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<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVHKoGSgEhRU47N0jatiI3wNMZw_51gwS4uaBsLVbqNMuuuklGtpalxpbuCrcESQ0DPNmo21SlomsXpKpQq4TYc3QymVszCKFc34pJahbdtb69D0hpyKqWNk7Ljt34_OLOj3Yieao4x1L4/s1600/IRAN+NUCLEAR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVHKoGSgEhRU47N0jatiI3wNMZw_51gwS4uaBsLVbqNMuuuklGtpalxpbuCrcESQ0DPNmo21SlomsXpKpQq4TYc3QymVszCKFc34pJahbdtb69D0hpyKqWNk7Ljt34_OLOj3Yieao4x1L4/s320/IRAN+NUCLEAR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">IRANS ATOMPROGRAMM:SÄBELRASSELN SEIT 1979</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via Der Standard von Stefan Binder</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ein Blick ins Archiv zeigt: Die Warnungen vor den atomaren Bestrebungen des Iran sind so alt wie das Atomprogramm selbst</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Der Iran gibt sich gar keine Mühe, seine atomaren Ambitionen zu verbergen. Einer der führenden Politiker in Teheran, Ayatollah Mohadscherani, sagte jüngst: 'Die Moslems müssen ihre Zusammenarbeit fortsetzen und ihre eigene Atombombe produzieren, denn der Feind hat Nuklearwaffen.'"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Die Zeilen entstammen einem STANDARD-Bericht vom Jänner - allerdings nicht 2012, sondern aus dem Jahr 1993.  Schon damals schränkte der Redakteur jedoch ein: "Fachleute glauben aber, daß der Iran noch gut zehn Jahre braucht, um dieses Ziel zu erreichen."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Das iranische Nuklearprogramm ist dieser Tage wieder in aller Munde. Warnungen, die Islamische Republik könnte Nuklearwaffen bauen, sind jedoch so alt wie die Islamische Republik selbst. Manchmal sogar älter.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F15F73459137B93C0A81788D85F418785F9" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">"Nuklearer Iran?"</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, fragt die "</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">New York Times</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">" bereits 1975, als in Persien noch Shah Reza Pahlavi regiert. Eine Frage, die der Shah - damals Verbündeter des Westens - </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A15FA3559147A93C7AB178DD85F408785F9" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">vehement verneint</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Doch die Berichte über die Atom-Ambitionen sorgen für Unruhe in den Medien, der Sturz des Shahs und die Einführung der Islamischen Republik verschrecken den Westen. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50616F9355C12728DDDA80894D0405B898BF1D3" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Deutschland kündigt Verträge auf</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, die den Bau von zwei Nuklearreaktoren vorsehen. Nach der Geiselnahme von amerikanischen Botschaftsmitarbeitern schließt sich auch </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20617FF3E5C12728DDDAB0A94DA415B898BF1D3" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Frankreich Sanktionen des Westens an</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Trotz des gewaltsamen Sturzes, der US-Botschaftserstürmung und der Einführung der Islamischen Republik gibt es verglichen mit späteren Jahrzehnten in den Medien wenige Warnungen vor Nuklear-Ambitionen des Iran. Stattdessen beschäftigt der Krieg mit dem Irak das Regime in Teheran und die Medien.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">90er Jahre - Iran als "größte Bedrohung" für Israel</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Das ändert sich in den 90er Jahren. Die </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/31/world/report-says-iran-seeks-atomic-arms.html" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">"New York Times" berichtet</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> nach der Fertigstellung eines Berichts der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEO) im Oktober 1991, dass einige Mitglieder des iranischen Regimes die "Absicht haben, Nuklearwaffen zu entwickeln". Besonders China, das Wissenschaftler in den Iran geschickt hat, um iranische Ingenieure auszubilden, macht amerikanischen Regierungsvertretern Sorgen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Atommacht Iran?", fragt DER STANDARD am 28. Februar 1992. "Mit dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion hat der Iran eine diplomatische Offensive zu seinen neuen islamischen Nachbarstaaten begonnen, die furchtsame Geister bereits von einer neuen Großmacht im Nahen Osten träumen läßt. Das Schreckgespenst eines Mullah-Regimes entsteht, das mit Hilfe sowjetischer Technologie bald über Atomwaffen verfügt." Der damalige CIA-Direktor und spätere Verteidigungsminister Robert Gates nennt das iranische Atomprogramm vor einem Kongressausschuss ein "ernstes Problem", DER STANDARD berichtet jedoch im August 1992, dass laut einer CIA-Untersuchung der "Iran bis jetzt noch sicher keine Einrichtungen zur Produktion von Atomwaffen" besitzt.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Für Israel, das in den 80er Jahren noch den Irak als großes Problem ansah und den Nuklearreaktor in Osirak angriff, stellt die Islamische Republik zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits den "Feind Nummer eins" dar, wie der ehemalige Mossad-Agent Joseph Alpher der </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/08/weekinreview/the-world-israel-focuses-on-the-threat-beyond-the-arabs-in-iran.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">"New York Times"</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> sagt.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1995 - Eskalation der Warnungen</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1995 ist die Besorgnis über Russlands Lieferungen atomarer Technologie in den Iran das dominierende Thema. Die USA äußern Befürchtungen, dass die iranischen Atomanlangen dem Land ermöglichen würden, Uran anzureichern und Atombomben herzustellen. Der damalige russische Präsident Boris Jelzin beruhigt: "Im Iran wird nur ein Atomkraftwerk mit Leichtwasserreaktoren zur friedlichen Nutzung gebaut." Es werde nicht zur Lieferung einer Gaszentrifuge und damit zusammenhängender Anlagen kommen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">US-Präsident Clinton zeigt sich über die Lösung zufrieden - öffentlich. Denn hinter den Kulissen wächst die Besorgnis. In einem </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/05/world/iran-may-be-able-build-atomic-bomb-5-years-us-israeli-officials-fear.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">"New York Times"-Artikel aus dem Jahr 1995</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> warnen Vertreter der amerikanischen und israelischen Regierung davor, dass der Iran näher an der Herstellung von Nuklearwaffen ist, "als man bisher geglaubt hat". Der Iran werde in weniger als zehn Jahren Nuklearwaffen besitzen. Israelische Vertreter warnen, dass man einen Angriff in Betracht ziehen müsse, falls das Atomprogramm nicht gestoppt werde.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Als der Iran versucht, an Material und Technologie für die Herstellung von Mittel- und Langstreckenraketen zu gelangen, vervielfachen sich Artikel über das iranische Waffen- und Atomprogramm. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/25/world/iran-nearly-got-a-missile-alloy-from-russians.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">1998 berichtet die "New York Times" erstmals</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> über die Herstellung der Shahab-3-Langstreckenrakete, die eine Reichweite von 800 Meilen (rund 1.300 Kilometer) haben sollen. Vor allem die russischen Materiallieferungen beunruhigen die Amerikaner: Unter anderem stoppen auch die österreichische Behörden eine Lieferung von Material, das zur Herstellung von Gefechtsköpfen verwendet werden kann. In einem </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bm-threat.htm" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Bericht an den US-Kongress 1998</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> warnt der ehemalige Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld, dass der Iran Technologie und Material für eine Interkontinentalrakete bauen könnte, die fünf Jahre nach Erwerb einsatzfähig wäre und die USA bedrohen könnte.</span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100.0%;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">  <td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 50.0%;" width="50%"><br /></td>  <td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 50.0%;" width="50%"><br /></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Einzelnachweise</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A15FA3559147A93C7AB178DD85F408785F9" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Iran Says She Has No Intention To Develop Nuclear Weapons" - The New York Times, 25. Juni 1974</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F15F73459137B93C0A81788D85F418785F9" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Nuclear Iran?" - The New York Times, 12. März 1975</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50616F9355C12728DDDA80894D0405B898BF1D3" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Bonn Concern Ends Iran Nuclear Pact" - The New York Times, 1. August 1979</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20617FF3E5C12728DDDAB0A94DA415B898BF1D3" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Iran Freeze Is Upheld In France; Freeze on Iran Nuclear Stake" - The New York Times, 22. Dezember 1979</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">90er Jahre</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/31/world/report-says-iran-seeks-atomic-arms.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Report Says Iran Seeks Atomic Arms" - The New York Times, 31. Oktober 1991 </span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/08/weekinreview/the-world-israel-focuses-on-the-threat-beyond-the-arabs-in-iran.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Israel Focuses on the Threat Beyond the Arabs in Iran" - The New York Times, 8. November 1992</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1995 - Eskalation und Warnungen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/05/world/iran-may-be-able-build-atomic-bomb-5-years-us-israeli-officials-fear.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Iran May Be Able to Build an Atomic Bomb in 5 Years, U.S. and Israeli Officials Fear" - The New York Times, 5. Jänner 1995</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/25/world/iran-nearly-got-a-missile-alloy-from-russians.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Iran Nearly Got A Missile Alloy From Russians" - The New York Times, 25. April 1998</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bm-threat.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Executive Summary of the Report of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat To The United States", 15. Juli 1998</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2000/walpole_missile_092200.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Iranian Ballistic Missile, WMD Threat to the US" - cia.gov, 21. </span><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">September 2000</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2002 - Die Achse des Bösen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://derstandard.at/1862296" target="_self"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Powell: Iran baut "ohne Zweifel" an Atomwaffen - derStandard.at, 23. </span><span style="color: blue;">November 2004</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/international/middleeast/13nukes.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims - The New York Times, 13. November 2005</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/international/20051113iran.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Iran's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities: Cycle A Pattern of Peaceful Intent? - Powerpoint-Präsentation, als PDF auf nytimes.com zum Download</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2006 - Zweifel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/17/060417fa_fact#ixzz1wp12OmDF" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"The Iran Plans" - The New Yorker, 17. </span><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">April 2006</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/10/060710fa_fact#ixzz1wp3irsdD" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">"Last Stand" - The New Yorker, 10. Juli 2006  <br /></span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,440633,00.html" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">"Iran will Touristen in Atomanlagen lassen" - Spiegel Online, 4. Oktober 2006</span></a><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/10/060710fa_fact#ixzz1wp3irsdD" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;"><br /></span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2009 - Obama und Verhandlungen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2009_rpt/iran.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">"Iran: Where We Are Today" - A Report To The Committee On Foreign Relations United States Senate, 4. </span><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Mai 2009</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://derstandard.at/1259281945711/Clinton-Politik-der-ausgestreckten-Hand-bisher-ein-Fehlschlag" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">Clinton: Politik der ausgestreckten Hand bisher "ein Fehlschlag" - derStandard.at, 15. </span><span style="color: blue;">Dezember 2009</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/08/food-for-thought.html"> </a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"></span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dnclcmacA6JlbvliQycqpIxAleDaiDECd5DdGAVvvjkNvR2CE5B39x3XUjaHdWY_0KE_Eki6AF8SththEsAa3FclkWqAFr-NZ6se_a8DNzByfi7Vs69nP7NHEhLzyfj4q-rbUADldm51/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dnclcmacA6JlbvliQycqpIxAleDaiDECd5DdGAVvvjkNvR2CE5B39x3XUjaHdWY_0KE_Eki6AF8SththEsAa3FclkWqAFr-NZ6se_a8DNzByfi7Vs69nP7NHEhLzyfj4q-rbUADldm51/s320/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SYRIA: AMERICA VS. ISRAEL?