The Arab Spring's Blooming Shrivels in the Cold Light of Reality !

Syria and Egypt are dying. They were dying before the Syrian civil war broke out and before the Muslim Brotherhood took power in Cairo.  They are dying because they chose not to do what China did: move the better part of a billion people from rural backwardness to a modern urban economy within a generation.

It was obvious to anyone who troubled to examine the data that Egypt could not maintain a bottomless pit in its balance of payments, created by a 50% dependency on imported food, not to mention an energy bill fed by subsidies that consumed a quarter of the national budget. It was obvious to Israeli analysts that the Syrian regime's belated attempt to modernize its agricultural sector would create a crisis as hundreds of thousands of displaced farmers gathered in slums on the outskirts of its cities.

It is cheap to assuage Western consciences by sending some surplus arms to the Syrian Sunnis. No-one has proposed a way to find the more than US$20 billion a year that Egypt requires to stay afloat. Egypt remains a pre-modern society, with nearly 50% illiteracy, a 30% rate of consanguineal marriage, a 90% rate of female genital mutilation, and an underemployment rate over 40%. As malnutrition afflicts roughly a quarter of Egyptians in the World Health Organization's estimate, and the Muslim Brotherhood's government was waiting for a bumper wheat crop that never will come.  Egypt is slowly dying.

Even if the Sunnis could eject the Assad family from Damascus and establish a new government -- which I doubt -- the best case scenario would be another Egypt: a Muslim Brotherhood government presiding over a collapsed economy and sliding inevitably towards state failure. It is too late even for this kind of arrangement. Equalizing the military position of the two sides will merely increase the body count.



And now we hear the President Obama plans to send military weapons to the rebels without a thought that these rebels are die hard al-Qaeda scum and follow Mohammad's teachings when it comes to infidels. Dutch Christian Martin Janssen found that out after a ''prayer walk'' in Syria in support of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim, kidnapped by Syrian rebels. After the prayer walk Janssen had the opportunity to meet with Syrian Christian refugees, who told him how they came to flee their homes and villages. Their village was occupied by rebel forces, who proceeded to announce that they were under an Islamic emirate, and were subject to sharia law.

The Christian residents were offered four choices:

1. Renounce the ''idolatry'' of Christianity and convert to Islam;
2. Pay a heavy tribute to the Muslims for the privilege of keeping their heads and their Christian faith (this tribute is known as jizya);
3. Be Killed !
4. Flee for their lives, leaving all their belongings behind.

Syrian Muslim Rebel

Some Christians were killed, some fled, some tried to pay the jizya and found it too heavy a burden to bear after the rebels kept increasing the amount they had to pay, and some were unable to flee or pay, so they converted to Islam to save themselves. This Islamic based crap is a re-enactment of the historic fate the man of ''tolerance'', Mohammad, offered the conquered Christians and Jews across the Middle East in the 7th Century. You can see his evil has survived through to this century.

The Egyptians have put a different twist on this abhorrent attitude and its on the rise. They have a jihad on Christian children, both boys and girls. Take for example these incidents:  Last month, ten year old Sameh George, an alter boy at the Coptic church of At. Abdul Masih (Servant of Christ) in Minya, Egypt. was kidnapped by ''unknown persons'' while on his way to church to participate in Holy Day prayers. His parents and family reported that it was his custom to go to church and worship in the evening, but when he didn't return They began to panic when they received an anonymous phone call from the kidnappers, saying they had Sameh and would execute him unless they received 250,000 Egyptian pounds in ransom money.

And about a month before this latter incident, yet another Coptic boy, twelve year old Abanoub Ashraf was also kidnapped right in front of his church. His abductors, four men, put a knife to his throat and dragged him into their car and sped away. Later they called his family demanding a ransom for the boy's life. While the immediate motive behind these kidnappings is money, another purpose appears to be to frighten families from sending their children to church. Considering that some Egyptian Islamic clerics deem church attendance as worse than attending bars and brothels, the kidnappers likely deem this the ''altruistic'' side of their greed and hate.



