American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA)

American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA)

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Holistic medicine is relied upon by a large number of people.

A short explanation of it from Wikipedia.

Holistic health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Holistic health

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Holistic health is a concept in medical practice upholding that all aspects of people's needs, psychological, physical and social should be taken into account and seen as a whole. As defined above, the holistic view on treatment is widely accepted in medicine.^[1] A different definition, claiming that disease is a result of physical, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental imbalance, is used in alternative medicine.^[2]

Contents [hide] 1 Alternative medicine 2 Holistic health practices 3 Criticism 4 References 5 External links 5.1 Medical publications 5.2 Alternative publications 5.3 Holistic health resources

[edit]Alternative medicine

In alternative medicine, it is believed that the spiritual aspect should also be taken into account when assessing a person's overall well-being.^[3]This spiritual aspect is claimed not to be associated with any religious ideology.^[4]

[edit]Holistic health practices

Some of the practices of alternative holistic health include, but are not limited to:

• natural diet and herbal remedies
• nutritional supplements
• exercise
• relaxation
• psycho-spiritual counseling
• meditation
• breathing exercises
• acupuncture
• homeopathy
• massage therapy - including Chi Nei Tsang

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[edit]Criticism

Major medical organizations recommend that if holistic medicine is to be used at all, it should be used only in conjunction with conventional medicine and not as a replacement.^[6]

[edit]References

1. ^ Biomed Central The perceived meaning of a (w)holistic view among general practitioners and district nurses in Swedish primary care: a qualitative study
2. ^ American Holistic Medical Association
3. ^ American Holistic Medical Association
4. ^ Holistic Health Solutions
5. ^http://www.holistic.com/holistic/learning.nsf/ed8732a8bed2f2a4872569060015ca74/6d6ad242c4e75c9c87256b8f00021919!OpenDocument
6. ^ http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/guidelines-for-using-complementary-and-alternative-methods

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Forbes: Ten Fun Facts About Drones

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Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff

Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide

Tech 2/09/2012 @ 12:25PM

Sending out a drone from the USS Comstock (Photo credit: Official U.S. Navy Imagery)

Drones are coming to America in force! (Thanks to Congressional pushing.) So you’d better be ready for them. Here are 10 fun facts about drones from recent news and gleaned from attending a trade organization conference Wednesday. Members of the military spoke to an audience comprised mainly of drone industry folks about how they’re using “weapons that both look and shoot” abroad and how they hope to ease those drones’ transition into U.S. skies.

1. There could be 30,000 drones overhead in the U.S. by 2020, reports the Washington Times.

2. Reaper drones’ “unblinking stare” can currently take in a 4 kilometer by 4 kilometer area — about the size of Fairfax — but that will soon be expanded, said Air Force Lieutenant General Larry James, to a 10 kilometer by 10 kilometer stare, or two-thirds the size of Washington, D.C. They call this the “Gorgon Stare” — named for the terrifying females of Greek mythology, the best known being the snake-headed Medusa. No drones have the ability to turn you to stone with their gaze (yet).

Protesters outside of the UASVI conference

3. There’s a fair amount of disagreement about what to call drones. The industry refers to them as UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). Though one manufacturer, MLB Company, which launched its business in the late 1990s when no one knew what a “UAV” was and associated “drones” only with Office Space, coined the name “spy planes” for the flying machines. The Air Force calls them RPAs (remote piloted aircraft) because “they aren’t unmanned; there are pilots involved,” protested one Air Force lieutenant general. When not talking about massive Predator type drones, but instead referring to the type you can fit in the trunk of your car, many call them sUAS (small unmanned air systems). Opponents meanwhile have coined the catchy “killer drones” to describe the not-so cuddly flying machines.

4. The surveillance industry wants drones to be more cuddly, though. In Britain, manufacturers have suggested painting drones bright colors as a way to make them seem friendlier and less reminiscent of war zones, reports The Guardian. Because Big Brother is a lot more appealing wearing hot pink, quips Slate.

The Northrop Grumman LEMV may be the world's largest unmanned aircraft. The all-seeing blimp is seven stories tall.

5. To drone manufacturers, resistance is futile… but hilarious. California Congressman Buck McKeon, a proud member of the Unmanned Systems Caucus, gave a keynote hoorah at the AUSVI conference Wednesday morning. His speech lamenting cuts to the military budget over the last 50 years was interrupted by a middle-aged woman who rushed the stage saying, “We want spending on education, not war.” This got a few laughs from the hundreds of drone industry members in the audience. As she was physically lifted and carried off the stage, she chanted, “Stop killer drones.” That got some boos and even heartier laughs from the audience.

