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High Risk of Catastrophic War
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Seven Important Videos from the Last 48 Hours
These videos are from 15 minutes to 80 minutes long. Why am I sending them—because we really are seriously dangerous times, and the mainstream media is not giving the American people an accurate or complete enough understanding of the situation. Their coverage is, in fact, minimal. A substantial majority of the mainstream media seem to be presenting an orchestrated propaganda campaign. This includes those with both conservative and liberal reputations. Many media agents seem to have an appallingly shallow knowledge of the background and history of the situations and are unaware that they as well as the public are being propagandized to facilitate highly questionable political agendas and war.
Immigration Enforcement
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Facing an Existential Threat to American Survival
First of all, as to the shooting deaths of protestors in Minneapolis by ICE agents, I do not wish to dwell upon the unfortunate details, although I agree they were indeed unfortunate. However, being a combat veteran myself, although not involved in close-quarter personal combat, I am familiar with the difficulties of high levels of adrenaline, stress, and urgency in combat situations. I have retired Army and Marine officer friends who experienced more urgent combat stresses at close-quarter. This is often the very hard but unavoidable part of dedicated and honorable soldiering and law enforcement. However, in enforcing immigration laws and enforcing law in general, these unfortunate incidents will happen. They should never happen by intention, but reasonable and economic actions to reduce such incidents should have constant attention.
More Quotes on the Civil War
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Secession, Tariffs, Sectionalism, Southern Rights, Slavery, Truth, Defeated Valor
One of my favorite quotes revealing the real causes of Southern secessions from the United States, beginning with South Carolina on December 20, 1860, and leading to six other secessions and Confederate artillery batteries in Charleston bombarding Union held Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, is an early November editorial in the Charleston Mercury. On November 4, 1860, just two days before Lincoln’s election in November 6, the Charleston Mercury summed up the feeling of South Carolina on the impending national crisis:
“The real causes of dissatisfaction in the South with the North, are in the unjust taxation and expenditure of the taxes by the Government of the United States, and in the revolution the North has effected in this government, from a confederated republic to a national sectional despotism.”
Ten Quotes from the Civil War
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Writing in December of 1861 in a London weekly publication, the famous English author, Charles Dickens, who was a strong opponent of slavery, said these things about the war going on in America:
“The Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug disguised to conceal its desire for economic control of the United States.”
Karl Marx, like most European socialists of the time, favored the North. In an 1861 article published in England, he articulated very well what the major British newspapers, the Times, the Economist, and Saturday Review, had been saying:
“The war between the North and South is a tariff war. The war, is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for power.”
Greenland Defense and Arctic Economic Development
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From Erik the Red to Pituffik Space Base
If you look at a global map centered on the North Pole, you will notice that Russia has the largest exposure to the Arctic Ocean, nearly 50 percent. Advancing technology or warmer climate could result in more viable Arctic seaports and trade passages to both the North Atlantic and Northwest Pacific, cutting down the time and possibly the cost of shipping goods. The United States, especially Alaska, Canada, and the Scandinavian countries could also benefit from such expanded, shorter, and cheaper trade routes.
Moreover, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, resource basins within the Arctic Circle (North of 66.5 Latitude) contain 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and 30 percent of the world’s undiscovered natural gas. Currently, developing these resources would cost 50 to 100 percent more than in Texas, but technologies to reduce costs are developing rapidly. The Russians and others are pouring investments into Arctic infrastructure and extraction technology. The Arctic resource basins are also rich in phosphate, bauxite (for aluminum), iron ore, copper, nickel, diamonds, gold, zinc, and palladium.
Mike Scruggs is the author of two books: The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths; and Lessons from the Vietnam War: Truths the Media Never Told You, and over 600 articles on military history, national security, intelligent design, genealogical genetics, immigration, current political affairs, Islam, and the Middle East.
He holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Stanford University. A former USAF intelligence officer and Air Commando, he is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, and Air Medal. He is a retired First Vice President for a major national financial services firm and former Chairman of the Board of a classical Christian school.
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