Free Liberal or Eco-Conservative? That is the question.
The Democrats are descending into socialism. The Republicans are flirting with fascism. Congress has become a dysfunctional food fight. These are dangerous times for civility and democracy. We need an alternative and fast.
Some of my longtime friends say we need to revive the original meaning of Liberal. Recently, a member of the Holistic Politics discussion group suggested a Free Liberal Party. The idea has merit; I bought the freeliberal.org domain years ago for this possibility. I have a book fermenting in the back of my brain on the subject of mixing classical liberal economics with reducing inequality.
On the other hand, there are quite a few Never Trumpers in the Republican Establishment. They are politically homeless, but still powerful and knowledgeable on the inner workings of government. They need new allies in order to regain real power. Trump and the ghost of the Reform Party took away their blue collar allies.
A conservative version of the Green Party might work. Once upon a time the Republican Party was the part for environmentalists. Recall Theodore Roosevelt. Think of the old conservation societies that conserved nature for hunting purposes. Think of country clubs, long the biggest users of electric vehicles. An Eco Conservative alliance is very natural.
And without such an alliance, conservatives may become an endangered species. The political Right has depended on the old folks vote, on people who will be dead before global warming become a real problem. The younger generations have reason to be concerned about the future, whether we are talking carbon dioxide buildup or chronic fiscal deficits.
I think an Upper Left coalition would do better with a different name. I have one in mind that is a bit ugly, but has clear connotations.
The better question is: Which coalition?
Historically, I had pleasant experiences pitching the freedom-equality alliance idea. During my Asheville days I spent many a pleasant hour quaffing beers with progressives who considered the Clintons to be right wingers. I have written articles for lefty sites like Oped News with decent responses. The aforementioned Free Liberal was well received in the lefty coffee shops we distributed it to.
But those where the days when the far Left was against Hate and into Consciousness and yoga. Today, the far Left is into actively hating "Hate," and they study Modern Indignation Studies instead of advanced anger management. The mavens in the movement see the danger of a liberalitarian alliance and are responding viciously with a wide assortment of strawman attacks and name calling worthy of The Donald.
I have become less hopeful on the prospect of building a new Upper Left coalition.
But I could be wrong. Maybe the Democrats are due for a split. Maybe a Never Bernie faction will walk out as the Cultural Marxists take over their party. Being a heterosexual white male Democrat is becoming as awkward as being a black Republican. I could envision the remainder of the New Democrats (people like Bill Clinton and Al Gore) walking out and joining a new coalition if the identity politics faction gets yet more traction.
Then again, I could see Al Gore joining an Eco-Conservative alliance. He was rather conservative back in the day.
Today, many conservatives are much cooler with the idea of drug legalization. And now it is the Right, including the Christian Right, that is on the defensive and is thus in favor of freedom of speech and association. The environmental bits are a harder sell.
But I suspect much of the global warming denial on the Right is more teamism than natural inclination. Let the oil companies and the anti-intellectuals keep the Republican Party, there many tens of millions of people from the original Republican base who are ripe for an Eco-Conservative message, with a bit of reasonable libertarianism mixed in. leaning.
Go back almost century, and recall the demographics and sense of life of the Republicans of the day. The Republicans were the blue bloods, the mainline Protestants, the prosperous city dwellers, the preservationists, the classical music listeners — the sort of people who watch PBS and listen to NPR today. They were also the party of the well educated, not the party of science denial.
They were also the anti racist party. The first nonwhite in the presidential succession was a Republican (Charles Curtis, Vice President under Hoover).
They were also the party of peace back in the 20s. Recall the Kellogg Briand Pact.
That Grand Old Party is long gone. Today's Republican Party is a mix of Know-Nothings and Southern Democrats.
There is plenty to build on besides the Never Trumpers. Many in the original Republican base left long before The Donald came on the scene.
When I was on vacation a week ago, I weighed the tradeoffs between Upper Left and Eco Conservative while listening to the waves. I got lots of plusses and minuses when contemplating Upper Left. I got nearly all plusses when weighing the possibility of an Eco Conservative alliance.
But I was factoring in personal factors as well as overall viability.
My first exposure to libertarian ideas was the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis was a free will Christian, an ethical hedonist, and deeply appreciated nature as God created it.
I am a Christian. There is an anti-Christian vibe in the Libertarian Party that I expect would carry over to a party based on any variant of the word Liberal, or even themed on equality.
I am a cis gendered white male who pegs out the WASP meter. Some of my ancestors arrived in Virginia in the early 1600s. My great great grandfather was a friend of Robert E. Lee. In the taxonomies of today's lefty identity politics, I am an a priori supervillain.
I am a nerd with a sense of humor. Odds of getting into trouble with today's egalitarians is 100%, even when I am trying to help.
I am a father, a homeschooler, a scientist, and a consumer of organic foods when available. I am very much a member of the Eco-Conservative target market.
While I frequently curse what government regulations have done to automobiles and appliances, I also love tinkering with eco-technology.
So yes, my personal biases affect my inclination.
Which is why I'd like to hear from others. Which alliance do you consider more viable? More useful? Please comment below or on the Facebook discussion board.
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Bridging the gap between laboratory and field
By Dimitris XygalatasJanuary 2, 2017 No Comments
In a set of two captivating essays, Harvey Whitehouse and David Sloan Wilson share their views on the role of the field site concept in the study of cultural evolution. They each present a vision for a holistic research paradigm that combines contextual sensitivity with methodological rigor. I salute this view, and I attempt to add to the point by drawing from my own research experience.
As someone who was trained across disciplines and has spent several years in the field as well as in various laboratories, I have come to appreciate the benefits of each research paradigm but also to be wary of their respective limitations. More importantly, I have come to realize that the lab and the field are not antagonistic modes of inquiry but two sides of the same coin. I find the "two cultures" problem raised in Whitehouse's essay to be the greatest impediment to a holistic understanding of human nature, because it creates a false dichotomy, expressed along numerous dimensions: explanation versus understanding, measurement versus observation, laboratory versus field, and so on. I find such dichotomies counter-productive, and often detached from reality, as they are primarily the product of specific socio-political factors pertaining to academia itself rather than a response to discontinuities found in the natural world.
It is true that methodological specialization is necessary to deal with the complexity of our world. However, one should not mistake a discipline's limitations for its virtues, or confound what is convenient with what is desirable. Laboratory experiments afford precision and simplicity. But while precision is always desirable, simplicity is a mere methodological tool that helps us increase precision, and it comes at a steep cost: in the human behavioral sciences, the more we simplify the phenomena we examine the more we move away from them, as the complexity we are trying to reduce is an inextricable part of what we want to isolate (Boster, 2011). Inversely, field observation allows social scientists to study precisely the things that matter to them (real-life), but is very difficult to conduct in truly scientific fashion (although, as Wilson points out, not impossible). But to argue, as some cultural anthropologists do, that scientific methods are undesirable rather than simply hard to implement seems like the result of cognitive dissonance.