6. The Air Force has 65,000 – 70,000 people working to process all of the data and footage it’s currently collecting from drones. Lt. Gen. James says the analysts’ work includes “watching life in Afghanistan and looking for patterns,” and that a Rand review suggested they need 100,000 people devoted to the task. The military hope is that better computer algorithms and software analysis can be developed to combat their drowning in data.

Aeroenvironment's Hummingbird drone is one of the smallest drones out there, though manufacturers are currently working on nano Bug-sized drones.

7. Cape Canaveral is now a drone base. Since the space program is now on a death watch, it’s good to know they’ve found a way to repurpose this base. U.S. Customs and Border Protection flies drones on our northern, southern, and southeastern borders. The base previously used primarily to launch shuttles is now a drone practice spot and sends out a General Atomic Guardian drone to monitor the SE border and fly over the ocean to make drug busts.

8. The FAA Reauthorization Act calls for six drone test sites around the U.S. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security plans to launch a site in June — likely in the Southeast — devoted to testing drones for use by first responders (local and state police, firefighters, etc.). DHS is looking to provide funds to industry partners so they can bring their drone technology in for test drives. This is how they will ensure that drones are safe for use — and have mastered the “sense and avoid” features that are so important to the FAA, so that a drone doesn’t fly into a plane engine or crash into a home — and how drones will more easily be making their way to your local police station.

Requests to the FAA to fly drones almost doubles each year. Congress has ordered the agency to speed up its process for granting those requests.

9. The Coast Guard thinks that drones will increase their prosecutions by 95%. Coast Guard Captain Chris Martino says the Coast Guard is currently restricted in its use of drones, and has to partner with the Navy to use theirs, but projects that integrating unmanned vehicles into the Coast Guard’s array of tools will increase their surveillance of U.S. waters by 70%, meaning they’ll catch (and prosecute) far more drug runners, among others.

“The 20th century was the era of manned aircraft; the 21st Century is the era of unmanned aircraft,” said Martino.

10. Drones can tase you, bro.

Nuclear Blackmail by Israel: New Nuclear Math: It’s About Time | Battleland | TIME.com

Nuclear Blackmail by Israel: New Nuclear Math: It’s About Time | Battleland | TIME.com

Tech_Journal: Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) - Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction: a Threat to Peace

"Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches." Ariel Sharon(2)

With between 200 and 500 thermonuclear weapons and a sophisticated delivery system, Israel has quietly supplanted Britain as the World's 5th Largest nuclear power, and may currently rival France and China in the size and sophistication of its nuclear arsenal. Although dwarfed by the nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and Russia, each possessing over 10,000 nuclear weapons, Israel nonetheless is a major nuclear power, and should be publically recognized as such.. Since the Gulf War in 1991, while much attention has been lavished on the threat posed by Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the major culprit in the region, Israel, has been largely ignored. Possessing chemical and biological weapons, an extremely sophisticated nuclear arsenal, and an aggressive strategy for their actual use, Israel provides the major regional impetus for the development of weapons of mass destruction and represents an acute threat to peace and stability in the Middle East. The Israeli nuclear program represents a serious impediment to nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation and, with India and Pakistan, is a potential nuclear flashpoint.(prospects of meaningful non-proliferation are a delusion so long as the nuclear weapons states insist on maintaining their arsenals,) Citizens concerned about sanctions against Iraq, peace with justice in the Middle East, and nuclear disarmament have an obligation to speak out forcefully against the Israeli nuclear program.

RT @MonicaAmarelo: ...300 nuclear weapons. ti.me/x0w5m5 @TIME @MonicaAmarelo On a par w/Israel? Drastically beneath Russia & China! SafiyahSafi Wed 15 Feb 10:15

The Obama admin is considering slashing the US arsenal to 300 nuclear weapons. Nuclear Math: It’s About Time ti.me/x0w5m5 via @TIME (RT by FAScientists), Wed 15 Feb 09:52

New Nuclear Math: It’s About Time | Battleland | TIME.com

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

New Nuclear Math: It’s About Time

By MARK THOMPSON | @MarkThompson_DC | February 15, 2012

Read more: http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/15/new-nuclear-math-its-about-time/#ixzz1mTXTSLsi

The Obama Administration is considering slashing the nation’s nuclear arsenal to as few as 300 deployed strategic nuclear weapons, Robert Burns of the AP reports. That’s an 80% cut from the 1,550 currently permitted under Washington’s treaty with the Russians.

Certain circles will scream it’s unilateral disarmament. But it seems plenty for everyday MADness. It might even bring back those heady days of 1991 when presidents George W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were scrapping nuclear weapons wholesale, and it seemed like there really might be a new world order.

