The Rise and Fall of America?

Just back from Orlando.  Dagny, at 18 months, is a chatterbox.

A warning to those who believe America is on the verge of losing its pre-eminence in the Middle East.

There are those who say it is time for us to allow the Arabs and Muslims to keep killing each other.  I find that compelling but unrealistic because eventually they will start killing us and everyone one else that gets in their way, including Russians, something Putin, for the moment , is not concerned about because he is enjoying rubbing Obama's face in it. (See 1 and 1a  below.)
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Muslim inbreeding is something one seldom sees discussed.  (See 2 below.)
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Obama's former Defense Secretaries criticize him ( 3 below.)
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1)

Back in the USSR

Zalman Shoval - Israel Today

Russia has never completely abandoned our region, but for 40 years, thanks to Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger and the Israeli victory in the Yom Kippur War, Moscow lost most of its previous centers of influence in the Middle East, aside from Syria. Now Russia is back, in a big way.

It is still early to cap the developments of recent weeks surrounding Syria's chemical weapons program, but one thing is already clear: Without minimizing the importance of the agreement to rid the Syrian regime of its chemical weapons arsenal or the American contribution to the deal, one gets the impression that the Kremlin was at the wheel. Perceptions, primarily in the Middle East, are sometimes more important than facts, and America in our region today looks like it is following; compared to Russia, which was able to dictate — and it does not matter that objectively the U.S. is much more powerful than Russia (and if Washington doesn't wake up soon and realize who it prefers over whom in Egypt, it is liable to lose ground there as well).

President Barack Obama said in his speech that America no longer wants to be the “world's policeman.” Vacuums, however, are destined to be filled, and Russia, perhaps with China, will fill them.

Israel is content with the fact that an agreement on Syria was reached, as long as the regime in Damascus meets its conditions and stipulations. The Netanyahu government's consistent position has been that Israel has no role in the Syrian civil war, but any possible scenario does include neutralizing Assad's chemical weapons and ensuring that they are not transferred to Hezbollah. Even Assad's temporarily enhanced status does not need to bother us too much. On the other hand, Israel cannot ignore the potential consequences that Russia's increased diplomatic standing will have pertaining to crucial diplomatic matters on Israel's agenda: Iran and the Palestinian problem.

As for Iran, there is a debate in America about whether the Syrian outcome will make Tehran feel more exposed to international pressures, enough so that it will stop its race toward a nuclear weapon; or whether it will see Western weakness, including American “flexibility” about its “red lines” and Russia's active diplomatic engagement — a type of “building permit” for the continuation of its nuclear program. It can be assumed that this issue was the focus of Netanyahu's meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem earlier this week.

In regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Vladimir Putin's Russia has not, yet, brought up its own diplomatic initiatives and at this stage it is settling for repeating the European Union's mantras and slogans. In the Soviet past, the situation was different, not only because Stalin and most of his successors saw Zionism as an active and ideological enemy, but also because the Kremlin saw, during the cold war, Israel and its Arab client states marionettes to be controlled by both sides of the globe.

The result of this was that Russia and its satellite states consistently supported the Arab side, supplied weapons to the Egyptian and Syrian armies, trained Palestinian terrorists and cultivated potential terrorists at Lumumba University in Moscow (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also studied there). America, in contrast, generally supported Israel and was critical in deciding the outcome of the Yom Kippur War when Kissinger, backed by Nixon, threatened the Russians against intervening on behalf of the beaten Syrians and Egyptians.

Today, the situation is different. There are differences of opinion on several issues, in particular over Moscow's turning a blind eye, at least on the surface, to the dangers posed by Iran's nuclear program, but there are also quite a few agreements, either declared or veiled. Israel is certainly not indifferent, for example, to one of the major trends in Russian diplomacy, which is to stymie the expansion of Islam in the world, particularly in its close vicinity. In other areas as well, relations between Moscow and Jerusalem are doing exceedingly well and serve both parties.

However, Russia also understands that even with all the positive changes in relations, Israel will stay, also into the future, unequivocally tied to America and the American people (and to the Jewish community there). With that, Israel is aware of the possibilities offered by Russia's enhanced status in the Middle East, especially if Russia wants to exploit the relative advantage it has gained from the Syrian situation, which could give it increased prominence on the Palestinian issue. Israeli diplomacy can be expected to be very active on this front in the years to come.

