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[chottala.com] Drishtipat DC Film Screening - Portrait of Jihad by Shahriar Kabir



Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Busboys & Poets @ 5th & K
Street: 1025 5th St NW
City/Town: Washington, DC

"Portrait of Jihad"
, the latest documentary by renowned filmmaker, Shahriar Kabir, depicts the advent of Islamic militancy in secular Bangladesh. In this expose, he interviews members of Harkatul Jihad and other militant groups and unmasks their involvement with state machinery.

The film screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the Director.

Shahriar Kabir is a Bangladeshi journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist. He is the author of more than 70 books focusing on human rights, communalism, fundamentalism, history, and the Bangladesh war of independence. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his contribution to Bengali literature. Shahriar Kabir has been imprisoned twice for protesting against government-sponsored minority persecution and was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.

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[chottala.com] Bush memoirs to haunt Republicans



 
 
Bush memoirs to haunt GOP
 

For Republicans looking forward to the first Bush-free election in a decade, the book publishing schedule is the bearer of bad news: Between New Year's Day and next November, as many as five Bush administration officials — including the former president himself — will rehash history in hardback.

The literary luge ride down memory lane shoves off with a return to the economic collapse via former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's "On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System," due out from Business Plus in January.

Former first lady Laura Bush's White House memoir tees up next, expected from Scribner in the spring.

Former President George W. Bush's own book, tentatively titled "Decision Points," will follow in the fall from Random House's Crown Publishing and will recount a dozen pivotal choices Bush faced and how he made them — a trip back to the days of "the decider" that's bound to spark talk of what it omits as much as what it contains.

A candid chronicle from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — who told The AP that his Iraq war years would "certainly" be covered in his manuscript — is also expected to hit the shelves in the autumn, published by Penguin's Sentinel imprint.

And onetime White House chief strategist Karl Rove's book is also reportedly due out in 2010, although his publisher, Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster headed by Republican strategist Mary Matalin, would not confirm that date.

Nor would Threshold Editions confirm the widely reported 2011 release date for former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, which promises to be the most controversial of the lot — and Matalin could not be reached for comment on whether the decision to release the book after the midterm elections was a strategic one.

The literary look back will be supplemented by other reminders, large and small, of the Bush era, from the groundbreaking for the George W. Bush library, also scheduled for the fall (although right now that's likely to be in November, presumably after Election Day), to the outcome of the Justice Department's CIA interrogation probe currently under way.

The question is: What effect, if any, will all of this have on voters' perceptions of the two parties and their candidates?

The Democrats' reaction was not hard to predict.

"The more flashbacks of the Bush era we have, the more people will be reminded about the huge mess that Barack Obama and the Democrats inherited," says Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "So it will remind them of why they voted for change and remind them of why they don't want to turn back the clock."

Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan agrees. "This will only serve to further emphasize what they continue to see from the Republican Party, which is more of the same," he says.

"To tweak a phrase, it's come to a point where it's fair to say, 'If it's Sunday, it's Dick Cheney.'"

The Bush montage plays right into the hands of Democrats, says Democratic strategist Douglas Schoen, who predicts that the midterm elections will be a battle between those who will try to make it a belated referendum on the Bush administration and those who will try to make it a premature referendum on the Obama administration.

Illustration by POLITICO's Matt Wuerker.
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 "I think Obama is going to run against George Bush, as a means of deflecting attention from an incomplete agenda," Schoen says, noting that November 2010 will likely be too soon for voters to see concrete results on the economy, health care or other Obama policies at home or abroad.

As for the Republicans, he says, their "best case is to make the election a referendum on Barack Obama, and to the extent that there are unpleasant or uncomfortable reflections, facts, inquiries, coming out — whether about the U.S. attorneys, torture, memoirs, whatever — they're going to be employed inevitably and inexorably by the Obama administration, which is going to say, 'Look: They're worse.'"

Democratic political consultant Bob Shrum agrees: "A huge amount depends on how Obama's doing. If Obama's doing better, and we're doing better in foreign policy, the Bush record will be magnified."

If that's what Democrats have got, say Republicans, bring it on.

"I think that voters are smarter than that," says Scott Stanzel, former deputy press secretary to Bush. "I think voters will see that as a tired old tactic. Even in 2008, our candidate could have had a more compelling vision for the country. I think that Barack Obama's success was more about his ability to articulate a vision than about the past."

