HALF-FULL REPORT 11/26/10

I was hoping for a short and sweet HFR this week, as it’s truncated by Thanksgiving.  No such luck.  We have a lot of ground to cover, so let’s get started.

To my mind, the only reason to talk about a problem is as a prelude to searching for a serious solution to it.  That’s why I’m so tired of terrified complaints over North Korea.  Here’s a suggestion of how to get rid of the Norks.

The Norks’ real threat – which could cause the greatest mass human catastrophe in history – is not nuclear, for we know that the Norks are bluffing, they have no nukes.

The South Korean capital of Seoul is one of the largest cities in the world, with a metropolitan area of close to 25 million people.  It is some 30 miles from the North Korean border.  The mountains on the Nork side have been riddled with over 10,000 artillery tubes hidden in a maze of tunnels and caverns. 

A sustained barrage of thousands of artillery shells would murder millions.  Neither the US nor the ROK has developed a means to neutralize the threat.  Seoul being held hostage to the artillery threat is the reason why the Norks continue to get away with their outrageous behavior – the latest this week by bombing Yeonpyeong island.

The answer is to develop a short-range missile with GPS accuracy of less than an inch, thus capable of targeting the small cavern openings of the tubes with a ton of high explosives.  With a range of less than 100 miles, they’d be cheap – say, 33,000 of them at $100K each.

In the 12 to 18 months they are being built, construct a map of the tubes’ locations using a KH11-type satellite camera that from 200 miles up can read a newspaper headline.  Putting it in a 747 flying near the Nork border 20 miles from the tube-riddled mountains would provide ten times that, a resolution of fractions of an inch telling the difference between metal and earth, and with thermal scans for the tube openings’ heat emissions.

The mountains used to be covered in forest, but they’ve been denuded by heavy logging, making the tube openings far easier to spot.  With this map, the entire artillery complex can be taken out in one or two waves of several thousand GPS guided short range missiles.  Seoul would no longer be a hostage, the Norks’ hole card would be gone, and a program for regime change in Pyongyang could be implemented.

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That’s acting seriously regarding North Korea – and we’re capable of it if we look at what’s happened to the Al Qaeda-Taliban-Karzai government-Pakistan ISI cash cow of the Afghan poppy crop.

What’s happened is indicated by this perversely hilarious headline in Sunday’s (11/21) London Guardian, the bastion of British media Marxism:  Heroin Shortage in UK is Putting Lives at Risk.

A "mysterious fungus" has destroyed much of the Afghan poppy crop this year, causing a severe heroin shortage among British addicts.  The Guardian lefties are all upset about this, for it’s forcing addicts to overdose on adulterated H or alternatives.  How calamitous.

Looks like the DIA (our Defense Intelligence Agency) really did spread across Afghanistan the mycoherbicide fungus pleospora papaveracea designed by DARPA to be lethal to all varieties of poppy plants (and harmless to other plants and animals including us)  you learned about in the HFR last May (scroll to near the end).  How fabulous.

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The DIA guys who had the stones to spread the poppy fungus are superb candidates of the HFR Hero of the Week award – but there several other contenders.

Right up there are the Israelis who designed the Stuxnet cyber-missile that is sabotaging thousands of Iran’s centrifuges. 

We go south of the border for the next hero, Don Alejo Garza Tamez, who all alone defended his ranch in northern Mexico to the death from 30 drug cartel gunmen.  He killed four and seriously wounded two more by himself before he was gunned down.  Don Alejo, who was 77 years old, has become an inspiration to millions of Mexicans.

Mexico is being dismembered by a "criminal insurgency" to such an extent that Mexicans, such as Edward Schumacher-Matos in the Wall Street Journal today (11/26), are calling for US military help.  "Call in the Marines!" says Matos.  Tragically, the Mexican elite’s inferiority complex will prevent them from doing so.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry had another suggestion this week:

"How about we take all those TSA agents and put them on the border with Mexico where they can do some security there?  That’s where we need security substantially more than in our airports and what we’re seeing out of this bunch." 

More and more conservatives are paying real attention to Perry now as a possible presidential candidate.  Following up that put-TSA-agents-on-the-Mexican-border comment was this:

"I’d like to find somebody with the character to stand up and run for the presidency in 2012 and say, ‘I want to go to Washington, D.C. and help you make Washington as inconsequential in your life as I can make it.’"  Our kind of guy.

Perry is the incoming chairman of the Republican Governors Association, which had a conference last Friday (11/19).  Come January, 29 states will have GOP governors, and a consensus goal among them is to cut public worker unions down to size. If they do so, they sure will qualify for HFR Heroes next year.

