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Good News from Bulgaria Full Itinerary - RESEND

2008-08-19T16:19:54Z

Dear TTP'er,

Last month in To The Point I talked about the Good News From Bulgaria. The bottom line was:

There are more opportunities to make a lot of money in Bulgaria than almost anywhere else in the world.

Bulgaria became a full member of the EU in January 2007, qualifying for enormous amounts of EU subsidies to bring its government services and economy up to EU standards. A good portion of the $10 billion in EU aid Bulgaria will be receiving over the next five years will be to provide a 50% subsidy for private foreign investment in the Bulgarian economy.

That economy is growing exponentially because Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev is determined to maximize the attractiveness of his country to international investors. Thanks to him, Bulgaria now has a 10% flat tax on income, 0% (yes, zero) capital gains tax, 100% foreign ownership of land and businesses, and no limits on repatriation of profits.

Investment in agricultural land, if one knows how to properly consolidate it, will be worth five times more in three to five years – which is doubled to ten times due to the 50% EU subsidy of the investment.

There are many other examples: food production, canning factories, cheese and meat processing, real estate development. There is enormous potential for "medical tourism" - international certified state-of-the-art medical facilities for cosmetic surgery, sports medicine, laparoscopic surgery, for which there is an average two-year wait in Western Europe. All of these investments can qualify for a 50% EU subsidy.

So - want to come to Bulgaria with me and learn about it all?

I'll be taking a small group of 8-10 qualified folks to Bulgaria at the end of September. In one week - leave home Friday September 26, back home Sunday October 5 - we'll meet Prime Minister Stanishev and his key officials, plus the country's top businessmen. We'll tour the country to see the best ag-land, plus tourist wonders like the magic medieval capital of Veliko Turnovo, the 3,000 year-old Black Sea now-luxury resort of Nesebar, the monasteries of Troyan and Rila.

We'll also consume copious amounts of Bulgarian wine. Who says you can't make a lot of money and have a lot of fun at the same time?

It'll cost $7750. You get to Sofia, Bulgaria's capital on 9/26 and I'll take care of everything else. If you want to come, don't waste any time letting me know: drjack@tothepointnews.com.

I hope I’ll be seeing you in Sofia.

Jack Wheeler

BULGARIA INVESTMENT EXPEDITION ITINERARY: September 26-October 5, 2008

Led by Dr. Jack Wheeler and Alex Alexiev, senior advisor to former president of Bulgaria Philip Dimitrov

Friday, Sept. 26: Depart US on overnight flight for Europe connecting city (e.g., London, Paris, Rome or Frankfurt)

Saturday, Sept. 27: Arrive Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, mid-afternoon via connecting city. Transfer to Raddison Grand Hotel. 7pm reception and dinner. Guest speaker, Ilian Vassilev, president, Deloitte Touche Bulgaria.

Sunday, Sept. 28: 10am departure via luxury coach for Sevlievo, a small town (30,000) in northcentral Bulgaria that has become prosperous due to foreign investment in local industry led by American Standard. Enroute we have lunch in Troyan and visit the World Heritage site of the Troyan Monastery.

After checking in to the Sevlievo Plaza Hotel, we visit a state-of-the-art private hospital to discuss opportunities for medical tourism. We then visit a hunting lodge favored by European big game trophy hunters, and the studio of world famous Bulgarian artist Nikolay Panayotov.

Reception and dinner with the Mayor of Sevlievo Yordan Stoikov and local businessmen and entrepreneurs.

Monday, Sept. 29: 10am meeting with American Standard executives to discuss their experience in Bulgaria. After lunch, depart for Veliko Tarnovo, capital of medieval Bulgaria. 2pm meeting with Mayor of Tarnovo Ruven Rashev, and the Mayor of the nearby town Gabrovo, Bogomil Belchev. 3 pm meeting with local businessmen (tourism, agriculture, high-tech). 4pm visit to medieval Tsarevets Fortress. 7pm, reception and dinner with Mayor Rashev and local dignitaries.

After dinner, return to Sevlievo Plaza Hotel (30 min. drive).

Tuesday, Sept. 30: 9am depart for Dobrich, center of Dobrudja, the most fertile grain producing region in Bulgaria. 11am-1pm working lunch with Professor Dimitri Manov and agro-business executives from the region. Dr. Manov is the country’s top wheat scientist. Discussion of opportunities in purchasing/consolidating ag- land, grain, meat and dairy production

1pm meeting with Dimitar Manov, owner and CEO of Cibola Inc. a Sofia-based consulting company specializing in agro business and especially utilizing EU subsidy funds for it.

