Posted by: adonis49 on: May 31, 2011
“Arab Spring” revolts overflowing to Southern European States: Are we confusing causes and catalysts? In the last four months, I published a dozen articles on the “Arab Spring” revolts related to Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Greece…One of the posts is: http://adonis49.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/the-january-revolution-of-the-century-great-people-of-egypt/ I stated that the non-violent and determined revolt in Egypt [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 31, 2011
A marketing lesson from the apocalypse It is strange but true: Almost all apocalyptic predicators in the last four decades are generated in the USA, with rare exceptions. The American evangelist Harold Camping, 80 year-old, was baffled that his prediction of the second coming of Jesus failed in May 21: He had spent $140,000 on [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 30, 2011
Placebo is neutral and inexpensive? Think again! Placebo are supposed to have neutral effects in double-blind experiments on the effects of medicines, and they are thought to be very inexpensive products. First, do you know that 80% of published peer-reviewed clinical research failed to describe the contents in ingredients and the components of placebo used in the [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 30, 2011
Part 2. Why the “Arabs” in the US are the most educated and the richest? The latest statistics performed in the US, generated from the latest census, have sent shock waves in the US communities because of widespread discrimination of “Arabs” in the medias. The statistics demonstrated the following facts, relative to the 5.3 million [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 30, 2011
“What did I learn from blogging?” The blurred line between writing and publishing? Future of public health: From a Commencement address in Chicago Speakers lucubration at TEDx meeting at LAU Beirut, May 26, 2011 Feudal system adopting modern financial “tools”: The case of Island referendum Four years later: World Financial and economic conditions deteriorating further Chicago: Short history of public health [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 30, 2011
“What did I learn from blogging?” The blurred line between writing and publishing? I read a post a week ago http://malindaessex.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/3-things-ive-learned-from-a-month-of-blogging/ and it reminded me to rethink why I am at it, after 2,200 articles published. The post read: “Today marks one month since I started this blog, so I decided to take a minute [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 27, 2011
What is the future of public health in Chicago? Commissioner Choukair said in the commencement address: “During my tenure at the Chicago Department of Public Health, which has been about a year and a half so far, I have stressed the importance of focusing on public health strategies that effectively address the actual causes of [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 27, 2011
Speakers lucubrations at TEDx meeting at LAU Beirut, May 26, 2011 I attended another gathering of TEDx. This time, Patsy, William, and the committee for organizing a TEDx Beirut this September, have decided to hold it at LAU Beirut, the new business school building. The idea was to expose, promote,disseminate, and associate as many participants [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 27, 2011
Feudal system adopting modern financial schemes:The case of Island vote on referendum. In 2007, the average income of the around 350,000 “citizens” of Island was 60% higher than the average US citizen, and was ranked 5th in the world. The gas guzzling 4*4 were crowding the streets. Iceland was a feudal system for 600 years, [...]
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 26, 2011
Four years later: World Financial and economic conditions deteriorating In 2010, the US witnessed economic growth of 3.2% , customer consumption growth of 4.4%, and a doping increase of export of 8%. Normally, the US should have paid this monetary creation with hyper-inflation, worse than what Germany experienced in 1920. Chairman Ben Bernarke declared this [...]
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