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Two key objectives of the push for sweeping health care reform are holding down costs and driving up quality. "Pay for performance," a demonstrated approach to accomplishing both of those goals, has gained significant traction among policy-makers and some payers. But according to the latest publication in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Charting Nursing's Future series, "pay-for-performance initiatives related to nursing care are just emerging, largely because—while nurses are central to patient safety and quality of care—their work remains invisible to payment systems."
The brief, Perspectives on Pay for Performance in Nursing: Key Considerations in Shaping Payment Systems to Drive Better Patient Care Outcomes, cites a 2007 literature review in which Ellen T. Kurtzman, M.P.H., R.N., assistant research professor, Department of Nursing Education, The George Washington University, found not a single example of nursing-focused incentive programs in the United States. By contrast, Kurtzman's research identified more than 100 such programs focused on hospitals and physician practices.
"Payers recognize nurses' importance to quality and safety," Kurtzman explains. "The problem is that nurses are invisible in the payment system. In hospitals, for example, their work is bundled into room-and-board charges. And any change in how nurses' time is billed would require a major overhaul of the hospital payment system."
"Right now, we cannot compute nursing care's economic value because it has no price and is not on the hospital bill," adds John Welton, Ph.D., R.N., associate professor, Medical University of South Carolina. To effectively evaluate nurses' work performance, the field needs to define nurses' work more precisely and establish smart ways of measuring its impact.
Devising such improved systems for accounting for nurse's economic contribution to health care is a complex task, the brief notes. As part of subsequent research, funded by RWJF, Kurtzman interviewed policy-makers, nurses and hospital executives and board members. "Prevention of poor outcomes costs money and takes time," she says. "Payers' recent move to incentivize hospitals for eliminating adverse events in effect rewards them for their prevention track records. And nurses should be seen and incentivized as the hospital's army in the war against poor quality." But her interviews revealed that few of the key stakeholders had thought about creating financial incentives for nurses, even though hospital executives are routinely awarded significant bonuses for their work.
Nurses and administrators were receptive, Kurtzman reported, but had a hard time envisioning how and whether an incentive plan would adjust for nurses' varying expertise and length of employment, and how the subject might fare in contract negotiations with unions. They also wondered where the funding for such incentives would come from, since even small bonuses can add up quickly for the payer. Kurtzman's research led her to identify several specific issues that will need to be addressed in designing incentive programs, including how incentives would be structured—as a bonus or a penalty, for example; whether the recipients would be an individual nurse, unit, service, or institution; and whether incentives would be in the form of cash awards, professional development funds, celebrations, or the hiring of additional staff.
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It is made of silver. You can feel it on your hands when it is dry. It is amazing. Never used rubbing alcohol.
I too was curious about the Norwex clothes everyone is talking about. My dd will be fitted for her Starband on Monday, and will be getting her band on Dec. 17. I just ordered some of the baby wash cloths online, so hopefully they make it here by then. Not looking forward to a stinky head. I hope they really work!
I discovered them at a Norwex party. You cannot wash them with fabric softener or fabric sheets. It can ruin the material and it becomes useless. I just handwash with his Aquaphor shampoo (scent free) once a week. The smell from his helmet and head is totally put on the cloth... it stinks bad. :) At least it's on the cloth.
PP is correct, they are a microfiber cloth with silver embedded in it. Silver is a natual anti bacterial agent. Bacteria is what makes things smell (think dish rags). My girlfriend's son wears a helmet. She is a Norwex consultant, and when the recommended stuff didn;t work she tried her enviro cloth and it took all the stink out!


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Putting Israel First
The War Party's Achilles' heel
The campaign to lure the US into attacking Iran has one big problem to overcome before the War Party can taste success: the rather obvious fact that such a war would benefit Israel, and not the United States. This is why Israel's partisans in the US constitute the spearhead of the pro-war agitation, why AIPAC has made this a consistent theme for the past few years, and why the billionaire Sheldon Adelson, aside from funding the Newtster, has poured untold millions into the same project. Hardly a day goes by without some Israeli government official reiterating, once again, that Iran represents an "existential threat" to the Jewish state, and threatening to strike the first blow if Uncle Sam fails to wake up in time, while Israel's amen corner dutifully echoes the same line.
Israel and its more vehement partisans in this country have demanded the US attack Iran, even going so far as to raise the specter of another Holocaust if America fails to act. However, one argument they have failed to make is significant by its absence – they have failed to show how it is in America's interest to launch a military strike. Indeed, they have neglected this part of the equation rather ostentatiously, and yet one can hardly blame them for this oversight for the simple reason that such a case would be impossible to make. An attack on Iran would deprive the world economy of a significant portion of its energy needs, and would likely result in an economic catastrophe in this country – to say nothing of the costs of the war, in blood and treasure. War-weary Americans are not in the mood for another invasion and occupation in search of nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." This is the War Party's Achilles' heel.
How to get around this is the problem at the heart of the War Party's current project, and in order to do so they are employing the deadliest weapon in their well-stocked arsenal: the accusation of "racism," the most toxic accusation anyone can make about someone in the current political climate. Specifically, they are accusing war opponents of "anti-Semitism." After all, if Israel is the Jewish state, and that state's very existence is threatened by the specter of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program (which US intelligence has stubbornly failed to detect), then opposition to US military action is "anti-Semitism," pure and simple.
