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THE PILLAR GANG

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 17, 2006

Today's (2/17) Wall Street Journal has an op-ed by a CIA intelligence officer, Guillermo Christensen, entitled Un-Intelligence. The article exposes the self-serving attack on President Bush and the War in Iraq by a fellow CIA officer named Paul Pillar in the current issue of Foreign Affairs.

Pillar is now being lionized by the left for his anti-Bush screed - but you first learned about him here at To The Point in October 2004.

Porter At The Pass revealed that Paul Pillar and his left wing cabal at the CIA, which I named The Pillar Gang, was conducting a covert campaign of leaks and disclosures to damage George Bush's chances of re-election and help John Kerry's.

As explained in "Porter At The Pass":

IS PARIS BURNING?

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 3, 2005

Hitler’s infamous question is being asked anew by Moslem immigrants, characterized by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as “thugs” and “scum,” now into their eighth day of violence in Parisian slum suburbs.

French President Jacques Chirac promptly condemned Sarkozy rather than the Moslem rioters. Such talk by Sarkozy – Chirac’s main political rival – showed a “lack of respect” for the rioters, which “could lead to a dangerous situation.”

Further confirmation that France is doomed.

FAKE WINDOWS PATCH IS A WINDOWS KILLER

ttpn September 15, 2005

We had a genuine worm outbreak two weeks ago, but this week's top threat is a fake patch for it called a phish (pronounced ‘fish.’)

What is a phish? Here’s a short definition:

Phishing is a type of a social engineering scam, which attempts to gain your bank details, usually by presenting you with a form that looks identical to a popular bank's website.

Most phishing attacks are quick hacks, but some put some effort into their programming. One such example is a phony “Windows update” known as Downloader.EJD. It's a Trojan horse program that uses an updated version of an old trick,a false Microsoft security patch. Here's how to protect yourself from it.

The Jihadis’ Primal Scream

Michael Ledeen February 9, 2004

Unless you depend on CNN for information - CNN totally and stunningly transformed the story, as Instapundit informed us yesterday - by now you have heard of the New York Times story about the discovery of a 17-page letter from Abu Musab al Zarqawi, written from Iraq in the middle of last month to the leaders of al Qaeda. It's an extremely explosive story.

According to the Times - whose correspondent, Dexter Filkins, saw both the Arabic original and a military translation, and "wrote down large parts of the translation" - the letter is a sort of jihadist primal scream.

HOW DID WE GET TO THIS SPYING-ON-EVERYONE FIASCO?

Vendome January 8, 2014

Howdy, folks. I put this history lesson on telecom and how we got to this No Such Agency spying-on-everyone mess on the Forum, and both Jack and Skye bugged me to put it into a TTP article series because they said it was so good. So here we go with Part One.

It's long so grab a drink.

Edward "Snowjob" Snowden didn't really do anything other than give NSA's program a name: "PRISM". There are many such programs throughout the government.

There are various telecom laws that have been enacted since the 1934 Communications Act that enabled the government to do just what they have been revealed to be doing. So we'll start at the beginning in order for you to understand the fullness of how government bureaucrats justify infringing on your 4th amendment and 1st.

HOW MUCH TIME LEFT UNTIL OBAMA TRIES TO STEAL YOUR RETIREMENT ACCOUNT?

Richard Rahn February 19, 2013

Neither the United Kingdom, France nor the United States have a credible plan to bring their deficits down to a level below realistic expected growth rates, which is what is needed to avoid a financial meltdown. All three governments have what they politely call a "moving target" for spending, deficits and economic growth. The moving target is one that never gets any closer.

The Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England, the U.S. Federal Reserve and others have been engaged in a currency war in which they try to reduce the value of their currency relative to the others. This past weekend at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, the above-mentioned nations and others denied they were in a currency war and then pledged not to do more of what they said they were not doing. Don't bet your life on that.

