The Chinatown International District Summer Festival has been a community event since 1975. Held annually on the second weekend of July. This annual two-day event includes kids & family activities, cultural dances, musical performance, karaoke contest, and over 100 booths featuring arts & crafts, local business, community organizations and much more!
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Cristine Durbak Phd
Phone 212.686.9700 Fax 212.651.2545
christine@mediabankers.com
President, Executive Stress Management
Acting President, World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Fellow, American Orthopsychiatric Association
Psychoanalytic Certification, Center for Modern Psychoanalysis
B.S., New York University
M.A., Seton Hall University
Ph.D. (Counseling Psychology), Fordham University
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David Hurvitz
(Former) President, Publisher and CEO
Princeton University 1980 PhD
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John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty and is the highest ranking CIA agent ever to go public. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies, a book which remains the only detailed, insider’s account of a major CIA “covert action.”
David MacMichael is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst. A ten-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, he was a counter-insurgency expert in South-East Asia for four years. He also served as an analyst for the National Intelligence Council from 1981-1983. MacMichael graduated with an MA and Ph.D. in History from the University of Oregon.
MacMichael resigned from the CIA in July 1983 because he felt the Agency was misrepresenting intelligence for political reasons. His public resignation from the Agency gave credence and notability to his vocal indictment of the Reagan Administration’s policy toward Central America. He was considered the “key witness” in Nicaragua v. United States. The case was heard in 1986 before the International Court of Justice, which ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their war against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua’s harbors. MacMichael also testified in front of Congress on this matter.
A former investigator for the Christic Institute, he was an outspoken critic of the Institute’s reliance on conspiracy theory, arguing that the Institute “was eager, perhaps overeager, to demonstrate that this enterprise [a "secret team" of conservatives] was responsible for everything since Cain slaying Abel.” In July 2005, he testified at a special joint hearing of Congressional and Senate Democrats about the consequences of the Plame affair.
MacMichael is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), founding member of Association of National Security Alumni and the Association for Responsible Dissent, and an outspoken critic of the Iraq War and the Bush Administration. He has participated in six documentary films from 1988-2003. Journalist John Pilger has described him as a “CIA renegade.”
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposal by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The ambitious initiative was “widely criticized as being unrealistic, even unscientific” as well as for threatening to destabilize MAD and re-iginite “an offensive arms race.” It was soon derided as Star Wars, after the popular 1977 film by George Lucas. In 1987 the American Physics Society concluded that a global shield such as “Star Wars” was not only impossible with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to learn whether it might ever be feasible.” Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, its name was changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and its emphasis was shifted from national missile defense to theater missile defense; and it scope from global to regional coverage. It was never truly developed or deployed, though certain aspects of SDI research and technologies paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today. BMDO was renamed to the Missile Defense Agency in 2002. This article covers defense efforts under the SDIO.
Space-related defense research and testing remains heavily-budgeted to this day, irrespective of the program names, operative/reporting organizations, politics, or reports to the contrary in the press. Although it is difficult to compile actual spending totals across the complete spectrum of space-based defense programs (including classified “off-budget” “black projects”), the U.S. has certainly invested well over $100 billion on “SDI” and follow-on programs, and holds a commanding lead over all current or potential future adversaries in the realm of space technology/warfare. The vast majority of this investment has been made in basic research at National Laboratories and Universities, and these programs continue to be a key source of funding for top research scientists in the fields of high-energy physics, supercomputing/computation, advanced materials, and many other critical science and engineering disciplines: funding which indirectly supports other research work by top scientists, and which would be largely unavailable outside of the defense budget environment.
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Limbs of Love is a charitable organization. whose mission is to provide prosthetic limbs to amputees in Houston and across Texas that have lost a limb but do not have the resources to pay for a prosthetic device. Very few charitable organizations have such a significant impact upon the lives of others.
Visit http://www.myamputee.com to find out more.
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THE WORLD CAFE
Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
Buy Book from Berrett-Koehler Publishers – http://tinyurl.com/3xcx2m
Visit Co-author Juanita’s Website – http://www.theworldcafe.com/
The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community’s own collective intelligence around its most important questions.
Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture.
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This is a short video about the dangers of being associated with Scientology, and just a minuscule example of lives extinguished because of this evil cult.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW
PLEASE, PLEASE VISIT THIS LINK IF YOU ARE A UK CITIZEN AND YOU AGREE THAT THE CoS IS AN ABUSIVE CULT:
Petition Form: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/CoSVAT
DEADLINE: 7th October 2008
Britain’s government regards the Church of Scientology as “unreligious” and “uncharitable”. However, it has deemed them to be a “non-profit” organization and, consequently, does not charge them VAT.
YOU can bring this ERROR to the attention of the UK government by signing the official government e-petition (link above). Signatorys must be either a British citizen or resident.
The petition states:
“We, the undersigned, petition the Prime Minister to Revoke the VAT-exempt status of the Church of Scientology Religious Education College Inc. The Church of Scientology presents itself as a non-profit organization and, as such, enjoys VAT exemption. Any examination of the workings of this organization reveal that the Church of Scientology operates for profit and therefore does not deserve this exemption. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to revoke it.”
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This is my first attempt at a longish running time video. I hope you all like it. This is a basic introduction to the cult of Scientology for beginners 
Note that most YouTube viewers should see a “Watch In High Quality” option, just at the bottom right of the video window. I recommend you click on that for the best picture quality (on YouTube at least!).
Feel free to spread, and a much higher quality version can viewed and downloaded from our Vimeo channel at the following link:
http://www.cultzone.tv
You can also download the full quality version directy here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FMX20DNQ
IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW
PLEASE, PLEASE VISIT THIS LINK IF YOU ARE A UK CITIZEN AND YOU AGREE THAT THE CoS IS AN ABUSIVE CULT:
Petition Form: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/CoSVAT
DEADLINE: 7th October 2008
Britain’s government regards the Church of Scientology as “unreligious” and “uncharitable”. However, it has deemed them to be a “non-profit” organization and, consequently, does not charge them VAT.
YOU can bring this ERROR to the attention of the UK government by signing the official government e-petition (link above). Signatorys must be either a British citizen or resident.
The petition states:
“We, the undersigned, petition the Prime Minister to Revoke the VAT-exempt status of the Church of Scientology Religious Education College Inc. The Church of Scientology presents itself as a non-profit organization and, as such, enjoys VAT exemption. Any examination of the workings of this organization reveal that the Church of Scientology operates for profit and therefore does not deserve this exemption. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to revoke it.”
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“The busy Mr. Dogg is very much involved in youth organizations and heads the Snoop Youth Football League with over 2,500 kids participating. It is run by 100 volunteers and more information can be found on the website, www.snoopyouthfootballleague.com.
From his new CD, “Ego Trippin’,” Snoop Dogg performed “Sensual Seduction.”
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An interview with David Garvin and Amy Edmondson, Professors, Harvard Business School. Learning organizations generate and act on new knowledge. The ability to do this enables companies to stay ahead of change and the competition.
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