1a)The Fall of the American Empire Has Begun 

An interview with Richard Maybury

The Daily Crux: Richard, you've long said the collapse of the American Empire would be the central issue for Americans, with regard to money, investing, and life in general.

In your recent issue of Early Warning Report, you said there's now a very high probability this collapse has already started. Can you talk about why you think that is?

Richard Maybury: Let's start with a little history: All empires eventually fall. No one in Washington will admit it, but the U.S. has been an empire for decades now, and there has never been any reason to believe our empire would be immortal.

People who are power-seekers want more power, and they'll sacrifice other things in order to get that power. One of the things power-seekers in a large government almost always sacrifice is the financial integrity of the country. They will bleed the whole economy dry just to increase their power. That's a main reason empires fall.

We see it all through history. You can look back to any of the ancient empires… They're forever wrecking their economies in order to increase their political power. So it's no brilliant prediction to say the U.S. Empire is going to fall. Anyone who has studied much history should have been able to predict this mess was going to arise… and here it is.

It's fascinating to me. I talk to all sorts of so-called ordinary people, such as dentists, barbers, and taxi drivers. Most have no understanding of what's actually happening to America, but they all know deep in their hearts something has gone terribly wrong… and it's not going to end anytime soon. This is an interesting condition that has arisen recently.

Americans, up until the last year or two, have always been optimistic. They would say things like, "Yes, hard times come along, but this, too, shall pass." They aren't saying this anymore. They're beginning to figure out that America's troubles aren't going away this time.

You can see these problems in the financial markets and elsewhere… unemployment, bankruptcies, mortgage defaults, poverty… These are all just symptoms of the fall of the empire. Let me quickly point out, however, that the fall of the empire is actually a wonderful thing. Empires are cancers, and it's a good thing to excise them as fast as possible. But the surgery necessary to do it is awfully painful.

If you look at any previous empires I write about – the French Empire, the British Empire, the Russian Empire – these countries are all much better places today than they were when they had empires. America will be too. But we've got to get from here to there… and the process is very, very painful. We're going to experience an awful lot of trouble because of it.

Crux: For many years, you've also been writing about the problems in the Middle East. In the past few months, it seems many of those problems are coming to a head. Can you explain how the troubles there – part of the area you refer to as "Chaostan" – are related to the troubles we're facing here at home?

Maybury: Sure. For those who aren't familiar, "Chaostan" is a term I coined for the area from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, and Poland to the Pacific, along with North Africa. This area includes the Middle East.

In Central Asia, the suffix "stan" means "the land of." For example, Afghanistan is the land of the Afghans. So in 1992, I coined the term Chaostan to mean "the land of great chaos."

The reason this area is so often in chaos is a conversation of its own, but here's a quick summary.

All religions teach that there is a higher law than any government's law, and they all teach two fundamental laws: Do all you have agreed to do, which is the basis of contract law, and do not encroach on other persons or their property, which is the basis of tort law and some criminal law. Each religion expresses these laws in different ways, but they all teach them.

These principles are the basis of the old British common law. It was called common law because it grew out of principles common to all.

In a book called The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, historian Bernard Bailyn pointed out that the American Revolution, the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence all sprang from the common law.

In the decades following the revolution, other people saw America's new liberty and prosperity. They wanted the same thing, and the American philosophy began to spread around the world. The areas where it took root became known as the "Free World."

Then in the mid-1800s, socialism began to spread, and it nearly killed off the American philosophy – a philosophy that I believe is now being rediscovered.

Chaostan is the most important area where the principles of liberty never got a chance to take root. From the beginning of history, most parts of Chaostan have been a sea of blood and destruction because they never had rational legal systems… and still don't.

The turmoil is greatly aggravated by the interference of European regimes during past centuries.

When you look at this area on a map of the world, you see all these countries are delineated by borders drawn by Europeans. Very few Americans understand this. Practically every border in the world was drawn by the European governments as they swept over the globe conquering one country after another.

European rulers would draw the borders in locations that were convenient to them. And so there are very few borders in the world that were drawn by the people who are native to those areas.

This means what we regard as a country when we look at a map usually isn't really a country at all. It's a collection of tribes cobbled together by the Europeans for the convenience of the Europeans.

In each of these so-called "countries," there are some tribes that are either dominant or want to be dominant. And the way they achieve dominance is by acquiring money, weapons, and other resources from outside powers, which were originally the Europeans.

