Roger Cohen NY Times

at it again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/opinion/20iht-edcohen.html?_r=1

Re: Is he an Historian???

There is a little bit of a mystery about the true author of this article.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/proportions.asp

I cannot find a source for the Obama's alleged statement about a,
"mandatory civilian defense force".

Is he an Historian???

SOMETHING OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS IS HAPPENING

By Tim Wood

Professor of History at Southwest Baptist University
Bolivar, Missouri
417-328-2067
twood@SBUniv.edu


I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back. Why?

We learn that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has 'loaned' two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom, or why, or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of 'we the people', who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not. One important point missing is the fact that the Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE COMPANY not anything to do with the government.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and we no longer teach our founding documents, showing why we are exceptional and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so 'controversial' that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman!). Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago? We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then allow mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government, and our education system is worse than a joke. (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, an enemy who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

Now we have elected President a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling, if not downright scary. Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a 'mandatory civilian defense force' stronger than our military for use inside our borders. No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over, and then demand he explain it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important to the media.

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change. Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now! This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed. He edged his way onto the political stage through great oratoryand promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his 'brown shirts' would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office as full-throttled economic crisis was at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department-by-department,p erson-by-person, bureaucracy-by-bureaucracy . The kids joined a Youth Movement in his
name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in their country, across Europe , and around the world.

He did it with a compliant media. Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ..... change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) This is same as what Obama is doing, so should be addressed as Mein Fueher or COMRADE Obama???

Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.

Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years --- a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency --- it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.

Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe, and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.

Iran leads Middle East in Population Growth Decline

Dollar Reserve

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/thoughts-governor-zhou/story.aspx?guid={5477ABA9-96AD-4A0F-8BA9-EC46080778C1}&dist=msr_2

Iran Demography

According to the demographics of Iran, the total population of the country has been estimated to be 65,397,521 in the 2008 census. Iran is a country of ethic and linguistic diversities. There are various ethnic groups in certain cities of Iran. The five cities in the country which are most populated are Tehran, Mashad, Isfahan, Tabriz and Shiraz. A notable feature of the demographics of Iran is the high literacy rate which is over 80%.

Roughly 70% of the people of Iran speak Iranian languages with major groups including Persians, Kurds, Gilakis, Mazandaranis, Lurs, and Baluchis. The rest are mainly Turkic, like the Turkmen, Azeri, the Qashqai, Arabs, Armenians and Assyrians.

In terms of religious affiliations, the majority of the Iranians are Muslims; of which 90% belong to the Shia branch of Islam, the official state religion and 9% belong to the Sunni branch. The non-Muslim minorities in Iran comprise of the Zoroastrians, Jews, Baha'is, Mandeans and Christians.

Demographics Statistics

Population: 65,397,521 (July 2008 est.)

Age Structure
0-14 years: 23.2% (male 7,783,794/female 7,385,721)
15-64 years: 71.4% (male 23,636,883/female 23,088,934)
65 years and over: 5.4% (male 1,701,727/female 1,800,462) (2008 est.)

Median Age Total: 25.8 years
Male: 25.6 years
Female: 26 years (2008 est.)

Population Growth Rate: 0.663% (2008 est.)

Birth Rate: 16.57 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Death Rate: 5.65 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Net Migration Rate: -4.29 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)

Sex Ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
Under 15 years: 1.054 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.024 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.945 male(s)/female
Total population: 1.026 male(s)/female (2008 est.)

Infant Mortality Rate: total: 38.12 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 38.29 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 37.93 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.)

Life Expectancy at Birth: total population: 70.56 years
Male: 69.12 years
Female: 72.07 years (2008 est.)

Total Fertility Rate: 1.71 children born/woman (2008 est.)

Nationality
Noun: Iranian(s)
Adjective: Iranian

Ethnic Groups
Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1%

Religions Affiliation
Muslim 98% (Shi'a 89%, Sunni 9%), other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i) 2%

Languages
Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 79.4%
Male: 85.6%
Female: 73% (2003 est.)

This article provides an overview of the demographics of Iran. For more on Iran, visit- 123independenceday.com

Iran

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/opinion/lweb13cohen.html?_r=1

Truth

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

Obama praises U.S. Iraq achievements

timna

this is terrific

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+972 52 225 2270

Our World: Appeasing child killers

Obama to visit Israel

An American official told Haaretz over the weekend that contrary to the
Bush administration, Obama does not oppose the inclusion of Hamas in a
Palestinian unity government. However, the United States insists on the
criteria set by the international Quartet - the U.S., EU, UN and Russia
- as preconditions for any diplomatic exchanges with Hamas. It insists
that the militant Islamic group cease violence, recognize Israel and
accept previously signed accords between Israel and the Palestine
Liberation Organization.

end the occupation

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