Smartest Bird in the World

The Smartest Bird "CROW" applies the simple basics for his survival... Watch this amazing video of it....

Cube shaped watermelons in Japan

TWENTY YEARS AGO A JAPANESE FARMER CREATED CUBED WATERMELONS !!

People love watermelon, but their shape is a pain. They roll around in the fridge or on the counter. People have been struggling with the problem for years. Attempting to cut the watermelon can be dangerous and difficult, if you haven't learned proper watermelon cutting techniques.

An innovative farmer on the island of Shikoku off the southwestern coast of Japan came up with a solution to the watermelon dilemma.

He came up with the idea to make cube-shaped watermelons that would easily fit in the refrigerator and be stored. Farmers grew the watermelons in glass boxes and the fruit automatically assumed the same shape.

Today the cubed melons are grown, hand-picked, and shipped all over Japan. The special melons are more partial to the wealthy and fashion conscious citizens of Tokyo and Osaka,Japan. Each melon sells for 10,000 yen, which equals to about $83 per watermelon! It is double or triple the amount of a normal watermelon in Japan.

China "The Unofficial Mother Of Traffic Jams."

Traffic jams in China a serious trouble

• China is crowned as the unofficial 'host' of "the mother of all traffic jams". On way back in august 2010 there was a longest traffic lasted for 12 days and stretched for more than 62 miles(100 km).

• Traffic on the china national highway 110 had grown 40 percent every year in the previous several years, making the highway chronically congested.The traffic volume at the time of the incident was 60% more than the designated capacity.
  
• The cause of the traffic jam was reported to be a spike in traffic by heavy trucks heading to Beijing, along with National Highway 110's maintenance work that began five days later. The road construction which reduced the road capacity by 50% contributed heavily to the traffic jam and was not due to be completed until mid-September. Police reported that minor breakdowns and accidents were compounding the problem.
  
• Greatly increased coal production in Inner Mongolia shipped to Beijing along this route because of the lack of railway capacity also overloaded the highway. 602 million tons of coal were mined and shipped in 2009; production was expected to rise to 730 million tons in 2010. An additional factor is efforts by overloaded trucks which lack proper paperwork for their cargo to avoid a coal quality supervision and inspection station on  china national highway.
  
• Locals near the highway sold various goods like water, instant noodles, and cigarettes at inflated prices to the stranded drivers. A bottle of water normally cost 1 yuan, but on the highway it was sold for 10 yuan. Drivers also complained that the price of instant noodles had more than tripled. Some vendors created mobile stores on bicycles.

LIFE AFTER DEATH

LIFE AFTER DEATH

(news.jeebboo.com)

• Science tells us there is no physical evidence for the soul.  Its shape and size cannot as yet be observed or recorded, so according to the scientific method, the soul does not exist.  Science only calls real that which is measurable, observable, replicable and quantifiable.
• But countless individuals and communities across the globe are convinced of a higher reality that is, as yet, invisible.  They assert that although it’s impossible to “prove” it, the soul exists.  All beings live within a superstructure we are unable to point to, but upon which we are all completely dependent.
• Why is one person’s experience so different from another’s?  Why do certain thoughts affect certain people a certain way, and have remarkably different consequences for others?  These curiosities and complexities point the way for scientific analysis of so-called immaterial things like the soul.
• People say mythology holds even more truth than non-fiction.  That’s because it speaks to the underlying reality of human existence, rather than telling the story exactly how it is. Another example is parental love. Is it realized only in the clothes and food parents give their children, or is it evidenced more in an invisible quality of caring?

  

  (www.liveboldandbloom.com)

• So, looking at the evidence for the soul, the truth lies more in a quality of experiencing and understanding life that cannot be replicated or explained by science.  The biggest proof for the soul is that science itself is so limited in explaining what really goes on in human consciousness.  Sometimes the deeper power of belief lies in a vast absence of explanation, rather than in a set of tools that quantify “reality”.(http://lifeafterdeath.com/.)
• The answer to the question "Is there life after death?" remains unanswered and is a never ending debate...........

