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Labrecque, Manon MD; Khemici, Elyess PhD; Cartier, André MD; Malo, Jean-Luc MD; Turcot, Jules PhD
From the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal (Dr Labrecque, Dr Khemici, Dr Cartier, Dr Malo) and the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) du Québec (Dr Turcot), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Supported by Institut de reherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), grant no. 099-186.
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Objective: The objective of this project was to assess both the outcome for patients diagnosed with proven isocyanate-induced occupational asthma (IIOA) by specific inhalation challenge (SIC) and the functional impairment, 2 years after cessation of exposure to isocyanates, using the compensation insurance scale proposed in the province of Quebec.
Methods: We used a retrospective cohort of 233 patients diagnosed in the province of Quebec between 1985 and 2002 and randomly chose 105 of those patients. We kept 89 subjects with complete data at T0 (the time of diagnosis) and 79 were reevaluated at T2, approximately 2 years after their removal from exposure, for final impairment–disability assessment. At each evaluation (T0 and T2), a clinical examination and lung function tests, including spirometry and methacholine challenge, were performed.
Results: At T2, 79 of 89 patients were reassessed (89%). The remaining patients were lost to follow up (8) or too unstable to be reassessed for final impairment–disability settlement (2). No statistical difference was observed for spirometry data and antiasthmatic medication use between T0 and T2 (P = 0.11). At T2, 73% of patients were still using short-acting β2 agonists and 39% inhaled glucocorticoids. A forced expiratory volume in 1 second variation of ±10% from T0 to T2 occurred in 31 subjects (40%). Forced expiratory volume in 1 second worsened in 14 (18%), remained significantly unchanged in 51 (64%), and improved in 14 (18%). Nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) improved in significantly in 19 (24%); the others remained unchanged. Both were not associated with smoking status (P > 0.05). Nonspecific BHR was normalized in nine of 79 (11%) patients. Clinical remission occurred in only four (5%) subjects. The mean impairment–disability score was 21% ± 13% at 2 years according to the scale used by the Workers' Compensation Board.
Conclusions: These results show the generally poor medical outcome of IIOA and suggest the importance of early detection and withdrawal of the workers from exposure to isocyanates. They also emphasize the need for medical surveillance program and adequate treatment of patients with IIOA.
Isocyanates are, with flour, the most frequent cause of occupational asthma (OA) in several countries, including Canada (Quebec and Ontario), the United Kingdom, and the United States.1–5 Isocyanates are low-molecular-weight chemicals used in the manufacturing of polyurethane forms, varnishes, paints, and plastics. Isocyanate-induced occupational asthma (IIOA) has been reported among workers exposed to toluene diisocyanate (TDI), methylene diphenyldiisocyanate (MDI), hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI), isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI), and naphthalene diisocyanate (NDI). Because the treatment of choice for IIOA is to remove the workers from exposure to the causal agent, the resulting number of people who may be required to change jobs and the ensuing economic consequences for society are of major significance.6
Follow-up studies of workers with immunologic OA, ie, asthma caused by sensitization to an agent after a latency period, have shown that avoidance of exposure to the causal agent results in significant improvement of asthma symptoms, airway obstruction, and nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness (NSBHR). Nonetheless, removal from exposure does not generally lead to complete recovery from asthma. Numerous studies have been published on the prognosis of OA.7–22
For prognosis specific to IIOA, a poor outcome of asthma has been associated with baseline bronchial hyperreactivity and disturbance of ventilatory function.11,12 Duration of exposure to isocyanate before diagnosis is negatively related to prognosis.9,10,12 Paggiaro reported persistence of NSBHR in 10 of 16 subjects (62.5%) between 24 and 60 months after the cessation of exposure.13 Pirila had published the clinical outcome of a large cohort of workers with HDI and TDI occupational asthma.22 The study was carried out on average 10 years after the diagnosis. According to the questionnaire study done in 213 patients, 80% still felt symptoms of asthma and used medication at the time of the follow up. In that cohort, factors reported to change the prognosis were the presence of immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies, probably not in relation to the mechanism of the disease, but probably more in relation to the fact that those patients had a shorter duration of exposure because of an earlier apparition of symptoms compared with the patients with negative IgE antibodies. Patients with HDI-induced asthma had better outcome than those with TDI- and MDI-induced asthma. Atopy, type of reaction to the challenge test, and duration of exposure to isocyanate before the diagnosis were not related to better prognosis in that study.
Impairment resulting from asthma can be quantified using scales that incorporate information on the degree of airflow limitation, the level of NSBHR, and medications required to control symptoms as recommended by the American Medical Association.23 In Quebec, the compensation program provided by the Commission de la santé et sécurité du travail (CSST) allows for financial support to the workers who are completely removed from exposure to isocyanates. On diagnosis, an initial impairment of 3% is given to all workers for sensitization, whereas a second assessment of impairment is carried out 2 years after the diagnosis.
Assessment of impairment is carried out 2 years after diagnosis, because previous studies have shown that improvement of the functional status reaches a plateau 2 years after cessation of exposure. This has been shown in workers exposed to snow crab.18 However, subsequent studies have shown that NSBHR can further improve 5 years and more after cessation of exposure.23
The objective of this project was to assess both the outcome for patients diagnosed with proven IIOA by specific inhalation challenge (SIC) and the functional impairment 2 years after cessation of exposure to isocyanates using the compensation insurance scale proposed in the province of Quebec.
This is a retrospective cohort study. Patients included in that cohort were those diagnosed with IIOA between July 1985 and December 2002 and recognized by the Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) with a temporary attributed impairment–disability score (IDS) of 3% due to sensitization to isocyanates. A total of 233 patients were diagnosed in the province of Quebec between these years, and we randomly chose by computer-assist randomization 105 of those patients who were assessed at T0 (time of diagnosis). We had complete data on 89 of them that we kept in the cohort. 79 were reassessed at T2, approximately 2 years after their removal from exposure for final impairment–disability assessment. At each evaluation, a clinical examination and lung function tests, including spirometry and histamine or methacholine challenges, were performed. Skin testing was performed by the prick method using a battery of ubiquitous inhalants. Histamine hydrochloride (1 mg/mL) was used as a positive control. Skin reactions of 3 mm or larger were considered positive in the presence of a negative reaction to the diluent. Two different definitions were used for atopy: 1) one or more positive skin prick reactions after testing with a battery of common environmental allergens, and 2) previous manifestations of eczema, atopic dermatitis, hayfever, or other allergic rhinitis, referred to here as atopic history. All these informations were available in patient records in the WCB database that we use for this study.
Forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), FEV1/FVC, histamine or methacholine concentrations causing a fall of 20% in FEV1 (PC20), medication to control asthma, and IDS at T0 and T2 were considered. IDS estimation is based on three factors according to the scales previously established.24: air caliber, airway responsiveness, and the need for medication to adequately control asthma. That scale is represented in Table 1. The duration of exposure, the latency period necessary for developing symptoms, and the duration of exposure after the onset of symptoms were assessed.
We collected data according to established standard procedures from the database of the WCB (CSST in Québec), which included the subjects' medical reports. These reports present data on occupational and asthma history, smoking status, asthma medication, personal and family health history, physical examinations, lung function tests, chest x-rays, IDS, and conclusions.
We compared the clinical characteristics from the time of diagnosis (T0) to 2 years thereafter (T2). A FEV1 variation of ± 10% from T0 to T2 was considered significant.25,26 An improvement in NSBHR was significant if PC20 at T2 was 3.2 times greater than PC20 at T0.27 A NSBHR was considered normalized if, at T2, PC20 >16 mg/mL. Clinical remission occurred when PC20 >16 mg/mL without the use of antiasthmatic medication susceptible of influencing NSBHR or needed to control asthma, except for the occasional use of shortacting β2-adrenergic. We tested categorical data using Fisher exact test or Pearson χ2 (with Yates correction for continuity) and continuous variables (paired, unpaired data) using the Student t test. We used Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon signed rank tests for paired and unpaired nonparametric data, respectively. We assessed the correlations using Pearson or Spearman correlation coefficients. Two-sided P values of less than 0.05 were considered to indicate a statistically significant difference. Data were processed using SPSS package (version 10.0).
The Ethics Committee of Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal approved this study. The Commission d'Accès à l'Information (CAI) of Quebec, that allows access to and protects information on privacy, approved access to the patient medical reports from the CSST.
Between July 1985 and November 2000, 233 diisocyanate-induced asthma subjects were assessed and recognized for IIOA by the WCB in the Province of Quebec (CSST); 105 of them were randomly selected for our study. Of those 105 cases, we kept 89 subjects for our study, 10 were not reassessed by the CSST after 2 years (eight were lost at follow up and two undertreated for their asthma so not stable enough to be reassessed). It would have been interesting to know the evolution of the subjects lost to follow up; generally those are the ones with the better prognosis who work another job and who are not interested in lost time from work and coming in for their revaluation. Therefore, we have complete results on 79 patients. In 97% of the cases, the diagnosis was proven by SIC. Among 86 IIOA cases out of 89 patients at the time of diagnosis (T0), 49% worked spray painting in body shops, 19% in manufacturing, 8% in construction, 8% in chemical industries, 4% in communications, 2% in furnishing, 2% in aviation, and 4% in the rubber, 2% in the leather, and 2% in the textile industries. Among 89 IIOA cases with an average age of 45 years (9 female, 80 male), 32 (36%) were nonsmokers, 17 (19%) were current smokers, and 40 (45%) were former smokers (Table 2). Skin prick tests to a battery of 20 environmental allergens were performed in 52% (46) of the cases, and 46 (100%) were positive to at least one allergen. Atopic history of earlier conjunctivitis, dermatitis, eczema, hayfever, or rhinoconjunctivitis was reported by 14%. The total duration of exposure, the latency period necessary for acquiring sensitization, and the duration of exposure after the onset of symptoms averaged 155, 94, and 61 months, respectively. After the diagnosis of IIOA, patients were advised to avoid isocyanate exposure and were granted compensation. Isocyanates agents that had caused asthma were HDI (35%), MDI (17%), TDI (18%), IPDI (1%), HDI + MDI (1%), HDI + TDI (1%), HDI + IPDI (4%), and MDI + TDI (1%) for (22%) the type of isocyanate was not mentioned (Table 2).
At T2, for 79 patients, no statistical difference was observed for spirometry data and antiasthmatic medication use between T0 and T2 (P = 0.11). At T2, 73% of patients were still using short-acting β2 agonist and 39% inhaled glucocorticoids (Table 3). A FEV1 variation of ± 10% from T0 to T2 occurred in 31 subjects (40%). FEV1 worsened in 14 (18%), remained significantly unchanged in 51 (64%), and improved in 14 (18%). NSBHR improved significantly in 19 (24%); the others remained unchanged. Both were not associated with smoking status (P > 0.05). NSBHR was normalized in nine of 79 (11%) patients. Clinical remission from our previous definition occurred in only four (5%) subjects. The mean IDS was 21% ± 13% at 2 years according to the scale used by the WCB (Table 3).
