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	<title>Observations by Jonar Nader &#187; Ethics</title>
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		<title>Sam Cohen&#8217;s IHRB ads unlawful</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Hair Regrowth &#38; Beauty (IHRB) was Sanctioned a second time by the Complaints Resolution Panel, due to 12 breaches, including misleading advertising. The Complaints Resolution Panel released a 16-page Determination after finding IHRB in breach of 12 Sections of the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code &#38; Act. This is the second such finding. You [...]]]></description>
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<p>The Institute of Hair Regrowth &amp; Beauty (IHRB) was Sanctioned a second time by the Complaints Resolution Panel, due to 12 breaches, including misleading advertising.</p>
<p>The Complaints Resolution Panel released a 16-page Determination after finding IHRB in breach of 12 Sections of the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code &amp; Act. This is the second such finding. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="Download the Determination from this dedicated website" href="http://ihrb-story.com/its-official-ihrb-ads-unlawful-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">You can download the Determination here</span></a></span>.</p>
<p>The Determination calls on IHRB to: withdraw its advertising; withdraw the representations; publish retractions in all its print vehicles; and display a retraction for 180 days on IHRB’s website.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, after a Police raid that gathered evidence for a six-month investigation by the Health Care Complaints Commission, IHRB was served a Permanent Prohibition Order for endangering the health and safety of its clients. In separate action, NSW Fair Trading successfully prosecuted IHRB’s Managing Director, Mr Sam Cohen, for lying to the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal (CTTT).</p>
<p>One of the complainants was Mr Jonar Nader who said, ‘IHRB lures customers to pay thousands of dollars for a hair regrowth treatment that I am convinced is nothing more than a scam. I launched a dedicated website (<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="Dedicated website to expose Sam Cohen and IHRB" href="http://www.ihrb-story.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">www.IHRB-Story.com</span></a></span>) to expose IHRB and to support other victims who are often too embarrassed to admit to being scammed out of $10,000 and $15,000.</p>
<p>‘IHRB makes wild claims that it cannot verify, while using misleading and deceptive advertising that plays on people’s ignorance about hair-loss treatments. Its Managing Director, Mr Sam Cohen, was given every opportunity by the Complaints Resolution Panel to verify his many statements, yet he was unable to prove a single one. The alleged scam revolves around Mr Cohen’s claims that he uses his own secret formula comprising 13 natural extracts that allegedly have never failed to help every client to regrow their hair. Mr Cohen offers a money-back-guaranty that he cunningly voids before his clients leave his office. His contract is so deceptive that clients find it impossible to receive a refund without taking legal action. In my case, while using the IHRB treatment, I lost more hair than ever before, suffered rashes and bruises, and was refused a refund. The matter went to CTTT, where it took 383 days of legal battles that ended unjustly, due to Mr Cohen fabricating evidence and lying to the Tribunal; as I have witnessed him doing to other victims as well.’</p>
<p>Mr Nader was one of the victims who pursued Mr Cohen for medical malpractice and for misleading and deceptive conduct. Mr Nader added, ‘Sam Cohen’s practices are so diabolical, that I felt it my duty to report him. I spent two years trying to unravel his scheme &#8212; for which I received death threats.</p>
<p>‘Mr Cohen is quick to point to some of his clients whose hair did grow back. However, those clients were either illegally sold non-approved and dangerous medications, or were lucky that they responded well to readily-available medications such as Minoxidil and Finasteride. If someone is predisposed to a positive response to these medications, then why go to IHRB and pay thousands of dollars, when Minoxidil retails for $20 per bottle that lasts a month.’</p>
<p>Mr Nader said, ‘The problem is that Mr Cohen’s starting price is $4,900, plus on-going product purchases. For example, one topical solution that Sam Cohen sells at $900, retails elsewhere at $70. When asked how he justifies these exorbitant prices, Mr Cohen says that his solution contains his own secret extracts. These secret extracts do not exist. His own pharmacists have confirmed that the extracts were never used. After my two-year investigation, I am convinced that his unlawful ads simply reflect his unlawful business.</p>
<p>‘In 2008, IHRB was Sanctioned for similar breaches, but Mr Cohen ignored those Sanctions for 18 months. I now wonder how long it will be before he pulls his ads and publishes the retractions.’</p>
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		<title>A world without refuge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 15th of September 2011, I hosted a special night to launch Ghassan Nakhoul&#8217;s book called &#8216;Overboard&#8217; which asked the question, &#8216;What have we learned since the Pacific Solution?&#8217; For a topic that, for the past ten years, has dominated the headlines more intensely than any other event in Australia&#8217;s political landscape, it seems that [...]]]></description>
