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How The Clintons Will Destroy John McCain

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:24:00 GMT

<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dear Friend of <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/">To The Point</a>,</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This past Friday, we published an explosive article on John McCain.<span style="">  </span>In response to many members’ requests, <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3068/2/">How The Clintons Will Destroy John McCain</a> is now a free public access article.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I greatly appreciate TTP members’ willingness to share this article with the public at large after paying for it themselves.<span style="">  </span>TTP is membership site, paid for by member subscriptions.<span style="">  </span>There is no advertising.<span style="">  </span>Information in TTP is exclusive to members.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet members felt the issue of John McCain is of such critical danger to our country that they have insisted it be made public.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You now have full access to <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3068/2/">How The Clintons Will Destroy John McCain</a>, and are free to forward or post it wherever you feel it would be useful.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That article, from November 2005, is:<span style="">  </span><a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2003/44/">To The Big House Instead of the White House?</a><span style="">  </span>You may post this wherever you like.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let's all do our share in helping to prevent the disaster of a McCain nomination.<span style="">  </span>And I hope you will consider joining our TTP family and become a TTP member yourself.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jack Wheeler</span></font></p>

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To The Point Weekly Report for February 17th 2006

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:14:00 GMT

<font face="Arial" size="3"><b>To The Point Weekly Report for February 17th 2006<br> <br> </b></font> <table _base_href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/" class="blog" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody _base_href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">YOGI IN IRAN</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Friday, 17 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><br> 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. <p>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 <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/19/news/france.php">retaliate with nuclear missiles</a>.</p> 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.  </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" colspan="2" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2149/2/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> <br> </span> </div> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE PILLAR GANG</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Friday, 17 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><br> Today's (2/17) Wall Street Journal has an op-ed by a CIA intelligence officer, Guillermo Christensen, entitled <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007981">Un-Intelligence</a>.  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 <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060301faessay85202/paul-r-pillar/intelligence-policy-and-the-war-in-iraq.html">Foreign Affairs</a>. <p>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.</p> <p><a href="content/view/1559/2/">Porter At The Pass</a> 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.</p> <p>As explained in "Porter At The Pass":<br> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" colspan="2" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2150/44/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> <br> </span> </div> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter Twenty One: THE TRAP OF CHOLULA</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Friday, 17 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <p><strong><font size="3"><br> The Jade Steps</font></strong></p> <p><font size="3"><font size="3"><strong>Chapter Twenty One: The  Trap of Cholula</strong></font> </font></p> <font size="3"><font size="3"> <p>They spent most of the <em>siesta</em>, 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."</p> <p>"Have fun," Aguilar joked.  Malinali sighed.  "Our talking - <em>that</em> was fun.  But ‘fun' and ‘Mesheeka' are two words that don't go together - in Spanish or Nahuatl."</p> <p>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.</p> When she saw the crowd of soldiers in front of Cortez's quarters, she realized something was different.<br> </font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" colspan="2" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2147/79/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> <br> </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE FAIRY TALE OF ONE BILLION CUSTOMERS</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Neal Asbury </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Friday, 17 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <p><br> 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. </p> <p>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? </p> <p>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. </p> <p>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".