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Cycle or Helicopter

Hey, cyclists: why are you still bicycling on asphalt like chumps when there's this (totally safe-looking, not at all super-dangerous) flying bicycle?

Just kidding! You're not allowed to pilot this just yet, actually. The helicopter-bike is a prototype developed by a team of three Czech companies, which just took it for a five-minute test flight inside a Prague exhibition hall. That's actually a lightweight dummy in the driver's seat, since those massive propellers make this thing weigh over 200 pounds, meaning it's not yet flyable with the weight of a human on board.

GUN CULTURE

U.S. GUN CULTURE

BACKGROUND.....

(www.slate.com)

• The gun culture is a culture shared by people in the gun politics debate, generally those who advocate preserving gun rights and who are generally against more gun control.
•  In the United States, the term is used solely to identify gun advocates who are legitimate and legal owners and users of guns, using guns for self-defense, sporting uses, hunting, and recreational uses (target shooting). By contrast, the term is used differently in the UK and Australia, where it refers to a growing use and ownership of guns by criminals.
• Many people also compare the U.S. GUN CULTURE with the RACIST CULTURE OF 60's
• According to political scientist Robert Spitzer, the American gun culture as it exists today is founded on three factors: the proliferation of firearms since the earliest days of the nation, the connection between personal ownership of weapons and the country's revolutionary and frontier history, and the cultural mythology regarding the gun in the frontier and in modern life.

GUN VIOLENCE........

• Gun violence may be broadly defined as a category of violence and crime committed with the use of a firearm; it may or may not include actions ruled as self-defense, actions for law enforcement, or the safe lawful use of firearms for sport, hunting, and target practice.
• Different gun violence activities include suicide, homicide, robbery, assault, and other acts of violence.
• At least eleven assassination attempts with firearms have been made on U.S. presidents (over one-fifth of all presidents); four were successful, three with handguns and one with a rifle.
• In 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 66.9% of all homicides in the United States were perpetrated using a firearm.Two-thirds of all gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides. In 2010, there were 19,392 firearm-related suicide deaths, and 11,078 firearm-related homicide deaths in the United States.
• The Congressional Research Service in 2009 estimated there were 310 million firearms in the United States, not including weapons owned by the military. 114 million of these were handguns, 110 million were rifles, and 86 million were shotguns.
• Such violent acts have resulted into killing of many kids inside their own school, also an increase in hate crimes against the people of asian origin.
• The government needs to make stringent laws to prevent this GUN CULTURE from taking more and more innocent lives.

  

  (www.veteranstoday.com)

People who failed before becoming Rich and Succesfull

The names Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan and Steve Jobs aren't usually associated with failure. 

But before these successful super stars made it big in their respective industries, they first failed, were fired, or heard the word "no" countless times.
 
But they never gave up.
See what these game changers had to overcome before becoming famous.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey was told she was "unfit for TV."

At age of 22, the now-TV mogul was fired from her job as a television reporter because she was "unfit for TV."

Winfrey was terminated from her post as co-anchor of the 6 o'clock weekday news on Baltimore's WJZ-TV after the show received low ratings. Winfrey has called it the “first and worst failure of her TV career.”

Winfrey was then demoted to morning TV, where she found her voice and met fellow newbie Gayle King, who would one day become her producer and editor of O, The Oprah Magazine.

Seven years later, Winfrey moved to Chicago, where her self-titled talk show went on to dominate daytime TV for 25 years, and ultimately head her own channel, OWN.


Steve Jobs 

Steve Jobs was removed from the company he started.

Steve Jobs was a college dropout, a fired tech executive and an unsuccessful businessman.

At 30-years-old he was left devastated after being unceremoniously removed from the company he founded.

