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SOME JIHAD!

Bit by bit, we are getting a fuller picture of our enemies on the ground in the Middle East, and the fanciful legend of a bunch of religiously inspired fanatics is eroding. If only someone could convince our so-called intelligence agencies to step away from their false assumptions (Porter Goss was on display last week, babbling about the “Sunni insurgency,” as if that nonsense had not been exploded 30 years ago), we might make more progress.

Iraqis, who are the primary victims of the terror war, know better. Listen to Iraq the Model, the Iraqi website, last Friday:

The confessions (more…)

IS THE SPEED OF LIGHT SLOWING DOWN?

I’ve received a number of letters regarding the constancy of the speed of light as discussed in Aristotle, Einstein, and Ayn Rand . They ask about an argument claiming that the speed of light is slowing down.

The basis for asserting that the universe is billions of years old with galaxies billions of light years away is substantially based on what’s called the red-shift. It’s like a train whistle with its sound waves bunched up coming towards you, then the pitch shifts dramatically as the train passes by with the sound waves stretched out. Light waves from sources racing away (more…)

SHARANSKY IN TAIWAN

The ripples don’t stop. The stones hurled into the world’s political lake by the people of Ukraine and Iraq keep generating ripples washing up on the borders of ever-more countries benighted by dictatorship. Now they are about to hit the shores of China. This is thanks to a Taiwanese named Frank Hsieh who has read a book by a diminutive bald ex-Soviet dissident named Natan Sharansky.

This is the book – The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror – that President Bush has absorbed and is giving out to his friends. It is destined (more…)

TEHRAN ON THE BRINK?

My friends at RegimeChangeIran have just received a copy of a secret report prepared by the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s key security forces, for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It warns they would be unable to control a demonstration or rebellion in Tehran lasting longer than six hours.

Here’s the report’s key confession:

Society is in an unstable state. Were certain sensitive locations in Tehran to ‘explode’ under these circumstances, and the capital sink into chaos, if uprisings continue unabated and grow larger for more than six hours in Tehran, the situation would become uncontrollable.

You can be sure every (more…)

THE AGE OF DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

Has there ever been a more dramatic moment than this one for the Middle East? The whole region is boiling, as the failed tyrants scramble to come to terms with the political tsunami unleashed on Afghanistan and Iraq.

The power of democratic revolution can be seen in every country in the region. Even the Saudi royal family has had to stage a farcical “election.” But this first halting step has fooled no one. Only males could vote, no political parties were permitted, and only the Wahhabi establishment was permitted to organize. The results will not satisfy any serious person.

As (more…)

THE TRILLION DOLLAR SCAM: Kyoto leaves Oil-for-Food in the dust

One of the busiest guys on Capitol for the next six months will be Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), whom House International Relations Chairman Henry Hyde and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay have put in charge of the new subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight.

Dana’s assignment: Expose the entire slimy mess of the UN Oil-for-Food scandal and feed it to the fishes. Saddam Hussein demanded that all the monies of the UN program be run through one particular obscure French bank, the Banque Nationale de Paris-Paribas. What he forgot was that the UN is in New York, so the whole $64 billion (more…)

CAN PORTER TURN SYRIA ORANGE?

Immediately after the success of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution,” all the buzz in foreign policy Washington was: to where can we next export it? Russia? Belarus? Azerbaijan? Iran?

The answer became blazingly clear this week: Syria. With Syria’s assassination of Rafik Hariri in Beirut on February 14, Porter Goss has been handed a golden opportunity on a platinum platter to expand the Bush Doctrine in the Middle East and get rid of the Assad tyranny. The critical question: is his CIA up to it?

Despite the usual denials and red herrings, only Syria could have made the professional hit on Hariri, (more…)

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MALWARE COUNTERMEASURES: TWO VIEWS

I received the following email from a fellow ToThePointer.

Dennis,

Great crusade against spyware, but I fear that your Spysweeper (and apparently Spybot and Ad-Aware, quite popular in the tech press) are hardly adequate in the battle against spyware, which the ‘good guys’ seem to actually be *losing*.

