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THE WORLD’S MOST PATRIOTIC PEOPLE

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 21, 2013

Stanley, Falkland Islands. I was enjoying a pint of the local microbrewery's Peat Cutter Stout at the Globe Tavern when a Falklander on an adjacent bar stool engaged me in conversation.

"Where are you from, mate?" he asked.

"America," I replied.

"You're an American, are you? Well, I have to tell you, Yank, I think your President Obama is disgusting."

This did not elicit the response he was expecting. I raised my glass and with a huge smile across my face exclaimed, "I'll drink to that!"

Taken aback, he queried, "You Americans are supposed to believe in freedom. Why do you have a president who won't stand up for ours?"

"Because he won't stand up for our own freedom, much less anyone else's. His goal in life is to destroy our freedom, not protect it. He's a fascist interested only in expanding his power, just like the Falklands' enemy Christina Kirchner. That's why he will side with her and not with you."

He looked at me quizzically, blinked a few times, then asked, "Can I buy you a beer?"

FREEDOM’S BIRTHDAY 2008

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 3, 2008

[This was originally in To The Point for July 4, 2004. This is the version for 2008. We at To The Point wish all of you an exceedingly happy Fourth of July.]

July 4th is Freedom's Birthday. My suggestion is, amidst the fireworks and barbeques and flag-waving fun - all of which are great - that you take the time to feel good about America.

Put aside your worries and concerns, your frustrations and fears about what's wrong with America. For one day, forget the negative - put it all in a zip-lock bag, hide it in the back of the freezer, and pretend it doesn't exist.

You travel around the world and you see the remnants of history's great civilizations. You walk through the preserved wreckage of Rome's Imperial Forum or the Acropolis of Ancient Athens and you wonder -- what was it really like to be here when these civilizations were at their peak? You can do that today in Washington DC -- or your hometown.

We Americans are privileged to live in one of history's supreme moments. We Americans are participants in one of history's greatest civilizations in its prime.

Someday in some future epoch, history will have moved on, and there will be distant centuries between that time and the American Era. People will then look upon America as we do upon ancient Egypt or Greece, and will do so with same wonder and awe.

I suggest you look upon America with that wonder and awe now.

THE TTP SUMMER SCHEDULE

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 1, 2007

Fall, winter, spring, we at To The Point endeavor to have the TTP Weekly Report issued like clockwork - every Friday by noon. (So it's always pretty crazy Thursdays and Friday mornings!)

Summers are different, this summer especially. By the time you get this, I'll be off to run a safari in the Serengeti, then to various remote islands in the Indian Ocean.

The good news about this is that you'll learn all kinds of fascinating things about some of the world's weirder places. The not-so-good news is that many of these places don't have an internet connection. Which means there's no way to have a regular Weekly Report schedule.

So here's what we'll do: post articles and columns whenever and as soon as we can throughout each week. I normally edit every single item posted on TTP - but in my absence, our back-up editors will step up to the plate.

I'll also launch a new feature for To The Point called The Potpourri.

BORIS. BILL, AND MONICA: TROUBLE FOR HILLARY?

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 25, 2006

Will the saga of the world's most famous fellatrice return to haunt Hillary in 2008? There's this fascinating whisper making the Washington rounds that says yes.

While convoluted and circumstantial, a number of plugged-in Washingtonians believe it. The story starts with Boris Yeltsin.

Yeltsin was President of Russia from its emergence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to 1999. In October of 2000, part three of his autobiography was published, Midnight Diaries. In it, there was an astounding revelation:

That in "late 1996," after Bill Clinton's re-election in November, he (Yeltsin) received a highly classified report from his Foreign Intelligence Service (Russian acronym SVR, formerly a branch of the KGB). Russian intel had learned that the President of the United States was having an affair with an intern named Monica Lewinsky.

This was over a full year before the world learned of the scandal via the Drudge Report internet website on January 19, 1998. The President of the United States was about to be blackmailed.

FROM AN EMBARRASSMENT TO A CATASTROPHE

Michael Ledeen January 19, 2006

Bit by bit we are getting to the inevitable showdown with Iran. This administration, like every other Western government, has hoped against hope that it would not come to this.

President George W. Bush, for reasons good and bad, threw in with the Europeans' phony-negotiation scheme, even though he knew it would fail. Like the others, he hoped that revolution would erupt, and that decisive action on our part would not be necessary.

Like the others, he preferred not to face the hard fact that revolutions rarely succeed without external support. Had Ronald Reagan been around, he would have told W that the democratic revolution that ended the Cold War only finally succeeded when the United States supported it.

WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE WITH MONITORS – plus a Health Warning and Security Update

ttpn December 16, 2004

Monitors are replete with mysterious-looking numbers and formulas. We pretend to understand them, but how much do we really know? Admittedly, until I began looking for a new one - I’m still undecided - I knew less about monitors than any other major part of a computer.

In looking for a new monitor I’ve tried to fill in some of the blanks. I’ll pass the information onto you.

ARE WE WITNESSING THE FUNERAL OF RUSSIA?

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard August 7, 2014

The Kremlin's gamble has gone horribly wrong. The eastern regions of Ukraine have failed to rise in mass support for Putin's front organizations, led by political operatives from Moscow, and patently run by the Russian security apparatus (FSB/GRU) as even Russian newspapers admit.

Mr. Putin has failed equally to drive a wedge between America and Europe, or to paralyze the EU by playing off one country against another.

Mr. Putin now faces draconian sanctions from the US, EU, Japan, Canada and Australia together. He can strike back by asymmetric means -- perhaps a cyberattack -- but tit-for-tat retaliation can achieve nothing. There is no equivalence.

Russia's economy is no bigger than California's. This is an economic showdown between a $40 trillion power structure, and a $2 trillion producer of raw materials that has hollowed out its industrial core.

Mr. Putin is counting on acquiescence from the BRICS quintet as it confronts the West, and counting on capital from China to offset the loss of Western money. This is a pipedream. Beijing will reduce Russia to a vassal state of China. Vladimir Putin is quickly becoming the ruination of Russia.

HALF-FULL REPORT 03/14/14

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 14, 2014

Important Announcement: the last section of this HFR is devoted to addressing concerns regarding the New TTP Forum.

The theme for the week is Birds of a Hubristic Feather. The shades of Sophocles and Aeschylus are looking up at us from the depths of Hades in sad wonder that humans in power never learn the lesson the Greeks knew so well two and a half millennia ago.

Thus we get such marvelously good news this week as Pelosi Galore announcing that Dems Won't Run from Obamacare in Midterms. You're just not going to get a better example of masochistic hubris than that.

It's of course the path to electoral disaster in November. Zero could take a different path, but can be supremely confident this will never happen - because Zero is a solipsistic narcissist who lives in Hubris City. In addition, he's ignorant, uneducated, and actually pretty stupid - all his affirmative action Ivy League degrees notwithstanding. He's glib and shrewd and smooth - but not smart.

Now,is there anyone on the planet more hubristic than Zero? Why, yes - that would be Vladimir Vladimirovich Pooty-Poot Putin. Oh, look! He's riding a horse without a shirt! Oh! He's so big and tough and strong! Oh, what a pile of horse manure.

TODAY IS BETTER THAN THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Richard Rahn December 26, 2013

If you think things are bad, you might be consoled in knowing that most things for most people on the globe were never better than in 2013. We may pine for "the good old days," but in truth the good old days were not so good for most people compared to now.

The good news is that most people are living longer with more real income and more security than they did a year ago, a decade ago, or at any time in history. Global personal safety is at a record high. The number of people killed in wars last year was at most a few thousand -- a tragedy, but only for a minuscule portion of the world's population -- unlike the tens of millions killed per year during the world wars of the last century. Violent crime and murder rates are declining almost everywhere in the world.

Life expectancy is highly correlated with economic well-being and the quality of medical care. Global poverty is diminishing at a very rapid rate, and very few now starve to death, but when they do, it is almost always caused by incompetent or venal governments.

If things are really getting better, which they are, then why so much pessimism? Science writer and frequent TTP guest columnist Matt Ridley explains it well in his book The Rational Optimist:

THE NSA IS THE EYE OF SAURON

Paul Rosenberg September 12, 2013

[Note: Paul Rosenberg, has spent many years trying to protect Internet users from unjustified surveillance by groups like the NSA. Many TTPers subscribe to his Virtual Private Network (VPN) called - for reasons known only to him - Cryptohippie, to avoid tracking by the snoops. I never go online without it. Here Paul discusses the latest revelation of unconstitutional NSA Orwellian fascism. -JW]

On September 5th, Glenn Greenwald, Ed Snowden and others revealed that the NSA was able to break the vast majority of encryption used on the Internet. You can find the story here or here, and commentary by cryptographer Bruce Schneier here.

In the NSA documents, ordinary Internet customers are referred to as "adversaries." We're all perps now. If all Internet users are "adversaries," do you really think anyone is safe?

Forget about the US Constitution; it's a non-factor now. This is just the latest example of people who are drunk on power and don't care about the principles on which this country was founded.

The NSA and the entire US/UK "security" apparatus is a gigantic drunken beast. The operators are arrogant and untouchable. The reality is, the system is beyond broken, no matter what kind of happy talk you hear on TV. Here's what this means to you.

