الأهرام آثارت قضيتهم منذ عدة أيام انتحار أحد الأصحاء في مستشفي الخانكة بعد رفض أهله تسلمه‏!

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الأهرام آثارت قضيتهم منذ عدة أيام انتحار أحد الأصحاء في مستشفي الخانكة بعد رفض أهله تسلمه‏!

كتب ـ حسـام زايـد‏:‏


لم تمر ايام معدودة علي مانشرته الأهرام بتاريخ‏9‏ أغسطس الحالي تحت عنوان أصحاء مستشفي الأمراض النفسية‏...‏ يرفضهم الاهل


وتحدثت عن‏19‏ مريضا سابقا أفرج عنهم ليغادروا مستشفي الخانكة بعد أن أتموا علاجهم وأصبح من حقهم العيش في حياة هادئة سوية مع ذويهم الا أن ذلك لم يحدث ورفض تسلمهم الأهل ليس لشيء إلا لأن المرضي النفسيين ضحايا المرض سييء السمعة


‏ وكانت تهدف المقالة إلي إدخال الرحمة في قلوب الأهل واستلام ذويهم ليكملوا حياتهم في هدوء‏.‏الا انه لم يستجب سوي ابن واحد تسلم والده أمس الأول من مستشفي الخانكة‏.



‏ ولكن هناك مأساة حقيقية علي الجانب الآخر قد حدثت حيث انتحر احد هؤلاء الأصحاء الـ‏19‏ أمس الأول أيضا بعد أن فقد الأمل في رحمة الأهل او المجتمع فقرر أن ينهي آلامه بطريقته الخاصة‏!!



‏ المنتحر يدعي عامر السيد عامر وعمره‏50‏ سنة حصل علي الإفراج عام‏2006‏ وكان يعاني من حالة فصام عقلي أدي الي ارتكابه جريمة تعد علي شخص وإصابته بجرح يحتاج للعلاج أكثر من‏21‏ يوما حكم عليه بإيداعه إحدي المصحات النفسية لعلاجه منذ عام‏96.


‏وقد استغل انقطاع الكهرباء بمستشفي الخانكة لمدة‏10‏ دقائق امس الأول وشنق نفسه بتلفيحته الصعيدية التي كان يرتديها مستخدما شباك الحمام‏.


‏وأوضح الدكتور ناصر لوزة امين عام الصحة النفسية ان فريق التمريض وجده عند عودة التيار الكهربائي فاقدا للوعي ولكنه علي قيد الحياة فتم نقله الي مستشفي الخانكة المركزي لإسعافه ولكنه لفظ أنفاسه هناك‏,‏ هل هذه النهاية؟‏...‏


فهناك مازال‏17‏ نزيلا أصحاء بمستشفي الخانكة يحتاجونه نظرة رحمة من الأهل والمجتمع قبل أن يلقوا

نفس المصير المشئوم

“Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.”

People, please, I beg of you all, give others a break...no one is really bad enough to have to suffer through this...

الله يرحم المريض الي انتحر .... بغض النظر عن سيئاته... بس ما قدر يستحمل...و مرضه رجع له... حسبي الله و نعم الوكيل... البشر ما بقي في قلوبهم رحمة!!

I hate my blackberry!!

I just got a blueberry...oops I mean a blackberry phone because I missed this stupid important meeting at work.

So, unfortunately, I am stuck with the one item I have feared, hated, loathed, and made fun of during the past two years of my life.

lol!! I have not blogged in such a long while. Yet, I don't think that really matters as fan base is not that large.

Yet, your good old blackberry ticked me off enough to get back on the wagon.

The model I have is not new. It is so bulky it hurts holding and trying to maneuver it with one hand. I need to figure out how to use both hands to call, send text, and email.

Moreover, the bluetooth in it does not work and no one knows exactly why! Hooooary for me. So, I guess I need to figure out the "long"cut of transferring my old ring tons and pictures to the new handset.

My biggest fear is that I would have to check my work mail every two seconds. I am not in the mood to raise the stress hormones more than the status-quo.

I just hope that whatever happens, that I do not end up like so:

Luck: good or bad?

Luck is a crazy thought people have pursued since the beginning of time.