2:30pm depart for Varna on the Black Sea. Check in Grand Hotel Varna. Varna, Bulgaria’s largest port, an international beach resort and the country’s third largest city, was known in antiquity as Odessos. It was founded by Miletians in 570 BC and is one of the oldest cities in Europe.

5-6 pm tour of Varna. 6-7:30pm cocktails with members of American-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce. Briefing on business opportunities in Varna (tourism, food-processing, transportation, communications etc). 7 pm dinner with Mayor of Varna Kiril Yordanov and city foreign investment officials.

Wednesday, Oct. 1: 8-9 am breakfast meeting with local entrepreneurs. 9-11am tour of beach resort complexes near Varna (Golden Sands, Evsinograd). 11am drive to Nesebar, an ancient Black Sea town and a World Heritage Site located on a small peninsula and the site of numerous historical monuments and churches dating back to pre-Hellenistic civilizations. 12pm lunch, followed by walking tour of Nesebar.

2:30pm depart for Plovdiv. Enroute visit to state of the art dairy farm in Stara Zagora.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city, is one of Europe’s oldest cities, a contemporary of Troy (1500 BC) and much older than Rome. Captured by Philip II of Macedon in 342 BC and renamed Philippopolis, it was a prosperous Roman center known as Trimontium.

6pm. – Check in Trimontium Princess Hotel. 6:30 dinner with Mayor of Plovdiv Slavcho Atanasov and city businessmen, followed by a walk around Old Town Plovdiv.

Thursday, Oct. 2: 9am business tour of Plovdiv. 10:30 depart for Koprivshtitsa and the Valley of the Roses. Koprivshtitsa is a town-museum with the best preserved examples of Bulgarian Revival Era architecture in the country. 11:30am, walking tour of Koprivshtitsa and lunch. 2pm, coach tour through world famous Valley of the Roses where much of the world’s rose oil for perfumes is produced, including visits to the valley’s top wineries.

5pm depart for Sofia, 6pm check in Raddison Grand Hotel. 7pm dinner with mayor of Sofia.

Friday, Oct. 3: 8-9: 30am, hotel breakfast meeting with Sofia businessmen, and Bulgarian Minister of Transportation on investment opportunities in transportation sector. 10am-12n, meeting with Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, followed by meeting with Cabinet Ministers. 12:30, working lunch with Peter Bozhkov, a lawyer specializing in ag-land purchase and consolidation, and Kamen Kolchev, chairman of ELANA Agricultural Land Fund listed on the Sofia Stock Exchange. Briefing on current opportunities in agro business.

2pm, interviews with press, news agencies for those interested.

4-6 pm, walking tour of downtown Sofia, including Alexander Nevski Cathedral, site of largest exhibition of orthodox icons.

7pm, dinner with Prime Minister Stanishev and government and business leaders.

Saturday, Oct. 4: 9am depart for day trip to the World Heritage Site of Rila Monastery and the international ski resort of Borovets (real estate, sports medicine opportunities), both in the mountains south of Sofia. Return late afternoon. 7pm Farewell Dinner.

Sunday, Oct. 5: Depart from Sofia for flight back to U.S. [A mid-morning departure to a variety of European connecting cities will enable a same-day late afternoon/early evening arrival in U.S. home city.]

Cost:
$7750 per person, single occupancy unless double occupancy requested. Includes all transfers, accommodations, meals with group, ground transportation, all activities and meetings as outlined in itinerary.

Important note: Meetings with any specific government official cannot be guaranteed.

Cost does not include international air travel to and from Sofia, alcoholic beverages, personal expenses such as laundry and phone, passport expenses, trip cancellation and medical insurance.

Payments

Deposit of $1000 upon booking. $500 non-refundable. Balance due by September 1st, 2008. Refund in full (less $500) if cancellation in writing before September 1st. Refund after September 1st only if acceptable replacement found. Trip Cancellation Insurance highly recommended.

Requirements

Normal good health, normal capacity for walking. US passport valid until at least January 5, 2009. No visa required for US citizens. No vaccinations required. Positive cheerful attitude. No whining and incessant complaining will be tolerated. Travel often necessitates unexpected difficulties and schedule alterations. Participants are expected to accept such necessities should they arise with helpful understanding.

Contact

Deposits and payments sent to: Wheeler Expeditions, 611 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 429, Washington DC 20003. Phone 703-992-4529. Email: drjack@tothepointnews.com for bank wiring instructions or any questions.

For travel to Bulgaria, travel medical insurance, and trip cancellation insurance, we recommend Cristina Gifuni at McCabe World Travel in McLean VA, 703-762-5050, cristina@mccabeworld.com.

