Sunday, July 20, 2014
من تقاوم المقاومة الفلسطينية ؟
Monday, July 14, 2014
الصراحة مع الشعب
Wednesday, July 09, 2014
For The Love Of Germany!
Wednesday, July 02, 2014
Ticks, Londoners, Stinging Nettles and Bugs
The Dorset summers are unbelievably beautiful, there is life everywhere, flowers bloom out of ancient stone walls, intense vegetation, amazing wild flowers and never ending beautiful trees, Oaks, Beeches, Sycamores and Ashes. The grazing fields are beautiful with their glover and daisy flowers.
Cross country becomes very difficult because of Stinging Nettles, they are not as bad as Poison Ivy but they are everywhere, the recipe of spitting on a dock leaf and rubbing the sting works but it does interrupt the run. The tall grasses harbor ticks and as I'm always paranoid about Lyme Disease, the sighting of a deer nearby as I run through tall grasses, freaks me out.
Horse flies are a menace, you can overcome them, with seemingly excessive amounts of insect repellants, they still get me, even through clothes, so I just apply more repellant on my running shirt and shorts. The one problem, I really struggle with is ... well, there is so much life, there are so many bugs in the air, it becomes hard not to swallow bugs as you breath in, I try hard to breath in through my nose, and whistle out the air from my mouth, but it is inevitable, you run in Dorset, you will swallow some bugs and spend the rest of your run spitting.
With my rant finished, I will now head out for another run, in the running heaven aka Dorset!
Keep on running and running even if you whine about it
AA
July 2, 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
One Day You Find Thirty Years Have Got Behind You!
I can actually still remember that day, it was a Friday and after work I drove few miles to the Torrance Squash Club. I wasn’t sure who it is, I was supposed to play in a tournament that covered all levels, but here you walked in with your beautiful shy smile. I like to think that I lost the game deliberately, so dinner would be on me, but you have always maintained that you beat me fair and square. I am really not sure anymore, because on most topics, I have gotten to see things more like you and less like me.
We agreed on human rights but differed on politics, you were consistently left, I was right and jumping all over the place, as the years passed, especially after my shameful vote for Bush in 2000, I have seen the light, I am still at times, all over the place, but you are my right. So even my politics is far closer to yours today, than it was to my old self, and that feels right too.
Since that squash game, or really a year and few months
after that, you have become the constant in my life of turmoil, living in
California, Ohio, London, Boston, Hong Kong and Boston and now finally in
rural England. Home for me, is where you are, where your salad mustard dressing is made….
It is your generous beautiful voice that I long for and your beautiful smile
that is my home. I look at your beautiful face today and I see the very same beauty
that I saw for the first time on June 29, 1984 in Torrance, CA.Tuesday, June 24, 2014
In Search of Balance: Al Jazeera Verdict In Egypt Today
1. I don't view Al Jazeera Arabic as normal media or press, I view it as enemy state propaganda outlet, it reminds me so much of the Soviet Radio during the years of the cold war, it is pathetic, cheap, non relenting propaganda.
2. Al Jazeera English has many top notch reporters and professionals who have been trying to do a credible job and seem to have more professional more balanced overall editorial management, but they have been used by their Arabic Language sister company mentioned above.
3. I don't believe Al Jazeera English correspondents and other professionals working in Egypt are affiliated with Muslim Brothers, work for them or conspire with them and I don't believe that the evidence against them, I read about in the press, has shown them to be enemies of Egypt.
4. I believe that Egypt is right to arrest, deport and fine those who break its laws.
5. I acknowledge that there are thousands of Egyptian and foreign reporters reporting and writing at times negative and / or highly critical news and analysis of Egypt, yet appear to have not been interfered with, which is good and is indeed a legitimate argument to defend Egypt's position, being focused on Al Jazeera. Yet, the Dutch Journalist, who was being tried in absentia with Al Jazeera staff, appear to have no affiliation with Al Jazeera.
6. It is also very clear that the space for dissent in Egypt is narrowing and we see many Egyptians voices silenced from Bassem Youssif to Belal Fadel and many others. It is hard to deny this as a fact.
7. I have a great deal of sympathy with the view that Egypt is facing a very serious war with a very difficult enemy and that combating the threat of violent terrorism is a TOP priority for Egypt. I do believe that this would naturally have an impact on freedoms. Years in the security industry have taught me the difficulty of balancing issues of security with privacy, convenience and freedoms in general; true in Egypt as it is in USA or Australia.
8. I have a great deal of sympathy with the view that Egypt has always had authoritarian and totalitarian tendencies and desire to curb dissent and the government has had a history of using the worst means to silence liberal non Islamist opposition to protect the ruling regimes, often at the expense of the country itself and its future. Accordingly, using terrorism as an excuse to suppress freedoms should not be just allowed to happen with no opposition.
