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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Enjoy the long weekend... if only for a second
LONDON?? The world is about to get a well-earned long weekend ? but don't make big plans, because it will only last an extra second.
A so-called 'leap second' will be added to the world's atomic clocks as they undergo a rare adjustment to keep them in step with the slowing rotation of the earth.
To achieve the adjustment, on Saturday night atomic clocks will read 23 hours, 59 minutes and 60 seconds before moving on to midnight Greenwich Mean Time.
Super-accurate atomic clocks are the ultimate reference point by which the world sets its wrist watches.
But their precise regularity ? which is much more constant than the shifting movement of the earth around the sun that marks out our days and nights ? brings problems of its own.
If no adjustments were made, the clocks would move further ahead, and after many years the sun would set at midday. Leap seconds perform a similar function to the extra day in each leap year which keeps the calendar in sync with the seasons.
The grandly named International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), based in Paris, is responsible for keeping track of the gap between atomic and planetary time and issuing international edicts on the addition of leap seconds.
"We want to have both times close together, and it's not possible to adjust the earth's rotation," Daniel Gambis, head of the Earth Orientation Center of the IERS, told Reuters.
Gambis said the turning of the earth and its movement around the sun are far from constant.
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In recent years a leap second has been added every few years, slightly more infrequent than in the 1970s despite the long-term slowdown in Earth's rotation caused by tides, earthquakes and a host of other natural phenomena.
Adjustments to atomic clocks are more than a technical curiosity.
A collection of the highly accurate devices are used to set Coordinated Universal Time which governs time standards on the world wide web, satellite navigation, banking computer networks and international air traffic systems.
There have been calls to abandon leap seconds but a meeting of the International Telecommunications Union, the U.N. agency responsible for international communications standards, failed to reach a consensus in January.
"They decided not to decide anything," says Gambis, adding that another attempt will be made in 2015.
Opponents of the leap second want a simpler system that avoids the costs and margin for error in making manual changes to thousands of computer networks. Supporters argue it needs to stay to preserve the precision of systems in areas like navigation.
Britain's Royal Astronomical Society says the leap second should be retained until there is a much broader debate on the change.
"This is something that affects not just the telecom industry," said RAS spokesman Robert Massey. "It would decouple time-keeping from the position of the sun in the sky and so a broad debate is needed."
Time standards are important in professional astronomy for pointing telescopes in the right direction but critical systems in other areas, not least defense, would also be affected by the change.
"To argue that it would be pain free is not quite true," Massey said.
A decision is not urgent. Some estimate that if the current arrangement stays, the world may eventually have to start adding two leap seconds a year. But that is not expected to happen for another hundreds years or so.
In the meantime, Massey plans to use his extra second wisely this weekend. "I'll enjoy it with an extra second in bed," he said.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
What green rust did to big blue ocean
A rare and highly reactive iron mineral called green rust appears to have played an important role in ancient oceans, suggest new findings, which may have implications for the formation of Earth?s early atmosphere.
The research team identified green rust in an Indonesian lake where conditions mimic those of the ancient oceans, and found the rust played an important role removing an important element, nickel, from the water.
If green rust accomplished something similar in ancient oceans, it could potentially have played an indirect role in the accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, a process that picked up speed about 2.3 billion years ago with the first great rise in atmospheric oxygen, called the Great Oxidation Event. The oxygenation of the atmosphere allowed more complex life, including humans, to evolve.
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"The link between green rust, nickel uptake and the oxygenation history of the planet requires further investigation, but our finding is a major step forward," study researcher Simon Poulton, a professor of biogeochemistry at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, told LiveScience in an email.
Green rust, like the better-known, red-orange stuff, is an iron mineral, first identified only about a decade ago, according to Poulton.
Since then, green rust, which is indeed a pale green, has been found in only a few places, including water-logged soils, groundwater and, now, the oxygen-free water of Lake Matano in Indonesia. The deep waters of this ancient lake contain iron-rich and oxygen-free waters like those scientists believe filled Earth's deep oceans more than 580 million years ago. [ In Living Color: Gallery of Stunning Lakes ]
The discovery of green rust in the lake suggests this rare mineral may have been more common in Earth's ancient past, Poulton said.
