HALF-FULL REPORT 08/29/14

Well… (as "Bones" always begins his Forum posts)

…hours after he pledges peace in Ukraine, Putin Huilo orders his troops and tanks to invade; Iran claims to be arming terrorists within Israel itself; ISIS and Al Qaeda promise to take their terror war to America; the Chicoms dangerously intercept a US recon plane over international waters they illegally claim – and Rand Paul thinks he can be elected president by going to the left of Hillary Clinton?

Like father, like son.

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Before we get into the details of all the above, and a lot more, I need to tell you that our TTP Portugal Fall Retreat is filling up very fast.  We only have a few spaces remaining, so please, if you’re considering having this marvelous experience with us, register as soon as you can.  And yes, that picture of the castle in the clouds is real, by the way.

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We’ll begin discussing geopolitical reality vs. Blame America First isolationism with this map focused on a place you never heard of, James Shoal.

This is on page 4 of China’s current 8^th grade geography textbook published by People’s Education Press.  It features the infamous "Nine Dash Line" the Chicoms use to claim the entire South China Sea.  The four text boxes draw lines to the northern, southern, western, and easternmost points of China. 

The southernmost points to James Shoal (named by the Brits who discovered it, and now named Zengmu Ansha by the Chicoms) 50 miles off the coast of Malaysia – and over 1,000 miles south of Hainan, the actual southernmost point of China.  The text says: "The southernmost point of our country’s territory is Zengmu Ansha in the Nansha (Spratly) Islands."

Students are required to measure the distance between the northern point and the shoal with a ruler and calculate the distance.  It’s 5,500 kilometers (3417 miles). 

Now it gets really Chicom Crazy:  It’s not even a "shoal" or "reef" above water at high tide – it’s a slight rise on the ocean floor 72 feet below the ocean surface.  This does not stop Chicom warships from dropping marble tablets claiming sovereignty into the water above it, nor their crews at the time oath-swearing to protect the "sacred territory" of the PRC.

This has infuriated Malaysia and poisoned its relations with Beijing.  The Chicoms have done exactly the same with Vietnam, Brunei, and the Philippines:

 

 
And with us, by claiming what are clearly international waters – and among the most valuable (over 60% of the world’s shipping by value transits the South China Sea) – as all theirs, nobody else’s like children in Kindergarten who haven’t learned to share.  Further, it’s vital to US national security that we patrol them – for if we don’t and lose track of Chinese Jin-class subs exiting Hainan, PLA strategy is for them to show up on our West Coast undetected with nuclear SLBMs.

So they pull stupid intimidating stunts with their MiG replicas and tell us to stop – which, thankfully, the Pentagon refuses to do.

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This is one example of a myriad that the world is a dangerous place from which we can’t run and hide, that to pretend any danger is somehow our fault is delusional, that the US (primarily via the US Navy and SpecOps) had better be the "world’s policeman" or else the barbarians take over.  That’s reality.  What’s needed by President Perry in 2017 is to Remilitarize the World Police.

Thus the explosion of derision and revulsion this week towards two professional politicians regarding their jaw-dropping gaffes.

First, on Wednesday (8/27) freshman Senator Rand Paul penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed, How U.S. Interventionists Abetted the Rise of ISIS.  You can parse and nuance his words all day long, but the asinine title alone dooms his presidential aspirations.  When Democrats denounce you as a Blame America Firster – "The Rand Paul Doctrine: Blame America,  Retreat from the World" – you know it’s goodnight.

And to call the PIAPS a "warhawk" is laughable.  To say we caused the ghoulish atrocities of ISIS because we didn’t support the Assad dictatorship in Syria is disgusting.  Conservative pundits are having a field day.

American Spectator: Paul is Obama-Lite.  Boston Herald: Isolationism a Losing Hand for Paul. Washington Examiner: Paul’s Foreign Policy Critique Is Not a Foreign Policy. Commentary: Has Rand Paul’s Moment Passed?

Yes it has, and that’s a shame.  He’s right on a lot of domestic issues and wants to downsize government more than just about anyone in DC.  Why can’t there be a pro-defense libertarian running? is my question.  Ted Cruz is as close as we’re going to get.

Now about that second Giant Gaffe of the Week.  That of course would be Zero – Mr. Barrack Hussein "We Don’t Have A Strategy" Obama.  Yes, he actually committed – as he was sans-Teleprompter – that classic gaffe of accidentally telling the truth yesterday (8/28).  He’s been laser-focused on his golf game and attending fundraisers, far too busy to be C-in-C.

This after the Moslem crazies of ISIS or Islamic State had just posted video showing them slaughtering hundreds of captured Syrian soldiers in cold blood, butchering Christians, enslaving Yazidi women, and threatening to bring their Jihad to America.

Believe it or not, after his "Barney Fife performance" so unanimously ridiculed throughout Washington, Zero promptly raced off to – no, not the White House Situation Room, but yet another fundraiser. Obama Stuns Washington Admitting He Is Clueless About Tackling ISIS screamed the London Daily Mail.

What both gaffes have in common is that neither of the two who made them have a strategy for defending America in the real world.

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Now let’s turn to two astounding – and astoundingly positive – international reports.  Better be sitting down for this:

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Foreign Minister Declares It Is Time for the Islamic World to Recognize Israel. 

Saud bin Faisal Al Saud is the son of former King Faisal and the world’s longest currently serving foreign minister (since 1975).  At a world assembly of Islamic scholars last week (8/21), he said Arabs must reject Moslem Brotherhood-aligned Hamas as the Palestinians’ legitimate representative, and called on Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas to formally recognize Israel.  He denounced Hamas as solely responsible for the war in Gaza.

