Inside Cuba [12.22.14]

• Fidel Castro awarded China's Confucius Peace Prize [Daily Mail]

• Raúl Castro Thanks U.S. [New York Times]

• As Havana Celebrates Historic Shift, Economic and Political Hopes Rise [New York Times]

• Cubans imagine new, more prosperous life without an old foe [Reuters] 

   

Economic Reforms in Cuba

• Cuba's state-run tourism industry is increasingly doing business with the country's new class of private entrepreneurs [USAToday]
• Spain's foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo visits Cuba, urges more rapid reforms to expand private enterprise [Fox News]

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, right, and Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo pose for a photo prior to their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014

US - Cuba Relations 

• U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hails Obama for 'courageous' Cuba move [Reuters]

   

• Argentine Pope Francis and a trio of top Vatican officials who helped broker the historic deal between the United States and Cuba represent an unprecedented brain trust in Latin American affairs at the Holy See [Reuters]

   

• Cuba's Castro hails new era of 'living together' with U.S. [Reuters]

   

• White House does not dismiss idea of Castro visit [Reuters]

   

• U.S. support grows for Obama's push to boost ties with Cuba [Reuters]

• U.S. banks to move cautiously into Cuba, trade groups say [Reuters]

   

• U.S.-Cuba deal: What the two sides get out of it [Reuters]

"The more Cuba demonstrates a genuine willingness to permit freedom of expression, end its harsh punishment of dissent, avoid overt violations of human rights and expand economic opportunities, the easier it will be for President Obama — or any other U.S. president — to continue a policy of normalization."

Goals: We Are Working Towards

Knowledge
Crime-free World
Eradication of Diseases, Disabilities & Sufferings
Happy, Satisfied & Fulfilled Human Souls
Humanity - United

• Know everything there is to know. Design a new and better world in light of the gained knowledge.

Spiritual Goal translated into Worldly Terms:

Learn everything there is to be learned.
Take Technology to its ultimate possibility.

Design & Engineer a new and better World.

• Free the world of evil and establish a heavenly world.

Spiritual Goal translated into Worldly Terms:

(In everyday terms, which means eliminating all forms of crimes) 
[Progress is being made.]
 

We started our work in Bangladesh. Progress has been made across different areas (Drug Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Illicit Arms Control, Formalin Control, etc.)
 
Next, we spread our work around the world:
 

Latin America, Caribbean 
[Drug Trafficking;]

Mexico
Colombia
Other Countries in the region

South Asia, South East Asia 
[Drug Trafficking; Human Trafficking; Gold Smuggling]
 


Our Progress in freeing Europe & US of Crime

Organized Crime in Italy & US: Mafia, 'Ndrangheta, other groups.

Distance from Alcohol, Drugs, etc.

Links

• Violent U.S. crime drops again, reaches 1970s level: FBI (Reuters) 

• Why 20 year drop in crime is more impressive than it seems (Christian Science Monitor) 

"The decline is occurring at the same time as two factors long believed to lead to an increase in crime: The US prison population is dropping and the number of young adults has risen."

• Organised crime in Italy : Mafia in the middle [Economist]

"On December 10th police arrested 61 people in an operation against the ’Ndrangheta, the mafia from Calabria, the toe of Italy. Arrests on December 2nd highlighted a gang that has established close links with local officials and politicians of left and right.

• Establish a world free of all kinds of diseases and disabilities and sufferings.

Spiritual Goal translated into Worldly Terms:

[Focus from 2015]

Research in BioEngineering & Translational Medicine.

Improvement in Healthcare Services.
Neurological, Psychiatric & Psychological Services [Sufferings]. 

• Assist each & every Human Soul on Earth to be happy, satisfied and fulfilled.

• Unite humanity.

Spiritual Goal translated into Worldly Terms:

Progress is being made in 2014.

[International Relations - Bilateral relations]

Links (Progress Towards Uniting Humanity)

• International Relations: Bilateral Relations (I Have Contributed / Will Contribute To) [TahsinVersion2] 

• Sectarian Conflict Resolution: Bangladesh, India, Burma, China.