We investigated the outcomes of the 89 workers of whom 97% were diagnosed with IIOA. Legislation in the province of Quebec permits workers diagnosed with IIOA to be financially compensated once removed from exposure to isocyanates. Our results show that FEV1 significantly increased in 36% of the workers. NSBHR improved significantly in 24%. NSBHR was normalized in 11%. Clinical remission which means normalization of bronchial reactivity and no need for any antiinflammatory treatment occurred in only 5%. Antiasthmatic medication use did not differ between T0 and T2 (P = 0.11). Seventy-three percent of patients still need β2 agonists and 36% need inhaled glucocorticoids 2 years after having been removed from the exposure. This indicates that many patients still had symptoms 2 years after a diagnosis of IIOA. In a published series by Piirila on 245 cases of IIOA, 82% still experienced asthma symptoms and used asthma medication after an average follow up of 10 years.22 Reassessment was carried out by a questionnaire on 154 patients and by a questionnaire plus a functional evaluation on the remaining 91 patients. The average duration of symptoms was 82 ± 71 months, which is comparable to our series. In the series of Padoan, 60% of the patients removed for 10+ years reported asthmatic symptoms and 60% of workers needed therapy with bronchodilators, whereas 20% used inhaled glucocorticoids.28 The program's facilities of the province of Quebec suggested that the prognosis would be better than the one usually reported in the literature. Unfortunately, our results are no better than those reported. We must realize that the total duration of exposure, the latency period necessary for acquiring sensitization, and the duration of exposure after the onset of symptoms was very lengthy in our patients. They averaged 155, 94, and 61 months, respectively. So, patients had a major exposure period after respiratory symptoms had appeared, indicating a related poor prognosis. However, in contrary to the two previous series on IIOA, our patients were reassessed just 2 years after their removal from exposure. They would have had less severe impairment if the reassessment had been done 5 to 10 years after. BHR (CP20) and disturbance of ventilatory function (FEV1) at T0 are significantly and negatively correlated to the prognosis, respectively (r = −0.57, P = 0.01 and r = −0.59, P = 0.01). These results are in accordance with the previous results.11,12 The presence of specific IgE antibodies to isocyanates was found to be associated with a favorable prognosis. We did not measure the specific IgE in this study. The relationship between isocyanate exposure levels and the risk of sensitization is very well known.29 However, there are few publications on the relationship between prognosis and intensity or cumulative exposure,30 and we have no idea of the level exposure of those workers in that cohort study. Our cases of IIOA were almost all proven by SIC, confirming the immunologically mediated asthma mechanism for 87 of 89 patients. Others series could have included patients with underlying bronchial hyperresponsiveness without immunologic IIOA, therefore generating heterogeneity in prognosis.31,32
These results show the persistence of asthma in the majority of subjects with IIOA 2 years after cessation of exposure (only 5% of clinical remission in our cohort) That suggests the importance of early detection and withdrawal of the worker from exposure to isocyanates. They also emphasize the need for medical surveillance and adequate treatment of patients with IIOA. We are currently conducting a surveillance program in the province of Quebec for workers exposed to isocyanates and projecting improvement of the prognosis through early detection.
The authors thank Mrs C. Demedash for reviewing the manuscript and the staff of the Chest Department, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal for their cooperation and help during the study.
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Andy Lochhead column: Burnley down to bare bones
3:20pm Friday 4th April 2014 in Sport By Andy Lochhead
TALK about bad timing. I couldn't believe it when I saw Sam Vokes getting treatment so early in the game on Saturday.
His terrible, season-ending injury has left us down to the bare bones for two big away games at Watford and Barnsley.
But it is up to the fit and available lads to pull together and make sure the Clarets achieve their promotion goal.
Hopefully in the next week or two we will be able to welcome back both Kieran Trippier and Danny Ings from injury, and that will be a massive boost to the squad at a time when we can no longer supplement it with signings after the loan window closed last week.
Dean Marney will be back for the midweek trip to Oakwell after suspension, and it would be an ideal time to break our hoodoo.
We hardly ever win there, it's our bogey ground.
But the main thing is being able to get something from the next two games and try to maintain as big a cushion in second place as possible.
It's going to be a tough one as Sean Dyche goes back to his old club, Watford, tomorrow.
Results have improved since their change of manager, and they have been particularly strong at home of late.
We will have to make do and mend with key players missing, but Dyche will have them all well drilled and aware of their jobs if it means one or two playing out of their usual position.
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In the circumstances we can't look too far ahead.
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Our old manager Eddie Howe could do us a favour with Bournemouth at home to QPR tomorrow.
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Time seems to be catching up to Roy Halladay.
Halladay was removed from the Philadelphia Phillies game against the Miami Marlins on Monday night in what preliminary reports are calling "arm fatigue" in his throwing shoulder. Halladay only made it through 3 batters in the Marlins lineup.
Jim Salisbury from CSN had the initial tweet.
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This is a sad ending to a season for one of the best pitchers of this generation. "Doc" Halladay has not been the same after returning from shoulder surgery. After struggling mightily for a portion of the early season, it seemed like he was trending in a better direction, but his shoulder seems to have had enough.
Halladay is one of the smartest pitchers out there and even if he was able to throw in the low 90′s to high 80′s range he could still find a place in a Major League rotation if he wanted to. If he is topping out in the low 80′s that could spell the end of his career. Halladay is 36 years old and time may finally be up on the all-star.
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Boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) are the tactics of political warfare used against Israel, based on the exploitation of human rights, double standards, comparisons to apartheid South Africa, and false accusations of "war crimes."
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The report, which was compiled by Dr. Harold Brackman, takes a comprehensive look at the origins of the movement dating back to 2001. Among its many conclusions is that BDS "is a movement that does not help better the life of a single Palestinian and which is oblivious to major human rights disasters erupting throughout the Middle East and beyond."
As a determining factor of BDS's illegitimacy, the report uses Natan Sharansky's 'three Ds test' for when criticism crosses the line into anti-Semitism:
The report also dismisses the BDS canard that Israel is as bad, if not worse, as Apartheid South Africa. "The truth is that the equation of Israel with South African Apartheid is both a false analogy and an historical libel at the center of the BDS campaign to isolate and ultimately destroy Israel," it states, adding that "the end result [of the two-state solution] would be the creation—not of South African-style 'Bantustans' among the Palestinians—but of a sovereign Palestinian state on over 90 percent of the Arab territory Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War. In the meantime, Israel stays out of Gaza except when it reacts against terrorist attacks."
The report also slams the BDS movement for its glaring hypocrisy, noting that "BDS Crusaders" never refuse "to utilize the outsized contributions of Israelis to cellphone technologies, the digital revolution, or biotech breakthroughs that have transformed the quality of life for billions and saved countless lives," and highlighting the glaring fact that "Qatar-born Omar Barghouti exploits the academic freedom offered by Tel Aviv University to pursue an advanced degree while comparing Israelis to 'mad dogs,'" while viewing "all Israeli academics as members of 'occupation.'"
The report observes that BDS has had "a minimal impact on business" and has mostly failed in its objectives beyond the propaganda arena. Minor victories can be highlighted, but even those have been negligible and come with their own brand of controversy. A recent Brooklyn College event is a prime example: The school was unwilling to cancel a BDS event despite opposition from groups on both the left and right. Ultimately the event created a controversy when a group of Jewish students were evicted for "disturbing" the attendees.