Today's war propagandists have figured out a way to make the issue of American interests, as opposed to Israeli interests, go away, and that is by policing the language of the debate. Are you calling someone who wants to pursue Israeli interests over and above those of his or her own country an "Israel firster"? Well, then, you are "anti-Semitic," you are employing the oldest "anti-Semitic tropes" and echoing "neo-Nazis," who – James Kirchick assures us – are the originators of the phrase. This is the argument made by "progressive" Spencer Ackerman in a recent issue of the Tablet, in which he joins the neoconservative assault on Glenn Greenwald, M.J. Rosenberg, and four bloggers over at the Center for American Progress who got slapped down for daring to wield (or imply) this supposedly "toxic" phrase.
There's just one problem with this argument: it isn't true. Ackerman cites Kirchick as the authority in this matter, but as a researcher the man Time columnist Joe Klein called a "dishonest prick" and a cheap "propagandist" leaves much to be desired. Kirchick claims the phrase originated with Willis Carto's Spotlight newspaper, a cesspool of anti-Semitism, but this is false: it originated, as one can see here, with Alfred M. Lilienthal, an anti-Zionist Jew who wrote several books in the early 1950s and 1960s, notably What Price Israel? Lilienthal's 1953 book was brought out by Henry Regnery, the noted conservative publicist and pioneer publisher, whose press also printed a number of other anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian works, including Freda Utley's Will the Middle East Go West? – which presciently argued American support for Israel would alienate the Arab world – Road to Beersheba, a novel by Ethel Mannin which dramatized the plight of a conquered people imprisoned in their own land, and a collection of photographs and text by the Swedish photographer Per-Orlow Anderson, They Are Human Too, which, in Regnery's words, "brought us face to face with the tragedy of the Arab refugees, whom he photographed crowded into the inhospitable Gaza strip." Which brings to mind the old saw about "the more things change." Yet another example of the changeless nature of our politics was described by Regnery, who reported in his Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher:
"One unexpected consequence of the book's publication was the visit from an agent of the FBI, who had been sent to make some inquiries about its author."
"This was," continues Regnery, "one of the less serious calls by government agents of one kind or another that frequently followed the publication of a book that displeased some group or individual of influence." Our witch-hunters will surely characterize Regnery's sardonic remark as evidence that he, too, was another one of those awful "anti-Semites" – after all, he was implying the Zionist lobby had enough influence to call out the dogs of the FBI and sic them on a mere photographer.
Yet Regnery's views, and those of his attendant authors, were hardly considered "subversive" back then: indeed, theirs was the standard conservative position on the state of Israel, which, back in the day, was an ally of the Soviet Union and a proudly socialist state. It is inconceivable, of course, that the Regnery Publishing Co. of today would put out anything remotely resembling Lilienthal's work: not with the conservative movement of 2012 dominated by warmongering neoconservatives and nutty Christian Zionists who see support for Israel as divinely ordained. In 1949, however, when Lilienthal wrote "Israel's Flag is Not Mine" for Readers Digest, his critique of Zionist propaganda was shared by mainstream conservatives as a matter of course:
"Today we see Zionists boasting of 'Jewish' political strength, Zionist picket lines around British consulates, Zionists demonstrating against Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin when he arrives here to sign the Atlantic Pact, New York stores plastered with posters screaming 'Do Not Buy British. Made Goods.'
"Are these people acting as Americans? Europe's recovery through the Marshall Plan is the keystone of our bipartisan foreign policy, which the Communists are trying to sabotage. Any boycott of British goods, organized or unorganized, helps this destruction."
It wasn't any neo-Nazis, but Lilienthal, a political conservative and a devout Jew, who was the first to raise the question of "dual loyalty." The "Israel Firster" meme originated, not with the neo-Nazi fringe, but with conservative Jews who, like Lilienthal, objected that:
"My one and only homeland is America. I am proud of my belief in the age-old Judaic concept of one God in Heaven and one Humanity here below. But my faith does not pull me into a feeling of narrowly tribal kinship with all others who worship God in this way. Whenever I read of Americans singing the Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, or see youth groups raising Israel's flag beside the Stars and Stripes. I am outraged. For Israel's flag and anthem are symbols of a foreign state; they are not mine."
The Kirchicks, the Ackermans, the Goldbergs – and also the Cartos – want us to forget this heritage, which has been buried under the landslide of pro-Israel propaganda, because it challenges the premises of both the Israel-Firsters and the anti-Semites.
Lilienthal was no fringe character: a diplomat who worked in the State Department during the war, he served in the US Army in the Middle East, and was later a consultant at the founding conference of the United Nations. His opposition to Zionism as a political movement was initially shared by many if not most American Jews: see Jack Ross's new book, Rabbi Outcast, for a biography of the most well-known figure in this movement, Rabbi Elmer Berger, which also serves as a detailed history of the American Council for Judaism, the organizational expression of this tendency. These Jews did not think it extraordinary that they would oppose the claims of a foreign government on their loyalties, and they warned – presciently, as it turned out – that American Jews would face charges of harboring dual loyalties because of the Zionists' insistence that all Jews somehow owed allegiance to Tel Aviv.