Like other iron minerals, green rust readily absorbs dissolved elements onto its surface, but green rust is not only particularly efficient at this ? in many cases, it can also react with toxic dissolved trace metals to make them insoluble, and as a result, renders them in nontoxic forms. This is something most normal iron oxides cannot do, Poulton said.
In the modern world, some hope to use green rust to remove toxic metals and radioactive elements from the environment.
In the ancient oceans, green rust's ability to pull nickel out of the water would have been critical for some life forms, since nickel is an important nutrient for microbes that produce methane. Methane reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, so less nickel means less methane, which would mean oxygen could remain in the atmosphere and accumulate over time, Poulton explained.
The research has other implications for understanding the composition of ancient oceans. To understand the nutrient composition of the ancient oceans, it's important to know which iron minerals were around at the time. Iron minerals take up dissolved nutrients and carry them to the seafloor, where they eventually become preserved in rock. But because different iron minerals behave differently, scientists must know what iron minerals were present, according to Poulton.
In Lake Matano, they found that green rust played a dominant role in taking up nickel. In the future, Poulton hopes to look into green rust?s interactions with other nutrients.
The research is detailed in the July issue of the journal Geology.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
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You see the commercials on tv all the time ?Cheap car insurance?, or ?Disappearing deductibles?. Even as you are trolling on the internet to find reliable auto insurance quotes there are advertisements flashing in the sidebar for you to compare the rates with the xyz company who promises to get you started for only $20.00 down payment. Stop, don?t click, you can?t even fill up the tank of rider mower for $20 so don?t be expecting great things from the $20 down payment.
Insurance is risk management. You have to have some means to cover any financial burden you could cause another if you caused them personal harm or property damage. Insurance is the legally accepted way to do that. Most folks don?t have a bank account just sitting there waiting for the bad day, so we pay a premium and hope we never have to collect. The insurance companies take our premiums, invest them, and make money on it, all the while hoping they never have to pay out. Accidents do happen, and they do pay out; so they collect data to understand who and what is more likely to be a payout situation.
Armed with this data before you go looking for a car, you have a much better assessment of what your auto insurance quotes for the car will be like. You can go to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety website. There you can learn how this nonprofit organizations runs another organization called the Highway Loss Data Institute, which has the job of collecting and review everything about accident statistics regarding the costs of the accident. (To the insurance industry, these numbers represent monetary loss).
You can freely review the data on accident losses. It is grouped by: Two-Door, Four-door, Luxury, Sports, SUV?s, Pickups, Station wagons/minivans. Then broken down again where applicable like: micro, mini, small, midsize and large. Then listed by make, It breaks down personal injury, medical payments, property damage and more giving you easy to read ratings like ?substantially better than average? and ?substantially worse than average?. Picking a car in rated substantially better than average will get you auto insurance quotes that are reasonable. Pick a model that you love but it is in the substantially worse than average and it probably doesn?t matter how many quotes you compare it will be expensive to insure. After reviewing the data you might just change your mind and find a car that suits your needs better.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Poll: Election winner won't affect economy much
WASHINGTON (AP) ? When it comes to the economy, half of Americans in a new poll say it won't matter much whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins ? even though the presidential candidates have staked their chances on which would be better at fixing the economic mess.
People are especially pessimistic about the future president's influence over jobs, according to the Associated Press-GfK poll. Asked how much impact the November winner will have on unemployment, 6 in 10 gave answers ranging from slim to none.
Yet the candidates, the polls and the pundits agree ? the economy is the issue of 2012. Can either man convince voters that he would set things right?
James Gray of Snow Hill, N.C., is skeptical.
"It doesn't look to me like the economy or nothing gets better no matter who you've got up there," Gray said. "I don't know why it is."
A retired policeman, Gray plans to vote for Romney and thinks the Republican might win. But he doesn't have much hope that would improve things for people like him, living on a fixed income. "Every time you go to the grocery store the prices have gone up," he said.
