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[The Asia Pacific Journal: Recent Articles] JapanFocus: According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, consultations sought by individual citizens concerning labour conflict increased by more than 90% between 2002 and 2007, whereby in 2007 bullying and power harassment constituted the second largest category accounting for 12.5% of all consultations.[52] They include verbal intimidations such as: ‘How stupid you are, being unable to understand such a thing!’, ‘You cause trouble to others’, or ‘If it is so hard, why don’t you quit?’.[53] There are numerous reports of physical, verbal, and sexual abuse and harassment at work,[54] including such cases whereby a young woman’s being hit, kicked and stepped upon on the face with a shoe by a senior employee.[55]

[Mises Economics Blog] The Indefensibility of Political Representation - Mises Economics Blog: This political progression has its semantic parallel: As the nation encompasses greater government control, so does the meaning of “liberalism.” When the term (like the country) shifted from laissez faire to interventionism, with the advocates of the former renamed “conservatives,” both the term and the policy continued down that road -- unstoppably: Progressivism, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society. When some liberals (including a few leftists-turned-liberals) in the 70s opposed any further move beyond the "alphabet soup" (FDR-JFK-LBJ) consensus, they suddenly became "neoconservatives." A person wasn't a neoconservative because he rejected Hubert Humphrey liberalism in favor of a return to Jim Crow, but because he clung to its opposition to quotas and "affirmative action" in the face of the absorption of such programs by the "liberal" juggernaut.

[Journal of Humanitarian Assistance] Journal of Humanitarian Assistance » Archive » Toward an ...: Citing UNICEF official Ian Levine, Prendergast writes, “Complex emergencies are breaking down the former dichotomy between human rights as political critique and humanitarian aid as apolitical charity as massive, systematic rights abuses force donors to confront the ”˜sheer inadequacy of providing goods and services without seeking to protect rights’ or to make the latter a fundamental aspect of assistance (ibid: 80).” Prendergast devotes a significant portion of the text toward arguing for “engagement and capacity building with authorities and civil institutions,” so that relief may become better integrated in receiving societies. He defines engagement as “actively advocating particular principles with authorities as well as consulting with them on these issues and building where appropriate on their views (ibid: 92).” This is in sharp contrast to earlier humanitarian endeavors, many of which opposed collaboration with government agencies or representatives for fear of compromising neutrality or impartiality.

[RHRealityCheck.org - Women's Rights] Uncovering the Nativism of Population Politics | RHRealityCheck.org: Yet we also know they have every right to be terrified of having ruined reputations and thwarted promotions as a result of being labeled racists or nativists. As a consequence they seek refuge in issues of global overpopulation, rather than getting involved in this issue at home, where they have a much better chance for success.

[The Spoils of War] FLDS: Big Hate- Big Brother « The Spoils of War: So, either mind your own business and let people live as they want- or don’t be a hypocrite and go after the groups that are also having underage births -although no one can find the daddy to go after or he is already locked up or dead rather than providing for his children- Again, I make my point that no one seems concerned about the rampant underage and no daddy births of future prison residents, or hit and run drivers, or border meth smugglers. You’re up in arms about flds, but what about the multitudes of foster kids whose parents are strung out on crack or heroin?

[News from the Knights of Columbus] Knights of Columbus - Chat Archive: If we rightly believe that God would call us to stop the innocent killing of children through abortion and this is one of the non-negotiable beliefs we have as Christians and Catholics how could we justify, in all good conscience, voting with a political party that holds this belief close to their very existence? Does our vote for evil not constitute sin in the political arena?

[tdaxp] tdaxp » Blog Archive » Israel is a New-Core State Fighting in the Gap: Between stealing Palestinian land and building settlements in the middle of Palestinian neighborhoods over the past 30 years, Israel made a conscious choice to colonize the parts of Palestinian lands it desired in the name of “Greater Israel”. In imprisoning, exiling and torturing countless Palestinian activists (both non-violent and violent) from 1967-Oslo Accord, it helped limit the creation of a viable, healthy and open Palestinian civil society, dooming the people to a choice between secular, Marxist kleptocrat guerrillas (the PLO/Fatah) and Islamic, fundamentalist religious parties and terror groups (Hamas, Islamic Jihad), the former a group Israel bankrolled and nourished in the 80's as an alternative to the PLO.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » President Bush is Heading to Jerusalem: (3) he says (right above) that the only alternative to such dire state of affairs - namely to defeat the entire terrorist structure by annexing the territories and raiding them, and effect regime change until some down-to-earth diplomacy allows a non-Nazi solution for the future of Israel - he says it is not a ”˜plan,’ but just a ”˜goal.’ Of course what Bill Narvey implies here is that the current Western ”˜solution’ is a ”˜plan.’ In other words, destroying Israel by means of a contemporary pax romana is a ”˜plan.’ The only alternative to that ”˜plan’ is though only a ”˜goal,’ which Narvey wants you to believe is unrealistic, unattainable, or, in his words, a “wet dream.” And all of that despite his considering the Western stance a “reality denial”!

[afh blog] afh blog - artforhumans.com » The End of the Epistemological Era ...: It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support … May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants —

[God's Politics] God's Politics - Jim Wallis blog, faith blog, religion, christian ...: And just for your uniformed "readers"/bloggers: The Christian Crusades were more about recapturing lands that had been torn (first) from Christian peoples in the past than about militarily advancing Christianity into those "stolen" areas. You pander to your readers when their reasoning seems to support your "bigger" position, when your duty as a defender of the faith, and more to the point, a child of God who has been given brains and reasoning abilities (Christlikeness too) to take every thought captive unto Christ.

[Connor's Conundrums] Religion and Politics: The LDS Church and Proposition 8 | Connor's ...: We have opposed gambling and liquor and will continue to do so. We regard it as not only our right but our duty to oppose those forces which we feel undermine the moral fiber of society.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Why Anti-Semitism Persists: Anti-Semitism and its consequences, as they act themselves out in the social and historical realms, have gradually come to acquire the character of a deeply harbored expectation, a necessary effect of an immutable cause, ... like Solway fail to see the hard core of the antisemitism that he discerns in the outside world. Even “#3 wayno” has trouble putting his finger on it. The elephant in the room, so fierce and unyielding that everyone looks outside the room, ...

[Comments for Open Source] Open Source » Blog Archive » Israel Face-to-Face with Hamas: In that session, the organization’s co-founder, Huwaida Arraf, distributed recruitment brochures and encouraged students to enlist in the ISM, which, she acknowledged, cooperates with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Another ISM co-founder, George Rishmawi, told the San Francisco Chronicle in a July 14, 2004, news story why his group recruits student volunteers….”

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