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Via fpif.org</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">By Giorgio Cafiero</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The “Arab Spring” reached SYRIA in March 2011 when SYRIAN intellectuals, students, and union leaders appeared on the streets to demand greater transparency, political liberalization, and economic reforms. Although they did not participate in the initial series of demonstrations, SYRIAN ISLAMISTS joined the opposition after the regime responded with force to the public display of dissent. As the violence has escalated and taken over <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/28/world/meast/syria-diplomacy-deadlock/?hpt=wo_c1">9,000</a>lives, foreign powers have exploited the carnage to advance their geopolitical interests. The UNITED STATES and other powers have used the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD as a proxy to topple the SYRIAN BA’ATHIST regime, which has governed for almost half a century. Washington’s two primary interests in SYRIA are to strengthen the GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC) vis-à-vis IRAN and to undermine RUSSIA’S power and influence in the MIDDLE EAST and MEDITERRANEAN. ISRAEL shares the U.S. interest in cutting off IRAN and RUSSIA’S reach into the LEVANT.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">COMMENT BY GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS AND MONITORING</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Cutting off IRAN and RUSSIA’S reach into the LEVANT applies for IRAN but not for RUSSIA. One should not forget that ISRAEL and RUSSIA, though not openly, do share common grounds, one being the fact that about 1 million RUSSIAN immigrants are living in ISRAEL thus being the</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">home to the world’s largest DIASPORA of RUSSIAN speakers outside of non-RUSSIAN-speaking countries. S</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">econd, ISRAEL’S and RUSSIA’S economic and political ties have strengthening in recent past, thus it is hardly in the geopolitical and strategic interest of ISRAEL to “Cut off” RUSSIA’S reach into the LEVANT. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For Background information see:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://israelseen.com/2010/07/30/fact-sheet-russia-israel-relations/">http://israelseen.com/2010/07/30/fact-sheet-russia-israel-relations/</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=689705&ct=8545003">http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=689705&ct=8545003</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">However, security considerations surrounding the unknown variables of a post-Assad SYRIA appear to have created a divide between U.S. and ISRAELI strategies, as the Netanyahu government has not followed Obama’s course on SYRIA. The ISRAELI concerns surrounding the collapse of SYRIA’S BA’ATHIST party are legitimate. Washington should also consider the security consequences of Assad’s ouster and avoid intervention in SYRIA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">For more background Analysis see: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/strait-of-hormuz-and-syria.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/strait-of-hormuz-and-syria.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/saudia-arabia-usa-turkey-versus-iran.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/saudia-arabia-usa-turkey-versus-iran.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-israel-iran-and-usa.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-israel-iran-and-usa.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/turkey-shiite-persians-versus-wahhabi.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/turkey-shiite-persians-versus-wahhabi.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">U.S. INTENTIONS IN SYRIA</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Following SYRIA’S independence from FRENCH colonial rule, relations with the UNITED STATES have been largely defined by mistrust and conflict of interest. Beginning in 1956, in coordination with SAUDI ARABIA, the Eisenhower administration sought to covertly overthrow SYRIA’S left-wing nationalist government. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background information: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4328056?uid=3737512&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=56245616993">http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4328056?uid=3737512&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=56245616993</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/12/syria-cause-and-effect.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/12/syria-cause-and-effect.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">PROXY WAR BETWEEN THE USA, TURKEY AND THE GCC VERSUS SYRIA RUSSIA, CHINA AND IRAN</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">During the late 1970s and early 1980s, through JORDAN and ISRAEL, Washington backed the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S armed uprising against the regime of Hafez Assad. Since 1982, the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD has been in exile (primarily in SPAIN and SWITZERLAND). However, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/syrias-muslim-brotherhood-is-gaining-influence-over-anti-assad-revolt/2012/05/12/gIQAtIoJLU_print.html">according to <i>The Washington Post</i></a>, “after three decades of persecution that virtually eradicated its presence, the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.” </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The U.S. alliance with an Islamist organization that espouses anti-WESTERN views may appear strange. However, this relationship is far from historically unprecedented. SYRIA is only one country where Washington supported Islamists to undermine nationalist and leftist forces. This alliance between the UNITED STATES and Islamist organizations was widespread throughout the Muslim world during the Cold War, as Washington deemed such forces — Zia ul-Haq in PAKISTAN, the Mujahideen of AFGHANISTAN, Abu Qurah in JORDAN, and the Muslim Brotherhood in EGYPT — to be reliable partners in the effort to undermine Communism and Arab nationalism. After the SOVIET UNION imploded in 1991, the UNITED STATES continued to foster alliances with Islamist groups to undermine governments that did not cooperate with the “New World Order.” During the 1990s, Washington covertly provided <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/03/11/020311fa_FACT">Iraqi Islamist parties</a>, including the Islamic Call (Al-Dawa) and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in IRAQ, with millions of dollars to strengthen IRAQI opposition to Saddam Hussein. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Today, militant Islamist organizations such as Jundullah and <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/peoples_muhajedin_of_iran_meka">Mujahadeen e-Kalk</a> target IRAN. Both organizations, though <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm">officially labeled</a>as “terrorist” organizations by the U.S. State Department, receive direct aid from Washington. In other words, SYRIA is not the only country where militant Islamists have received support from the UNITED STATES in their campaign to topple a regime opposed to U.S. hegemony. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SHIA CRESCENT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Present U.S. support for SYRIAN ISLAMISTS is part of a larger proxy war. The UNITED STATES, TURKEY, and the GCC are pushing for Assad’s demise, while RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAN, and Hezbollah seek to ensure Assad’s survival. U.S. interest in Assad’s downfall relates to its overall position vis-à-vis IRAN and RUSSIA, and by extension CHINA. Washington is skeptical about launching a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. However, by toppling IRAN’S closest regional ally, the UNITED STATES believes that it can undermine the Islamic Republic’s regional influence by striking a blow to the Tehran-Baghdad-Damascus-Hezbollah axis of power from IRAN to the MEDITERRANEAN, which JORDAN’S King Abdullah nervously <a href="http://alternativesjournal.net/volume8/number1/yousefi.pdf">identified</a>as the <b>“SHIA CRESCENT.”</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Washington is assuming that the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, the most influential party within the Istanbul-based SYRIAN National Council, would end the IRAN-SYRIA alliance if it came to power. The organization’s deputy secretary, Mohammed Faruk Tayfur, <a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrias-muslim-brotherhood-rejects-reported-iran-proposal">told</a><i>The Washington Times</i> on January 18, 2012 that the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD rejects IRAN’S offers to mediate talks between the Assad regime and the opposition. The deputy secretary <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Apr-06/169434-syrias-muslim-brotherhood-iran-enemy-for-arming-regime.ashx#axzz1wq0KKPrc">defined</a>his ideology and vision for SYRIA by comparing TURKEY and IRAN’S versions of political Islam. “Islamic culturally and secular politically, [TURKEY] is the model for the Islamic movement … the IRANIAN, on the other hand, is the worst.” Then there’s the religious dimension. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Assad regime is mainly composed of SYRIAN ALAWITES who adhere to a form of Islam derived from the SHIISM practiced in IRAN. Many orthodox SUNNI, who form the majority in SYRIA, do not consider ALAWITES to be legitimate Muslims. The Islamic Republic’s attempts to expand SHIISM throughout the ARAB WORLD, especially in SYRIA, have fostered intense hatred for IRAN within certain conservative SUNNI circles that would likely influence the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S foreign policy vis-à-vis IRAN and Hezbollah. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See: <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/syrias-destiny-sealed.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/syrias-destiny-sealed.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">COMMENT BY GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS AND MONITORING</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Although SHIISM and SUNNISM oppose each other on the geopolitical world stage; they also foster almost harmonic coexistence when it comes to recruit followers on foreign land in order to emerge as the dominant Islamic fraction, as is the case in BOSNIA. BOSNIAN moderate young Muslims are the target of both, WAHHABI (SUNNI - SAUDI ARABIA) and SHIIA IRANIAN fundamentalist groups. The ISLAMIC COMMUNITY (SUNNI) in the Muslim part of BOSNIA obtains funds from both, SAUDI ARABIA as well as IRAN. SUNNI clerics however show no objections to IRANIAN financed M</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ADRASSA projects nor IRANIAN NGO</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">’s using drug rehabilitation centre’s to recruit future fundamentalists, when at the same time WAHHABI (SAUDI ARABIA) recruiting efforts prospers in public schools and universities. This shows that as long as influence gaining on foreign soil is in process, the two religious fractions refrain from opposing each other until the objective has been accomplished. The minute that goal has been reached however, the “harmony” ends. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information See: <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madrassa">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/madrassa</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The collapse of the Assad regime would almost inevitably decrease RUSSIAN power in the MIDDLE EAST and the MEDITERRANEAN. SYRIA has hosted RUSSIA’S naval base in Tartus for several decades and, since 1971, SYRIA has been Moscow’s closest ARAB ally. SYRIA is the largest ARAB purchaser of RUSSIAN weapons and is seen by Moscow as RUSSIA’S doorstep into the MIDDLE EAST and MEDITERRANEAN. The MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD has condemned RUSSIA and CHINA for providing Assad with weapons and diplomatic support throughout 2011 and 2012. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On February 6, 2012 the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S spokesman, Zouheir Salem, <a href="http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/29099-muslim-brotherhood-russia-china-iran-complicit-in-syria-killings">stated</a>that his organization “consider[s] RUSSIA, CHINA and IRAN as direct accomplices to the horrible massacre being carried out against our people.” By supplying the SYRIAN government with weapons and/or diplomatic backing, the three countries were "directly participating in the massacre of [SYRIA’S] defenseless people." <b>If the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD removed SYRIA from Moscow and Tehran’s spheres of influence and aligned Damascus with Washington, Ankara, Riyadh, and Doha, the regional balance of power would shift in favor of the UNITED STATES.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpG0TFq-So5k3YyoOdlU0i_UbpKr3_cnqv3zEvuKGiPCXwwe14FkaFnxcpqPF8vq5ooQh3piWuhNc5kGXcLsTzUIlhrrw9fMJIyfzK6UlxBVr30NEKtGJj5H1RXt_feP1EZ1Lqt6IvG_A/s1600/0,,15781496_401,00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpG0TFq-So5k3YyoOdlU0i_UbpKr3_cnqv3zEvuKGiPCXwwe14FkaFnxcpqPF8vq5ooQh3piWuhNc5kGXcLsTzUIlhrrw9fMJIyfzK6UlxBVr30NEKtGJj5H1RXt_feP1EZ1Lqt6IvG_A/s400/0,,15781496_401,00.