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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 10-Oct-2010
10-Oct-10 News -- Mahmoud Abbas threatens to dissolve the Palestinian Authority

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10-Oct-10 News -- Mahmoud Abbas threatens to dissolve the Palestinian Authority

Climate change talks in Tianjin, China, collapse in acrimony

Mahmoud Abbas threatens to dissolve the Palestinian Authority

For a couple of months we've been reporting that Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has been expressing the desire to step down, because of his age.

Now the desire has been made official, according to Haaretz. Abbas has indicated that he will resign as PA president if Israel resumes building West Bank settlements, which would cause the collapse of the Mideast peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

However, the implications of his resignation go much farther. The PA leadership have agreed that no other senior official in the PA (Fatah) organization would take his place, and no new election would be held. This means that the Palestinian Authority would be dissolved.

The dissolution of the PA would also mean that the Palestinian security forces would be dismantled, leaving the West Bank with no police force. The Palestinians would then demand that responsibility for security in the West Bank be taken over by Israel or by the United Nations.

As I've been writing for years, Generational Dynamics predicts that the Jews and Arabs will be re-fighting the genocidal war that followed the 1948 partitioning of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel, and that therefore no Mideast peace process is possible. There will be enormous international pressure on the Palestinians and the Israelis to maintain some kind of fig leaf of peace talks, but sooner or later they will have to collapse.

Climate change talks in Tianjin, China, collapse in acrimony

The above headline is not much different from what we saw a year ago, except that the location was Copenhagen, rather than Tianjin.

Just as the international community is demanding some kind of fig leaf of Palestinian/Israeli peace talks, the international community also wants some kind of climate change talks to be going on, even if everyone knows they're a waste of time.

In the climate change talks just ended, the U.S. is demanding that China's voluntary energy savings be verified internationally, and China is refusing, according to the BBC.

And China is accusing the Western nations of reneging on the emission cut obligations that they committed to years ago with the Kyoto agreement, according to Xinhua.

China wonders why Obama but not Deng Xiaoping got Nobel Peace Prize

"The man that did more good than anyone was Deng Xiaoping. When he came to power 800 million people were living on less than one dollar a day. Thirty years later on after the results of his reforms, 200 million lived on less than one dollar a day. Six hundred million people were lifted out of poverty."

China points to Deng Xiaoping as proof that the Nobel prizes are biased against the Chinese. The Nobel committee only chooses dissidents from China, while they chose Barack Obama, who has not brought peace anywhere. Asia Sentinel

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U.S. 30-year mortgage rates declined to 4.27% last week, down from 4.32%. It's the lowest rate since 1971, when records were first kept. Bloomberg

The claim that the Stuxnet computer virus was designed to target Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant has not been substantiated. Its actual target is not yet known. Schneier on Security.

The left-wing cable news channel MSNBC is a completely different entity than the website msnbc.com, which is an objective news site, and the third most popular news site in the U.S. Both entities are owned jointly by NBC Universal and Microsoft, and the two owners are considering changing the name of msnbc.com to something else to avoid confusion. NY Times

When the Japanese arrested a fishing boat captain last month, China retaliated by arresting four Japanese contractors working in China. China freed 3 of the contractors after the boat captain was returned to China, and only freed the fourth one on Saturday. Japan Times

It's been four months since ethnic violence erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan, with 2,000 Uzbeks murdered in a series of shadowy state pogroms. Human rights organizations are saying that Uzbeks continue to be persecuted, as Kyrgyzstan heads for a parliamentary election. Guardian. Bloomberg

Galileo was a prestige project that was supposed to beat out America's GPS satellite system, with new features, greater accuracy, and none of America's military restrictions. However, it's turning into a financial black hole as costs soar. Spiegel

Do gassy camels add to global warming? News Core

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