9. I do believe it is critical for Egypt, as a state to avoid the collapse that can be witnessed in so many failed states in the Middle East, the examples of Libya, Yemen, Syria and Iraq are chilling and frightening and I have sympathy with the tens of millions of ordinary Egyptians, who are willing to turn blind eye to suppression of freedoms to preserve the State from collapsing.
10. Sadly, I believe that insensitivity by some of the liberal forces in Egypt to the grave Islamist threat that Egypt is facing, is causing them to challenge the State authority. With tens of millions of tired and frightened ordinary Egyptians wanting the State to reestablish its authority, the ill timed courage is resulting in deeper suppression of freedom, with popular consent, this is most distressing of all. My hope is that the vigilance against the excesses of the State would be confronted through means other than the hated and futile street protests.
AA
June 24, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
علمتني مني الطحاوي
علمتني منى الطحاوي الفرق بين التحرش و العنف الجنسي
Friday, June 06, 2014
I Accuse ... Me!
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
طيب ما في عندكم في امريكا رقابة
Thursday, May 29, 2014
هي مسرحية و لا تزوير ...
بص يا حبوب انا سافرت خمس ساعات علشان أدلي بصوتي، لو حضرتك قاطعت علشان مسرحية حقك، الراجل اللي انا أعطيته صوتي خسر و لكن انا قابل النتيجة.
بما انها مسرحية في رأيك، المنطق برضه يقول تزوير مش تزوير مش مهم، ولا ايه.
حبيبي انا عارف العيوب و اللخبطة كويس من اول الدستور الذي يمنع من تزوج اجنبية او حمل جنسية اخري او أيا من والديه لغاية التعجيز في لم الف توكيل من ١٥ محافظة و تقديم طلب مكتوب بحبر معمول من قلب هدهد يتيم و طبعا النفخ و التطبيل و التخويف ... و لكن رغم كده انا شاركت و صوت ... لجنتي طلعت لعبد الفتاح بحوالي ٩٠٪ و انا مصدق النسبة و مش معترض عليها ... لو كان في تزوير اللي اتزور هو صوتي انا ... حضرتك ما شاركتش في المسرحية!
بما اننا ممكن نوافق أني مش جاهل او مُغييب و علي الأقل متابع يبقى لازم نشوف ليه انا قررت أشارك و أدلي بصوتي في ظروف بعيدة عن المثالية : الأسباب مش معقدة أوي
اول سبب هو احترامي للناس و الغالبية العظمي تعبت ولست قادر على الحديث عن الديمقراطية و في نفس الوقت أخذ موقف متعجرف و متعالي عن الناس. الأمن و الأكل و الشرب و اطمئنان الانسان على اسرته هي اهم حقوق الانسان و بغض النظر عن مين عمل مؤامرة ايه علشان يخوف الناس ، الناس عايزه كده .. ليس من حقي ان اسلب مواطن من حقه او رغبته لاعتقادي ان انا اعلم ما لأي علم هو، من أعطاني هذا الحق، و عن اي ديمقراطية و حقوق إنسان اتحدث اذاّ؟؟
السبب الثاني قناعتي ان الموجة الثورية و الشرعية الثورية انتهت برغبة الغالبية العظمى من الناس و اننا الان في مرحلة صراع بين الإصلاح من خلال الوسائل المتاحة و الحكم الفاشي و قناعتي ان عبد الفتاح السيسي سيكون رئيس مصلح رغم انه بعيد عن ما كنت افضل في رئيس لمصر في القرن الواحد و العشرين. اري ان المعارضة و رفض المشاركة من التيارات غير الاسلامية خطأ يقوي القوى الفاشية. علشان كده انا شاركت و اعتقد ان حمدين صباحي كان بطل حقيقيا في مشاركته.
السبب الأخير هو ان اي بديل تقدمه المقاطعة أسوء كثيرا من الوضع الحالي و لا يوجد توافق و روؤية واحدة بين المقاطعين. ما يسمون أنفسهم بالاشتراكية الثورية وقفوا امام ثورة ايران الخضراء و رضوا بقمع الملايين علي يدي فاشية احمدي نجاد ؟ هل اعتمد علي هؤلاء في دليلي الي ديمقراطية و حرية؟ المقاطعون يمثلون العديد من التيارات من ليبرالية مثالية أكن لها كل الاحترام الي إسلاميين لا يؤمنون بسلطة الشعب، و لذا اجد ان احتمال الإصلاح و التقدم اعلى مع المشاركة.
مرشحي خسر و انا راضي و متقبل السيسي رئيس و سأستمر في المشاركة الإيجابية و العمل علي تقدم بلدي و تحسين أحوالها ... و تحيا الانسانية
ايمن عاشور
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