A good example is Saudi Arabia. The Saudi tribe was one of many that lived on the Arabian Peninsula. The British government essentially created Saudi Arabia by giving money and weapons to the Saudi tribe and helping them take control of the other tribes.

This would be akin to China or some other foreign country coming to the United States and choosing single families or neighborhoods to rule over entire states. These families would have all the wealth, all the power, and would make all the rules. And just in case anyone got any ideas, the Chinese government would keep a few battleships and aircraft carriers parked near our shores.

Crux: We're huge fans of your Uncle Eric books here at The Crux, and I remember being blown away the first time I read that example. We're not taught these things in our schools… But when you look at it from that perspective, it's not surprising there's so much anger toward Western governments.

Maybury: Exactly… and this is the case all over Chaostan. None of those nations are what you and I would regard as natural countries. They were artificially created, and the rulers of those countries were propped up, in nearly every case, by the Europeans.

Keep in mind that except for five countries — Iran, Thailand, Afghanistan, most of China, and Japan — every country in the world at one time or another was conquered by the Europeans. So the political structures we see in these countries — nearly all countries — are either creations of the Europeans or outgrowths of those creations.

During and after World War II, some of these tribal leaders wanted help maintaining their power after the Europeans departed. The U.S. was the top dog at that time, so they said to Washington, "We will do your bidding – we will be your surrogate here – if you do what's necessary to keep us in power."

That's the deal that was made with dozens of regimes around the world. That's the U.S. Empire, and that's what is falling apart now. The people who have been dominated by tribes backed by Washington are sick of it, and they're starting to overturn the existing political matrix.

So the troubles in the Middle East are to a large extent part of the collapse of the empire. For instance, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt was one of Washington's closest surrogates… and he was a nasty guy. He's out of power now, and Egypt is in great turmoil. Nobody knows who's going to take over the place.

That's just one example out of many. The whole thing is beginning to crumble. Egypt was one of the early cases, and I think there are going to be a lot more.

Even nations that were not part of the U.S. Empire are being thrown into chaos, as the spirit of rebellion spreads.

As of a couple weeks ago, I think there are now 11 countries over there experiencing uprisings of one kind or another. I expect this is going to continue to spread.

It's very possible Egypt will wind up being the model for what happens in many of those countries… where you have a U.S.-backed dictator who is overthrown and then so-called Islamic fundamentalists come in and take over. That's very likely what's going to happen in Egypt.

Obviously, I don't know for sure… no one should be certain about these things. But I'm inclined to believe the Egyptian government is going to be replaced by something that will not be friendly to Washington.

Again, however, we're really on thin ice when it comes to making predictions about these sorts of things. Egypt contains many millions of people, each with his own agenda. Predicting how all that's going to go is very, very problematic.

What I can say with confidence is the political matrix Washington put in place during and after World War II is now crumbling. I think that's pretty clear. And again, I return to the point: This is ultimately a good thing. The U.S. Empire should never have existed in the first place.

Crux: Why did the U.S. get involved in Chaostan to begin with?

Maybury: I believe it really just goes back to the lust for power. That's one thing the mainstream news media is absolutely derelict about… They say practically nothing about political power.

Crux: Could you define political power for us?

Maybury: Perhaps the simplest definition is "the legalized privilege of using brute force on persons who have not harmed anyone." This privilege is what sets governments apart from all other institutions. No church, charity, fraternal organization, or any other institution can legally send people with guns to your home to force you to buy their services or obey their rules. Only the government can do that. And whether they realize it or not, it's this privilege – of using force on persons who don't deserve it – that a power-seeker wants.

Crux: Is that related to the old saying that power corrupts?

Maybury: Very astute of you to make that connection. If the American founders were here today, they'd tell us political power is poison… Stay as far from it as you can… It's evil stuff.

But the media have bought into this assumption that political power is good, it's the solution to our problems, and a world full of political power is a good place. They almost never look into the psychology of it… What causes a human being to want to force his will on other people? Because that's what political power essentially is – the ability to bend other people to your will. And the media just don't look at that at all.

There's this assumption that the people in the federal government are a whole lot of nice individuals who have good intentions, and it would never occur to any of them to get a thrill out of forcing their plans onto somebody else.

But that's what it's all about, and that's what it's been about for thousands of years. Government is brute force. Coercion. Chains. Prisons. Follow our plans or else. The political mind is the mind of a bully.

Crux: We often hear the U.S. is involved in the Middle East because of oil… How big a role does oil actually play?