As a result of this fallacious thinking, we are led to not only methodological but also epistemological and even ontological encapsulation between disciplines. This leaves us with a landscape in the study of human behavior where the vast majority of studies gravitate around one of two main attractors: on the one hand (upper-left in the graph), we have ethnographic field studies, which are high in ecological relevance and validity but low in control and precision; and on the other hand (bottom-right), we have lab studies, which are high in control but low in relevance. What we all want, of course, is the closet possible approximation of that (possibly unattainable in itself) ideal top-right corner. And the best way to reach that space is by building a methodological bridge that connects field and laboratory methods. This bridge can provide a path for cross-disciplinary dialogue and mutual enrichment, as well as the scaffolding for inter-disciplinary approaches that combine the strengths of each type of method.
Naturalistic experiments (typically pseudo-experiments that employ precise quantification in a real-life setting without random assignment) may allow the researcher to assess phenomena that cannot be studied either in controlled experiments or by participant-observation. For example, my colleagues and I have studied the inter-personal alignment of psycho-physiological states during the performance of large-scale, highly arousing collective rituals (Bulbulia et al., 2013; Konvalinka et al., 2011; Fischer et al., 2014). Such studies would have been impossible to conduct in a laboratory setting because, a myriad practical reasons aside, these rituals are heavily laden with meaning that cannot be evoked at will in an artificial context. Neither would we have been able to approach our questions on the basis of ethnography alone, as we were interested in internal states that are often inaccessible to participants (Xygalatas et al., 2013).
Some times, controlled experiments are also possible in the field. For example, when we wanted to study the effects of environmental cues on behavior, instead of using a highly controlled but artificial laboratory environment, we went out to the real world and used temples, restaurants, and libraries, and either randomly assigned participants to different locations or made minor interventions to the environment itself (Krátký et al., 2016; Xygalatas et al., 2016). Thus, by embracing the complexity of the real world while giving up only limited control, these designs too offered cumulative benefits that neither ethnographic observation nor laboratory experiments alone could offer.
Needless to say, some things are better studied in specific ways. If we are interested in the favorite topics of gossip within a community, conversations with trusted informants will reveal more than any quantitative method. But if we are interested in neurological reactions to gossip, the controlled environment of the neuroscience laboratory is ideal. Which brings us to another important reason for building that bridge between the lab and the field.
The systematic, incremental production of scientific knowledge consists of a circle which connects observation, theory, prediction, testing, and re-evaluation. Each time the circle is repeated, we (hopefully) become a little bit wiser. As Wilson points out, laboratory research must be informed by field observation in order to ask the right questions. But as Whitehouse emphasizes, observation and description are not the same as explanation –that requires experimentation and systematic comparison. Any individual study can only tell us so much. To gain a holistic understanding of social evolution, we need to consider cumulative evidence, completing the puzzle one piece at a time. And to do that, we need to move back and forth between field and lab studies, but also, crucially, to understand that neither the former always need to be devoid of control, not the latter must always be detached from real-life settings. The two authors offer compelling arguments on why and how to do this, including the nitty-gritty of establishing, running, maintaining, and connecting field projects. They warn that this is not an easy task: it is expensive, time-consuming, and requires overcoming long-established disciplinary boundaries. I know all of that to be true from personal experience. But I also know the cumulative benefits of combining laboratory and field methods to be greater than the sum of their parts
Boster, J. (2011). Data, method, and interpretation in cognitive anthropology. In: A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology.
Bulbulia, J., D. Xygalatas, U. Schjødt, S. Fondevila, C. Sibley & I. Konvalinka (2013). Images From a Jointly-Arousing Collective Ritual Reveal Emotional Polarization, Frontiers in Psychology 4, article 960.
Fischer, R., D. Xygalatas, P. Mitkidis, P. Reddish, I. Konvalinka & J. Bulbulia (2014). The fire-walker's high: Affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual. PLOS ONE 9(2): e88355
Konvalinka, I., D. Xygalatas, J. Bulbulia, U. Schjødt, E. Jegindø, S. Wallot, G. Van Orden & A. Roepstorff (2011). Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 108 (20): 8514-8519
Krátký, J., J. McGraw, D. Xygalatas, P. Mitkidis, & P. Reddish (2016). It depends who is watching you: 3-dimensional agent representations increase generosity in a naturalistic setting, PLOS ONE 11(2): e0148845
Xygalatas, D., U. Schjødt, J. Bulbulia, I. Konvalinka, E. Jegindø, P. Reddish, A. W. Geertz & A. Roepstorff (2013). Autobiographical Memory in a Fire-Walking Ritual. Journal of Cognition and Culture 13(1-2): 1-16
Xygalatas, D., Kundtová Klocová, E., Cigán, J., Kundt, R., Maňo, P., Kotherová, S., Mitkidis, P. , Wallot, S. & Kanovsky, M. (2016). Location, location, location: Effects of cross-religious primes on prosocial behavior, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 26(4): 304–319
Image via Lawrence Michaels.
Dimitris Xygalatas
Dimitris Xygalatas is an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut. His interests include ritual, cooperation, and the interaction between cognition and culture. He has conducted several years of fieldwork in Southern Europe and Mauritius. He has held positions at the universities of Princeton, Aarhus, and Masaryk, where he served as Director of the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA). At UConn, he directs the Experimental Anthropology Lab, which develops methods and technologies for studying social interaction in real-life settings.
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In asynchronous assembly systems, modular pallet-transfer conveyors get the right parts to the right spot, at the right time
By John Sprovieri
The most common pallet-transfer conveyor carries pallets on twin strands of belt or chain. Each strand rides in a track within an extruded aluminum profile. The profiles are separated by space, and only the edges of the pallet are supported. The strands provide just enough friction to move the pallet. But, if the pallet encounters a gate or another pallet, it stops and the strands slide freely beneath it. Typically, pallets can be positioned with an accuracy ±0.02 millimeter.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks to reporters after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on April 16. (Photo by Uichiro Kasai)
Behind China's sudden olive branch to Japan
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KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer April 23, 2018 08:00 JST | China
TOKYO -- On April 16, a day before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met U.S. President Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Tokyo to meet his counterpart, Taro Kono.
They were relaunching the "high-level economic summit" between Japan and China for the first time in eight years. The rocky relationship between the Asian neighbors has prevented the economic summit, as well as many other bilateral initiatives, from sustaining any momentum.
But here was Wang, touting the merits of free trade. "The two sides should safeguard economic globalization and free trade system," the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Wang as saying.
A closer look at the meeting reveals many clues about the thinking of the Chinese leadership -- its hopes and fears -- as well as its power structure.
First, it was the Chinese who were pressing to hold the talks -- the fourth of their kind -- at the earliest possible date. "They raced against the clock like never before to fix a specific date," said a surprised Japanese government source.
Beijing had been declining Tokyo's requests to resume the dialogue for years. Now, as trade friction with the U.S. intensifies, the tides have turned.
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan is seen at a meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing on April 18. © Reuters
Secondly, in coming back to the economic talks, China downgraded the seniority of the delegation. In the past, the head of the mission was chosen from the 25-member Chinese Communist Party Politburo. The last two meetings in 2009 and 2010 were led by then-Politburo member Wang Qishan, the then-vice premier in charge of economic affairs.
Wang Yi is not in the Politburo, and neither is he a vice premier.
"China overtook Japan in terms of economic size in 2010, and the gap has since widened," a Chinese expert on Sino-Japanese relations said. "Emboldened by this, China has downgraded the framework of the talks."