Here’s an article summary on an exhaustive paper that remains to be fully analyzed: windowssecrets

They’re using Eric Howes’s research: spywarewarrior

Regards,
Joshua Reed

Naturally I went to these sites right away. At the first site you’ll have to scroll down a ways to find the feature article: Anti-adware misses most malware (more…)

CHENEY AND CONDI

There’s a red-breasted rumor bird that’s been flying around Washington for a while now, but recently it’s been nesting in Capitol Hill. Talk to just about any Congressional Committee Chairman and they’ll tell what this bird has whispered in their ear.

“We all know that Dick Cheney has been the best Vice-President of modern times, perhaps in American history,” one told me. “And we know that he absolutely will not run for President in 2008. Further, he has an unfortunate history of heart trouble. So let’s just say none of us will be surprised if, sometime next year, he will (more…)

RIPOSTE TO PYONGYANG: PROVE IT

For every newspaper in the country and around the world this morning, the supersize-font headline is the same: North Korea Admits It Has Nukes!! or a variant thereof. Yet while everyone else is running around like a panicked Chicken Little, the White House remained calm. “This is unfortunate,” Condi sedately pronounced. The most White House spokesman Scott McLellan could rouse himself to say was, “It’s rhetoric we’ve heard before.”

Why the insouciance? Because they think North Korea is bluffing. As Donald Rumsfeld put it when queried at NATO meeting in France, yes, the North Korean announcement was a cause for (more…)

POCKET OR PALM SOFTWARE?

This won’t be the last on my series on handheld computers. However, next week I hope to return to security issues. One ToThePointer sent me an email with important links regarding security. (Thanks!)

At long last I also hope to discuss Firefox, an alternative browser to Internet Explorer.

There are lots of reasons for buying PDAs, and not all of them have to do with the devices’ utility; some people just like the image they think PDAs project – that of a busy, connected mover and shaker. Of course, in some circles, carrying a PDA makes you an info-geek who (more…)

GENERAL MATTIS IS PROOF LIBERALS DON’T WATCH MOVIES OR READ BOOKS

You’ve heard, I’m sure, of the righteous outcry over Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis’s comment that “It’s fun to shoot some people,” made about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loud complaints from various leaders of special ethnic interest groups belly-aching about it.

Well, actually, it is “fun” to shoot some people – and all of us who have ever waited through an hour and a half movie, or read some 300 pages of a thriller, to the point when the bad guys finally get their comeuppance know this perfectly well. Some people, the ones who ruthlessly sacrifice the (more…)

TO CONGRESS ON CHINA

The following letter to all members of the United States Congress was written by legendary Chinese freedom advocate and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Harry Wu. Information on the struggle for human rights in China and how to help free political prisoners being held in China’s Gulag can be found at the website of Harry’s Laogai Research Foundation. —JW

In 1999, Mr. Warren Christopher, the Secretary of State, said in his last diplomatic speech in Shanghai that China would become a “Superpower” in the world. It could be understood either as a warning or a wise prediction.

People prefer to (more…)

THE STEALTH LEGIONS OF JIHAD

This is a very important article on a world-wide underground Islamofascist movement you never heard of, yet is a Trojan Horse for terror in America. I urge you to read it carefully and in full. —JW

Every fall, over a million almost identically dressed, bearded Moslem men from around the world descend on the small Pakistani town of Raiwind for a three-day celebration of faith. Similar gatherings take place annually outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Bhopal, India.

These pilgrims are no ordinary Moslems though. They belong to a movement called Tablighi Jamaat (“proselytizing group”). They are trained missionaries who have (more…)

FASTER, PLEASE

To the Iranian people, I say tonight: As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you.” — President Bush, in the State of the Union Address

President Bush promised the Iranian people that we would support them in their struggle for freedom, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has reiterated that promise on her trip to Europe. Many of the chatterers — the same dismal theorists who didn’t believe that the Iraqis really wanted to be free — are trying very hard to pretend it isn’t so, but the president’s words don’t leave much wiggle room (although the (more…)