Maybury: I think oil is an excuse. I don't think it's a reason for the empire. Whoever owns the oil has to sell it or it's worthless.

They may not want to sell it directly to us, but they're going to sell it to somebody. This will increase the total world supply of oil, and the price of oil from other suppliers will go down.

So the idea that this is all about oil… that's just a smokescreen. It's about power. It's about the thrill that these people in Washington get out of meddling in other countries.

Crux: You mentioned before that it's very difficult to make predictions. But what do you see happening next in the region?

Maybury: As far as that's concerned, I refer to Egypt again. The friends of Washington are widely hated by their own people, and they will be coming under pressure to hit the road.

Look what happened to the Shah of Iran back in the late '70s. I think it's going to happen to pretty much all of Washington's surrogates. Like I said, it's a fool's game to try to predict these things, but that's the direction events are going now, and that's the direction I've been predicting since the early 1990s.

Before the Soviet Empire fell apart, the Soviet Union sat on Chaostan like a lid on a pressure cooker. One of the forces at work there was the individual tribes that ruled these countries did not want to be conquered by the Soviets, so they formed alliances with Washington as a protection against the Soviets. When the Soviet Union fell in the early '90s, this essentially removed the lid on the pressure cooker. The explosion began, and now it's escalating.

In the 1990s, the rest of the world was cheering a new era of peace and brotherly love… and I was saying, "That's ridiculous. The whole place is going to blow up." Everybody said I was crazy, and I kind of wondered if maybe I was.

But it turned out that by the year 2000 – a mere 10-year stretch of the new era of peace and brotherly love – more than 100 wars broke out and more than 5 million people were killed.

I think what's happening today is just the beginning of what will turn out to be even more violent than the '90s. There are literally hundreds of millions of really angry people over there, and a rebellious momentum is growing.

Again, I'm really reluctant to make specific forecasts on this kind of thing. All you can say is governments have been creating empires since the beginning of history, and empires have been falling apart since the beginning of history… We're in one of those "falling apart" periods now.

Crux: Do you think the individuals in power in Washington realize the empire is crumbling? Do they even realize it's an empire?

Maybury: Well, it's official U.S. policy that Washington does not have an empire. Everybody is taught that.

But just a couple months ago, President Obama phoned up Mubarak in Egypt and fired him. If that's not an empire, what is it?

Now, Obama has decided the Libyan government should change, too. These people in Washington seem to think they're ordained by God to somehow make the world better.

I think it's amazing they believe they're intelligent enough to be able to do that. It's actually pretty hilarious.

Crux: So as the empire begins to crumble, how do you think Washington will respond?

Maybury: I think we'll see more examples of Washington trying to steer events in directions favorable to Washington. Notice I'm not saying favorable to America. I'm saying favorable to the U.S. government. They are two entirely different things.

Of course, the people in Washington are all individuals. They all have their own agendas. They can't even agree on what's favorable to the government.

So they're all grasping at straws. They have no idea what they should really do in a situation like this. There are no guidelines. And since they don't even want to acknowledge they have an empire, they don't understand what it is they're trying to save.

I mean, talk about a bunch of lost souls. They seem to think being elected means they have some sort of special ethical position in the world. They have no idea what it is they're trying to defend. All they know is they're trying to defend it.

Typically, in every empire, it all continues until one day somebody looks at the books and says, "Gee, we're broke. We can't do this anymore." That's when it all starts to come apart.

One of my favorite stories is about William Gladstone – the prime minister of England in the mid-1800s – and that's essentially what he did. He just said, "Look, we're going broke trying to prop up this empire. This is ridiculous."

He started dismantling the British government's power. He probably made more progress in abolishing political power than any other lone individual in history. It's an amazing story.

Gladstone is one of the few peaceful examples of how all empires go down. They eventually realize they can't play the game anymore. They realize they've exhausted their resources… They've bled the population dry.

Humans can only produce so much wealth, and the government is consuming this wealth in order to prop up the empire. Eventually, it all just goes under.

Incidentally, we're talking here today about the federal government's empire abroad… But America itself, internally, is part of the federal empire, too. There are no less than a quarter-million federal bureaucrats making and enforcing regulations on us. And each of these regulations is backed by guns, chains, and prisons. It's not much of an exaggeration to say the whole world – including America itself – has been conquered by the federal government.

Crux: How close do you think we are to the point where the empire collapses the economy?