In short, the "neo-Nazi" origins of the "Israel Firster" meme is a myth that depends on ignorance of the real history of American Jewish opposition to Israeli nationalism. Like all war propaganda, it is based on blanking out whole portions of the historical record in favor of a black-and-white version of events.
So don't worry, Glenn – you can still use "Israel Firster" without being tainted by the stain of anti-Semitism.
Yet why use the term at all? Isn't it just a nasty epithet, one that doesn't illuminate any valid point about our impending war with Iran?
In a word: no. The advocates of war with Iran are finagling to set up the debate in terms of whether or not we will act to prevent another Holocaust – in which case opposition to bombing Tehran will be characterized as enabling mass genocide. Here is where the neoconservatives and the "responsibility to protect" "progressives" on the left will meet and merge.
That this "argument" is based on fantasy – the fantasy that Iran is indeed busy cooking up nukes, and is determined to wipe Israel off the map – is being obscured in a barrage of lies and phony "intelligence" similar to that which dragged us into attacking Iraq. But war propaganda and facts don't mix: indeed, they are mutually exclusive. The idea behind any effective campaign designed to push us into war is to whip up an emotional storm, and a key part of this hysteria is smearing antiwar writers and politicians as "anti-Semites." In the America of 2012, where political correctness is the Iron Rule, even the accusation – no matter how unfounded – of racial or religious bigotry is toxic, and the War Party hopes to poison the debate over Iran by injecting it into the discourse.
They must not be allowed to get away with it: the Language Police don't have a warrant when it comes to "Israel Firster," and appeasing them can only constrict the debate so that the essential motive of the pro-war forces is obscured. And, no, it won't do to argue that Israel's interests are not served by a US war with Iran: after all, if we aren't allowed to argue in terms of what's in America's interests, and the interests of its people, then we are hogtied from the word go.
I note that Freda Utley, mentioned above, who died in 1978, was the mother of Antiwar.com writer and conservative activist Jon Basil Utley. Here is a passage from Will the East Go West?:
"It would seem only too obvious that we are in danger of alienating not only the Arabs but also the far larger Islamic world, because our most-favored-nation treatment of Israel does give grounds for the accusation that she is 'the spearhead of Western imperialism which still endeavors to divide and rule.' The Arabs see that Israel is subsidized by huge, tax-free donations by American-Jewish citizens and by United States grants far larger than our economic aid to the Arab States, which, in spite of Israel's small population, have made her militarily the most powerful State in the Middle East. This leads the Arabs to the false suppositions that America controls Israel, and that we are thus responsible for what she does. As I found during my brief visit to the Middle East, it was difficult to convince the Arabs that, although we pay the piper, we do not call the tune. Americans for sentimental reasons may like to hear music that evokes memories of King Solomon's temple; but the tune that Israel plays with our permission, if not at our bidding, so grates on the nerves of Israel's neighbors that they are tempted to call in a Soviet 'policeman' to throw both the piper and the sentimental visitor out."
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"Israel's partisans in the U.S."….
Also known as the mainstream newsmedia and Hollywood.
"Prevent another Holocaust" by attacking a country which never attacked us? "Defuse a ticking time bomb in Times Square" by torturing someone to find out which car it is in? Hurry, hurry. What a sales pitch. You have to drop your scruples before it's too late.
Let's look at Israel on its own with Iran: they might get hurt if they attacked. Instead, Iran is supposed to be completely demolished – all command and control destroyed – isn't that what all that naval power says? Because if not, they might strike Israel.
The sales pitch directed at the US is that this strike will somehow be surgical and aim only at weapons' manufacturing. But that cannot be. It will be a huge attack, a Shock and Awe revisited, aimed at regime change. The people who would kill scientists inside of a country would not hesitate to wipe out whole universities of them, would they?
Oh maybe sometime down the road Israel will say it was forced to go along with the US – wouldn't that be cute? And make peace with its wounded foes, while the US becomes a domestic mess with high oil prices, a ruined reputation in the world — China, now there's an up and coming place where anything is possible –
I'm not afraid of being accused of political incorrectness here – it is far worse to start a war than to hurl an epithet. Sigmund Freud said that. He said that the first person who learned to call a name rather than throw a rock advanced civilization. Well, let the winged words fly like arrows. We must use them to buy time.
Spencer Ackerman, knee-jerk and insufferable. I have it on first hand experience.
An attack on Iran could easily bring on WW3. The Shia majority in Iraq, Bahrain, and Eastern Saudi Arabia could destroy much of the infrastructure in the oil fields of the Gulf. This would make an economic disaster that makes our currrent depression look like nothing. The food and fuel of billions of people would be at risk. The trouble is that the Israel Firsters control most of the media and most of our politiccal class. I think that the upper crust is getting sick of that gang. The old elites backing Romney, don't like thugs like Gingrich and Adelson messing up their action. Even they can see that an attack on iran may be the straw that breaks the camels back.