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Good News from Bulgaria Full Itinerary

2008-08-19T11:14:56Z

Dear TTP'er,

Last month in To The Point I talked about the Good News From Bulgaria. The bottom line was:

There are more opportunities to make a lot of money in Bulgaria than almost anywhere else in the world.

Bulgaria became a full member of the EU in January 2007, qualifying for enormous amounts of EU subsidies to bring its government services and economy up to EU standards. A good portion of the $10 billion in EU aid Bulgaria will be receiving over the next five years will be to provide a 50% subsidy for private foreign investment in the Bulgarian economy.

That economy is growing exponentially because Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev is determined to maximize the attractiveness of his country to international investors. Thanks to him, Bulgaria now has a 10% flat tax on income, 0% (yes, zero) capital gains tax, 100% foreign ownership of land and businesses, and no limits on repatriation of profits.

Investment in agricultural land, if one knows how to properly consolidate it, will be worth five times more in three to five years – which is doubled to ten times due to the 50% EU subsidy of the investment.

There are many other examples: food production, canning factories, cheese and meat processing, real estate development. There is enormous potential for "medical tourism" - international certified state-of-the-art medical facilities for cosmetic surgery, sports medicine, laparoscopic surgery, for which there is an average two-year wait in Western Europe. All of these investments can qualify for a 50% EU subsidy.

So - want to come to Bulgaria with me and learn about it all?

I'll be taking a small group of 8-10 qualified folks to Bulgaria at the end of September. In one week - leave home Friday September 26, back home Sunday October 5 - we'll meet Prime Minister Stanishev and his key officials, plus the country's top businessmen. We'll tour the country to see the best ag-land, plus tourist wonders like the magic medieval capital of Veliko Turnovo, the 3,000 year-old Black Sea now-luxury resort of Nesebar, the monasteries of Troyan and Rila.

We'll also consume copious amounts of Bulgarian wine. Who says you can't make a lot of money and have a lot of fun at the same time?

It'll cost $7750. You get to Sofia, Bulgaria's capital on 9/26 and I'll take care of everything else. If you want to come, don't waste any time letting me know: drjack@tothepointnews.com.

I hope I’ll be seeing you in Sofia.

Jack Wheeler

BULGARIA INVESTMENT EXPEDITION ITINERARY: September 26-October 5, 2008

Led by Dr. Jack Wheeler and Alex Alexiev, senior advisor to former president of Bulgaria Philip Dimitrov

Friday, Sept. 26: Depart US on overnight flight for Europe connecting city (e.g., London, Paris, Rome or Frankfurt)

Saturday, Sept. 27: Arrive Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, mid-afternoon via connecting city. Transfer to Raddison Grand Hotel. 7pm reception and dinner. Guest speaker, Ilian Vassilev, president, Deloitte Touche Bulgaria.

Sunday, Sept. 28: 10am departure via luxury coach for Sevlievo, a small town (30,000) in northcentral Bulgaria that has become prosperous due to foreign investment in local industry led by American Standard. Enroute we have lunch in Troyan and visit the World Heritage site of the Troyan Monastery.

After checking in to the Sevlievo Plaza Hotel, we visit a state-of-the-art private hospital to discuss opportunities for medical tourism. We then visit a hunting lodge favored by European big game trophy hunters, and the studio of world famous Bulgarian artist Nikolay Panayotov.

Reception and dinner with the Mayor of Sevlievo Yordan Stoikov and local businessmen and entrepreneurs.

Monday, Sept. 29: 10am meeting with American Standard executives to discuss their experience in Bulgaria. After lunch, depart for Veliko Tarnovo, capital of medieval Bulgaria. 2pm meeting with Mayor of Tarnovo Ruven Rashev, and the Mayor of the nearby town Gabrovo, Bogomil Belchev. 3 pm meeting with local businessmen (tourism, agriculture, high-tech). 4pm visit to medieval Tsarevets Fortress. 7pm, reception and dinner with Mayor Rashev and local dignitaries.

After dinner, return to Sevlievo Plaza Hotel (30 min. drive).

Tuesday, Sept. 30: 9am depart for Dobrich, center of Dobrudja, the most fertile grain producing region in Bulgaria. 11am-1pm working lunch with Professor Dimitri Manov and agro-business executives from the region. Dr. Manov is the country’s top wheat scientist. Discussion of opportunities in purchasing/consolidating ag- land, grain, meat and dairy production

1pm meeting with Dimitar Manov, owner and CEO of Cibola Inc. a Sofia-based consulting company specializing in agro business and especially utilizing EU subsidy funds for it.