Missing Egyptian Coptic Girls

Meanwhile, as females, Coptic Christian girls are even more vulnerable than Coptic boys. An International Christian Group says, ''Hundreds of girls have been abducted, forced to convert to Islam, and forced into marriage in Egypt. These incidents are often accompanied by acts of violence, including rape, beatings, and other forms of physical and mental abuse.''  Most recently, fourteen-year-old Agape Girgis went to school accompanied by a Muslim social worker and a Salafi teacher and never returned home. After protests, she was eventually handed over to her family. According to a Coptic bishop involved in the case, what happened to Agape--whose name is based on the biblical word for ''brotherly love''-- is disgusting. She was drugged and awoke in a secluded place with Salafis who tried to convert her to Islam, forced her the wear the full hijab, and beat her.

A few weeks earlier, another fourteen year old girl was abducted on her way to school and smuggled across the border to Libya (where Coptic Christians are being brutalized with the help of the Interior Ministry. In the last few years, some 550 cases of abduction, entrapment, rape, and forced conversion of Christian women have been documented in Egypt. Their rate has only increased after the ''Arab Spring'' and the empowerment of the Muslim Brotherhood-- which has seen a concomitant rise in sexual harassment of ALL Egyptian women. Ironically, when the scumbag Morsi was in Germany last February, he was asked about this issue of victimized Coptic girls, he responded by saying ''that the idea that they were being abducted and abused was merely a rumor.'' Good riddance to Morsi!!

The Way I See It....forced conversion of Coptic girls, which started four decades ago, has dramatically escalated after January 2011 (when the ''Arab Spring'' reached Egypt), shows a clear pattern of events that point to well organized ''hidden hands'' behind the process. Amazingly, the collusion of Egypt's security as well as judiciary authorities--in defiance of the existing laws concerning minors--shows the extent of the scheme. It is part of a way of attrition against the Copts in their own ancient homeland.

Thus, as with any number of recent indicators--including an unprecedented assault on their holiest sits and the codification of legal measures to oppress them--the jihad on the children of Egypt's Christian minority is yet another indicator that a rapidly Islamizing Egypt is hostile to its oldest and most indigenous inhabitants, the Copts, and, as happened to the Jews before them, an example of such a retrograde future if the young secular Egyptians can't finally get the democratic government they fought so hard for. Then that light of Equality will shine so bright that world governments might find it easier to come to its rescue.

Islam's Dangerous and Absurd Realities !

I recently watched a video of a sheikh warning Muslims against disregarding Muhammad's ''sunna'', or the rules and customs the prophet prescribed for Muslims. To support his point, he read a hadith wherein Muhammad told Muslims: ''When you wake up from sleep to pray, wash your hands before you put them in the wudu water for the purpose of salah (formal prayer), for you do not know where your hands have spent the night.'' Then the sheikh told about a man who, upon hearing Muhammad's words, had deridingly said, ''What, am I not going to know where my own hand has been?'' According to the sheikh, the next morning his man ''woke up to find his arm - from hand to elbow -- shoved up his anus.''

The moral of the story?  The sheikh stressed the authoritative source of this absurd anecdote, Sharh Sahih Muslim, and read its closing warning: ''Thus let the mortal fear Allah and not make light of the sunna -- for see what happened to this man for rebelling and mocking the words of the Prophet?'' There is a reason why Islam's guardians -- past and present -- always threaten Muslims to take the sunna seriously: because Muhammad said any number of bizarre or perverse things that naturally provoke abhorrence, if not laughter. It was like he and Gabrielle had a good time smoking or sniffing something thinking up crazy rules for his growing number of followers.