If they can't get US boys and girls to rush to put their lives on the line for the wishes of israel's government, then israelis can try another strategy, which worked once before. Get Americans in the mood for revenge. That of course would require an attack against America/Americans in some fashion allegedly perpetrated by the Revolutionary Guard with support from Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinians, Syria, etc. And we know how things go from there…
And don't forget the Congress and the Presidency.
This all must have something to do with the weakening dollar. China , Russia and other powers will have their say on this matter.
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The first person I recall actually using the expression Israel-Firster was Scheuer, probably here.
The USA taxpayers is hurting. It is only natural to question why are we giving Israel rocket systems which cost $285,000,000 for a system that can only protect 3 block area. The rockets for that system cost $65,000 each and they fire two are any "target". The area that the zionist claim are targets of the arab rockets is land that was stolen in the war of aggression started by Israel in 1967. This rocket intercept was rejected by Israel when they had to pay for it. Israel refused it from the USA until our Congress changed the law and now the system and rockets are manufactured in Israel. So our kids do not get the work and if their is any benefit the Israel get the benefits. How can anyone consider our Congress or Senators anything but traitors for money? I have read many times that the rockets are actually fired by the IDF to keep the massive money coming from the USA taxpayers. Even the zionist would have problem selling an intercept system that does not work and has no targets. The only good news in this sad matter is we are providing a dog system which will be difficult to sell to the chinese or use when they invade lebanon to steal the water and natural gas.
Justin This has got to be one of the best writings by you THANK YOU!!!
Dr Lillienthals book The Zionist Connection II was a eye opener.
What is needed is another false flag operation. One of israel's six submarines could fire a few torpedoes into an American aircraft carrier. The US Navy could quickly sink a nearby Iranian submarine. Of course the 'yellow journalists' in the media will blame Iran, thereby pumping up war fever among the citizenry. Then off to war we go! Sort of a USS Liberty part two.
I am sure that is on the high priority list of the Mossad. They wil figure out a way to do this probably with a false flag operation.
One of the "tropes" of genuine anti-Semites has been defining Antisemitism as "anything Jews don't like". But they weren't far off the mark. Today, its definition is "anything the Israel lobby doesn't like".
Please Justin, keep up the campaign! We must NOT retreat from this offensive! I will not allow myself to be tarred as an anti-semite just because I question any U.S. citizen who is an "Israel-firster", but rather an American-firster. This, BTW, is how I propose to counter anyone who might suggest that it is somehow racist to even use the terms "Israeli-firster", dual loyalties, etc. I say, how DARE they question my patriotism! Because last time I checked, one of the main definitions of treason was a violation of allegiance to one's own sovereign or state. I say, if you want to be an Israel- firster, or an Italy-firster, or China-firster, no problem, just renounce your U.S. citizenship and feel free to move there. But we here in America would like to maintain a multi-ethnic, egalitarian, democratic society where no specific religion or culture dominates to the exclusion of others… at least I THINK that's what's America used to be all about… when I took my oath of allegiance to the United States, and to defend its Constitution…
[…] Justin Raimondo: Putting Israel First: The War Party's Achilles Heel […]
There was an absolutely outstanding article that appeared on The Veterans Today website earlier this month that I highly recommend to all of the posters to this Raimondo article. It's title was:
Behind the Deepening Crisis with Iran: the Real Story Versus the Cover Story
January 7, 2012 5
by Mark H Gaffney
Veterans Today seems to have taken down the link to the story, but it is still available here:
Here is a teaser:
"The real issue is the fact that Iran has upgraded its medium range conventionally-armed missiles with GPS technology, making its missiles much more accurate. This means Iran can now target Israel's own nuclear, bio and chemical weapons stockpiles, located inside Israel, as well as the Dimona nuclear reactor.
In short, Iran has achieved a conventional deterrent to Israel. Therefore, statements by Iranian officials that Iran has no nuclear weapons program are in my view probably correct. Presently, Iran does not need nukes to deter Israel. It can do so with its GPS-guided medium range missiles. The Israelis are no doubt gnashing their teeth over this, because they now find themselves threatened by their own WMD stockpiles, and by their own nuclear reactors, especially Dimona, all of which have become targets."
For those of us who are sick of the arrogance that flows like ripe sewage out of the gang of thugs, gangsters and mass murdering war mongers who currently run Israel – this article by Gaffney will have you laughing so hard your sides will ache for days! Mine sure did!
The nukes that Israel stole from the US are now threatening the Israelis! Is this not PRICELESS?
It almost restores one's faith in the old adage that we seldom hear anymore that 'crime never pays'.
if iran wanted to commit another holocaust and "kill all jews" as bill o'reilly has said on his show, then they probably would have started with the 50.000 jews in Tehran.
however, Israel is committing a second holocaust, having imprisoned 1 million half starved gazan women and children within the confines of a tiny outdoor concentration camp, and instead of gassing them to death before taking their land and property (that would be considered to heinous by israels number 1 sponsor) they are slowly starving the poor defenseless people of gaza to death through a barbaric blockade
If Israel wants to make holocaust references, we need to be very clear about who is committing one and where!
perhaps we should be on the lookout for Israeli "art students" from a fictional university dancing and celebrating on roof tops with video cameras the second a terrorist attack takes place again on our soil
maybe the Mossad is planning another Twin Towers scenario,blaming the Iranians,the alleged attempt of the Saudi diplomat, could be a warning
JFK realized that Israel having nukes was the biggest threat to world peace (and indeed to US security) and tried to stop it after he found out that mossad had "stolen" a large pile of plutonium from hanford, WA. Unfortunately he had his hands full with other issues and could not address this situation fully before he was murdered
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Bum voyage
"..another Holocaust.." should not be surprising. The Jews have suffered many dating back at least to the Romans. Behavior of the supremacist theocracy/ethnocracy Israel has made of itself is so repugnant that another seems certain unless it is able to conquer the whole planet.