Furthermore, the foreign minister is not the primary minister on economic affairs.
Based on tradition, the more powerful Liu He, not Wang Yi, should have been dispatched to Japan. Liu, a close aide to Xi, joined the Politburo last October and became a vice premier in charge of macroeconomic policy in March.
But as President Xi Jinping's economic adviser, Liu has his hands full coping with the U.S. trade friction, and the lower-ranking Wang got the nod.
This choice put Tokyo on guard. "Despite being well-versed in Japanese affairs, Wang Yi has been at the forefront of excessive Japan bashing over the past five years," said one Japanese official, expressing a view widely shared within the government.
In a counter move to the downgrading, Japan's No. 2, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, chose to skip the meeting.
With the nonexpert Wang Yi at the table, it is thought that Wang Qishan in Beijing was calling the shots from behind the scenes.
Chinese President Xi Jinping smiles after delivering a speech at the Boao Forum in Hainan Provence on April 10. © Kyodo
Wang Qishan, a longtime close ally of Xi and former widely feared anti-corruption czar, retired at the Chinese Communist Party's 19th national congress last October, stepping down as a member of both the Politburo Standing Committee and the Central Committee. But he made a surprise political comeback in March as China's new vice president.
While no longer on the seven-member standing committee, the party's top decision-making body, the Chinese state media has made it clear he is still in power by introducing his name in news reports just after the top seven, unofficially positioning him as the No. 8.
Neighboring North Korea, however, cut the pleasantries and left no doubt how they saw Wang Qishan's position when they reported about Kim Jong Un's surprise March 25-28 visit to China.
In a 40-minute documentary broadcast on North Korean TV, President Xi is seen shaking Kim's hand, followed by Premier Li Keqiang. In a telling detail, the documentary cuts to Wang Qishan also shaking Kim's hand, bypassing the five other members of the standing committee.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi's sudden enthusiasm for reaching out to Japan must have been on the orders of the Xi Jinping-Wang Qishan duo.
President Trump's hardened stance toward China, especially over trade, has raised the specter of a full-scale trade war between the world's two largest economies, rattling global markets.
Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko, right, shakes hands with Chinese Commerce Minister Zhong Shan in Tokyo on April 15. Zhong is in charge of the Belt and Road Initiative. © Kyodo
The high-level economic summit was held at the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guest House, with 15 senior government officials, including ministers and deputy ministers, attending from each side. Among the Chinese delegates were Commerce Minister Zhong Shan and Finance Minister Liu Kun, both close aides to President Xi.
Regardless of the downgrading, the meeting marked a big step forward in bilateral ties. During Wang Yi's three-day visit, a relatively long stay, the two sides held wide-ranging and in-depth exchanges of views. That included a lengthy three-hour-and-45-minute meeting and working dinner between Wang and Kono on the eve of the April 16 summit.
The sidelines were filled with plenty of diplomatic activity, too, with Zhong meeting with Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko, and Liu sitting down with Finance Minister Aso.
Zhong and Liu belong to political factions comprising the president's former subordinates in different provinces. Zhong is a member of the "Zhejiang faction," while Liu is in the "Fujian faction."
Zhong is in charge of the Belt and Road Initiative to create a massive economic zone linking China and Europe by land and sea. Careful observers would note that Zhong smiled more often than Wang did during the Japan visit, perhaps a sign of his confidence in his relationship with Xi.
U.S. President Donald Trump,right, praised China's Xi after a meeting with Japan's Abe in Florida on April 18. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)
The Chinese delegation's visit to Japan came ahead of perhaps the most important months in decades regarding Asia diplomacy. This week, Kim Jong Un meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in for the first inter-Korea summit since 2007.
In May, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Japan for a trilateral summit with Japan and South Korea. By early June, Trump and Kim are scheduled to meet for a historic summit.
The U.S., China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea will be playing their cards to emerge on the winning side of this geopolitical power game. If Wang Yi's aim was to bring Japan closer to China and lure it away from the U.S., he was not fully off target. In a news conference after the Trump-Abe meeting at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump surprised Abe by showering compliments on Chinese President Xi for his pressure on North Korea, and shot down Abe's invitation for the U.S. to return to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.
When Wang and Kono sat down for a meeting and dinner ahead of the economic dialogue, North Korea was high on the agenda. But nothing has been made public about what the Chinese foreign minister said to his Japanese counterpart regarding Kim Jong Un's recent visit to China.
As foreign minister, Wang had a seat at the table when the leaders of China and North Korea met. He would be a prime source for inside information.
Many scenarios lie ahead regarding North Korea. China has hinted at possibly reviving the six-party talks with the U.S., Japan, Russia and both Koreas. It has also suggested a possible four-way meeting between China, the U.S. and the two Koreas.
Kim's announcement on Saturday that North Korea no longer needs to test nuclear weapons or long-range missiles, and that it would decommission a nuclear test site have made all participants go back to the drawing board.
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Everyone thinks they know what alcoholism looks like: the homeless person sitting along a building with a bottle of whiskey or the person who can't keep a job and yells at their kids continually with a beer in hand. Mass media has propagated certain stereotypes of what alcoholism looks like. This has caused confusion when it comes to high-functioning alcoholism, making it more difficult for individuals, families and professionals to determine exactly when someone has crossed the line into a drinking problem.
The definition of alcoholism includes excessive and inappropriate use of alcohol, but exactly where the line should be drawn is a matter that divides professionals and those who are wondering if their weekend drinking binge may mean something a little more. With claims that a bit of red wine or alcohol may be good for your health, this can make the line even more uncertain.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism considers the definition of alcoholism to be "problem drinking that becomes severe." There are two problems with this definition: When is it considered problem drinking and when does it become severe? Let's look a little further at some other definitions of alcoholism and problem drinking.
These criteria are a bit more useful because they define what alcohol-related problems look like. One thing the DSM does not do is base criteria on how many drinks you have or how often you drink. This is where the term high-functioning alcoholism comes into play.
If you looked at this list and suddenly realized that you or a loved one meets two or more criteria, you should continue reading. There are two types of alcoholism that are classed in terms of severity. The severity is based on the impact on your life or the lives of those around you. Those who struggle with maintaining the activities of daily living, such as holding down a job or preserving family relationships, exhibit the more obvious forms of alcohol use disorder.
High-functioning alcoholism may be more difficult to detect. High-functioning alcoholics can often hold down a job and maintain their households. They may effectively hide their weekend drinking problems and signs of abuse from others in the outside world. Some of them become so adept at hiding their issues that family members may not even be aware of them. There are also cases where the family is aware but continues to pretend that they do not know. The alcohol-dependent individual may not know that their family knows their secret.
High-functioning alcoholism has many faces. All classes and races of people may find themselves in its clutches. Just because a high-functioning alcoholic appears to be okay on the outside, it does not mean that they are okay on the inside by any means. Even though the alcohol use may not appear to affect the family, it still causes significant psychological and emotional damage in loved ones and children. The family can appear to be a functioning family unit when attending activities such as school functions, church services or other events in life, but behind closed doors, it can be a different story.
The problem with a high-functioning alcoholic is that they may excel in their career and appear to have good relationships and a host of friends in their circle. They may think that they have their drinking problem under control based on their social and personal achievements. However, it will eventually catch up with them, and they will no longer be able to hide it.
