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A TSUNAMI OF INSANITY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 March 2011 |
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Sitting with friends here, we are stupefied and silent as we watch video news footage such as this of the truly unbelievable destruction of the Japan Tsunami:
Until I break the silence. Watching the gargantuan mud and debris-filled wave sweep into oblivion everything in its path, I mutter, "That's just what Barack Obama is doing to America."
An Emirati fellow asked, "Jack, what do you mean by a tsunami hitting America like what we just saw in Japan?"
"It's a tsunami of insanity, caused by an earthquake of insanity. Countries can go crazy just like people. It was clinically deranged of the American people to elect a man with absolutely no qualifications or experience whatever, and who they knew attended a church for 20 years listening to a preacher praying for God to damn America.
"Yet they did it anyway. A majority of American voters placed their livelihoods and security in the hands of this man - so now a tsunami of economic and national security destruction is bearing down upon us."
He absorbed this, stroked his beard, then asked, "So... is this Obama's tsunami or America's tsunami upon itself?"
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GORILLAS, SAVAGES, AND REDEMPTION |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 |
Hotel Mille des
Collines, Kigali, Rwanda. Ever see
the movie Hotel Rwanda? It's about the manager of a hotel in Africa
who did his best to provide a refuge from one of the greatest atrocities in
history - the slaughter of over 800,000 innocent people in 100 days. I'm writing this from that hotel.
This is a story of grotesque horror and magnificent
inspiration. Let's start with a
question: Which one is the murderous
savage?
Hint: gorillas are
vegetarians.
I took the bull silverback gorilla's picture two days ago on
the slopes of the Gahinga volcano in the Virunga mountains of Rwanda. He paid almost no attention to me at all.
The picture of the guy with the "panga" knife was taken in
1994 by a journalist who was lucky he wasn't hacked to death - like hundreds of
thousands of others butchered by this guy and his buddies. Sure enough, he's the savage.
Yet the savages of Rwanda
are not all natives, for this is a story of Belgian and French savages as well,
with one of the latter being the president of his country at the time.
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THE NEWEST AFRICAN FARCE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 03 March 2011 |
Juba, South Sudan. The first thing you see upon arriving here
are huge billboards declaring, "Welcome to Africa's
Newest Nation."
Yes, the giant country of Sudan
- the size of the entire USA
east of the Mississippi - is
splitting in two, between the Arab Moslem north and the Black Christian/Animist
south. It's a teachable moment in the
lunatic history of African geopolitics.
There are make-believe countries,
colonial constructs that have no unifying or historical basis for legitimate
nationhood - such as Pakistan. Africa is a
make-believe continent.
Few people grasp the enormity, the
sheer size of Africa. Take a look at a world map. It is
as far from Casablanca, Morocco
to Mombassa, Kenya
as it is from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok
in Russia
(4,000 miles).
You could fit the largest country
in the world, Russia
(6.6 million square miles or msqm), the second largest country in the world, Canada
(3.85 msqm), and the largest island in the world, Greenland
(840,000 sqm) all into Africa
(11.7 msqm) with room left over.
Yet until around 150 years ago, it
was called the Dark Continent not just for the skin
color of its inhabitants but because, save for a handful of ports and coastal
enclaves, it was unknown, terra incognita
to the West.
Then, in 1859...
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THE COUNTRY THAT DOES EXIST |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011 |
Berbera, Somaliland. I originally called this place the country
that doesn't exist, because no other
country in the world will diplomatically recognize it as a sovereign nation
even though it's been so for 20 years.
Nonetheless, this is a real country with a sovereign
functioning government. This is no
pariah-outlaw state. That's Somalia,
the truly non-existent failed state that Somaliland
seceded from. The story of Somaliland
is a heroic saga, epically inspirational.
Let me tell you the story.
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THE BLACK NORKS OF ERITREA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 |
Asmara, Eritrea. I came here to see if the rumor is true, that
Eritrea is the
North Korea of Africa.
Strategically situated at the
entrance to Red Sea, it's ruled by Isaias Afewerki (ah-for-key), ranked by international agencies as one of the
world's worst dictators, in the same league as Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-il, and
the Castro brothers.
The Heritage Foundation's Index of World Freedom ranks Eritrea
#176 out of 179 countries. Transparency
International's Index of Corruption
ranks it as one of the world's most corrupt countries. Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index ranks it as having
the least press freedom on earth along with North
Korea.
There are a number of exile opposition
groups, in Europe, the US,
and elsewhere in Africa that are clamoring and hoping
for a Tunis or Cairo
in Asmara - a popular revolution
that will do to Afewerki what happened to Ben Ali and Mubarak.
Possible but exceedingly
improbable. And therein lies an
important lesson for us as we try to recapture our freedom in America.
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