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WHY SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE ANYTHING THE CIA HAS TO SAY ABOUT IRAN? |
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Written by Michael Ledeen
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Friday, 06 January 2006 |
Like everyone else in Washington, I’ve been reading excerpts from James Risen’s new book, the one that "exposes" the "crimes" of the Bush administration with regard to the war on terrorism.
The most recent excerpt deals with the CIA’s activities vis-à-vis Iran, and Risen says some very shocking things, things which a serious city would find far more troublesome than the legalities about NSA’s intercepts of conversations involving terrorists.
Most shocking of all is that Risen doesn’t even notice the truly horrible aspects of his own story. He doesn’t have the wit or the energy to think half a step beyond the tale he’s been told.
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INSIGHTS TO BEGIN YOUR YEAR |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 06 January 2006 |
From time to time it can be helpful to explore thoughts and feelings without knowing where they will take you. I don’t mean to say that you act on these; I mean you explore them, to get a sense of your internal territory.
You need to integrate this internal territory with your external world so that what you are doing in the world is congruent with your deepest hopes, dreams, and aspirations.
To that end, I have an exercise, drawn from Nathaniel Branden’s work, for you to start the New Year. This is very simple, but if you follow my directions, I think you’ll discover some interesting things, and what you discover may help you to live a happier life.
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POLITICAL NASDAQ -- December 23, 2005-January 5, 2006 |
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Written by Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 06 January 2006 |
The DDI has remained up, and when the market movers returned to work from the holiday break, they quickly put things right, boosting the Nasdaq 3.24 % and the QQQQ 3.73%.
From the market movers point of view, holidays are when the inmates are running the asylum. The market tends to go the opposite way from what the market movers think it should. Thus the market tends to go opposite from what the DDI indicates during holidays when the volume is low.
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CREATE AN INDESTRUCTIBLE SHARED PC |
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Thursday, 05 January 2006 |
Need to put a PC in a public place? A free Microsoft tool makes it easy to lock down.
Schools, libraries, and other organizations often want to make computers available in public places. These can become tempting targets for hackers. Even well-intentioned users can wreak havoc by deleting important files or accidentally installing malware.
Perhaps your child has a party and doesn’t want you around. You and your wife retreat into another room, or perhaps to a neighbor’s home. But your and your children’s computers are around. They’ll surf, play games, and who knows what else.
These can become tempting targets for hackers. Even well-intentioned users can wreak havoc by deleting important files or accidentally installing malware. Here’s how to prevent all that.
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CRYSTAL BALL 2006 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 30 December 2005 |
The title is a tease – because contrary to what some think, I really don’t have a crystal ball. That’s because there’s no such thing as the future. How could there be – it hasn’t happened yet! What there are in reality is a large number of possible futures – some of which are more possible than others.
The trick is to not confuse what you want to happen with what’s likely to happen to best handicap the possibilities. That’s not easy.
I have to admit that 2005 has left a bad taste in my mouth. The dominant story of the year has to be the treasonously vicious and pathologically dishonest war of the liberal “mainstream” media and the Democrat Party waged relentlessly against the Presidency of George W. Bush.
Yet I see 2006 as a far better year than 2005. Here’s why…
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THE BEIJING EPIPHANY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 30 December 2005 |
When I began giving lectures on “The Coming Collapse of the Soviet Empire” in the early 1980s, I would put up a large world map on the wall and point to the enormous monochrome blob of the Soviet Union dwarfing and hulking over Europe and Asia.
“I want you all to imagine what the world would be like if the Soviet Union ceased to exist, that it went the way of other empires of the past and vanished into history,” was my request of the audience.
What I would always get was MEGO: my eyes glaze over, in response. The Soviet Union seemed such a permanent fixture of the world in the audience’s mind that they couldn’t imagine it going away.
