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RUSSIAN CONTROL OF CASPIAN NATURAL GAS PC, Volume X, Issue # 208, Aug. 24, 2008
RUSSIAN TANKS SIGNAL A "NEW ENERGY WAR"
By Dennis T. Avery
Since the Russian tank attacks on Georgia [Gruzia], Europe’s energy position is far worse than America’s. Europe’s North
Sea oil and natural gas are waning, and its marginal coal mines have long been shut down. Europe has been importing lots
of natural gas, 40 percent of it from Russia. Georgia [Gruzia] was threatening to allow another natural gas pipeline that
Russia wouldn’t control — so Vlad the Assailer demonstrated that he can control Caspian-region natural gas exports
whenever he chooses to send tanks.
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PROMOTING THE DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS PC, Volume X, Issue # 307, Aug 21, 2008
DISSIDENT WATCH: MOHSEN MARZOUK
By J. Scott Carpenter
When Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali extended his term of office, in 2004, for another five years, making
him effectively President-for-Life, Mohsen Marzouk realized that, for change to occur not only in Tunisia, but also in
other North African police states, it would be necessary to mesh internal Tunisian networks with ideas and activists
from outside the country.
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OBAMA ON THE HUMANITY OF THE UNBORN PC, Volume X, Issue # 206, Aug. 20, 2008
DEFINING GOOD & EVIL IN 2008 AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
When asked by Reverend Rick Warren at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency about his beliefs on when human
life begins, Democratic Party presidential wannabe Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., obfuscated, finally responding that the
answer is “above my pay grade.” Obama apparently hoped to at once avoid criticism from any who would disagree with
him if he got specific, while attempting to claim the moral “high ground” on the basis that he would leave such decisions
to a higher authority.
In truth, Obama accomplished neither.
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THE TUNISIAN MODEL FOR ISLAMIC MODERNITY PC, Volume X, Issue # 205, Aug. 19, 2008
MODERNITY STARTS HERE -- TUNISIA
By Asaf Romirowsky
Middle East scholar Dr. Daniel Pipes has argued for years that the solution to Islamism, or radical Islam, is moderate Islam.
But the question is still, who are these moderates and where can they be found. "Islamism, according to Dr. Pipes, is a
radical utopian version of Islam." Pipes states that "Islamists, the adherents of this well funded, widespread, totalitarian
ideology, are attempting to create a global Islamic order that fully applies the Islamic law (Shari'a)."
Using this definition, moderation requires rejection of jihad to impose Muslim rule and the rejection of suicide terrorism. No
more second-class citizenship for non-Muslims. No more imposition of the death penalty for adultery. No more "honor"
killings of women. And no more death sentences for blasphemy or apostasy.
Ultimately, it means embracing the same modernity that Jews and Christians have adopted, modernity whereby there is no
contradiction between being a religiously observant individual on the one hand and living in a modern society on the other.
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PRINCE CHARLES' ELITIST ORGANIC FARMING PC, Volume X, Issue # 204, Aug. 18, 2008
PRINCE CHARLES PROMOTES WORLD HUNGER
By Dennis T. Avery & Alex A. Avery
Prince Charles of England has come out again against the genetically modified foods that are a key hope for producing the
extra food needed by our richer, more populous world in the decades just ahead. He must know that, thanks to science,
world grain production tripled during his lifetime, from about 700 million tons per year to nearly 2,100 million tons. This
achievement was certainly not due to his elitist organic farming, which continues to yield about half as much per acre as
conventional farming. For fifty years, we have even bombarded seeds with radioactive isotopes to force useful new seed
mutations!
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WILL ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN'S NUCLEAR PLANTS PC, Volume X, Issue # 203, Aug. 17, 2008
THE IRAN SCENARIOS
By Alan Caruba
These days you can read as many different scenarios regarding the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facilities
as there are experts putting them forth. History, past and present, may have already written the script.
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HOW MOST ISLAMIST INFILTRATION PROCEEDS PC, Volume X, Issue # 202, Aug. 15, 2008
THE WEST'S ISLAMIST INFILTRATORS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, is a Pakistani mother of three, an alumna of MIT, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University.
She is also accused of working for Al-Qa'ida and was charged last week in New York City with attempting to kill American
soldiers.
Her arrest serves to remind how invisibly most Islamist infiltration proceeds. In particular, an estimated forty Al-Qa'ida
sympathizers or operatives have sought to penetrate U.S. intelligence agencies.
Such a well-placed infiltrator can wreck great damage to the security of the U.S.A. and that of its allies.
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OPPOSING U.S. DOMESTIC OIL PRODUCTION PC, Volume X, Issue # 201, Aug. 14, 2008
IDLE LEASES, OR ADDLED MINDS?
Political Grandstanding Won't Help Companies Find Oil on Federal Leases
By Newt Gingrich & Roy Innis
Gasoline prices have doubled since Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Electricity and natural
gas prices have skyrocketed. Energy lock-ups continue to anger Americans and put anti-drilling politicians on the defensive.
The American public is increasingly demanding expanded domestic oil and natural gas drilling, and are thououghly disgusted
with the Democrats, the environmentalists, and the immoral war waged by the two groups against poor families.
As Democratic Party leaders and environmentalists continue to block U.S. energy development, their assertion that oil
companies are “sitting on” 68 million acres of “idle” leases often leads their rhetoric.
This claim is absurd. The Democrats are either playing clumsy political jiu jitsu with our energy future and lives, or they are
hopelessly confused and disconnected with reality.
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