[Related: Obama doesn't deserve credit for improving economy, says Romney]
Years of disappointing economic news following the 2007-2009 recession have deflated American optimism. And worries about financial troubles in Europe and congressional gridlock at home hang over the future. Two-thirds of people still describe the economy as poor. The same number ? 31 percent ? think unemployment will grow worse over the next year as predict it will ease up.
"Right now it's so bad," said Maria Fisher of Timber Pines, Fla. "I wish everything was better."
Fisher, a preschool teacher at the YMCA, favors Romney because he's a Republican and a successful businessman. She's ready "to give him the chance to fix all these problems." But she doubts there's much the president can do.
Lots of Obama supporters feel the same way.
"The office of the president as a single person doesn't have as much influence as we generally attribute to them," said Jeff Guertin, a mechanical engineer in Bedford, N.H., who backs Obama.
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Guertin said a president is limited by Congress' willingness to go along with his ideas, as well as all sorts of other factors, including world events, that affect whether the U.S. economy grows or shrinks.
Despite the dominance of economic issues in the presidential race, Americans are evenly split over whether the man living in the White House in 2013 will bring significant change to the overall economy.
A majority of those surveyed ? 55 percent ? say the winner will have from "just some impact" to "no impact" on the nation's huge budget deficits.
Those with little confidence that the winner can fix things are also more pessimistic overall ? just 32 percent of them think the economy will improve in the coming year. In contrast, among those who expect a substantial impact from the winner, almost half think the economy will get better.
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to predict that the winner's imprint will be felt: 58 percent say the election's outcome will affect the economy overall. Yet fewer than half of Republicans foresee much impact on joblessness.
Everett Hickman, an Obama supporter, said both campaigns overplay how much a president can do.
"The federal government has some influence over the economy," said Hickman, a retired radio news reporter living in Charlotte, N.C. "It doesn't have the kind of push-pull, click-clack control that some people seem to think, or pretend to think."
The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted June 14-18 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,007 adults nationwide. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.0 percentage points.
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Associated Press Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
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Why Home Inspection Cost Varies and It's ... - IdeaMarketers.com
Every person, who is planning to buy a new house, will be apprehensive towards his new investment. When it is the matter of buying house, one has to think for home inspection costs. New Jersey is a place where Home Inspection costs are not certain. They fluctuate according to multiple factors. Here, we are going to all of them for the convenience of the buyers.
Home Inspection Costs varies:
Basically, Home Inspection is the first thing buyers should do. Home Inspection costs NJ completely depends on the buyers wish, type of inspection he wants. Usually, this cost starts from $75 and can exceed up to $400. You must be curious to know the reason behind such a huge difference.
Basically, the buyers who could not afford higher costs do not consider Home Inspection a priority. They even go for the cheapest home inspection. Usually, Licensed Home Inspection NJ is very costly and it takes a huge span of time too. These days home inspection cost is getting highly affected because of the vast competition in the market.
Factors behind the cost of home inspection:
Let's have a look at different factors behind the Home Inspection NJ.
- Time taken for Inspection: The basic reason behind higher cost of inspection is the time taken for the inspection. Lesser the time lesser will be the cost.
- Licensed or experienced Inspector: If you are approaching a licensed and experienced inspector for Home Inspection then definitely you have to pay a heavier bag of bucks.
- Geographical location: It has been observed that geographical location also plays an important role in the home inspection prices NJ.
- Market competition: These days to let down the competitor's business, many inspectors facilitate you with the same amenities at a lower cost.
Why it is important to conduct home inspection?
Next major question is why it is important to conduct home inspection NJ. As we all know for buying a house, one has to take loan of some amount. To slake the bank's expectation, buyer has to go for Home Inspection. This inspection ensures the bank that it is not investing in any bad property. Secondly, a person himself explores some hidden areas of house which he would not be aware previously. In a nutshell, home inspection clears the picture of all the corners of house and endows you with a detailed report for further use.
Impacts of higher costs of Home inspection:
Home inspection costs NJ sometimes goes beyond your wildest dream and becomes difficult to afford for some buyers. Therefore, they skip the inspection part and go for other solutions which could lead them in major troubles.