Let us examine just one: the Muslim notion of adult breastfeeding, or rida' al-kabir in Islam, which started when Mohammad commanded a woman to breastfeed a grown man. This is because it was a grave sin for a woman to be in the same room with a non-family male, so to avoid the sin of ''khulwa'', she literally had to have him suckle her breast to make him a defacto family member. This needed to be done when any friend of her husband's came over for a visit. He being allowed to suck on her breasts ''till he was satisfied he was a member of the family." This way she could now comport herself more freely in front of the nursed adult male, such as appearing before him unveiled.


So, because it is contained in a canonical hadith, today, nearly 1400 years later, top Muslim authorities still advocate this perverse practice. After all, to eject or reform it or any other canonical hadith is to reject the sources and methodology of usul al-fiqh -- in short, to reject Sharia law. Now, let us connect the dots to see how the bizarre in Islam demonstrates the violent by asking the following simple question: If Muslims are still compelled to be true to things like adult breastfeeding, simply because 7th Century Mohammad said so, is it not logical to accept that they embrace their prophet's even better documented and unequivocal words concerning the infidel?

Look at it this way: the issue of adult breastfeeding is embarrassing for Muslims; far from providing them with any sort of advantage or benefits, it places them, especially their women, in a ludicrous position. Now with Muslim women frequently working with men in the same offices, with the inevitable possibility that a woman may find herself sitting alone in the same room with one or more of her male colleagues, a dilemma arises. But not to worry! The erudite scholar Dr Izzat Attya, who is head of the department of Hadih in Al-Azhar (which is the world's most prestigious Islamic University), has the answer by way of a fatwa (religious opinion) he issued in 2009.

He says that the quoted hadith is certainly accurate and, if necessary, a Muslim working women is allowed to follow the example set by the Prophet. The fatwa said that ''if a woman fed a male colleague directly from her breast at least five times they would establish a family bond and thus be allowed to be alone together a work.'' A woman at work can then take off the veil or reveal her hair to someone whom she breastfed. Since Dr Attya is probably the most learned man in the speciality science of hadith, he knows every nuance about the texts of the hadith. When he says something about the hadith, Muslims better believe him and suck it up.......literally.

What then, of Mohammad's other commanding rules -- commandments that, if upheld, far from embarrassing Muslims, provide them with power, wealth, and hedonistic joys -- that is, commandments that jibe quite well with mankind's most primitive impulses? I speak of Muhammad's commandments for Muslims to wage war (''jihad'') upon the infidel, to plunder the infidel of his wealth, women, and children, and to keep him in perpetual subjugation -- all things that define Islam's history vis-à-vis the non-Muslim. In other words, the Muslim mentality that feeds the need to address adult breastfeeding simply because Muhammad once advised it, must certainly be sold on the Prophet's constant incitements for war and conquest.

The Way I See It.....living in an era where the Muslim world is significantly weaker than the infidel world, and so currently incapable of launching a full-on offensive, one may overlook this fact. But the intention is surely there. One need only look how non-Muslim minorities, especially Christians, are treated in the Muslim world -- where they are persecuted, kidnapped, raped and their homes ransacked -- to be sure. I'll focus more on their disgusting actions in a soon to be written blog posting.

Footnote:  Last month a man in Algeria declared that he is divorcing his wife because she won't let his best friend suck on her breasts when he comes over for a visit. She stands by her decision and the Algerian courts say he is within his rights according to Mohammad's 7th Century hadith. Any modern sanity or morality is definitely lost on these people. I hope he finds his arm up his ass next to his brains one morning!

A Risk Found in Natural Childbirth After Caesarean !

More than a decade after doctors declared it safe for women to give birth vaginally after having had a Caesarean section, a new study has found that doing so is riskier to both the mother and child than a second surgical delivery, especially if hormones are used to induce labor. The study in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that women undergoing Vaginal Birth after Caesarean, or VBAC, were three times as likely as those who deliver surgically a second time to suffer a ruptured uterus, an extremely uncommon but dangerous complication that can kill the mother, her baby or both.