• Israel - Palestine Relations

• Latest From Middle East & North Africa [12.02.14]

  Around Middle East & North Africa [11.23.14]

  Around The World [10.20.14]

  Around The World [11.20.14]  

• A new era of strengthened US - China relations starts:

• America In Realization [11.08.14] 

  America In Realization [11.10.14]

• America In Realization [11.11.14]

• America In Realization [11.12.14] [TahsinVersion2]  

   Around The World [10.19.14] (TahsinVersion2)

  "I am blessed with people's love. This common love can be translated into nations co-operating with each other.
  
  Another a wonderful thing is taking place -
  people from different parts of the world are getting to know each other through my blog -
  the problems each of them face,
  the similarities they share,
  and in the process, people are discovering their common roots in humanity and getting closer to each other."

Around Asia Pacific & Oceania [11.30.14]

Taiwan

•  Independent Is Elected Taipei Mayor as Taiwan’s Governing Party Falters (New York Times)

"A doctor running as an independent won the mayor’s race in Taipei, the capital, on Saturday, as Taiwan’s governing party suffered heavy losses in local elections. In response to the defeats dealt to the party, which favors closer ties with China, the prime minister resigned.

The election results, including a victory by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party in the central city of Taichung, signal that Taiwan’s governing Chinese Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang or K.M.T., will be hard-pressed to retain the presidency in the 2016 election.

In the race for the Taipei mayor’s seat, Ko Wen-je, a blunt-talking political novice, trounced Sean Lien, the scion of a prominent Kuomintang family. Mr. Ko took 57.1 percent of the vote to Mr. Lien’s 40.8 percent,

The wide losses prompted Prime Minister Jiang Yi-huah, who leads the executive branch of government under Mr. Ma, to step down. He acknowledged that the results were a display of public dissatisfaction.

The Kuomintang previously held 15 of Taiwan’s 22 cities and counties, but that ratio was roughly reversed Saturday. The Kuomintang won just six seats, while the Democratic Progressive Party declared victory in 13, including four of Taiwan’s six special municipalities, which make up most of the country’s largest cities."

Earlier

• Around Asia Pacific & Oceania [11.28.14] (TahsinVersion2) 

Hong Kong

Police officers threw a pro-democracy protester to the ground 

 

outside government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sunday.

• Hong Kong Protesters Surround City Leader’s Office in Renewed Confrontation (New York Times) 

"Protesters and the police clashed in the political heart of Hong Kong on Sunday night, when thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators surged around the city leader’s office, seeking to blockade it and other government offices, and officers used pepper spray to repel them. The confrontation ended weeks of relative calm at the protesters’ main street camp.

The two student groups at the forefront of the protests had urged supporters to congregate on Sunday in Admiralty

Hong Kong Federation of Students

Scholarism, the political movement of high school and university students"

Tibet

• Exclusive: The Dalai Lama Talks Pot, Facebook and the Pope With TIME (Time Magazine) (Feb. 19, 2014)

"Freedom, democracy, justice, these are American principles.

climate change ... I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

marijuana ... These kinds of substances are generally considered poison, very bad. But for particular illnesses, this is sometimes deliberately used. So that’s up to the doctor, or up to scientists. The ability to judge reality is something very unique. So if that [our brain] is damaged, that’s awful. So alcohol and drugs are very bad.

[A Few Words:

The most important endowment we humans are blessed with is our "Consciousness". "Controlling Consciousness" is the key to health, wealth and most importantly, happiness and satisfaction.

So anything that hampers our ability of "Controlling consciousness" is bad (for example, drinking alcohol damages our ability of judgement).

And anything that aids us in "Controlling Consciousness" (for example, Meditation, Mindfulness, Yoga, deep breathing, etc.) is good and highly recommended.]

Tibetan protester who is on the verge of sacrificing himself through self-immolation

India-China ... Genuine good relations based on mutual trust [could] really make a significant contribution to economic development, as well as to education and spirituality.
 