And actually, says Brian Jones, a former communications director for the Republican National Committee, holding the Bush administration up against the Obama administration might not be a bad thing. The current president's struggles suggest that there are no "magic solutions" for some of the problems his predecessor faced, he says.

"A number of the things that the Bush administration was criticized heavily for at the end of his term, like his handling of the economy, the war in Afghanistan, lack of ability to get anything done on Social Security — the Obama administration is having as much of a difficult time, if not more of a difficult time, with them," Jones says.

"It illustrates that the presidency is a tough job, but it illustrates that [Bush is] maybe not the boogeyman that he was made out to be," he adds.

Republican strategist Mark McKinnon goes even further. "I think George Bush's rehabilitation is way ahead of schedule," he says. "Voters either don't like what Obama has done or don't think he's done enough. Bush's decisiveness and clarity are starting to look good in the rearview mirror. And I think Republican candidates in 2010 are going to consider asking for his help."

The biggest danger for Republicans is not in the books themselves but in the media coverage of them, says Stanzel, who notes that the focus is likely to be on the most newsworthy or controversial snippets. "You see one paragraph that gets focused on and replayed — and replayed and replayed — out of several hundred pages," he says. "Four or five sentences can shape a week's worth of coverage, and that very much has a distorting effect, I think."

Still, he adds, it is possible to read too much into the kind of impact that even a mountain of political memoirs might have at the polls. "I would also note that the book 'Inside of a Dog' is currently outselling the most recently released Bush book," he says. "So I think people read for entertainment, and they might read for enjoyment, and maybe to learn things, but I don't think people will read books to decide what they should do in an election that's about the present day — and about the future."

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    Re: [chottala.com] Life long VIP



    VIP system And Fascism
    Hero-worshipping is a feature of fascism. Awami League in SK Mujibès BKSAL was turned in to a Fascist Party, it killed over fifty thousand of people only in three years time those who opposed the oppressive rule. Hasina continues the tradition in installing the VIP system. These people including SK Mujib fought all their life for democracy but once in power became fascists the enemies of democracy. Unfortunately such people were even elevated to the status of Father of the nation! God save Bangladesh
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    The law will stipulate the government to provide them with protection by Special Security Force and accommodation wherever they want, Baridhara or Gulshan or London?

    Rehana along with her children live in London.

    The Awami League government has said the law is needed as Hasina, Rehana and their family members face threats to their security.

    The main opposition BNP, now boycotting parliament, has termed the bill "unprecedented" anywhere in the world.




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    Re: [chottala.com] THE WORST CRIME OF THE 20TH CENTURY - Dr. Carolyn Dean Exposed



    It is no wonder that Carolyn Dean, M.D. ND. has joined the propaganda against main stream
    healthcare system. She introduces herself as: Dr. Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist, acupuncturist, nutritionist,lecturer, consultant, and author and coauthor of 15 health books. However, the readers must know that in Canada, Carolyn Dean, M.D. was declared unfit to practice medicine and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (Canada) revoked her registration certificate. She fled to USA but was .unable to receive a licence to practice medicine in that country.
    So, only alternative left for her was to choose alternative medicine [naturopathic doctor, herbalist, acupuncturist ....] and express her venoms against mainstream medical sciences.
     
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    Dr. Carolyn Dean Exposed:
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    Disciplinary Action against Carolyn Dean, M.D.

    Stephen Barrett, M.D.


    In 1995, after reviewing her care of 36 patients, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (Canada) concluded that Carolyn Dean, M.D. was unfit to practice and revoked her registration certificate. The College's case summary (shown below) states:

    • After being notified in 1993 that a disciplinary hearing would be held, Dean relocated to New York and did not contest the charges against her.
    • Dean had used unscientific methods of testing such as hair analysis, Vega and Interro testing, iridology and reflexology as well as treatment not medically indicated and of unproven value, such as homeopathy, colonic irrigations, coffee enemas, and rotation diets.
    • She did not individualize her patients and objectively try to reach an appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Rather she allowed her bias toward candidiasis and perceived immunodeficiency problems to cause her to pre-diagnose patients without individualizing them.

    Dean obtained a California medical license in 1993 but does not appear to have practiced there. After her Ontario license was revoked, the California authorities initiated action that led to a stipulated decision and order in 1999 under which she was placed on three years' probation but could not practice until she passed the Special Purpose Examination (SPEX), a test used to to determine basic medical knowledge. She was also required to take 120 more hours of continuing medical education than is normally required for license renewal.