2:30pm depart for Varna on the Black Sea. Check in Grand Hotel Varna. Varna, Bulgaria’s largest port, an international beach resort and the country’s third largest city, was known in antiquity as Odessos. It was founded by Miletians in 570 BC and is one of the oldest cities in Europe.

5-6 pm tour of Varna. 6-7:30pm cocktails with members of American-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce. Briefing on business opportunities in Varna (tourism, food-processing, transportation, communications etc). 7 pm dinner with Mayor of Varna Kiril Yordanov and city foreign investment officials.

Wednesday, Oct. 1: 8-9 am breakfast meeting with local entrepreneurs. 9-11am tour of beach resort complexes near Varna (Golden Sands, Evsinograd). 11am drive to Nesebar, an ancient Black Sea town and a World Heritage Site located on a small peninsula and the site of numerous historical monuments and churches dating back to pre-Hellenistic civilizations. 12pm lunch, followed by walking tour of Nesebar.

2:30pm depart for Plovdiv. Enroute visit to state of the art dairy farm in Stara Zagora.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city, is one of Europe’s oldest cities, a contemporary of Troy (1500 BC) and much older than Rome. Captured by Philip II of Macedon in 342 BC and renamed Philippopolis, it was a prosperous Roman center known as Trimontium.

6pm. – Check in Trimontium Princess Hotel. 6:30 dinner with Mayor of Plovdiv Slavcho Atanasov and city businessmen, followed by a walk around Old Town Plovdiv.

Thursday, Oct. 2: 9am business tour of Plovdiv. 10:30 depart for Koprivshtitsa and the Valley of the Roses. Koprivshtitsa is a town-museum with the best preserved examples of Bulgarian Revival Era architecture in the country. 11:30am, walking tour of Koprivshtitsa and lunch. 2pm, coach tour through world famous Valley of the Roses where much of the world’s rose oil for perfumes is produced, including visits to the valley’s top wineries.

5pm depart for Sofia, 6pm check in Raddison Grand Hotel. 7pm dinner with mayor of Sofia.

Friday, Oct. 3: 8-9: 30am, hotel breakfast meeting with Sofia businessmen, and Bulgarian Minister of Transportation on investment opportunities in transportation sector. 10am-12n, meeting with Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, followed by meeting with Cabinet Ministers. 12:30, working lunch with Peter Bozhkov, a lawyer specializing in ag-land purchase and consolidation, and Kamen Kolchev, chairman of ELANA Agricultural Land Fund listed on the Sofia Stock Exchange. Briefing on current opportunities in agro business.

2pm, interviews with press, news agencies for those interested.

4-6 pm, walking tour of downtown Sofia, including Alexander Nevski Cathedral, site of largest exhibition of orthodox icons.

7pm, dinner with Prime Minister Stanishev and government and business leaders.

Saturday, Oct. 4: 9am depart for day trip to the World Heritage Site of Rila Monastery and the international ski resort of Borovets (real estate, sports medicine opportunities), both in the mountains south of Sofia. Return late afternoon. 7pm Farewell Dinner.

Sunday, Oct. 5: Depart from Sofia for flight back to U.S. [A mid-morning departure to a variety of European connecting cities will enable a same-day late afternoon/early evening arrival in U.S. home city.]

Cost:

$7750 per person, single occupancy unless double occupancy requested. Includes all transfers, accommodations, meals with group, ground transportation, all activities and meetings as outlined in itinerary.

Important note: Meetings with any specific government official can not be guaranteed.

Cost does not include international air travel to and from Sofia, alcoholic beverages, personal expenses such as laundry and phone, passport expenses, trip cancellation and medical insurance.

Payments

Deposit of $1000 upon booking. $500 non-refundable. Balance due by September 1^st, 2008. Refund in full (less $500) if cancellation in writing before September 1^st. Refund after September 1^st only if acceptable replacement found. Trip Cancellation Insurance highly recommended.

Requirements

Normal good health, normal capacity for walking. US passport valid until at least January 5, 2009. No visa required for US citizens. No vaccinations required. Positive cheerful attitude. No whining and incessant complaining will be tolerated. Travel often necessitates unexpected difficulties and schedule alterations. Participants are expected to accept such necessities should they arise with helpful understanding.

Contact

Deposits and payments sent to: Wheeler Expeditions, 611 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 429, Washington DC 20003. Phone 703-992-4239. Email: drjack@tothepointnews.com for bank wiring instructions or any questions.

For travel to Bulgaria, travel medical insurance, and trip cancellation insurance, we recommend Cristina Gifuni at McCabe World Travel in McLean VA, 703-762-5050, cristina@mccabeworld.com

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How The Clintons Will Destroy John McCain

2008-02-03T07:24:56Z

Dear Friend of To The Point,

This past Friday, we published an explosive article on John McCain. In response to many members’ requests, How The Clintons Will Destroy John McCain is now a free public access article.