Maybury: My best guess is we're in the process of going under now. That's the economic trouble the average American is noticing… the unemployment, the business failures, the financial crash, the real estate collapse… plus the mental and emotional strain – the psychological depression, marital problems, divorces. It's the process of the empire going under. The economic problems are symptoms of the manipulation of the currency, and all sorts of other economic tomfoolery, to try to keep the federal bureaucracy well fed at the expense of the rest of us.

The absolute best thing Washington could do for the American people – if the folks in Washington were honest – is just announce that the empire is over. "It's finished, we quit." We're going to withdraw our troops from all those countries around the world. We're going to bring them home to defend America. We're not going to meddle in other countries anymore.

After all, this attempt to keep the Empire alive is just squandering blood and treasure for nothing. We're bankrupt. We can't do this anymore. The attempt to preserve the empire – which means, largely, the attempt to keep Washington's surrogates in power – is just dragging out the whole painful process and making it all the more expensive and hopeless.

If they'd just give it up, that would be the first big step in triggering the economic recovery. But they're not going to do it. They're power junkies. They'll drag this thing out until – in the words of political philosopher Howard Kershner – the last bone of the last taxpayer has been picked bare.

Crux: So what are the personal and investment implications of the fall of the American Empire? How do you recommend people prepare for what you see coming?

Maybury: First and foremost, you should have a good stash of emergency equipment and supplies. Everybody should have these things anyway, because you never know what's going to happen, be it earthquakes, riots, hurricanes, riots, epidemics, riots, blizzards – did I mention riots?

Life is full of really nasty surprises. Everyone should have the ability to be completely self-sustaining for at least a month. Three months would be better. You want food, water, all the necessities of life, plus the ability to defend yourself and your loved ones.

As far as investing, my approach in Early Warning Report is to try to identify long-term trends that are very solid, and invest in things that will benefit from these long-term trends.

If you look at history, you'll find there are two carved-in-granite long-term trends that never seem to change. The first is war. The second is currency debasement. So what I do is suggest investments that will benefit from these two major trends.

The obvious winners from war are the defense giants: Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, General Dynamics, and Raytheon. If you want to just buy a collection of defense stocks, the Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Fund contains those four and a lot more. Its symbol is FSDAX.

The major beneficiaries from currency debasement are raw materials, because they cannot be created in unlimited quantities on a printing press… especially precious metals. So I recommend everyone own some gold, silver, and platinum bullion coins. These have been doing wonderfully, and I think they'll continue to do so because the fiat paper currencies are dying. Beyond those, you can also consider some of the top commodity and energy producer stocks. To find a list, just look at "Track Record" on the home page of our website.

For an investor who's just starting out in this area, FSDAX and the coins are good ways to go. Get into those first, and as you learn more, you'll find other ideas you'll want to follow. You can find many more in my letter as well.

Crux: You mentioned earlier that the fall of the empire – while painful – will ultimately be a great thing for our country. Can you talk about what you see for the future of America?

Maybury: Many people misinterpret me as a "doom-and-gloomer." But let me tell you, for the long term, I'm unimaginably optimistic. I am more optimistic now than I have ever been in my entire life, and I'm 64 years old.

I fully expect to live a healthy life until at least 140 because I believe technological breakthroughs are coming so fast now that Ray Kurzweil is right – a healthy 140-year lifespan is plausible. And before I die I expect to see the beginning of the civilization that is depicted in the Star Trek stories. Not the whole Star Trek civilization, but the beginning.

I believe the next great civilization will begin almost instantly, as soon as we get the present statist nightmare out of the way. But getting from here to there is going to be really hard. For the short term and medium term, it's going to be really awful, I'm afraid for quite a few years.

I hope things in America and Western Europe don't get as bad as Russia was in the 1990s – when the Soviet empire was falling – but it's definitely a possibility in some places, especially the major cities. I encourage everybody to be ready to ride through some very hard times, because empires almost never fall quietly.

Once the U.S. Empire does go down, though, I expect we'll see a new prosperity. I'm very optimistic about this, because the world is now learning what statism is really all about… what political power really does. It's not theory anymore… We're experiencing it every day.

The true nature of statism is an extremely painful lesson to learn, but once it's learned, the decks will be clear to produce a truly healthy, advanced civilization. When that happens, hold on to your hat… Things are going to be wonderful, and it will happen fast.

Crux: Could you define statism for us?