But right now, this week’s HFR Hero award has to go to Don Alejo Garza Tamez.  Que hombre!

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By contrast, the HFR Thank You For Sharing Award of the Week goes to Barbara Bush, who sniffed to CNN’s Larry King on Monday (11/22) that she hoped Sarah Palin would stay in Alaska and not run for president.  The Bushes would much prefer Mitt Romneycare.

Mrs. Bush was accompanied on the air by her husband, George the Elder, making her snotty comment cosmically ironic – for he is considered by old-time Washington conservatives to have been a worse president than Jimmy Carter (although clearly not anywhere as bad an ex-president).

George I was handed impending victory over the Soviet Union on a platter by Ronald Reagan when inaugurated January 1989, and proceeded to do everything to prevent it, such as his infamous Chicken Kiev speech.

He was handed a fabulously prospering economy by Reagan and proceeded to ruin it by raising taxes as he promised – "read my lips" – not to do.

He instructed his ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, to tell Saddam Hussein, whose massive army was poised to invade Kuwait, "The US has no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts," which gave Saddam the green light.

And he gave the green light to the Red Chinese to crush the June 1989 Tiananmen democracy demonstrations. 

The movement was spreading rapidly to cities throughout China.  The Chicoms’ hold on power was tottering.  They didn’t know what to do.  Most particularly, they were worried about America.  Public words of support from the President of the United States for democracy in China could make the democracy movement unstoppable.

And what words did the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, utter?  None.  There was nothing but silence from the White House.  So the Chicoms sent in the tanks and troops, and massacred thousands of demonstrators in cold blood.

Thus we have George Bush the Elder to thank for the continuing and massive threat of China today, rather than it being a democracy and American ally. 

So, please, George and Barbara – shut up about Sarah Palin.  The HFR suggests you read this to learn what an amazingly smart and shrewd cookie Sarah is – and her staff.

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Speaking of something to read.  The HFR could not more strongly recommend Jeffrey Kuhner’s bullseye description of Obama’s Police State in today’s Washington Times.

TSA fascism has been described as "totalitarian madness," and "security theatre."  It’s also a total fraud.  Sexually abusing people in airport security will in no way protect them, as Al Qaeda will simply start placing bombs up the vagina or anus of one of their suicide martyrs.  These body cavities easily can contain enough PETN explosive to bring down an airborne plane.

There is one bitterly hilarious aspect to the TSA Fascist Fiasco:  TSA perverts pleading for pity.  One of them sobs:  "Molester, pervert, disgusting, an embarrassment, creep. These are all words I have heard today at work describing me. …These comments are painful and demoralizing."  Poor little perverts.

Being called disgusting perverts is exactly what they deserve.  The more they are demoralized the better.  As we discussed last week, the exploding revolt against TSA perversion could be the spark that sets off a true revolution to recapture our freedom.

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The best news to come out of Capitol Hill this week is that Jeff Sessions and other Senate Judiciary Pubs are determined to block the Nightmare Act – which the Dems call the Dream Act, as it provide amnesty for illegals.

It’s important to note that Pub Mark Kirk will replace Dem Roland Burris from Illinois just before the Lame Schmuck session resumes on Nov. 30.  Über-Rino Richard Lugar’s vote for it will be canceled by Dem Ben Nelson.  Plus Snowe & Collins from Maine will vote no, so there’s no way Reid can get to 60 and unblock the filibuster.  The DREAM of illegal amnesty is over.

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A very important development regarding your personal life expectancy happened this week.  Three years ago, November 2007, I wrote Technology, Freedom, and Saving Lives.

It predicted that within less than a decade, the technology of gene sequencing will provide a complete read out of your DNA for a few hundred dollars, instead of millions.  This will enable compounding pharmacists to mix up a unique set of genetic fixes for you without FDA approval.

The future is now – this is happening faster than even I thought.  Here’s the latest update on how "genotyping" – low-cost sequencing of your DNA – is creating the field of personalized medicine.  It will change the practice of medicine forever, as it will focus on the individual patient and his unique set of mutations, rather than on populations.

The FDA will make every fascist effort to "regulate," i.e., prevent, this – but (see the link in the TTP article above) the Supreme Court says they can’t.  Live long and prosper!

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We’ll close on that happy note.  Hope you all ate lots of turkey and fixins’, drank lots of wine, and celebrated life, love, and the blessing of being an American yesterday.  Have a great Thanksgiving weekend.