All of us hope for luck. In fact, each culture developed its own icons of luck: the Irish with leprechaun, the Chinese with bamboo sticks, Italians with fountains, and Americans and the ever-famous lady of luck.

Yet, many questions simply cannot help but to arise in such an occasion. Is luck the only drive that keeps us moving forward? Moreover, is bad luck really that bad?

A few years back a friend of mine asked me about my life and how did I get to where I am today. To him it was luck, yet, to me it was God's care, for my life was not all good luck. At certain times, it was filled vicious attacks of stinking bummers!

There is this Arabic saying "تأتي الرياح بما لا تشتهيه السفن", which literally translates into that wind does not always blows in the direction of one's sailing.

Life's unfairness is not a bad thing, although at that point we just can't help thinking so. However, bad luck may benefit us in our life more than good luck ever will. It would push us to refuse to sit still and accept reality as it is. In fact, it pressures us to accelerate with the creation of our reality, the way we like it.

As a leprechaun in one of Charmed episodes once said "Bad luck helps people just as much as good luck, may be, even more so, for it is out of adversity that people learn and grow."

With that note, I greet you good night!

Oh yeah....... and GOOD LUCK! ;)

The Fed-part 2

Hence, as noted in the last article, the First Bank of the United States was not popular with the banking community of America of the early 1800s. Therefore, when the advocates against it, primarily the state-chartered banks, managed to gain support inside of the Congress in order not to renew the bank's license for another 20 year period.

As the Arabic saying goes "Once the cat is gone, the mice play", the number of unsupervised state-chartered banks rose 180% by 1814! One can only imagine, the extent to which the dollar must have depreciated with all the fraud activities taking place in an uncontrolled banking environment. The mistrust in the community rose when some of these banks refused to provide its clients with specie payment, i.e. refund their savings in gold or silver on request. To the modern banking clients, this meant that you could not withdraw your savings if you needed to do so.

In a counteractive move, the Congress had to, five years after having dissolved the First Bank of the United States, establish the Second Bank of the United States.

Therefore, in order to stabilize the deteriorating money supply in the economy, the Second Bank of the United States was given the privilege to issue money. With time, the currency of the Second Bank become the most reliable choice of transacting in America amidst all the confusion.

Moreover, the new institution decided to strike with an iron fist on all banks for their specie backing in an attempt to try and reinstate the population trust in such institutions. However, banks in the southern and western areas of the county considered that discriminatory action, especially when northern banks were instructed not accept their inter-banking transactions in the case there were no silver or gold backing.

The Second Bank was successful in achieving its objectives just as was the first, despite them being both private, not governmental, institutions. However, opponents against any control over the industry were many, the most famous of which were presidential candidate Andrew Jackson who used the dilemma as the winning card in the 1832 election by vowing to dismantle the Second Bank's. This time around, requesting this from the Congress was not the easiest solution, instead President Jackson decided to withdraw the US government's Treasury funds from the Second Bank and deposit it in regular state-owned banks, thereby undermining its existence.

Ironically speaking, Jackson's face is printed on the twenty dollar bill that is issued by the Treasury department controlled by the current Fed's monetary policies.

However, after the dismiss of the Second Bank of the United States, the money supply was left once again to the vicious attacks of fraud and unreliable banking institutions.

To be continued...

Source: http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Eco_Banking_and_Fed.htm

Salam

Hello to all those who accessed my blog in the past two days.

I would like to thank you for visiting. It is quite nice to notice that I managed to get 37 people (not just hits) to visit my newborn creation.

I know that many may think that I should be writing in Arabic since it is my mother tongue.

But, I am still new at all this. Moreover, the topics that I chose so far (although one of them is only 1/3 complete) refer to issues outside the strict realms of our Arab nation.

I am also trying to explain my point of view as an Arab brought up in a somewhat westernized upbringing.

The only favor I would like to ask is for you to comment in any way possible, for I would like to have this new hobby to be one of the most productive past-times.

So, please feel free to make this a richer experience for both me and you.

The Fed-part1

The Federal Reserve was a marvel to me ever since I started studying economics in school. It was just unbelievable how an institution could pull a nation, let alone, perhaps the whole world out of one of the biggest financial setbacks of the twentieth century, the Great Depression.