I remember when the CEO of a large corporation based in Los Angeles started to get it. He stared at the map in wide-eyed wonder and exclaimed, “Everything would be different!” He suddenly was looking at the world differently, and this new perception was exploding with new possibilities. He had had an epiphany.
Not The Epiphany, the “revelatory manifestation of a divine being” as experienced by the Magi upon visiting the infant Jesus in the manger, traditionally celebrated January 6th. An epiphany is an insight into the nature of something that transforms the way you look at it. And that is what I want you to have regarding China.
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THE NEXT WAR IN EUROPE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 29 December 2005 |
Andrei Illarionov resigned just in time. As an admirer of the capitalist philosophy of Ayn Rand and the laissez faire economics of Ludwig Von Mises, his resignation this week as Vladimir Putin’s chief economic advisor is a disaster for Russia.
But his announcing that “Russia is no longer a democracy,” serves to keep intact the record of there never being a war between two democracies should war break out between Russia and Ukraine.
For the day of Illarionov’s resignation (Tuesday, December 27), the Russian Defense Minister threatened to invade Ukraine.
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Chapter Eighteen: THE TALE OF TACLAELEL |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 29 December 2005 |
The Jade Steps
Chapter Eighteen: The Tale of Taclaelel
They arose the next morning at dawn. Cortez ordered a small altar be put up in the plaza, where the padres performed a Mass for the Spaniards. He returned to his quarters to find King Xicotencatl and a very dignified elderly man, at least as old as the king.
“Malinche,” the king said through Malinali, “this is Chief Maxixcatzin (max-eeks-cot-zin, Ring of Cotton), lord of our region of Ocotelolco, and the military leader of all Tlaxcala who has protected us from the Mesheeka for many years.”
Malinali’s eyes widened at the introduction, and took it upon herself to expand Cortez’s brief greeting of welcome.
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GETTING SERIOUS ON IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT |
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Written by Dana Rohrabacher
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Friday, 30 December 2005 |
Just before Congress adjourned for Christmas break, the House voted to pass the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (HR 4437) by a vote of 239 to 182. Introduced by James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), I am proud to be one of its co-sponsors.
Pro-illegal immigration forces are outraged. The Wall Street Journal, for example, in an editorial on December 29, is particularly incensed that the bill makes being in America illegally a crime. How unfair that something illegal should be a crime!
Now it is the Senate’s turn to vote on its version of HR 4437. We in the House hope that our Senatorial colleagues will have the courage to withstand the deluge of demagoguery coming their way, and support our efforts to preserve our national borders and economy.
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THE CHRISTIAN KORAN |
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Written by Thomas Lifson
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Friday, 30 December 2005 |
Can you name the book which has the Islamic world in an uproar, and caused the United States government to deny any involvement with it? The book banned in the world’s most populous democracy?
There has never been an adequate translation of the Bible into classical Arabic. Such translations as exist are subject to ridicule by those trained in the poetry of the Koran, which is the standard used to define classical Arabic.
Nevertheless, there are Christian evangelists who wish to bring their religion and the teachings of Christ to Moslems. In 1999, two pseudonymous Arab Christian authors produced a book, The True Furqan (Furqan is another word for Koran), written in classical Arabic, intended as a tool to evangelize Arabs in particular, and Moslems in general.
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“KYOTO” IS JAPANESE FOR HYPOCRISY |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 30 December 2005 |
It isn't absolutely necessary to be a hypocrite in order to be a liberal, but it sure helps.
During the first week in December, ten thousand people gathered in Montreal for a UN-sponsored conference on global warming. Rex Murphy of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. thought the size of the gathering inappropriate:
"Just think of the Montreal summit's ecological footprint," he said. "Is there really a need to fly ten thousand people from 189 countries to a cold city to exchange ideas? Is there no email? Are the phone lines down?"
Then Mr. Murphy answered his own question: "I suppose...ecology is not really different from politics. High on sermons, low on example."
