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Friday, March 19, 2010

[chottala.com] New book 'Maiden Voyage'



Dear Brothers/Sisters
 
Assalamu Alaikum
 
I would like to inform you with pleasure about my new book 'Maiden Voyage' that has just been published in Feb 2010 by Annesha Prokashan (Ph: 880-2-7124985). It is available in bookshops at:
 
1. Chittagong: Batighar near Cheragi pahar
2. Dhaka      : Various bookshops in New Market & Aziz Market
3. USA         : Muktodhara, Jackson Height, NY
4. UK           : Shangeeta Ltd, 22, Bricklane, London
 
In a word, it is a book of sea-profession/life stated through my maiden voyage (Bangladesh-USA-UK-Bangladesh) as a Cadet with MV Banglar Kakoli.
 
I have tried my level best to highlight all elements of a mariner's life at sea.
 
Bon Voyage!
 
Sajid Hussain
Marine Engineer


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Re: [chottala.com] Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way



What more can you expect from the so called 'economists'; all the analysis/paralysis after the fact......just wondering why didn't they raise concerns before the crisis happened? I bet before the crisis, these same class of economists were justifying how great the system was with all the financial derivative instruments!
 
Guess who are the few that sounded the warning bells long before the crisis - a high school drop out and one of the wealthiest investor in the world, Warren Buffet. I think he equated these slippery financial instruments to something like - FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!
 
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Subject: [chottala.com] Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way

 

Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way

Nonpartisan Group Led by Nobel Winner Calls for Stronger Financial Reforms

By Matthew Jaffe

March 03, 2010 "
ABC News" -- Even as many Americans still struggle to recover from the country's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, another crisis -- one that will be even worse than the current one -- is looming, according to a new report from a group of leading economists, financiers, and former federal regulators.

In the report, the panel, that includes Rob Johnson of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Finance and bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren, warns that financial regulatory reform measures proposed by the Obama administration and Congress must be beefed up to prevent banks from continuing to engage in high risk investing that precipitated the near collapse of the U.S. economy in 2008.

The report warns that the country is now immersed in a "doomsday cycle" wherein banks use borrowed money to take massive risks in an attempt to pay big dividends to shareholders and big bonuses to management -- and when the risks go wrong, the banks receive taxpayer bailouts from the government.

"Risk-taking at banks," the report cautions, "will soon be larger than ever."

Without more stringent reforms, "another crisis -- a bigger crisis that weakens both our financial sector and our larger economy -- is more than predictable, it is inevitable," Johnson says in the report, commissioned by the nonpartisan Roosevelt Institute.

The institute's chief economist, Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz, calls the report "an important point of departure for a debate on where we are on the road to regulatory reform."

The report blasts some of Washington's key players. Johnson writes, "Our government leaders have shown little capacity to fix the flaws in our market system." Two other panelists, Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT, and Peter Boone of the Centre for Economic Performance, voiced similar criticisms.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner "oversaw policy as the bubble was inflating," write Johnson and Boone, and "these same men are now designing our 'rescue.'"

The study says that "In 2008-09, we came remarkably close to another Great Depression. Next time we may not be so 'lucky.' The threat of the doomsday cycle remains strong and growing," they say. "What will happen when the next shock hits? We may be nearing the stage where the answer will be -- just as it was in the Great Depression -- a calamitous global collapse."

The panelists call for major banks to maintain liquid capital of at least 15 to 25 percent of their assets, the enactment of stiffer consequences for executives of bailout recipients and for government officials to start breaking up firms that grow too big.

In the report, Elizabeth Warren, who was chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, reiterates her calls for an independent agency to protect consumers from abusive Wall Street practices.

"While manufacturers have developed iPods and flat-screen televisions, the financial industry has perfected the art of offering mortgages, credit cards and check overdrafts laden with hidden terms that obscure price and risk," Warren writes. "Good products are mixed with dangerous products, and consumers are left on their own to try to sort out which is which. The consequences can be disastrous."

