For one, it is rare any legitimate doctor would have to, or request t, see one´s naked body.  Doctors look at specific areas of a body, not the whole naked body at once.

For two, one chooses to see a doctor and has some choice in what doctor they will see. 

For three, there is a legal guarantee of privacy in seeing a doctor.

For four, one has the legal right to refuse treatment, if they so desire.

It is clearly a violation of one´s right to privacy.

Well, I do see a similarity...the dark around the eyes...but Bariş Aksaru was unique...may he

rest in peace....I love Johnny Depp too...but they are both unique........and I could easily see BA in a Cengiz Khan movie....

Well you may not mind, but I certainly mind. When is enough enough? The fact of the matter is they do expose people to radiation, expose the naked body and with indentations from invisible garments.........

If the intellegence had been used, many in the 911 group would have been caught, and the crotch bomber would not have even been on an airplane.

I strongly object to this thing....then have we even looked at who would get the contract$$$$ to provide them to airports?.............and they are not really that accurate anyway.

full scan failure

"Then there´s the awkward bit: While these things do certainly reveal your weapons...they also reveal your body. In detail. Down to the furry bits. And, given that they´re going to have to be human-operated (with some computer assistance, for sure, but still man-in-the-loop) like the baggage machines, that means you´re effectively going to be taking your clothes off for a TSA guy/gal (and how long before there´s a law suit about there being no TSA girls on duty to scan women for a particular flight?) Yup--that´s a stranger, a government employee. And one who´s almost certainly empowered to arrange for you to be thrown in jail if you object or are, in these stupidly super-sensitive times, deemed as being "uncooperative.""

Amazing and beautiful. Thank you for the link.

This sounds absurd! Do you really think there is a need for girls who can´t even speak Turkish, or have a working visa, to be waitresses in Turkey?  Do you think it´s hard to find a young Turkish woman to work as a waitress in Turkey? 

I would NOT give any serious thought about this job. Turkey is not particularly any more dangerous than other countries....but in this day and age human trafficking is big business....and the most desirable prey is young women.  Any country where you don´t speak the language, know the system for proper and safe functioning, or have trusted and reliable people to depend on in an emergency is a dangerous country for you...or anyone in the same situation.

You may be ok, and you may not, but the stakes are too high and horrific for such a gamble.

Good point Vineyards.....as much as I may like to present the US in "my way", there are others here who won´t let me....(hello Elisabeth...teaschip....and others)...  like it or not...and I´m sure they aren´t that thrilled with my viewpoints either, I must admit, they to are Americans and what they think and feel impacts the total cultural collective.

I´ve been thinking of how desegregation resulted in the loss of many of the very individual and distinctive Black businesses and institutions.  The US calls itself the "melting pot", Canada calls it´s culture a"Mosaic".  In a Mosaic all componants are identifiable and they keep their individual identity, but form beautiful graphics.  In a "Melting Pot" no individual parts can be found, but a unique flavor is the result.

If you don´t want to loose your culture and identity, how do you do it?

Listening to an interview with the authof, Dacher Keltner on altruism and how it relates to the vagus nerve....

the author of Born to be Good is talking about it.

"A new examination of the surprising origins of human goodness. In Born to Be Good, Dacher Keltner demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short"—we are in fact born to be good. He investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of cooperative societies?

By combining stories of scientific discovery, personal narrative, and Eastern philosophy, Keltner illustrates his discussions with more than fifty photographs of human emotions. Born to Be Good is a profound study of how emotion is the key to living the good life and how the path to happiness goes through human emotions that connect people to one another."

Sounds like a good book....maybe we aren´t really mean selfish brutes?

This is alarming....and deadly serious. I tried to find information in English on this, but couldn´t find anything.  You don´t know any English sites on this, do you?

hmmm....I´m curious what was edited out by Trudy too....

Beautiful music, fabulous photographs of horses and the desert...but that film, Lawrence of Arabia, is full of lies and deception.  I hate that film. That was one of the major campaigns that caused so many problems that persist today.  It is one of the most anti Turkish propaganda films around. 

Have you ever studied the history of the events portrayed in that film....The Arab Revolt...(against the Ottomans)?  The period is very well documented. Even Lawrence was disgusted by it when he realized how even he had been duped.

Actually it was a British aristocratic proimperialism spinster who did most the work for that program.  She laid the groundwork.  Her name is Gertrude Bell. It was Gertie who supplied the intellegence to Lawrence, told him where the oasis where, who would be friendly.....and even she was disgusted with the outcome.....she died of an overdose of sleeping pills.

I think I mentioned the fact that many halal butchers here have a sign stateing that the meat they carry has been hand slaughtered, rather than the mechanical recorded type.  Also, they also sell grass fed, none hormone treated meats.  I don´t buy any other type.  It probably depends on the area one is in.  I´m in the SF Bay area, so there is a greater demand for this type of product here.