''We used to believe that a vaginal birth after Caesarean was pretty much risk-free,'' said one of the authors, Dr Thomas Easterling, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington state in Seattle. ''Now we know that it's not. There are risks. They are small but can be catastrophic. With this in mind, women should carefully discuss those risks with their health care providers,'' Dr Easterling and other experts said.

Uterine rupture occurred in just 91 of more than 20,000 women whose birth records were examined for the study. But beyond the increased risk of such rupture with VBAC as a whole, the researchers found the rate to be 15 times as high among women given prostaglandins, hormones that help ready the cervix for labor, as among those who had second Caesareans. Among women whose labor was induced with other hormones, the rate was five times that of women with second-time Caesareans. The researchers said the study strongly suggested that Obstetricians should avoid the use of drugs to induce labor in women who have had previous Caesareans, a precaution some obstetricians say they've adopted.

For decades, the medical mantra about childbirth was ''once a Caesarean, always a Caesarean.'' The prevailing thinking was that scar tissue from the surgical incision rendered the uterine wall too weak to withstand the strain of powerful contractions during labor. Should the uterus rupture, the mother may bleed uncontrollably and the baby lose oxygen; to save both, experts say an emergency Caesarean section is needed within 15-20 minutes. ''So with no drugs, it's better to let her go into spontaneous labor. Don't induce her. And if you are in a situation where you would consider induction, just do a repeat C-section.'' says Dr Roger Freeman, a member of the American College of Obstetricians.

In the mid-1980's, however, VBAC (pronounced VEE-back) came into vogue, for reasons. By that time, doctors had abandoned the practice of making vertical incisions in the uterus in favour of low transverse cuts (many women called them bikini scars), which were believed to heal better. Subsequent studies found that the risk of uterine rupture with vaginal birth after Caesarean was small, about 0.5 percent. At the same time, there was growing concern that too many women were undergoing Caesareans unnecessarily, exposing them to risk of surgical complications. And some health insurers, concerned about rising costs, began insisting that women with previous Caesarens try natural childbirth.

''Over time, perceptions changed,'' said Dr Michael Greene,  an obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is director of maternal-fetal medicine and an associate editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. ''The Washington study brought those uterine ruptures into sharp relief and was the first to compare the risks of vaginal birth with those of a second surgical delivery in a statistically significant, scientifically valid way.'' The study, Dr Greene noted, found that the incidence of infant death was 10 times as high among women who suffered uterine rupture as among those who did not. He said, in the light of the findings, ''if a patient who has had a Caesarean asks him what is the safest for her next baby, my unequivocal answer is to have an elective repeated Caesarean section along that same  bikini line she acquired the first time.''

The study did not address why prostaglandins pose the biggest risk. But experts say that because those hormones are administered as gels, suppositories or can be typically applied directly to the cervix, they cannot be regulated, as oxytocin can, if the contractions become too strong and dangerous. A number of obstetricians said women should not conclude that VABC is inherently unsafe. In fact, said Dr Lawrence Platt of U.C.L.A., it can be quite safe, so long as labor-inducing hormones are used with great caution, if at all, and the birth occurs in a hospital where doctors are on hand to perform an emergency Caesarean section should a uterine rupture occur.

The Way I See It.....there are many reasons women might want to deliver vaginally after a surgical delivery. Vaginal childbirth entails less discomfort after delivery, and mothers can go home with their babies sooner. At the same time, the risk of surgical complications, including those that can eventually require a hysterectomy, increases with each Caesarean section. So omen who want three or more children may want to try a vaginal birth the second I the hope of avoiding surgery for each subsequent delivery.

Some women I know mentioned to me another reason. They said they wanted a personalized, family-centered, mother-and-baby-focused birth experience with their partner at their side. That means they don't want to be in an operating room and all that it obviously entails.

Deserts are ''Greening'' From the Rising in CO2 !

Go Tell It On The Mountain.....or better yet stick this posting up Al Gore's and James Hansen's....eh, nose! Scientists can now assert that increased levels of carbon dioxide have helped boost green foliage across the world's arid regions over the past 30 years through the process called ''CO2 Fertilisation'', according to Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's (CSIRO) latest findings.