In a 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, Jobs explained, "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."
After his return to Apple, Jobs created several iconic products, including the iPod, iPhone and iPad, which have changed the face of consumer technology forever. And Jobs became one of the richest men in the world.


Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

After being cut from his high school basketball team, a young Michael Jordan went home and cried in the privacy of his bedroom.

But Jordan didn't let this early-in-life setback stop him from playing the game and the basketball superstar has stated, "I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."



The Beatles 

The Beatles were dropped by their record label.

When The Beatles were just starting out, a recording company told them no.
Decca Recording studios, who had recorded 15 songs with the group, said "we don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. They have no future in show business."


Walt Disney

Walt Disney was told a mouse would never work.

Before Walt Disney built the empire he has today, he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
 
In 1921, Walt formed his first animation company in Kansas City, where he made a deal with a distribution company in New York, in which he would ship them his cartoons and get paid six months down the road. He was forced to dissolve his company and at one point could not pay his rent and reportedly survived by eating dog food.

Also, When Walt first tried to get MGM studios to distribute Mickey Mouse in 1927, he was told that the idea would never work because a giant mouse on the screen would terrify women.
Entrepreneur Walt had a whole slew of bad ideas before coming up with good ones, read about them here.


J.K.Rowling 

J.K.Rowling was on welfare

Before J.K. Rowling had any "Harry Potter" success, the writer was a divorced singled mother on welfare struggling to get by while also attending school and writing a novel.

Luckily, that novel turned into the "Harry Potter" franchise, which has since made Rowling a billionaire as of April 2012.



Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was dropped out of school.

Thomas Edison is probably the most famous and productive inventor of all time, with more than 1,000 patents in his name, including the electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera. He became a self-made multimillionaire and won a Congressional Gold Medal. Edison got a late start in his schooling following an illness, and, as a result, his mind often wandered, prompting one of his teachers to call him "addled." He dropped out after only three months of formal education. Luckily, his mother had been a schoolteacher in Canada and home-schooled young Edison.


Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin wore many hats: politician, diplomat, author, printer, publisher, scientist, inventor, founding father, and coauthor and cosigner of the Declaration of Independence. One thing he was not was a high school graduate. 

Franklin was the fifteenth child and youngest son in a family of 20. He spent two years at the Boston Latin School before dropping out at age ten and going to work for his father, and then his brother, as a printer.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates is a co-founder of the software giant Microsoft and has been ranked the richest person in the world for a number of years. Gates dropped out of Harvard in his junior year after reading an article about the Altair microcomputer in Popular Electronics magazine. He and his friend Paul Allen formed Micro Soft (later changed to Microsoft) to write software for the Altair.

Age 12,nominated for noble prize

2. Gregory Smith
Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize at age 12

Born in 1990, Gregory Smith could read at age two and had enrolled in university at 10. But genius is only one half of the Greg Smith story. When not voraciously learning, this young man travels the globe as a peace and childrens rights activist.

He is the founder of International Youth Advocates, an organization that promotes principles of peace and understanding among young people throughout the world. He has met with Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev and spoke in front of the UN. For these and other humanitarian and advocacy efforts, Smith has been nominated four times for a Nobel Peace Prize. His latest achievement? He just got his driver license.

Middle east countries to pay £3,000 cash bond deposit for U.K. visa

• India has been put on a list of “high-risk” Asian and African countries whose citizens would be required to deposit £3,000 cash bond when they apply for a British visa.

• The money would be forfeited if they overstay. 

• Controversially, the move is targeted only at people from non-white Commonwealth countries as part of the Tory-led government’s resolve to drastically cut down on immigration level.

• According to The Sunday Times, the scheme — aimed at preventing abuse of immigration rules — will initially cover India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Ghana. 

• “They have been designated ‘high-risk’ countries, from which visitors aged over 18 on six-month visit visas will be forced to pay the £3,000 from November. The countries are being targeted by the Home Office because of the high volume of visitor visa applications and relatively high levels of fraud and abuse,” it said. 

