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ARABIC PEACE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 08 January 2009 |
No word is more overused and has less meaning than "peace"
regarding any discussion of Arabs and Israel.
One primary reason why "peace in the Middle East" (if you
Google that phrase you'll get 1.5 million hits) is so elusive is because there
is no word in Arabic that means the same thing as the English word "peace," or
its equivalent in other European languages.
So as Israel
is trying to put an end to Hamas terrorism and the world media whimpers for
"peace in Gaza," we should get a
clear understanding of the Arabic words - there are three of them - translated
as "peace."
It's an understanding that Hillary's husband lacked when
brokering the Oslo Accords of 1993, that Hillary's predecessor at the State
Department lacked in her endlessly pointless efforts, that Hillary's new boss
will lack when he instructs her to negotiate an Arab-Israeli "peace treaty."
None of the three Arabic words for "peace" mean what we mean
- but one of them could come close if nailed down explicitly. They are salaam, hudna, and
suhl.
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THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
I want to wish you the Merriest of Christmases
this Thursday, but according to the song, the First Day of Christmas is the day after
Christmas, December 26.
Ancient Christians celebrated "The Holidays," as our militant secularists
insist on referring to them now, starting with the day after the birth of Jesus
and ending on January 6th with the visit of the Magi in Matthew 2:11
known as the Epiphany. Start with 12/26 and end with 1/6 and you get: the
Twelve Days of Christmas.
You may be really tired of hearing Christmas songs by now, including this one,
yet you may still be wondering what the heck partridges in a pear tree and
eight maids a-milking have to do with the birth of the founder of Christianity.
So I thought we might take a break from Serious Thoughts About World Events,
and take a look at the song's origin, meaning, and myth.
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DRIVING IN CHINA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
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When you hear the word "China," if you're like most people the picture most likely to appear in your mind's eye is vast uncountable hordes of people. I've got a different picture, having bounced along so many thousands of kilometers of bad Chinese roads: no people at all.
China is almost half a million square miles bigger than the continental US (the contiguous 48 states without Alaska/Hawaii) - and it is amazing how much of it is desert or high mountain plateaus where hardly anybody lives. And I mean no one, as in empty. I'd estimate that more than half, upwards of two-thirds of China is virtually uninhabited.
That means cramming 1.3 billion people into an area less than one-third of the continental US. People who have made a deal with their Chicom leaders: you get to keep political control and we get to prosper in a growing economy. The deal breaks down if the economy falters - and it is faltering fast.
The engine of China's economy - her exports that we buy - is in steep decline, foreign direct investment is down 36% for 2008, scores of millions of peasants who had found work in cities are now unemployed and headed back to their bleak villages.
China is in trouble - and when dictatorships get in trouble, history shows the option they most often choose to try and save themselves is war. Will China - or will it opt for the alternative that geopolitics is now providing, to take America's place as protector and peacemaker?
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ATLAS IN AMERICA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 12 December 2008 |
Insanity has its consequences. Every day now, another consequence of America's
insanity - and I mean that literally - of November 4 becomes apparent. It's funny to see the MSM frantically trying
to disconnect Zero from Blago, as the dim bulb in the brains of those who voted
for him starts to shine a glimmer of light on his corruption.
Insanity and stupidity usually go together (the evil genius
is a Hollywood myth, rare in reality). And when Atlas shrugs, it makes a lot of
stupid people go nuts. That's what's
happening in Greece
this week.
After all the unending ever-increasing assaults on
entrepreneurial capitalism by Washington
for decades, November 4 has turned out to be the last straw. Electing Zero is what it took for Atlas to
shrug in America,
with one result the huge increase in unemployment since the election.
Massive job losses are only the start of bad news in
2009. Zero hasn't a clue of how to create wealth. Like all liberals, he only thinks of how to
steal it ("redistribution" is just a liberal euphemism for "theft") from those
who have created it and give it to those who have not for personal political
gain.
But what happens when the creators of wealth stop creating,
so the thieves no longer can continue stealing and the moochers can no longer
live off stolen wealth? That was the
question asked and answered by Ayn Rand's Atlas
Shrugged. There is now the very real
possibility that America is going to live through the answer in the coming Zero
years - and that what is happening to Greece this week is going to come to our
shores starting next year.
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ZEROCARE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
As the TTP Weekly Report was being delivered to your inbox
last Friday afternoon (12/05), thanks to our fine TTP staff, I was undergoing
abdominal surgery at Akta Medika, a small
private hospital in Sevlievo, Bulgaria. I'm writing this from a hospital bed there
right now.
Abdominal surgery is a serious matter, especially when it's
done to repair the errors of a previous surgery ten years ago. So I didn't come here just because it's 1/20th
of the cost in the US. I came because it's better.
That's not a putdown of American physicians - but it sure is
of American medicine, so completely hamstrung by government rules and
regulations, the nonsense of "third-party providers," and protections of
medical monopolies like the AMA: the
antithesis of free market medicine. Yet
if you think it's bad now, wait until you see what Zerocare does to it.
This is not the place to discuss the specifics of how the
government makes medical care in the US
ridiculously expensive, complicated, and obsolete. It is, rather, to discuss the opportunities
for you to avoid - and even profit from - the mess that Zero will make so much
worse with his and Teddy Chappaquiddick Kennedy's "Universal Health Care"
health fascism.
And to explain the "flanking movement" Republicans can make
to provide an alternative to Zerocare health fascism, saving Medicare hundreds
of billions of dollars in so doing.
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