Yet despite the minor PR victories, even supporters of BDS have acknowledged the insidious goals of the movement, with Lebanese American Palestinian Professor of Political Science, As'ad Abu Khalil saying in 2012: "The real aim of BDS is to bring down the State of Israel . . . That should be stated as an unambiguous goal. There should not be any equivocation on the subject. Justice and freedom for the Palestinians are incompatible with the existence of the state of Israel."
The report concludes, that BDS has no positive impact on peace in the Middle East: "Those truly committed to a 'Two State Solution' will never serve the cause of peace by embracing the anti-Semitic BDS. Honest people have a choice between two options only: a return to currently unfashionable, always difficult, peacemaking to forge two viable, peaceful states or the grim alternative, stripped bare of pretenses, of a deadly specter astride a Pale Horse."
The Shot That Killed the Two-State Solution
The fighting in Gaza has largely been treated as a sideshow to the peace initiatives of John Kerry. The idea appears to be that once Israel withdraws its troops, the Secretary can resume his efforts to reach an agreement. If that truly is the thinking in the White House, the president will find himself frustrated and disappointed again. The rain of rockets from Gaza has only stiffened the resistance of the Israeli public and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to territorial compromise on the West Bank. And, one rocket, in particular, may have killed the two-state solution altogether.
From the beginning of his first term, and initial missteps in pushing for a quick end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, President Obama and his foreign policy team failed to understand the implications of Israel's 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip. When Israel evacuated every citizen and soldier, effectively ending the "occupation," the expectation and hope was that the Palestinians would use this opportunity to build the infrastructure of a state and demonstrate that they could live in peace with Israel.
This was a true test of the mantra "land for peace" and the Palestinians failed. Almost immediately, Hamas escalated its terror attacks on Israel and began to launch barrages of rockets and mortars at Israel's civilian population. By the start of the latest operation, Israel had absorbed more than 10,000 rockets, which had the range to put more than half of Israel's population (Jews and Arabs) in danger. Depending on the proximity to Gaza, Israelis had from 15 to 30 seconds to find shelter after hearing the siren indicating an incoming rocket.
While the media tried to keep "score" of casualties to show a "disproportionate" number of Palestinian casualties compared to Israelis, the simplistic recitation of these figures completely misrepresented the impact of the conflict. First, Israelis had no obligation to allow themselves to be killed just to make the score more even. Second, the casualty figures in Israel would have been horrifying if not for their technological genius in developing the Iron Dome system, which shot down most of the rockets that were directed at major population centers such as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Furthermore, the media simply accepted whatever information the Palestinian Health Ministry gave them, ignoring the fact that the ministry was an arm of Hamas and that, according to their data, not a single Hamas terrorist was killed, only civilians. Inexplicably, the press ignored this fact and portrayed the war as though Israel was fighting ghosts that only they could see.
This latest bombardment, especially with the introduction of longer range weapons, has reinforced the view following the disengagement that giving up territory in the West Bank without ironclad security guarantees was a risk that exceeded any hoped for benefits of peace. This is the attitude even of the Israeli left whose homes and families were also in the line of fire.
As dangerous as the overall barrage has been, it was one rocket in particular that may have completely changed the prospects for a two-state solution. That rocket did not kill anyone and caused little direct damage; however, the fact that it was within a mile of Israel's international airport was enough to scare the United States and most other countries to cancel their flights in and out of Israel.
Fortunately, no rockets have come anywhere near a commercial airliner or hit the airport itself, but the mere possibility was sufficient to put Israel's economy in potential jeopardy. At the height of the tourist season, flights were cancelled and Israel's principal artery to the outside world was isolated.
Israelis legitimately fear that the West Bank, less than 30 miles from Tel Aviv, 6 miles from Ben-Gurion Airport and a few feet from Jerusalem, will turn into Hamastan where the entire heart of Israel would be within easy rocket range.
How many Israelis will be willing to take this risk now? Would you?
Dr. Mitchell Bard is the Executive Director of the nonprofit AICE and author/editor of 23 books including After "Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine" and "Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam's War Against the Jews."
Why Israel is losing the information war
From Caroline Glick 20August2014 http://carolineglick.com/why-israel-is-losing-the-information-war/
For most Israelis, the international discourse on Gaza is unintelligible.
Here we were going along, minding our own business.
Then on a clear night in June, apropos of nothing, Palestinian terrorists stole, murdered and hid the bodies of three of our children as they made their way home from school.
Before we could catch our breath from that atrocity, they began shelling our major population centers with thousands of rockets, missiles and mortars, and infiltrated our communities along the border with Gaza through underground tunnels to kidnap and murder us.
And as the Palestinians did all of these things, they used their civilian population and the foreign press corps as human sandbags. They ordered their own people not to evacuate their homes from which Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad terrorists launched their missiles, rockets and mortars at Israel. And they launched missiles at Israeli cities from outside the hotel where the foreign reporters were staying.
It doesn't take a PhD to understand what the game is. And Israelis – even many with PhDs – understand what is happening.
This is why so many Israelis are up in arms about our government's failure to impact the wall of lies that comprises the discourse on Israel in the Western world.
The knee-jerk reaction of many Israelis to the sight of UN officials, CNN anchors and New York Timesreporters accusing us of committing war crimes is to blame ourselves.
Our hasbara (public diplomacy) is a catastrophe, our defenders are incompetent idiots, we moan and scream.
But the truth is not so simple. Our speakers have gotten much better over the past several years. Some, like ambassadors Ron Dermer and Ron Prosor and IDF Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, are excellent.
Israel's public diplomacy efforts have been unsuccessful in penetrating, let alone dismantling the edifice of lies that constitutes the Western narrative about the Palestinian war against us because our underlying strategy for contending with it is directed at the wrong goal.
Our PR gurus defined our hasbara goal as getting our story out effectively. To do so, Israel has operated on two parallel tracks. First, we have tried to adjust our policies to adhere to what we perceive as the West's demands.
We have employed measures unprecedented in military history to protect the Palestinians from their elected leaders who use them as fodder in their propaganda war against Israel.
There is no precedent in the history of warfare to Israel's practice of warning Palestinians when it is about to attack civilian installations that Hamas has unlawfully used to attack Israel.