EMBALMING FREEDOM

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 12, 2013

"He's one of these narcissistic, charismatic sociopaths history has been bedeviled with for millennia. These folks are pathological liars, they care nothing for ‘the people' whom they pretend to love, their lives are devoted to ruling over others and controlling their lives, they bring misery to those they rule yet are worshipped nonetheless. Obama-worship is like some kind of religious cult, whose high priests are the media elite. Obama feeds off it, so his desire for more power and creating more misery increases. The human capacity to worship such sociopaths is one of life's mysteries."

Asunción, Paraguay. The Congressman who told me that during the dinner conversation I described in The Traitor in the White House (2/20/13) voiced what I have never understood: the human capacity to worship evil.

The Congressman was talking about Zero, but his words apply even more so here in South America to the man the whole continent is fixated on right now, Hugo Chavez. On every TV news show, in every newspaper and magazine, it's Chavez 24/7. And most all of it is lies.

Let's start with what every spook agency in the world knows - from Langley to Whitehall to the KGB/FSB and China's MSS - but no major media outlet is reporting: Chavez didn't die on March 5^th in Venezuela, he died January 3^rd in Cuba.

GOOD NEWS FROM BULGARIA

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 25, 2008

I fell in love with Bulgaria when I was first there as the Soviet empire was collapsing in early 1990.

There's thousands of years of history - Bronze Age tribes, the Ancient Greeks, the Romans, medieval Christian kingdoms, hidden monasteries protecting Christianity from centuries of Moslem oppression by the Ottoman Turks, finally gaining independence in 1908 only to lose it to the Soviet Union during World War II, and now free at last.

And all through this, Bulgarians forged and kept a Christian culture and heritage. Hundreds of thousands of people come from all over the world to visit the extraordinary monasteries such as Rila the Bulgarians built to preserve their culture from Moslem imperialism.

Even more visitors - millions in the height of the summer - come to vacation on the gorgeous beaches of Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. In the winter, skiers flock to ski resorts high in the Balkans.

It's a country of such profusion of flowers everywhere there's an entire valley called the Valley of Roses. You couldn't ask for a more hospitable warm-hearted people - or ask for a better way to be shown hospitality, for Bulgarians really know how to make good wine and are more than happy to share a glass with you at every opportunity.

And speaking of opportunity... There are more opportunities to make a lot of money in Bulgaria than almost anywhere else in the world. Especially because a major obstacle of those opportunities was removed this week.

WANT TO REALLY SUPPORT OUR TROOPS IN IRAQ?

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 1, 2007

Everyone says they "support our troops" fighting in Iraq. Liberals just pretend they do - while conservatives are sincere but may not know how to for real.

The first step in really supporting our soldiers is to understand they believe in what they are doing. Hundreds of thousands of the finest young Americans our country possesses have served in Iraq or are there right now. All but the tiniest fraction not only believe in the morality of this war but that it can be won.

How can you directly support them? Let me introduce you to Major Eric England, an Air Force intelligence officer who has been deployed in Saudi Arabia (where he was on 9/11), Bosnia, Colombia, Afghanistan, and in Iraq for eight months of combat duty.

Maj. England is developing a very interesting way for regular folks to give soldiers in Iraq what they actually need. He calls it Online Troop Sponsorship Registries. Here's how it works.

THE COLORADO CANARY

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 17, 2006

The meta-story regarding the mid-term elections is how the Democrats can't wait to get to the voting booth to inflict electoral doom upon their enemies, while Republicans are so depressed they will either stay home or have to be dragged to the polls.

Maybe, but there's this Colorado canary in the Democrat coal mine that's warbling a contrarian song.

In Colorado you can vote up to 30 days ahead of election day by absentee ballot. To do so you must of course request a ballot. The absentee ballots won't be counted until November 7^th, but what is known is the number of requests for them.

It turns out that the number of requests by registered Republicans is way up from past years while those from registered Democrats is way down.

Here's more of the buzz heard in the halls of the Capitol Building three weeks out:

WHY SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE ANYTHING THE CIA HAS TO SAY ABOUT IRAN?

Michael Ledeen January 6, 2006

Like everyone else in Washington, I’ve been reading excerpts from James Risen’s new book, the one that "exposes" the "crimes" of the Bush administration with regard to the war on terrorism.

The most recent excerpt deals with the CIA’s activities vis-à-vis Iran, and Risen says some very shocking things, things which a serious city would find far more troublesome than the legalities about NSA’s intercepts of conversations involving terrorists.

Most shocking of all is that Risen doesn’t even notice the truly horrible aspects of his own story. He doesn’t have the wit or the energy to think half a step beyond the tale he’s been told.

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