Norway - What a Tragedy!

What happened in Norway just two days ago is indeed a tragedy; I am saddened by the unjustifiable loss of innocent lives. I have very little to say except it is sad and unfortunate for such a beautiful country to have to endure something so tragic.

On the other hand the 1500 page manifesto written by the perptrator in this event is even more troubling than anything I could imagine. Let's see, if a deranged Muslim, for example, would have written something similar to this what would have happened. I would assume that the whole world would clearly attack him, his thoughts, his religion, his country, his background and possibly arrest him for saying such things. The media would try and convict him before any evidence was heard and instantly his life would be ruined and he would be in jail. But for a white person similar hate documentation is tolerated, encouraged, discussed, allowed and in some instances condoned as being "patriotic".

Muslims are currently being banned of their basic human rights like the freedom of expression (example is the European fervor on banning Muslim women wearing Niqab in public) like other citizens of France, Belgium, Australia and many other countries. To me a Niqab and a mini-skirt are freedoms of choice afforded individuals and they should be allowed equally unless we live under Nazi or communist style rule where a certain uniform is allowed only.

In the USA now there is this fervor of anti-Share'a (Islamic rule) where state after state is voting a ban share'a law. Wow why don't they also ban Jewish laws governing family, marriage, divorce, inheritence like that. I guess Islam has been tried and convicted in their eyes for no apparent reason than what Fox News says (which is owned by a Muslim the second largest shareholder is Prince Waleed of Saudi).

We can start by counting the people that are in jail for alleged "plots" that were instigated by entrapement efforts by the police, FBI and other agencies just to make work for themselves. How many innocent lives have been damaged for those agencies to just claim success in their crusade against Islam and Muslims. Yet this Norwegian terrorist is called a "madman" and nobody even hinted at him being a terrorist murderer and should be tried like one. The Washington Post so valiantly blamed and convicted Islam and Muslims before any details were made available to the public what a travesty.

What a hypocritical world we live in, to me a terrorist is a terrorist no matter the background. A terrorist is worse to me than a petty thief. Also a human life is sacred and should not be spent under any guise so a poor farmer in Afghanistan holds the same value like the President of the World no difference. I am saddened by the daily unwarranted deaths of people in Norway like I am saddened by the unwarranted death of Palestinians, Afghanis, Egyptians and many others for no apparent reason.

In my personal opinion I believe that the real terrorists are Hosni Mubarak, Gaddaffi, Asad and other leaders that do export and sponsor terrorism. The real terrorists are Blackwater and other mercenary organizations that kill for no reason. The real terrorist is any of the wackos in this world that can't seem to be able to live with others peacefully.

The real terrorists are being exposed every day, in my opinion, it is every authoritarian government that perpetrates human indignant acts on its people or instill fear so they can continue to rule. People of this world have already spoken in Egypt, Tunis and other countries like Syria and Libya. Others will move soon and once they start the snow ball effect will wipe out all terrorist totalitarian governments in one felt swoop.

I live in a neighborhood with many colors, religions and backgrounds. We don't walk every morning with knives waiting to kill each other we are neighbors and some are friends others are not but they are neighbors. Soon, once the political insanity goes away countries will live together in harmony like our neighborhood. This is my hope for the future world where my children will live.

Soviets in Afghanistan!!!

Back in the mid to late 70's the USSR decided it would invade Afghanistan for some reason. The west also decided to help "free" the Afghanis from the "Soviet" occupation. An "Islamic" revival was taking place in the Middle East where many young men were being recruited by fringe groups. "Arab" and "Islamic" leaders (like Egypt's Mubarak and Omar Suleiman) thought it would be nice to use Afghanistan to eliminate those kids instead of putting them in jail they agreed with their masters in the West to send them to help "Liberate" Afghanistan. What they forgot is the fact that this could eventually lead to the demise of the Soviet Union and that many of the kids were not going to die in Afghanistan.