High-functioning alcoholics are often in deep denial about their weekend drinking problem. They can point to all of their successes and be able to convince friends and loved ones to believe them. In the worst-case scenario, family and close friends will cover up for the consequences of their drinking. They unintentionally become an enabler or a codependent. This only encourages the person to continue and escalate their weekend drinking until it becomes more problematic.
The problem with becoming an enabler or codependent is that it will encourage the person to continue down the road to a more severe problem with alcohol. Many times, loved ones will sacrifice their own needs so that everything can appear to be normal at home. This is especially the case when there are children in the home. For instance, when the person with alcohol use disorder misses a child's school play, the partner may lie and say the other spouse is home sick with the flu. They may make excuses for the person's poor behavior and try to justify it to others.
Another form of codependent behavior is cleaning up the mess that the alcohol made before anyone can see. They may wash clothing to hide soiled articles quickly. An enabler may also try to cover up the expenses caused by the drinker's actions such as legal fees, traffic tickets, fines or excessive credit card spending. They may eventually deny their own needs and pretend that they are not hurt by the alcoholic's behaviors. They may also engage in passive-aggressive behavior to try to change the alcoholic, but this typically only makes the problem worse.
The problem with being an enabler or codependent it is that it can be conscious or unconscious. The person may not be aware that they are engaging in this activity. Before long, the person's behavior with alcohol use disorder becomes the normal way of living. The spouse may find themselves in a situation where they will go to any length to avoid the potential consequences of confronting the alcoholic or dissolving the relationship. Eventually, the problems will only get worse, and the toll on the family members and friends will become even more out of control. This is true even if the person with alcohol use disorder is always able to give the appearance of functioning in society. Appearances can become very deceiving for all parties involved, and keeping the secret hidden becomes more difficult.
If you recognize any of the signs of abuse in yourself or a loved one, it is time to break the cycle. By continuing to live with a high-functioning alcoholic, you are placing your own health in jeopardy as well as your loved one's health and well-being. The most difficult part of breaking the cycle is confronting the person who has signs of alcohol abuse and getting them to realize how much alcohol consumption is harming themselves and you.
Many times, high-functioning alcoholics will refuse to seek help and may even turn it around and blame you for their problems. Sometimes, an enabler or codependent may be reluctant to confront the alcoholic about the problem because they fear retaliation or negative consequences from the person. These are all very real fears, and if either of these situations crosses your mind, it may be one of the signs of abuse that indicates it may be time to call for help.
One way to break the cycle is to enlist the help of a professional who can stand beside you and let the high-functioning alcoholic know how their drinking has harmed you and the family as well as themselves. This intervention is not designed to make the person feel ashamed for the effect that they have had on the family. It is meant to offer solutions to help them break the cycle. During an intervention, the person is presented with a plan for recovery, but they will also be made aware of the consequences if they refuse to seek treatment. The biggest challenge for caregivers may be convincing the person to attend this meeting in the first place.
Confronting a loved one who is involved in the fallacies that go along with high-functioning alcoholism can be frightening. If you recognize the signs of abuse in your loved one, one of the most important steps that you can take for yourself and them is to reach out for help. An intervention can take many different forms, but it will not happen unless you take the first step. The person will not likely get better on their own, and the problems will get worse over time, no matter how many promises the person makes or how insistent they are about their ability to handle it.
If you do not feel like seeking an alcohol counselor right away, you can talk to a spiritual leader, family therapist or personal therapist to help you get started and cope with the situation. These types of people are there to offer support throughout the entire process.
It is important to understand that a person in need of alcohol treatment may become defensive or even abusive when faced with the information that someone feels they are in need of treatment. An experienced intervention specialist can help you prepare for these reactions and have a strategy to respond effectively. The most important factor is that you seek help and do not try to do it on your own.
Recognizing the signs of abuse and that the weekend drinking in you or a loved one is high-functioning alcoholism is a difficult reality to face. However, if left untreated, these behaviors can eventually lead to full-blown nonfunctioning alcoholism. Even though it may seem mild now, as the person needs more alcohol to satisfy their craving, the problem will progress until it all comes crashing down around everyone. Living with high-functioning alcoholism can be just as devastating as living with someone whose alcohol use has progressed to nonfunctioning. If you recognize the signs in you or a loved one, it's important to realize that you are not alone; you have a support system to help you navigate these difficult waters.


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PBS Honors Bill Moyers With "Be More" Award
May 18, 2006; Orlando, Florida -- PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger presented the third annual "Be More" Award to Bill Moyers, award-winning journalist and PBS contributor. The presentation was made May 19 at the PBS Showcase, held May 17-20 at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld.
"Bill Moyers has exemplified the mission of public television for over 30 years," said Ms. Kerger. "Americans have had no more trusted guide in topics both political and personal. He has walked us through some of the most engaging conversations of our lives, exploring themes ranging from myth to death, from identity to the aftermath of September 11. He has fought for excellence and honesty in journalism, and we applaud and honor him."
With his wife Judith Davidson Moyers, Mr. Moyers founded the production company Public Affairs Television, and has been awarded more than 30 Emmys and virtually every other major television journalism prize, including a gold baton from the Dupont Journalism awards and a lifetime Peabody award. He served as executive editor of a variety of programs on PBS, including BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL, JOSEPH CAMPBELL AND THE POWER OF MYTH, ON OUR OWN TERMS: MOYERS ON DYING, FREE SPEECH FOR SALE, TRADE SECRETS, HEALING AND THE MIND, CLOSE TO HOME: MOYERS ON ADDICTION and NOW WITH BILL MOYERS. BILL MOYERS ON FAITH & REASON, his newest series, begins June 23. Mr. Moyers was a print journalist, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson and newspaper publisher before coming to television in 1970.
The PBS "Be More" Award is an annual award created to recognize extraordinary individuals who inspire public television and viewers to "Be More." It is based on PBS' award-winning branding campaign, which encourages viewers to celebrate and discover qualities such as "Be More Informed, Engaged, Creative, Open-Minded," among others. Previous recipients include Fred Rogers and Jim Lehrer.
PBS is a private, nonprofit media enterprise that serves the nation's 348 public noncommercial television stations, reaching nearly 90 million people each week through on-air and online content. Bringing diverse viewpoints to television and the Internet, PBS provides high-quality documentary and dramatic entertainment, and consistently dominates the most prestigious award competitions. PBS is a leading provider of educational materials for K-12 teachers, and offers a broad array of other educational services. PBS' premier kids' TV programming and Web site, PBS KIDS Online (pbskids.org), continue to be parents' and teachers' most trusted learning environments for children. More information about PBS is available at pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org Web sites on the Internet.