I greatly appreciate TTP members’ willingness to share this article with the public at large after paying for it themselves. TTP is membership site, paid for by member subscriptions. There is no advertising. Information in TTP is exclusive to members.

Yet members felt the issue of John McCain is of such critical danger to our country that they have insisted it be made public.

You now have full access to How The Clintons Will Destroy John McCain, and are free to forward or post it wherever you feel it would be useful.

In addition, I am now granting free public access to an article written over two years ago in November 2005, which revealed that many Republican staffers on Capitol Hill thought that John McCain leaked classified information to the Washington Post about secret CIA prisons for terrorists – a treasonous act.

That article, from November 2005, is: To The Big House Instead of the White House? You may post this wherever you like.

Let's all do our share in helping to prevent the disaster of a McCain nomination. And I hope you will consider joining our TTP family and become a TTP member yourself.

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To The Point Weekly Report for February 17th 2006

2006-02-17T11:14:02Z

To The Point Weekly Report for February 17th 2006

YOGI IN IRAN

Dr. Jack Wheeler
Friday, 17 February 2006
It's beginning to sink in to a lot of folks - from the State Department to the French Foreign Ministry to Egyptian intelligence - that Iran's Ahmadinejad is far more dangerous and wacko than the Ayatollah Khomeini. Perhaps most interesting is that France is bellying up to the anti-Iran bar. There has been a major fallout, for example, between France and Hezbollah, the Iran-sponsored terrorist outfit. Chirac is so worried now about a major Hezbollah terrorist attack in Paris that he threatened Iran he would retaliate with nuclear missiles. Finally we have arrived at Yogi Berra's fork in the road. Yogi advised that, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." When both France and the US agree that the Ahmadinejad regime in Tehran has to be removed, you know we've arrived.

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THE PILLAR GANG

Dr. Jack Wheeler
Friday, 17 February 2006
Today's (2/17) Wall Street Journal has an op-ed by a CIA intelligence officer, Guillermo Christensen, entitled Un-Intelligence. The article exposes the self-serving attack on President Bush and the War in Iraq by a fellow CIA officer named Paul Pillar in the current issue of Foreign Affairs. Pillar is now being lionized by the left for his anti-Bush screed - but you first learned about him here at To The Point in October 2004. Porter At The Pass revealed that Paul Pillar and his left wing cabal at the CIA, which I named The Pillar Gang, was conducting a covert campaign of leaks and disclosures to damage George Bush's chances of re-election and help John Kerry's. As explained in "Porter At The Pass":

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Chapter Twenty One: THE TRAP OF CHOLULA

Dr. Jack Wheeler
Friday, 17 February 2006
The Jade Steps Chapter Twenty One: The Trap of Cholula They spent most of the siesta, the Spaniards' period of rest after the mid-day meal, having fun turning Spanish words into Nahuatl. Malinali was having so much fun it made her forgetful. She shook her head. "I must leave," she told them. "Our Mesheeka guests have come for their daily ceremony of complaining to Captain Cortez, and I must be there, for it is through me that they address their complaints." "Have fun," Aguilar joked. Malinali sighed. "Our talking - that was fun. But ‘fun' and ‘Mesheeka' are two words that don't go together - in Spanish or Nahuatl." Today is the nineteenth day here in Tlaxcala, she thought as she walked to Cortez's quarters, and for every one of those days, the Mesheeka emissaries who had accompanied them from Xocotlan had come to complain to Cortez about what terrible people the Tlaxcalans were, how they were all traitors and thieves and poor and wicked and not fit even to be slaves. It was so tiresome to hear and translate, and how Cortez could pretend to always be courteous and polite, or even stay awake, during the daily moaning, she didn't know. When she saw the crowd of soldiers in front of Cortez's quarters, she realized something was different.

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THE FAIRY TALE OF ONE BILLION CUSTOMERS

Neal Asbury
Friday, 17 February 2006
We are persistently being reminded by our multinationals of the 1.3 billion customers of China who are eagerly waiting to hand over their hard earned cash for our products and services. They have used this as justification to invest incredible amounts of American shareholder equity to construct so much China-based manufacturing capacity it will make your head spin. In all this excitement and jubilation of incalculable profit making opportunity, it sure would be nice to know: who is going to pay for all this stuff? Millions of American shareholders have been led to invest in capital-intensive, technology-stripping joint ventures to produce vast quantities of just about everything for people who do not have the money to pay for it. These joint ventures are some of the most lopsided that have ever been conceived. This brings new meaning to Lenin's famous remark that in pursuit of short term profits, "Capitalists will sell the rope which the communists will use to hang them". The China Dream has forever been a fairy tale with countless western industrialists being seduced into betting the ranch on a mythical market that will never exist.
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AL GORE: CRAZY, STUPID, TREASONOUS, OR ALL THREE?