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISRAEL’S INTERESTS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISRAEL would welcome the decline of IRANIAN influence in the LEVANT, as IRAN is ISRAEL’S gravest threat, according to ISRAELI leaders. However, ISRAEL is not proactively seeking to weaken Iran by supporting Assad’s opposition. Alia Brahimi and George Joffe <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201222613517197680.html">summarize</a>ISRAEL’S SYRIA dilemma:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The one state that is directly implicated by the events in SYRIA, but which still has taken no public position is ISRAEL. <b>This is almost certainly because the ISRAELI Prime Minister would, on balance, prefer the Assad regime to continue; it is a known quantity and any new regime could severely destabilize the effective balance-of-power between two uneasy neighbors’</b> … ISRAEL will see the need to determine which poses more of a threat: the "ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST" SHIA state, or the "ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST" SUNNI groups who are sure to gain a foothold in SYRIA if Assad's regime suddenly caves in.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Whether or not ISRAEL would be in a stronger position with Assad or SUNNI ISLAMISTS in power is the center of debate amongst geopolitical analysts. Nonetheless, ISRAEL’S reluctance to support SYRIA’S opposition likely indicates its calculation that Assad’s survival is in ISRAEL’S interest, at least for now. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISRAEL is not interested in the Assad regime maintaining power because of any friendship between the two states. SYRIA fought ISRAEL directly in October 1973 and via proxy in LEBANON between 1982 and 2000. Since 2000, SYRIA has continued to support HEZBOLLAH in LEBANON and HAMAS in Gaza. Without question, SYRIA remains the most, and arguably only, confrontational Arab state in the ARAB-ISRAELI conflict. However, ISRAEL understands that the Assad regime will not attempt to repossess the GOLAN HEIGHTS by military force and will meet with ISRAELI leaders to negotiate for peace, which <a href="http://ui04e.moit.tufts.edu/forum/archives/pdfs/33-1pdfs/Salem.pdf">occurred</a>in 1991, 1995-1996, 1999-2001, and 2008. How a post-Assad SYRIA would conduct foreign relations vis-à-vis ISRAEL-Palestine remains a gamble. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Regarding the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S position on ISRAEL, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=0AwduwAACAAJ&dq=islamists+are+coming+robin+wright&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cfXET9zpG4T16AHV97iZCg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA">Thomas Pierret writes</a>, “[the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD] seeks to ‘counter the Zionist project [the state of ISRAEL] in its different aspects’ — a position unlikely to change before an ISRAELI withdrawal from the GOLAN HEIGHTS. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">COMMENT BY GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS AND MONITORING</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Israel will in most likelihood never withdraw from the GOLAN HEIGHTS, not so much for its strategic advantage but because of access and control to ISRAEL’S water supply. In 1996 ISRAEL offered SYRIA to lease the GOLAN HEIGHTS, something SYRIA obviously rejected. Even if ISRAEL decides to return the GOLAN HEIGHTS to SYRIA, it is naive to think that the MUSLIM BROTHERHOODS stance on ISRAEL will ever change.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The group has also traditionally supported HAMAS.” Any SYRIAN regime (Islamist or secular, democratic or authoritarian) will lose legitimacy if it surrenders the GOLAN HEIGHTS to ISRAEL or fails to support the Palestinian struggle for statehood, as SYRIA has historically been the center of ARAB nationalism. Regardless of which sect, ethnicity, or ideological party governs in Damascus, SYRIA will seek to repossess the GOLAN HEIGHTS, defend its sovereignty, expand trade relations, maintain deterrence capacity over ISRAEL, and retain influence in LEBANON and the greater ARAB world. Therefore, ISRAEL is not convinced that Assad’s downfall could advance its geopolitical interests.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">EXPLAINING ISRAEL’S RELUCTANCE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Even if the SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD would not take power in a post-Assad SYRIA, or even if it would not change SYRIAN foreign policy vis-à-vis ISRAEL-Palestine once empowered, ISRAEL may have national interests in Assad staying in power for four other reasons.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First of all, Assad’s fall could lead to a disintegration of the SYRIAN state. Efraim Inbar, Director of its Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, <a href="http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/MSPS95.pdf">believes</a> that “in the event that the SYRIAN regime collapses, SYRIA’S advanced arsenal, including chemical weapons, shore-to-ship missiles, air defense systems, and ballistic missiles of all types could end up in the hands of … radical elements.” The growing presence of AL-QAEDA in Mesopotamia (AQI) in SYRIA has been evident since the turmoil began in 2011, and the potential for AQI, or other militant groups like Hezbollah, to acquire such weapons could create new dilemmas for ISRAEL.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">See: </span><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syrian-missiles-will-pre-empt-any.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syrian-missiles-will-pre-empt-any.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/given-fact-syria-does-possess-chemical.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/given-fact-syria-does-possess-chemical.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">DISTRUST IN THE WEST</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The collapse of the SYRIAN regime would also further isolate IRAN in the MIDDLE EAST and potentially provide it with an additional rationale to develop a nuclear weapon. As SYRIA has provided IRAN with the capacity to transform HEZBOLLAH into a force that the ISRAELI military cannot defeat, the loss of SYRIA may likely mean a weaker HEZBOLLAH, thus decreasing IRAN’S ability to deter ISRAEL from attacking its nuclear facilities. The Islamic Republic also took note of the NATO campaign against LIBYA’S Muammar Gaddafi. The lesson learned was that if a state disbands its WMD program with the intentions of improving ties with the West, it will be vulnerable to a foreign invasion. In sum, the LIBYAN case has arguably pushed the Islamic Republic toward developing a nuclear weapon — and its further isolation, which would come with Assad’s demise, may accelerate Tehran down that path. Such an outcome would deprive ISRAEL of its monopoly on nuclear weapons in the region.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The emergence of a regime in Damascus that bears more legitimacy than Assad’s, may also permit the SYRIAN military to channel more resources toward external threats (primarily ISRAEL). Currently, the SYRIAN military is focused on suppressing the domestic opposition and dealing with potential coup d’etats and armed uprisings. Clearly, the possibility of a future regime coming to power in Damascus with more legitimacy may be an overly optimistic prospect (from the SYRIAN perspective). However, the ISRAELIS would benefit from the SYRIAN military continuing to be bogged down in domestic affairs.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Finally, although the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD has become increasingly moderate in the last 30 years, the other radical Islamist elements in the region, such as the SALAFISTS WAHHABI or even AL-QAEDA, could gain influence in SYRIA if a power vacuum forms following prolonged violence and widespread human rights violations. Although the significance of radical Islamist forces within SYRIA remains a hotly debated topic, a consensus has emerged that radical Islam has gained influence in SYRIA over the last decade. David W. Lesch, professor of Middle East History at Trinity University, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JHIgHxh6juwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=lion+of+damascus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7O7ET8jlIojp6gHEr7yZCg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lion%20of%20damascus&f=false">argues that</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What would emerge after the dust settles down could very well be a polity that is Islamic extremist, one on the border with ISRAEL and one that could make common cause with like-minded elements in IRAQ and LEBANON. This is certainly not in anyone’s interest … Many in SYRIA, including Bashar, see the regime, more specifically the Baath party, as the last bastion of secularity against a seething rising tide of radical Islamic in SYRIA … <b>The more radical SALAFISTS WAHHABI in SYRIA are certainly a force to be reckoned with, more so than the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 2005 Lucy Ashton of <i>The Financial Times</i> <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2843502e-bdd7-11d9-87aa-00000e2511c8.html#axzz1wMggNsP4">reported</a>on a growing trend of radical Islam in SYRIA:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Conservative Islam is a relatively recent phenomenon in Aleppo, known for centuries as a cosmopolitan trading city whose merchants "could sell a dead donkey skin to a king", according to a local proverb. Now, however, it is becoming a centre of Islamic radicalism, known more for its bombers than its carpet bazaar and textile weavers … On the streets of Aleppo, secular dress was ubiquitous only a decade ago. Now, more and more children recite Koranic verses in the streets on their way to madrassahs [Islamic schools], and women are tented completely in black.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NO LESSONS LEARNED</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, WASHINGTON’S DILEMMA</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Obama administration should consider these potential security dilemmas that have led ISRAEL to avoid aiding Assad’s opponents. The SYRIAN military’s weapons falling into non-state actors’ hands, the increased probability that IRAN would develop a nuclear weapon to counter its growing isolation, and the possibility of radical SYRIAN Islamist with an anti-Western agenda rising to power would undermine U.S. interests in the MIDDLE EAST. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Two U.S. senators, John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), visited the SYRIAN-TURKISH border during April 2012 and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57412116/john-mccain-syrian-peace-plans-failure-is-proof-that-military-action-is-required/">demanded</a>that the UNITED STATES take military action against Assad to remove him from power. These were the same two voices that lobbied the Clinton and Bush administrations to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. When the UNITED STATES did exactly as these senators advocated, countless unintended negative consequences ensued. Such outcomes could be expected if U.S. military action is taken against Assad. Obama would be wise to follow ISRAEL’S lead on SYRIA, and not the advice of McCain and Lieberman.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Instead of heeding the advice of these two hawkish senators, the Obama administration should pursue a more realist foreign policy vis-à-vis SYRIA that prioritizes stability. Unquestionably, the headaches that this regime has caused many U.S. administrations explain the political motivations behind Obama’s direct and indirect support for SYRIA’S Islamist opposition. <b>However, the lessons of blow back should be remembered, for the UNITED STATES armed radical forces on many occasions to advance larger geopolitical interests only to regret such alliances later.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Preventing the SYRIAN state from collapsing and protecting the region from the chaos that could result should be Washington’s top priority. This does not mean ignoring the human rights abuses of the Assad regime or the <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/20/syria-armed-opposition-groups-committing-abuses">armed Syrian opposition</a>. Rather, Washington should continue to work with regional actors such as TURKEY and IRAN along with RUSSIA and CHINA to find a political solution that holds all actors responsible for the lives lost and identifies a political solution that brings about peace, stability, and justice. The MIDDLE EAST doesn’t need another Iraq War or post-war crisis.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background info</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/06/assad-dilemma.html%20">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/06/assad-dilemma.html </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/06/syrian-regime-likely-to-survive-upraise.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/06/syrian-regime-likely-to-survive-upraise.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/06/nato-rules-out-military-intervention-in.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/06/nato-rules-out-military-intervention-in.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/08/food-for-thought.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/08/food-for-thought.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/11/syria-international-war-mongering-or.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/11/syria-international-war-mongering-or.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/11/food-for-thought.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/11/food-for-thought.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/12/as-i-see-it.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/12/as-i-see-it.html</a></span></span></div>

