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7-Feb-13 World View -- Riots in Tunisia after assassination


China: N. Korea 'must pay a heavy price' for third nuclear test

** 7-Feb-13 World View -- Riots in Tunisia after assassination
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... 07#e130207



Contents:
Riots spread in Tunisia after popular opposition leader assassination
Tunisia - the birthplace of the Arab Spring
China: N. Korea 'must pay a heavy price' for third nuclear test
S. Koreans debate pre-emptive strike on N. Korean nuclear site
Japan considers modifying anti-war provisions of constitution


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Tunisia, Chokri Belaid, Ennahada,
Rached Ghannouchi, Arab Spring, Mohamed Bouazizi,
China, North Korea, South Korea,
Japan, Abe Shinzo, Yohei Kono

76-year-old Yohei Kono, who lived through World War II, says wrote:
"I don’t think politicians understand the price we have to pay if we are going to revise the Constitution or reinterpret Article 9. The Constitution has contributed to the peace and regional stability of Japan since the war, which is why we have not revised the Constitution even though creating our own Constitution has been one of the LDP’s goals since the party was launched in 1955."

According to Kono, the rightward shift in public opinion is occurring because so many of the current crop of lawmakers were born after World War II and have no experience with the horrors of war -- which is exactly the kind of point that Generational Dynamics makes.

There is another parallel between the United States and Japan, regarding post WWII generations.

Both have a achieved massive improvements in quality of life and material wealth standards for both the average person and the wealthy since World War II.

Yet the people of both countries are not happy and the birth rates of third generation, or greater, Americans and Japanese alike have plummeted.

Video games of war and violence and real war and violence may be the only things left that can stimulate these people into finding something to live for.

I find the issue of declining birthrates interesting in the view it is primarily only occurring in developed nations.
I recently came across an excerpt of a book by Jonathon Last-What to expect when noone is expecting
that claims
"Abortion is rampant, with 13 abortions performed for every 10 live births. Consider that for a moment: Russians are so despondent about the future that they have 30 percent more abortions than births. This might be the most grisly statistic the world has ever seen. It suggests a society that no longer has the will to live."

I was suspicious and did a quick search and found many sources of evidence to the contrary. While abortion in Russia is quite high, 663/1000
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/ ... ussia.html registered in 2010
it is a far cry from 1300/1000. The rate has been falling for many years likely due to the cost and the questionable health care associated with any kind of invasive procedure in that region of the world. The rise in unwanted and abandoned children has skyrocketed in recent years as well.

The book "...noone is expecting" would seem to be making the case to accept illegal immigration and the exceptionally high birthrates of minority-"muslim" "citizens" in this country. As I have not read the book, this is only speculation on my part from reading several of the books samples and excerpts posted on different sites. It does try to make the case that if our population is not growing we are declining as a nation. Like our debt perhaps?