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Brainwashed , once again!

Who knows the truth!

The only thing we need to do is not to pass judgements but pray for the departed one's on all sides ; and also acknowledge that time and nature will pass judgment on the accuser and the accused.

It's the oldest trick in PR: If you want to generate publicity, generate a statistic. Statistics get attention. They lodge in people's minds. They take on the status of facts. And by the time somebody comes along to check your work -- well, it's too late. The stat leads the evening news. The correction? Page A13.

 

And so it is with the new study from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins claiming 655,000 "excess deaths" in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

 

Most Iraq experts estimate the civilian death toll in Iraq since 2003 as somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000, with the vast majority of these casualties inflicted by the terror tactics of the insurgents: car bombings, assassinations and so on.

 

The Bloomberg report implies that more than 90% of Iraq's casualties have gone -- not only unreported by the government -- but unnoticed.

 

How was this number generated?

 

The Bloomberg team hired Iraqi interviewers to visit 1,849 houses in Iraqi cities. They asked the householders to tell them the number of deaths in their families in the year before the overthrow of Saddam and then in the three years since. They compared the two numbers, arrived at a figure of 547 "excess" deaths, and extrapolated that number to all of Iraq to reach their 655,000 figure.

 

The technical term for the kind of work the Bloomberg team did is "cluster sampling." When conducted properly, it can produce useful information.

 

But the Bloomberg team has a record of doing their work improperly. In 2004, for example, they used the cluster method after the second battle of Fallujah. Their technique suggested that the town had suffered 200,000 civilian casualties -- which is remarkable, considering that the town had a population of 300,000 before the battle, of whom 70% to 90% fled before the battle began.

 

The Fallujah numbers were quietly discarded by the Bloomberg team. But that embarrassing mistake does not seem to have taught them caution in 2006. If anything, their past errors seem only to have encouraged them to become more reckless than ever.

 

The Bloomberg team stresses that in 92% of the cases where a family claimed a fatality, the family produced a death certificate. The Bloomberg team seems not to realize that this claim undercuts their work rather than supporting it.

 

The Bloomberg team suggests that Iraq is such a scene of chaos and violence that 600,000-plus people (eight times the number killed at Hiroshima!) could die without anybody noticing. And yet at the same time they assume that Iraq is so well-organized that 92% of that vast number of unnoticed fatalities were issued a death certificate by an Iraqi morgue.

 

On the one hand: Rwanda-like slaughter. On the other: the paperwork all fastidiously completed. Does that make sense?

 

The Bloomberg survey was not carried out by American poll takers. They hired local Iraqis. Who were these people? How did they do their work? Who knows? But we do know that many Iraqis who work for foreign news organizations or non-governmental organizations have ideological or sectarian agendas. Many others simply find it impossible to do accurate work in the dangerous conditions of Iraq.

 

It's not hard then to imagine that the survey takers simplified their job by paying a visit to the local sheik or imam and telling him: "We want to talk to people in the neighbourhood with death certificates for the loss of a family member." The sheik or imam might well have been able to assemble a dozen local families with death certificates. But that would not be a sample of the local population with a death certificate. It would be the totality of the local population with a death certificate. You can't extrapolate from it; you have already counted it all.

 

But never mind. Suppose it is all true. What would it prove?

 

The media who have reported on the Bloomberg team's report echo that team's argument that the civilian deaths in Iraq should lie on the conscience of the United States and its coalition partners. But it is the coalition fighting forces that are defending and protecting the Iraqi civilian population. It is the Baathists and Islamists who detonate bombs, slit throats and massacre worshippers at religious shrines.

 

The bloodshed in Iraq is the work of those who hope to profit from a return to dictatorship, not the work of those who have liberated Iraq from dictatorship. Even if true, the Bloomberg report would vindicate the American war effort and shame the insurgency. And it is to the shame of the international media that, in their eagerness to disparage the United States, they would so credulously broadcast a report that seeks to absolve the real murderers of the innocents of Iraq of the guilt of their crimes.

DO NOT EQUALIZE HINDUS, JEWS, BUDDHIST OR ANYONE ELSE WITH THEM.

 

They are PARASITES.

Do you know HOW Parasite lives? It attachs itself onto the body of its victim, slowly drains blood off the victims and lives by mimicking that their are vital parts of the victim. That is Parasite.

 

Muslims are parasite on this World.

The Parasite pokes it's nose in others affairs;

plunges its's head in the sand , afraid of all and sundry

calls anyone it pleases a else a parasite.

Guess who is the real parasite!!

US invasion is for the whole good of Middle east!

Brainwashed!!!

Should we use the word Dakshina or honororium ,in place of the word salary , we will not talk like this!

Should we say he is Executive Officer, CEO, or GM , or Adminstrator of the temple we may not talk as we are doing now.

There is no profit sharing talked about;

why do we go into topics like this? Can someone tell me , please.

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Swami Chinmayananda's Gita may meet your needs

and also

Gita Sadhak Sanjivani published by Gita Press

This is not new!

Way back, in Madurai Robert di Nobli( (1577- 1656 ) feigned as a hindu Sanyasi and wrote the "Fifth Veda" . He called himself a Roman Brahmin -

Further going still backwards into history - the first hijack was "Sunday" - Worship on Sunday - The institution of Christmas on 25th, December and Easter .

Its worth reading:

we have only a structured system

Knowledge -> Wisdom -> Mysticsm -> Knowledge -> -> ->

*We could be terminated anywhere in the chain and not progress any further

* We may cross any syage by sheer intution

when we go over to another relm

Logic after being subjected to)(>< )discrimination -> final observation

Can there be any link between logic and Mysticsm?