Many of the central banks are trying to do the impossible: To increase inflation while keeping interest rates very low. They want to raise inflation to erode the real value of the debts their governments have been creating, but they are fearful that raising interest rates will make the costs of servicing both private and public debt unmanageable.

Where will all of this lead? Argentina provides an interesting case study.

THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT MUST DISAVOW TODD AKIN

Dennis Praeger August 22, 2012

Rep. Todd Akin has, unwittingly to be sure, harmed the pro-life movement, his senatorial race in Missouri, the Republican Party, and therefore quite possibly the nation.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later, will write or say something inappropriate. The game of "gotcha" that the media play -- especially with regard to Republicans and conservatives -- is what makes so many politicians sound robotic when they speak.

But Congressman Akin said something that cries out for condemnation and retraction -- and necessitates an explanation.

On a Missouri TV program Sunday (8/19), he was asked his position on abortion in cases of rape. Akin responded, in part, that "from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

As one wit put it about such a comment: that was worse than wrong, it was stupid. Akin should say so. And so should the pro-life movement.

WHY OBAMA WILL LOSE BY THE GALLON

Dr. Jack Wheeler May 31, 2012

How many gas stations do you pass by on an average day? For most folks it's several. Dozens every week, a couple of hundred or more every month. Every one of them throughout America is loudly displaying a campaign ad against President Zero. Look at the next gas station you drive by and you'll see the campaign ad shouting at you - wordlessly, for the ad consists only of numbers. It's the price per gallon.

This is the best campaign ad ever - a daily infuriating reminder of what a ruinous loser Zero has been as a president, and what his presidency is costing you in real money. Plus it's free - neither the Romney campaign nor the GOP Super-Pacs have to spend a dime on them. All they have to do is turn the negative ad against Zero into a positive ad for Romney.

The question is: Can they do it? Can Romney do it himself, and persuasively?

A BOUNTY ON COYOTES

Dr. Jack Wheeler May 23, 2006

If you Google "coyote hunting," you'll get 2,790,000 hits. It's a popular sport among outdoorsmen, and a necessary one. As one hunter puts it:

Coyote populations across the country are exploding and taking an unprecedented toll on wildlife. Zero predator control by state and federal agencies and low fur prices have kept trapping to a minimum, hence predator populations are booming. The opportunity to add some prime coyote pelts to your trophy collection and reduce the predator pressure on the local game and bird populations have never been better.

Coyotes are pests, varmints, hated not only by cattle and sheep ranchers, but by anyone with a regard for all the wildlife they kill. In many states, they can be shot on sight with no permit required in a year-round open season. Ed Boggess, Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources fish and wildlife policy chief explains:

Coyotes are an unprotected species and can be taken at any time of year, in any quantity, by almost any methods.

It's time this perspective is applied to human coyotes - for "coyote" is what smugglers of illegal aliens from Mexico into the US are called.

GLOBAL WARMING FREEZES UP

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 10, 2006

On the heels of record freezing weather in Europe, there was a story this week (carried by the Drudge Report and WorldNetDaily so you may have seen it) about a Russian scientist predicting global cooling.

Russian astronomer Khabibulo Absudamatov expects a “decrease in the flow of the Sun’s radiation,” over the next several years which will lead to cooling, not continued warming of the planet.

While his prediction may be right, he is wrong about the cause. As discussed in Solar Warming last September, it’s not the sun’s heat radiation causing a warmer earth, it’s the sun’s magnetic activity.

In Solar Warming, we discussed the cost-free solution to global warming: Let the world’s airlines use high-sulfur jet fuel while flying at cruise altitude.

The solution to global cooling is the mirror image of this: Have international jetliners burn their fuel “rich” at altitude. Give them a tax credit as an inducement.