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Learn to Spot the Raw Material of Talent

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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_synthetic_diamond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="A rose-cut synthetic diamond created by Apollo..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="263" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Apollo_synthetic_diamond.jpg/300px-Apollo_synthetic_diamond.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 300px;">Gems don't start out beautiful. Most look like a dirt clod. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_synthetic_diamond.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h2><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">What teachers do</span></h2><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">My personal goal is to look at every student and find something that student is very good at doing. It must be honest and true. Sometimes it takes a while to find it but when I see it, I know it. Like an expert gem cutter, good at recognizing the raw material in a rock, an expert teacher can see the raw material of excellence in a student. Over time, as your suspicions are confirmed are proven wrong, you get better at this and learn to trust your instincts.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><br /><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">But remember, that you are not a god, you are a teacher. You can share your opinion and what you notice about a student but ultimately if a student decides to pursue that area is up to the student and his / her parents.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">You are a scout, an advanced party who finds gems. The teacher’s role begins here because good teaching starts with caring before content. When students know you care then you’re ready to teach.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">This doesn’t mean you have to be a “softie” and weep daily at the injustices of their life. Some of my best teachers have been tough teachers. But deep down, I believed that they were knowledgeable and had my best interests at heart.</span></div><br />  <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=f930cc07-4485-49ea-9447-43b6e7e35158" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