It was already seen from satellite observations over the past 20 years that the Earth was getting greener in general. Now, in findings also based on satellite observations, the CSIRO, in collaboration with the Australian National University (ANU), found that this CO2 fertilisation correlated with an 11 % increase in foliage cover from 1982-2011 across parts of the world's arid areas. (see above) The areas studied were in Australia, North America, the Middle East and Africa, according to CSIRO research scientist, Dr Randall Donohue.

Donohue explained, ''In Australia, our native vegetation is superbly adapted to surviving in the arid environments and it consequently uses water very efficiently. Australia vegetation seems quite sensitive to CO2 fertilisation.''  The fertilisation effect occurs where elevated CO2 enables a leaf during photosynthesis, the process by which green plants convert sunlight into sugar, to extract more carbon from the air or lose less water to the air, or both. ''This, along with the vast extents of arid landscapes, means Australia featured prominently in our results.'' he added.

While a CO2 effect on foliage response has long been speculated and recently been seen in a generally overview, the foliage response in the arid regions was difficult to demonstrate. Dr Donohue further explained, ''Our work was able to tease-out the CO2 fertilisation effect by using mathematical modelling together with satellite data adjusted to take out the observed effects of other influences such as precipitation, air temperature, the amount of light and land-use changes.''

If elevated CO2 causes the water use in individual leaves to drop, plants in arid environments will respond by increasing their total numbers of leaves. These changes I leaf cover can be detected by satellite, particularly in deserts and savannahs where the cover is less complete than in wet locations, according to the CSIRO researchers. ''On the face of it, elevated CO2 boosting the foliage in country is good news and could assist forestry and agriculture in such areas; however there will be secondary effects that are likely to influence water availability, the carbon cycle, fire regimes and biodiversity, for example,'' Dr Donohue added.

The Way I see It.....ongoing research is required if we are to fully comprehend the potential extent and benefits of such secondary effects.  With the theory of raising CO2 linked to causing Global Warming dying on the trash heap of history we can be thankful that once again Mother Earth gets on with adapting to any and all climatic changes in a positive way. Unfortunately some people in the CSIRO still dogmatically hang on to this idea and have it on part of their organisations website. No doubt the government money (trough) grants are too tempting for them not to continue on as long as they can to deny that there has not been any warming in the last 17 years. All this while CO2 has gone up 100 ppm and is closing in on the "tipping point" of 400ppm where we all going to go extinct. Gore and Hansen be damned! Just enjoy the greening of our planet. More oxygen for all!!

Israel Relying on Egyptian Army to Counter Islamists !

Israel is relying on the Egyptian army to suppress Islamist militants in the Sinai and to ensure the country's stability after the ouster of Mohammed Morsi as president, Israeli media and politicians stated. The ministers in the Israeli Cabinet have so far stuck to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's order for silence on the subject. But Member of Parliament Tzahi Hanegbi, who is close to Netanyahu, welcomed the ouster of Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president who is a log-standing member of the foul Muslim Brotherhood. Millions of protesters rallied to demand he quit for failing to abide by the 2011 revolution and bolstering his Islamist base at the expense of the rest of the country.

''Israel's clear interest is for Egypt to remain stable, favourable to the West and the U.S., and that it does not let itself get carried away by a wave of religious extremism,'' said Hanegbi, former head of the Knesset (parliament) commission on defence and foreign affairs. ''Over Morsi's year in power, we noticed worrying developments, and that is why the return to prominence of the army and a secular authority capable of ensuring the stability of the country is good news for Israel,''  he added.

Israel's former ambassador to Egypt, Yitzhak Levanson, also stressed the positive role of the army in Egypt. ''The Egyptian authorities are aware of Israeli sensitivity to everything that happens in the Sinai area, and now the Egyptian army feels a little freer to act firmly against the Islamist elements,''  he explained. ''Morsi couldn't help bragging what a great help he was as a negotiator in the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last year but still kept up the anti-Jewish and anti-Christian rhetoric. His dogmatic Muslim Brotherhood ideology wasn't softened during his 'reign'.''