</p> <p>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.<br> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2145/82/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> <br> </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">AL GORE: CRAZY, STUPID, TREASONOUS, OR ALL THREE?</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Jack Kelly </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Friday, 17 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><br> 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.<br> <p>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).  <br> </p> <p>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.<br> </p> Whatever Mr. Gore's speaking fee was, his hosts likely thought it a bargain, considering what the former vice president had to say.<br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" colspan="2" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2148/87/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"><br> </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MOHAMMED MUST NOT BE THE PROPHET OF TERRORISTS</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Tashbih Sayyed </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Friday, 17 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <p> <br> 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. </p> <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p> 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. <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" colspan="2" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2151/87/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> <br> </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONFUSING IDEAS WITH REALITY</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Dr. Joel Wade </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Friday, 17 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <p><br> Objective reality exists.  Determining what it is can be tricky, particularly when we mix feelings, beliefs, assumptions, and past experiences.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 <em>not</em> angry, I am just concentrating.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Here is a simple exercise that will help you learn how to do this:</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" colspan="2" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2144/80/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> <br> </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">POLITICAL NASDAQ: February 10-16, 2006</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Dagny D'Anconia </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Friday, 17 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><br> 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.<br>  <br> 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.<br>  <br> The DDI remained down even with the Cheney events.  The long term prospects of the left are still bleak: </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" colspan="2" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2146/84/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> <br> </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">COMING TO YOUR CAR SOON: 3-D NAVIGATION</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Dennis Turner </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Tuesday, 14 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><br> <img title="wizard21706.jpg" alt="wizard21706.jpg" src="http://www.tothepointnews.com/images/stories/Dennis/wizard21706.jpg" align="top" border="0" height="280" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="550"><br> <br> Do drivers want to see a photorealistic image of the road ahead on their navigation displays? <br> <br> Google, Volkswagen, and <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html">nVidia</a> think so, and they're working on a mapping and navigation system that could present Google Earth satellite images of highways and buildings. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2142/75/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> <br> </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="contentheading" width="100%"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BUMPER STICKER OF THE YEAR</span> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small">Humor File</span>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top">Thursday, 16 February 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><br> <br> <img title="bumper_of_the_year.jpg" alt="bumper_of_the_year.jpg" src="http://www.tothepointnews.com/images/stories/bumper_of_the_year.jpg" align="top" border="0" height="367" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="550"><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" colspan="2" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"><a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2143/85/">Read more... </a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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To The Point Weekly Report for January 27th 2006