President Xi Jinping ... He is courageously tackling corruption, quite effectively. Fearlessly. [But] real development must take place in rural areas. It is not a solution to build new, big cities. [Also] 1.3 billion Chinese people have every right to know reality … Censorship is an unrealistic method that actually develops distrust and suspicion. The Chinese judicial system must be lifted up to the international standard of judiciary systems. Then these 1 billion poor people can have some kind of protection." 



Related Links

• Around The World [09.23.14] (TahsinVersion2)
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Chinese Christians

• Religion in China : Cracks in the atheist edifice (Economist)
  (November 1, 2014)
    
  

  

  
  

  "The rapid spread of Christianity is forcing an official rethink on religion

  Christians in China have long suffered persecution. Under Mao Zedong, freedom of belief was enshrined in the new Communist constitution (largely to accommodate Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists in the west of the country). Yet perhaps as many as half a million Christians were harried to death, and tens of thousands more were sent to labour camps.

  In 2010 the Pew Research Center, an American polling organization, estimated there were 58m Protestants and 9m Catholics. Many experts, foreign and Chinese, now accept that there are probably more Christians than there are members of the 87m-strong Communist Party.
  the Christian church in China has grown by an average of 10% a year since 1980.
  

  many Chinese are attracted to Christianity because, now that belief in Marxism is declining, it offers a complete moral system with a transcendental source. People find such certainties appealing, she adds, in an age of convulsive change.
  Some Chinese also discern in Christianity the roots of Western strength. They see it as the force behind the development of social justice, civil society and rule of law, all things they hope to see in China.

  There is even talk that the party, the world’s largest explicitly atheist organization, might follow its sister parties in Vietnam and Cuba and allow members to embrace a dogma other than—even higher than—that of Marx.

  Any shift in official thinking on religion could have big ramifications for the way China handles a host of domestic challenges, from separatist unrest among Tibetan Buddhists and Muslim Uighurs in the country’s west to the growth of NGOs and “civil society”—grassroots organizations, often with a religious coloring"

   
  
  Chinese Uyghur Muslims
  
  

  

  A Uighur woman at a market last summer in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xinjiang region. The Chinese government has chartered trains to resettle Uighurs.

  
  
  
  • Life Of Chinese Uighur Muslims (New York Times)

  "Though neither he nor the state media reports mentioned it, the county’s policy of exporting Uighur labor set the stage for a factory brawl that led to deadly rioting in Urumqi in 2009, in which at least 200 people were killed."

International Relations / Bilateral Relations : Plans

EU & Eastern Europe

• Integrating Russia (& other Eastern European countries - Moldova & others) with the Western Europe and EU. US - Russia. UK - Russia.

• US - Hungary
• US - Moldova. UK - Moldova.
• US - Georgia

Asia Pacific

• China - US. China - Bangladesh. China - India. China - Japan. China - Other countries in the Pacific region.

• North Korea - US. North Korea - South Korea.

• US - Taiwan. UK - Taiwan.
• Japan - South Korea. US - Japan. US - South Korea.
  

Americas

• US - Cuba 

Middle East & North Africa

• Saudi Arabia - Iran. US - Iran. US - Saudi Arabia. UK - Iran.

• Israel - Palestine.

• US - Egypt

• US - Oman
• US - UAE

• US - Tunisia

South Asia

• Bangladesh - India. 
• US - India. 
• India - Pakistan. 
• India - Afghanistan. US - Afghanistan.

South East Asia

• US - Indonesia. Bangladesh - Indonesia.
• US - Thailand. Bangladesh - Thailand.
• US - Malaysia. Bangladesh - Malaysia.
• US - Myanmar. Bangladesh - Myanmar.