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<p>On the 15th of September 2011, I hosted a special night to launch Ghassan Nakhoul&#8217;s <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="Admiral Chris Barrie speaks up" href="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/book-launch-10-years-after-tampa/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">book</span></a></span> called &#8216;Overboard&#8217; which asked the question, &#8216;What have we learned since the Pacific Solution?&#8217; For a topic that, for the past ten years, has dominated the headlines more intensely than any other event in Australia&#8217;s political landscape, it seems that we have not learned a single thing. In view of the recent tragic loss of 70 lives off the coast of Java, I wondered if the 353 victims of SIEV-X had died in vain.</p>
<div id="attachment_7155" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 190px"><img class="size-full wp-image-7155" title="Dr Nour Dados" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Dr-Nour-Dados.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="184" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Dr Nour Dados. Senior Research Associate, World Market Society Project.</p></div>
<p>To explore the recent political machinations surrounding the on-going refugee debate, I invited Dr Nour Dados to shed some light on who&#8217;s doing what, to whom. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="Dr Nour's profile at The University of Sydney's website" href="http://fdp.edsw.usyd.edu.au/users/ndados" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Dr Nour Dados</span></a></span> is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Education &amp; Social Work at The University of Sydney. She is currently working with Professor Raewyn Connell on a project about the restructuring of social life under market regimes in the Global South, and pursuing her own research into the social, political, and economic conditions that have shaped Australia’s refugee policy in the last twenty years. Below is her article.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #ff6600;">A WORLD WITHOUT REFUGE</span></h3>
<p>The recent loss of a fishing vessel carrying seventy people off the coast of Java is a sombre reminder of the perils that go with seeking refuge in today’s world. The latest tragedy comes less than two weeks after the tenth anniversary of the sinking of SIEV-X in mysterious circumstances in October 2001. The details of that tragic event which claimed the lives of 353 people, almost half of them children, remain covered in whitewash. Among those who have kept-up the search for answers is SBS journalist Ghassan Nakhoul whose radio report ‘The Five Mysteries of SIEV-X’ won him a Walkley Award in 2002. When Nakhoul revisited those mysteries for a new commemorative documentary, the same questions kept coming back. To these he added another: ‘Ten years on, has Australia learnt anything?’</p>
<div id="attachment_7162" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-full wp-image-7162" title="Admiral Chris Barrie AC" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Admiral-Chris-Barrie-AC.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="186" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Former Chief of the Australian Defence Force, Admiral Chris Barrie AC, launched Ghassan Nakhoul&#39;s book, &#39;Overboard&#39;.</p></div>
<p>In September 2011, Nakhoul’s book ‘Overboard’ (<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="Publisher's home page for 'Overboard'" href="http://darmeera.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Dar Meera</span></a></span>) was launched by former Defence Force Chief, Admiral Chris Barrie AC. At the launch, Admiral Barrie emphasised the international dimension of war and displacement, and the escalating numbers of refugees fleeing persecution globally. By the time stories about refugees reach our television screens, the larger global context would have been obscured by the rhetoric of border-security. The history of suffering to board a boat bound for safety is reduced to a minor event. ‘Overboard’ is an important work of investigative journalism, not least because it reminds us that these stories are far from marginal, and that they in fact reflect the lives of the majority of the world’s population. In the process of recounting these narratives, Nakhoul delves courageously into Australia’s refugee policies and the politics of asylum; refusing to allocate the questions left unanswered for too long to the ‘too hard basket’. It is these questions that serve as an unsettling reminder that the horrific circumstances surrounding SIEV-X are far from resolved. As one of the first journalists to question the Coalition government’s official story following the sinking on 19 October 2001, Nakhoul returns to the glaring inconsistencies in ‘Overboard’: the unsubstantiated stories of maritime misadventures that preceded that fateful day; the passengers ferried at gunpoint onto the waiting ship; the vessel loaded to bursting, only half a meter above water, described by one of the passengers as a ‘carton’; and the unresponsive boats with their search lights that circled the survivors as they awaited help for hours in the water.</p>
<div id="attachment_7158" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 156px"><img class="size-full wp-image-7158   " title="John Howard" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/John-Howard.jpg" alt="" width="146" height="146" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Former Australian Prime Minister, Mr John Howard</p></div>