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Truth About Anti-Trump Rabbinates
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Arabs, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Haaretz, History, J Street, Jewish Rabbinical, Jews, King Ahasuerus, Post-Zionism, Rabbinical Assembly, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
The four Jewish Rabbinical organizations deciding to boycott the annual conference call with President Trump are politically driven. They are simply another embodiment of the polarization of the American people. One might even see the nation now as the Divided States of America. What is sad is that these Rabbinical groups would place politics into their religious leadership of these organizations. That is a new situation where religious leaders decide on whether or not they are going to attend an event with the President which is an annual event to mark and celebrate the Jewish High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, on purely political motives. Their claims that this is over Charlottesville tragedy is purely fabricated out of whole cloth as most of these Rabbis also boycotted President Trump at the AIPAC conference when he spoke. Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner has written an op-ed on March 25, 2016 in the Jewish Journal expressing "deep anguish over Donald Trump's appearance at the conference." Additional rhetoric in his op-ed depicted his exact duplicity as he wrote, "As a religious movement, we do not endorse or oppose political candidates. Still, along with several other rabbis and lay leaders, I decided that I had to register my opposition and growing concern with the tone, rhetoric, and violence that have come to define Donald Trump's campaign by not staying in the arena when he spoke." Add to that, Rabbi Pesner is completely aware that as a religious leader his place is to provide support to his congregants but apparently the good Rabbi has chosen his congregants so carefully that he knows none supported the Trump campaign and thus they all supported his disrespecting one candidate while giving support through his presence the other candidates.
But we should not leave out the names of the entities which have decided that this President is unworthy of even the decency of a phone call to commemorate the Jewish High Holidays, a completely nonpartisan event. The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism are the groups whose leadership has declared their membership of Rabbis are to boycott the Presidential call as the representatives of their congregations. One can only wonder how many of these Rabbi's congregants just might have voted for President Trump or might actually take pride simply that their Rabbi would take the call from the President celebrating the High Holidays simply because of the honor of the office of the President. The article about the boycott probably made the best statement when they opened with the following introduction before getting to their apparent support of the Rabbis refusing to take the Presidential call stating, "For years, the presidential conference calls were a nonpartisan holiday tradition: President Barack Obama would speak by phone with hundreds of rabbis in advance of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in what participants described as a meeting of minds, largely free of raw politics." Wonderful, for years, since the Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, this has been a politics free event without any grandstanding or other political jesters. No longer will this be the case and we seriously doubt Charlottesville was anything beyond cover for a purely political protestation and more carryover from the defeat of the inevitable one, Hillary Clinton.
International Socialists as Communists vs National Socialists as Nazis
This is simply more of the reaction and partisan furor over the election of Donald Trump after the fake news system failed to deliver the overwhelming predicted victory of Hillary Clinton. The leftists were so convinced by their own propaganda that they have been completely incapable of coping with their failure to retain the Presidency. These Rabbis are simply a symptom and nothing more. We witness the complete frenzied refusal to accept the election of President Trump but there is a far more serious problem starting to explode within the American political scene. The problem is not just with the scene in the United States, we have the effects from the leftists on the policies concerning Israel. The American group J-Street who claim to be the alternative to AIPAC for Israeli policy and also the only true peace advocates have been out screeching to the media that President Trump has destroyed all hopes for peace between the Israelis and Arabs. J Street on Thursday attacked the Trump administration for refusing to endorse a "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami attacked State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert for her comments made Wednesday, August 23, 2017 (see entire briefing below covering many subjects from Egypt to Cambodia as well as the Israeli Arab peace process), stating, "We want to work toward a peace that both sides can agree to and that both sides find sustainable. We believe that both parties should be able to find a workable solution that works for both of them. We are not going to state what the outcome has to be. It has to be workable to both sides. And I think, really, that's the best view as to not really bias one side over the other, to make sure that they can work through it. It's been many, many decades, as you well know, that the parties have not been able to come to any kind of good agreement and sustainable solution to this. So we leave it up to them to be able to work that through."
What is interesting are the exact complaints registered by the J-Street leadership which we need discuss. Their problem with the position stated by the State Department and President Trump on numerous occasions is that there will be no supposition of any condition for the resulting form of any peace agreement in the Israeli Arab negotiations. J-Street were distressed that the Administration stated position does not include the demand that there be a "two state solution" and Ben-Ami claimed, "displayed dangerous ignorance about the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and what it will take to end it. The Trump administration has spoken often of its desire to broker a comprehensive and transformative peace agreement in the Middle East. Early steps taken by the special envoy and others suggested a real interest in constructing a viable approach to achieving that objective. But there is no way to accomplish that goal without a two-state solution." This was according to Haaretz who simply love to print everything that J-Street claims as it fully backs their leftist post-Zionist slant on the news. J-Street has consistently supported making an Arab Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria and dividing Jerusalem and using the Green Line as the defining border and the labelling of any Jewish manufactured or grown goods from the area. J-Street has also taken a position against any "settlement growth" in Judea and Samaria. Unsurprisingly, these are also the demands made by the Arab Palestinian Authority (PA). Why a presumably pro-Israel group would support the exact same demands as the PA which is working towards, as they have stated, the destruction of Israel as the Jewish homelands is far beyond reason. The media also, from the press briefing, are stunned and in disbelief that the Trump Administration is allowing the two sides to find whatever solution the two are able to agree upon, whether that be a two state solution or some form of shared political and security arrangement no matter what form as long as both sides are able to agree.
The J-Street disagreement and accusational attitude towards the Trump Administration after their love affair with the Obama Administration is simply another example of the bias towards the left by American Jews. This has become something which has been somewhat distressing to many Israeli Jews. Many are confused and do not understand why the American Jews are taking sides which would cripple Israel and possibly injure Israel severely if their positions were to become fact. Seeing American Jews taking the identical position as the PA confuses them but part of the reason for the position of the American Jews comes down to the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party has, of late, taken the same outlook to a solution between Israel and the Arabs which is fully-supportive of the positions stated by the PA. This was the position taken by President Obama who favored not only the PA but also to have a Middle East where the major power would be Iran instead of Israel. Candidate Clinton had stated repeatedly that she supported the Obama position on the Arab Israeli peace as well as empowering Iran such that they would replace Israel and the Saudi Arabians as the strongest in the Middle East. The Obama Clinton positions were near identical and were both anti-Israel and post-Zionist if defined by Israeli terms. The Jews in the United States have turned to where their politics supersedes their religion and when their politics clashes with their Judaism, their leftist policies take precedence over Torah. This will continue to place a wedge which will force the Israelis and the American Jews further and further apart over time. Israel is becoming more religious while the American Jews are becoming less religious and this will lead to something problematic in the near future unless something should come to pass which would force the American Jews to be forced to defend their Jewishness.
The coming of the near future for American Jews will be their dissolution through assimilation. Within the next twenty to thirty years, the numbers of Jews will dwindle greatly. Most of the Reform and Conservative congregations now are largely made up of five time a year Jews with a small core of Jews who actually follow the religion. The Reform Jews probably have virtually, if not, no religious Jews remaining and their congregations will dissipate into nothing, as the next generation is not raising their children within the faith. The Conservative congregations will also start to disappear with the next two generations. The one shining and hopeful reality is there is one group of Jews who are growing in numbers, and those are the Orthodox and the Haredi Jews. What is also of interest is that these two groups are more-supportive of President Trump than the other denominations. The Orthodox and Haredi Jews are more conservative politically and generally more supportive of the Israeli side of the Israeli Arab conflict. This bodes well for Israel but not so much for the influence of the Jews in general in the United States. The leftist Jews are leaving the fold and will water down their performance of Jewish customs and observance eventually making them not Jewish except by genealogy. There is one thing which could alter this trend which is hopefully unthinkable. That would be anti-Semitism raising its grotesque head to the point where Jews were singled out and had legal restrictions placed upon the community.
