WHY WOULD OBAMA BE ON THE SIDE OF THE DYING REGIME IN IRAN?
Late last month, something went seriously wrong in the underground tunnels beneath the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz. I don't know if it was an explosion, on-site sabotage, an accident, or a cyber attack, but eight people were killed, and several others are being treated for irradiation. The tunnel leading to the damaged sector has been walled off. And another disaster, several days earlier, took place at the heavy-water facility at Arak, whose existence has been public knowledge since the mid-nineties. Along with the explosion in a gas line leading to a new, secret, nuclear facility in a mountain near Fordow, this makes three setbacks to the Iranian regime's nuclear program. Maybe their feng shui has gone negative in anticipation of the oft-dreaded Year of the Snake, but whatever the explanation - no doubt the supreme leader sees the omnipresent satanic activity of the Jews hard at work - things are not going swimmingly for the terror masters in Tehran. Why, then, would Obama lead from his behind and support them?
AMERICA’S GLOBAL OPPRESSION AND IMPERIALISM UNDER OBAMA
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.
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/08/13
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit." These are the first and last lines of a speech delivered on the floor of the US Senate on March 16, 2006. The speaker was Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama. The full text of the speech from the Congressional Record is appended at the end of this HFR. Feel quite free to cut and paste the full speech into an email informing your friends of the hideous hypocrisy of President Zero. Speaking of hideousness, our next subject is The PIAPS - The Pig In A Pants Suit - Hillary Rodham Clinton.
WATERBOARDING AND DRONE STRIKES
Remember how outraged liberals said they were when they learned three al Qaeda bigwigs were waterboarded? After they were waterboarded, the al Qaeda big shots disclosed information that prevented follow-on attacks on Los Angeles and London, according to intelligence officials. A scene in the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" indicates Osama bin Laden's hideout was located in part by information obtained from waterboarding. No matter, said outraged liberals. Waterboarding is torture. When we use their techniques, the terrorists win. Our international reputation is besmirched; our civil liberties endangered. Why, then, have liberals said so little about the report Monday (2/04) on the vague criteria the Obama administration uses to justify killing American citizens suspected of terrorism with drone strikes?
GETTING TO THE CARNEGIE HALL OF YOUR LIFE
The legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) was strolling down 57th Street in Manhattan one spring morning when a young man, looking lost, approached him. "Excuse me, sir," he said to the virtuoso not knowing who he was, "could you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?" Heifetz smiled gently, nodded sagely, and answered, "Practice, my son, practice." It's a famous joke - Jack Benny was fond of telling it - that points to an eternal truth. One of the principles of living a happy life is that it takes willpower, it takes discipline, and it takes practice in order to live well. This may seem strange if your vision of happiness is ease and momentary pleasure. But ease and momentary pleasure are not what make for a happy life, any more than ice cream is what makes for a healthy diet. In my work I talk about and teach a lot of different skills that can make for a happier life - if you practice them. Knowing about them, understanding them, thinking about them are fine intellectual exercises, but they will not improve your life. What improves your life is practicing the skills of a good life; or, if you're more ambitious, practicing the skills of a great life.
OBAMA IS OBSOLETE
Zero's fascist seizure of America's healthcare system is kicking into high gear. On Tuesday (2/05), the CBO - Congressional Budget Office - issued its updated budget and economic forecast. Zerocare, the CBO says, will now cost $233 billion more than previously estimated, and will surge well over $1 trillion for the next 10 years. Seven million workers will lose their employer-paid health coverage. In addition, one of the more lethally noxious consequences of Zerocare is its enabling of an enormous expansion of power by the Federal Death Agency - the FDA. The FDA is the perfect example of the ball-and-chain the Federalie Fascists place around the economy. The "safety and efficacy" requirements of the FDA now take an average of 12 years and between 1 and 4 billion dollars for a pharmaceutical company to gain approval to bring one new chemical entity drug to market. Here's how insanely obsolete this is. You've heard of Moore's Law, right? Back in 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would expand exponentially, doubling every two years or less - and it has ever since. So - here we go. Strap yourself in for a ride in a rocket sled. Moore's Law has come to biology.