<p>The sinking of the SIEV-X took place in the context of the Howard government’s refusal to allow the Norwegian MV Tampa to set down its rescued passengers in Australian territory &#8212; a move that led to the birth of the so-called ‘Pacific Solution’. Nakhoul asks whether this hitherto unprecedented response to boat arrivals may have come about as a response to a challenge issued on SBS Arabic Radio on 24 July 2001 by Keis Asfoor, later charged and convicted of people smuggling. During the eleven minute interview with Nakhoul, Asfoor insisted (sixteen times) that if the Australian Government sent back just one boat, then the boats would stop coming. The interview attracted the attention of the authorities, and Nakhoul found himself summoned to appear in court. Two years later Mr Phillip Ruddock was still quoting Asfoor in Parliament (‘Overboard’ p.99). Today, turning back boats remains part of the Liberal Party’s preferred response.</p>
<p>Indeed, the issue of boat arrivals, despite the far smaller number of refugees arriving by boat than by plane, continues to dominate the headlines and the polls. Although the current Labor Government has not led in the two-party preferred vote since October 2010 (Nielsen Poll), it seems convinced, if the last twelve months tells us anything, that the only way to get back on top is to echo the Opposition’s populist tune to ‘Stop the boats’. Worse, those who have led the march have claimed to be able to ‘stop the boats’ more efficiently than Mr John Howard’s imperious Pacific Solution. At the height of the Tampa Crisis, Howard’s approval-rating was at seventy-seven percent (Nielsen Poll, 4 September 2001), a number etched into memory by Australian band ‘The Herd’ in their song ‘77%’ that begins by sampling that announcement that aired on talk-back radio.</p>
<div id="attachment_7156" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 139px"><img class="size-full wp-image-7156" title="The Hon Julia Gillard" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Hon-Julia-Gillard.jpg" alt="" width="129" height="127" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Prime Minister of Australia, Ms Julia Gillard MP</p></div>
<p>Ten years later, and despite Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s efforts to keep the boats at a clear distance from the Australian mainland, Labor’s crisis has no end in sight. Despite Labor&#8217;s improvement in the latest Newspoll (November 2011), the Coalition is still well ahead. Forty-four percent of respondents surveyed last month (Newspoll, October 2011) said they supported the Coalition’s stance on boat arrivals compared to seventeen percent for Labor. The common sense narrative that equates Howard’s popularity with his stance on the Tampa (and attributes that position to his rising political fortunes) fails to explain why a tougher-than-Howard Gillard is falling behind. Gillard, and indeed the Labor ministers who were peddling the Malaysia solution, went out of their way to present it as efficient and effective in the hope of winning the voters’ approval. Perhaps though, they forgot, that the voters they were trying to woo may not have cared for the language of efficiency so much as the vibrant language of ‘them and us’, and that without throwing that pot of crackle-and-pop into the mix, no ‘solution’ raises an eyebrow. All this reminds us that Howard didn’t sell the ‘Pacific Solution’ by labeling it as ‘efficient’ but by rendering the unwanted as so thoroughly contaminated that no-one would want them near. Only then did efficiency count in their removal.</p>
<div id="attachment_7160" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 108px"><img class="size-full wp-image-7160" title="Phillip Ruddock MP" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Phillip-Ruddock-MP.jpg" alt="" width="98" height="135" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Hon Phillip Ruddock MP</p></div>
<p>Any ‘solution’ that begins by closing the borders in the face of suffering and misery must first convince those whose approval counts, in this case the voters, that those whom they turn away are less than human. If electoral consent for our current refugee policies begins with the dehumanisation of the victims, and ends in their incarceration in mandatory detention, it is hardly surprising that so many of the protests in detention centres &#8212; hunger strikes, lip sewing, and detainees burying themselves &#8212; have focused on the body. In characterising lip sewing as ‘a practice unknown in our culture’ and one that offended the ‘sensitivities of Australians&#8217;, former Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock emphasised the extent to which such acts of desperation failed to register as such because those who were participating in them had already been dispossessed of their humanity. Their actions could signify only as an offense to ‘us’. What he, and those he spoke for, failed to see, is that the refugees who protested through their bodies had long ago stopped being human in the eyes of those who demanded and justified their incarceration.</p>
<p>Despite the disgrace of the proposed ‘Malaysia Solution’, Gillard’s Labor Government has fallen short on this account and stands to gain little from playing the ‘boat people’ card. Yet in trying to pass bad policy off as a ‘solution’ they only till the soil for more dangerous ‘solutions’ to take hold. Let us not forget that had it not been for the 1992 amendments to the Migration Act that authorised the detention of those seeking asylum on the premise of deterring others, an amendment that came into force under a Labor Government, Howard’s ‘Pacific Solution’ may have been unthinkable. There are clear international obligations, but whether or not these are met today depends almost entirely on the surrounding political climate. In trying to sell bad policies as ‘solutions’, the current Government only undermines the campaign for justice and increases the risk that we will see a future ‘solution’ that is more brutal and more inhumane than the one that set its sights on the Pacific.</p>