Jack Kelly
Friday, 17 February 2006
Former Vice President Al Gore is bitterly disappointed he was not elected president. Periodically, he expresses his disappointment in ways that gives us reason to be thankful he wasn't. The most recent was last weekend, when he traveled to Saudi Arabia to make a speech denouncing the United States. The occasion was the annual Jeddah economic forum, which is sponsored in part by the family of Osama bin Laden (which claims to have distanced itself from the family black sheep). Mr. Gore has not disclosed how much he was paid for his words of wisdom. It probably is less than the $267,000 former president Bill Clinton was paid for speaking to the group in 2002, but odds are his fee was in six figures. Whatever Mr. Gore's speaking fee was, his hosts likely thought it a bargain, considering what the former vice president had to say.

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MOHAMMED MUST NOT BE THE PROPHET OF TERRORISTS

Tashbih Sayyed
Friday, 17 February 2006
As a Moslem, I've followed with great agony and embarrassment the buildup of religious frenzy across the Moslem world in response to the cartoons published in a Danish newspaper. On the one side the show of force by Islamists underlined the extent to which Islam has been hijacked by radicals and on the other side it emphasized the vulnerability of open societies to the growing influence of militant Islam. The demonstration of violence by the Islamists forced the democratic societies to face up to the reality that Moslems who do not reject some of the basic precepts of political Islam can never integrate in a secular society. They will always remain a hurdle in the development of a pluralist setup and intellectual progress. The dance of insanity performed on the streets in the name of Prophet Mohammed's love and honor has also forced many Moslems to come out of their slumber and ponder as to why their faith and their prophet have suddenly become a subject of criticism and ridicule by non Moslems.

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CONFUSING IDEAS WITH REALITY

Dr. Joel Wade
Friday, 17 February 2006
Objective reality exists. Determining what it is can be tricky, particularly when we mix feelings, beliefs, assumptions, and past experiences. In other words, separating out what is objective reality from our internal subjective experience is not an automatic process. It takes practice, it takes conscious investigation, and it takes a willingness to question our pre-conceived assumptions, beliefs, and expectations. For example, when I concentrate, I contract the muscles on my forehead between my eyes (the procerus muscles, to be exact). When my wife sees me contract those muscles, her immediate assumption is that I am angry. But I am not angry, I am just concentrating. So a good skill to learn and practice is to distinguish the meaning you make of things internally from the actual objective events in the world. Here is a simple exercise that will help you learn how to do this:

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POLITICAL NASDAQ: February 10-16, 2006

Dagny D'Anconia
Friday, 17 February 2006
The liberals have been trying to find a “smoking gun” to get rid of “evil” Dick Cheney for a long time. This week they were delighted when a real smoking gun was found instead of just a figurative one. Not surprisingly, they became hysterical and obsessed with Dick Cheney’s hunting accident. After all, these are the same people who break out in a sweat if there’s a gun in the room. Furthermore, this verified their preconceived notion that the Administration is made up of out-of-control macho Texans who can’t be trusted with deadly force. The accident was living bleeding proof that the Administration will shoot innocent civilians based on faulty intel. Even though in reality it had no bearing on Iraq policies, in their minds the story line is the same. That is why they took a common hunting mishap and turned the news into the all hysteria all the time network. The DDI remained down even with the Cheney events. The long term prospects of the left are still bleak:

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COMING TO YOUR CAR SOON: 3-D NAVIGATION

Dennis Turner
Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Do drivers want to see a photorealistic image of the road ahead on their navigation displays? Google, Volkswagen, and nVidia think so, and they're working on a mapping and navigation system that could present Google Earth satellite images of highways and buildings. Since 2005, Volkswagen of America's Electronic Research Lab in Palo Alto, California, has been developing prototype vehicles with the system. While there’s no projected date for the concept to become reality in production vehicles, it’s not far off.
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BUMPER STICKER OF THE YEAR

Humor File
Thursday, 16 February 2006


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To The Point Weekly Report for January 27th 2006