MULLAH MEGALOMANIA

Michael Ledeen September 23, 2005

The mullahs of Iran are altogether capable of deciding that events are now running strongly in their favor, and that they should strike directly at the United States. They look at us, and they see a deeply divided nation, a president who talked a lot about bringing democratic revolution to Iran and then did nothing to support it, a military that is clearly fighting in Iraq alone, and counting the days until we can say "it’s up to the Iraqis now," and — again based on what they see in our popular press — a country that has no stomach for a prolonged campaign against the remaining terror masters in Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

Osama bin Laden came to similar conclusions, and ordered the events of 9/11. Why should the Iranians — who have been major supporters of the terror network ever since the 1979 revolution — not now do the same?

FROM COMPUTER SPEAKERS TO STEREO SPEAKERS

ttpn August 25, 2005

A twofer this week from The Wizard, who got carried away and wrote a second column. Enjoy!

Tinny. That's the word for music delivered through computer speakers off an Internet stream or an MP3 file. The sound quality is just not up to the sophisticated sounds most people want to hear when they download MP3s or play CDs.

Why can't there be a way to bypass those tinny computer speakers and play your music on a good set of stereo speakers via a wireless signal -- kind of like a router? Turns out there is.

2014: HISTORY RETURNS IN TOOTH AND CLAW

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard January 2, 2014

We enter the year of the all-conquering US dollar. As the global security system unravels - with echoes of 1914 - the premium on the world's safe-haven currency must rise.

As the Fed turns off the spigot of dollar liquidity, it will starve the world's dysfunctional economy of $1 trillion a year of stimulus. This will occur through the quantity of money effect, hitting in a series of hammer blows, regardless of whether interest rates remain at zero.

It is hard to imagine a strategic and economic setting more conducive to a blistering dollar rally, a process that will pick up speed as yields on 10-year US Treasuries break through 3% (as of today, 01/02, it is at 2.992).

We’re going to enter a brave new world in 2014. The democracies are on the back foot. It is no longer Francis Fukuyama's "End of History," but history returning in tooth and claw. So with that caveat let me try to make sense of global economic forces.

The annual rite of new year predictions is never easy. It is nigh impossible in the midst of a global regime change with so many political bombs primed to go off at any moment. But here we go.

HALF-FULL REPORT 06/28/13

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 28, 2013

Aren't you dizzy? This week's events are like a ride on Full Throttle, the world's fastest-tallest roller coaster that just opened (6/22) at Six Flags Magic Mountain north of LA.

Might as well start with the Treason Vote in the Senate yesterday (6/27). The 2,000 page Amnesty Bill - S744 - passed 68-32. Here's the roll call. All 54 Dems-Yes, 32 Pubs-No. The 14 Pubs voting Yes: Alexander-TN, Ayotte-NH, Cheisa-NJ, Collins-ME, Corker-TN, Flake-AZ, Graham-SC, Hatch-UT, Heller-NV, Hoeven-ND, Kirk-IL, McCain-AZ, Murkowski-AK, Rubio-FL.

14 reasons why the Republican Party as ruled by its Establishment Elite has to be demolished, as in going the way of the Whigs.

Supposedly, the bill is DOA in the House. The fate of our country seems now dependent on the word of John Boehner.

So -- ready to get on Full Throttle and ride through the week?

AMERICAâ€™S GLOBAL OPPRESSION AND IMPERIALISM UNDER OBAMA

Richard Rahn February 12, 2013

Nassau, The Bahamas. For at least the last 2,500 years, from the time of the Athenian republic, fragile islands of freedom have been under attack. Unfortunately, nothing has changed, except now some of the aggressor states cloak themselves in the mantle of compassionate democratic countries.

Rather than using arrows or bullets, the new weapons of the aggressor states are financial sanctions, including restrictions on corresponding banking relationships. It all sounds so civilized, proper and benign, but in reality, it serves to destroy incomes and property both in those jurisdictions under attack and many of those in the attacking states.

And the greatest destroyer, the greatest oppressor of financial and economic freedom in the world today is America under Barack Obama.

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