Maybury: Statism is the belief that political power does not corrupt, and government is a good thing, the solution to all our problems. This is what is taught in the government-controlled schools. If Jefferson and the other American founders were here, they'd fall down laughing at such a notion. But what else would a government-controlled school teach?

Crux: Why wasn't that lesson learned after the fall of the Soviet Union?

Maybury: Well, the economic side of it was learned to a large extent. The world saw what central planning did to the Soviet economy… So even communist China has embraced free-market economic principles, to some extent.

But you still have seen practically no focus on the dangers of political power itself… on the fact that political power is evil and treacherous – it corrupts.

That lesson has yet to be learned… or re-learned. The early Americans understood it well. But most people today have this attitude that the reason things are bad is the wrong people are in power, and if we somehow put the right people in power, everything would be okay.

There's little appreciation for the fact that political power itself is the problem. It corrupts morals and the judgment. And no matter who you put in there, he or she will likely end up making a mess.

So that lesson has yet to be learned. Once you see discussions about political power itself – about what it is and what it does to a person's mind – appearing in the news media, we're going to be well on our way to where we want to be – a new world of liberty, peace, and abundance.

Crux: That sounds great. Thanks so much for talking with us, Richard.

Maybury: It was great speaking with you. Thanks for having me. Take care.


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2) Have you ever considered

     the results of 1,400 Years

     of  Muslim IN-BREEDING ?

During a pilot  training and transition program with the KV-107 and C-130 Lockheed aircraft, we found that most Saudi pilot trainees had very limited night vision, even on the brightest of moon lit nights. Their training retention rate was minimal, even including maintenance personnel.

Most have very poor memory,  and need to be constantly reminded of things they were told  only the day before.  Needless to say, an American, British or any other western instructor gets burned out pretty quick on these assignments.  It actually took Muslim C-130 pilots years before they could fly in the dark safely,  and then would be reluctant to leave the lights of a city.  Ask any Marine, Air Force or Army guy who’s been trying to train Iraqis, and especially Afghans.   They will say,  "Yep, dumber than dirt."

Islam is not only a religion, it is a way of life.  Yet another set of revealing facts about Muslim beliefs and traditions and ways of  Muslim life.

Consider this: 1400 years of inbreeding.  I found this to be interesting.  Didn't know whether to believe it or not. To research I went to Wikipedia, "Cousin Marriage", and far down in the article:  "Genetics".  It seems there is a lot of truth here.

A huge Muslim problem:  Inbreeding.

Nikolai Sennels is a Danish psychologist who has done extensive research into a little-known problem in the Muslim world:  the disastrous results of Muslim inbreeding brought about by the marriage of first-cousins.

This practice, which has been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition since the days of Moses, was sanctioned by Muhammad and has been going on now for 50 generations (1,400 years) in the Muslim world.

This practice of inbreeding will never go away in the Muslim world, since Muhammad is the ultimate example and authority on all matters, including marriage. The massive inbreeding in Muslim culture may well have done virtually irreversible damage to the Muslim gene pool, including extensive damage to  intelligence, sanity, and health.

According to Dr. Sennels, close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred. In Pakistan, the numbers approach 70%. Even in England, more than half of Pakistani immigrants are married to their first cousins, and in Denmark the number of inbred Pakistani immigrants is around 40%.The numbers are equally devastating in other important Muslim countries: 67% in Saudi Arabia, 64% in Jordan, and Kuwait, 63% in Sudan, 60% in Iraq, and 54% in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

According to the BBC, this Pakistani, Muslim-inspired inbreeding is thought to explain the probability that a British Pakistani family is more than 13 times as likely to have children with recessive genetic disorders. While Pakistanis are responsible for three percent of the births in the UK, they account for 33% of children with genetic birth defects.

The risks of what are called autosomal recessive disorders such as cystic fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy is 18 times higher and the risk of death due to malformations is 10 times higher.

Other negative consequences of inbreeding include a 100 percent increase in the risk of still births and a 50% increase in the possibility that a child will die during labor.

Lowered intellectual capacity is another devastating consequence of Muslim marriage patterns. According to Sennels, research shows that children of consanguineous marriages lose 10-16 points off their IQ and that social abilities develop much slower in inbred babies. The risk of having an IQ lower than 70, the official demarcation for being classified as "retarded," increases by an astonishing 400 percent among children of cousin marriages. (Similar effects were seen in the Pharaonic dynasties in ancient Egypt and in the British royal family, where inbreeding was the norm for a significant period of time.)