    Dean's current Web site states that she "specializes in managing and healing misdiagnosed and chronic conditions such as digestive problems, hormone imbalance, yeast overgrowth (Candida) recurring infection, irritable bowel syndrome, widespread inflammation, allergies, anxiety, fibromyalgia, mood swings, chronic fatigue syndrome, fluid retention, lost vitality, and other conditions that are not satisfactorily controlled." During the past several years, she has offered email and telephone consultations for which she charges $200 per hour. In 2008, she notified her supporters that she was moving to Hawaii and in 2010 would open a "medical spa" called VitaCosta in Costa Rica.


    THE COLLEGE OF
    PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF ONTARIO

    Dean, Carolyn Flora Anne CPSO# 30780

    Committee: Discipline
    Appeal Status: No Appeal
    Hearing Date: 24 Jul 1995   Decision Date: 24 Jul 1995   Publication Date: March/April 1996
    Decision Summary:

    Dr. Dean was not present at her hearing and was not represented by counsel.

    Counsel for the College alleged that Dr. Dean displayed in her professional care of 36 patients a lack of knowledge, skill or judgment or disregard for the welfare of the patients of a nature or to an extent that demonstrated she is unfit to continue in practice, and that she is guilty of professional misconduct for failure to maintain the standard of practice of the profession as displayed in her professional care of 36 patients and disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct.

    These allegations were based upon the statements of three patients of Dr. Dean and upon the findings and opinions of an expert for the prosecution, Dr. A, following his review of the charts of 36 patients, 33 of which were randomly selected.

    Counsel for the College filed the Affidavit of a legal associate, outlining the history of contacts between College prosecutors and Dr. Dean. The Affidavit indicated that Dr. Dean had received and acknowledged the Notice of Hearing in June 1993 at her address in New York City. She subsequently moved to California, providing the College with a phone number and a facsimile number, but declining to provide her address in California. Subsequent to this Dr. Dean did not respond to further telephone calls and facsimilies informing her of the details of the College case against her and the timing of the Discipline hearing.

    After considering this matter, and considering the advice of its counsel that the College had more than fulfilled its legal obligation to give proper notification to the physician, the Committee ruled that the hearing should proceed in the absence of Dr. Dean.

    Case for the College

    Counsel for the College explained that following the receipt of complaints from three patients, the College had ordered an investigation of Dr. Dean s practice by Dr. A. This investigation consisted of a detailed assessment of 36 patient files.

    Testimony was heard from Ms. B, a former patient of Dr. Dean s. This woman had become ill in 1990 with recurring infections and had received much investigation and had been treated with many antibiotics. Her disability continued and was attributed to persisting infection with the Epstein-Barr virus. She was referred by her family physician to Dr. Dean in March 1991.

    The witness testified that when she made the appointment with Dr. Dean she was instructed to bring $20.00 which was a requirement for seeing the doctor. At the office she filled out a questionnaire and subsequently saw Dr. Dean who, after reading her questionnaire, diagnosed candidiasis, recommended a blood test for confirmation, and instructed the patient to make a return appointment in two weeks. She was also instructed in a change in diet and given other printed information about candidiasis.

    Following this interview Ms. B was upset and complained to the College immediately following the visit. Her complaint included: the requirement to bring $20.00 to the first visit which she considered to be extra-billing, the making of a new diagnosis of candidiasis based upon a brief interview which did not include a physical examination and was punctuated by frequent interruptions and, the requirement to pay $100.00 for a blood test.

    Subsequent to Ms. B' s complaint to the College, Dr. Dean telephoned her twice at home apologizing for the situation. Dr. Dean told her that the payment of money was not an absolute requirement and asked her to withdraw her complaint to the College.

    The witness declined to return to Dr. Dean. She did receive by mail a report of her blood test for Candida antibodies which the Committee noted came from a laboratory whose address was the same as Dr. Dean s. The test reported levels of antibodies which were above those considered normal by the laboratory. The witness also received a copy of a report sent by Dr. Dean to her family physician detailing her diagnosis and proposed treatment.

    Dr. A testified. He is a well qualified specialist in internal medicine with special expertise in immunology, who practices in a major city health centre.He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University.

    At the request of the College, Dr. A had reviewed 36 patient files from Dr. Dean s practise. These included pre-selected charts of the three patients who had complained to the College and 33 charts selected at random by College investigators. Dr. A prepared a report of his findings which was filed and read by the Committee members. Copies of all the charts assessed were available to the Committee and were referred to as required.