Inspiration Teaching Learn to Spot the Raw Material of Talent

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 06/09/2012

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll">      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/high/Sue-Pysanky.htm">Art Lesson Plan: Pysanky Ukrainian Eggs</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Ukrainian Pysanky Eggs - This is a lesson plan for an art project creating Ukrainian Pysanky Eggs which could accompany activities studying the Ukraine.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/lessonplans">lessonplans</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/art">art</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/lessonplans/lesson.cfm?lpid=464">Peace Corps | Coverdell World Wise Schools | Educators | Lesson Plans</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">In this lesson, students compare their first day of class in the US with a first day of school in the Ukraine. It is a US Peace Corps lesson plan and thus targets US students but could be adapted for any country.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ukraine">ukraine</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/taxonomySearchResults.aspx?keywords=Ukraine">Search for Ukraine teaching resources - TES</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Here are lesson plans and information about the Ukraine as you teach about this country. Now is a good time with Euro 2012 being hosted there.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ukraine">ukraine</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/globaled">globaled</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2012/06/08/ukraine-prostitutes-hope-to-cash-in-on-euro-2012/">Ukraine's prostitutes hope to cash in on Euro 2012 | Fox News Latino</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">This is much more adult topic but one that is likely to spark some interesting events in the Euro 2012 games. Femen, an activist group that likes to call attention to the victimization of Ukrainian women in the sex trade and garners news media attention by hosting topless protests, is targeting the euro 2012 games. With 1 out of 10 prostitutes carrying HIV/AIDS workers are out handing out condoms and warning tourists about the dangers. With high unemployment in many areas of the Ukraine, this is just one example of what young desperate women do to try to help their families survive. The perception of women in this trade here is that of "culprits not victims" according to the article and this angers the protest group. This is only a topic for older students or college age students.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/endslavery">endslavery</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155984/Euro-2012-Princes-William-Harry-join-boycott-Ukraines-treatment-Yulia-Tymoshenko.html?ito=feeds-newsxml">Euro 2012: Princes William and Harry join boycott over Ukraine's treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko | Mail Online</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Sports often reflect the politics of the day. If you're delving into Euro 2012, have students discuss why Princes William and Harry are boycotting games against the Ukraine. Because of human rights violations, specifically the treatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, has others in Europe upset at the Ukraine over their perceived oppression. This is an article to get to started. </p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/politics">politics</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/unkraine">unkraine</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/uk">uk</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/index.html">UEFA EURO – UEFA.com</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Here's  the official Euro 2012 website with information on the matches and events as well as hashtags. There is an under 21 area of this site as well. Live match coverage is linked from this page so you can listen and learn. </p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sports">sports</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/TaxonomySearchFunnel.aspx?area=resources&keywords=sports">Sports in France, Germany, Spain</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">This is an indexed list of sports by age level in various countries if you choose to pursue discussing sports from various countries during Euro 2012 (or even in preparing for the Olympics in the fall.)</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sports">sports</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a></p>                                        </li>      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6234031">Euro 2012 - Resources - TES</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">Teams across europe are battling to determine who will be "UEFA Euro 2012" champion. Learn about the flags, cultures, and happening behind this event that is jam packed with potential for teaching about different countries.</p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sports">sports</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a></p>                                        </li>  </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

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50 Years Ago Today, in Hollywood...

