Israel and Palestinians

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From WS Journal

Leaks Reveal Deep Palestinian-Israeli Security Ties

BY CHARLES LEVINSON
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My comment

Israel and Palestinians are progressing.

Now, that is good news. Perhaps both the Palestinians and the Israelis are realizing that words are more powerful than bombs. The masters of such progress from both sides should be candidates for the Noble Peace Price, they deserve it.

Bandages don’t cure infections.

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From: NY Times
January 24, 2011, 9:15 pm
Training Youths in the Ways of the Workplace
By DAVID BORNSTEIN
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My comment

Bandages don’t cure infections.

Training our youth into the work culture, is a great program and it is an excellent opportunity to address the youth unemployment situation; but it does not solve the cause of the problem. For, there are a few factors causing problem which do not seem to be addressed. Moreover, a working culture needs to come from reality. It requires desire and opportunity.

First, all forms of the most powerful influence on our youth, teaches them that living is having joy at the beach, partying, dancing, and sports; that is fun—working is not what our youth are genuinely learning. From text books, to TV, to You Tube, and all the literature available to our youth, work is the last think, if it is ever shown. Therefore by instinct, our youth are trained not to work. Work is not part of the youth’s reality.

To make it worse, when we see resume examples, the focus is on those who are above average. Supervisory skills, and leadership, or super situations of excellence are the focus of sample resumes. However, in an average workplace, the ratio of supper-skills need is small—over-qualified, not hirable. Leadership, while being need to excel, is not essential in the working heard. Only one leader is needed to supervise 15 or 20 workers. Many times, a human robot is all that the job requires. So there is no connection to reality.

Also, a job is an idea that is foreign to many youth. They have seen it on their parents’ lives; but they also have been taught that their parents are “old fashioned”, the fad is being different. Reality has been the opposite of work. The perimeters of punching a time clock, and staying working for two hours before a break, and being at the work station within ten minutes after the break starts, seems too rigid to them.

However, let’s aim at the ultimate culprit. We have more people than we have jobs. To make more millionaires out of the stockholders and CEOs, our corporations have been pumping jobs overseas faster than we could think. That has bee going on for about 30 years.

The fire keeps on spreading, because those exported jobs never come back. Also, those machines and jobs that went to other nations are working against us. The same corporations that took the jobs away, are now pumping the same products into the USA, at cheaper prices. The people who use to make such products, now cannot buy them because they are unemployed or they are working at two part times jobs.

Then, much of the training these youth get is on the service sector such as sales. Any successful sales career requires a bit of cleverness that at times interferes with dignity and integrity.

Don’t Cry

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Crying won’t help
It has been proven
They want your scalp
They are interwoven.

Grinding and grinding…
The mood goes around
As if natural slimming
To bring you down.

They have the law
And all else too
As if without flaw
They know how to…

Don’t, don’t cry!
Forget the honey and pie
They don’t care why,
They just laugh and lie.

The truth means nothing
To justify the mood
When they want something
They are gentle and smooth.

Don’t cry, don’t cry!
For a man can’t fly,
Men can’t ask why.
Hope’s above the sky.

At all times keep reverence,
Prayer makes a difference,
And God knows innocence.
Behave, as if in God’s presence.

By DFF Leonardo - 2006

Women more sick days:

The Telegraph UK
Mon, Jan 24, 2011

Women more likely to take sickies

Women are more likely than men to take sick days and are happier to give an embarrassing excuse for taking unplanned leave, according to a new survey.

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My comment

Who wrote that? That article is anti feminist. Just a few months ago at a university setting a woman commented that women were harder workers than man, that is why they live longer. It was not mentioned that the gender death gap is closing.

Now someone has the courage to post statistics to show that women tend to sleaze more than men. That is not fair. It keeps on adding that women are just like men –better in some ways and worse in other ways.

And than, they topped it with “And women were less likely than men to believe a colleague who phoned in sick was genuinely ill.” In this case women are being better judges; for, they know themselves.

And then, the author had the audacity to tally women’s lam excuses to have a day off.

Shame on the author. That is lacking in dishonesty, not being clever enough to invert the data to make women look good. Manipulating the facts to favor women is what is done in American courts when a divorce is heard, and in the median, and even in church. Of course In Britain, you folks may be more honest when comes to gender.