WE ARE OUT OF TOMORROWS
After Mr. Obama delivered his second inaugural address week before last, it has been dawning on people that his political strategy is that of the Thunderdome in Mel Gibson's Mad Max 3 movie: "Two men enter, one man leaves." He is totally win/lose, the total antithesis of win/win. From Mau-Mau tautology mixed with Marxist ideals inbred from his absent father and a mother enriched in the heresies of the deep left Communism of Frank Marshall Davis, this man has unfurled his true colors. Unbridled by the need to appear moderate for his next campaign, "the One" has declared war on anything or anyone who would stand in the way of his Progressive radical agenda. Yes, Saul Alinsky's hand can be seen everywhere along with Chicago thuggery, but there is much more.
WHY CHINA WILL NEVER CATCH THE UNITED STATES
The reason in a nutshell? China's vast reserve of cheap workers in the hinterland is vanishing at a vertiginous pace. We can now discern more or less when the catch-up growth miracle will sputter out. Another seven years or so -- enough to buoy global coal, crude, and copper prices for a while -- but then it will all be over. China's demographic dividend will be exhausted. Beijing revealed last week that the country's working age population has already begun to shrink, sooner than expected. It will soon go into "precipitous decline," according to the International Monetary Fund. Japan hit this inflexion point fourteen years ago, but by then it was already rich, with $3 trillion of net savings overseas. China has hit the wall a quarter century earlier in its development path. The ageing crisis is well-known. It is already six years since a Chinese demographer shocked Davos with a warning that his country might have to resort to mass suicide in the end, shoving pensioners onto the ice. Less known is the parallel - and linked - labor drain in the countryside. A new IMF paper - "Chronicle of a Decline Foretold: Has China Reached the Lewis Turning Point?" - says the reserve army of peasants looking for work peaked in 2010 at around 150 million. The numbers are now collapsing.
PAUL KRUGMAN’S SILLY KEYNESIAN DESPERATION
What do you do if the facts don't support your beliefs? If you are honest, you will rethink what you previously believed. If you are a Keynesian economist, though, like New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, you make silly assertions. In his Jan. 31 column, Mr. Krugman said he wants to see "some example, somewhere, of austerity policies that succeeded." If you are a Keynesian school economist like Mr. Krugman, you define "austerity" as a reduction in government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). If you are a classical Austrian school economist, you view a reduction of government spending not as austerity, but a growth-enhancing policy. Mr. Krugman seems to have forgotten that the government share of GDP dropped after Reagan was able to get most of his policies through the Democrat-controlled Congress (which Mr. Krugman would define as austerity). The economy boomed and employment soared. Likewise, when government spending was reduced as a share of GDP during the Clinton administration and the Republican Congress, the economy and employment boomed.
WHAT WE HAVE IN COMMON WITH MONARCH BUTTERFLIES
You've probably heard of the spectacular migrations of hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies, which home in on one small region of Mexico for the winter then return as far north as Canada in a flight of thousands of miles that takes more than one generation. Clearly the insects have an inherited "map" of where to go, but what compass do they use? It seems they have at least two compasses. One is a "time-compensated sun compass," located in their antennae, which calculates bearings from the angle of the sun corrected for the time of day. But butterflies can also use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate. The butterfly antennae contain a protein molecule called cryptochrome, which can apparently act as a magnetic compass when exposed to blue or violet light. Human beings and other mammals also have a cryptochrome in their retinas, albeit in slightly different form, but until recently it was thought not to have magnetic directional properties. Recently Dr. Steven M. Reppert of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and his colleagues took the human version of the gene that's the recipe for cryptochrome and genetically engineered it into flies, replacing the flies' own version. They then showed that, presented with two routes in a maze, the flies could choose a magnetic direction they had been trained to associate with a sugar reward, and they did so just as well with the "human" cryptochrome as with their own. If it is at least possible to use our cryptochrome molecules to sense direction from the Earth's magnetic field, do we?