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58oHxhOAMg8E1nt1F6qVdfKcDIYxrRZveONpR-GcDOTAQaWJ3gmAFOfL4efNQZZE_-7o2caeOyaE0VAYzKIrz4DHhOuQs2P-O-X3l62Wuc0AkO2DHUczOYbUPjUhF3AflWHROlSljZs2f/s1600/mm+tests+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58oHxhOAMg8E1nt1F6qVdfKcDIYxrRZveONpR-GcDOTAQaWJ3gmAFOfL4efNQZZE_-7o2caeOyaE0VAYzKIrz4DHhOuQs2P-O-X3l62Wuc0AkO2DHUczOYbUPjUhF3AflWHROlSljZs2f/s400/mm+tests+3.jpg" width="350" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marilyn Monroe was scheduled to work on <i>Something’s Got to Give</i>, a George Cukor film in production for 20th Century Fox, on June 1, 1962, her 36<sup>th</sup> birthday. That Marilyn arrived on the set on time and worked all day, managing to complete scenes with leading man Dean Martin and co-star Wally Cox, was a cause for celebration in itself, considering Marilyn had worked on only a handful of the film’s 30+ days in production. At the end of the day, a birthday party was thrown on the set featuring a cake festooned with sparklers and Marilyn's favorite champagne, Dom Perignon. Afterward Marilyn attended a charity baseball game at Dodger Stadium and was serenaded with a chorus of “Happy Birthday” during the event.</span><br /><br /><a name='more'></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_Oc9F0JTQzPuprDzN2r922BvHtShXMOvbsjVP-xymo0MDQNlPGh2EEICAM8Izg5zYKmumJUNX79_66nHPSdNPPVbilXwfeio4ZlKA0X5dLplRML08pOaMgxc_XyHWe16dPHlc7w5QHXo/s1600/Marilyn+at+36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_Oc9F0JTQzPuprDzN2r922BvHtShXMOvbsjVP-xymo0MDQNlPGh2EEICAM8Izg5zYKmumJUNX79_66nHPSdNPPVbilXwfeio4ZlKA0X5dLplRML08pOaMgxc_XyHWe16dPHlc7w5QHXo/s400/Marilyn+at+36.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marilyn turns 36</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg03du69oj1DOlTTd_GafssPAYSUaS95dxK65zErq43KOwpmqV-mzUkNDnrW4kP1CPXoQyrEEDS7USxp6poipz2606i85jnRrv11FnH2WHkyo-ADn0McPb-mMuMoH1o4Isx7MGNrIzADmDP/s1600/MM+baseball+game.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg03du69oj1DOlTTd_GafssPAYSUaS95dxK65zErq43KOwpmqV-mzUkNDnrW4kP1CPXoQyrEEDS7USxp6poipz2606i85jnRrv11FnH2WHkyo-ADn0McPb-mMuMoH1o4Isx7MGNrIzADmDP/s320/MM+baseball+game.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dodger Stadium, June 1, 1962</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">The next morning, Saturday, June 2, a distraught Marilyn called the home of her vacationing psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, and asked his children to come over. There they found her in bed, disheveled and inconsolable. According to Greenson’s son, Daniel, Marilyn rattled off a long list of complaints, concluding with the comment that her life wasn’t worth living. A colleague of Dr. Greenson’s, Dr. Milton Wexler, was summoned and he quickly appropriated the arsenal of sedatives he found in her room. It was later determined that Marilyn’s behavior was likely triggered by an overdose of Dexamyl, an anti-depressant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marilyn did not appear on the set of <i>Something’s Got to Give</i> the following Monday, and when her attorney, Mickey Rudin, tried to persuade her to return to work, she became furious and accused him of siding with the studio. Rudin, who was also her psychiatrist’s brother in law, contacted Dr. Greenson who was still in on holiday in Europe and the doctor agreed to fly home at once.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Tuesday, June 5, Marilyn stayed home from work again. Dean Martin reportedly walked off the set in frustration and the production was temporarily suspended. An emergency meeting was called for Wednesday the 6<sup>th</sup> at Fox with both Dr. Greenson and Rudin in attendance. The studio was not convinced that either could guarantee that Marilyn would be able to finish the film and finally made a decision that had long been considered – she would be replaced. And so, 50 years ago today, on Friday, June 8, 1962, it was announced that Marilyn Monroe had been fired from <i>Something's Got to Give</i>.</span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84_AtdG8pN2pT60OkOGwBoCmpSB4NNsnoNXq9-PwunTcpNc4LPaZ_Oy7OgtITCBzsspyIXWdrxpZL2I-Dir4wnpIkCGiAuNPkItecADgl72xMWGhoM4dA-lfrfi3UptTuoXbnupwZHu7u/s1600/Lee+Remick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84_AtdG8pN2pT60OkOGwBoCmpSB4NNsnoNXq9-PwunTcpNc4LPaZ_Oy7OgtITCBzsspyIXWdrxpZL2I-Dir4wnpIkCGiAuNPkItecADgl72xMWGhoM4dA-lfrfi3UptTuoXbnupwZHu7u/s320/Lee+Remick.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lee Remick</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When Lee Remick was hired to replace her, Dean Martin responded, "I have the greatest respect for Miss Remick and her talent and for all other actresses who were considered for the role, but I signed to do the picture with Marilyn Monroe, and I will do it with no one else."</span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIBOuNJ6l5hxyxQEuhOLHEV52ElUp_K4S2pXMIZt9zyBGmuYwM9XaFtC1km_4l2O4eAn990PQGiopfJ7BiFOkUR0RwToLWHGeXuCwuSAqX0MM4fTUc1DgnvHODrvOWUee7UyuxGn3yckD/s1600/MM+and+DM+SGTG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIBOuNJ6l5hxyxQEuhOLHEV52ElUp_K4S2pXMIZt9zyBGmuYwM9XaFtC1km_4l2O4eAn990PQGiopfJ7BiFOkUR0RwToLWHGeXuCwuSAqX0MM4fTUc1DgnvHODrvOWUee7UyuxGn3yckD/s320/MM+and+DM+SGTG.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dean Martin and Marilyn Monroe during the making of <i>Something's Got to Give</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">George Cukor, who also directed Marilyn in <i>Let's Make Love</i> (1960), later remarked, "I liked her very much. I found her extremely intelligent - inarticulate, but extremely intelligent. And driven. She was a very peculiar girl...There may be an exact psychiatric term for what was wrong with her, I don't know - but truth to tell, I think she was quite mad."</span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzxqilvsU2-e_m0XwI9XoQtG2T80za8IO4znARN-tC0hEVO-ecJJhnbL09ot70MRMkw3aEPMW9Pue5GOdqpn6HAZgoHRYDJ0HNWtMnP2WPu0a7Gns37bk5sa6Cx46xmmcTt4woozW35Fd/s1600/MM+and+Cukor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzxqilvsU2-e_m0XwI9XoQtG2T80za8IO4znARN-tC0hEVO-ecJJhnbL09ot70MRMkw3aEPMW9Pue5GOdqpn6HAZgoHRYDJ0HNWtMnP2WPu0a7Gns37bk5sa6Cx46xmmcTt4woozW35Fd/s1600/MM+and+Cukor.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Director George Cukor with Marilyn on the set</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eventually the picture, a remake of the Cary Grant/Irene Dunne classic, <i>My Favorite Wife</i> (1940), was produced - but with a different director, cast and title. <i>Move Over, Darling</i> starring Doris Day and James Garner was released on Christmas 1963.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYMUSnjVJe48qy2deBtBcIMBAe4Kny_Wn-NJRzQrDwvUJ_XXg44gu6bCFwizZtzj1sED1nAObiocE3CvIBHixpmR4u5pgwPM_tKkm6J-G1wWJZbDH7icjgtmpHNOhst7HcrLj5GjaupgU/s1600/Doris+Day+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYMUSnjVJe48qy2deBtBcIMBAe4Kny_Wn-NJRzQrDwvUJ_XXg44gu6bCFwizZtzj1sED1nAObiocE3CvIBHixpmR4u5pgwPM_tKkm6J-G1wWJZbDH7icjgtmpHNOhst7HcrLj5GjaupgU/s320/Doris+Day+2.jpg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doris Day</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>

Marilyn Monroe was scheduled to work on Something’s Got to Give , a George Cukor film in production for 20th Century Fox, on June 1, 1962, h...