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:01:00 GMT

<p><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>To The Point Weekly Report for January 27th 2006</b></font></p> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> CELEBRATING HAMAS <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <div id="overDiv" style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden; z-index: 10000; background-image: none; left: -10000px; top: -10000px;"> <table bgcolor="#c64934" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="200"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <table bgcolor="#f1e8e6" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <font color="#000000" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="1">Published<br> Public<br> Friday, 20 January 2006<br> Dr. Jack Wheeler</font> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Thursday, 26 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.)<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="modifydate" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2116/2/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> GOOGLE AND THE CIA </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Thursday, 26 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> 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.<br> <br> He can expect to be getting a call from CIA Director Porter Goss politely requesting that he shut up.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Google’s Chicom Collaboration presents a marvelous intelligence opportunity. <br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2115/44/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </div> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> OBL: STILL DEAD </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Tuesday, 24 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> We’ve gotten a number of queries regarding the corporeal status of Osama Bin Laden, given that Michael Ledeen, in <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2094/81/"> Who’s An Iraqi?</a> , reported that OBL croaked in December, yet he came out with an audiotape in January.<br> <br> Here’s the deal.<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="modifydate" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2109/44/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> THE ABRAMOFF MYSTERY </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Dagny D'Anconia </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Thursday, 26 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <div><br> <p class="MsoBodyText2"> <em>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</em> </p> Jack Abramoff was a Republican lobbyist. In fact, he has become the media’s archetype for an evil, greedy, Republican super-lobbyist. <br> <br> 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:<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Common sense tells us Jack Abramoff never would have chosen that lawyer if he were free to choose. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Bringing out this story now, first, is my way to help prevent that from happening.<br> <br> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2111/87/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> BLACK DEMOCRAT POTS </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Jack Kelly </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Thursday, 26 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> 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.<br> <br> Mr. Abramoff pled guilty earlier this month to defrauding his clients (Indian tribes who owned casinos) and the Internal Revenue Service. <br> <br> 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."<br> <br> "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.<br> <br> All of Mr. Abramoff's personal contributions went to Republicans. But the big money was what Mr. Abramoff directed his clients to contribute.<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2112/87/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> THE WORLD IS TILTED </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Neal Asbury </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Thursday, 26 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> <em> 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. </em> <br> <em> <br> <br> </em> 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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. <em> <br> <br> </em> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2114/82/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> WHAT THE ARAB WORLD THINKS OF TORTURE </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Brigitte Gabriel </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Thursday, 26 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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? <em> Al muntazah al-dini lilmujaheden al Moslemin</em> , The Religious Resort for Islamic Militants.<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2110/87/" class="readon">Read more for free... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> BYE BYE BASHAR </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Michael Ledeen </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Thursday, 26 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2113/81/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> WHAT’S HANGING IN YOUR GALLERY? </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Dr. Joel Wade </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Friday, 27 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> We <em> don’t</em> have pictures up of people who have been bad to us or hurt us in some way. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2118/80/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> POLITICAL NASDAQ - - January 20-26, 2006 </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Dagny D'Anconia </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Friday, 27 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2117/84/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> DVD MATH </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Dennis Turner </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Friday, 27 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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." <br> <br> This is relevant to many of us who are interested in burning DVDs ...<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2119/75/" class="readon">Read more... </a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <span class="article_seperator">  </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> NOW DENNIS TURNER SAYS JACK WHEELER IS WRONG ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" width="70%"> <span class="small">Humor File </span>    </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="createdate" valign="top"> Friday, 27 January 2006 </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> <br> <em> Jack Wheeler has just received this latest email from Dennis “The Wizard” Turner:</em> <br> <br> Dear Jack,<br> <br> In addition to being wrong about Sharon, Gaza, and Hamas, you’re also wrong about your disbelief in global warming. <br> <br> 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 <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10994127"> news story</a> is as compelling as evidence can be that global warming is real:<br> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2120/85/" class="readon">Read more for free...</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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TTP Weekly Report - December 16th 2005