    Dr. A testified in great detail as to his findings in Patients #1 and #2, somewhat less detail regarding Patients #3 through #8, and then summarized his findings and conclusions for the entire 36 patients.

    His significant findings are summarized as follows:

    • The patients exhibited a pattern of anxiety states, depression, phobias, panic attacks, hyperactivity and general inability to cope;
    • Dr. Dean cared about her patients and tried to help them;
    • Dr. Dean misused and misunderstood laboratory tests and often ordered repeated expensive tests which were not indicated (examples of such tests included: serum protein electrophoresis and immuno-electrophoresis, T-cell assays, serum ferritin, and serum folate);
    • Dr. Dean incorrectly attributed her patients symptoms to dysfunctions in the immune system;
    • Dr. Dean misused immunoglobulin antibody levels to Candida to falsely diagnose and treat Candidiasis where it did not exist. She ignored the fact that scientific studies have shown no correlation between blood levels of antibodies to Candida and patients symptoms of ill-health;
    • Dr. Dean did not individualize her patients and objectively try to reach an appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Rather she allowed her bias toward candidiasis and perceived immunodeficiency problems to cause her to pre-diagnose patients without individualising them;
    • Dr. Dean did infrequent and incomplete physical examinations;
    • Dr. Dean relied for patient histories on questionnaires that the patients completed and which were biased to confirm her prejudged diagnoses;
    • Dr. Dean used unscientific and discredited methods of testing such as hair analysis, Vega and Interro Testing, Iridology and Reflexology;
    • Dr. Dean used treatment not medically indicated and of unproven value, such as homeopathy, colonic irrigations, coffee enemas and rotation diets; and
    • There was no evidence that Dr. Dean had harmed any patient by her treatment.

    Dr. A expressed the opinion that Dr. Dean, despite being a caring physician, fell below an acceptable standard of medical practice and was unfit to continue in practice.

    Decision

    1. Dr. Dean has displayed in her professional care of 36 patients a lack of skill and judgment and a disregard for the welfare of these patients of a nature and to an extent that demonstrated that she is unfit to continue in practice.
    2. Dr. Dean is guilty of professional misconduct for failure to maintain the standard of practice of the profession as displayed in her professional care of 36 patients.
    3. Had the Committee not found Dr. Dean guilty of professional misconduct for failing to maintain the standard of practice, it would have found her guilty of professional misconduct for an act relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as unprofessional.

    Reasons for the Decision

    The evidence before the Committee was clear and uncontradicted.

    The Committee was very aware that no defence had been presented and therefore approached its deliberations with due caution. Nevertheless, the Committee was bound to consider only the evidence before it, which evidence was both credible and convincing.

    Of the evidence against Dr. Dean, the Committee placed more weight on her failure to be objective in assessing and treating patients than it did upon her use of questionable diagnostic and therapeutic methods.

    Penalty

    Counsel for the College urged revocation of Dr. Dean's certificate of registration as the only appropriate penalty in view of the Committee s decision. Currently Dr. Dean is presumed to be residing in California, but is still licensed to practice in Ontario.

    The certificate of registration of Dr. Dean shall be revoked forthwith.

    This page was revised on August 15, 2009.
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    On 10/14/09, Bashir Mahmud Ellias <bashirmahmudellias@yahoo.com> wrote:
     

     

     

    THE WORST CRIME OF THE 20TH CENTURY

                                         -- Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and Elissa Meininger

    In America and in the West, the public is conditioned to believe that modern (allopathic) medicine is the supreme healing modality. Propaganda machines that rely on media in need of content and not necessarily truth eagerly spread this notion. Scientific journal articles promoting drugs are little more than press releases by pharmaceutical companies signed by doctors for hire.

     

    In the midst of the recent "outing" of unsafe drugs by whistleblowers; the thousands of law suits against drug companies for drug damage; and a plethora of books and articles enumerating the side effects of drugs and the hundreds of thousands of lives lost because of it, we see drug companies and the World Trade Organization determined to control dietary supplements through Codex and international trade agreements in their global quest for power.

    Why is this happening? Simply because most of the world does not use modern medicine and the 'powers that be' want to control those other forms of medicine to make way for a seamless, worldwide assembly-line style of health delivery by government decree favoring the highly-profitable, patented products and services of modern (allopathic) medicine.

    One of the forms of medicine that is being targeted for control is homeopathy. Both Elissa and I have a deep and abiding love of homeopathy and we speak up for it whenever we can.