However, in school teachers only care about completing the curriculum. They do not, unfortunately, have the time and effort to give students a bit of a background regarding such interesting topics.

Therefore, the following series are aimed at giving the reader a comprehensive understanding of the American example of a centralized banking institution. This does not necessarily mean that the Fed is the only case to follow, but it is simply the institution with which I am most familiar.

Anyhow, historically, the American banking industry was never organized by any overseeing controlling agency like it is today.

The banking industry in the early days of the colonies consisted of entrepreneurial institutions that were state-chartered but almost unsupervised. These organizations had some extreme financial rights, such as printing money. In 1775, North Carolina had 17 different forms of money, Tobacco, British coinage, and that produced by its local banks.

The states allowed the banks to issue money depending on the amount of gold and silver. To non-economists, this means that the supply of money is almost endless. However, not in the good sense! Yet, rather in the sense that the more any of these banks would issue one more piece of currency, the less valuable it would become. People can no longer depend on the purchasing power of money. A very dangerous concept, not just economically, but also in reality!

The first voice that called for some control over such freelance institutions, was Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of treasury, in 1790.

Hamilton's suggestion was to start an institution that would:
1. Control the number of US commercial banks and their activities.
2. Establish the credit for the U.S. government.
3. Regulate the country’s money supply by resolving the issue of fiat currency issued by the Continental congress before and during the Revolutionary war.
4. Relief the government form the revolutionary war's debt and unify the different currencies issued by different states.

Although Hamilton managed to pass his idea through the congress, he did face opposition from many people. His main source of opposition came from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They disliked this institution’s independence from the government and suspected that the bank may favorite the rich class rather than be concerned with the conditions of the general public.

The First Bank of the United States did do its job according to what was required in its charter, but, advocates against the idea of a centralized bank later won the second round and the concept of a centralized bank ceased to exist momentarily.

Yet, what happened thereafter was a surge in the number of state-chartered banks. Also, the cases of fraud and bank note depreciation rose due to banks refusing to issue notes to its clients for their deposit of silver and gold.

A funny rumor is that Hamilton’s ghost haunted the building of the First Bank of the United States after his death in a pistol duel with President Aaron Burr in 1804. Having the building blessed by a Catholic priest still did not stop Hamilton from appearing sporadically until this very day.

To be continued...

Sources: http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_1bank.htm

Do not tell us how to survive...

The other day, lazing about watching TV on a Saturday morning, this dude, with the biggest red hair I have ever seen on a guy, Ian Klaus, gets introduced on Good morning America as Chelsea Clinton’s ex-boyfriend. Then, as the host goes on, our red-headed friend is further presented as the hero of all heroes for volunteering to travel to teach Iraqis the American culture and language despite the war and security issues that followed the invasion.

It is true that in every invasion, the invader imposes his culture and language on the invadee. However, the pretentious redhead was just way over the top by saying that he was on a mission to teach Iraqis culture.

Mr. Klaus had to enlighten young Iraqis who had long-suffered from Saddam’s oppression and the embargo on Iraq in order to quench their thirst about the western culture, as it is the only culture from which it is worth to be enlightened.

Once dear Mr. Klaus got to the Kurdish area of Iraq, his first task was to assess to what extent are his students well-informed about the American culture and language, specifically, American pop culture. It was to the host’s amazement is that those poor Iraqis did not know who Frank Sinatra was! Their only two facts about American pop-culture were Elvis and the Titanic (which is British by the way).

This explains how Mr. Klaus arrived at the title of his Iraqi memoirs "Elvis is Titanic".

Well, to explain my disdain at the whole interview, it should be known to the uninformed audience is that Kurdistan Iraq has received its chance to behave as separate country within greater Iraq, where security is at its highest strength, schools sing the Kurdish Anthem and sport its flag. In other words, what you see in the news does not occur in Kurdistan.

Moreover, not many people around the world would know who Frank Sinatra is, heck, ask an American 14 year-old and you may not get an affirmative answer! Every nation has its own culture. Getting acquainted with the culture of others does not mean that you are culture-less or viceversa.

It is quite a shame to hear such logic in the 21st century, especially when an intruder of 200+ years invaded a nation that is as old as existence itself.

Therefore, Mr. Klaus, please do not tell us how to survive, for we have survived long before you even existed.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=3536856&page=1