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:43:00 GMT

<p><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>To The Point Weekly Report for December 16th 2005</b> <br>  </font></p> <table class="blog" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" id="table1"> <tr> <td vAlign="top"> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table2"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>WASHINGTON ON THE DNEIPER </b> </font></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table3"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 16 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> Here I am in Kiev, Ukraine � but in some striking ways it seems I never left Washington. The parallels go way beyond the geography, as both capital cities are on the banks of a large river, the Dneiper (nyay-purr) in the case of Kiev. In both, the political scum dominate public opinion.<br> <br> Ukraine is the largest country in Europe (entirely in Europe � most of Russia is in Asia). It had suffered as a colony of Russia�s since the 17<sup>th</sup> century, and underwent a holocaust perpetrated by Stalin in the 1930s that killed twice as many Ukrainians (well over 12 million) as Hitler killed Jews. <br> <br> When Ukraine gained its independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Soviet <em>apparatchiks</em> (bureaucrats) and <em>nomenklatura</em> (ruling elite) still clung to power. The now �ex-� Communists quickly gained control of the Ukrainian Parliament called the <em>Rada</em>. Socialism, corruption, and selling state assets for a song to apparatchiks and gangsters posing as �biznessmen,� flourished. <br> <br> The smartest and most charismatic of these �biznessmen� wasn�t a man at all but a good-looking blonde named Yulia Timoshenko.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2054/2/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </div> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table4"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>THE ROGUE WEASELS CLUB </b></font> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table5"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 16 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> How upset are you over the CIA �secret prison scandal�? Maybe you said, �What scandal?�, or maybe you�ve glanced at stories about it carried in the back pages of your newspaper. Here in Europe, it�s the giant screaming front page headline story on every paper you pick up from England to Germany. <br> <br> The Europeans are in a state of high emotional froth over CIA �renditions� of Moslem terrorists seized in one of their countries and taken to a �secret prison� in Poland or elsewhere. The Euroweenies are far more concerned with the �human rights� of the terrorists than they are about the threat of terrorists to kill them.<br> <br> If you think all of this is just an excuse to bash the CIA and indulge in anti-Americanism, you�re right � just as planned by the weasels.<br> <br> Everyone on the right, it seems nowadays, from the editorials in the <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007508"> Wall Street Journal</a> to conservative columnists like <a href="http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/monacharen/2005/12/02/177488.html"> Mona Charen</a> and bloggers like <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/417aldhj.asp"> John Hinderacker</a>, are issuing calls to �Investigate the CIA!� They have been suckered by the left.<br> <br> They should instead be demanding, �Investigate the weasels, not the agency!� <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2057/44/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </div> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table6"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"><b> <font color="#800000">Chapter Seventeen: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT </font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table7"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Tuesday, 13 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><strong>The Jade Steps: <br> Chapter Seventeen:  Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat</strong><br> <br> When they arrived at the city of Tlaxcala<a title name="_ftnref1" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/#_ftn1">[1]</a>, there was an enormous welcoming party to greet the Spaniards. Different clans of Tlaxcalans dressed in differing colors, their maguey or henniquen cloaks all painted and embroidered. A contingent of priests with their burning copal performed fumigations, wearing long white hooded robes, their hair long and blood-encrusted, blood oozing from their ears, and with fingernails several inches long. The streets and rooftops were thronging with smiling Indians who showered the Spaniards with roses of varying hues.<br> <br> When they reached the central plaza, King Xicotencatl took Cortez by the hand and led him to a palace, explaining, �This shall be your home in Tlaxcala for as long as you wish.� He assured Cortez that all his men, all the Totonacs and Xocotlans, and even the Mesheeka nobles, would be well housed. Upon his signal, hundreds of servants began streaming into the plaza bearing cooked turkeys, maize cakes, fruits and vegetables for all. The soldiers all agreed it was the best they had eaten since leaving Cuba.<br> <br> With everyone so joyously happy, Cortez and Malinali retired to their quarters. They had not had any time together since Zautla � so they did not waste any time now, making love fiercely and quickly. Afterwards, noticing Malinali was staring into space, Cortez asked her what she was thinking about. <br>  <hr><a title name="_ftn1" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/#_ftnref1"> [1]</a> September 18, 1519.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2052/79/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top"> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" id="table8"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table9"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>A SUCKER�S GAME </b></font> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table10"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Michael Ledeen </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 16 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> The <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1399826"> French just arrested 20 people</a>, apparently pretty close to doing some mean terrorist thing. In late September, nine people <a href="http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=1886"> were arrested</a> in Paris in "what officials said was a crackdown on suspected Islamic terrorist activities." <a href="http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/10/details_on_the_.html"> It was later reported</a> that the DST (internal-security service) had learned that members of this group had been trained in Lebanon, and possessed an exotic poison: seeds of the "nigelle" plant, said to be highly lethal.