Notes On Engineering & Management Consultancy / Services [Unofficial Post] [Updated - 2]

Engineering & Management Consultancy to 

• Governments 
• Companies
• Billionaires / "Ultra-Rich"s

Governments

• Maybe you are in the Government of a country in the Middle East and you dream of setting up a new - "Disney World" "kind of" Mega-Amusement Park for kids.
• Or maybe you want to solve your City's problems and modernize the way your City is run through Smart City Technologies.
• Or it might be the case that the economy of your country would change dramatically if you could setup a Highly Advanced & Efficient Sea Port. 
  
  
  

  • Maybe it's an Airport with all the modern facilities that would bring such revolutionary change.
     
    

  
  

  • Do you feel the need for Consultancy for Reform in any of the Institutions in your country that are pillars of good Democracy?

Companies

• Advanced Manufacturing Facilities
• A new "High Speed Rail" Manufacturing Facility?

Billionaires / "Ultra-Rich"s

• Maybe you have always dreamt of setting up your own Car Manufacturing Company. 
• Or it's an Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

Links From TahsinVersion2

• Government Services (TahsinVersion2)
• Notes On "Establishment Of Democracy In Oman" [Unofficial Post] (TahsinVersion2) 
• Articles On Economics, Economic Issues

• "Large Scale Engineering" In Bangladesh (TahsinVersion2)

• Scientific Approach To Engineering (TahsinVersion2) 
• Personal Notes On Research & Engineering (R&E) [Unofficial Post]
   

• Computer Science : At Its Breadth 

• International Relations: Bilateral Relations (I Have Contributed / Will Contribute To) 
• Influence in United States 
• Current Concerns At The World Stage 

• Pioneering Work
• Physical Digital Computing, Smart Home, Smart City, Expert Robotics, Digital Sports, Neuroscience,  ...
• Notes On Products
• Notes On ORGs

• Notes On Microsoft, Microsoft Band and How "'Wearables" Might Revolutionize US Healthcare [Updated]
• Creating A World Of My Own Design
• Personal Notes [Unofficial Post]
• Notes On Gates Foundation 
• An Insider Look At Google 
• Personal Notes On Venture, Google & Microsoft 
• Personal Notes On Ventures 

 

High Speed Rail (Someday will have "Made in Bangladesh" 
marked on it")

High Speed Rail

Satellite (Someday will have "Made in Bangladesh" 
marked on it)

Satellite

 

 
 

Aircraft (Soon to be : "Made in Bangladesh")

Aircraft Manufacturing

Countries / Regions / Cities

(US & Bangladesh - full responsibility)

Services:

EU Area & Eastern Europe

• Britain (After US and Bangladesh, if there is a third - it's Britain.) 
• Germany 
• France 
• Italy
• Spain
• Switzerland
•  

 

Scandinavia

• Sweden 
• Denmark
• Norway
• Finland
• Iceland

Eastern Europe

• Russia
• Poland 
• Ukraine
• Hungary
• Moldova
• Georgia
• 
  

South Asia, South East Asia

• India
• Indonesia
• Thailand 
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Bhutan
•  

Asia Pacific & Oceania

• Taiwan
• Hong Kong
• Japan
• South Korea 

• China, Tibet 
• North Korea

• Australia
• New Zealand
• 
  

Middle East & North Africa

• Oman - Government Services (Introducing and establishing Democracy)
• Notes On "Establishment Of Democracy In Oman" [Unofficial Post] (TahsinVersion2) 

• Dubai / UAE - Physical Digital, ... 
• Saudi Arabia 
• Iran
• Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Libya - Rebuilding
• Tunisia
• Egypt
• 
  

Latin America & Caribbean

• Mexico
• Cuba
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Peru
• 
  

Rebuilding (War-torn areas / Isolated areas) 

• Ukraine - Rebuilding
• Palestine - Rebuilding 
• Syria - Rebuilding 
• Iraq - Rebuilding 
• North Korea - Rebuilding 
• Libya - Rebuilding
• 
  

