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100 DAYS OF BEING A LAUGHINGSTOCK IN PARIS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 |
Paris, France. It is very cool to be a French intel
guy. A spectacular meal at a Parisian
bistro with $90 entrées and a $200 bottle of Bordeaux? No problem.
I'd known this fellow since he got me out of a jam in Sudan
years ago. His James Bond days are over,
but still, riding a desk for the DGSE -- Direction générale de la sécurité
extérieure (General
Directorate for External Security), France's
military intel agency - in Paris
has its decided benefits.
One of them is not being infected with Obamamania. "My agency considers him a joke," he
confides. "Every day there is some fresh
lunacy that we cannot believe. Mr. Bush
would often make us angry. But at this
man we just laugh."
"In truth, it also makes us sad," he continued. "French resentment towards America
is strong, so being able to laugh at your country feels good. But it is such a sad and strange thing to see
America -
America The Great! - do something so crazy as to elect this ridiculous man."
"There are many people in America
who think he isn't a legitimate president as he wasn't born in the US
and isn't a natural citizen. What do you
think?" I asked.
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DOES AMERICA DESERVE THIS PRESIDENT? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 |
Does a country always get the government it deserves? Do the people of, say, Zimbabwe
deserve to be ruled by Robert Mugabe? He
is an apotheosis of corruption and depraved fascist evil. Millions of Zimbabweans are suffering
monstrous tyranny and outright starvation because of him. Do they deserve this?
Shift the perspective to ask: to what extent are people responsible for
their fate? And then ask: how would America's
Founding Fathers have answered this question?
Certainly the American colonists suffered far, far less
under the rule of King George III than Zimbabweans under Mugabe. Yet they were men and Zimbabweans are
sheep. Each got what they deserve.
America
has been on the road to cultural and constitutional ruin for a long time. It did not start on January 20, 2009 with the inauguration of
President Zero. But if Americans become
like their founding forefathers and stop being sheep, it will end with his one-term
presidency.
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FATS AND FAIRNESS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 16 April 2009 |
"Hey, guys! Got a hot
date? Be sure you treat her to a nice
salmon dinner!"
That's the message young bachelors could get from a recent
study. Another message of the study is
that socialism may get less attractive to Americans as they age. How could the same research study have both
of these results? It all has to do with
the relationship between fats and fairness.
The research is in the new interdisciplinary field of Neuroeconomics, which studies how the
brain makes economic decisions. It was
conducted jointly by the Interdepartmental
Center for Research in Molecular
Medicine and psychiatrists in the Department of Applied Health and Behavioral
Sciences at the University of Pavia
in Italy.
The implications of the research are politically vast.
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CHINA'S ZERO-SUM GAME |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 |
The evidence is now as high as Everest that America's
greatest foreign threat is not a bunch of illiterates chanting verses of the
Koran and willing to blow themselves up in order to have 72 whores in
heaven. It is Red China.
Yet the Chicoms are not simply a threat to America. They are the greatest threat to freedom
world-wide. A good example as any is a
fellow named Joel Fitzgibbon.
He's the Defense Minister of Australia,
and he's in town (DC) today (4/09) to meet with his American counterpart Defense
Secretary Bobby Gates for the annual Australia-US Ministerial (AUSMIN)
meeting. Gates and his aides will be
very cautious in talking to him, however - because Mr. Fitzgibbon has been
having an affair with a spy from Chinese Military Intelligence.
The scandal has now exploded all over Australian newspapers. Not only will Fitzgibbon have to resign, but so might the man who appointed him - because Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's best friends are
all Chicoms. He speaks Mandarin fluently,
travels to China
at every opportunity, promotes China
buying up Australia's
natural resources, and consistently takes China's
side in most any dispute.
To many Aussies, it looks like their leader is as much of a Manchurian
Candidate as America's.
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WHERE IS JOHN GALT? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 |
All readers of Ayn Rand's masterpiece, Atlas
Shrugged, know its central question, "Who is John Galt?"
Written over half a century ago, it is clearly the greatest
and most influential novel of the 20th century. Over six million copies have been sold,
averaging 77,000 copies per year in the 1980s, 90,000 in the 1990s, 137,000 in the 00s - until
recently.
200,000 copies were sold in 2008, and sales so far this year
are at triple those of last year. This is because, according to the Ayn Rand Institute,
"there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the
events of our day."
We discussed these similarities last December in Atlas In America.
Reading Atlas for
the first time in 1966 was the single most intellectually thrilling experience
of my life. And yet, there was something
that bugged me. Asking who is John Galt presupposes there is a John Galt. As I witnessed the cultural destruction of America
in the 1960s, I realized the terrible truth that there is no such person. He is a Platonic invention.
Today, the fascist nightmare that is destroying America
is hideously similar to that described by Rand over
fifty years ago. But if we ask today,
not who is John Galt but where is John Galt, the question echoes
in the wind with no answer.
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