Moreover, Israel has accepted interpretations of the laws of war – such as the specious assertion that Israel is required to provide free electricity to Gaza – that have no relationship whatsoever to international law.
For all our efforts, The New York Times, MSNBC, the European media, CNN and all the rest demonize our soldiers and leaders. They ignore the fact that everything Hamas and its allies in Fatah and Islamic Jihad do is a war crime – from calling for the annihilation of Israel to shooting rockets at civilian population centers, to shooting rockets at civilian population centers from hospitals and from outside the hotel where their reporters are staying in Gaza.
A casual glance at the mountain of distorted and simply false stories reported about Israel and its enemies makes clear that at a minimum, most of the Western media don't care about the truth. The fact that they sent reporters to Israel and Gaza doesn't mean they wanted those reporters to publish what is going on.
The reporters knew what they were supposed to say before they even got on a plane to Israel. True, Hamas has openly acknowledged that it prohibited the foreign press from filming its terrorists and their war crimes. But with rare exceptions, the media had no problem with Hamas's rules.
So too, the UN Human Rights Council didn't decide to form a commission of inquiry to criminalize Israel because we weren't good enough at showing the lengths we go to protect Gazans from their elected leaders. And the UNHRC didn't appoint William Schabas, who has called for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be tried for war crimes, to lead its star chamber because it didn't get the press release proving that Israel acts in compliance with international law.
The media, the US State Department and the UN attack Israel for crimes that Hamas commits because they are wedded to a narrative in which Israel is to blame for its enemies' desire to destroy it.
As the UN, The New York Times and President Barack Obama see it, Israel is to blame because it is inherently guilty by its nature.
The White House and State Department can accuse Israel of conducting a "totally indefensible" and "disgraceful" strike against an UNRWA school, when no such strike occurred, and if it had occurred it would have been totally defensible, because as far as they are concerned, as Martin Indyk claimed in May, Israel's right to exist is conditional on our willingness to accept their belief that we are inherently morally deformed and in need of direction by our betters.
Netanyahu is Schabas's "favorite [to be placed] in the dock of the International Criminal Court," because Netanyahu is the elected leader of the morally deformed Jewish state.
The goal of hasbara cannot be to educate the likes of The New York Times' bureau chief Jodi Rudoren about the truth because the problem isn't one of ignorance. The problem is that they consider the truth an impediment to their goal of reporting the narrative of Israeli criminality.
Rather than striving to educate, we must work to manipulate the Rudorens of the world into covering the truth.
For instance, there is no reason to provide reporters clearly dedicated to hiding the truth with access to national leaders and military commanders. Let them find their own sources. Israel is a free country. There is no reason for The New York Times to be invited to a press briefing by IDF commanders.
Another critical element of a strategy for forcing hostile media and international agencies to contend with the truth is to create events that they can't ignore.
The Knesset should begin deliberations on a bill to strip UNRWA of its legal immunity as a first step towards bringing its personnel up on charges of providing material support for terrorism.
True, such actions will be met with howls of condemnation and hysterical reproaches from all the usual suspects.
But at least they will be talking about Palestinian war crimes. At least they will be forced to acknowledge that UNRWA is a force of destabilization and radicalization, not of stabilization and moderation in the Arab conflict with Israel.
Our leaders and spokespeople cannot win the information war by devoting themselves to pointing out the West's hypocrisy and double standards, or the rank mendaciousness and bigotry that stands at the core of their approach to Israel. No one ever won a war by only playing defense. And we won't win this one by explaining why we aren't war criminals.
We will only begin to make progress when we define the goal of our hasbara as forcing an unwilling media and international community to discuss the truth by taking deliberate actions that will make it impossible for them to ignore it.
Examples of the Lies against Israel and the Real Truth
|From Elder of Ziyon 18August2014 http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/every-idf-officer-has-more-training-in.html#.U_K_hbuvgjg
Every IDF officer has more training in international law than practically every columnist and reporter
Yaacov Lozowick summarizes an important article from Yediot Acharonot (not available online and only in Hebrew) about the depth of commitment the IDF has to international law on all levels.
What this means is that every IDF officer has more formal training on international law than practically every reporter, every columnist and every pundit that screams "War crimes!"
So when a major New York Times columnist badly misstates international law, it is because he is ignorant. When the head of a major human rights organization justifies it, it is because he is malicious. (Even under the "just war" definition of proportionality, it applies to the decisions to embark on an operation, not to the death-count afterwards. And Ken Roth knows that.)
The IDF had an entire website dedicated to international law. Here is what goes into every single decision to drop a bomb, every single time:
Almost certainly, not a single international journalist who reported on Gaza ever heard of this website, or even ever consulted an expert on international law, before throwing around terms like "war crime" and "proportionality."
Israelis flood local market for top-class poultry rejected by european union boycott
Persecuted Jews from Europe are discovering the delights of international cuisine in the Jewish State.
By: Hana Levi Julian 17August2014 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/israelis-flood-local-market-for-top-class-poultry-rejected-by-european-union-boycott/2014/08/17/
A gourmet kosher chicken from Israel today cannot be had in many areas of the European Union.
Israeli poultry farmers are taking their export business elsewhere these days – and their chickens too.
European Union sanctions on business emanating from firms based in Judea, Samaria and other locations on the 'wrong' side of the 1949 Armistice Line have complicated Israel's business dealings.
Chickens and poultry products from those areas have become part of the business casualties to fall by the wayside. But given the number of southern chicken coops that were struck by rocket fire during Operation Protective Edge, this may be a blessing in disguise for the local market, particularly with the upcoming Jewish holiday month of Tishrei looming on the horizon.
The process has gotten to the point that it's no longer worth it for many business owners to bother with the Europeans. Instead, Israeli business owners are seeking other venues — closer to home — for their products.
Officials from Israel's foreign and agricultural ministries say the dilemma has been solved by an increase in domestic demand which has risen, ironically, in part due to the European persecution of Jews abroad.
For the past two months, the premium-quality products have instead been diverted to local markets, where they much appreciated and in very high demand – particularly with the influx of new immigrants with discriminating palates from France and North America.
It is true the Jewish communities in Europe are sadly being deprived and missing out; but Israelis who normally are asked to make due with the export 'leftovers' are reaping the benefits of the 'sanction bonanza' as a result.