The daily Yediot Aharonot said that the ''security operation'' between the two countries has been beefed up in recent days. The newspaper reported that just several hours after Morsi's dismissal and arrest, an official Israeli representative secretly arrived in Cairo to meet with Egyptian security personnel and intelligence officials, without giving any further details. ''Security links were good during the Morsi period, and should be even better from now on,'' Yediot Aharonot reported.

A hive of militant activity, which Morsi ignored, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is a major route for drugs smuggling, weapons and human trafficking. Ever since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011, throwing his feared security services into disarray, the region has grown even more restless and awash with all kinds of weapons. Attacks and kidnappings targeting Egyptian security forces in the area have multiplied, and the militants have fired rockets from the region at Israel.

On Friday, militants launched coordinated rocket and machine gun attacks on Egyptian army and police checkpoints in the Sinai, killing one soldier and wounding two others, Egyptian medical sources reported. Several Islamist militants have publicly threatened to carry out raids in reprisal for Mors's dismissal, almost taunting the new government to challenge them. The Israeli army said that it had ''authorized'' the deployment of Egyptian military reinforcements in the Peninsula. The 1979 peace treaty between the two countries has imposed strict controls on deployments but the recent threats has changed dynamic.

The army made a statement yesterday saying that, ''the Egyptian military activity in the Sinai is now coordinated with Israeli security elements and authorized at the most senior levels in Israel, in order to contend with the recent security threats in the Sinai that pose a threat to both Israel and Egypt.'' Oded Granot, a commentator for public television, also stressed that the Egyptian army ''has every chance of staying at the center of the political spectrum for a while yet.'' He noted that ''it will be a long time before an Egyptian leader can imitate Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who managed to bring the Turkish army into line.''

The Way I See It.....if the Egyptian armed forces don't get bogged down in a more violent confrontation with pro-Morsi supporters, which seems to be building as we speak, and turning into a preamble to civil war they could stabilize the turmoil. An Egyptian army in a strong position should continue to pursue a policy hostile to the Hamas rulers in the Gaza Strip by blocking the many tunnels between Gaza and Egypt to prevent Palestinian Islamist militants from infiltrating Egypt. We can only hope for the best now that President Obama has taken a hands-off attitude.

Muslim Brotherhood Takes a Leaf Out of Mubarak's Book !

The current demonstrations against the Mohammed Morsi's government were on tack to become the most serious since the Arab Spring uprising of early 2011 that brought down the Mubarack government. They reflect not just the frustration by Morsi's Christian, secular and liberal opponents over trampling of democratic rights and attempts to advance an Islamist agenda, but also the hopelessness by the Egyptian masses over the country's dire economic problems. Thankfully the army stepped in to avoid the unrest escalating into a civil war, between the illiterate, ignorant country people who have been ''bought'' by the Muslim Brotherhood's welfare programs and the young, educated democracy-inspired citizens of the major cities.

Police reported violent clashes between supporters of the president and the opposition protesters. Thankfully, only 20 people were killed in the massive four day protest which saw close to a million people occupy Tahrir Square but shockingly, 91 women were raped during the demonstrations. More than 20 million had signed a petition calling for Morsi to step down because they soon realized that he was putting the Muslim Brotherhood ahead of the interests of the country, and that his economic policies have hurt Egyptians. They were also demonstrating against what they call Morsi's authoritarian actions and brutal repression of opposition protesters in past protests. Morsi showed himself to be an old school politician with dictatorial tendencies which included torture.