After you pick yourself off the floor, realize that this has already happened with the new Al-Sisi government in Egypt.  The Moslem Brotherhood mouthpiece Middle East Monitor has denounced what its calls Zionist Egypt.  The left-wing (and thus anti-Israel) London Guardian bemoans that Egypt’s Decision to Side with Israel has Cost Gaza Dear.

Unsaid in all the reports is how much both Riyadh and Cairo – along with Jerusalem – despise Zero for supporting the Iqwan (Moslem Brotherhood).

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The second report is just as stunning:

Chahuites, Mexico.  Mexico Cracks Down on Illegal Immigrants to the US. 

This is an AP story dated today (8/29).  AP reporters are traveling the entire route from Guatemala to Texas, and say that Mexican federal agents have virtually shut down the flood, especially that of unaccompanied children and families.  A trickle of individual men get through.  Yesterday (8/28), for example, there were no Central American children in the shelter at Reynosa across the border from McAllen, Texas.

Pretty amazing.  Most Central Americans who elude the Mexican agents are saying they’ll stay in Mexico to find work rather than sneak into the US.  Yes, really – because Mexico is about to boom, big time.

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Last week (8/21) in Fracking Is The Future, we noted:

"An indicator of just how much fracking is the future is that Mexico, with its enormous reserves yet with the most corrupt oilco on earth, Pemex, as an albatross around its neck, announced on August 6^th: Mexico’s Shale Gas Sector Open to Private Investors…

There will now be billions in investment pumped into Mexico’s economy, with scores of thousands of jobs.  Hordes of Mexicans will now be able to make a living in their own country, and not have to try to make one as an illegal alien in the US."

On Tuesday (8/26), CNBC headlined Mexico to Get Huge Economic Boost from Energy Reforms.  President Enrique Peña Nieto has signed a raft of energy reform bills, not just busting the Pemex monopoly.  They also bust the electricity generation and distribution monopoly of Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) – which will reduce electricity costs in Mexico by up to 50%.

Natural gas in Mexico costs four times as much as in the US – the reforms will drastically reduce this.  CNBC predicts 2 million new jobs will be created over the next few years.  This is fabulous news.  The only real lasting solution to our massive illegal alien crisis is a prosperous Mexico.  That’s the real win-win.  Thanks to President Nieto, it’s becoming possible.

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Meanwhile, our President Zero continues to create a government culture of corruption worse than the one Nieto is trying to get rid of.

His racist commie pig of an attorney general is Exhibit A.  The IBD on Wednesday (8/27) itemizes how after flat-out extorting $16.6 billion from Bank of America, Holder Justice will now use it to create a gigantic slush fund for Democrat and Marxist special interest groups.

The BOA "settlement" is just the latest episode in Holder’s extortion racket.  The IBD explains:

"Holder has shaken down the nation’s largest banks for a whopping $128 billion, more than a 10th of a trillion dollars, and counting…

These settlements have little, if anything, to do with ‘justice’ or restitution for innocent victims. In its 30-page ‘statement of facts,’ Justice couldn’t provide a single shred of evidence of fraud against BofA. Nor could it ID a single ‘victim’ by name.

The attorney general is actually perverting justice by extorting billions of dollars from the largest banks in the country and giving it away to the president’s political friends and favorite political causes."

Under Zero, America’s government has become the most corrupt on earth.  Mexico’s is a piker.

It’s little wonder that so many US businesses are "renouncing their citizenship," for which Zero condemned them.  The latest company to be demonized as "unpatriotic" for this is Burger King.  With the most delightful irony, on Tuesday (8/26)  it was announced that Burger King was moving to Canada via an investment by Warren Buffett.

As the New York Daily News reported with relish:  "President Obama’s favorite billionaire has thrown him under the Burger King bus."

Good for Burger King and good for Buffett.  It’s not patriotic to finance the wholesale corruption of your country.

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Just two little fascist examples this week of how bad it’s getting.

Powerline reports (8/27):  "The government of the United States is suing the town of St. Anthony, Minnesota, a Twin Cities suburb with a population a little over 8,000, to force the town to allow development of an Islamic center in an area reserved for industrial development."  This is happening across the country.

The Daily Caller reports (8/27): "EPA chief Gina McCarthy is claiming that new EPA regulations on ‘CO2 pollution’ are a matter of ‘justice for communities of color’."  You can’t make this up.

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So it’s going to get worse before it gets better.  The good news is that it’s going to get better soon – starting November 5^th.  There is so much pent up revulsion towards Zero that the Pubs who will take over the Senate will actually have to do something positive.  This is just a mid-term, remember, and everyone’s eyes will be focused on the Big Enchilada in 2016.

Right now, it seems that Dame Fortune has the presidential hots for Rick Perry.  It’s easy to see why, when he has the huevos to fundraise by selling t-shirts with his mugshot.

How brilliantly awesome is that?  For this alone, Perry is the HFR Hero of the Week.

Oh – and all that buzz about a Perry-Cruz 2016 Texas duke out?  They’ll make a deal.  Cruz will back Perry, and once in the Oval Office, Perry will ease Cruz into being Senate Majority Leader.  They can then team up to dismantle federal agencies, while Ted (he’s only 44 and a freshman senator) is groomed to run as Perry’s successor.

Expect Perry to seal the deal with Pub voters via TTP’s The Law That Can Put Obama In Jail.  The article from last May is worth rereading now.  The bottom line: "A Republican Governor may initiate criminal prosecution of any officer or employee of the Federal Government for violations of the Antideficiency Act.  The case must go directly to the Supreme Court."

Although Perry may start with Holder first as a warmup.

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