Conclusion:
Home inspection costs could see higher to some of the buyers, therefore, they should first compare the rates of multiple home inspectors, try to convince them for affordable cost and then finally hire the most compatible person. This process will definitely help you and will enhance your experience of conducting Home inspection in NJ.
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Archbishop Lori: Church must remain 'obstacle' to fully secular culture
By Maria Wiering
Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE (CNS) -- On the eve of the feast day of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori held up the two martyrs as a source of inspiration for American Catholics during a Mass June 21 launching the U.S. bishops' much-anticipated "fortnight for freedom."
"Their courageous witness of faith continues to stir the minds and hearts of people yearning for authentic freedom, and specifically, for religious freedom," he said.
With the hope of drawing greater attention to the weakening of religious freedoms in America, the U.S. bishops called for the fortnight for freedom, which lasts through July 4, to be 14 days dedicated to prayer, education and public action.
According to the parish's sacristan, more than 1,000 people from Maryland, the District of Columbia and surrounding states attended the 7 p.m. Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, which Archbishop Lori called "a monument to religious freedom."
The basilica was America's first Catholic cathedral, commissioned at the turn of the 19th century by America's first Catholic archbishop, John Carroll of Baltimore.
Archbishop Lori celebrated the Mass with Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and former archbishop of Baltimore; Baltimore Auxiliary Bishops Mitchell T. Rozanski and Denis J. Madden; and about 65 priests.
In a homily that received a standing ovation, Archbishop Lori described the integrity St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher demonstrated as the king asked them to violate their personal consciences, calling the men symbols of two "inseparably linked" aspects of religious freedom -- the freedom of individuals and the freedom of institutions.
The two men were martyred separately in 1535 for refusing to sign the Act of Supremacy, which repudiated papal authority and acknowledged the king of England as head of the church.
Archbishop Lori presented St. Thomas More -- a devout Catholic, husband, father and lawyer -- as a symbol of the individual's religious freedom, and St. John Fisher -- bishop of Rochester in Kent -- as a symbol of the religious freedom of institutions, many of which were destroyed or forced to break ties with the Catholic Church in the wake of England's upheaval.
"If we fail to defend the rights of individuals, the freedom of institutions will be at risk, and if we fail to defend the rights of our institutions, individual liberty will be at risk," he said. "More needs Fisher, and Fisher needs More."
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called for the fortnight in March in their Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty's statement, "Our First, Most Cherished Liberty." Archbishop Lori is chairman of the committee.
The statement outlined several instances of "religious liberty under attack." Foremost among the U.S. bishops' concerns is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate that employers, including most religious ones, provide insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, which Catholic teaching considers "morally objectionable."
The mandate goes into effect Aug. 1 for most employers, including private employers who object to providing contraception coverage. The mandate is scheduled to take effect for church-related institutions in 2013. The U.S. Supreme Court was expected to deliver a decision on the health reform law's constitutionality by the end of June.
Since the mandate was announced in February, the bishops have also expressed concern about its "narrow" definition of church as a body which mostly hires and serves its own members, and exists to advance its own teachings -- excluding faith-based universities, charities, hospitals and other institutions that seek to serve the common good.
"We must never allow the government -- any government, at any time, of any party -- to impose such a constrictive definition on our beloved church or any church," Archbishop Lori said.
Even if current religious liberty threats were overcome, the Catholic Church would still need to face "powerful forces which seek to prevent religious faith from exerting an appropriate and necessary influence within our culture," he said.
"Let us remain united with our ecumenical and interfaith partners in being that obstacle," he said.
About 40 protesters, many of them Catholic, stood outside the basilica holding a banner that read, "Bishops: We need pastors, not politicians."
Among them was Jannette Festa, a parishioner of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore. She said she believes that birth control is an economic, not moral, issue. "I'm pro-choice," she said. "I do not think that contraception as a part of health care is a religious liberty issue."