Every diplomatic entity has a "special" set of employees (no one really knows who they are) but those people work for the intelligence services of that country and are seemingly "regular" diplomats. The Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad was instructed by the Egyptian Intelligence agency to start an office as a base to start collecting the names, passports, addresses and contact information of every person crossing into Afghanistan. They set up an office in Peshawar for that purpose and it started collecting this information in earnest under the guise of helping inform the families of those kids of their fate if they were killed in the war to liberate Afghanistan. Names, passports and contact information was collected for the duration of this "war".

So Americans and the West was arming and training the rebels (aka Taliban and "Freedom Fighters"). The Egyptians were tasked with controlling them by collecting their passports and contact information. All the fearless "Arab and Muslim" Leaders wanted is for those kids to DIE and never return and that was their hope. Soon after the establishment of this "office" the Egyptian SSIS took it over and now it became a regular intelligence gathering office in Peshawar.

That office was named "The Base" or "Al-Qaeda" and this is where the name of the enemy of the West came from, the Egyptian office in Peshawar. Every Pakistani guide taking people to cross into Afghanistan was instructed to take them to the "Base" first.

This work continued far beyond Afghanistan, this office was established in all conflict zones like Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Serbia and other areas to continue to collect the names of people now to arrest them as soon as they return home. Egyptian SSIS officers were ordered to join the UN Peacekeeping forces as a contingent to help but also to continue to grow this list.

The old Egyptian regime, that was removed by the January 25 revolution, sold the world a bag of goods and the biggest sponsor of terrorism was Mubarak, Qaddafi and the other fearless leaders of the "Arab and Muslim" world. For thirty years Egyptians lived under manufactured secular tensions by the SSIS. For thirty years Mubarak and his goons ruled with an iron fist and blew up churches, arrested innocent people, managed rendition programs for the west ...etc. Now the fearless leaders of the "Arab" world are threatening Egyptians with retaliation if they try this criminal Mubarak for his atrocities.

Egypt is rising and will rise. As a US Citizen of Egyptian origin I will do my best to have a stable and secular Egypt where all Egyptians can and will live in freedom and under a democratic state. I will fight to put Mubarak on trial and make sure he pays for his atrocities him and his cronies. Mubarak's trial is an internal Egyptian issue and all other parties MUST respect that. If the KSA or the UAE do not want Egyptians there because of that then ALL Egyptian expats in those two countries must leave. Egypt needs everyone now more than before there is a lot to be done at home.

EGYPT - A revolution unfinished

Visiting Egypt for the past two weeks in trying to see for myself what are the changes that the revolution brought. Amazingly people had hope, they smiled more and were honest to express their opinion. Taxi drivers, the pulse of every metropolis, were politically savvy and always provided good reasoned discussions on both sides of the argument. This in of itself is a sign of a major change in the the Egyptian society as a whole.

Egypt needs to rebuild and they need everyone to help. on March 20th there was a conference to just address this topic which was a success and presented a few ideas in tourism, technology and other fields. Unfortunately, there is still a great deal of work to be done for Egypt to recover.

Egypt still needs basic help in the form of medical support for the rehabilitation of the injured and handicapped youth. There is also a need for financial aid to be given to the families of the martyrs of the revolution and many others who worked daily jobs and have not been paid for months now.

More than aid Egyptians need investments and jobs to help them sustain some level of growth and the dignity that they ask for not handouts. However, job creation requires skilled labor and, unfortunately, outside of the "elite classes" marketable skills are hard to come by.

The deposed corrupt regime ignored education and created an empty shell of social structure that was there for over thirty years to serve one purpose, preserve the regime. There is a great deal of work to restore the civil society in Egypt from fixing education to training and the Egyptian Government is not going to be of any help.

Unfortunately, the old regime is still alive and well. The current Military Junta is working hard to reinstall the deposed regime using different faces and names. The Military is creating more chaos in the land. The leaders of the military are from the old regime and it is in their best interest to preserve the status quo.