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The Greatest Teacher I Had in College

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://mgt.gatech.edu/pix/directory/adler_philip_profile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://mgt.gatech.edu/pix/directory/adler_philip_profile.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://mgt.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/adler/index.html">Dr. Phil Adler</a>, Professor Emeritus<br />Georgia Institute of Technology</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="-qt-block-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><br /></span><br /><h2>  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">Meet Dr. Phil Adler</span></h2></div><div style="-qt-block-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">I will never forget my meanest, toughest professor: <a href="http://mgt.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/adler/index.html">Dr. Phil Adler</a> at Georgia Tech. Everyone knew that he was hard. He taught Socratically (by asking questions)and his track record was the best. Students knew his course would be excruciating and although he gave no tests, every moment in class was a test because you had to answer questions. </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="-qt-block-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">I remember seeing him after class early in the first course. I wanted to make an A and had no idea what my grade was. He clearly told me, </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">“Vicki, I don’t care how you compare to the others in the course. I care about how you compare to yourself. I will give you an A if it is an A for you, and even if you’re better than the others but don’t give me an A quality for you, I’m not giving you an A.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="-qt-block-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">What? I had to give my very best? He called me on it. Not that I wasn’t going to give my best, but being better than others wasn’t enough? I had to hit my very best? It shocked me into realizing that I had to do and be more than I’d ever been before. I hit a new high in learning and studying with an intensity that I didn’t know I had and was <b>set free by the knowledge that I had to continue for the rest of my life to compete with myself.</b> I can’t do a lot about other people and it is important to be a good human being that I am happy for others when they do well. A self-competitive nature helps you do that.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="-qt-block-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">I also know that I took his first two course and was transformed. When I found out he was teaching MGT 4195 (that I had already taken) - I went to him and asked if he’d let me sit in on the class to learn from him and what he was doing. That is how good he was. I had found the best and knew I couldn’t miss the chance to get more, even if it cost me extra time my last quarter of college.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="-qt-block-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">He shocked me by asking me to be his teaching assistant for the course, giving me an opportunity rarely given to undergraduate students. I worked for him and began to understand accounting like never before as I graded the papers of my peers. I had some peers mad at me for the tough grading, but I didn’t care. I adored Dr. Adler (and still do - we talk once a year.) </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="-qt-block-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">I still remember the things he taught me in the Management of R&D and the principles of helping engineers and pure scientists still stick with me. </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">What he taught me how to have the common sense to understand people, what motivates them, and how to be direct and handle high pressure situations. I grew up under his tutelage and will never forget what he did for me. It began with knowing he cared and that he was good at what he did. I trusted him enough to walk through the fire of his words and the agony of the amount of study it took to learn.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;">By the way... he never gave a test. He didn't have to. Walking into his classroom was a test.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>What I remember.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Dr. Adler changed my teaching style forever. When I started teaching and contemplating my best teachers, I realized that his was the only class that I could remember specific details about the content. Now, over 20 years later, I can still recall much of the courses he taught. That is what I want for my students: experiences not rote memorization.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Dr. Adler had the <a href="http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/05/feb/14/adlerwing.shtml">entire Management wing</a> named after him in 2005 and now has his own <a href="http://www.radiosandysprings.com/showpages/philadler.php">"Dr. Phil" show in Atlanta</a>.(You can <a href="http://www.radiosandysprings.com/showpages/philadler.php">listen to it</a> online.) Last time I talked to him, he said he's the original "Dr. Phil" and I agree.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><i>I'd like to challenge you all to think about your best teachers. If you're a blogger or on social media, take time to write about the person and if you can find them, print a copy or email it. This is the legacy we leave teaching, we say thank you to those who have sacrificed for us. </i></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 12pt;"><i><b>Thank you, Dr. Adler. You still rock my mind!</b></i></span></div>

Teaching The Greatest Teacher I Had in College

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 06/08/2012

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll">      <li>      <p class="diigo-link">                <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/257045/update_linkedin_confirms_account_passwords_hacked.html">Update: LinkedIn Confirms Account Passwords Hacked | PCWorld</a>      </p>      <p class="diigo-description">If you're on Linkedin, a serious security breach has those who know recommend that you change your passwords immediately.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I knew something was up when my Dad had 2 invitations from dead people to network with them on Linked in yesterday. He said, "I'm not connecting to ___, I don't really want to connect with him now that he's dead."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Of bigger consequence, many people now use the letters in a website as part of their password, if this is the case for you and your password is exposed, then you may need to change your password everywhere else as a hacker can see your combination. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This brings us back to simplified methods of saving passwords and saving them so we can remember and use them but we can protect ourselves.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Meanwhile, I recommend everyone on Linked in, log in and change their password. It just makes sense.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Also, be wary of invitations from others. This means that you'll likely be getting viruses or click requests from those whose accounts are compromised. ("I've found this awful picture of you uploaded here" phishing attacks. I call them paranoia viruses because they play on the natural human self-centered tendency to think everyone is talking bad about you.)<br /></p>              <p class="diigo-tags">          <span>tags:</span>                      <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/security">security</a>            <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/linkedin">linkedin</a></p>                                        </li>  </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

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Part Time Librarian (3 positions) - New Haven Free Public Library

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<strong>Part Time Librarian (3 positions)</strong> - <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>New Haven Free Public Library</strong></span>.  NATURE OF WORK: This is part-time (up to 19 hours) professional work at  the entry level, involving the use of all library techniques and  materials in positions such as reference, branch, children's, technical  services, etc. Work is performed under the general supervision of a  higher level librarian, and is reviewed through frequent conferences and  observation of performance. Schedule may include evenings and weekends,  at the Main Library or at a Branch. Multiple vacancies: One position to  focus on technology services; one in reference services; one with  assignment on Read Mobile Services. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: A Master's  Degree in Library Science from a graduate program accredited by the  American Library Association, or its foreign equivalent and other  knowledge, abilities and skills as stated in the job description,  including but not limited to: Knowledge of the principles and practices  of library science, procedures and techniques; Knowledge of sources and  procedures used in reference and bibliographic research, and of software  programs designed for libraries. Must be computer literate through  formal training in the searching of on-line bibliographic databases. To  apply for this position, please visit: <a href="http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/HumanResources/CityJobPostings.asp" target="_blank">http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/HumanResources/CityJobPostings.asp</a>. Deadline: <span style="color: red;">June 15, 2012</span>.

Part Time Librarian (3 positions) - New Haven Free Public Library

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Library Aide, Part Time - New Haven Free Public Library

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<strong>Library Aide, Part Time</strong> - <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>New Haven Free Public Library</strong></span>. Minimum $14.00 per hour, up to 19 hours per week. POSTED UNTIL: <span style="color: red;">June 15, 2012</span>.  NATURE OF WORK: This is a paraprofessional position that involves  clerical, materials processing, technology support and circulation tasks  and other standard library routines such as shelving, registration, and  orientation of patrons to collections and services. Work is performed  under the supervision of a higher-level library staff member. Schedule  of work is 19 hours per week, primarily on weekends, at Ives or at  branches. These vacancies have an emphasis on technology. Work may  include general computer instruction and requires knowledge of various  Windows programs as well as teaching experience. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:  Graduation from high school; and at least one year experience in  library, clerical, technical or customer service work, or any equivalent  combination of experience and training which provides the necessary  knowledge, skills and abilities as stated in the job description,  including but not limited to: Knowledge of routine office procedures;  Knowledge of computer hardware and software; Knowledge of correct  English usage, punctuation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary; Knowledge  of the Dewey Decimal System; Ability to file alphabetically and  numerically; Ability to make basic arithmetic computations; Ability to  understand and follow instructions and to learn related clerical and  library tasks within a reasonable time; knowledge of various Windows  programs as well as teaching experience. To apply for this position,  please visit: <a href="http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/HumanResources/CityJobPostings.asp" target="_blank">http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/HumanResources/CityJobPostings.asp</a>.