And happier, gourmet Israelis at home make for a far more popular government in times of crisis.
Bottom line: Palestinian Arab terrorism hasn't gotten a toehold — let alone a snowball's chance — with the Netanyahu administration in power.
There are no chickens in the Israeli government coalition this time around.
|From The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Amb Prosor addresses special UN General Assembly session on Gaza
06August2014 http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/InternatlOrgs/Speeches/Pages/Amb-Prosor-addresses-special-UN-General-Assembly-session-on-Gaza-6-Aug-2014.aspx
Winston Churchill, one of the great architects of this institution, is remembered for his remarkable ability to perceive danger long before the rest of the world had woken up to the fact. In 1935, four years before World War II, Churchill criticized the international community for standing by as Germany rapidly rearmed. In his words: "The family of nations suffered from a want of foresight, an unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, and a lack of clear thinking and confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong."
The international community is once again facing the severe lack of foresight and unwillingness to see. Every day we are confronted by stories of radical Islamic terrorism: ISIS is purging Iraq of Christians, Boko Haram has kidnapped school girls in Nigeria, Al-Shabab gunmen are raiding fishing villages on the Somali coast. And yet this Assembly does not utter a word. It can only muster its outrage when Israel acts to defend its citizens.
The double standards are absolutely appalling. In Iraq, over 1,600 people were killed in July. In Libya, clashes between rival militias killed 200 people last month. In Nigeria, Boko Haram has slaughtered nearly 3,000 people this year. It may just be me, but I didn't hear the Arab group rally to condemn these atrocities. Instead, this group gangs up against the only democratic nation in the Middle East that is defending its citizens from the totalitarian forces threatening every enlightened country in this Assembly.
It might be too much to ask you to stand on our side in this battle between civilization and barbarism. But at least have the decency to swallow your selective outrage as Israel wages war against the extremist groups, seeking to eradicate the values that we all hold very dear.
Mr. President,
Israel is on the frontline of the war against radical extremism. The battle we fight today is the same battle that you all will fight tomorrow. Hamas, like ISIS and al-Qaeda, shares a disdain for democracy, a contempt for modernity, and a willingness to target innocent civilians.
And yet, some of you have abandoned the only democracy in the Middle East standing against the tide of terrorism. What does this say about your values? What does it mean for the next generation? This institution is being held hostage by some in this Assembly who are the worst human rights abusers.
The Arab nations, backed by some members of the non-aligned movement, may have the numbers, but they don't have the morals. They use the majority to convene special sessions, issue condemnations, and push through resolutions demonizing Israel. In fact, I won't be surprised if the Arab states pass a resolution saying that the terror tunnels were actually simply an irrigation system, and that the rockets were nothing more than shooting stars.
Few nations have the courage to admit that Hamas is committing a double war crime, targeting Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian civilians. Fewer still have the courage to admit that Hamas is willing to see its own children killed so it can build sympathy for its cause. By not vocally and unequivocally condemning Hamas, you are condemning another generation of Israelis and Palestinians to further suffering.
There is only one way to achieve sustained quiet in Israel and build a peaceful and prosperous Gaza. Hamas must be disarmed, Gaza must be demilitarized. And the international community must divorce itself from the romantic notion of Hamas as 'freedom fighters'.
Seventy years ago Winston Churchill bemoaned what he saw as the inability of mankind to act until the emergency comes. Today I am here to issue a warning: Stand with Israel and stand against terror before it is too late, before the danger lands on your doorstep and self-preservation strikes its jarring gong.
Thank you Mr. President.
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Israel rescues Ukrainian Jews stranded by fighting
May 27, 2014 12:58 PM
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Jewish Agency came to the rescue of two Jewish Ukranian families after rebels seized control of Donetsk airport as they were waiting to emigrate to Israel, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday.
The two families, numbering six people, were stranded at the airport when it was shut down on Monday. The agency then launched a "fast-paced operation, spokesman Avi Mayer said.
The families were driven to the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk then flown to Kiev where they boarded a plane for Tel Aviv, Mayer said. He gave no further details.
The Jewish Agency handles relations with Jews around the world and cooperates with Israel's Immigration Ministry.
Jewish immigration from Ukraine has more than doubled since the start of the year over 2013 figures, the agency said. Israel has seen 762 immigrants arrive from Ukraine between January and April, compared to 315 over the same period a year ago.
The agency is preparing to help facilitate the departure of more families from Donetsk should the hostilities there continue.
Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident who was born in Donetsk, said in a statement: "Due to the current situation in the country we have significantly expanded our activities, assisting those who wish to immigrate to Israel."
An estimated 11,000 Jews live in Donetsk and about 130,000 in all of Ukraine.
An Israeli immigration official said some recent newcomers from Ukraine to Israel had flown in initially as tourists then asked for citizenship. Israeli law offers citizenship to any Jews who apply for it.
Sharansky himself was jailed for his human rights activities in the then Soviet Union and was freed in 1986 after nine years in prison as part of an East-West spy swap.
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Today, January 28, the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met will open George Condo'sJesters, presented in conjunction with the new Metropolitan Opera production of Rigoletto. Condo has created 9 original ink-on-paper drawings of jesters for the show, which will be on display through May 11. The Met's new production of Rigoletto, Verdi's opera about a court jester whose life unravels after his insults go too far, will premiere today, January 28.
Condo has been a major figure in the contemporary art world for more than 30 years. His paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints have come to define the genre known as "artificial realism," which juxtaposes the traditional techniques of painting with a realist's view of the man-made world we live in today. Holland Cotter of The New York Times praised the 2011 New Museum retrospective of Condo's work as "a tour-de-force of stylistic multitasking and figurative variety...within the world of Mr. Condo's portraits, nothing is 'just' anything."
Jesters will be Condo's first solo show at Gallery Met, though he has contributed well-received works to two previous group exhibitions. His painting of Rosina from IL Barbiere di Siviglia was part of Heroines, the gallery's inaugural show, and he also contributed a painting to 2009'sSomething About Mary, a series of portraits of Mary Magdalene presented in conjunction with a new Met production of Tosca.
