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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (83785)	5/11/2010 4:40:17 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 224755

Obama Wants Fed Agencies To Overhaul Federal Hiring Practices MAY 11, 2010, 11:25 A.M. ET. By Jared A. Favole Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked federal agencies to overhaul their hiring practices amid concerns the process is complex, inefficient and deters citizens from working for the government. "Public service should be a career of choice for the most talented Americans," Obama said in a memorandum on Tuesday."Yet the complexity and inefficiency of today's Federal hiring process deters many highly qualified individuals from seeking and obtaining jobs in the Federal Government," he added. The new memorandum requires federal managers to be more involved in the hiring process and simplifies the application process. Among other things, Obama wants to remove any essay-style questions from initial applications and have the government update people on the status of their applications via USAJOBS.gov. The effort would also establish a government-wide review of hiring. The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has criticized the federal hiring process and recommended it be simplified.

To: TimF who wrote (83785)	5/14/2010 9:12:37 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

In short if the Israelis where as a matter of routine policy targeting civilian Palestinians, than the Palestinians would be gone. Wrong. I did not say that Israel was targeting the Palestinians with their full arsenal. I did not imply that either. Israel targets some Palestinian civilians for death, not all of them. For some reason, you think that is a point in Israel's favor. Human Rights Watch" is not biased in favor of Israel. Quite the opposite. Wrong. Human Rights Watch is biased in favor of Israel. Here's a good example of why: The founder of Human Rights Watch is a Jew who is now lobbying for HRW to stop criticizing Israel. Check it out: Bernstein (Robert!) Denounces Human Rights Watch: David Bernstein • October 20, 2009 5:33 am Robert Bernstein (no relation), the founder of Human Rights Watch, has issued a stinging condemnation of the organization he led from 1978 to 1998. Here’s a taste: I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics…. When I stepped aside in 1998, Human Rights Watch was active in 70 countries, most of them closed societies. Now the organization, with increasing frequency, casts aside its important distinction between open and closed societies. Nowhere is this more evident than in its work in the Middle East. The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations of international law than of any other country in the region…. Meanwhile, the Arab and Iranian regimes rule over some 350 million people, and most remain brutal, closed and autocratic, permitting little or no internal dissent. The plight of their citizens who would most benefit from the kind of attention a large and well-financed international human rights organization can provide is being ignored as Human Rights Watch’s Middle East division prepares report after report on Israel. Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields…. Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hezbollah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields. They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again. And they know that this militancy continues to deprive Palestinians of any chance for the peaceful and productive life they deserve. Yet Israel, the repeated victim of aggression, faces the brunt of Human Rights Watch’s criticism. At what point does the MSM stop treating HRW as a neutral source on human rights in the Middle East, and start treating it like the left-wing, anti-Israel, anti-Western organization it has openly become? And at what point do HRW’s liberal, human-rights oriented American donors become tired to enabling this? Maybe the growing dismay of long-time HRW supporters like Bernstein explains why Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson decided to expand HRW’s donor base to Saudi elites? Better to take money from Saudi princes than to worry about how your growing loss of credibility among even your natural supporters will affect your fundraising. Wow, how long was the founder of HRW espousing such deep-seated anti-Semitic hatred of the Palestinians as he ran this supposedly neutral organization? That explains a lot. Thanks for the link! Tom