"For Israel's flag and anthem are symbols of a foreign state; they are not mine."
And then the guy who said this should imagine how the non-Jew feels in all this.
Repugnance is to put it mildly.
Very probably Israel at one point will come to terms with the existence of a nuclear capable Iran as well as somehow accomodate its neighbors' interests, especially those of the Palestinians. But when this happens, the US will have spent blood and treasure to the point that it will be unable to look after itself let alone project its interests abroad.
Thanks Justin. I wwonder why the constant "anti-semitic" comment is not allowed, but Newt, Mitt, Sick Rant and all can use racist terms.Also all the anti-Mexican talk in Arizona, let alone anti-Muslim words everywhere, do not get stopped.
In the Persian Gulf, an Israeli submarine laying in close to the Iranian coast will fire an anti-ship missile at an American warship, and then submerge into invisibility. The attack will be blamed on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Coastal Defense Forces. And away we go.
Years later, files recovered from the rubble of Mossad headquarters will reveal the truth.
In fairness, Jon, below, got to this idea first. But then, it's a fairly obvious idea. Do you suppose the US Navy remembers the Liberty, is quietly aware, and is maintaining a close watch on those Israeli subs?
The subs were supplied by Germany so I would guess the US could get very accurate information on their underwater acoustic signature.
OK, disarm Iran…I'm ok with that, and then Israel next. This little ethno-nation is a thorn in
the side of the Middle East.
Why not the other way around? Afyer all, Israel is the one with the nuclear weapons. They are also the rogue nation. They have the world threatened with the Samson option.
When a spectacle can lead a country to war – a first, second or third Pearl Harbor (not forgetting the Maine or the Tonkin Gulf resolution) – then it is tempting fate to linger in the region with all those naval forces, because there will be a provocation and the public will be forced into a war it cannot afford and does not want. Interestingly enough, the USS Liberty incident seems to be a squib that fizzled and Egypt was let off the hook because it was so clear who had actually done the bombing of the ship. But they tried then, they tried…
[…] by Justin Raimondo / Antiwar […]
[…] Justin Raimondo: [The argument for war with Iran] is based on fantasy – the fantasy that Iran is indeed busy cooking up nukes, and is determined to wipe Israel off the map –[and that fantasy] is being obscured in a barrage of lies and phony "intelligence" similar to that which dragged us into attacking Iraq. But war propaganda and facts don't mix: indeed, they are mutually exclusive. The idea behind any effective campaign designed to push us into war is to whip up an emotional storm, and a key part of this hysteria is smearing antiwar writers and politicians as "anti-Semites." In the America of 2012, where political correctness is the Iron Rule, even the accusation – no matter how unfounded – of racial or religious bigotry is toxic, and the War Party hopes to poison the debate over Iran by injecting it into the discourse. […]
If the Israelis want our protection, they should come here to live. It would be good for US and good for them.
If this Adelson wants war so badly, why doesn't someone give it to him?
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I would like to believe that the Navy might remember the Liberty, but that doesn't seem to be how it works. Last time, they tried mightily to forget it. This time I am sure there are plenty of US military who want to have a go at Iran, and will be happy for the excuse. I hate to be so cynical, but it takes two to tango.
The USSLiberty attack was clearly a false flag operation ment to get us into the 7 Day War. It was a sloppy job that didn't work and the Israeli's didn't need us anyhow. But they tried. I wonder what trigger point they will use this time?
[…] by Justin Raimondo / Antiwar […]
Don't neglect the Christian Evangelical churches – "the God Blesses Israel crowd"
And all the "talk show" hosts Levin, Hannity, Rush , Lars etc are all Israel firsters. NEVER have I heard a critique of Israels govt! Is this an off limits subject?
We all know they job will cease.
Newt was stating on radio yesterday that Romney will be the same ol policy Well Newt, what about Foreign policy ? The US has done the same routine for as long as I remember, and what has been the fruition? More of the same "crisis" The US citizens are sick of it! DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT! beacause we dont want the same ol same ol
[…] Putting Israel First The campaign to lure the US into attacking Iran has one big problem to overcome before the War Party can taste success: the rather obvious fact that such a war would benefit Israel, and not the United States. This is why Israel's partisans in the US constitute the spearhead of the pro-war agitation, why AIPAC […] link to original.antiwar.com […]
Are you smoking something that has done permanent damage to your brain cells, David?