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		<title>Admiral Chris Barrie speaks up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guest this week will  be Admiral Chris Barrie AC — the former Chief of the Australian Defence Force who served during the Howard Government amidst the controversial Children Overboard Affair, will speak-up! In this rare public appearance, Admiral Barrie will reveal the amazing truth about what happened, by exposing the other side of a [...]]]></description>
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<p><img class="size-full wp-image-6863    alignright" title="Admiral Chris Barrie AC former Defence Chief" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Admiral-Chris-Barrie-AC-former-Defence-Chief.jpg" alt="" width="126" height="139" /></p>
<p>My guest this week will  be Admiral Chris Barrie AC — the former Chief of the Australian Defence Force who served during the Howard Government amidst the controversial Children Overboard Affair, will speak-up! In this rare public appearance, Admiral Barrie will reveal the amazing truth about what happened, by exposing the other side of a story that few people knew. If you live in Sydney, you are invited to the launch of a book that will make you doubt the headlines that mesmerised a nation. The author, Mr Ghassan Nakhoul, warns, ‘You would not believe what really triggered Australia’s controversial policy on Boat People.’</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6870" title="Overboard - The book by Ghassan Nakhoul" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Overboard-cover-small.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="227" />Each day, journalists dive into the middle of life’s drama. Although they are not supposed to get caught-up in the stories, there comes a time when even the toughest of reporters succumb to an event so powerful, that it changes their life. This is what happened to Walkley-Award winning journalist Ghassan Nakhoul. For the first time in a 30-year career that included front-line war-zone reporting, he was overwhelmed. The incidents were so devastating, he felt compelled to write a book in order to share the plight of anguished souls: the asylum seekers and those who perished at sea. The book uncovers rorts in the refugee system, and it sheds light on government tactics designed to scare away the boat-people. Ultimately, the book reveals that the controversial ‘Pacific Solution’ might have been instigated not by politicians or government strategists, but by the person whom you would least suspect! The 10th anniversary of the Tampa crisis, the Pacific Solution, and the sinking of SIEV-X that killed 353 people, makes this book even more relevant &amp; timely, as we ponder: What have we learned?</p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR</span></p>
<p>Ghassan Nakhoul is the first journalist from SBS Radio and the Arabic-speaking community in Australia to receive the prestigious Walkley Award. His career spans three decades. He has been with SBS Radio for twenty years and has contributed to Australian newspapers and magazines. Ghassan is also a lecturer at The University of Sydney.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">DATE THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2011</span><br />
VENUE HOLROYD CENTRE 17 MILLER STREET MERRYLANDS<br />
<span style="color: #ff6600;">TIME 6:00 PM REFRESHMENTS. 6:30 PM PRESENTATIONS</span><br />
BOOK REVIEWED BY DR AL JABIRI<br />
<span style="color: #ff6600;">ENTRY NO CHARGE</span><br />
PARKING FREE OFF NEWMAN STREET<br />
<span style="color: #ff6600;">ENQUIRIES 02 8569 0671 OR MARY at LOSEFRIENDS.COM</span><br />
SALES THE BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR CASH PURCHASE ON THE NIGHT<br />
<span style="color: #ff6600;">HOSTED BY JONAR NADER, THE AUTHOR OF ‘HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS &amp; INFURIATE PEOPLE’</span><br />
OTHER GUESTS INCLUDE MR SAM ALMALIKI.</p>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">POST EVENT</span></h2>
<p>The book launch was a huge success. Approximately 200 people attended this event to hear the keynote speech by Admiral Chris Barrie AC who was later interviewed by SBS Radio. The interview can be heard at this link for Ghassan Nakhoul&#8217;s <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a title="Ghassan Nakhoul Overboard book site" href="http://darmeera.com/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">website</span></a></span>, where copies of the book &#8216;Overboard&#8217; can also be purchased.</p>
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		<title>The myth of the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wildest way to press my hot buttons is to say, &#8216;Sorry, I&#8217;m just following orders&#8217;. That disconnectedness drives me batty. No-one seems to be in charge. &#8216;Forbes Magazine&#8217; lists the word&#8217;s richest or most influential. Who cares. I would like a different, more important list. I want to know who the bloody idiots are [...]]]></description>
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The wildest way to press my hot buttons is to say, &#8216;Sorry, I&#8217;m just following orders&#8217;. That disconnectedness drives me batty. No-one seems to be in charge. &#8216;Forbes Magazine&#8217; lists the word&#8217;s richest or most influential. Who cares. I would like a different, more important list. I want to know who the bloody idiots are who make those decisions and policies that the rest of the disenchanted workforce have has to follow. Who are the out-of-touch managers leaders who go with the flow or mediocrity and decay.</p>
