Obama Administration Declares Egypt Military Takeover Not-A-Coup

The Coup d'etat in Egypt led by General Al-Sisi seems satisfactory to the Obama administration. President Obama's press mouthpiece has deemed it not-a-coup in order to continue giving billions of dollars to the incipient junta promising free and fair elections down the road. The semantics, or rather dissimulation of executive rule by decree and selective law enforcement is a growing trend in the U.S. Government. Power is sweet I suppose. President Obama should follow the law instead of breaking it whenever he deems it useful.

Paramount leader Al Sisi might better declare Egypt to be a constitutional Pharaohship and bring in British royals as advisers about setting it up. Like British royals the Pharaoh could just step in whenever the Parliament and P.M. mess up and can't balance the budget on very rare occasions. A benevolent military pharaoh could be just the big brother the people of Egypt want and that President Obama appears to support. Whenever politicians go too far it's good to know the military will step in and restore normalcy at least if it's in someone else's country.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/08/white-house-wants-us-aid-to-egypt-to-keep-flowing-for-now/

Since the Iranian not-a-coup restored a Shah to Iran's Peacock throne driving out P.M. Mosadegh and downsizing the Majlis the United States has trended toward managing autocracy and democracy relations on a sliding scale,sometimes with word labels as noun variables contingent upon circumstance, need and resource extraction interests. We are not certain what the administration position is in either nation (the U.S. or Egypt). Probably what they should do is cut off financial aid to Egypt immediately due to coup and restore it when they have an election with a fair and balanced result soon. Instead of military aid we could give the people Obama phones for the same price. Democrats cannot rely upon twittering except at their peril.

General AL-Sisi Boots President Morsi-Suspends Constitution

Declaring the constitution suspended the friendly and benevolent, populist Egyptian Army gave the boot to President Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. The public grievances with the brief year tenure were evidently insufferable enough to force the drastic step of a populist coup. That is sort of a quid pro quo for President Morsi's giving short shrift to public input to rewriting the constitution of Egypt after the ouster of President Mubarak.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23173794#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

One wonders if Edward Snowden will return home to the U.S.A. for the forth of July and like Socrates just bite-the-bullet for what he believes in. Maybe he believes in wikileaks and Julian Assange more.

I would agree with Mr. Snowden if he had my point of view right off. I think that the U.S. political system is terminally corrupted by the lack of public service as the greatest generation experienced. Generations of spoilt subsequents to the greatest generation are globalists, outsourcers, compilers of public debt, ruled by a corrupt broadcast media owned by powers of concentrated wealth and neither major party is worth a damn at nationalism.

Mr. Snowden might be able to get sanctuary in Egypt while they are between governments and enjoy viewing the pyramids. Its a good time to enlist in the Egyptian army I suppose. Their stock seems to be on the rise.

The Greatest Generation Followed by Generations of Greed Without Public Service

The generation of the second world war brought more than 20 million Americans into military service from a population of perhaps 140 million. After the demobilization social comprehension of government and feelings of equality were pervasive. There was a better social management of  government, taxation, public debt and national development was key. Yet in a declining level of public military service and rising tide of generation-me and globalism the public sector has fallen into decline. It is the public sector that enable private sector prosperity with good government. It is the public sector that should defend the environment rather than give away some of the last stands of old growth in the Tongass National Forest.

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-07-01/forest-service-approves-big-thorne-timber-sale#.UdL03DtsiSo

With so few elites ever serving in the military and with unlimited capitalism erasing democratic common sense wealth has concentrated, globalism and international develop has surpassed concern for the national well being of environment, infrastructure and employment. Public debt has increase and the border become porous with decline of unionism and real wages. These are logical development of the aloof beneficiaries of generations following the victory of the greatest generation.

In every generation there are those with the fire of nationalism and spirituality such as drove the qualitatively greater generation of the founders. Quantitatively the greatest generation of the second world war era surpassed the populace that followed in the number of individuals that fundamentally understood the relationship of government to society and the environment. That some might arise to lead the present generations to restoration of liberty and economic justice for all is necessary if anyone is to care about the future of the United States or even perhaps life on Earth in decline during the era of mass extinction and global warming stimulated by industrialization and inefficient natural resource use.

Competitive Edge of Secondary Growth on Mature Fir Tree Trunks

In northern coastal old growth forests a canopy develops from tall trees screening out light to the branches below. In the deep quiet forest the underlying branches have died off from reduced sunlight. Perhaps the upward growth of the trees to gain height is a result of natural selection for fastest upward mobility in competition of rival spruce, hemlock and fir. Cedar trees stop growing somewhere south around Kupreanov Island. They are excellent at low dense ground covering starts resembling bushes competing with themselves choking out other species. There may be an exception to the prevalent conifer tree rule that tree trunks become bare of branches in old growth forests.

Some mature northern coastal fir trees develop a dense covering of tiny branches on the trunk. While larger, primary branches have gone through their cycle of growing large to later die off and rot away as new branches grow higher up leaving the large tree trunk bare, there is still a little light reaching through the treetops and the dense branches. That bare trunk is wasted space so far as photon collecting goes. It is a metaphor for human use of urban environment and prevalent downsizing of Earth-ecosphere

An evolutionary adaptation of tall firs in rain forests is to exploit all that dead space devoid of photon collecting needles (conifer equiv of leaves) and grow a covering of tiny branches with needles. Fir trees-maybe in a homonym of fur may have tree trunks covered with a dense growth of small branches growing directly out of the trunk. Many firs don't have that. I don't recall observing that and many locations in S.E. Alaska.

