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HOW TO BE FREE OF FOREIGN OIL |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
In a speech
last Friday (5/02), President Bush called for increased oil and gas production
"in Alaska and our outer continental shelf."
Nancy Pelosi actually had the Orwellian effrontery to respond:
"Drilling is the failed energy
policy of yesterday that has brought us record gas prices today."
Producing more oil causes higher
prices! How Orwellian doublethink can
you get? She sneered at Bush's policy of increasing production and his promise
to veto her party's attempt to demonize oil producers by calling it "drill
and veto."
If the Republicans from John
McCain on down are too stupid to take the Dems to the electoral cleaners with
that, they deserve to lose.
If McCain & GOPco did have
the brains, we could free of foreign oil, or well on our way, by the end of his
first term. Unfortunately, they don't -
especially McCain. He's so braindead
he's opposed
to drilling ANWR because it would be like drilling in the Grand Canyon.
But if by chance, his economic
advisor, former Senator from Texas Phil Gramm, can persuade him to put national
security over a howling Alaska wilderness, and get him to somehow grasp that
the way to be free of foreign oil is through increased domestic production,
then here's how it can be done.
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OBAMA IN GREECE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
If you could bring the
playwrights of Ancient Greece - Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes -
from 5th century Athens to watch the Democrat primary race of today,
they would recognize it instantly. It
is a perfect Greek tragedy.
All the incredible amounts of
money being spent, all the frantic energy and hysteria, the entire swirling
maelstrom created by a vast cast of characters - all of it is for naught, for
there can be only one outcome, an inescapable outcome of doom.
The old playwrights would scoff
at our naïve notions of free will, our arguments that each of the participants
in the tragedy - such as the "superdelegates" - really do have the capacity to
act for themselves.
No, they would say, the
characters have no choice, for no matter what they do, they are drawn into a
trap of ineluctable fate, like a fly caught in a web of invisible silk strands,
so invisible he doesn't know he's caught while the spider approaches.
The 5th century
Greeks would have understood the play.
A 4th century Greek would understand what happens to the
audience watching the play.
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THE COMING DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
Which of two kinds of fascism do you think are more
dangerous - one stemming from a culture's or a people's feeling of inferiority
or superiority?
If a country possessing a Fascism of Inferiority got into a
war with a country possessing a Fascism of Superiority, all else being equal
which do you think has a better chance of winning?
Russians are xenophobic because they deeply suffer from a
lack of cultural self-confidence and an inferiority complex towards the
West. Han Chinese are xenophobic
because they feel they are a culturally and racially superior form of
humanity. Westerners, Japanese, Blacks,
Tibetans, et al, are all sub-human compared to the Han.
Russia is dying - literally. Life expectancy is lower than that of Bangladesh. Millions of Russian men drink a gallon of
vodka a week. Millions of Russian women
are sterile after having so many abortions.
This is a culture with a death-wish, one that does not want to survive.
The conclusion that CIA Director Michael Hayden draws from
Russia's demographic collapse, given in a speech
at Kansas State yesterday (4/30), is that Russia will have to import millions
of foreign workers. There's only one
place that can supply a sufficient number of such workers: China.
The question really is, will Russia surrender peacefully or
put up a fight - maybe even a nuclear fight?
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ENDING CHINA'S THREAT TO TAIWAN |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
The single greatest threat to
peace in the world, the one with the most potential to escalate into all-out
and even nuclear war between China and the United States, lies in the Formosa
Straits, the 100 miles of ocean separating mainland China and the island of
Taiwan.
At this moment, the Communist
Chinese have 1,400
CSS-6 and CSS-7 short-range ballistic missiles aimed at Taiwan. The handful of Tien Kung-3
(Sky-Bow-3) air defense missile batteries (based on our Patriot II system) the
Taiwanese have is wholly inadequate against this massive threat.
What Taiwan needs is a missile
defense system that can blanket its west coast facing the mainland as well as
its cities, that is cheap to build, quick to build, easy to operate, and very
effective. A system that would allow
few if any Chinese missiles to get through, that would blow any Chinese
attacking warplanes out of Taiwan's skies, and against which any Chinese
landing craft in an amphibious invasion would be dead ducks.
This system could be put in place within 24
months. Once it is, China's threat to
Taiwan is essentially gone. Here's how
Taiwan can do it.
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ENDING INFLATION IN THREE WORDS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
There is no more horrific tax than inflation. It can wipe out a lifetime of savings with
ease. It's also the easiest way for
politicians to escape fiscal jams of their creation.
Medicare, for example, goes cash-negative within 24 months
from now. Its cost to taxpayers will
mount almost exponentially in the years to come. There are only three ways to deal with the cost: raise taxes monumentally, cut benefits
drastically, or inflate the value of the dollar to cover the ballooning cost.
Which one do you think Congress will choose?
There is a three-word solution to this, and TTP's favorite
Paulista, economics professor John Nehring, had better be prepared or else his
head will explode with excitement.
The three words are:
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