Already, with the existing jewish population of the USA driving a clearly transparent racial and cultural war of extermination against the White European descendents of our Founding Fathers and European ancestors – using massive third world immigration into America to destabilize and destroy our ethnic, social, and cultural cohesion – and trying to deliberately , maliciously and in DIRECT opposition to the overwhelming wishes of the European majority – reduce Whites to minorities inside THEIR native homelands, where they will be then subjugated to what will surely be hostile rule by the new non-European majority, and you think it is a good idea to import 5 million more of these anti-White people into America?
Are you crazy? Or, are you an anti-white bigot who thinks that whites, and only whites, should be singled out and denied the right to self-determination and not permitted to have or express their perfectly legitimate ethnic specific interests?
When you consider how glibly the French are routinely vilified in the press, it does seem odd that Israel receives little mainstream criticism. Nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.
It may be that fears of an avalanche of pent-up resentment will break free – but that would only happen because of the lack of peer-to-peer treatment. Israel is that snotty girl in your junior high who got away with things because her mother died when she was young and she holds it over everyone, crying on cue. What tends to be overlooked is that she isn't the only orphan in the school, just the one who uses it to claim kid glove treatment.
I happen to be a U.S. citizen and an ethnic Jew by birth. But for me (and many of my similarly-born friends and comrades), there is no problem of 'dual loyalty' or need to choose between loyalty to one's tribe and loyalty to one's country.
That's because I feel no loyalty to either Zionist Israel or the imperialist United States. My 'loyalty' is to humanity and to life on Planet Earth, and the best way to manifest that loyalty is to work to break the power of global capital, particularly its military bastions in the United States, Israel and Europe. This also means working against the defense of the privileged position of working people in these countries in relation to people in nations presently or historically oppressed by imperialism, even while supporting working people and the dispossessed everywhere against their exploiters and oppressors.
Mother Russia will drive a stake into the heart of the Zionist VAMPIRE state
once and forever.
This just in! As of the Boston's 11 o'clock news, we are being told that Iran is determined to attack the US. For the idiotic or just sleepy denizens of this "iconic" (think 9/11 origin at Boston Logan) city, they are told that since Osama bin Laden has been killed, threats from al Qaeda have lessened — see how the two disparate nations are conflated for the ignorant? Real behaviorism in action. Substitute for future fear-mongering Iran for al-Qaeda. That was then, this is now.
So the deal is this: "Iran" will attack an "iconic American city", so be very afraid at sports events and be prepared to be searched at any point in this city or any other one which is so iconic even the ayatollahs might have heard of it. This should take care of the "bitter enders" of OWS, eh what? Can't have THAT Fifth Column hanging around.
This garbage dump of non-ideas is being poured on the public to prepare it to interpret just about anything as an attack from Iran ("they can hide out – those terrorists – in technical institutions" —- maybe even MIT or ITT Technical)
Marinating in the fear, it will be child's play to send us to war when the spark is touched off. Be ready. And the waves of panicked patriots will trample anyone who questions this "death foretold", because they have already forgotten it has been done to them before.
[…] tech,no nation building,specifically target and eliminate the threat,let em pick up the pieces. Putting Israel First The War Party's Achilles' heel by Justin Raimondo, January 30, 2012 The campaign to lure the US […]
Good article, though I'm not sure if Lilienthal was the originator of the term or not. I did my own research, and come up with this:
The earliest use of the term I could find was a 1952 article in the New Leader.
But yeah, the claim that it's a neo-Nazi term is false. I've written to Spencer Ackerman, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Andrew Sullivan (he also repeated the claim) to let them know. Haven't heard back from them yet, or seen any corrections.
At what point do we say a source is untrustworthy, and instead of debating just point to examples of their dishonestly?
This right wing Zionist opposes any US involvement in an Israeli attack on Iran. In fact, I no longer even support an Israeli attack on Iran.
Please dont use the term "Israel firster". I think its dead wrong and the people portrayed as Israel firsters are manipulating Israel and using it as a political device. These "people", if they can be called that despite their barbaric and sociopathic tendencies, are more accurately called "America onlys". They want America to be the lone power in the world, and an imperial power ruling the world. They use Israel as a military base and I am more and more convinced they are using Netanyahu as a Manchurian candidate.
Opposing US involvement is not antisemitic at all. Just look at my first sentence. But dont cite "sons of Jews" as I like to call people like Lilienthal, who likely dont do anything Jewish and just use their descent as an argument point. They arent representative of Jews at all (nor is Krauthammer and his ilk). This is not no true Scotsman because who is Jewish is defined by the community. You cant just claim to be Jewish, you have to accept some tenets of and connection to the community. Some of the most vicious and vile antisemites in history have been children of Jews, of all people. They claim to be Jews, but then go on to say things that would make Hitler shudder. So the whole argument over antisemitism or not is a distraction from the real issues.
Youre not a Jew. Youre a son of Jews. Stop hijacking the name for your political ends and just admit you are unaffiliated.
And the existence of antiZionist "Jews" means absolutely nothing. I can name a half dozen Zionist Arab Muslims:
Mudar Zahran, journalist
Khaled Abu Toameh, journalist
Abdul Hadi Palazzi, imam
Abdurrahman Wahid, president of Indonesia (99-01)
Tashbih Sayyed, journalist
Irshad Manji, journalist (Egyptian/Indian parents Ugandan-Canadian)
The list goes on…and its all not quite relevant as an argument point, since both defeat each other.