<br> <br> At the end of October, the London <em>Telegraph</em> <a href="http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=Z0JAPTELPGQLBQFIQMGCNAGAVCBQUJVC?xml=/news/2005/10/29/wterr29.xml&sSheet=/portal/"> reported</a> that French authorities had discovered that "an Islamic terror cell has smuggled two surface-to-air missiles into Europe in a plot to shoot down planes at one of France's main airports..." For extras, the terror group, part of the Zarqawi network, had chemical and biological agents including ricin, cyanide, and botulin.<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2056/81/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table11"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>APEC FACE AND FRAUD </b></font> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table12"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Neal Asbury </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Monday, 12 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> It is fascinating to observe the stark difference between Latin America and Asia regarding the great issues and diplomacy impacting the World War of Trade. <br> <br> The Summit of the Americas (see <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2029/82/"> The Myths of FTAA</a>) held November 6<sup>th</sup> at Mar del Plata, Argentina attended by the 34 democracies of the Western Hemisphere, will be remembered for the warped bravado of a few left-wing-populist leaders from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela spewing out their venom in staged events. <br> <br> They have no solutions and continue to deliver their people deeper into darkness and despair while corruption in their ranks runs wild.<br> <br> Contrast this with the recent <em>APEC Summit</em> (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) attended by President Bush held November 18<sup>th</sup> and 19th, in Busan, South Korea. <br> <br> The APEC meeting was cold and calculated with every move carefully choreographed. It was attended by Asia�s economic powerhouses very confident of themselves each promoting and defining globalization and free trade in their own image. It was all about face and politeness but resolute in avoiding any real dialogue in rebalancing the American trade deficit.<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2051/82/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table13"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>THE WAR OF THE WEASELS </b> </font></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table14"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dagny D'Anconia </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 16 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Last week Dr. Rice said "This is essentially a war in which intelligence is absolutely key to success. If you are going to uncover plots, if you are going to get to people before they commit their crimes, that is largely an intelligence function." (See Rice) <div> <br> In this information age, warfare has more and more to do with intelligence and less to do with brute force. The battlefield we fight on is often the world of intelligence, and the crucial battles that are fought can occur silently, and unseen. So it is with a battle ongoing in the shadow lands where politics and intelligence overlap.</div> <div> <br> The extraordinary confession of Randy Cunningham offers a glimpse...</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2063/87/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table15"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>WHAT WILL YOU DECIDE? </b> </font></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table16"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dr. Joel Wade </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 16 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"> <div> There is a line in the movie, �Apollo 13�, where Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks) is talking with his wife about the moon landing of Apollo 11. He says something to the effect of, �It�s not a miracle that we did it, you know. We just decided to go.�</div> <div> <br> The fulcrum that moved such powerful forces toward such a magnificent achievement was first and foremost simply the <em>decision</em> to go.</div> <br> The critical element of positive change in your life, upon which all of the other elements rest, is <em>the decision to do it</em>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2060/80/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table17"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>POLITICAL NASDAQ - - December 9-15, 2005 </b></font></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table18"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dagny D'Anconia </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 16 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"> <div> This was a historic week with the elections in Iraq. President Bush gave speeches led up to the event, and each time he did, the market went down. In fact it is precisely orchestrated. Bush speaks, the market drops. Murtha gives the response for the Democrats and it starts back up again. Next time President Bush gives a speech that the Lefties don�t want to hear, watch the Nasdaq and you will see what I mean. It is an amusing thing to watch. </div> <div> <br> However pained they were, the DDI nevertheless remained up. This is presumely due to the fact that..</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2059/84/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table19"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>SAYYING NO TO NOTEBOOK THIEVES</b></font> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table20"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dennis Turner </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Tuesday, 13 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> If you travel with your notebook, you�re always worried about thieves. Here�s how to stop computer kleptos with this bag of hardware and software tricks<strong>.</strong><br> <br> You may have all the data security tools you need � firewall, antivirus program, and antispyware protection. But what if a thief slips into your office or hotel room or breaks into the trunk of your car � and tries to walk away with your trusty computer?<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2053/75/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table21"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>THE LATEST WASHINGTON SCANDAL </b></font></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table22"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> Humor File </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 16 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> The latest hot rumor that has all of official Washington agog is that Senator Edward Kennedy attempted to sexually harass Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The only solid grounds for the rumor is this photograph � which seems to provide convincing evidence:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2055/85/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p>