• The Home Office said these countries posed “the most significant risk of abuse” by their citizens. 

• Home Secretary Theresa May said the move was part of the government’s policy to make the immigration system “more selective.” 

• “This is the next step in making sure our immigration system is more selective, bringing down net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands while still welcoming the brightest and the best to Britain … In the long run, we are interested in a system of bonds that deters overstaying and recovers costs if a foreign national has used our public services,” she said.

Bermuda Triangle

  BERMUDA TRIANGLE AN UNANIMOUS THEORY

1. For deccades ,the Atlantic Oceans fabled Bermuda Triangle has captured the human imagination with unexplained disappearance of ships,planes and people.Some speculate the unknown and mysterious forces accout for the unexplained disappearances ,such as extraterrestrials capturing human for study;the influence of the lost Continent of Atlantis;vortices that stuck object into other dimensions;and other whimsical ideas.
2. Environmental considerations could explain many, if not most, of the disappearances.  The majority of Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes pass through the Bermuda Triangle, and in the days prior to improved weather forecasting, these dangerous storms claimed many ships. Additionally, the large number of islands in the Caribbean Sea creates many areas of shallow water that can be treacherous to ship navigation.
3. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard contend that there are no supernatural explanations for disasters at sea.  Their experience suggests that the combined forces of nature and human fallibility outdo even the most incredulous science fiction. They add that no official maps exist that delineate the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle. The U. S. Board of Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an official name and does not maintain an official file on the area.
4. The ocean has always been a mysterious place to humans, and when foul weather or poor navigation is involved, it can be a very deadly place.  This is true all over the world.  There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur with any greater frequency in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other large, well-traveled area of the ocean. 

AMAZING FACTS

AMAZING FACTS

# 1: Albert Einstein's last words were heard by no one

else, except the nurse at his side who didn't

understand German.

#2: In 1977 we received a radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. To                                this day, we still don’t know where it came from.

#3: When the world's largest diamond was discovered in South-Africa, it was shipped to England on a steam-boat under heavy security. But it was a diversion, and the real stone was sent in a plain box via post

AMAZING FACTS !!!!

1.A 70's cartoon inspired Japanese to adopt baby raccoon's as pets .As a result thousands of raccoon's were imported from America .Seeing how violent they could be ,families released them into forests following one scene in the cartoon .Raccoon's multiplied-damaged 80% of Japan's temples.

2. Submerge tree in Green lake

The Green lake or Gruner lake is a lake in Austria which dries almost completely during fall,is used as a County         park in the winter and is famous for the underwater park     which forms during spring due to snow meltdown.

3.Mother of coincidence

                                                                                                                                                                   

POLITICAL SITUATION IN EGYPT

POLITICAL TURMOIL IN EGYPT

                                                                                   Courtesy: Navjot Singh.

Egypt's transition from dictatorship is chaotic and murky. Muslim Brotherhood's showdown with protesters are dimming the chances of a positive outcome.

EGYPT BEFORE MORSI........

•  Egypt has long been a presidential republic, with presidential elections every six years, the pre-uprising political situation can best be described as a dictatorship. Hosni Mubarak, who took over from the assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981, was serving his fifth term as president when he was ousted in 2011.
•  Mubarak derived much of his ‘legitimacy’ by keeping the Islamist forces away from power, he also had close ties with the military which has a strong position in Egypt, until the military leaders turned against him during the 2011 revolution. 
• In the 2005 presidential elections Mubarak was re-elected with 88.6%. The lack of fair elections and lack of change had turned many Egyptians away from politics in this period, turnouts rarely exceeded 15%, even though official figures were reported as much higher. 
• Mubarak was also the leader of the National Democratic Party which dominated the parliament, with 420 out of 518 seats since the 2010 parliamentary elections, while the popular Muslim Brotherhood gained only 1 out of 88 seats reserved for independent candidates.
• The lack of real influence on political life, by fair and free elections, was one of the major motives for the protests in early 2011. 