A rock in not a nuke and Iran is messianic theocracy not an advanced civilization
"USA taxpayers is hurting. It is only natural to question why are we giving Israel rocket systems which cost $285,000,000 for a system that can only protect 3 block area" – really are we talking about the Iron domb which a single battery can cover over 2 Israeli cities or the arrow that can cover the whole control from ballistic missles. The projects are jointly created and funded and the americans get plenty of benifit from th Israeli ingenuity…
"have read many times that the rockets are actually fired by the IDF " – did you read this the same place you read about Santa Clause and teh Easter Bunny…
Comments taken straight out of the Elders of Zion… I am guessing from your writings that a highschool diploma was out of your reach…
whats crazy is that you believe that America is whites native land…..From your comments I am ussuming you are not smoking anything and you are just a bit "slow"
Do you porotest against dictatorships or just democracies…
we talking about the Iron domb which a single battery can cover over 2 Israeli cities'
Sure it can CH162 That is why Israel refused to fund it. The would accept it if the USA did the manufacturing in Israel. So why would they not want it?
the americans get plenty of benifit from th Israeli ingenuity.
Now you are a comic. The USA gets the bill and there really is not a lot of ingenuity except you guys are very good at porn.
Hey you are mostly on the welfare so I can understand your desire to keep the checks arriving in the mail.
Lorraine you are not alone in your feeling:
"We can have no "50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all." Theodore Roosevelt (American 26th US President (1901-09), 1858-1919)
"You cannot become Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not become an American." Woodrow T. Wilson (American 28th President of the United States 1856-1924)
I said that I am "an ethnic Jew by birth". Would you argue that a U.S.-born person of Chinese parents is not "ethnic Chinese" if (s)he is an opponent of Chinese ethnic nationalism?
Only a small minority of those human beings whose lives are affected by the actions of the United States or Israeli governments are allowed even the appearance of determining who runs those governments. Therefore, even if those who are allowed to vote for those governments really did determine their policies (most of them don't!), it would still be a sham to call them 'democracies'.
learn some halacha,
then come back and let us know who is allowed to call themselves a jew…
and do be quick about it, we are counting on you!
Baz – I oudl say misinformed but obviously youa re well informed by the Arab Dictators of the mideast. How many UN coutries currently publically threaten the existance of another on a regular basis? And this is acceptable in your eyes – you realize this is an anti-war site not a kill Jews site.
As for the Arabs in Gaza- firstly you dont seem to have any problem with Egyptions clloseing their huge border with Gaza. Dont seem to cae that Israel ship tons and tons of food into Gaza. Dont seem to care that Israel is teh only country in teh world to give Gaza residents their own authority – defacto state. As for teh starvation WB and Gaza rank NUMBER 8 in trms of obese population http://arablesbiansagainsthate.blogspot.com/2011/… – hardly starving – as for defenseless – they are too busy attacking Jewish civillians to defend their own people – boo hoo
Firstly, facts, truth, The iron dome was funded soley by Israel till Obama gave 200 m illion a couple years ago – Israel is planning on investing 1 billion more in the system
As for ingenuit – take a look at this clip maybe open your close minded eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QpEheu7jKM
To be frank, you hate Israel and anything that they do will be wrong. You will probrably defend every terrorist and dictator is they are agianst Israel, your right. But just say it as it is dont hide behind phony numbers and made up stories….
As far as I know a democracy is a government elected by the people. Even though you might not like what these democracies do, that does not make them not-democracies. Just makes your above point nonsense.
Enjoyed the article. All rhetoric aside. Israel is our Ally, not Russia's, or Iran's. Jerusalem is a great place to live or visit. Lots of opportunities in that area and would be even more advanced if it wasn't for people like Ayatollah Ali Khamenei… "Kill them, kill them". Like you've got something better to offer old man? Even you know it would be suicide to send one nuclear rocket into Israel knowing they had 200 to send back your way. Blah, blah, blah. All talk, no weapons that work. (Sort of like Ben Burn-anke.)
Your kids should put you in a home. Embarrassing. It's even more embarrassing in this day and age for world leaders to take your words seriously when they should be, seriously, kicking you out of the and their country. Not very diplomatic, but bugger off.
You want to talk anti-war, talk anti this guy, otherwise you're just part of the confusion.
I for one am a Jew who is sick of Israel's politics of fear and loathing…Let's face it, there's a whole generation of Palestinians who have grown up behind a barbed wire fence.
