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WILL RUSSIA BREAK APART? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
Tbilisi, Georgia. It's a beautiful morning here in Georgia,
and there's not a Russian soldier in sight.
I could find them easily enough if I went looking for them over at the
"border" with South Ossetia and Abkahzia, but here in
the capital of Tbilisi and the rest
of Georgia,
they are nowhere to be seen.
Georgians are surprisingly unafraid of Russia
inflicting its traditional role of barbarian invader upon them. There are several reasons, one of which is
the videos of Russian troops they've been seeing on Georgian television.
Russian soldiers are so ill-equipped many are wearing cheap
tennis shoes. They are so ill-fed they
have to steal food from villagers, so hungry they eat fruit so unripe and meat
so spoiled it makes them violently sick.
There is a surreptitiously-taken video of Russian soldiers
ransacking a Georgian military barracks, stealing used socks (many of them have
no socks), even used (!) toothbrushes, and carting off toilet commodes to sell
back in Russia.
"It's really hard to take soldiers who have to steal used
toothbrushes seriously," one Georgian friend told me.
Thus the discussion here is less on what the impact of Russia's
invasion will be on Georgia, and more on what the impact will be on Russia.
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ALBANIA IN AMERICA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
Tirana, Albania. I had a private dinner with an extraordinary
man last night (10/09) - just the two of us with one of his key advisors. Albania
is very fortunate to have Dr. Sali Berisha (he's a physician with a specialty
in heart surgery) as its Prime Minister.
He's a man of immense erudition and learning who is street
wise in the ways of the world, having dealt with every major leader on the
planet for years. The country he admires
above all others is America.
In this, he speaks for the great majority of Albanians. Albania
is probably the most pro-American country on earth today.
Yet it was a strange and scary experience to hear him relate
the recent history of Albania
- for at one point he seemed to be describing that of America's
instead. What I really hoped he wasn't
describing was the history of America's
immediate future.
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HOW TO KILL PUTIN'S RUSSIA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
Varna,
Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria. I'm sitting on the veranda of my luxury suite
at the five-star Flamingo Grand Hotel with a spectacular view of the Black
Sea, and enjoying a glass of spectacularly good Bulgarian red
wine.
It seems odd that this place of such peace, beauty, and
enjoyment is where to kill Putin's Russia
- but it is, exactly right here.
With Vladimir Putin using his oil billions and traditional
Russian thuggery - murdering opponents, invading neighbors - to reignite the
Cold War and reestablish the Soviet Russian Empire, it's time to think of ways
to put an end to it.
If we got rid of the Soviet Union, it
should be child's play to get rid of Putin's Russia. And it is.
Putin's Russia has a mortal vulnerability.
Exploit that vulnerability, and he, together with his entire imperialist
enterprise is done for. That
vulnerability is not oil. It is...
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TO THE BACK OF BEYOND |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
Once I finish writing this, I'm off to conduct the VIP trip
discussed in Good
News From Bulgaria. Next I'll be in Albania
for a meeting with Prime Minister Berisha, followed by speaking at a conference
in Tbilisi, Georgia
along with TTP's Richard Rahn.
After that, I head into the back of beyond. The phrase became popular in the 19th
century referring to mysterious lands that were unknown and remote. I can't be more specific, as I don't want to
telegraph my presence there in advance.
You'll be getting a report from me whenever I get a secure
Internet connection, which I hope will be often. There will be a few times in the coming weeks
when I'll have to be incommunicado.
I'll be back just after the election, and the scary question
is: will America
by then have become a country that is back of beyond?
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MCCAIN REMINDS US WHY WE DIDN'T LIKE HIM BEFORE PALIN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
Talk about blowing a golden opportunity.
Whenever there is danger - like the Wall Street Meltdown
this week - there is always opportunity. The Meltdown handed it to McCain on a diamond-studded platter, on
which Obambi and the Democrats lay so stunningly vulnerable.
Instead, he goes off on an anti-capitalist rant, demonizing
the "greed" of Wall Street instead of the Democrat crooks in Congress who are
the architects of the crisis. He calls
for more fascist regulation, when it was the regulatory power the Dem crooks
had that caused the crisis.
And to top it off, he scapegoats Chris Cox,
Bush's SEC Chairman, the most honest and decent guy in Washington, instead of
the Democrat crooks!
McCain is reminding us of why conservatives weren't gung-ho
enthusiastic over his candidacy. We'd
almost forgotten in the wake of Palinmania.
We're now remembering his sneering remark during the primary debates
that his life has always been motivated by "patriotism," while that of Mitt
Romney was motivated by - he spat out the word as if it were a filthy
four-letter insult - "profit."
McCain should have listened more to his friend and cell-mate
in the Hanoi Hilton, Jim Warner.
Jim once asked him, "John, would you go to a supermarket to
buy a pair of shoes?"
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