U.S. dioceses have planned a variety of events to coincide with the fortnight, which will culminate in a 12:10 p.m. Mass July 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The bishops are encouraging Catholics to attend fortnight events and to subscribe to receive text message updates on religious freedom issues by texting "Freedom" to 377377.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
Israel Matzav: Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler
Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler
Shavua tov v'chodesh tov, a good week and a good month to everyone.Here's Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler for Friday, June 22.
1) The anatomy of coverage of IsraelThere were recently two articles in the New York Times. One was in an opinion section called "Latitudes." The other was in the news section. Despite the different editorial locations, comparing the two articles can serve as an exercise to see how a newspaper's reporting can distort perceptions.
The article appearing in the Latitudes section, Bangladesh?s Right of Refusal by Dan Morrison, tells of the plight of the Rohingyas, an ethnic group fleeing persecution in Myanmar. Morrison writes:
Bangladesh?s refusal to help these desperate families is, despite its claims to the contrary, a likely violation of its international obligations.Note Morrison's judgment, that Bangladesh's decision to turn away refugees is "reasonable."
It?s also entirely reasonable.
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Bangladeshi officials might serve their case better by condemning the violence while pointing out that Bangladesh is among the world?s poorest and most densely populated countries, that in 1978 and 1991 it sheltered Rohingyas fleeing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and that as it struggles to meet the aspirations of its 160 million citizens, it cannot consider another ?temporary? influx of refugees.The article in the news section, Crackdown on Migrants Tugs at Soul of Israelis was reported by Isabel Kershner. In the middle of the article Kershner notes:
For now, most of the immigrants and asylum seekers ? about 50,000 ? cannot be deported, in line with international conventions. They come from Sudan and Eritrea, countries considered too dangerous for their repatriation, and so they are afforded temporary collective protection in Israel. That protection was recently lifted for immigrants from South Sudan. On June 7, a Jerusalem court ruled that it was safe enough to repatriate them to South Sudan, a newly independent nation that has diplomatic ties with Israel.This is saying that, unlike Bangladesh, Israel does conform to its international obligations regarding refugees, yet here are the fourth and fifth paragraphs:But the government clampdown is also ripping at Israel?s soul. For some, the connotations of roundups and the prospect of mass detentions cut too close to the bone.This is how Kershner sets the tone for the article. (The headline writer, no doubt, understood how compelling this could be and included "soul," making sure that no one would ignore these paragraphs.) She's not writing that Israel has higher standards and is, perhaps, not meeting those standards. She's writing that Israel's failure to meet her standards, makes it comparable to Nazi Germany. Of course, Kershner would say that it's not her view but the view of the woman she quoted.
?I feel I am in a movie in Germany, circa 1933 or 1936,? said Orly Feldheim, 46, a daughter of Holocaust survivors, as she doled out food last week to a long line of immigrants in the neighborhood?s Levinsky Park.The problem is that Ms.Feldheim isn't just a random resident, a Google search reveals that she runs a soup kitchen for African refugees. There is nothing wrong with that; in fact it's admirable. But it also means that she isn't exactly a detached observer. Activists often exaggerate crises. Kershner, I'm sure, knew more about Feldheim than she reported and probably knew what kind of quote she would get.
Kershner cites two more criticisms. First she writes:
People can apply for refugee status, but priority is given to those not covered by collective protection, said Sabine Haddad, a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry?s Population, Immigration and Border Authority. The approval rate is negligible. Since 2009, out of 7,000 applications, 16 people were granted refugee status or asylum.Towards the end she also mentions:
Critics say that Israel, a nation largely founded by refugees, lacks a proper immigration policy.
?We say: ?Be fair, we are Jews. Decide who is or isn?t a refugee,? ? said Iftah Cohen, a lawyer working for We Are Refugees, an Israeli organization that provides free legal aid to asylum seekers threatened with deportation.Some Israelis invoke the biblical injunction to ?love the stranger for we were strangers in the land of Egypt.? Others say they now feel like strangers in their own country.Even if someone rejects the noxious comparison to Nazi Germany, the reference to Israel's being a haven for Jews escaping persecution and the Bible suggest that Israel's failure to deal with the refugees adequately is nothing less than a violation of its founding principles.In fact refugees are a problem all over. Little in the article suggests that Israel's handling of them is unusuallly bad or inhumane, except that activists involved in helping refugees claim that it is. And that is the impression the reporter leaves us with. No doubt in the future she can write about the refugees again and refer to Israel's "highly criticized" or "controversial" policies now that she's laid the groundwork.