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TTP Weekly Report - December 9th 2005

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:29:00 GMT

<p><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>To The Point Weekly Report for December 9th 2005</b> <br>  </font></p> <table class="blog" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" id="table1"> <tr> <td vAlign="top"> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table2"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"><b> <font color="#800000">SHOULDN�T THE PALESTINIANS BE TERRIFIED OF IRAN? </font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table3"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 09 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> Israeli military intelligence now states that Iran may have the capacity to build a nuclear bomb by March, 2006. That�s less than four months away.<br> <br> Thus the pressure for Israel to mount an attack on Iranian facilities is getting intense. Yet they are dispersed and dug in deep fortified subterranean tunnels. Sabotage, rather than a missile attack, seems the only option � but the frightening reality is that Mossad, the Israeli CIA, can�t pull it off.<br> <br> Some sort of military assault, covert or overt, may be attempted anyway, but let�s also watch out for Sharon to deal a card from the bottom of the deck as well. This sure is a good time he thinks, for some Psy-Ops � directed at the Palestinians, and all Sunni Moslems worldwide.<br> <br> It is a very good time to point out to them that there is no way to make a nuclear bomb that just kills Jews. There is no way to �wipe Israel off the map� in a Nuclear Armageddon without wiping out the Palestinians as well.<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2043/2/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </div> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table4"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"><b> <font color="#800000">THE PARANOIA ANTIDOTE </font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table5"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dr. Jack Wheeler </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 09 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> Given all the frantic efforts by so much of the media, and by so many folks with agendas, to freak you out with fear, I think you should look upon To The Point as <em>The Paranoia Antidote</em>.<br> <br> In addition to this week�s article on how Iran�s nuclear threat may be of benefit to Israel (<a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2043/2/">Shouldn�t the Palestinians Be Terrified of Iran?),</a> let�s take three examples.<br> <br> The first concerns the liberal paranoia of global warming, or more precisely man-made global warming, as in, it�s all our fault. It�s hilarious, of course, that COP-11, the assemblage of eco-goofballs attending the UN conference on �climate change� are freezing their tushes in Montreal this week in record cold while whining about the earth burning up. They would be enlightened by reading <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/1430/2/"> Solar Warming</a> in To The Point in September.<br> <br> Our second example concerns conservative paranoia over the phony terrorist threat of �EMP.� The �threat� is a cry of nuclear wolf, as originally discussed in <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/1406/2/"> The EMP Annoyance</a> last June.<br> <br> Our third example is the current paranoia over torture � specifically the torture of terrorists to extract information from them regarding planned terrorist acts. All of this can be avoided � all brutalizing torture can be avoided � with the techniques described in three To The Point articles: <br> <br> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/1266/44/"> D3 Terrorists</a> (July 2005).<br> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/1342/44/"> How To Get A Terrorist To Sing Like A Canary Without Torture</a> (January 2005).<br> <a href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2042/2/"> Interrogating Osama</a> (October 2001).</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2044/44/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </div> <div> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table6"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="95%"><b> <font color="#800000">THE CIA IN DEEP CRISIS </font></b> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table7"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Jack Kelly </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 09 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> On August 2nd, Dafna Linzer of the Washington Post reported that: "A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years."<br> <br> On December 5th, the Jerusalem Post reported that Mohammed el Baradei, chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency, "confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.<br> <br> "My, how time flies. It hasn't seemed as if ten years have elapsed since last summer.<br> <br> The CIA could be right, and Mossad and the IAEA could be wrong. But given the CIA's forecasting record -- it missed the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Islamic revolution in Iran, the warning signs of 9/11, and Saddam's WMD -- that's not the way to bet.<br> <br> Intelligence analysis isn't the only thing the CIA does sloppily.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2047/87/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top"> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" id="table8"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table9"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"><b> <font color="#800000">THE KAZAKH TIGER IN CENTRAL ASIA </font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table10"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dr. Ariel Cohen </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 09 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the leader of Kazakhstan since 1989, won the country's Dec. 4 presidential election hands down. The Central Election Commission reported he got 91 percent of the votes. Gallup and International Republican Institute exit polling says he got only 83.2 percent. Either way, no Orange Revolution there. <br> <br> To put the Kazakh elections in perspective, it is important to note there were no democratic procedures there during the Russian czarist or the Soviet times. Seen in this light, the Kazakh elections were among most open in Central Asia. <br> <br> What makes Kazakhstan unique are its real economic