Frank Partnoy, a panelist from the University of San Diego, claims that "the balance sheets of most Wall Street banks are fiction." Another panelist, Raj Date of the Cambridge Winter Center for Financial Institutions Policy, argues that government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become "needlessly complex and irretrievably flawed" and should be eliminated. The report also calls for greater competition among credit rating agencies and increased regulation of the derivatives market, including requiring that credit-default swaps be traded on regulated exchanges.

With the Senate Banking Committee, led by Chris Dodd, D-Conn., poised to unveil its financial regulatory reform proposal sometime in the next week, the report calls on Congress to enact reforms strong enough to prevent another meltdown.

"Sen. Dick Durbin once said the banks 'owned' the Senate," says Johnson. "The next few weeks will determine whether or not that statement is true."






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[chottala.com] Fw: It’s about the Character of our Country--Call your rep re health care reform



    Please immediately call your respective Congressman and Senators supporting the health care reform.  It is very essential for the constituents/people living in states represented by Republic congressmen and senators. Please watch the very powerful speach by President Obama at the George Mason University, VA, today.   
    This is a historic opportunity, and please use your voice/vote to let your represenative know that you stand for affordable health care for all in the great country of ours!
    Regards,
                    Sultan  



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Re: FW: [chottala.com] BANGLADESH-CHINA DEALS !!!!

The real fact is that neither China nor India signs the agreement for the Interest of Bangladesh.

i)                     China signs the agreement with Bangladesh to do business & to get china's products market in Bangladesh.

ii)                   India signs the agreement with Bangladesh for security of India & to get market of Indian products in Bangladesh.

It will be wise to think & understand what interest has got Bangladesh by signing the agreement with China & India/
Is it for not thinking on signing the agreements that who is the Good Boss of Bangladesh either China or India
It will be wise for thinking what national security & economical benefits Bangladesh is getting from either India or China by signing the agreement.
 


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Subject: FW: [chottala.com] BANGLADESH-CHINA DEALS !!!!
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Received: Saturday, 20 March, 2010, 12:43 AM

 

Dear Mr. Mohammad Ali,

You can believe China than India as because India never used to keep thier promises in the past. We should hail P.M. Sk. Hasina as she is trying to keep a good relation with China. Her initiative of switching over a good relation with China is really appreciable.

Dowllah.

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From: manik195709@ yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:12:03 -0700
Subject: [chottala.com] BANGLADESH-CHINA DEALS !!!!

Respected Readers,
Heartfelt congratulations to Sheikh Hasina for signing three significant deals with China. This popular grand alliance govt. is in good relation with all the super powers !! This happened due to the pragmatic, prudent leadership of Sheikh Hasina. I wonder why anti-Awami League elements are now ALOOF about the China tour!! There are no outcries or outbursts with this tour --------is Bangladesh  not selling its dignity to China now ? Their outcries&outbursts are only with INDIA !!!!
Please open the link below for China deals in details :
 
 
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Dr. M. Ali Manik


 



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FW: [chottala.com] BANGLADESH-CHINA DEALS !!!!



Dear Mr. Mohammad Ali,

You can believe China than India as because India never used to keep thier promises in the past. We should hail P.M. Sk. Hasina as she is trying to keep a good relation with China. Her initiative of switching over a good relation with China is really appreciable.

Dowllah.

.

  

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From: manik195709@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:12:03 -0700
Subject: [chottala.com] BANGLADESH-CHINA DEALS !!!!

Respected Readers,
Heartfelt congratulations to Sheikh Hasina for signing three significant deals with China. This popular grand alliance govt. is in good relation with all the super powers !! This happened due to the pragmatic, prudent leadership of Sheikh Hasina. I wonder why anti-Awami League elements are now ALOOF about the China tour!! There are no outcries or outbursts with this tour --------is Bangladesh  not selling its dignity to China now ? Their outcries&outbursts are only with INDIA !!!!
Please open the link below for China deals in details :
 
 
Regards,
Dr. M. Ali Manik


 



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FW: [chottala.com] Bangladesh-born accused of BA terror plot



Yes Mr. Mohammad Rabby,

Nothing to feel pain as he is not Bangladesh National now. He is now a British National with a British Passport. So long he was Bangladesh National, he was not a terrorist. His name is in the terrorist list as soon as he became British National. So he should be regarded as a terrorist from British, not from Bangladesh.