They need to keep the lies going create the fear of "terrorism" and "instability" to help control the crowds and rule. They need "terrorism" so that they can continue to obtain financial support from the USA and NATO since they themselves sold that lie to the west to keep the corrupt Western governments in place.

Egypt's Armed Forces controls 40% of the nations economy and no wonder they want people to go back to work. The Army runs factories that make weapons systems, cars, trucks, bottle drinking water, manufacture appliances and even operate resorts and tourism sites. The Egyptian Armed Forces are, in fact, the largest single landowner in the country they can and have pretty much done what they please with their land.

The SCAF (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces) that "governs" Egypt today seems not to care about the revolution but more about keeping corruption in place to maintain their positions. I think SCAF successfully managed to hijack a referendum on March the 19th by allowing fraud and dirty manipulation of simple minded people by the SSIS (secret police which still operates) the Muslim Brotherhood and other elements of dubious intentions.

The revolution in Egypt is under siege by the military and the secret police (SSIS), what will come next, it seems, is more blood and crack down. Crack down has already started by the army (as a matter of fact it never stopped) they introduced a law that banned congregation of any type. If this revolution is to continue it will be because the people want it to continue but my fear is that it will take more work and blood to get it to completion.

The world is waiting and watching. I think that the west wants the revolution to fail but really can't say that they do. They are more comfortable with the totalitarian Fascist Mubarak Regime and would probably welcome its return untouched of fear that freedom for the Egyptians and other nations is not good for America and the West.

The picture above was taken March 14th 2011 of Tahrir Square. The picture shows basically nothing. The Army has erased all evidence of the revolution and the square is back to normal whatever this normal ends up being.

Radical Islam in the USA - What a Day!

Today Congress is debating what is labeled "Radical Islam in the USA" in the Homeland Security commission and I wanted to just say something:

1. I believe that the US government uses scare tactics to keep the US population under control. That stupid Kosovar who shot Army Personnel at Frankfurt couldn't be timed any better. Who paid him I guess? Every time someone in the corrupt government wants to forward an agenda they do some silly thing like that and the People of the USA are the ones who pay for it, this time it was two Patriot Soldiers in uniform.
2. For the people in Orange County CA I say that the USA has reached a feverish pitch of hatred and bigotry against Muslims (or like some people like to pronounce it MOO-Z-LEEMS). I want to tell you and everyone in the USA we really can't go anywhere we are American born and bred and THIS IS OUR COUNTRY.
3. Let's assume that we can remove all brown skinned people out of this country the Health Care system will collapse so will some of the most successful corporations. Muslims, Arabs, and Asian Immigrants are an economic force in the USA. The percentage of true blooded Americans who work in these fields unfortunately is low.
4. Racism and racial profiling coupled with entrapment and other illegal tactics used by the FBI, DHS and other Government Agencies and Departments to target Muslims and other Arabs and Asians in this country will only make us more angry. In my opinion, most of the accusations leveled at us are fabricated and not true. I also beleive that the Murdoch Media keeps trumpeting it up like no tomorrow for financial and other interests.
5. For once I will say it, I came to the USA because I believe in the Constitution of the USA and the freedoms it provides. I also elected to become an American Citizen at an age after living in Egypt for 30 years. I say to all of those in the US Congress, FBI, DHS and every other marginal government department that I consider myself more patriotic than any of those who acquired their citizenship through an accident of birth. This does not put in question the patriotism of others but to reinforce my own.
6. The fall of Egypt's SSIS is proof that this terrorist threat has been over blown to keep Egypt's corrupt government in place.

I will vote ALL corrupt politicians out of office and will continue to work within the democratic system until it fails. This the only tool I have today.

"Remember remember the fifth of November"

Libyan Revolution and "Islamists"

It appears that ANY bloody dictator in this whole world once he starts talking about "Al-Qaeda" the West and the whole world stands back and says keep on your atrocities against your people. Ms. Clinton it seems that you are back pedaling on the Libya issue based on the perceived threat of Al-Qaeda.