Hosni Mubarak.....

Former Egyptian PresidentThe 82-year-old former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ruled Egypt for almost three decades. Mubarak was born in 1928 in a village near Cairo. Under Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat, Mubarak was Deputy Minister of War from 1972 to 1975. In 1975, he became Vice-President and after Sadat was assassinated, on October 6, 1981, Mubarak became President.

Hosni Mubarak ruled as a quasi-military leader when he took power, and kept the country under emergency law. He won three elections unopposed since 1981, but for his fourth contest in 2005 - after a firm push from the US and other countries- he changed the system to allow rival candidates. However, Mubarak was often accused of suppressing opposition groups and holding unfair elections. In 1995, he escaped an assassination attempt at an African unity summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Abeba.

In 2011, after 18 days of massive protests and demonstrations against the government, Hosni Mubarak resigned on 11 February. After his resignation, he and his family fled to a villa at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. He was arrested on 13 April 2011. The trial is probably ending in mid-February. Prosecutors have demanded the death penalty.

Mubarak is married to half-British Suzanne Mubarak, and they have two sons: Gamal and Alaa.

EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION 2011.....

• The Tunisian revolution of December 2010 sparked the Egyptian people to take to the streets as well. Starting from the 25th of January large scale demonstrations were organised in different cities in Egypt calling for an end to President or dictator Hosni Mubarak’s three-decade rule. Resentment over corruption, lack of freedom of speech, economic issues as food price inflation, high unemployment, low wages and the enrichment of the ruling elite were the reasons for the protests.
• Rumours were spread that on 10th of February that Mubarak would announce his resignation that evening. Instead, he repeated he would remain in power until September. 
• People were angry that Mubarak did not step down, protests resulted in a nationwide escalation dubbed ‘Farewell Friday’ on the 11th of February. At 16.00 hour the same day the Egyptian Vice-president Omar Suleiman announced in a televised address that President Hosni Mubarak had stepped down and had handed over authority to the SCAF.
• After the groundbreaking developments and the Revolution in Egypt in the beginning of 2011 and the resignation of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011, the military council (Supreme Council of Armed Forces, SCAF) took over the country. In June 2012, SCAF dissolved parliament in line with a ruling from the High Constitutional Court that declared the constitutional articles that regulated parliamentary elections to be invalid.

ELECTIONS.....

• The elections for the new People's assembly took place in multiple stages. On 28 November, 14 December 2011 and 3 January 2012 the Egyptians cast their ballot for the lower house elections. On each ballot, voters had to vote for a national party list and a local candidate in a first-past-the-post-system. Two-thirds of the 498 elected seats were filled based on the party lists and a proportional system, and the last one-third through the local candidates. An additional 10 politicians were chosen by the military chief.
• On 29 and 30 January, Egyptians held the first round for the Shura Council, the upper house, in elections that will be staggered in two stages. The second round took place on 14 and 15 February, with run-offs on 22 February.
• Turnout for the first round of elections on 28 November was 59%.
• On 14 and 15 December 2011 the second round of the elections for the People Assembly took place, with run-offs on 21 and 22 December In this round, voting took place in districts around the Nile Delta, traditionally a stronghold of political Islam.The voter turnout was 64%, exceeding that of the first stage. The results were similar. The FJP won 49% of the votes, the Al Nour Party 28%. The Egyptian Bloc obtained only 5% of the votes, the Revolution Continues just 1%.

