History Unfolding
 

History Unfolding

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply 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 a 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 to 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 learned just days ago 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 $700 billion 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.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy.. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, 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, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as 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 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. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I 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 even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.


And finally, we have elected a man that no one really 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 answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important..)

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..
As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have 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 should have known 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 oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.

And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,

How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards 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 the country, across Europe , and across 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.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. 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. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, 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..

I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, 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. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States

David E. Kaiser, born June 7, 1947, is an American historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. He is a Professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the Naval War College and has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College, and Harvard University.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Kaiser

Can I ask you something? Do you consider yourself a religious person?

I knew there was no way it could be you.

cliff notes?

Summary: more right wing bullshit.

History = Awesome
Government = Shady Pricks
We = Fucked

While I agree with the first half of your narrative about potentially large changes on the horizon...correct me if I'm wrong or over-simplifying...but you seem to conclude your observations by comparing Obama to Hitler?

I pray you are right.

The only good American is one that is weeping over the dead body of a loved one.

LOL, :1orglaugh:thumbsup

David E. Kaiser, born June 7, 1947, right wing nutjob and drama queen.

He needs another latte.

Obama is the antichrist...duh. Read the Left Behind series and put Obama in place of Carpathia - perfect fit except he hasn't started killing people or instituted "the mark" quite yet.

/sarcasm

He had me interested until he started comparing what was going on to the fascist in Germany just before Hitler took power.

This is the exact same bullshit that that the far left was spewing about Bush when he was in office. And those people had all kinds of documentation about how he was leading us to Fascism.

It's not my writing. It's David Kaiser''s. No I'm not religious. As far as the Bush comment. Bush and Obama are two pea's in a pod. A one two punch if you will.

If you don't care for the Hitler comparison then how about this

"In October 1917 a Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Lenin, campaigning on the promise of “change,” led his Bolshevik party to victory. Lenin was convinced that redistribution of wealth would “draw heaven down to earth.” As such, Bolshevik bureaucrats in Moscow began printing money, seizing church assets, confiscating private property, nationalizing Russian banks, factories, and farms, and providing a system of socialized medicine.

Indeed, in 1918, Lenin introduced a cradle-to-grave health care system that utterly bankrupted the Soviet economy.

One would think that the utter failure and devastation that ensued in the wake of Lenin's failed socialist experiment would have precluded any other government from following the same foolhardy footprint.

Unfortunately it did not.

In October of 1949 Mao Tse-tung established the People's Republic of China and began a similar socialist experiment (The Great Leap Forward) devastating the Chinese economy and ultimately leading to the starvation and killings of some 50 million Chinese citizens.

The 1984 movie release of The Killing Fields forever memorialized the attempt on the part of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge to create the ultimate “brotherhood of man.” The result was measured in economic devastation and millions of deaths. Dr. Jay Richards, social commentator and author of Money, Greed and God, notes an ultimate irony in the movie: Dith Pran escapes the Cambodian killing fields and finds rescue in a Thai Red Cross Station as the lyrics of John Lennon's “Imagine” waft soothingly through the air—Lenin's failed socialist experiment forever immortalized in song.

Says Richards: “Lennon's anthem describes a sort of godless kingdom of God. We're asked to imagine a future ‘brotherhood of man’ where ‘all the people’ live ‘life in peace’ ... a world with ‘no possessions’ where ‘all the people’ share ‘all the world.’”

“Never has an idea had such catastrophic consequences.”

Perhaps an even greater horror in the present is that those who are blithely unaware of history may well be resigned to reliving its horrors. Even now as China is rapidly moving away from socialist economics, Western economies seem bent on an opposite persuasion. Listen closely to the rhetoric of present political power brokers and you will hear both the legislation of Lenin and the lyrics of Lennon wafting through the air.

This brings me to the urgency of writing you today.

While false prophets cry peace and safety (even promising that the greatest of all revivals is right around the corner—spiritual and economic), and while political pundits cry “Imagine there's no Heaven” as they craft a godless utopia on earth, you and I have been faithfully exposing darkness to light.