    Homeopathy is one of those systems of medicine that is all encompassing and could be a life-long project of study. I wanted to make it my prime modality after medical school and began learning it during my naturopathic training. That might have had something to do with genes because my grandmother was a nurse and a homeopath. My father, while still in high school, was on the lists to enter Boston University School of Medicine, which, at the time, was a homeopathic medical school. I found, however, that I'm much too eclectic to stay in one place for too long, but I stayed long enough to see some miraculous cures take place. In the hands of a skilled homeopath, it is one of the best existing modalities for all conditions. I recommend it to parents as the best form of medicine for children, the best for most acute conditions and I advise people to have a homeopathic kit on hand to treat emergencies.

    Elissa's reasons are even more personal. After a lifetime of ill health due to a missed diagnosis of mercury poisoning from her dental fillings (a disease that is not recognized by either the American dental community or modern [allopathic] medicine), Elissa was diagnosed by a homeopath and from the first dose of a homeopathic remedy, she found her salvation. Up until then, she had experienced not just debilitating symptoms of serious chronic illness, but numerous extreme adverse reactions from such things as penicillin and Tylenol. To find out why she was misdiagnosed all those years and why she was never referred to homeopathy, a medical philosophy that has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of medically-induced mercury poisoning for 200 years prompted Elissa to become the health policy expert she is today. She earned her expertise by delving into the depth and breadth of the history of American medicine and how politics and the clever actions of several self-interest groups, over time, created today's modern medical monopoly folly.

    The story of how homeopathy first came to America, became the second most practiced healing art by public demand and then was virtually destroyed by Big Pharma and its allies, the AMA and the practitioners of modern (allopathic) medicine, is why we have called our article "The Worst Crime of the 20th Century." This history bears witness to how the self-interest of just a handful of people, by creating an allopathic medical monopoly, continues to cause the needless deaths of millions of people and the ongoing suffering of millions more.

    As the story goes, back in the mid-1800s, homeopathy had arrived on our shores from its homeland, Germany, and the public eagerly flocked to homeopathic physicians. No wonder! The "modern (allopathic) medicine" of the day included draining people of up to 32 ounces of blood and dosing them with lethal amounts of mercury in a product called "calomel." Calomel caused profuse salivation and doctors measured the amount of saliva by the pint as a means of determining the success of the treatment. Calomel was considered the all-purpose elixir for most ailments along with the bleeding, so you can see why homeopathy spread rapidly. Homeopaths found allopathic treatment barbaric.

    What confounded the practitioners of "modern (allopathic) medicine" of that era was that homeopaths were well-educated and had quickly fallen into favor with the educated, politically powerful and wealthier clientele, as well as the masses. Worse yet, while their medical philosophy confounded the average practitioner of "modern (allopathic) medicine," every time an allopath actually took an honest look at how homeopathy was practiced, another convert to homeopathy was born. In fact, in many cases, practicing homeopaths were actually converts from "modern (allopathic) medicine."

    Proof that homeopathy worked was widespread. Every epidemic in Europe and America starting with the cholera epidemics in the 1840s became an advertisement for the virtues of homeopathy. Homeopaths saved lives in large numbers and compared to the competition it was obvious that allopathic methods were a complete failure. In rapid order, the practice of homeopathy became widespread in New England, the Middle Atlantic States, and the Midwest. True to form, while the South had been slow to catch on, the 1878 yellow fever epidemic converted many patients and doctors there, too.

    The formation of the American Medical Association in the 1840s was in direct response to the onslaught of a superior medical system. From the beginning, the AMA stood firm with a hostile "them or us" attitude about members consorting with the competition. Well-educated homeopaths, often graduates of Harvard, Yale and other such schools, were banned from joining the AMA. In AMA meetings, any discussion about homeopathy was banned. If any member of the AMA, or its state chapters, were seen consorting with a homeopath, that doctor was expelled.

    Voluminous and vicious literature was written and circulated about the worthlessness of homeopathy. When the drug industry emerged as an economic force in the 1870s, flush with its profits from selling mercury medicinals to the Union Army, the AMA found the sugar daddy of its dreams that could fuel and finance an all out war against its most serious competition. This polemic propaganda continues today because the 1500 or so effective homeopathic remedies that have been developed over 200 years represent serious competition for Big Pharma. Furthermore, homeopathic remedies have proven to have no dangerous side effects, are not patentable, can be manufactured and sold for pennies and have a very long shelf life.