• On 3 and 4 January 2012 the remaining voters cast their ballots in the final stage of the parliamentary polls, with run-offs on 10 and 11 January. Over 35% of the votes were won by the FJP, again winning the election round. The conservative Salafist Nour Party won 27,5%. The liberal Egyptian Bloc Alliance obtained 5.2 percent of the votes. The Revolution Continues Alliance won only 2 percent of the votes.
• The final resulte of the electons were as follows:

Party	Percentage	Seats in PA
Democratic Alliance (incl. Freedom and Justice Party)	46,3%	235 (213)
Islamist Alliance (incl. Al-Nour Party)	24,4%	124 (107)
Al-Wafd	7,5%	38
Egyptian Bloc (incl. ESDP*)	6,7%	34 (16)
Independents	5,1%	26
Felool parties	3,1%	16
Al-Wasat	2%	10
Reform and Development Bloc	1,6%	8
The Revolution Continues (incl. SPAP and ESP*)	1,4%	7
Total of elections	98%	498
Appointed by SCAF	2%	10
Total in Peoples Assembly	100%	508

(www.europeanforum.net)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2012......

• The 23rd of May marked what is commonly seen as a historic moment in Egypt, with the first free and democratic presidential elections.
•  The first round in which 12 candidates competed against each other was held on the 23rd and 24th of May and took place in an orderly fashion, except for the assault on candidate Ahmed Shafiq after he casted his vote. Moreover, the process of the elections has been well received by both Egyptians as the international community. The voter turnout was 46.42%.
• On 28 May it was announced that Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq won most votes, although not enough to determine a definite winner. The following three best candidates were Nasserist and left-wing candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, who by the revolutionaries was viewed as ‘one of us’ and has long been a strong opposition figure against Mubarak, also participated in founding the anti-Mubarak Kifaya (Enough) movement.
• Former Brotherhood candidate Abdel Fotouh came in fourth as the moderate Islamist candidate who was seen as able to bridge the gap between supporters of secularism and the Islamists, but was therefore also criticized of having too many different faces. Amr Moussa, who served as Foreign Affairs Minister under Mubarak and was the former President of the Arab League was the last candidate to receive more than 10% of the vote. He was seen as a liberal and as less affiliated with the Mubarak regime than Shafiq.
• The results of the first round are presented in the table below......

Candidate	Number of votes	Percentage
Mohamed Morsi	5,764,952	24.7%
Ahmed Shafiq	5,505,327	23.6%
Hamdeen Sabahi	4,820,273	20.7%
Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh	4,065,239	17.4%
Amr Moussa	2,588,850	11.1%
Mohamed Selim al-Awa	235,374	1.0%
Khalid Ali	134,056	0.5%
Abu al-Ezz al-Hariri	40,090	0.01%
Hesham al-Bastawisi	29,189	0.01%
Mahmoud Hossam	23,992	0.01%
Mohamed Fawzi Eissa	23,889	0.01%
Hossam al-Din Kemal Kheirallah	22,036	0.01%
Abdullah al-Ashal	12,249	0.005%

• Because no candidate received a majority of the votes cast, a runoff between Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq took place on 16 and 17 June.
• The latter encountered a lot of opposition, being criticized as a remnant of the Mubarak regime - having been Prime Minister between 29 January and 3 March 2011, while others see him as the person who was most likely to bring stability. Consequently, the period between the two election rounds was marked by polarisation, tumult and repeated protests
• The second election round proceeded less organised than the first round, as the two presidential campaigns exchanging accusations of electoral fraud. The total voter turnout came down to 51,6%. 
• The day after the elections the Muslim Brotherhood immediately declared their candidate, Mohamed Morsi, the winner of the run-off. In reaction, Ahmed Shafiq did the same. But it took a week to find out who the real winner was. Eventually it was announced on 24 June, that Morsi won with 51,7% of the vote, representing around a quarter of the Egyptian population.
• Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said in a statement that he "respects the outcome" of the election, and "expects to continue co-operation with the Egyptian administration". The White House also congratulated Mursi, and urged him to "advance national unity by reaching out to all parties and constituencies". 

Mohamed Morsi .......