<p>I saw an ad on line that said, &#8216;Congratulations, you are the millionths person, click here to claim your prize&#8217;. So I complained to the supposedly reputable website. The stupid response cam back, &#8216;Sorry, we have no say in what ads appear on our site.&#8217; Indeed that is true. These stupid company directors and brainless managers just surrender their website space to Google or some other major ad company to just place anything they like. So we end up with inappropriate ads in the wrong place.</p>
<p>The internet was all about customisation. I am giving radio interviews, saying that one day, using your IP address and your preferences, you will receive a unique ad tailored to exactly who you are, what you earn, what you like, and what you need. You would be the only person in the world to see that ad, tailored just for you. At the 2000 Company Directors conference, I presented the idea to the delegates that one day customisation will be the order of the day. And here we are, eleven years later, and the richest of corporations, including Google, still have not a shred of a clue about how the interest is supposed to work. And the blind are leading the blind. Blind stupidity!</p>
<p>Here is an example. This is a screen shot of an Australian Chinese newspaper. The site is a .com.au site. And what do we see at the top? A surrendered ad space, where an inappropriate ad is featured. A most important ad about heart stroke. When someone you know suffers a stroke, you have seconds, just a few seconds, to get the right treatment at a hospital. And what does the Sing Tao Newspaper company flash at us on its Australian site? An ad that says, &#8216;Dial 911 at the first sign of a stroke&#8217;. Underneath the ad, the site&#8217;s banner says, &#8216;Australia&#8217;. Is that misleading or what? For a newspaper that prides itself on the delivery of accurate information, this message is grossly irresponsible. Teaching Australian readers to dial 911 is completely wrong and could cost a life, because in Australia, 911 does not work. The Australian emergency number is 000. So who cares, I wonder. Never mind customisations. What about simple IP address controls. It is one of the easiest things to do, to program the website to place ads relevant to the IP address that is viewing it.<br />
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Here is another example of an inappropriate ad. On You Tube, if you watch Britain&#8217;s Got Talent, which is a family show, you will see lusty ads that are adult based. Here is an example below. The square ad at the right flashes with saucy suggestions, and it encourages the viewer to engage in an adult fantasy. One click on, and you end up at Flirt.com.<br />
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		<title>Where do phonebooks go to die?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who berates anyone who so much as discards a usable piece of paper. Indeed, many of us try to be green. Yet, despite my personal efforts, I feel guilty when I am lumbered with the White and Yellow Pages because I feel responsible in some way. I do not want them, [...]]]></description>
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<p>I have a friend who berates anyone who so much as discards a usable piece of paper. Indeed, many of us try to be green. Yet, despite my personal efforts, I feel guilty when I am lumbered with the White and Yellow Pages because I feel responsible in some way. I do not want them, yet they come into my possession. Of course I recycle them, but that is a silly thing to say. No amount of recycling can undo the damage in terms of the wasted resources that were consumed in the production and distribution process.</p>
<p>The main photo above shows the left side of the foyer of a city apartment block. The photo below shows the right side. Hundreds of books that will remain orphaned. Is there no smarter way to handle this? Indeed there is, but in whose interest will it be? The publishers want to assure the advertisers that a certain amount of books are printed and distributed. It&#8217;s all about money. Yet, the official website of the publishers, being Sensis (a subsidiary of Telstra) says that the company is carbon neutral. This is another distracting statement. Here is what I think of when people tell me that their organisation is carbon-neutral: I think of someone killing the neighbourhood children, and absolving themselves of the crime by saying that they had paid 200 couples in china to have another child each. 200 kids slaughtered, and 200 kids born, that makes it Murder-Neutral!</p>
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<p>The better way would be for everyone with a phone number to be called by an electronic system, with the following announcement: &#8216;Hello, this is an automated call from Telstra. We are about to print next year&#8217;s phone books. Would you like us to send a copy to your home address? Press one for yes, and 2 for no.&#8217;</p>
<p>Additionally, phone bills, along with a general awareness campaign, can provide a website where people can log-in and opt-in to receive a copy.</p>
<p>If this method were adopted, we might learn that half the number of books need to be printed. Oh and by the way, those who pressed &#8216;one&#8217; to request a copy to be sent to their home, they should also be asked if they would prefer the books to be on CD-ROM versus in paper format. Think of the savings!</p>
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		<title>How to win a war</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire world is ripped apart by the &#8216;Them and us&#8217; syndrome. If you sit down with Palestinian families, you can&#8217;t help but weep at the horrific situation in which they find themselves. If you look into the eyes of a mother who saw her children burn alive, you would have no words with which [...]]]></description>