The revelations that the torture chambers once utilized by the Hosni Mubarak regime to down protesters were being put to the same, if not greater use by the country's new, self-proclaimed dictator Mohammed Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood thugs. This disturbing revelation came to light when an al-Masry al-Youm reporter, with the help of a Brotherhood-owned and operated television station, was given an exclusive tour of the torture chambers. While one might think the decision to grant such access as counter-intuitive, it made perfect sense to the power-mad Brotherhood elite. After all, what could possibly ever serve as better warning for those thinking of resisting Morsi's push for a totalitarian regime based on sharia law than to know what will happen to them if they do?

The reporter explained that ''protestors suspected of working against the Brotherhood are tortured and beaten with the knowledge of the police before being handed over for formal detention. He goes on to describe the scene; The torture process starts once a demonstrator is arrested in the clashes by the Central Security Forces (CSF) and brought into the central torture chamber that's located near the Ittihadiya Palace, just opposite the gates facing the Omar Ibn Abdel Aziz Mosque. Fifteen men, distinguished by their strong bodies, are supervised by three bearded well-dressed men. This group trade off punching, kicking and beating the protester with a stick on the face and all over his body. They tear off his clothes and take him to the secondary chamber to whip his back and feet to get him to confess to being a thug and being paid money to demonstrate against the government.''

Marking the UN's International Day in Support of Victims of Torture released a report just before the June demonstrations started detailing the number of torture victims since Egypt's Presidential inauguration. The El-Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims counted 359 cases of torture and 217 deaths related to torture, in the twelve months since the election of Mohamed Morsi at the helm of the Egyptian government. The victims of both sexes had ages between 6 and 53 years, and largely residing in Cairo and Giza. The tortures took place in victim's homes or in police stations, in the offices of the CSF, in prisons, at the place mentioned above and the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Moqattam. Understandably, this report added fuel to the already fired up anti-Morsi citizens and lifted their rage.

Their rage was also directed at America. The Obama government certainly has popularity problems -- despite spending billions of dollars -- among the nations in the Middle East and north Africa, but it this uprising , in which a Muslim Brotherhood-linked president being taken down, to reveal the full extant of dislike of Barack Obama. Banners were held high in Egypt's major mob-filled cities declaring, ''Wake Up America...Obama backs up a Fascist Regime!'' and ''Obama you Jerk. Muslim Brotherhood is killing Egyptians.!' as well as ''Hey Obama, your deal with Morsi was unsuccessful!'' The U.S. and Egypt long had been on friendly terms under Hosni Mubarack how kept radical Islamics out of power. Then with the Arab Spring movement building, he was ousted at Obama's encouragement and the radicals Brotherhood usurped the democratic will of the people.

The Way I See It.....opposition to President Morsi has been growing since late last year when he issued dictates to increase his power and his Muslim Brotherhood deadshits forced through a new constitution at elevated him above the law. In January and February riots his decision to adopt police tactics similar to those used by former President Mubarack enraged many of his opponents. These tactics included the beating of a naked man during protests in Cairo on February 1 that was posted to YouTube. While perhaps not shocking to those who have long known of the Brotherhood's penchant for violence and history as the parent of all major Islamic extremist groups (including al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, et al), the accounts of torture are heartrending nonetheless.


The Obama administration is adrift when it comes to policy in the Middle East. Against many congressmen's advice Obama decided to throw an ally under the Arab Spring bus and back Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood. What did that mean?  These scum were anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-women since their inception, and one year after Morsi won ''his election'' and all the millions of dollars Team Obama badly wasted on this government, the people have risen up and said: ''No, you have failed us. We want you out. We want a secular democracy.''  Obama couldn't see that giving money to someone who's a thug and wishing and hoping and praying that they are going to turn into a Jeffersonian Democrat is not only wrongheaded but plain stupid. It's never worked and it's proven again with Egypt.

Snowden ''Marooned'' in Russia, Asylum Offer ''Off" !