This has been an occurrence which has often come about when the Jews in regions were assimilating to a dangerous point where it threatened their existence and the rise of hatred forced the Jews to return to their faith. The Jews in Persia were assimilating to a great degree to the point that the Queen to King Ahasuerus was a Jewish woman named Esther. Then Haman came forth gaining a royal decree that all Jews were to be put to death, when Esther informed the King that she was a Jewess, the King made a second decree which did not countermand the first, that was not permitted by Persian law, but he ruled the Jews were permitted to be warned of the date and may defend themselves. Hamas and his sons did not fare well and were hanged. This is celebrated as Purim with the reading of the Megillah of Esther. The Jews again were almost completely assimilated under the Greek rule. The Hellenist Jews were liberal and following the ways of the Greeks until the Maccabees revolt which is celebrated as Hanukkah and the lighting of the lights. Under the Romans the Jews were never allowed to assimilate and actually managed to revolt and remove Roman rule twice, one resulting in the destruction of the Second Temple and the next in the first dispersion and the rumors of another revolt brought the second and near total dispersion. This spread the Jews over much of the Roman Empire and some even beyond their borders as they fled from Rome altogether to escape persecutions. The Jews in Germany actually served in a higher percentage than other groups even including the Lutherans in World War I and many were highly decorated. The Jews were all but completely assimilated in Germany leading into World War II. The Nazis took care to separate the Jews from the rest of the German population and the resulting genocide of the Jews of Europe is recorded in the Holocaust where two-thirds of the nine-million European Jews were murdered, six-million Jews.
The Jews of the United States are reaching very high level of assimilation and it would be unfortunate if Charlottesville protests would be the first sign. But do not let anyone be fooled about where the main threat to the Jews derives; it is from amongst both the far-right and the far-left. One side is comprised of Nazis and white supremacists while the other side has BLM and Antifa which are but a minor example. The new anti-Semitism is largely expressed as anti-Israelism, anti-Zionism and the convergence of Islamic antisemitism and Christian Replacement Theology. There were likely a close number of anti-Semites on both sides in Charlottesville, but do not expect to ever hear that from the mainstream media as for them the leftists are perfect people who would not have butter melt in their mouths. The Jews in the United States may also awaken in another twenty years, if not sooner, to find themselves being reproached regularly in the public sphere before it gets radically worse, just a warning of that which we hope never happens.
Save Me Your Holier than Thou, We Paid Our Dues; so You Cannot Demand Our Obedience
Tags: Academics, African Refugees, Anti-Semitic, Arab Refugees, Arab World, Arabs, B'tselem, Balkan States, Destroy Israel, European Union, Israel, J Street, Jews, Jews for Peace, Kurds, Leftists, Liberals, Love of Israel, MENA, middle east, North Africa, Palestinian Authority, Post Modernist, Post-Zionist, Rabbis for Peace, Roma, United States, Western Elites, Yazidi, Zionism, Zionists
First we would like to thank those American Jews and Christians who donated to Israeli funds and other interests. We appreciate your visiting and spending your tourist dollars here. We do appreciate the fact that your advice is well-intended and that you only mean for Israel to be the best that is possible. We understand that your desires are for Israel to be the moral example for the world and for us to act in such a manner that everybody will love us. We also understand when you complain that our actions reflect upon you and often appear to make your lives difficult. We understand that sometimes you cannot find any way of defending some of the actions Israel uses and the methods by which we seek to preserve Israel's existence. We are aware of why you are so furious over Israel's new travel ban on those who view Israel as an "apartheid" state; oppose the Israeli "settlement" of the Jewish homeland; and fight to isolate and de-legitimize Israel by boycotting Israeli academics, speakers, leaders, and products. We understand that you view this in the same light as Trump's temporary immigration ban on merely seven Arab states where vetting those arriving from these places is next to impossible.
We understand that you feel you would be a hypocrite should you so oppose Trumps actions and simply allow with a wink and a nod Israel to act similarly. We even understand those who have threatened to stop contributing to Israeli funds unless we act properly. Well, allow us to reply, thanks, but no thanks. Keep your monies if that is your desire and please end your endless preaching and demanding that Israel act such that you are comfortable with our actions. Contrary to your opinion, Israel is not around for you to wear on your bracelet as if it were a charm which you can display to your friends and say see how nicely they act always forgiving every slight and never ever taking a hard line against those who would kill every Israeli if only they had the weapons with which to do so. See how they try so hard to diplomatically resolve their problems with those who are launching rockets at their children's kindergarten and fire rockets timed with the start and end of the school day. Aren't the Israelis just the most liberal and caring people always taking in whatever refugees appear on their border even when many of them only come to commit heinous acts of terror and act belligerently, especially to the Israeli women and the elderly.
This is not going to happen and you are going to have to just settle for the fact that Israel is a nation like every other nation in that sometimes it will need to act in ways which possibly the majority of the world, especially when it is Israel acting so, will go into an uproar denouncing Israel and those doing so might include you or those you know. Sometimes you are not going to be able to defend Israeli actions to your leftist friends who love to point out how Israel is just as bad as every other nation. We know that such is a lie and those making those claims would demand Israel commit suicide and still would complain we were not giving enough. That is just too bad because Israel does act and plan to remain a viable nation able to defend her borders. This requires that these borders are defendable in the first place. That means that we are not going to surrender everything the world would demand of us. We gave away Gaza and that resulted in a disaster yet the world immediately pocketed that generous act of faith and immediately demanded we surrender Judea and Samaria to the same people whose last gift resulted in Hamastan on our southern border and a menace for Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula. Were we to repeat that mistake and the same happen in Judea and Samaria these very same people from the United Nations, European Union and nations around the world would demand we give away the Negev next as proof we wish to get along with the rest of the world. Well, if suicide is what is required to get along with the rest of the world, guess we will not be getting along and you will have to live with these facts such that we can live period.
There appears to be a growing existence particularly in the United States believing that Israel must run every decision past a select group of important people who are far more knowledgeable when it comes to policies and what would best serve their desires which Israel should be required to commit to such that they will feel proud to be considered supporters. Should Israel disappoint them, then the Israeli government should be replaced and these same self-serving people should be the final arbiters as to who should run the nation. Those with whom they disagree should be relegated into the minority and only those who are amongst the approved group of left leaning, two-state supporting, anti-settlement, secular, anti-orthodox politicians who would feel comfortable and are acceptable to the leftist wing of the Democrat Party should be permitted to run Israel. Well, that is not about to happen. Israel is rapidly becoming more religious and more Zionist than any of the average Democrat Party leadership could ever be if their recent convention and choices for leadership are any indication of their leanings. Any political groups which find leadership such as Democrat Party National Committee Chair Tom Perez and Deputy Chair Keith Ellison, both of whom have a record of anti-Israel activity and advocacy, are not possible allies of Israel and should not have any influence over Israeli political or military decisions. Those who would support allowing a Women's March to be coordinated by pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli Linda Sarsour and convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh are not capable of also claiming to be supportive of Israel. Support of Rasmea Odeh and believing her story that she was innocent of the terror attack bombing of a supermarket which murdered two young Israelis, twenty-one year old Leon Kanner and twenty-two year old Eddie Joffe, and injured nine others because her confession was given while in the custody of the Israeli authorities disqualifies them as being a supporter of Israel. Those who believe her claims of innocence and that she was sexually tortured as was her father for forty-five days before she confessed to her part in the terror attack has beliefs about Israelis which belie their claims of support for Israel. Yet these are often the people who scream the loudest accusing Israel of improper activities and then plead that Israel should be required to seek their approval before taking any actions political, military or other security actions. They are also the most shocked and astounded that Israel would take precautions without conferring first with their betters in the United States, particularly their betters in the leftist organizations such as Jews for Peace, Rabbis for Peace, B'Tselem, J Street and numerous other leftist, post-Zionist radical groups.