    Those who practice medicine in the allopathic tradition, then as now, know instinctively that homeopathy, by its very principles, is a rejection of the assumptions held near and dear to modern medicine. In fact, it is important to know that homeopathy is actually the invention of a German medical genius named Samuel Hahnemann. It comes from Hahnemann's rejection of what he was taught as an allopathic physician in his days, 200 years ago.

    What Hahnemann saw was a failure to truly heal people. As a linguist with knowledge of many ancient and modern languages, including several from the Arab world, Hahnemann made a good deal of his living translating scientific and medical texts. This gave him access to some of the greatest minds in the world's medical traditions and it was when he was questioning the conclusions of British doctor, William Cullen, regarding the use of Peruvian bark to treat malaria, that Hahnemann experienced a flash of insight that fostered homeopathy.

    At the height of its popularity in America, homeopathy was second only to allopathy in the number of practitioners. It had its own schools, its own pharmacies and even had a monument erected to honor Hahnemann in Washington, D.C., considered by many to be one of the great geniuses in the history of medicine.

    At the time this monument to Hahnemann was unveiled, there were 22 homeopathic medical schools in America. One of the more interesting ones was The New England Female College founded in 1850 as the world's first women's medical school. During its time, it graduated the first black woman doctor and after it was absorbed into Boston University to become Boston University Medical School in 1873, it became America's first coed medical school. In 1897, the new school graduated its first black doctor, who went on to become America's first black psychiatrist.

    Ironically, four years after the monument was erected, and 10 years before the publication of the Flexner Report, the blueprint of the allopathic medical monopoly, the trustees of Boston University were told by AMA officials that if they didn't convert the medical school curricula to all-allopathic, their graduates would have difficulty taking and passing state medical licensing examinations. At the time, there were 645 practicing homeopaths in Boston alone.

    So, what allopathic assumptions does homeopathy reject? At its core, homeopathy is based, not on a biochemical or mechanistic model like allopathy, but on the idea that each person has a vital force, a resonating frequency, if you will. This vital force, called Qi or Chi in Asian healing arts, is basically the energy or essence of the person that can be observed and measured. In the simplest terms, when you are ill, according to homeopathic philosophy, your frequency changes and symptoms occur as a result of your body trying to restore you to a healthy frequency. The symptoms serve as the means by which restoration of health can be achieved. The very symptoms that allopaths suppress are the ones the body uses to get well and that a homeopath surveys to find the appropriate remedy to help the body heal.

    To a homeopath, an office call is basically devoted to systematically interviewing the patient to determine what makes them tick as well as gathering as much information about each of their symptoms as possible. Then, after analyzing this information, the homeopath has available 1500 or so catalogued remedies that are inventoried according to symptoms and constitution.

    The information in these reference manuals is drawn from data on literally thousands of patients who have been treated successfully. Homeopathic remedies themselves are developed by a process called "potentization" which renders them not only non-toxic but leaves only a minute vibration in the water of the original substance. These potentized remedies, when they enter the person's body as a frequency, not a chemical substance, basically help revitalize the person's own harmonious frequency.

    To modern (allopathic) medical practitioners, a symptom is a bad outcome of an illness and suppressing the symptom is the first thing a doctor tries to do to make the patient feel better. Suppression of symptoms is not the same as healing the person.

    Each homeopathic remedy is developed by first testing it on healthy people based on an idea called "the law of similars." The law of similars comes from an old idea that a substance that can create a symptom in a healthy person can cure a sick person suffering the same symptom. The law of similars confounds the scientific assumptions of the biochemically-based allopathic medical community and until you experience the healing process yourself, you will probably scratch your head, wondering what these homeopaths are talking about. Hahnemann came to name his new school of thought homeo (Greek for "similar"), pathy (Greek for "suffering). He then named the old school of thought allo (Greek for "other"), pathy.

    These opposing views on the meaning of symptoms and what a doctor does about them is the sharpest of many ideological divisions between homeopathy and allopathy.

    For most of the 1800s, allopaths were called allopaths but when the AMA orchestrated the publication of the Flexner Report in 1910, to outline their new medical monopoly, the first order of business was to make sure the word "allopathy" no longer defined them. They wanted ALL practitioners of all "cults" or "dogmas" as they insultingly referred to their competition, to give up their differing medical ideas and "surrender" to modern science.

    The Flexner Report was used to convince the financial backers of non-allopathic medical schools, particularly homeopathy, to cease providing funding. Within 20 years, all but one homeopathic school had been closed or forced to convert to allopathic teaching only.

