furthermore, exploitation is caused by need. Need is an intrinsic problem and conflict is initiated by the control of one's needs by another."
 
"Housing is an essential need for both the individual and the family and should not be owned by others. Living in another's house, whether paying rent or not, compromises freedom. Attempts made by various countries to solve the housing problem did not provide a definite solution because such attempts did not target the ultimate solution - the necessity that people own their dwellings - but rather offered the reduction, increase, or standardization of rent, whether it went to privately or publicly-owned enterprise."

Woah! Slow down Gaddafi you make too much sense, you must be insane. Somebody call the Zeitgeist movement, this guy is improving peoples lives with interesting new attempts. Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs material right here y'all.

The tragedy of Libya is that their leadership waited too long to engage in another wave of perestroika and that it is now too late (considering the alleged mass butchering of protesters). Gaddaffi's son gave a rather reasonable speech about dangers of a violent Yugoslav style splintering and subsequent occupation by Western powers. Of course Western media labeled the speech as "rambling" (it was short) and dismissed its points right away. If this socioeconomically interesting and different country (and completely ignored due to that) descends into Somalia style chaos followed by pathetic attempts to ape the Western oligarchies to "attract investment", then it'll be a sad end to current Libyan calls for freedom.

Wisconsin

Well, the above entry got longer than planned, lets touch upon a take over of Wisconsin state capitol building. Why hasn't this happened sooner? What a wonderful idea. Every state capitol and major city hall should be occupied at this point in time. Demands should be nothing short of return to FDR era 90% taxes on the richest, a new Constitutional Convention (to get sympathy and link up with poor rural people whose anger is skillfully redirected by elites onto unions), reintroduction of Glass-Steagall, impeachment of every union busting governor, and most importantly, impeachment of president Obama for complete betrayal of the working people. If they link up (energetically and hatefully) Obama, Wall-Street, and corporate controlled union bashers, it may just be possible to sway the seething countryside and some elites via a solid narrative.

We've yet to see how far AFL-CIO will go to nationally back Wisconsin uprising but all energies ought to be poured to support it. Time for crippling national full spectrum strikes is long overdue. It is either that or the whole country rapidly becoming Camden, New Jersey with heavily armed gated community islands (even more so than now :/).

Watson on Jeopardy

Well this is a bit out of place but very important to the debate on consciousness. It was truly fascinating to see two people with exceptional intuitive neural hardware go head to head with a computer and even hold their own at times. The next step in Watson's evolution would be to have the computer use audio to text conversion to listen in on thousands and thousands of conversations of intelligent people in order to get more prepped up for the Turing test. IBM's partnership with a major TV program was a great move on their part to get the maximum amount of people excited about our future software companions (and IBM's products). In due time small children will be talking to their teddy bears and barbie dolls and having very interesting and educational conversations.

This warrants an article of its own.