Africa 

• Diseases & Healthcare; 
• Poverty; 
• Electricity; 
•  

Companies / Business 

Links From TahsinVersion2

• Pioneering Work
• Notes On Products  

• US 
• Defense Technology
• Lockheed Martin
• BAE Systems
• Boeing
• Palantir
• Boston Dynamics
• General Electric
• Intel
• Apple
• Amazon
• Twitter 
• HP
• Cisco
• Exxon Mobil
• Pimco
• Bank of America
• Bloomberg
• CBRE
• Barnes N Noble
• 
  

• Outside US 
• SAP (Germany)
• BMW (Germany)
• Samsung [South Korea]
• Sony [Japan]
• UCB Pharma (Belgium) 
• Alibaba
•  

Billionaires / Ultra-rich

• 
  

Philanthropy

• Gates Foundation

America In Realization [11.30.14]

I shall try to do something for each and every of the 50 States - however small or significant they be.

50 States and all the major Cities.

May God lead all of us in the right direction.



Foreign Policy - International Relations


Time Magazine Print Edition: Oct. 21, 2013

• America's Asia Problem (Time Magazine) 

Time Magazine November, 2014

• Obama Pushes for Tariff-Busting Trade Agreement in China (Time Magazine) 
• The APEC Summit Closes With a ‘Historic’ Climate Deal Between the U.S. and China (Time Magazine)  

• Exclusive: The Dalai Lama Talks Pot, Facebook and the Pope With TIME (Time Magazine) (Feb. 19, 2014)

"Freedom, democracy, justice, these are American principles.

climate change ... I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

marijuana ... These kinds of substances are generally considered poison, very bad. But for particular illnesses, this is sometimes deliberately used. So that’s up to the doctor, or up to scientists. The ability to judge reality is something very unique. So if that [our brain] is damaged, that’s awful. So alcohol and drugs are very bad.

[A Few Words:

The most important endowment we humans are blessed with is our "Consciousness".
"Controlling Consciousness" is the key to health, wealth and most importantly, happiness and satisfaction.

So anything that hampers our ability of "Controlling consciousness" is bad (for example, drinking alcohol damages our ability of judgement).

And anything that aids us in "Controlling Consciousness" (for example, Meditation, Mindfulness, Yoga, deep breathing, etc.) is good and highly recommended.]

Tibetan protester who is on the verge of sacrificing himself through self-immolation

India-China ... Genuine good relations based on mutual trust [could] really make a significant contribution to economic development, as well as to education and spirituality.

Xi Jinping ... He is courageously tackling corruption, quite effectively. Fearlessly. [But] real development must take place in rural areas. It is not a solution to build new, big cities. [Also] 1.3 billion Chinese people have every right to know reality … Censorship is an unrealistic method that actually develops distrust and suspicion. The Chinese judicial system must be lifted up to the international standard of judiciary systems. Then these 1 billion poor people can have some kind of protection." 



Related Links

• Around The World [09.23.14] (TahsinVersion2)
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

American Billionaires / "Ultra-Rich"s

• Michael Bloomberg Wants To Be Mayor of the World (Time Magazine) (Time Magazine Print Edition: Oct. 21, 2013) 
• Five Cities Selected As Winners in Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Mayors Challenge (Bloomberg)  

2014 Winners:

• Barcelona, Spain: Collaborative Care Networks for Better Aging
• Athens, Greece: Synathina, a Public Platform for Engaged Citizens
  
• Kirklees, United Kingdom: Kirklees Shares
  
• Stockholm, Sweden: Biochar - for a Better City Ecosystem
  
• Warsaw, Poland: Virtual Warsaw - Urban Information System for Visually Impaired

• Why Carl ICahn is the most important investor in America (Time Magazine) (Dec. 16, 2013)

US Education

• 10 Questions for Andre Agassi (Time) (Time Magazine Print Edition: Oct. 21, 2013) 

"The tennis legend turned school founder"

Notes On Engineering & Management Consultancy / Services [Unofficial Post] [Updated]

Engineering & Management Consultancy to 

Governments

• Maybe you are in the Government of a country in the Middle East and you dream of setting up a new - "Disney World" "kind of" Mega-Amusement Park for kids.
• Or maybe you want to solve your City's problems and make sure your City runs better through Smart City Technologies.
• Or it might be the case that the economy of your country would change dramatically if you could setup a Highly Advanced & Efficient Sea Port. 
  