This thing is strange and unsettling Libyans are being killed by a brutal regime, a man who calls himself "King of Kings of Africa" and many other titles. The US State Department is just backing off because of his claims. In my humble opinion if the world becomes that afraid from a clear lie then we have a bigger problem.

Did AL-Qaeda win? are we that afraid? Why are we that afraid? is our government lying to us? what is the real deal and truth? Sad so Sad when your government is afraid of a ghost created by Egypt's SSIS to justify its own existence.

Egyptian Army Cracks down on Unarmed Protestors

It appears that all politicians and especially dictators like the deposed one in Egypt have some kid of a personality disorder. They all claim, some more vocal than others, that people are not capable of this that or the other. The deposed Egyptian dictator and current Egyptian Police and Military claim the Egyptians can't rule themselves democratically.

Here is a revelation for you, in my opinion, people are born free and democratic as evidenced by the Libyans, Egyptians, Tunisians that are still struggling for freedom. It is the dictators that have this weird dependency on power and the need to stay in it. The struggle is not for the welfare of the people rather the welfare of the ruling elite.

Egypt is fighting Police and Military dependency on being elites, rulers and masters of Egypt. This creates a pharaoh syndrome and then it is a struggle to ween them off this dependency. To have them finally acknowledge the fact that they live among equals does take effort and sometimes blood. It is evident in Tunisia, Libya as well with the extreme case being Libya.

It is also unfortunate that the western hemisphere is not immune to the pharaoh syndrome. Washington, for example, is doing its level best to make us believe that we really need them yet they are squandering our money, mortgaging our great grand children's future and costing us jobs and our quality of living is suffering. To remove a corrupt politician take effort and a lot of work to organize and campaign against them in an election but still could be done. People must take charge of their destiny and vote for what they believe in if you don't go to the polls then you end up with people like Blago in IL.

Libya - Oil I don't Get it?

Libya produces 2% of the world's oil and gas, its production goes mostly to Europe and specifically Italy. Since the February 17th Brnet Crude went up over 25%, I don't get it 2% reduction eauivalent to 25% price increase some trader is making tons of money here and we are all being penalized. I guess we will have to bail out some rich Wall Street Bankers once more. I will never vote for a corrupt politician!

Egypt Mr. Obama Just a note of caution!

The status quo in the form of the Mubarak appointed Government is still in the country. People are demanding the removal and overahual of the whole system of government. Media is still state controlled and corruption is rampant at all government levels. The current military council has no reason to change the status quo, it is in their best financial interest.

The political landscape of Egypt and the Middle East is far more colorful than what Mubarak sold you. There are for sure "Islamists" yet i still fail to understand what this stupid term means if it is theocratic Islamic then of course there are those. But there are staunch Marxists, communists, socialists, moderate Muslims, left wing Christians, Left wing Muslims, right wing Christians, right wing Muslims, separatists, secularists, pan Arabists, Nasserists and other don't care-ists......etc.

The continuation of the status quo in Egypt and the fact that Mubarak's media hounds are still in control must end and fast. The demands of the people must be met or we will end up with a socialist to communist Middle East. Mubarak sold the USA a bag of goods and we paid him handsomely for it over thirty years.

Egypt needs the people to focus on a transparent civil democratic society that will create jobs and open opportunities for its people. There are those who will take advantage of this situation but the USA must stand on the right side of history and stop supporting oppressive regimes in the region.

One for Egypt

TIME to REBUILD

Today the tyrant is gone and a great deal of work has to be done in EGYPT. Time to rebuild and help the Egyptians regain their financial freedom. After the whole thing settles down Egypt now needs help Egyptian Citizens have spoken and something did change but it becomes our responsibility as free world citizens to help them stabilize that country. They need tourists, investors, educators and people to help them in general. Go Egypt - Go Egypt!!