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WEASEL TRACKS |
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Written by Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 30 December 2005 |
[Dagny D’Anconia, author of the TTP Political Nasdaq column, is conducting astonishing research uncovering a left-wing Clinton-blessed shadow government that continues to operate uninvestigated, even though it was caught red-handed bribing a United States Congressman. It is a true scandal of immense proportions, and thanks to Dagny, it is being exposed exclusively in To The Point. ---JW]
As we discussed two weeks ago in The War of the Weasels, MZM, Inc. is the left-wing private intelligence company with hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts that was publicly exposed as the source of bribes paid to Congressman Randy Cunningham.
We learned that the scandal didn’t hurt MZM a bit, after which it immediately got back to business. When the scandal broke last June, the GSA announced it was terminating its “blanket” contract for MZM services. Yet only a month later, in July, the GSA offered MZM a spot on one of its large contracts. (See Sources: Back)
Thus MZM was back in business even before they had new management. The same Gen. James King had been moved up to the CEO spot, as Mitchell Wade, the old CEO who took the fall for the bribes, left.
However, they had a problem.
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HOW DANGEROUS IS WIKIPEDIA? |
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Thursday, 29 December 2005 |
I have an admission to make: I have used Wikipedia for serious research. And in all the years I've been doing it, I've never really felt as if I've been led astray.
But – a large but – I only use it for research in science or computing. Using the popular online encyclopedia for social, economic or political research calls for caution.
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WAR AND THE OLYMPICS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 22 December 2005 |
Last week was Europe. This week it’s Asia. I’ve been giving speeches and meeting with folks in Hong Kong, Singapore, and now here in Taiwan about how to democratize China.
The text of one of these speeches, delivered at Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan, is a companion article following this, entitled, Freedom and Peace in China.
The meetings with democracy activists discussed the extraordinary urgency in transforming dictatorship in China to democracy within the next 15 to 18 months. For that may be all the time Taiwan has before China attacks, and the US is drawn into a full scale war that could go all-out nuclear.
The Beijing Olympics are to be held in the summer of 2008. That’s 32 months from now. For all the saber-rattling China has indulged in over Taiwan, most Taiwanese figure they’ve got until after 2008 before the Chicoms will consider a military assault upon them. It really startles them to hear they may have only months and not years to go.
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FREEDOM AND PEACE IN CHINA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 22 December 2005 |
[This is the text of a speech I delivered at Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan, December 22, 2005.]
I flew here today from Singapore. As we were flying over the South China Sea, I looked down and saw these beautiful islands – jewels of green and turquoise and white in an ocean of blue. They looked like paradise – but these, I recognized, were the Spratly Islands, claimed by China, even though they are much closer to the Philippines.
In fact, if you had an official PRC government map of China, you would see that China claims the entire South China Sea as its territory, from the coasts of the Philippines and Vietnam all the way to Indonesia. 80% by value of the world’s shipping goes through the South China Sea. The countries of Asia cannot afford to let China seize this vital waterway and build military bases in the Paracel and Spratly Islands. China has no legitimate claim on the South China Sea whatever – yet China is risking war with its neighbors because of this totally absurd claim.
Then the plane this morning reached the southern coast of Taiwan, and we flew along the entire length of the island to reach Taipei. As I looked down at the farmlands, the factories, the homes, villages, towns, and cities of Taiwan passing beneath me, I could not help thinking: the Communist rulers of China want to destroy all this, ruin these people’s lives, enslave them to their rule – and for what? Because all these people want is to be left alone.
There is no possible way the 22 million people of Taiwan are a threat to the 1.3 billion people of China, any more there is no possible way China legally owns the entire South China Sea – yet China is willing to risk war merely because the people of Taiwan do not want their lives controlled and enslaved by the rulers of Beijing.
This threat of war, the gigantic threat of China to Taiwan and all of China’s neighbors, has got to come to an end. And tonight we are going to talk about how to do it.
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