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<p>The entire world is ripped apart by the &#8216;Them and us&#8217; syndrome. If you sit down with Palestinian families, you can&#8217;t help but weep at the horrific situation in which they find themselves. If you look into the eyes of a mother who saw her children burn alive, you would have no words with which to console her. Then, travel to Israel and sit with a broken mother whose sons were kidnapped and tortured for weeks on end, and whose severed limbs were sent back to her in a bloody box, you would feel ashamed at how humans can inflict such unfathomable cruelty upon each other.</p>
<p>Fold away the national flags, and bring the women together, and they will lament at the sheer agony of loss. They will both understand the emptiness that haunts their shattered spirit. Irrespective of language or creed, they will hold hands as they ache at the incomprehensible barbaric behaviour whose result is never anything more than pain and suffering. There can be no victory. These women will tell you that nothing was worth the loss. No act of revenge has ever soothed a stolen life. Nothing good has ever come from bullets and bombs. What is worse, is the perpetual lies that fuel endless misery for both sides. There can be no victors where there is no justice. Land, geography, money, and sovereignty do not provide prosperity. Real wealth grows in the hearts of children. Real peace comes from shared fruits. Real happiness comes from common toil that concludes with the setting-sun around a dinner table where neighbours and strangers are just as welcome as family members.</p>
<p>Talk is cheap. Tough talk is pathetic. With mighty weapons, people can&#8217;t think straight. With lop-sided power, people can&#8217;t be just. Putridity dominates our world, and it gallops fast when humans are hell-bent on blaming &#8216;them over the border&#8217;. It is never us. It is always them. They killed our children, so we will kill their children. Has anyone stopped to ask the children what they think?</p>
<p>It is pathetic that we speak about the troubles of the Middles East in terms of religion and politics. I&#8217;ll tell you what fuels it: greed and stupidity. And the one ingredient that keeps greed and stupidity in full flight is lies!</p>
<p>And the worst lie is not the one that we spin for others to believe. Rather, it is the lie that we fashion and swallow ourselves.</p>
<p>There have been errors, horrors, and atrocities on both sides. Left, right, and centre. We have all erred. We have all suffered. Sad indeed that the Arabs have so quickly forgotten that they were the leaders in the fields of science. The Arabs were the forefathers of mathematics. They were the trend-setters for hospitality and generosity. They have so much going for them, they could dominate the world, and teach it about how to live a joyous and zestful life. Sadly, the Arabs have allowed themselves to be distracted by wider, jealous enemies who know how to divide and conquer.</p>
<p>The history of the torment in the Middle East would require billions of pages to document. How can we ever tell all the stories? And there is always one more story&#8230; have I told you what his grandfather did to my grandfather&#8230; However, those billions of stories can be summed-up in one word: Debauchery!</p>
<p>So, where to from here?</p>
<p>Corrupted souls do not know how to reason. They only understand the language of hate. Their only currency is blood. Their only mantra is power. And we still invite them to peace talks? There can be no peace while we trade in lies. There can be no respite while justice is suffocated at every opportunity.</p>
<p>We are left with one solution: the sane amongst us must pray for &#8216;magnanimity&#8217;. All of us, young and old, the pained and the troubled, the guilty and the pure, must come to the village-square and say, &#8216;I have made terrible mistakes. The only way for me to repent is to be magnanimous. Please dear enemy, will you allow me to be magnanimous? May I do something to show you that I am sorry about my past mistakes?&#8217; And as one party says this to another, you will find people embracing each other and saying, &#8216;My enemy, my friend, there is nothing I need from you. I just want us to stop this madness. The moon is nice tonight, shall we toast the moon as we bathe in its light? Look, the stars have begun to sparkle. Please break this bread with me. The angels are watching. Let us not disappointment them on this blessed night.&#8217;</p>
<p>This kind of solution is only possible if we can mature. But that is unlikely. It can only happen if we are ready to forgive. But that is unlikely. It can only come to fruition if we can love, but the anger sill burns in our heart, and the rage still consumes our mind. Therefore, sadly, love is still a long way off. And this begs the desperate question, &#8216;What can we do?&#8217;</p>
<p>We can expose the lies. Not so that we can swing back and forth and take sides. Not so that we can pretend that they are at fault and we are pure. But so that we can let it all out, in the light of day. So that we can stand naked in front of each other, both &#8216;Them&#8217; and &#8216;Us&#8217; called to account to open our black books and place them out in the open for us all to see that neither one is blameless, and neither one is without a blemish. We both have blood on our hands. We are both guilty of atrocities. We both have troubled pasts. We both could do better. We both deserve better. We happen to be temporary guests on Planet Earth. Is this the way guests are supposed to behave?</p>
