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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 21-Nov-2011
21-Nov-11 World View -- Thousands clash with police in Tahrir Square in Cairo Egypt

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21-Nov-11 World View -- Thousands clash with police in Tahrir Square in Cairo Egypt

Congressional 'Super Committee' to announce failure

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com.

* Thousands clash with police in Tahrir Square in Cairo Egypt
* Congressional 'Super Committee' to announce failure
* Syria accuses the Arab League of being a 'tool' of the West
* Putin receives catcalls at Russia's judo championships
* Cambodian trial of 1970s 'Killing Fields' leaders begins

Thousands clash with police in Tahrir Square in Cairo Egypt

Violence in downtown Cairo on Sunday (Al-Jazeera)

Violence in downtown Cairo on Sunday (Al-Jazeera)

A week before Egypt's parliamentary elections are to take place, thousands of protesters have filled Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), led by Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, turn government control over to civilians, after having run the government since Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down in February. Protests have been growing because of SCAF violence, but a huge protest was triggered this weekend because SCAF has tried to change the constitution to remove parliamentary oversight over the army, and to postpone presidential elections for two years. The Muslim Brotherhood has been staying out of protests this year, but this attempted SCAF power grab brought the Islamists into the square to join the protests. Hundreds of security personnel entered Tahrir square, shooting rubber bullets and teargas at protesters, killing 11 and injuring hundreds. NY Times

Congressional 'Super Committee' to announce failure

Aides to members of the Congressional Super Committee are saying that the committee members have stopped negotiating, and they're now focusing on how to announce failure, possibly on Monday. For the next few days, we'll be treated to the spectacle of Democrats and Republicans covering their asses and blaming each other, as if there's anyone left who even believes a word they say. It would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic. This is the result predicted by the "Kick the Can Theory" that I proposed a few weeks ago. Now Congress will have to get down to its real job -- figure out a way to get the sequester kicked down the road. The "Kick the Can Theory" says that government is so paralyzed that every important decision will be postponed as long as possible, and that the paralysis will end only when a major crisis occurs that puts the survival of the nation in danger. (This is the "regeneracy" in generational theory.) CNN

Syria accuses the Arab League of being a 'tool' of the West

Syria's foreign minister Walid al-Moualem has accused the Arab League, which has been trying to negotiate an end to the violence in Syria, of being a "tool" of the Western plan to take the Syrian crisis to the U.N. Security Council. He said that Arab League demands to monitor the violence in Syria go beyond their mandate and violate Syria's sovereignty. He said that tensions and violence have grown in Syria in the two weeks since the country had agreed to an Arab League plan to end the violence. Syria used to be considered the "heart" of the Arab League, but now the group increasingly at odds with the Bashar al-Assad regime, as the regime continues to torture and slaughter innocent Arab civilians. Al-Jazeera

Putin receives catcalls at Russia's judo championships

Putin takes the stage and is greeted by catcalls (AP)

Putin takes the stage and is greeted by catcalls (AP)

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was greeted by catcalls when he stepped into the ring after a mixed martial arts fight at a Moscow arena on Sunday night. The whistles and shouts, heard clearly on the live television broadcast, were an unprecedented rebuke as Putin prepares to return to the presidency next year. Putin has been putting on a series of televised publicity stunts, including playing hockey and diving for sunken treasure, in order to prove to everyone that he's still not to old to be President, but Russians are beginning to show less tolerance. AP

Cambodian trial of 1970s 'Killing Fields' leaders begins

After the U.S. was forced out of Vietnam in 1974, a massive genocide known as the "Killing Fields" began next door in Cambodia, with the Khmer Rouge slaughtering one quarter of the Cambodian population through starvation and executions. Now two top leaders of the Khmer Rouge are going on trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The survivors of the Killing Fields hope finally to get some answers about what happened and why. The supreme leader of Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, died in 1998. Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong are considered by many to be the four bloodiest genocidal leaders of the twentieth century. AFP

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