To the author:
Remember this, for your success in being published in America. First, make women look good—always. Second, knock down men as often as you can. Third, does not matter what happens, woman are always the victim, or perhaps emotionally distressed—because of men of course. Forth, and above all, because she needed to.

Hypnosis is nothing new, and it works.

Like capitalism, and socialism, and communism, hypnotism is a form of conditioning people at the subconscious level. However, contrary to the above isms, hypnotism is mostly used at the individual’s request for the purpose of therapy and other health purposes, or by curiosity in entertainment settings; and it also used in other areas less noticeable.

Hypnosis has been used for centuries in minute areas of mental activity. Presently, the people using or studying hypnotism, range from physicians and psychologists to therapists and detectives and entertainers.

Like the medical and education professions, and any other business, hypnotism is used both as a source of revenue by professionals, as it is used as a benefit to the recipients. There are however, situations where hypnosis techniques or forms of mild hypnosis are used without the individual being aware of it.

These mild forms, range from some methods of relaxation to advertisement, and educational class management, and teaching techniques. Mild hypnosis sometimes is a natural stage that each person goes through. In these situations, normally the individual is not aware of it; and identifies the situation as not paying attention of whatever was in perspective.

Unfortunately, like in ay other area there are those who exploit the hypnotic phenomenon for what is not being used in general. Hypnosis is exploited by the practitioners as well as by criminals.
Certified professionals some times use hypnotic techniques to help clients, but the practice in general has been allowing religion to mix with and even confuse clients. Criminals used hypnotic strategies in helping them to achieve heir means; this is a minute use of hypnosis.

The most common use of hypnosis is “behavior modification” such as stop smoking, changing habits, and relaxation. As a peripheral technique, hypnosis is used by psychologists, physicians, and people in the medical profession, and others. The sensationalized aspect of hypnosis or “demonstrational hypnosis” is commonly known as stage hypnosis or hypnotics shows.

Hypnosis is beneficial and it is a scale that everyone can and should know how to do for personal use. The fact that people say that Hypnosis does nor work is because it is not used properly. As a former certified hypnotherapist, I saw the positive results of people changing their personality to what they planned to be or do. Such as reducing grass smoking, and tyrant supervisory attitudes.

This is the first of a few article that I will write and post probably in a weekly basis. It would not be fair to go into detail because of the length or reading.

Palestinian leak, or trial balloon.

From: BBC
23 January 2011 Last updated at 23:17 GMT

Palestinian 'offers' in peace process - papers leaked
Leaked documents released by al-Jazeera TV suggest Palestinian negotiators agreed to Israel keeping large parts of illegally occupied East Jerusalem.

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My comment

Palestinian leak, or trial balloon.

Realistically, if there was a treaty where a nation or a people would give up anything, and the disclosure would come absolute and as a surprise, there would come as a shock to the people, thus problems could occur.

However, appears that logically, it would be wiser to soften the people, and get a feeling on their reactions. Even if the people don’t like the idea, at lest when the real thing comes, the situation appears as old news. The tendency is to accept the situation.

It is like raising taxes on something that if the entire plane would be implied suddenly, the tax-payers would reject it. However, since the human brain has the tendency of accepting small discomforts, implementing a small tax may not be popular, but it is accepted. Then, those in power, just keep on adding more increments until they obtain their plan.

The same appears in the Palestinian leak. For now, it sounds only like it is a rumor. If there won’t be too much complaining they will go ahead with the plan or with the general idea. Afterwards, more details will make the leak a reality. So, people will have gotten used to it, or have accepted it. When they sign the accord it is a done deal, and the focus will be on the positive. Everybody will win, because peace is priceless.

A Thought

It is in some way a mystery to decipher
A way of thinking a way of living a life
By night and by day a thought to confer
A turn in the world is just another strife

It is only the outcome that is noticeable
Life goes, it is at the end what counts
But time is a puzzle rolling like a marble
Choices affect and the account amounts

Some only choose to see the pinnacles
Meanwhile the road is set at one way
While others may only see the obstacles
What we chose is on time or with a delay

But, time is not a choice nor is it any fate
Each is in charge, but not when at the gate



DFF Leonardo – 2007