<p>The videos below are by <a title="Official website of Dr David Duke" href="http://www.davidduke.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Dr David Duke</span></a>. At the end of it, please do not take sides. Just see that no one is blameless. Only when we can blow the whistle and halt the game, can we have any hope of coming together as two guilty parties with our heads bowed down in shame, and say, my enemy my friend, we can both do better. So much has happened, that it can never be corrected. So many lives have been ripped apart, that we can never raise our head and utter another word. Shame on us all.</p>
<p>Let this be an era for silence. Speak no more. Consult no more. Shout no more. Promise no more. Demand no more. Hush. We have said too much. We have hurt too much. We have lied too much.</p>
<p>The children will turn to us and curse our existence. Let us not fail them. Can we create the turning point? Can we halt the madness? Can we stem the tide of absurdity? Our only mission now is to be magnanimous so that the children don&#8217;t despise us. On our watch, we must arrest the barbaric behaviour.</p>
<p>What can we do about it? First, let us not point the finger. Let us not raise our fist in anger. It is all too pathetic for anymore posturing. You and I can do something. Any little thing. Whatever you think you can. But please do it. However small. Please do it. Something. Anything. Please do what you can. It might take no more than seven minutes of your life. Can you afford that much?</p>
<p>Enough with the lies. Both parties are guilty. The children are suffering. This is not the smart way to live. We can do better! How do we win the war? By stopping the lies. In the absence of lies, we can win together.</p>
<p>When will the healing start?</p>
<p>When the children play together.</p>
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		<title>IHRB Sam Cohen and hair loss lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 23:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have anything to do with Sam Cohen or IHRB, you need to read all about the trickery and deceit at a special site I constructed called www.IHRB-Story.com. This site explains the amazing misleading contract that is used to con people into handing over their money to buy silly products which are supposed to [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you have anything to do with <a title="Read the latest about Sam Cohen's scam" href="http://www.ihrb-story.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Sam Cohen</span></a> or <a title="The latest about the IHRB hair scam" href="http://www.ihrb-story.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">IHRB</span></a>, you need to read all about the trickery and deceit at a special site I constructed called <a title="IHRB scam exposed" href="http://www.ihrb-story.com" target="_blank">www.IHRB-Story.com</a>. This site explains the amazing misleading contract that is used to con people into handing over their money to buy silly products which are supposed to contain herbal ingredients that IHRB and Sam Cohen says are his magical formula. I have heard of people selling things that don&#8217;t work, but Sam Cohen&#8217;s hair regrowth treatment is empty. It does not contain the supposed Indian Curries. So if they are not in the bottle, how can we say that they do not work? Is the hole in the doughnut just as tasty as the rest of the doughnut? How can it be? In the absence of these Indian Curries, how can we still even discuss the treatment offered by the Institute of Hair Regrowth and Beauty? How can we even keep calling it a treatment? It is nothing. Nil, Ziltch. Non existent. So Sam Cohen and IHRB of Pitt Street will take thousands of dollars, all on the basis of a lie. Wow, that&#8217;s a few million-percent profit, on top of a scam. All pretty bad news. Read all about this rip off at <a title="IHRB scam exposed" href="http://www.ihrb-story.com" target="_blank">www.IHRB-Story.com</a> and let me know what you think.</p>
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		<title>The &#8216;con&#8217; in contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you sign a contract, do you really read it? Do you really understand it? Do you dig down like a little beetle to see each word for what it&#8217;s worth? If you would like to see the conjuring trick in slow motion, check out this article that I prepared about IHRB and Sam Cohen [...]]]></description>
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When you sign a contract, do you really read it? Do you really understand it? Do you dig down like a little beetle to see each word for what it&#8217;s worth? If you would like to see the conjuring trick in slow motion, check out this article that I prepared about <a title="Click to read the IHRB and Sam Cohen contract" href="http://ihrb-story.com/pick-a-card-any-card/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">IHRB and Sam Cohen</span></a> whose contracts and sales tactics are amazing. The article is called, &#8216;Pick a card&#8230; any card&#8230;&#8217; because the contract looks innocent, and seems user-friendly, yet it eats you alive.</p>
<p>If you know of any students studying contract law, they might find this amazing. You see, a contract is not just about words. One has to understand the beast behind the magic trick. When you know the environment that surrounds the contract, you will note that each word takes on a whole new meaning. You have to know how and why a contract is prepared, before you can effectively assess the merits of the words. The intent is more poisonous than the words alone. When combined, the contract by Sam Cohen and IHRB will sting you like a scorpion. Deadly.</p>