"I've been painting clowns since 1985-my favorite archetypal American hero-loser," Condo said of Jesters. "The jester has to entertain you and at the same time repel you. He has a multiplicity of qualities, and I thought that would give me a great opportunity to work with different planes that recede and come forward architecturally, like the planes and perspectives within a single portrait."
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August 28, 2014 at 1:36pm
This happened once in Texas. I'm pretty gun ho about guns but giving a child a full-auto weapon is dumb.
9 yrs old you should be shooting .22 bolt action rifle. Maybe .22 pistol.
August 28, 2014 at 1:25pm
Whenever I see a firearm pointed at someone I see it as an intent to kill. If I saw a police officer point a weapon at a family member I would open fire and claim self defense.
The police point guns at unarmed civilians not to protect themselves but as an act of intimidation. This is done to force compliance not in self defense. This is nothing more than terrorism.
Oh, so you disagree? You think what if the guy has a gun hidden in his pants? Well then that weapon isn't pointing at anyone and no one is in immediate danger. The police can frisk the individual and find the weapon. Later they will talk with the "hostages" and witnesses and the truth of what happened will come out.
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[13] August 23, 2014 at 2:31pm
The volcano could easily exceed one billion cow farts. We should start killing livestock now.
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[4] August 23, 2014 at 7:31pm
Shrugged responded:
[4] August 17, 2014 at 12:36pm
Police are never "first responders". A first responder is the average citizen who happens to be on the scene. It is the store owner, shop keeper, and good Samaritan. It is you. You want protection? You want security? Buy a gun! Buy an AR-15. Learn to shoot. An armed society is a polite society.
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August 17, 2014 at 12:20pm
I'm not a racist but I am a culture-ist. Some ASPECTS of culture are inferior to others. For example slavery in colonial America was an aspect of culture which was bad. The tribe of Caribs practiced cannibalism. There are aspects of the black culture that are not good. The black sense of entitlement is horrible. The defeatist attitude that they can never be successful businessmen because that is a betrayal of the black culture is horrible. I'm not saying Whites, Asians, and Hispanics don't have cultural issues too. The youth in France have many of the same cultural flaws as the blacks here, it really has nothing to do with race. You must be able to reject the direction of your peers and choose a new path.
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[4] August 14, 2014 at 12:44pm
I think they know deep down that homosexualism is not natural and is a result of their own delusion.
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[-1] August 13, 2014 at 10:22am
When the police point weapons at a lone unarmed man it is an act of intimidation and terror.
[-1] August 13, 2014 at 10:19am
You shouldn't point your rifle at someone unless you intend to kill them. When I see police officers pointing weapons at an unarmed man I see it as an act of aggression. That is a threat to a human life and one should have the right to defend themselves. I should have the right to defend my family should the police threaten their lives.
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[2] August 13, 2014 at 10:25am
HOUNDHOUSE responded:
August 8, 2014 at 11:39am
Don't get me wrong I believe everyone has the right to get on a train and put on an act of Demonic Possession. I just want equality before the law, that's all
August 8, 2014 at 11:23am
This reminds me of a story about a man who got arrested for preaching the bible to people standing in line outside a DMV. Something about not being able to preach to a "captive audience".
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August 8, 2014 at 11:39am
Nahum responded:
[3] August 7, 2014 at 1:15pm
Those who accuse others of Racism are usually nothing more than protectionist. Their egos are so fragile that they demand universal acceptance and love. Any critique, any parody must be instantly slammed. They can't afford to hear it. How do you think a person like this handles foreign policy? How does Obama stick up to the Chinese, or militant Islam? He caves in.
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[3] August 7, 2014 at 2:52pm
swissnut58 responded:
[10] August 7, 2014 at 1:00pm
I remember seeing a lot of pictures of Bush made into a monkey. Do it to Obama and everyone assumes there are racist thoughts behind it.
A liberal friend of mine made a joke once about Bush. As he walked into the bathroom he said, "I got to take Bush to the White House". When I later made the same joke to Obama I was called racist.
See how that works? Race is a way to protect yourself against deign, and vituperative attacks.
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[1] August 7, 2014 at 4:16pm
h-squared responded:
August 7, 2014 at 12:40pm
Funny you mention Psalm 83. Ever notice how the area controlled by ISIS is the same land that once was Assyria? It is northern Iraq and eastern Syria.
In reply to THERAPTURCOMES's comment on the story Islamic State Seizes Iraq's Largest Christian Town: 'It's a Catastrophe'
[3] August 7, 2014 at 12:32pm
My sign would say, "NO ATHEIST ALLOWED". I have a right to discriminate.
I know it's bad to discriminate against people, unless you're discriminating against tea party people. Then it's not really discrimination.
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August 9, 2014 at 6:41pm
GrumpyNGrumpier46 responded:
[4] August 7, 2014 at 12:24pm
What ever happened to freedom of association? The provider of goods and services can't choose who they do business with? It's like somewhere along the way we confused "open to the public" with "publicly owned" and now the public thinks they can control how to run a private business.
In reply to the story Read the Note the Restaurant That Offered a 15% Discount for Praying Released After Threatening Letter from Atheists
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August 7, 2014 at 12:43pm
StandardDeviation responded:
[2] August 7, 2014 at 12:02pm
WOW! I have to get out of San Antonio more often. The girls here are fat, ugly and smoke and throw their trash on the ground.
If this swimming hole was in San Antonio it would be covered with garbage within a day.
August 6, 2014 at 11:41am
I predict the speed of sound to be around 1100 feet per second. If I measure it I will find that to be true. Anyone on the planet can go measure it and find it to be true. It is true 100% of the time. It never changes unless you change the parameters of the experiment. That is science. Math is science, physics is science, anthropology is not.
In reply to lordjosh's comment on the story Remember the 'Hobbit' Human Scientists Thought They Found? Well...
August 6, 2014 at 11:32am
Since you mention math I will state that math is the only field that is close to 100% science. No matter how many times I put 1+1 in a calculator I will always get 2. This is an experiment I can do over and over. I can measure the spectrum of certain frequencies of light over and over. I can measure the speed of sound over and over. I and anyone else who does this gets the same answer 100% of the time. You can not do this with Anthropology because you can not recreate the exact conditions of the past to predict an outcome. There is no science here. You can prove the speed of sound but you can not prove that a skull was is an ancestor of modern man or an extinct form of another primate.