achievements, fueled by high oil prices. Kazakhstan today is as one of the more positive available examples of post-Soviet market development, including Western access to oil and gas resources, which Russia increasingly rejects. <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2046/87/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table11"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>THE CHINA TRADE SOLUTION </b> </font></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table12"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Neal Asbury </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Tuesday, 06 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> President Bush�s visit to Beijing on November 20<sup>th</sup> was a tremendous disappointment in achieving any tangible progress on easing our trade crisis. Our stratospheric trade deficit is clearly one of the gravest national security threats we face � and no one in Washington seems to have a clue on how to deal with it. <br> <br> Our overall trade deficit in 2005 is tracking to exceed $700 billion up from $612 billion in 2004. Our trade deficit with China will exceed $200 billion up from $162 billion in 2004 and $124 billion in 2003.<br> <br> It may surprise many (including President Bush!), but there are a number of actions that can immediately be taken that in the short term will have a dramatic impact to turn around our trade crisis with China.<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2041/82/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table13"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"> <font color="#800000"><b>VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS ARE SYNONYMS</b></font> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table14"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dr. Joel Wade </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 09 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> If there is one bold, clear, central point that I hope you come away with from reading these columns, it is that <strong><em>virtue and living well are congruent aims</em></strong>. <strong><em>To live a virtuous life <u>is</u> to live well.</em></strong><em><br> <br> </em>Many of the qualities that have traditionally been considered virtues hold benefits to others, to society, to posterity, but they also speak deeply to one�s own self-interest. This is part of the beauty of a life well lived. Of course, it is in one�s self interest to earn a good reputation and to foster goodwill in your relationships, but there can arise conflicts between self and others and an understanding of virtue can be very helpful in sorting these out.<br> <br> Let�s take a look at some of the virtues, and see where your self-interest lies:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2048/80/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table15"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"><b> <font color="#800000">POLITICAL NASDAQ - - December 2-8, 2005 </font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table16"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dagny D'Anconia </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 09 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> This week was loaded with news, most of which was bad news for the Leftist market movers. As a result, the market went down a little in spite of the DDI remaining up all week. The avalanche of news made for a volatile Nasdaq this week.<br> <br> Friday (Dec. 2) was mixed: In economic news , Greenspan warned of deficits and there was a jump upward in new jobs numbers. 10 Marines were killed by a bomb in Iraq. The market went mostly sideways.<br> <br> On Monday morning (Dec. 5), Saddam�s trial was in turmoil, but nevertheless proceeded. We have seen before that the market movers are surprisingly sensitive to events surrounding Saddam. It has appeared that they did not like to see him captured, or on trial. While the trial was in session today, the Nasdaq dropped about 1%, then promptly leveled out after the trial was adjourned for the day.<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2050/84/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table17"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"><b> <font color="#800000">WIRELESS PIRATES </font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table18"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">Dennis Turner </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 09 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> While setting up a wireless network is easier today than ever, it�s not the type of thing a computer novice is likely to try on his or her own as it requires at least some degree of technical awareness. <br> <br> One could assume that people who have set up their own wireless networks would be among the users of anti-virus and other security programs. They are almost certainly among those who avoid opening e-mail attachments, who check downloads for viruses, and set up firewalls to keep out unwanted intruders. <br> <br> But most people�s concerns over security stops at the entrance to their hard drive, it seems.<br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2049/75/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> <span class="article_seperator"> </span> <br>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="100%"> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table19"> <tr> <td class="contentheading" width="100%"><b> <font color="#800000">AN ATHEIST IN THE WOODS </font> </b></td> </tr> </table> <table class="contentpaneopen" id="table20"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="70%" colSpan="2"> <span class="small">To The Point, Inc. </span>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="createdate" vAlign="top" colSpan="2">Friday, 09 December 2005 </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" colSpan="2"><br> An atheist was walking through the woods. "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself. <br> <br> As he was walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly charging towards him. <br> <br> He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing up on him. He looked over his shoulder again and saw that the bear was even closer. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="modifydate" align="left" colSpan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" colSpan="2"> <a class="readon" href="http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2045/85/"> Read more... </a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p>

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