<p>Right under your nose, you will sign a lovely contract, thinking that you are in control. Sadly, down the track when you need to rely on the contract to assist you, it becomes apparent that it was all smoke and mirrors, at your expense.</p>
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		<title>Hair loss industry in a mess</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There might not be any more countries to discover. We&#8217;ve mapped the mountains and the seas. But there are medications that we have not yet formulated. The biggest money spinner of all time will be the new pill to cure baldness. Anyone who can solve hair loss will set new records, much like Viagra (an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5756" title="IHRB_Logo_630_250" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/IHRB_Logo_630_250.jpg" alt="IHRB logo" width="630" height="250" /><br />
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There might not be any more countries to discover. We&#8217;ve mapped the mountains and the seas. But there are medications that we have not yet formulated. The biggest money spinner of all time will be the new pill to cure baldness. Anyone who can solve hair loss will set new records, much like Viagra (an accidental discovery) became a superstar medication.</p>
<p>Until we can find a sure-fire treatment to cure baldness, perhaps at the pre-birth genetic level, we will have to go with snake oil, charlatans, scammers, con artists, and liars, amidst a few good treatments that can work for some people, some of the time.</p>
<p>Sadly, my hair is thinning, so I thought to try out the treatments offered by Sam Cohen of IHRB (Institute of Hair Regrowth &amp; Beauty). I regret ever having anything to do with IHRB and Sam Cohen. He promised a money back guarantee that was nothing more than a lie. Anyway, he did us all a favour by not refunding my money. It caused me to investigate his operation. After almost two years, I have collected enough data to expose this man and his company. If you have anything to do with hair loss or baldness, or if you have anything to do with Samuel/<a title="Click to go to ihrb-story.com" href="http://ihrb-story.com" target="_blank">Sam Cohen or IHRB</a> of 105 Pitt Street Sydney, you can read my dedicated blog at <a title="Click to visit the dedicated site that exposes IHRB and Sam Cohen" href="http://ihrb-story.com" target="_blank">IHRB-Story.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>IHRB &amp; Sam Cohen expose flaw in Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonar Nader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was posting an entry about the bad conduct of Sam Cohen and also about his bad service at his hair loss company called IHRB. In the process, I conducted a search on Google and I came across the article below from the &#8216;Sydney Morning Herald&#8217;. The headline read, &#8216;Shane Warne Advance Hair Studio ad [...]]]></description>
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I was posting an entry about the bad conduct of Sam Cohen and also about his bad service at his hair loss company called IHRB. In the process, I conducted a search on Google and I came across the article below from the &#8216;Sydney Morning Herald&#8217;. The headline read, &#8216;Shane Warne Advance Hair Studio ad cut&#8217;. The newspaper article speaks about the misleading conduct by Advance Hair Studio. The interesting thing is the &#8216;Ads by Google&#8217; section actually promotes Advance Hair Studio and offers a link.</p>
<p>This made me think that as large as Google is, it has more code to write. Its software needs some modifications. I would have thought that advertisers should be able to stipulate where their ads go. I know that it is all one big pot, but in this case, it would make sense for the ad not to have been associated with this damning article about the company&#8217;s misconduct.</p>
<p>Anyway, IHRB and Sam Cohen always bag Shane Warne and Advance Hair Studio. After investigating Sam Cohen and his methods, I have found that his practices leave a lot to be desired. A full report is now filed at this site dedicated to <a title="Be wary of Sam Cohen and IHRB hair loss and hair regrowth guarantees" href="http://ihrb-story.com" target="_blank">Sam Cohen and IHRB</a>. The site is designed to assist people who are experiencing hair loss and who are contemplating wasting their money with Sam Cohen and the Institute of Hair Regrowth and Beauty, also known as I.H.R.B at Pitt Street Sydney. If you are planning on spending money with IHRB, you would be well served to visit that site. I am sure you will change your mind and be grateful that you did not waste your money.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Update</span>: Since writing this, I have created a new site that is dedicated to <a title="Click to visit IHRB-Story.com and read about ihrb and sam cohen" href="http://ihrb-story.com" target="_blank">Sam Cohen and IHRB&#8217;s hair loss</a> nonsense at www.IHRB-Story.com.</p>
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<div id="attachment_5576" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 632px"><img class="size-full wp-image-5576" title="Shame Warne ad cut" src="http://www.logictivity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Shame-Warne-ad-cut.jpg" alt="" width="622" height="656" /><p class="wp-caption-text">You can see the Ads by Google, promoting Advance Hair Studio, in this online article in the Sydney Morning Herald. The report speaks about the misleading conduct by the company that resulted in the ad being banned.</p></div>
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