You are nothing more than a religious zealot. Your "theory" is nothing more than a dream that you conjure to fit the evidence at hand. You have no way of testing that theory other than the hope that no new evidence emerges to force a change to the story.
In reply to Nahum's comment on the story Remember the 'Hobbit' Human Scientists Thought They Found? Well...
[11] August 6, 2014 at 10:42am
The education system has failed you. You should know if something is 1000 yards away and 80 yards tall you can use geometry to find the angle. It's opposite over adjacent, which is tangent. So the tangent of the angle is .08 so the angle is only 4.5 degrees.
Also bharris0 should know if you shoot a gun at more than 45 degrees the bullet will travel a shorter distance not further.
If you have children in the public school please tell them to stay home and read, they will be better off. Abraham Lincoln taught himself at home and so can your kids. Just shut off the power to the house before you go to work it keeps them from playing video games.
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(b) Assignment to independent living program status. A veteran may be assigned or reassigned to independent living program status under the provisions of § 21.88, § 21.94, § 21.96, or § 21.98.
(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 3107)
(c) Continuation in independent living program status. A veteran will be in independent living program status during periods in which:
(1) The provisions of § 21.282 for induction into a program are met, but the veteran is pending induction into the facility at which rehabilitation services will be provided;
(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 3109, 3120)
(d) Termination of independent living program status. When a veteran's case has been assigned to independent living program status, the case will be terminated from that status, if one of the following occurs:
(1) A veteran, who has been notified of necessary arrangements to begin a program, the date the program begins and instructions as to the next steps to be taken:
(iii) Defers entry for more than 30 days beyond the scheduled beginning date, unless the deferment is due to illness or other sufficient reason.
(5) Service-connection for the veteran's service-connected disability is severed by VA or he or she otherwise ceases to be eligible.
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See §§ 21.160 Independent living services, 21.282 Effective date of induction into a rehabilitation program, 21.322 Commencing date, and 21.324 Reduction or termination date.
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|She always isolated herself after being damaged by those.. Insensitive fools. She kept everything bottled up, there was never anyone to tell her feelings to. She didn't have anybody left… Until he came along. She resented him at first, but he persisted. Only he managed to wiggle his way into her life. She never fully trusted him until he made her smile..
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Impact of Natural Disasters on Production Networks and Urbanization in New Zealand
AbstractNew Zealand's history of natural disasters and its vulnerability to various types of disaster are outlined briefly. A summary description of the country's arrangements for preparing for natural disasters and managing the response to, and recovery from, them is provided. The series of earthquakes that affected Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city, between September 2010 and early 2012 is considered as a case study. The direct and indirect tangible costs of the events are estimated as $NZ 30.9 billion (approximately $US24.5billion), or 15.8% of the country's GDP, on a replacement cost basis. Approximately 78% of this cost will be covered by insurance. On a depreciated replacement cost basis the damage is estimated at $NZ18.7 billion. The significant effects of the events on the population, labor market, reported crime, urbanization and location of businesses and production of the region are also described. The case study suggests that New Zealand's arrangements for natural disasters worked well in most regards. The case study also highlights the advantage of international co-operation in the response to natural disasters. It also suggests that while high rates and levels of disaster insurance ameliorate the financial impact, they can complicate achieving effective recovery. This is because insurance funds increase the alternatives available to the affected population and investors in respect of reinvestment and rebuilding the damaged region. The lag before insurers will accept new risks can also create delays and impede the momentum to recovery. The final section of the paper draws from New Zealand's recent disaster experience in Christchurch to present some policy recommendations relevant to New Zealand and the East Asia region.
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Quit the snipingJuly 22,2013If the White House had hopes for improved relations with Venezuela after the death of Hugo Chavez, those hopes were dashed over the weekend by the late leaders handpicked (but elected) successor, Nicolas Maduro.
Annoyed by a remark made by President Obamas nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, Maduro declared he was ending his efforts which seemed minimal in any case to mend fences with the White House.
Power had told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee she believed in contesting what she described as a crackdown on civil society being carried out in countries like Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.
Power says shell fight repression in Venezuela? What repression? There is repression in the United States, where they kill African-Americans with impunity, and where they hunt the youngster Edward Snowden just for telling the truth, he declared. He also demanded an apology.
Maduros kill African-Americans remark was an obvious reference to the controversial Florida case involving neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who was acquitted by a jury in the death of Trayvon Martin. That verdict triggered massive protests all across America last weekend.
And the U.S. government says they want to have good relations? What tremendous relations do they want, Maduro, a former bus driver, said, adding that Powers comments would please Venezuelas fascist right.
After being elected in April, Maduro called for closer relations with Washington and in June his foreign minister, Elias Jaua, met Secretary of State John Kerry, who described the meeting as the beginning of a good, respectful relationship.
Jaua said the Maduro administration was open to a more positive relationship based on the premise of mutual respect, non-interference in internal affairs and the proper treatment of disagreements.
Jauas optimism didnt last long. On Friday, he announced that his government had issued a letter of protest to the American embassy in Caracas. In the letter, he said, he asked if there is still willingness in Washington to improve relations.
The foreign ministry described Powers comments as interventionist and boasted that the UN had often recognized Venezuelas solid system of constitutional guarantees that ensured its citizens fundamental rights.
By contrast, the whole world is constantly expressing its concern over repressive practices carried out by the United States, the statement added.
Maduro earlier angered Washington by offering asylum to the fugitive intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden, who has been stranded in a Moscow airport while seeking a home where hed be able to avoid prosecution by the United States. All but two have rejected his request.
I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden, Maduro had explained, to protect this young man from the persecution unleashed by the worlds most powerful empire.
Washington may appear understandably preoccupied with pending talks between Israel and Palestine, the continued unrest in Egypt, the worsening situation in Syria and the sectarian violence in Iraq, but clearly the state department also must deal with hostility from certain parts of Latin America.
One oddity: More than 100 players on Americas Major League Baseball teams are natives of Venezuela, and their performances are closely watched by their friends, relatives and fans back home. And, unlike Cuban players, they didnt have to defect to play in the United States. Theyre well paid in this country.
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