How do I go beyond this Circle?

One more story of the lamb in the tigers skin

There is an urgent need to see that the "Gospel of Judas< is kept out of public debate and acceptance.

The Reason:

The Christian of todayshould not want to think beyond the bible and go to any other document related to Christ-

The early Christians were from Kerala , dating back to the first century AD -

They had no linkage with the Pope.

What would happen, should they start digging back, and influence christianity -

Just think it over

God has not asked you to eat!

You eat on your own to meet your urge to eat!!

Now you ask - Does God want me to eat meat!!!

Nadi Astrology is not wrong - it all depends on the the

Proficiency of the Astrologer and the inputs you have provided Certificates do not establish proficiency nor can you be sure of your own inputs. Blame yourself and the Astrologer but not the Science.

The beloved Guru's take on to themselves the ills of all the devotee's and have accumulated some past karma too over which they have no control.

Suffering is on this account and for which we need to remain greatful

Why do you want to Label yourself.

You are doing what is natural keep reading the Srimad Bhagavatam with its interpretations

This question raises two issues TO BE DEFINED

' Aryan ' and second " Ancient Aryan Times"

The "Aryan" concept is a product of historical creative Speculation and any answer based on this would be as much a speculation.

Ancient Aryan times is not hence definative

To replace Aryan with Hindu would be equally speculative

as it assumes that the whole country had a monolithic religion or Society called Hindu. wheras hindu just represents all peopple living in a geographically bounded area.

Now should we say "Ancient Vedic" - well Veda was taught to only those competent to learn and was from master to pupil and was hence limited to a few learned few,

We are left with "Ancient Civilisation in India" - It had to be a mixture of all types of People given the diversity of land and the tribes that would have have lived in different parts of the country; and diversity in food habits is to be expected.

Further if we are to find a common thread , it can be from the Puranas only;A dating system has been possible with the Srimad Bhagavatam and it's prudrnt to expect that all who were classed as rakshasas ate Meat and all others could have been otherwise.

Were the ancient arians of India(some 8000 years ago) great eaters of meat?... at the time of the arians india was a strong super power....

Giving a wider publicity to this would help many

Could you let me have the referance to this article

thanks

Three women in North Florida, turned up at hospitals over a 5-day period,

all with the same symptoms. Fever, chills, and vomiting, followed by muscular collapse, paralysis, and finally, death.

There were no outward signs of trauma.

Autopsy results showed toxicity in the blood.

These women did not know each other, and seemed to have nothing in common.

It was discovered, however, that they had all visited the same Restaurant(Olive Garden) within days of their deaths.

The health department descended on the restaurant, shutting it down. The food, water, and air conditioning were all inspected and tested, to no avail.

The big break came when a waitress at the restaurant was rushed to the hospital with similar symptoms.

She told doctors that she had been on vacation, and had only went to the restaurant to pick up her check.

She did not eat or drink while she was there, but had used the restroom. That is when one toxicologist, remembering an article he had read, drove out to the restaurant, went into the restroom, and lifted the toilet seat.

Under the seat, out of normal view, was a small spider.The spider was captured and brought back to the lab, where it was determined to be the Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata), so named because of its reddened flesh color.

This spider's venom is extremely toxic, but can take several days to take effect. They live in cold, dark, damp climates, and toilet rims provide just the right atmosphere. Several days later a lawyer from Jacksonville showed up at a hospital emergency room.

Before his death, he told the doctor, that he had been away on business, had taken a flight from Indonesia, changing planes in Singapore, before returning home. He did not visit (Olive Garden), while there. He did, as did all of the other victims,

have what was determined to be a puncture wound, on his right buttock.

Investigators discovered that the flight he was on had originated in India.

The Civilian Aeronautics Board (CAB) ordered an immediate inspection of

the toilets of all flights from India, and discovered the Two-Striped Telamonia

(Telamonia dimidiata) spider's nests on 4 different planes!

So please, before you use a public toilet, lift the seat to check for spiders.

It can save your life!

 

 

 

Spiriuality is not an easy path

*To get out from worldy pleasures is difficult.

*When someone attempts to become spiritual , obstructions are common and discouragement is plenty,

* As long as you respond to or react ; you promote their methods

and encourage them.

* Respond back with a smile at each of their attempts and a pleasing " thank you" and see the change.

I mean all my life

even as an aspiring devotee I have been bullied by friends,family and institutional authorities.

How can I put an end to all of this hellish pattern of abusive behaviour perpetuating itself again and again ?

Homeopathy helps sometimes

What causes it, is there a spiritual cause, what can remedy feeling ill 2-5 days of every month? (Quite a problem with employers)

The best Indian travel guide to date I have found is by ('Lonely Planet'- India.) You can obtain these books via any good book shop and it tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about accomodation and travel in India it's essential my copy is dog eared, and has been borrowed by many a devotee. Check it out. Don't travel without it....

ananga manjari devi dasi

May I help you

How long does it take to drive from Kolkata to Jagannath Puri? Is it a complicated, broken road, or is it fairly straightforward.

Many trains from Howrah to Bhadrak ; Bhadrak is very near to puri

travel by road or rail

If you still need them, Wait till November 2006, I shall be back in India, and I shall arrange for them.

Remind me in Nov 2006

I have been expecting Sanskrit text to speech to be popular shortly

Are Pandas learned!