    It came to our attention that Citizens for Health, one of the major national health freedom groups, in conjunction with the National Center for Homeopathy, had organized a writing campaign to the Center For Disease Control to include homeopathic research as part of its agenda for the next decade.

    This campaign, with the deadline of January 15, 2006, is now over. However, we have mixed feelings about how the modern medicine dominated CDC, or the National Institute for Health or any other of the usual research organizations could possibly conduct honest and relevant research on homeopathy, given the fact that modern medicine is based on such vastly different assumptions.

    We also have concerns because of recent revelations about the corruption in science in all venues as well as the faking of scientific papers being published in prestigious medical journals. We have concerns about the political and economic agendas of those in control of directing what research shall be done and that, somehow, homeopathy will be tainted keeping it in the same false and negative light it has been held for most of the 20th century.

    We suggest that there are ample books written by practicing homeopaths about the success of homeopathy for any open-minded person to see its worth. In any case, we are foursquare behind restoring homeopathy to its former position as the second largest medical system in America and give you practical resources at the end to pursue your own investigation of homeopathy.

    To sum up the worldview on homeopathy we recently read an article in the New India Press, dated December 24, 2005, titled, "WHO Recognition for Homeopathy." We thought you might like to read some excerpts from this article to give you a flavor of how homeopathy is discussed in a country where it is widely accepted and used.

    "Deviating from the trend of rejecting homeopathy treatment and medicine as mere placebos, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that homeopathy is the second-most used medical system internationally.

    Clinical trials have proved that this method of treatment has been successful if the practitioners have taken into account the individual holistic nature of the patient before opting for homeopathy.' Says Dr. T N Sreedhara Kurup, Assistant Director In-Charge of the Central Research Institute for Homeopathy.

    'Different patients will receive different treatments for the same disease making it difficult to conduct randomised control trials,' he said. 'Homeopathy is that stream of medicine, which prescribes medicines suitable to the individual and the cost of treatment is affordable when compared to Allopathy. Besides, it is claimed that homeopathic medicines are devoid of any harmful side-effects,' says Dr. Ravi M Nair, a homeopathy specialist."

    In all, the New India Press estimates that "about 500 million people rely on homeopathy treatment in the world. As a system of medicine, it draws support from hundreds of thousands of doctors, teaching institutions and universities where homeopathy is taught."

    We conclude that as allopathic medicine is relegated to its proper place –surgery and emergency medicine, homeopathy and other natural healing arts will once again flourish and inspire.


    RESOURCES: www.homeopathic.com www.healthyhomeopathy.com

    ACT FOR HEALTH FREEDOM NOW: Go to www.friendsoffreedominternational.org view and purchase the new movie on Codex and Free Trade called "We Become Silent" by Kevin Miller

    Also purchase " Death by Modern Medicine." Proceeds from the sale of these products are crucial to help us fund our health freedom action. For state action go to: www.nationalhealthfreedom.org.

    Dr. Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist, acupuncturist, nutritionist, as well as a powerful health activist fighting for health freedom as president of Friends of Freedom International. Dr. Dean is the author of over a dozen health books, the latest of which is "Death By Modern Medicine".

    Elissa Meininger, is Vice President of Friends of Freedom International and co-founder of the Health Freedom Action Network, a grassroots citizens' political action group. She is also a health freedom political analyst and can be heard on the natural health radio show SuperHealth, broadcast weekly on station WKY (SuperTalk AM 930) in Oklahoma City.

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    [chottala.com] Fw: ISDE Bangladesh Celebrated Child Rights Week 09: Demanding Justice graft in Child Rights Related Project in last 07 years to ensure CRC [5 Attachments]

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    ISDE Bangladesh Celebrated Child Rights Week 09 

    Demanding Justice graft in Child Rights Related Project in last 07 years to ensure CRC

     

    The Theme of the CRC Week this year is, "Protection of Child Rights: Charter of Changes". ISDE Bangladesh a local non governmental organization organized various programme to observed the week. The activities are rally, cultural competition for disadvantaged children, art competition and discussion meeting etc

     

     