  

  • Maybe it's an Airport with all the modern facilities that would bring such revolutionary change.
     
    

  • Do you feel the need for Consultancy for Reform in any of the Institutions in your country that are pillars of good Democracy?

   

Companies

• A new "High Speed Rail" Manufacturing Facility?

Billionaires / "Ultra-Rich"s

• Maybe you have always dreamt of setting up your own Car Manufacturing Company. 
• Or maybe an Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

Links From TahsinVersion2

• Government Services (TahsinVersion2)
• Notes On "Establishment Of Democracy In Oman" [Unofficial Post] (TahsinVersion2) 
• Articles On Economics, Economic Issues

 

 

• "Large Scale Engineering" In Bangladesh (TahsinVersion2)

 

 

• Scientific Approach To Engineering (TahsinVersion2) 
• Personal Notes On Research & Engineering (R&E) [Unofficial Post]
   

 

• Computer Science : At Its Breadth 

• International Relations: Bilateral Relations (I Have Contributed / Will Contribute To) 
• Influence in United States 
• Current Concerns At The World Stage 

• Pioneering Work
• Physical Digital Computing, Smart Home, Smart City, Expert Robotics, Digital Sports, Neuroscience,  ...
• Notes On Products
• Notes On ORGs

 

 

 

 

• Notes On Microsoft, Microsoft Band and How "'Wearables" Might Revolutionize US Healthcare [Updated]
• Creating A World Of My Own Design
• Personal Notes [Unofficial Post]
• Notes On Gates Foundation 
• An Insider Look At Google 
• Personal Notes On Venture, Google & Microsoft 
• Personal Notes On Ventures 

 

High Speed Rail (Someday will have "Made in Bangladesh" 
marked on it")

High Speed Rail

Satellite (Someday will have "Made in Bangladesh" 
marked on it)

Satellite

 

 
 

Aircraft (Soon to be : "Made in Bangladesh")

Aircraft Manufacturing

Countries / Regions / Cities

(US & Bangladesh - full responsibility)

Services:

EU Area & Eastern Europe

• Britain (After US and Bangladesh, if there is a third - it's Britain.) 
• Germany 
• France 
• Italy
• Spain
• Switzerland
•  

 

Scandinavia

• Sweden 
• Denmark
• Norway
• Finland
• Iceland

Eastern Europe

• Russia
• Poland 
• Ukraine
• Hungary
• 
  

South Asia, South East Asia

• India
• Indonesia
• Thailand 
• Malaysia 
• Nepal
• Bhutan
•  

Asia Pacific & Oceania

• China, Tibet 
• Australia
• Japan
• New Zealand
• Hong Kong
• North Korea
• South Korea
• 
  

Middle East & North Africa

• Oman - Government Services (Introducing and establishing Democracy)
• Notes On "Establishment Of Democracy In Oman" [Unofficial Post] (TahsinVersion2) 

• Dubai / UAE - Physical Digital, ... 
• Saudi Arabia 
• Iran
• Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Libya - Rebuilding
• 
  

Latin America 

• Mexico
• Cuba
• Brazil
• 
  

Rebuilding (War-torn areas / Isolated areas) 

• Ukraine - Rebuilding
• Palestine - Rebuilding 
• Syria - Rebuilding 
• Iraq - Rebuilding 
• North Korea - Rebuilding 
• Libya - Rebuilding
• 
  

Africa 

• Diseases & Healthcare; 
• Poverty; 
• Electricity; 
•  

Companies / Business 

Links From TahsinVersion2

• Pioneering Work
• Notes On Products  

• US 
• Twitter 
• Pimco
•  

• Outside US 
• SAP 
• Samsung
• UCB Pharma (Belgium) 
• Alibaba
•  

Billionaires / Ultra-rich

• 
  

Philanthropy

• Gates Foundation