In Denmark, non-Western immigrants are more than 300 percent more likely to fail the intelligence test required for entrance into the Danish army.

Sennels says that "the ability to enjoy and produce knowledge and abstract thinking is simply lower in the Islamic world." He points out that the Arab world translates just 330 books every year, about 20% of what Greece alone does. In the last 1,200 years of Islam, just 100,000 books have been translated into Arabic, about what Spain does in a single year. Seven out of 10 Turks have never even read a book.

Sennels points out the difficulties this creates for Muslims seeking to succeed in the West. "A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces critical thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success in our high-tech knowledge societies."

Only nine Muslims have ever won the Nobel Prize, and five of those were for the "Peace Prize." According to Nature magazine, Muslim countries produce just 10 percent of the world average when it comes to scientific research measured by articles per million inhabitants.

In Denmark, Sennels' native country, Muslim children are grossly over represented among children with special needs. One-third of the budget for Danish schools is consumed by special education, and anywhere from 51% to 70% of retarded children with physical handicaps in Copenhagen have an immigrant background. Learning ability is severely affected as well. Studies indicated that 64% of school children with Arabic parents are still illiterate after 10 years in the Danish school system. The immigrant drop-out rate in Danish high schools is twice that of the native-born.

Mental illness is also a product. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of schizophrenic illness. The increased risk of insanity may explain why more than 40% of patients in Denmark’s biggest ward for clinically insane criminals have an immigrant background.

_The U.S. is not immune_. According to Sennels, "One study based on 300,000 Americans shows that the majority of Muslims in the USA have a lower income, are less educated, and have worse jobs than the population as a whole."

Sennels concludes: There is no doubt that the wide spread tradition of first cousin marriages among Muslims has harmed the gene pool among Muslims. Because Muslims' religious beliefs prohibit marrying non-Muslims and thus prevents them from adding fresh genetic material to their population, the genetic damage done to their gene pool since their prophet allowed first cousin marriages 1,400 years ago are most likely massive. This has produced overwhelming direct and indirect human and societal consequences.

Bottom line: Islam is not simply a benign and morally equivalent alternative to the Judeo-Christian tradition. As Sennels points out, the first and biggest victims of Islam are Muslims. Simple Judeo-Christian compassion for Muslims and a common-sense desire to protect Western civilization from the ravages of Islam dictate a vigorous opposition to the spread of this dark and dangerous religion. These stark realities must be taken into account when we establish public polices dealing with immigration from Muslim countries and the building of mosques in the U.S.

Let's hope the civilized West and the North Americans wake up before a blind naiveté about the reality of Islam destroys what remains of our Judeo-Christian culture and our domestic tranquility.

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3) Former Defense Secretaries Scold Obama on Syria

Two former defense secretaries who served under President Barack Obama have leveled surprisingly harsh criticism at the administration's handling of the Syrian crisis.

Robert Gates and Leon Panetta appeared jointly at a forum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on Tuesday, and criticized Obama for asking Congress to authorize military force in response to a chemical weapons attack the United States blames on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.

Gates said Obama's proposed attack was a mistake, while Panetta asserted it was a mistake not to go forward with a strike on Syria, The New York Times reported.

Gates, who served under George Bush and remained in office under Obama until July 2011, said: "My bottom line is that I believe that to blow a bunch of stuff up over a couple of days, to underscore or validate a point or a principle, is not a strategy.

"If we launch a military attack, in the eyes of a lot of people we become the villain instead of Assad."

Panetta, who replaced Gates and left office in February, said Obama should have followed through on his pledge to act if Syria used chemical weapons: "When the president of the United States draws a red line, the credibility of this country is dependent on him backing up his word."

Panetta said it was wrong to "subcontract" the decision to Congress, stating that the president "has to retain the responsibility and the authority on this issue."

Gates agreed it was wrong to seek authorization from Congress, because if Congress rebuffed him "it would weaken him. It would weaken us in the eyes of our allies, as well as our adversaries around the world."

Gates also said he is skeptical about Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to work out a deal with Syria to remove its chemical weapons, and about Syria's intentions to disarm.

Russia insists that rebels carried out the chemical weapons attack, which the United States says killed more than 1,400 people. But the advocacy group Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that rocket trajectories detailed in a United Nations report suggested the poison gas shells had been fired from a base belonging to the Republican Guard, run by 

Assad's brother Maher.

Asked if the West should trust Putin, Gates said: "Are you kidding me?"

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