2006-01-27T10:01:52Z

To The Point Weekly Report for January 27th 2006

CELEBRATING HAMAS

Published
Public
Friday, 20 January 2006
Dr. Jack Wheeler

Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Dennis “The Wizard” Turner only sleeps on the Jewish Sabbath. Every other day and night he spends at the Aroma Café in Jerusalem with his laptop, sending me a never-ending stream of emails telling me how wrong I am about things. About twenty-seven times a day, I get an emailed article from him with a note, “Jack, you are so wrong about Sharon… Jack, you are so wrong about Gaza… Jack, you are so wrong about Olmert and Kadima…” So I can just imagine how totally wrong Dennis will say I am about Hamas winning the Palestinian elections. For I don’t think it’s a disaster at all. I think it’s an opportunity. I’m happy Hamas won. (Dennis has now collapsed into a twitching heap on the café floor. I hope he didn’t let his laptop crash on the floor as well.) It’s time to celebrate the end of moral goo, the end of pretending Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority were “people we could work with,” the end of all the evasion and desperate avoidance of reality. At last, it’s the End of Pretend.

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GOOGLE AND THE CIA

Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Human Rights, is so mad at Google for capitulating to the Chicoms he is going to hold hearings next month on the operating procedures of US Internet companies in China. He can expect to be getting a call from CIA Director Porter Goss politely requesting that he shut up. He’ll tell Smith he can vent for a little while longer, enough to make Google execs sweat and be receptive to the call they’ll be getting from Langley. But as soon as the Google boys turn cooperative, Smith had better turn quiet. Google’s Chicom Collaboration presents a marvelous intelligence opportunity.
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OBL: STILL DEAD

Dr. Jack Wheeler
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
We’ve gotten a number of queries regarding the corporeal status of Osama Bin Laden, given that Michael Ledeen, in Who’s An Iraqi? , reported that OBL croaked in December, yet he came out with an audiotape in January. Here’s the deal.

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THE ABRAMOFF MYSTERY

Dagny D'Anconia
Thursday, 26 January 2006
In this journalistic tour de force, Dagny d’Anconia reveals the astounding truth behind the Jack Abramoff scandal – and why Abramoff’s life may now be in danger. ---JW Jack Abramoff was a Republican lobbyist. In fact, he has become the media’s archetype for an evil, greedy, Republican super-lobbyist. So I ask you this: In this politically charged environment, and caught in a scandal, who would you get for a lawyer if you were Jack Abramoff? The answer of who he got will shock you: Jack Abramoff’s lawyer is one of the most powerful and trusted Democrat lawyers in the country. He is not just any lawyer. He is the lawyer that argued against Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the Senate. He has represented numerous infamous Democrats over the years. He is the ultimate Democrat insider for the Clintons. Common sense tells us Jack Abramoff never would have chosen that lawyer if he were free to choose. My conclusion is that the New York Clintons and/or Democrats made a deal with the New York Mafia to deliver the Abramoff scandal and thus the 2006/2008 elections. If this is true, then Jack Abramoff may soon have outlived his usefulness. He can no longer do lobbying. He will soon have done all the damage he could do to the Republicans. If the bad guys get a notion that he could come forward and tell the whole story, then they might do something to prevent it. They would try to make it either look like a suicide, or like a right-wing guy did it to punish him for his damage to the Republicans. Either story would be entirely plausible to the press, and yet another way to damage the Republicans. Thus he may soon become more useful dead than alive to them. Bringing out this story now, first, is my way to help prevent that from happening.
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BLACK DEMOCRAT POTS

Jack Kelly
Thursday, 26 January 2006
It was no way to treat a lady. Washington Post ombudswoman Deborah Howell wrote a column praising her paper for exposing lobbyist Jack Abramoff. She was deluged with so much obscene email from outraged liberals the Post had to shut down one of its Web sites. Mr. Abramoff pled guilty earlier this month to defrauding his clients (Indian tribes who owned casinos) and the Internal Revenue Service. Ms. Howell's critics were in high dudgeon over a distinction without a difference. In the 7th paragraph of her story lauding reporter Susan Schmidt, she wrote: "And (Abramoff) had made substantial contributions to both major parties." "I heard that I was lying, that Democrats never got a penny of Abramoff-tainted money, that I was trying to say it was a bipartisan scandal," a stunned Ms. Howell wrote in her column last Sunday. All of Mr. Abramoff's personal contributions went to Republicans. But the big money was what Mr. Abramoff directed his clients to contribute.
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THE WORLD IS TILTED