Much to the horror of these leftist detractors of Israel, the majority of the Israeli population does not agree with their demands that Israel sacrifice even further because peace is just one more sacrifice away, just as they claimed before Israel made the last sacrifice which they claimed that this time it would be the last sacrifice, not like the sacrifice before that which was also to be the last sacrifice as was the one before and the one before and that has been the story for the past twenty-plus years of Israeli final sacrifices for peace. After the Gaza debacle, the Israeli public completely has decided that they see real willingness and a different attitude from those with whom Israel is presumably supposed to be making peace. Mahmoud Abbas has refused to even meet with the Israelis; yet the world demands that Israel continue making sacrifices though the last two sacrifices, if not more, have not been returned and instead have been rebuked and met with claims that whatever sacrifice Israel made was insufficient and until and unless Israel is ready to fall on their sword, then nothing less than suicidal retreats will suffice. Those who claim that such sacrifices are not out of the reasonable sphere are not friends of Israel and are simply seeking to make points as being the greater leftist making the greater demands for Israeli sacrifice than the next leftist. Israel cannot meet the demands from every corner as doing so would be the end of the Jewish State. Israel is not going to commit to being suicidal and will act in the way best suited for continued health and existence of the Jewish State and will refuse those ridiculous demands of the United Nations, European Union, and others whose demands are of a similar nature.
Now to get down to the reality and truth of the matter which may be painful for some but, for the most honest, these revelations will come as no surprise as they have known that their views have drifted further and further left and with that drift so have their demands of Israel in the face of the Islamic escalating animosity and belligerence towards the Western World in general and Israel in particular, even more so than the United States. Israel sacrificed in making the Oslo Accords after Yasser Arafat duped the world into believing he had reformed from his terrorist days which included the attempted overthrow of the government in Jordan, the eventual weakening and Islamification of Lebanon and the start of the Lebanon Civil War and formation of Hezballah through his actions. Even after the Second Intifada about which came proof that it had been planned even before Arafat went to hold talks with Israel with President Clinton at Camp David and then in Paris where he already planned the violence such that he could blame it on Israel for not surrendering completely at the negotiations. What Arafat had not planned on was that after he gave President Clinton his word that he would accept a set of terms he deemed beyond Israeli comfort levels that Prime Minister Ehud Barak would agree to his demands for close to ninety-five percent of the West Bank, land swaps, and half of Jerusalem in order to make peace. The next morning when President Clinton planned on finalizing the deal and collecting signatures, Yasser Arafat stormed from the meeting with Secretary of State Madeline Albright chasing him down the hall to no avail.
Camp David Talks on a Break as President Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Ehud Barak Stroll the Grounds of the Complex Located Ten Miles North of Frederick, Maryland
Israel has made concession and sacrifice one after another with nothing to show for it other than the world expecting more from Israel to the point of demanding Israel make sacrifices simply for the sake of having Israel sacrifice with nothing offered in return. This led to the Gaza giveaway where all of Gaza was surrendered by Israel, over eight-thousand Jewish lives turned upside-down being ripped from their homes, their livelihoods often destroyed, their greenhouses turned over to the Arabs who tore them apart to make rockets and launchers, and then soon thereafter the Palestinian Authority surrendered the Gaza Strip over to Hamas, Islamic Jihad and giving a beachhead potentially to Iran on the Israeli southern border. Since signing onto the Oslo Accords where Israel was promised to retain Area C and all of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority was granted semi-autonomy over Area A which would lead to their being given Area A as the central lands for their state while Area B would be mutually governed and deliberations would decide where the eventual border would stand to the current situation where the world is demanding that the Arabs be given all of Judea and Samaria, half of Jerusalem and that Israel accept many hundreds of thousand Arab refugees and there are those who demand Israel accept millions of Arab refugees and that all of Jerusalem resulting in not just a single new Arab state but two new Arab states and the death of Israel and likely the extermination of another six-million Jews as the world would again refuse to permit them to emigrate to their shores and to relative safety. This is why Israel can no longer simply bow to every demand and whim which passes for the newest idea which will bring peace and instead decide what will allow Israel to keep peace through sufficient strength and control of strategically significant positions. These vital points include potentially all of Judea and Samaria as the Palestinian Arab population becomes virulently anti-Semitic and more militarized to the point they are becoming a threat to Israel's continued existence.
This is the reality and as things worsen it will become even more of a necessity that Israel reestablish complete control over all of Judea and Samaria; and if that should also require the removal of the Arabs which are known to be militantly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic, then that is what will have to be. The current government would never likely permit such an eventuality, but that does not mean that such would not become necessary and that a future government would remain so intimidated by the world's leftist largely in Europe and the United States. The threat that Israel will be hated if it does not comply with the next round of demands no longer frightens the Israeli population as they have learned that being hated is not necessarily the worst of all things, ceasing to have a defendable border and a safe place in which to live is far worse and if being hated becomes the price for survival, we will take survival, thank you so very much. We understand and have learned how easy it is for others, even Jews who claim to be our fiercest supporters, to demand that Israel surrender to her enemies and how doing so can make these people feel so superior and good about themselves and how it allows them to claim they are such great supporters of a peaceful solution to the Palestinian situation and how they are the most compassionate. We also are learning how to simply say, "No!" And when "No!" does not suffice, then how about we say, well, let us say we say, "No!" even louder and possibly with a few superlatives added to the mix. And when that fails, as our saying "No" always has, then we will just have to let our actions be our statement, and that we are sure will suffice when that hard day arrives. The problem is the more the world demands the indefensible of Israel the more they make peace impossible because the Arab world stands assured that the rest of the world will hand them the Jews and not even blink when they slaughter the Jews by the millions. They observed the world's lack of concern during World War II and learned that the world does not care if there are those who wish to murder Jews. They also learned that the world does not much care who is being murdered as long as the murdered are a minority who is not one of them and that includes Yazidi, Kurds, Roma and close to any other group which is too small to defend themselves or cause the rest of the world to care.