I have no idea if the fur-like covering of very small branches dense with fir needles absorbing light reaching through the trees input their chemical energy from photosynthesis directly into the upward growth of the tree or if they are local, independent tiny trees just growing out of the trunk's bark in the annual wetness.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130705121051.htm one wonders if some vegetable plants could be made to grow on some tree trunks.

I will post a picture of a fir about 75 years old with a dense trunk cover of tiny branches. I haven't seen that kind of growth on cedar, hemlock or spruce. On the left is the fur-covered fir tree and on the right is a bare trunk of a usual tree and that emerged into more light after logging. In unlogged areas with 75-year old second growth approximately) the phenomena is common. One wonders if the trait is genetically isolated or if cedar, hemlock and spruce trees could be made to develop that trunk covering to increase photon collection for photosynthesis.

Tour de France 2013 Reaches 4th Stage- American Riders Doing O.K.

The United States has three riders seventeen seconds off the lead after the 4th stage of the 2013 Tour de France. One wishes that Fox Radio had hired Lance Armstrong for regular commentary on the race to liven up the posturing a little.

Team Garmin with Van Velde, Talinsky, Danielson and Van Garderen (26 seconds off the lead) looks strong for the U.S.A. Australia also looks strong this year too with Simon Gerrans wearing the yellow (amarillo ) shirt of power given to the first-place guy.

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2013/us/stage-4/classifications.html

How M.B.A.s, Globalism & Networks Kill Life on Earth

The Wall Street transition of the U.S. economy into foreign investment and globalism with speed of light stock trading, tranching, arbitrage and social networking makes for a smaller planet without many idea-firewalls remaining. M.B.A.s are about managing and manipulating existing business structures rather than inventing new material processes. Bankers and M.B.A.s are not inventors or scientists generally. Even the independent start up inventor seems a little anachronistic or quaint when big bucks are made with fast and clever programs and entertainment. The system clearcuts the wild as if it were a practico-inert object-for-profit.

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-07-01/forest-service-approves-big-thorne-timber-sale#.UdL03DtsiSo

None of this is good for the prospect of democracy leading national economic change to one of hundreds of alternative synthetic forms of capitalism that would reduce mass-consumption of non-renewable resources, conserve biodiversity, cut back on pollution and reverse global warming. The greed-is-good ethos provides a red herring that environmental is a concern of communists or former communists. Those most invested in a particularly virulent and aggressive form of capitalism have blinders on to economic philosophy and the thousand faces of capitalism that are possible with competent political direction in ecological and economic theory and practice.

The United States has evolved a practice of capitalism as a social absolute in-itself in which the ecosphere is an externality. That is myopia of the worst kind. The world is the nasty, rationalized funhouse the animals live upon. Just making it comfortable without concern about using it up won't work very much longer.

Republican failure to lead is understandable. The default of intelligent voters to the dark side of the moral force (Democrat Party) is the only alternative to walking the plank of ecospheric doom of right wing talk radio and oil-soaked Presidential candidates. The President just uses the environmentalists to get elected yet doesn't walk the walk of the radical ecological economist at all. He flies an entourage on Air Force One to Hawaii or a Golf course with the slightest provocation.

Development at all costs is the economic foundation of a nation where only a minority actually makes anything physically. When so many have so much invested in making money off of foreign manufacture and other people's production none have an interest in changing the way things from a disposable economic model to a renewable sustainable economic foundation within a recovering ecosphere.

President just promised to give three African countries seven billion dollars for electricity production doubling that continent's production. It may also support increased resource consumption. The U.N. millennium project cost far less-why wasn't that funded at all? Training African economies to work on an ecological economic basis of high renewability, sustainability and conservation and recovery of wild habitat are vital for the survival of life on Earth including human life. The United State of America' has so far proven itself incapable of being a leader in the right direction however.

America's own economic transition to a post-industrial society with speed-of-light global stock trading has defeated national prospects for creating a sustainable economy with free enterprise, national self-determination, full-employment and a recovering ecosphere. That is the hard fact. 

Egypt Moves Toward Gay New World Order; General Sisi Gives Morsi 48 hours to Toe the Line

Egyptian evolution of a new political order continues with instructions from Army General Sisi to President Morsi to toe the line and set  new elections or new parliamentary elections (I am not sure which). The Muslim Brotherhood h.q. in Cairo was sacked by a crowd of resisters to rule by the Muslim Brotherhood New National Order that has curtailed frills of political opposition opportunities for dissent. Hence the populist neo-intafadah has turned out in the streets seeking to restore the right of women to wear pants and for homosexual marriage I would guess. Maybe the Obama donation of seven billion dollars for African electrical development helped persuade the crowd that the man with the dollar printing press is the true cue to follow and that is the way of Boston Brahmin (Is that singular and plural simultaneously like deer or bear) toward a Gay New World Order.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23133174 The Sisi Ultimatum

http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2013/06/30/obama-to-unveil-7-billion-african-electrical-power-initiative

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2006/05/the-new-brahmins/