Library Aide, Part Time - New Haven Free Public Library

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Temporary Part-Time Substitute - Southington Library & Museum

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Temporary Part-Time Substitute - Southington Library & Museum

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Manager of Young Minds (Department Head) - New Haven Free Public Library

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<strong>Manager of Young Minds</strong> (Department Head) - <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>New Haven Free Public Library</strong></span>.  Department:  Public Services. Reports to:  Young Minds Administrator.  Purpose: This position is responsible for the supervision and  administration of the New Haven Free Public Library’s Young Minds  Department. The position provides strategic direction, budget collection  oversight, program coordination and supervision of selected staff. It  works closely with other administrator positions to ensure all tactical  and operational objectives of the Young Minds deaprtment are met. Main  Job Responsibilities: 1. Serves as a member of the Management Team.  Works closely with other managerial leaders ensuring that the number one  priority of the organization is crafting an exceptional customer  experience. 2. Works to strengthen connections with the New Haven Public  Schools and is designated the liaison to community groups for the Young  Minds Department. 3. Investigates external grant opportunities to  enhance Young Minds programmatic efforts. 4. Provides leadership,  development and supervision of Young Minds staff throughout the  department. Responsibilities include coaching, training and managing. 5.  Coordinates high level strategic planning for the department. 6.  Attends state and national conferences to represent the organization and  shares information with library staff. 7. Leads major strategic  initiatives through project management. 8. Coordinates the  implementation of new Young Minds services. 9. Leads and participates in  systemwide task forces and committees, directs work groups, monitors  assignments and their completion. 10. Performs additional duties as  assigned. Minimum Qualifications: 1. Master’s of Library Science Degree  from an ALA accredited institution of higher learning. 2. 3-5 years  progressively more responsible experience working with public services.  3. Demonstrated prior leadership and management experience. 4. Knowledge  of information technologies and web services. 5. Skilled in outcome  measurements and rubrics. 6. Ability to develop training programs and  train staff. 7. Easily can establish and maintain system-wide  collaborations with community partners. Highly Preferred Qualifications:  1. Persons who speak Spanish or other foreign languages are strongly  encouraged to apply. 2. Ability to set clear objectives and measure and  monitor processes. 3. Future oriented. 4. Understands the principles of  project management. 5. Knows how businesses work, especially libraries.  6. Is a proven problem solver. Computer and Technology Skills: Microsoft  Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint,  Intranet, Internet (<a href="http://www.nhfpl.org/" target="_blank">www.nhfpl.org</a>), ILS, IFAS. To apply for this position, please go to: <a href="http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/HumanResources/CityJobPostings.asp" target="_blank">http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/HumanResources/CityJobPostings.asp</a>. Position is listed as Supervising Librarian.

Manager of Young Minds (Department Head) - New Haven Free Public Library

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Young Minds Librarian - New Haven Free Public Library

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<strong>Young Minds Librarian</strong> - <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>New Haven Free Public Library</strong></span>.  Department: Public Services. Reports to: Manager of Young Minds.  Purpose: The Young Minds Librarian will develop and coordinate programs  and provide professional-level support to the Manager of Young Minds in a  variety of key functional areas.  Responsibilities may include  evaluating programming performance, planning schedules and outreach,  compiling reading lists, assists in study-oriented activities, develops  children’s reading interests and facilitates class visits. Main Job  Responsibilities: 1. Creates innovative and educational Young Minds  programs for ages 0-13. 2. Works to support the strengthening of  connections with the New Haven Public Schools. 3. Participates in grant  writing initiatives to enhance Young Minds programmatic efforts. 4.  Provides in-depth readers’ advisory services for Young Minds customers.  5. Possesses a deep knowledge of children's literature and collection  development methods. 6. Demonstrated ability to provide exemplary  internal and external customer service. 7. Contributes to the management  of the library's youth collections. 8. Cooperates as a team member with  all library staff in performing any professional or nonprofessional  duty essential to the achievement of efficient library operations. 9.  Performs additional duties as assigned. 10. Uses extensive knowledge of  current trends in library service to children to a high degree. Minimum  Qualifications: 1. Master’s of Library Science Degree from an ALA  accredited institution of higher learning. 2. Professional experience in  working with children. 3. Demonstrated prior leadership and management  experience. 4. Knowledge of information technologies and web services.  5. Skilled in outcome measurements and rubrics. 6. Ability to develop  training programs and train staff. 7. Easily can establish and maintain  system-wide collaborations with community partners. Highly Preferred  Qualifications: 1. Persons who speak Spanish or other foreign languages  are strongly encouraged to apply. 2. Ability to maintain effective  interpersonal relationships with children and caregivers and deal  tactfully with the public. 3. Be self-motivated and able to exercise  initiative and independent judgment. 4. Understands the principles of  project management. 5. Knows how businesses work, especially libraries.  6. Fosters a creative work environment and knows when to put energies  behind the ideas of others. Computer and Technology Skills: Microsoft  Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint,  Intranet, Internet (<a href="http://www.nhfpl.org/" target="_blank">www.nhfpl.org</a>), ILS, IFAS. To apply for this position, please go to: <a href="http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/HumanResources/CityJobPostings.asp" target="_blank">http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/HumanResources/CityJobPostings.asp</a>. Position is listed as Librarian II. Deadline: <span style="color: red;">June 15, 2012</span>.

Young Minds Librarian - New Haven Free Public Library

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Elementary/Middle School Library Media Specialist - Bolton Public Schools

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<strong>Elementary/Middle School Library Media Specialist</strong> - <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Bolton Public Schools</strong></span>.  Bolton Center School is accepting applications for a qualified Library  Media Specialist for the 2012-2013 school year. Experience working with  elementary and middle school students; strong background in an automated  library environment including proficiency with digital resources;  knowledge in the area of children’s literature. Duties and  responsibilities include but not limited to: instructing students in  information and technology literacy, providing leadership in the  integration of technology with instruction, collaborating with classroom  teachers in planning, implementing and assessing instruction,  evaluating and selecting resources for the library media center. Should  hold or be eligible for CT Library Media Specialist Certificate.  Competitive salary and benefits. Qualified candidates should submit an  online application at <a href="http://www.boltonpublicschools.com/" target="_blank">boltonpublicschools.com</a>.  Deadline: <span style="color: red;">June 15, 2012</span>. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Elementary/Middle School Library Media Specialist - Bolton Public Schools

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University Assistant, Access Services, Evening-Weekend - Eastern Connecticut State University

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<strong>University Assistant, Access Services, Evening-Weekend</strong> - J. Eugene Smith Library, <span style="color: #48286d;"><strong>Eastern Connecticut State University</strong></span>.  (This is a temporary, part-time position; may be renewed at University  discretion.) This University Assistant position is contracted to provide  Access Services Desk coverage per semester or session up to 19 hours  per week including nights and weekends. The exact schedule will be  established by the Head of Public Services in coordination with the  schedules of other University Assistants. Under the direction of the  Access Services Librarian (circulation, reserve, interlibrary loan) or  other full time Access Services staff members, the University Assistant  will help to: Supervise the operations of the Access Services desk;  monitor the Library building; perform routine maintenance of public  copiers; perform routine maintenance of public printers; perform other  duties as assigned by the Access Services Librarian, the Head of Public  Services or the Library Director. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: The  University Assistant must be able to:  provide effective library  services to students, faculty, staff and the general public; perform  public services work with a diverse population of students, faculty and  staff members, and community library users; work under stress, with  courtesy, calmness and good judgment; work in a team environment with  other library staff, as well as independently in an emergency staffing  situation; work with the Library’s ILS and personal computer software to  perform assigned functions; perform detailed work accurately;  work  evenings and weekends with great dependability.  DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:  A preferred applicant for Access Services University Assistant would  have one or more of the following:  a bachelor’s degree, experience with  library automated circulation systems, experience supervising student  or part time employees, and/or work experience in an academic setting.  Salary $15.00 per hour, no benefits. Qualified applicants should send a  letter of application, resume and three recent letters of reference to:   Mrs. Patricia S. Banach, Director of Library Services, J. Eugene Smith  Library, Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham Street,  Willimantic, CT  06226.  Screening will begin immediately and continue  until the position is filled.  Eastern is an AA/EEO employer. Women,  members of protected classes and people with disabilities are encouraged  to apply. For a full job description see <a href="http://www.easternct.edu/humanresources/parttime.html" target="_blank">http://www.easternct.edu/humanresources/parttime.html</a>.

University Assistant, Access Services, Evening-Weekend - Eastern Connecticut State University

University Assistant, Access Services, Evening-Weekend - J. Eugene Smith Library, Eastern Connecticut State University . (This is a tempor...