A pair of Air Force analysts declared two years ago that the nation would be adequately defended by 311 deployed atomic weapons. If that’s not sufficient for this nation, we deserve the fate J. Robert Oppenheimer reckoned might be ours: “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Related Topics: China, Military, National Security, Pentagon, President Obama, Procurement, Russia

Read more: http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/15/new-nuclear-math-its-about-time/#ixzz1mTXTSLsi

See: Nuclear Blackmail

See: Nuclear Blackmail

And: Public domain: Robert Oppenheimer The spy and traitor.

Navy 'Rail Gun' On Track; Industry Tests Set For This Month

Navy 'Rail Gun' On Track; Industry Tests Set For This Month

WASHINGTON: The Navy's weapon of the future will take one step closer to reality this month, as service officials prepare to test fire the first industry-built prototype of its fabled Railgun.

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ONR testers will fire off a BAE Systems-built version of the weapon next week at the Navy's surface warfare center in Dahlgren, VA., according to Roger Ellis, head of the Railgun program at the Office of Naval Research's Air Warfare and Weapons department. Another rail gun variant built by defense firm General Atomics will arrive at Dahlgren sometime in April for testing, a service spokesman said. There is no word when Raytheon is expected to begin testing their rail gun variant. The Navy awarded the company a $10 million deal late last month to begin prototype work on the next-generation weapon. Live fire testing for both industry prototypes is scheduled to last for two months, Ellis said.

The Railgun is designed to shoot heavy artillery rounds usually fired by the batteries of heavy guns aboard U.S. warships. The difference is that instead of gunpowder, these rounds are propelled through a series of electromagnets lining the inside of the gun's barrel. The charge from the electromagnets propel the round -- likely the standard 155mm shell fielded by American destroyers -- through the barrel at upwards of Mach 7, once fully developed.

The Navy successfully completed live-fire tests of an early version of the weapon last December. During that test shot, the weapon was able to generate 33 megajoules of energy, service officials said at the time. That is enough energy to fire a projectile just over 110 nautical miles. During next week's test, ONR officials will look to fire rounds between 4,500 to 5,600 mph, Ellis said. He did not comment on how many rounds would be fired from either the BAE or General Atomics guns. But Ellis did note ONR testers planned to shoot "sufficient shots to verify barrel structural integrity and life."

Since the Railgun uses electromagnetic energy to fire, it theoretically could save the Navy millions in maintenance costs for the weapon. Service leaders could also save millions in ammunition costs, since it will not have to buy traditional rounds for the gun. These savings could be monumental as the Navy and the rest of DoD cope with looming budget cuts beginning this fiscal year.

See this link for history and further details: Tech_Journal: Ruin on Rails: The US Navy’s Rail Gun Project

See here for false flag attack on Iran:

World War III and the False Peace: IRAN: US/Israeli False Flag Attack May Be Underway | Veterans Today

The Justice of God: No more false flags! NO more Israeli wars and terrorism!

Tech_Journal: Very Long Distance Terrorism

Ruin on Rails: The US Navy’s Rail Gun Project

Ruin on Rails: The US Navy’s Rail Gun Project

Ruin on Rails: The US Navy’s Rail Gun Project

Dec 11, 2011 19:15 EST

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Power system contracts to GA, BAE; 1,000th shot; CNR discusses the field; Significant article updates. (Dec 9/11)

Back in March 2006, BAE Systems received a contract for “design and production of the 32 MJ Laboratory Launcher for the U.S. Navy.” Some hint of what they are talking about can be gleaned from the name. The project is an electro-magnetic rail gun that accelerates a projectile to incredibly high speeds without using explosives.

The attraction of such systems is no mystery – they promise to fire their ammunition 10 or more times farther than conventional naval gun shells, while sharply reducing both the required size of each shell, and the amount of dangerous explosive material carried on board ship. Progress is being made, but there are still major technical challenges to overcome before a working rail gun becomes a serious naval option. This DID FOCUS article looks at the key technical challenges, the programs, and the history of key contracts and events…

• Rail Guns: Concept & Technology Developments [updated]
• Rail Guns: The US EMRG Program [updated]
• Rail Guns: Key Contracts & Events [updated]
• Additional Readings & Sources [updated]

The doctors at the Guantánamo torture center [Voltaire Network]

The doctors at the Guantánamo torture center [Voltaire Network]

The doctors at the Guantánamo torture center

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 5 MAY 2011

Scientific magazine PLoS Medecine has published a study by Dr Vincent Iacopino (senior medical adviser forPhysicians for Human Rights) and retired Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis on the role played by doctors at the Guantánamo torture centre.

Guantanamo’s premises are structured in separate detention blocks. The study examines the cases of nine people detained in the prison boasting the least severe conditions. It shows that the doctors purposefully covered up abuses and prepped the victims to endure additional ones.

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«Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantanamo Bay : A Case Series», by Dr. Vincent Iacopino & general Stephen Xenakis, PLoS Medicine, 26 april 2011 (6 p., 95 Ko).