Editor's Note:  As I achieved the 100 posting mark last month, I decided to take a breather and take 10 days off to give more attention to my soul-mate and grandchildren. With my investigative files filling up I am now ready to expose more true facts in the months to come. Thanks for your patience.
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National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden's fate seemed to grow more dire on Sunday as the president of one country offering him asylum seemed to back away from the offer while the nation currently hosting him won't let him leave the airport. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange acknowledged that Snowden appears to be ''marooned in Russia.'' The president of Ecuador -- Rafael Correa -- said that the Ecuadoran refugee documents originally issued to Snowden were are mistake and that Snowden is ultimately Russia's problem. ''He doesn't have a passport. I don't know the Russian laws, I don't know if he can leave the airport, but I understand if he can't.'' Correa told The Associated Press.

Correa confirmed that the Ecuadorean consul in London committed ''a serious error'' by initially issuing the letter-of-safe--passage for Snowden, which is what allowed him to leave Hong Kong for Russia after U.S. authorities revoked his American passport after he fled drawing vital attention to the U.S. eavesdropping  program and potential violation of human rights. Correa appears to be sending the message that it is unlikely Snowden will ever end up in Ecuador. He repeatedly emphasized the importance of the U.S. legal process. Of course this was after Vice President Biden's half hour conversation asking him to send Snowden back to the United States immediately on his arrival and highlighted threats made by a group of U.S. senators to revoke Ecuadorean trade privileges.

After spending more than a week in limbo in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport transit lounge and applying for political asylum to 20 countries, including India, and being turned down, Snowden is reported to have applied for asylum in Russia. Earlier, president Vladimir Putin suggested Snowden could stay in Russia but on the condition that he stopped harming what Mr Putin called ''our American partners. He repeated again the following day, ''If he wants to stay here, there is one condition. He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners, as strange as that sounds coming from my lips.''  However, Putin said he suspected Snowden would not stop leaking information because ''he feels himself to be a human rights activist''. So Snowden will look further.

Actually there is quite a bit that can be done by various people to help Snowden reach a safe place where he can be free from ''persecution'' by the U.S. government. The legal basis for political asylum is very strong, especially since the U.S. has charged Snowden under the Espionage Act. Since it is pretty clear that there was no espionage involved here -- no evidence that he collaborated or even met with any foreign government. And politically, despite efforts by much of the media to brand Snowden a criminal and a traitor, most of the world appears to sympathise with him. Any government that helps him would almost certainly have popular support at home.

The problem is that these governments are reluctant to take the necessary steps to get Snowden freedom because of possible U.S. retaliation. Of course, retaliation is not as likely as many people think: Washington was angry with Hong Kong for about a day after it rejected a request for extradition, and then it blew over. Mr Putin repeated that Russia had no intention of handing him over to the U.S.. ''Russia has never given up anyone to anybody and does not plan to. And nobody ever gave up anyone to us, '' he said. He also verified that Russian intelligence agencies were not working with the 30-year-old American even though there is no stopping the steady trickle of intelligence leaks to the media. The Russian leader appeared unconcerned about the latest revelations about the scale of U.S. government surveillance of EU headquarters and the United Nations.

The Way I See It.....now that Ecuador's Foreign Minister tweeted that his country was again considering Snowden's request for asylum. But is Snowden a refugee? The U.N. defines a refugee as someone who fears ''being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion'' and is, as a result, unable or unwilling to return to his or her country. The U.N. excludes from refugee status anyone who ''has committed a serious non-political crime.''  That means Snowden is unlikely to meet the definition.

The U.S. says Snowden is not being persecuted for his political opinions and that he is free to express his views about NSA programs under the First Amendment. But releasing secret details about these programs is a violation of U.S. law, according to the Justice Department. Snowden didn't help his cause in an interview with the Guardian when he said he was ''subverting the power of government, and that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.'' That could be seen as an admission of the kind of serious crime that denies him the protection of of refugee status. The U.N. lets each country decide who qualifies, however, and while refugees fleeing violence in Columbia are often denied asylum in Rafael Correa's ( photo above ) Ecuador. It seems high-profile protesters get more sympathy there.