Regards,

Dowllah. 

 
 

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:11:13 +1100
Subject: RE: [chottala.com] Bangladesh-born accused of BA terror plot

 
 
It is very painfull to see - to believe a bangladeshi's name in the terrorist list.... i pray to God "THEY PROOVE WRONG".
 
regards... 

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:19:18 -0800
Subject: [chottala.com] Bangladesh-born accused of BA terror plot

 

London, Mar 11 (bdnews24.com)—A Bangladesh-born computer software developer for British Airways appeared in a London court on Thursday accused of planning suicide bombings and his own martyrdom.

Rajib Karim (30) volunteered to work during the BA's cabin crew strike, the City of Westminister Magistrates Court heard. It is alleged he was plotting with his terrorist bosses abroad "to commit an atrocity".

He is charged with conspiring to prepare acts of terrorism in Britain, preparing for terrorism overseas and fund-raising for a terrorist organisation. One charge involves the UK and the other alleges that he plotted with contacts in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Yemen.

Karim, of Newcastle upon Tyne, deliberately stayed in Britain, obtained a passport and getting a job at the airline to further the conspiracy, the court heard.

He was arrested by officers from Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command, working with colleagues in the North-East, on February 25.

They swooped on the office complex where he worked in Newcastle and searched his home in the city in north east England. Forensic experts are continuing to sift through hundreds of files held on computers seized from his workplace and home. Inquiries are also understood to be under way in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Yemen to trace others allegedly involved.


Prosecutor Colin Gibbs told the court that the charge sheet alleges Karim shared information about his work, including security measures, and offered to take advantage of planned strikes by BA staff to join the airline's cabin crew. All offences are alleged to have taken place between April 2006 and last month.

At the city's court Karim, a well-built men with a thin beard and closely-cropped hair, wearing a black fleece, spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth in the 15-minute hearing. His solicitor James Nicolls said he did not want his client's address made public for fear of reprisals against his young family. He did not apply for bail. No formal order was put in place banning its publication.

District Judge Timothy Workman remanded Karim in custody and the case was adjourned until 26 March at the Old Bailey court in London. Scotland Yard also arrested three men in Slough, Berkshire, during the inquiry. They were released without charge on Tuesday.

London, Mar 11 (bdnews24.com)—A Bangladesh-born computer software developer for British Airways appeared in a London court on Thursday accused of planning suicide bombings and his own martyrdom.

Rajib Karim (30) volunteered to work during the BA's cabin crew strike, the City of Westminister Magistrates Court heard. It is alleged he was plotting with his terrorist bosses abroad "to commit an atrocity".

He is charged with conspiring to prepare acts of terrorism in Britain, preparing for terrorism overseas and fund-raising for a terrorist organisation. One charge involves the UK and the other alleges that he plotted with contacts in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Yemen.

Karim, of Newcastle upon Tyne, deliberately stayed in Britain, obtained a passport and getting a job at the airline to further the conspiracy, the court heard.

He was arrested by officers from Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command, working with colleagues in the North-East, on February 25.

They swooped on the office complex where he worked in Newcastle and searched his home in the city in north east England. Forensic experts are continuing to sift through hundreds of files held on computers seized from his workplace and home. Inquiries are also understood to be under way in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Yemen to trace others allegedly involved.


Prosecutor Colin Gibbs told the court that the charge sheet alleges Karim shared information about his work, including security measures, and offered to take advantage of planned strikes by BA staff to join the airline's cabin crew. All offences are alleged to have taken place between April 2006 and last month.

At the city's court Karim, a well-built men with a thin beard and closely-cropped hair, wearing a black fleece, spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth in the 15-minute hearing. His solicitor James Nicolls said he did not want his client's address made public for fear of reprisals against his young family. He did not apply for bail. No formal order was put in place banning its publication.

District Judge Timothy Workman remanded Karim in custody and the case was adjourned until 26 March at the Old Bailey court in London. Scotland Yard also arrested three men in Slough, Berkshire, during the inquiry. They were released without charge on Tuesday.

bdnews24.com/snp/rah/1335h

 




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