2) The Palace coup and the aftermath
Earlier this week, Daniel Pipes wrote (h/t Daled Amos)
Some of us, of course, have been saying precisely this for almost 1? years, from even before Husni Mubarak's resignation. Mubarak had displeased the generals, especially his efforts to found a dynasty, and they took advantage of the Tahrir Square demonstrations to bounce him. Simple, no?Now that Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court has disqualified a significant portion of the legislature, what's next.
...The starry-eyed quality of press reporting on the Middle East upheavals, symbolized by the silly term "Arab spring," meant that most Westerners have been clueless about developments in the region.Michael Rubin, in In Egypt, a rare second chance for US to support democracy, writes first of the electoral miscalculations made by the Muslim Brotherhood:
Egyptians had voted for Islamists initially not because they uniformly shared the groups' agenda, but rather because the Islamist parties?with financial support from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey?ran swank, well-organized campaigns which cashed in on decades of populism.Later, Rubin concludes:
While in opposition, the Brotherhood could promise Egyptians the world: If empowered, the Brotherhood would end corruption and nepotism, implement effective government services, raise salaries, guarantee housing and provide jobs, and restore social justice. Putting a chicken in every pot, however, takes not only money but also chickens and pots. The Brotherhood not only could not deliver but, increasingly, it looked like it did not care even to try. It dispensed with the moderate, English-speaking interlocutors who had charmed Western journalists in Tahrir Square, and cast its lot with intolerant, backroom religious conservatives.With the Muslim Brotherhood demonstrating disdain for democratic values, and Shafik little more than a throwback to a moribund dictatorship, President Obama has an opportunity to implement a true freedom agenda. Speaking in Cairo three years ago this month, Obama warned, "Elections alone do not make true democracy," and called on governments to maintain consent and eschew coercion, respect minorities, embrace tolerance and compromise, and put the public's interests first.This is, of course, ideal. But is it possible? Do the "new movements" have the critical mass necessary to effect change in Egypt? Or might it be necessary embrace the less bad choice for now and bide time until the real reformers can compete? Barry Rubin has observed that Shafiq actually sounded rather moderate during the campaign.
Egypt is at a crossroads. One path leads to civil chaos and another leads to dictatorship. As both sides delegitimize themselves, however, Obama has a rare opportunity to pick up where Bush left off, and support the growth of new movements which embrace the values of Tahrir Square's original protestors.Dore Gold cites another reason to be wary of the Muslim Brotherhood (h/t Elder of Ziyon)
Without relating to the Muslim Brotherhood, spokesmen for the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon decided to press the Egyptian Army to relinquish the governing role it is seeking to carve out for itself. But what if Morsi is declared the victor? Wouldn't it make more sense to allow the balance of powers between these institutions to evolve by themselves, with no external involvement? For decades, the Turkish Armed Forces were the guardians of Ataturk's legacy in Turkey, until the rise of Erdogan.For now Egypt's military establishment has flexed its muscle twice. First they forced Mubarak out. Now they are limiting the political change that has occurred since Mubarak's downfall. Though this may not be the best result of the foment, it's possible that this isn't the worst possible outcome either.
Nevertheless, according to the Los Angeles Times, U.S. officials said on Monday that they were "deeply concerned by an Egyptian military decree giving the generals sweeping powers to pass laws and decide whether to go to war." This was a stunning statement, considering that the Muslim Brotherhood might still emerge as the winner. Right now, given the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and its ties to its Palestinian branch, Hamas, leaving Egypt's war-making powers with the Egyptian military is far safer for the world than transferring them to a Muslim Brotherhood government.
Labels: Egyptian democracy, Hosni Mubarak, illegal immigration, Middle East Media Sampler, Muslim Brotherhood, New York Times, Soccer Dad
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