As a US citizen, born and raised, I honestly believe we need to cut loose our Middle East watch dog (Israel) for there is no doubt the dog has rabies and will drag us into WW3 if we continue to support their theocracy…
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[…] Putting Israel FirstThe campaign to lure the US into attacking Iran has one big problem to overcome before the War Party can taste success: the rather obvious fact that such a war would benefit Israel, and not the United States. This is why Israel's partisans in the US constitute the spearhead of the pro-war agitation, why AIPAC […] link to original.antiwar.com […]
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He transformed my world, which encouraged peace, embraced love, and supported gentleness. It became easier to make friends with a set of certain boundaries. However, I was ignorant and stubborn. I thought I was wise enough to handle any situation placed in front of me. I was oblivious to any advice given from my friends and parents. This came to my attention when I was in seventh grade and half of the school year had already zipped by like a bullet. I then knew that if I keep up like this, I would end up the way I was back at elementary school. To take action, I began to make amends with my parents and friends. Endless days of disciplining myself was well worth it for tearing down the walls of ignorance and stubbornness that surrounded me. Being able to listen in an understanding way is one of the many important factors of being a doctor. Seeing how Doctor Wei changed my life, I want to change the lives of others, especially those of the children. I want to give them hope when there seems to be none. I want to carry on his legacy and keep his dream alive. Prompt #2 Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are? Making the school varsity soccer team was one of the goals I had in mind when I started my junior year. During the first week of practice, the coach told us that next week, which was Christmas vacation, we would be conditioning. By the sound of it, hearing the rumors from returning players, and from the experience during the first day of practice, I was heading for seven days of hell. Looking at the past years, I did not run several miles without walking or stopping to catch a breath. The coming week came faster than expected. "We are running the hills today, boys," said the coach. Feeling my heartbeat at its normal pace, I double-knotted my tennis shoes and we began to walk toward the mountain track. Then the pace began to pick up. After couple of minutes, my muscles began to harden. My ankles began to break, slowly crying out in pain. My heart began to beat faster and louder, thumping against my chest. The sun, out in the open, scorched my perspiring skin. I thought I was about to get a heat stroke. Running up a hill was the last thing I wanted to do when most of my energy was already spent. The gravity pulled me down as I dragged my concrete body up the road. Ounces of my strength were seeping out of my skin as I went up and down the hill. Looking ahead, my teammates were a distance away. I was alone with no shade and the bright star burning my cells. Liquid salt drenched my clothes. My legs were numb with pain. When I finished half of the run, I was spent and on the verge of collapse. "Do not give up," I heard a small voice say to me. Soon my hard fibers began to loosen. This effect pervaded throughout my structure. Soon small, cool breezes began to blow on my face as I continued to run. With no water bottle in hand, I had nothing but God to lean on. I felt His being running beside me, encouraging me to finish what I have started. Crossing the bridge and finally able to see the street leading to the campus, I smiled and started down toward my school. Reaching the soccer field, I took out my water bottle and drank refreshingly. I was the last one to make it back. My legs were still a bit hard from the running. My chest was heaving for air. Later on, reflecting upon this experience, I did not give up while running the hills. I do not plan to take shortcuts and end the run early. I knew if I had taken the wide road, I would not reap any benefits. If I start giving up now, I would not succeed in life. The trials have only just begun and I am going to finish the tasks given to me. I will not backed down so easily.


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Pretoria - The South African economy has grown steadily since 1994 but the progression has not been adequate to address the country's problems, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
"The growth has been modest but has not addressed the challenge of unemployment. We have made progress in socio-economic transformation over the years," he said.
Zuma was releasing South Africa's 20 year review document at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria.
He said the review was government's "factual and frank" account of how South Africa had fared since 1994.
"The review is packed with facts and figures, it is honest and frank in its approach. Where facts indicate that we have challenges and we have made mistakes we say so," said Zuma.
"It is government's most accurate account of work done in the past 20 years... it is about progress made and work that still needs to be done to move South Africa forward."
Senior government officials, business executives, analysts, and media personnel packed the room at the guesthouse as Zuma read out the review document.
Zuma said the review was dedicated to former president Nelson Mandela who died in December.
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A Survey of Adaptive Middleware
Developing distributed applications is a difficult task due to three major problems: the complexities of programming inter process communication, the need to support ser-vices across heterogeneous platforms, and the need to adapt to changing conditions. Traditional middleware such as CORBA, DCOM, and Java RMI addresses the first two problems to some extent through the use of a "Black-Box" approach, such as encapsulation in object-oriented programming. However, traditional middleware is limited in its ability to support adaptation. To address all the three problems, adaptive middleware has evolved from traditional middleware. In addition to the object-oriented programming paradigm, adaptive middleware employs several other key technologies including computational reflection, component-based design, aspect-oriented programming, and software design patterns.


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Tall and taciturn, he exuded the easy authority of a young man used to money and the deference that came with it.
No one would confuse him the taciturn, forgetful and vengeful Senate Majority Leader.
The exuberant, indefatigable Democrat from Oregon and the dour, taciturn Republican from New Hampshire made an odd couple.
I became irrational and flunked the tough-guy test, the show-me-the-evidence test, the taciturn Gary Cooper test.
But he was also taciturn, rarely betraying his inner thoughts, his friends have said.
Sometimes Master Tommy is obstinate, as well as taciturn, and his "won't" is as strong as his will.
She was as taciturn as ever, speaking scarcely a half-dozen words.
This was the hope which had produced his taciturn resignation and brought that savage smile on his lips.
Janzen, for his part, was as taciturn as his friend Bache was garrulous.
Little by little, one word at a time, he gained from the taciturn negro an idea of what had taken place while he slept.