Even nations do not always get a response when they are gobbled up; just ask Czechoslovakia, currently Slovakia and the Czech Republic which probably means there are two nations which can be swallowed without the world getting even the slightest indigestion as they have not learned from history. One last warning should go out to all the Balkan nations, the smaller nations at the eastern end of Europe closest to the Russian border and the countries of Southeast Asia near China (which is all except India); the world will not care when larger entities swallow you whole or even wholesale because their only concern is are they still feeling safe. It is only when the major nations, which the world has fewer of these every year as now nations such as Spain, Romania, Syria, Yemen and by now even Kuwait are no longer worth going to war over. Should Iran be the nation taking one or more of these nations, not to include Saudi Arabia, and already have tested large nuclear weapons proven to be deliverable by their displayed ICBM capability, then many might complain and call on the United Nations, but none would do much if anything. Thus, any idea that one could expect others to come to the aid of Israel is ludicrous and thus Israel would be left hanging to fend for herself? The world is not getting safer by the hour but far more volatile and dangerous, so please do not fault us for noticing and acting accordingly. You want to hate us, and we would rather you have us to hate than you to have once loved us and now hate our having passed and fallen.
J-Street Exemplifies Jewish Self-Hatred Still Alive in America and the World
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The history of Jews who stand over the death of their fellow Jews while claiming that they are the noble Jews is long and horribly consistent throughout the ages and J-Street is just the most visible form today. It is appropriate that they are funded largely out of Europe and a fair amount of money came from the definition of Jewish self-hatred and renowned Kapò, George Soros. These types existed in Egypt who often held the whips as they were the taskmasters who did their Egyptian masters bidding, while others were spies turning in any Jew mentioned in rumors. They allied with the Babylonians and on and on throughout history. So, J-Street is nothing new, they just have the advantage of modern media, a polished public relations system and are liberally funded by Palestinian supporters, European governments, George Soros, and the many Jews who are taken in by their claims to be messengers who only wish to bring peace to Israel and bring an end to the conflict with the Palestinians. They do not tell their Jewish audiences their true motives and goals instead glossing over such by claiming simply they are pro-Israel, pro-Zionist and pro-Peace when they get an invitation to speak before a Synagogue or any Jewish organization. They do not bother to inform their Jewish audiences that their idea of peace in the Middle East is to make the Jews suffer the same fate as did the Yazidis who found themselves on a mountain top surrounded by the Islamic State who were bent on their eradication, a complete and genocidal eradication. J-Street believes that if only Israel invited every Arab who desired to reside in Israel and claims to have any "Palestinian" blood, which is virtually any Arab as the Arabs claiming to be displaced Palestinians were less than a century ago Syrians, Jordanians, Egyptians, Iraqis, Saudis as well as some Arabs from Iran, Turkey, Sudan, and beyond. The vast majority were not indigenous to the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea a century ago as recorded in the writings of almost every visitor to the Holy Lands from the 1800s and earlier of which Mark Twain's Travels Abroad section on the Holy Lands and Jerusalem.
The proof of J-Street desire to make their peace with the Arab demand that Jews be stateless and left to the fates of whatever their minders, those who allow them to reside in their lands, those tender mercies and if they decide to be merciless, then the Jews should simply go where they are less hated and permitted a brief period of normalcy. They believe that because they have had what they believe to have been two centuries in the United States being largely accepted that such tender treatment will never end. They likely are not familiar with some episodes in American history, but first the videos from J-Street conventions and commentary and their supporters acceptance in the first video where an accepting and eager applause is heard.
J-Street speaker and representative Marcia Freedman
speaker from March 27, 2015 says Israel should be destroyed
to applause at a J-street conference speakerMarcia Freedman
suggested that there should not be a Jewish state,but a
"Jewish homeland" where Jews are a "protected minority"
within an Arab "Palestinian" state.
J-Street co-founder Daniel Levy from the 2011 J-Street Conference
recording of his claim that if Arab states continue to object or
denounce the existence of Israel may have been a bad idea.
He really means should be removed so that the
Arabs will stop being angry as such makes him uncomfortable.
Arabs being anti-Semitic should upset him but he is more apt to blame Israel
for his discomfort and believes if he stands for Israeli sacrifice
to the Arab anger then they may decide not to bother him.
There was a brief period where Jews were dispossessed of their holdings and, in the time it took for the order to be overturned, many Jews found themselves forced from their homes and businesses and treated as foreign interlopers in the recently reunited United States after the Civil War. Generals Grant and Sherman both had definite Jew hatreds which resulted in the forced removal of Jews "as a class" from the areas under the command of General Grant within twenty-four hours under General Grant's "General Order # 11" issued on December 17, 1862. General William Tecumseh Sherman had warned, "The country will swarm with dishonest Jews" because of the cotton trade and described Jews as "without pity, soul, heart, or bowels of compassion." General Grant had also issued previous orders numbered #9 and #10 which included the statements that, "the Israelites especially should be kept out… no Jews are to be permitted to travel on the railroad southward from any point. They may go north and be encouraged in it; but they are such an intolerable nuisance, that the department must be purged of them." Jewish families were forced out of their homes in Paducah, Kentucky, Holly Springs and Oxford, Mississippi, and a few were sent to prison. When some Jewish victims protested to President Lincoln, the Attorney General Edward Bates advised the President that he was indifferent to such objections, "myself feeling no particular interest in the subject." Against Attorney General Edward Bates objections, Lincoln had Grant's odious order rescinded finally on January 4, 1863, but by then, some Jewish families had lost everything and been sent barely able to pack their belongings. But such could never have happened in the United States, could it?
The unfortunate truth is that, though not as pronounced as in Europe, anti-Semitism has existed as a steady undertow sometimes rising more to the surface. The worst period in the United States corresponded with and was powered by the same exact cause of anti-Semitism which in Europe culminated in Nazi, Germany; the Progressive Movement and the eugenics where the Jew was often used as the prime example of a degenerative race, inbred often miserly, antisocial and a corrupting influence of genetic inferiority. These views were often propounded by people of repute and some which to the uninitiated would surprise if not astound. Such names include Charles Lindbergh, Madison Grant, Harry Laughlin, Irving Fischer, and Henry Fairfield Osborn, Margaret Sanger, Henry Ford who published a compendium of articles under the title "The International Jew," Ezra Gosney, Paul Popenoe, Charles Davenport and others from the Eugenics Movement popularized during the early Twentieth Century Progressives movement.
Charles Lindbergh American Aviator and Anti-Semite
Anti-Semitism has existed amongst the wealthy and the poor, the highly educated and least educated, the popular movements and relegated to the shadows, government initiated and government condemned. So, what can history tell us about anti-Semitism in the United States, everything and nothing as every time there is a groundswell it has had a different triggering mechanism, the Civil War, the eugenics movement, even religious purification in certain locations and what will trigger the next wave is anybody's guess. Our guess is it will be triggered by a social upheaval likely connected with economic collapse, a problem which some economists are currently warning may be right ahead if measures and policies are not adjusted and the government minding debt before debt minds the government. Whatever triggers a rampant anti-Semitism may be, as in the current rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, easily spread to the United States. Don't believe that; simply do some research into the anti-Israel and anti-Zionism along with the BDS movement, the pro-Palestinian movement, Israel Apartheid Week on many campuses, Apartheid Wall demonstrations, Faux Checkpoint (protests presumably imitating the checkpoints which prevent terrorism and are as prevalent within Israel when entering malls, sports arenas, parades, or any other location where people in numbers congregate), imitation Israeli eviction notices where eviction notices being placed in Jewish students' mailboxes or on dorm doors, and numerous other anti-Israel or Zionist demonstrations which have more and more often resulted in victimizing Jewish students because, well, they deserve it, right?