President

Mohamed Morsi was elected president in the run-off of Egypt’s first free elections held in 2012. He participated as a former member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood and chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), taking over the candidacy of Khairat al-Shater who was disqualified from running by the High Election Commission due to a past fraud conviction. He has a long history of activism within the Muslim Brotherhood and was detained several times, the last time being on January 28, 2011 during the revolution, Morsi was a member of the Egyptian People’s Assembly from 2000 to 2005.

In his victory speech on 24 June, 60-year old Morsi, urged Egyptians "to strengthen our national unity" and promised to be a president for all Egyptians. Therefore he gave up his membership of the Muslimbrotherhood and is in search of independent ‘technocrats’. Morsi has pledged to restore security and improve the heavily damaged economy.

THE FALL OF MORSI.....

• The revolutionary momentum currently making waves in Egypt once again is not primarily a revolt against one man or even one state, but an uprising against conditions which are fast becoming universal features of the current crisis-ridden world economic order: permanent mass unemployment, rampant inflation in the price of basic goods (food and fuel in particular) and merciless attacks on welfare for the poor. 
• President Morsi has overseen a year in office in which food prices have doubled, and has – at the behest of the IMF – committed himself to ending the fuel subsidies on which millions of the poorest Egyptians depend. He has signed up to a Free Trade Agreement with the EU that will exacerbate unemployment and rural impoverishment and has shown his commitment to imperial interests by flooding the Gaza tunnels with sewage and calling for a ‘no-fly zone’ (code for NATO bombardment) in Syria. 
• In so doing, he has attempted to ensure that the Mubarak strategy of subservience to American, British and Israeli interests is not only maintained, but deepened – at the cost of basic living standards and at a time when the neo-colonial world order is clearly breaking down under the double hammer blows of economic crisis and third world resurgence.
• On the night of July 2, Morsi delivered a defiant speech that would be his final address as president. He warned that the country may descend into an endless spiral of violence if his “legitimate” right to rule as elected president was challenged. He repeated the word “legitimacy” dozens of times, at one point going so far as to say that he was willing to die if his claim to power was not honored.
  
• The next day, the army deployed troops and armor at key locations across the country, tightening its grip on major thoroughfares and surrounding two large rallies that had formed in support of Morsi.
• Sissi , who never mentioned Morsi by name, declared that the chief of Egypt’s constitutional court would assume the presidency on an interim basis. A cabinet of technocrats would be formed to manage the country’s day-to-day affairs, he said, until new elections are scheduled. The country’s new constitution was suspended. In effect, Egypt had gone back to square one.
  
• Tens of thousands of Morsi’s supporters who had gathered at a the Rabaa al-Adeweya mosque in the Nasr City neighborhood, erupted in anger at the announcement, with chants of “Down with military rule” filling the air. Surrounded on several sides by soldiers and military vehicles, the crowd showed a mixture of shock, dejection and outrage
• Morsi’s election last year with a slim 51 percent majority was celebrated in Tahrir as a victory over a return to Mubarak’s regime, embodied in rival candidate Ahmed Shafik, a retired Air Force general. Yet, within twelve months, millions of Egyptians lost faith in Morsi’s ability to lead the country and the role the Muslim Brotherhood played at the helm of power.
• Morsi’s overthrow was precipitated by a campaign launched on May 1, Labor Day, by a group of young activists who called their grassroots movement “Tamarod,” Arabic for “rebel.” They set about collecting signatures on a petition that demanded Morsi step down and which called for a mass protest on June 30 to mark the first anniversary of his inauguration.
• Morsi has been held incommunicado in an undisclosed location since July 3. Within twenty-four hours of the military’s intervention, security officials had arrested top Brotherhood figures, including the group’s former General Guide, 84-year-old Mehdi Akef, as well as the head of the Brotherhood’ Freedom and Justice Party, Saad el-Katatni. Thereby ending Morsi's regime on a permanent basis......

      LONG LIVE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION.............