Socialism in the century past led to economic and spiritual chaos. We know only in principle what will happen in our future as the specter of socialism continues to haunt our own generation."

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/t...d=7390&posts=1

:2 cents:

Somehow I think this might be an oversimplification of the situation. I doubt health care alone crushed those countries. Wholesale slaughtering of citizens might have played a little role.

You must be one of those "Newly Educated" folks.

The bankrupting of those countries is what led to societal breakdown coupled with the failed idealistic leaders. Everything they worked for and believed in was disastrous so if they were going down they might as well take as many with them as they can. Those that followed Hitlers orders did so blindly and without question. You are seeing the same traits in Obama followers. Now if you were an Obama follower you might say to yourself "I would never do anything like what the SS officers did." You may not but there are a lot of crazy fuckers that will. I guess I should add that it's not just about Obama. As you can see it's been tried and tried again. Passed down over many centuries. Same families, same idea's different generations. Different groups slaughtered. Obama, Bush, Clinton are just another generation implementing the steps. Now lets imagine for a minute that more and more people are beginning to see that this is what these people are and have been doing. For an example Bush's Grandfather's companies funded Hitler. What the hell was he or his father doing as or President or anyone's President for that matter? Hell all of the same families that funded all of these genocidal maniacs are still in power today. Even pretty much the same companies. Why? Because people keep ignoring history and believe that it can't happen again.

just like any of his posts, nutjob conspiracy theories.

we are fucked agree

Please note: David E. Kaiser did not write that piece of trash and strongly disagrees with it. Also, onwebcam is an imbecile.

http://snopes.com/politics/soapbox/proportions.asp
http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com...cy-wisdom.html

Carry on.

lmao!!! that gave me a chuckle, :thumbsup

I heard they put Hitler in cryogenics back then and just defrosted him, gave him a tan and a shave and is now the president!!!! OMFG!!! :Oh crap

You are seriously retarded.

I was interested in it until it turned into "I'm afraid of Obama". bah humbug. Get over it scared author. Tell us how well you "knew" all of the other past presidents. Go ahead, we'll wait.

must suck living in so much fear.

"Freedom to Fascism" and "The Road to tyranny"

Great vids. Watch them..

OMG a half black man is president! The world is ending!

I love conservative fucks that are afraid of anything different than their own fat bellied friends and wide ass women.

Go read the book "who moved my cheese" and get back to me with your results. It normally takes about an hour to read, but I will give you an extra 30 days because of your small brain.

I bet he sells a lot of books, lot's of money in "stupid". Just look at the internets ... :1orglaugh

Doh! :1orglaugh

Another example of how the internet has the ability to attract the mindless and uneducated with false information and paves the road to idiocracy.

:2 cents:

It would seem to me we are embarking on a new "social experiment". We will try to dumb down people & then attempt to integrate everyone onto the same level. It may not be "communism" but its certainly a derivative of it.

Rome tried it to expand their empire (started by conscripting foreign soldiers)....Now we'll try it again. Only no "group" of people are ever on the same level, or will they ever "all get along & play nice"....so it will not work. EVER

History shows it doesn't work & our little experiment will show it once again. Now matter how enlightened people are, our differences will always divide & conquer us. Unfortunately......

Thanks. I was just going to look for that.

I guess here is my question: I have been hearing this stuff since I was a kid. They said all of these things about Reagan and Bush then Clinton and the second Bush and now Obama. Depending on who was in power it was often different people saying them, but I have been hearing it for 30 years. When is it going to happen? These other countries you mentioned everything happened pretty quickly. Am I too assume that the last 30+ years was all just planning and prep?

Here is one big difference between the US those other countries. There are many nations that have a very vested interest in seeing us survive and thrive. Without us the Chinese lose a huge market, so do the oil producing nations that we spend billions with and so does much of Europe and Japan. If we collapse and go into a Pol Pot like country we will take many of them with us. If the collapse of our country is the goal why didn't they just let it collapse when it was in a downward spiral late last year? Why put in a stimulus plan and a bailout plan? Why not just let it crash and burn? Is it because that wouldn't have been enough of a crash so they had to prop it back up for a little while only to let it crash harder?