    Under 18 year many children has to go job by the cause of parent's poverty and stop education and involved many hazardous child labour and victimize by the torture of their employers. But there are many irregularities in NGO selection, bidding and project implementation at the various Government initiated child development project including Hazardous child labour Project of Ministry of Labour and Manpower, basic Education for Urban working Children project of Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and Project for Children at Risk PCAR/ARISE of Ministry of Social Welfare which is funded by the UNICEF, UNDP, ILO and World Bank etc. If the justice were not ensured about the graft and irregularities in last 07 years, Child rights and protection right will not ensured of the Children in Bangladesh. Lots of children are unable to goes to school for education due to stricken poverty of their parents, besides huge amount of foreign funds is misused and grafts in the name of child development in Bangladesh. So many children forced to child labour and hazardous job. This is same for our nation. last 10th October 2009 this was said by the speakers at Discussion meeting on the occasion of Child Rights Week 2009 at Chandgaon Primary School Premises. ISDE Bangladesh with the assistance of Bangladesh Shishu Adudikar Forum-BSAF and TDH Netherlands.

     

    Mr. S M Nazer Hossain, ADAB Central EC Member & Executive Director, ISDE Bangladesh presided over the discussion meeting, while Mr. Afsar Khan, President District Social Entrepreneur Council, ASHOKA USA fellow & Ex Board member of BSAF Mr. Quazi Iqbal Bahar Sabery, attended special gust. Amongst others Prodip Kr. Nath of board member of Sanowra Primary School, Krishna Proba Devi, Head mistress of Sanowra School, Shampa K Nahar of CSDF, Social worker saiful Khaled, Nizam Uddin, Bibuti Ranjan Barua, CAB Divisional Organizer Subrata K Bala and Pankaj Deb Nath, Divisional Child Forum were spoke on the occasion. The discussion was moderated by Md Jahangir Alam PC, ISDE Bangladesh.

      

    Speakers also demanding to develop separate procurement policy for child development and non profit procurement, otherwise the aims for social development will become forces to business. The disadvantaged children will not get any benefit from the projects.  They also emphasis to undertakes special steps withdrawn the children from hazardous child labour including domestic, welding factory, heavy industries labour also. Unified education systems for all children are most essential. Speakers urge the all concern to come forwards works for the disadvantaged children. Later the gust distributed prizes to the winners of the cultural and art competitions.

     

     

     

    Dated: October 10, 2009              Reported:        Md Jahangir Alam

                                                                             Programme Coordinator

     

     


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    [chottala.com] The intelligence factory: How America makes its enemies disappear [Harper’s Magazine]



    The intelligence factory:
    How America makes its enemies disappear

    By Petra Bartosiewicz

    Petra Bartosiewicz is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her last story for Harper's Magazine, "I.O.U. One Terrorist," appeared in the August 2005 issue.

    When I first read the U.S. government's complaint against Aafia Siddiqui, who is awaiting trial in a Brooklyn detention center on charges of attempting to murder a group of U.S. Army officers and FBI agents in Afghanistan, the case it described was so impossibly convoluted—and yet so absurdly incriminating—that I simply assumed she was innocent. According to the complaint, on the evening of July 17, 2008, several local policemen discovered Siddiqui and a young boy loitering about a public square in Ghazni. She was carrying instructions for creating "weapons involving biological material," descriptions of U.S. "military assets," and numerous unnamed "chemical substances in gel and liquid form that were sealed in bottles and glass jars." Siddiqui, an MIT-trained neuroscientist who lived in the United States for eleven years, had vanished from her hometown in Pakistan in 2003, along with all three of her children, two of whom were U.S. citizens. The complaint does not address where she was those five years or why she suddenly decided to emerge into a public square outside Pakistan and far from the United States, nor does it address why she would do so in the company of her American son. Various reports had her married to a high-level Al Qaeda operative, running diamonds out of Liberia for Osama bin Laden, and abetting the entry of terrorists into the United States. But those reports were countered by rumors that Siddiqui actually had spent the previous five years in the maw of the U.S. intelligence system—that she was a ghost prisoner, kidnapped by Pakistani spies, held in secret detention at a U.S. military prison, interrogated until she could provide no further intelligence, then spat back into the world in the manner most likely to render her story implausible. These dueling narratives of terrorist intrigue and imperial overreach were only further confounded when Siddiqui finally appeared before a judge in a Manhattan courtroom on August 5. Now, two weeks after her capture, she was bandaged and doubled over in a wheelchair, barely able to speak, because—somehow—she had been shot in the stomach by one of the very soldiers she stands accused of attempting to murder.

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    FINAL EDITION
    Twilight of the American Newspaper
    By Richard Rodriguez

    THE INTELLIGENCE FACTORY
    How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear
    By Petra Bartosiewicz

    PROSPEROUS FRIENDS
    A story by Christine Schutt

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