Neal Asbury
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Below is a speech I recently gave to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce in association with the U.S. Southern Command, Center for Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miam, Florida International University, and Miami Free Zone at their “Americas Intelligence Briefing Series” on China’s Role in the Americas. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times asserts in his best selling book on globalization, The World is Flat, that the world has become smaller and “flatter” due to the rapid advancement of Information Technology. If something can be digitized, says Friedman, it can be zipped around the world in nanoseconds allowing workers from low cost countries such as China and India to replace workers from industrialized countries at a fraction of the expense. Friedman stresses this “flattening” has resulted in a more “level” playing field. In fact the cover of his book has a picture of earth taken from space superimposed on the face of a quarter symbolizing how small, flat and level it has become. The concept of a flat world today is as wrong metaphorically as it was when Copernicus proved it to be literally wrong. Mr. Friedman has obviously never sold and exported anything in his life.
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WHAT THE ARAB WORLD THINKS OF TORTURE

Brigitte Gabriel
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Torture is accepted and even expected in the Arab world. Might makes right. Arab men – not those nice Arab men you may know who have immigrated to America, but Arab men living in the Arab world – prove their manhood by the way they treat their enemy. After all, it's what Mohammed did to the nonbelievers - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians in the Koran - the 'holy book' allegedly mishandled in Guantanamo prison. Arab Moslem men gain honor by shaming, belittling, abusing and torturing their enemy in the most horrific ways. As someone who came from the Arab world and knows how they think, it frustrates me to see self-appointed self-righteous politicians and media pundits, oblivious to Arabic culture and thinking, criticizing America's actions at Guantanamo. Actually Gitmo is a joke as far as the Arabs are concerned. Prison? You call that a prison? You know what prisoners call Guantanamo among themselves? Al muntazah al-dini lilmujaheden al Moslemin , The Religious Resort for Islamic Militants.
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BYE BYE BASHAR

Michael Ledeen
Thursday, 26 January 2006
The Syrian-Iranian terror alliance goes back a quarter-century, when Hezbollah was created to wage terror war against American and French forces in Lebanon. There was a neat division of labor: Syria controlled the territory, and Iran ran the organization. Hezbollah's murderous successes are legendary, from the suicide bombings against the French and American Marine barracks to a similar operation against the American embassy, all in Beirut in 1983, to massive bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina in 1992. That alliance remains intact, and provides the base of the terror war in Iraq today. Now the Iranians are concerned at signs of cracks in the edifice of the Assad regime. The Assad family's grip on Syria is weakening, and this is welcome news indeed, both for the long-suffering Syrian people and for us. The Iranians are desperate to keep Assad in power, and Hezbollah armed to the teeth. Should things go the other way, Iran would lose its principal ally in the war against us in Iraq.
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WHAT’S HANGING IN YOUR GALLERY?

Dr. Joel Wade
Friday, 27 January 2006
On the walls in our home we are putting up a bunch of pictures. We have pictures of our family, of trips we have been on together, parents, aunts, uncles, friends. My wife and I have spent some degree of time and energy selecting these pictures from literally boxes and boxes of pictures. We select those pictures that we enjoy looking at, that remind us of important experiences, good times, and people whom we love at their best. In this way we honor those in our lives who matter to us, and we direct our focus upon people, things, and experiences that we would like to be reminded of often. We don’t have pictures up of people who have been bad to us or hurt us in some way. I want you to think for a moment of your own memory; the scenes that you see in your mind’s eye that remind you of your past experiences. Your memory is very much like your own personal, internal picture gallery.
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POLITICAL NASDAQ - - January 20-26, 2006

Dagny D'Anconia
Friday, 27 January 2006
On Friday (Jan. 20), Iran announced it would move its funds out of European banks, and commenced doing so. Back during the Iranian hostage crisis America froze Iranian assets and they were taking no chances of the Europeans repeating this. This was also an attempt for Iran to flex its financial muscle, and show how weak the Western financial markets were. The net result was an economic assault on the West's stock markets.
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DVD MATH

Dennis Turner
Friday, 27 January 2006
You know what they say about computers - the minute the newest models come off the assembly line they're already obsolete, because back in the lab they've already developed a prototype two generations ahead of the most advanced commercially available systems. As the old saying goes, "If cars had progressed as fast as computers, we would be driving at 500 MPH in a $25 car that gets 2 million miles per gallon and seats the population of China." This is relevant to many of us who are interested in burning DVDs ...
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NOW DENNIS TURNER SAYS JACK WHEELER IS WRONG ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

Humor File
Friday, 27 January 2006
Jack Wheeler has just received this latest email from Dennis “The Wizard” Turner: Dear Jack, In addition to being wrong about Sharon, Gaza, and Hamas, you’re also wrong about your disbelief in global warming. You know that in the past, I have been just as skeptical as you, but unlike you, I can be persuaded by compelling and countervailing evidence. This Associated Press news story is as compelling as evidence can be that global warming is real:
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