Let's not forget that it wasn't too long ago that we had a great depression and the economy of this country did collapse. Why didn't it happen then?

And the real question in all of this is who stands to gain what? The president stands to gain more power? He is already the most powerful man in the world. The wealthy stand to make more money? Sure they could, but they could make just as much (if not more) by working to keep the economy of the country strong and selling stuff to those happy consumers. So who gains from a takeover?

Look, I am not saying I agree or disagree with the original poster or any of the right wing fuckfaces but one doesn't have to look far in any direction to see how our country is fucked and not just from an adult perspective. We are losing liberties, independence, income, sanity, etc... in what seems almost daily. We, the people, are only important come election time and we, the people, are too fucking stupid to vote with intelligence, instead focus on the candidate who says what we want to hear.

We are no longer a country of diversity. While diverse in ethnicity, power and wealth have remained with the original owners over time. I honestly see our country having a civil war with the government. The difference between the two civil wars is the first one was about black slavery AND power, this one will be between all citizens who have become slaves because of politics. Politics only work for those elected and those special interest groups with politicians in their pocket.

Look at the justice system. It's not even about truth, innocence, or guilt. It's about who has the better lawyer who argues better in court and convince a judge or jury than it is about facts and justice, hence, why only those with power, influence, and money can afford to buy "justice".

While we may not be headed to concentration camps or stamped out because we speak out against our government, we are much closer to that life today than we were when our fore fathers fought against Britain for our freedom and independence. We are more fucked now than we have ever been when one considers the economy, justice, freedom, and liberties.

I believe complete and total power is what to be gained. Power is far more of a luxury than money, even if its just for ego sake. Many egos have led to major demise (Hitler). Think about it. There is a reason that the people's vote is not how the President is elected instead relying on the electoral colleges.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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100+ years. America is a thorn in the side of those who would like to rule the World. That desire has been a constant struggle since the beginning of time. Every fucking thing our country was founded upon and represent is being challenged at this very moment.


The Great depression led to a lot of the steps. I have an outline of events changing the course of America from the early 1900's until the late 40's. Have yet to outline the rest. Just to give you an example do you know that the US Government has been operating under the War Powers Act of 1933 since then? That Washington D.C. is legally considered a foreign territory to the States? That the citizens of those States are considered just as much of an enemy as Bin Laden.

Why didn't they just let it crash? It's not about crash and burn. It's about control. They want to control the World. If they can't get control then they WILL let it all crash and burn. Or if more and more people start to realize what they are doing they will make a move to protect themselves. That's where we are at right now. This shit isn't no fucking conspiracy theory. I mean fuck how much do you have to see to believe it? If a "conspiracy theorist" has been saying for years that they are trying to setup a "one world currency" and for years everyone has been in denial calling those people kooks and you now see it coming to fruition then who are the kooks and what do you think it just happened or it's been a plan, a goal which they have been trying to achieve for quite some time.

If the US is no longer a free and independent nation but rather a submissive nation then that's all they need. Goal is achieved. America has become a dependent rather than independent. Obama is working it from multiple fronts. He's finishing up where GWB left off taking control of those countries which are not already under the umbrella of the IMF, World Bank, etc and while bring America into submission. All of the countries which we are either at war with or looking at going at war with are not a part of the central banking system.

Once they control all of the money of the World they can make or break countries and or individuals at will. Not only that look at whats happened with the flu scare. People don't realize that we are already under the control of 1 organization technically. They could at any given moment make an order to round ever person on the planet up and give them a shot. Now look at the history of things. Look at the people who have been behind all of these genocidal acts for all of these years. They are the same people still in power today. Do you trust them? I don't. Don;t think it will happen? Have you heard that China just served a warrant requiring that all citizens of that country be given a shot? Now I'm not saying that this shot is bad but how do I know it's not? Especially given the history of the companies behind them. Not only that if not this time then what about the next? How can I be so sure that someone with the mind of Hitler isn't in control?


BTW it doesn;t matter who wrote the article. The facts still remain.