Dr Mark, Author at The I Spy Radio Show

Economic Warfare

By Dr Mark | April 21, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Jan 17 & 18, 2015

The 21st century’s battlefields won’t just involve bombs and guns. Enter the age of economic warfare and financial terrorism. And when it comes to warfare, you attack your enemy’s weaknesses. The problem is, the U.S. has created a massive weakness and the States are helping—and in this day and age, we’re more vulnerable than ever.

We know that regular I Spy Radio listeners are keenly aware that at the heart of big government lies big spending. In fact, big government simply could not exist without big spending.

But what do you know about the actual mechanism that allows the federal government to enact policies it is not constitutionally allowed to do? We talk about grant-in-aid funding with State Senator Doug Whitsett and how this funding is really about states giving up their own authority.

Perhaps even worse is the extremely vulnerable position this spending puts us in. We talk with Kevin Freeman, one of the world’s leading authorities on economic warfare and financial terrorism. With groups like ISIS, this is no longer “just” threats from countries like China and Russia. It’s real, it’s happened and find out why it will happen again. Tune in to hear why all this spending is like a bomb we built — and then handed to the terrorists.

Links mentioned

Sen. Doug Whitsett’s Newsletter – more info on the grant-in-aid funding and how this both cedes states’ rights and how the U.S. is digging its own grave. If you’re not currently receiving Sen. Whitsett’s newsletter, be sure to sign up!
Kevin Freeman’s blog: Global Economic Warfare. Read his white paper, submitted to the Department of Defense – Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses; an analysis of twenty-first century risks in light of the recent market collapse
Kevin’s books are Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack and Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It can Happen Again.
The Chinese economic warfare plan: an easy-to-read Wikipedia article on the plan. Want to read the plan? Download here. *A great article on World Net Daily about Wall Street turning a blind eye to its own vulnerabilities. Also discusses the Russian attack in 2008
We didn’t cover it on the show but here’s a fascinating article in the UK Telegraph about how the U.S. unleashes its own economic weapons. Eerily reminiscent of how President Obama can “deem” anyone an enemy combatant, no?

Show 5-04 | What the Media isn’t Telling You about Islam

By Dr Mark | April 21, 2015 | Comments 3 comments

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Air Dates: Jan 24 & 25, 2015

This week on I Spy Radio Show, we do what—apparently—no mainstream media news reporter did in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish deli murders: read the Koran. And ask the hard questions about this “religion of peace” of Hoover Institution research fellow, Dr. Bruce Thornton.

Now that the initial raw emotions have dissipated from the Charlie Hebdo and Paris murders, it’s time to explore how and why these Muslim terrorist attacks happened. This week on I Spy, we go in depth with Hoover Institution research fellow Dr. Bruce Thornton to explore the Islamic faith and to find the truths about the “religion of peace” that the liberal media is too often willing (or complicit) to ignore. We compare and contrast Christian and Muslim ideology and ask the fundamental questions about what drives these terrorists and whether the Charlie Hebdo attacks were truly an anomaly committed by radicals.

And don’t miss what the mainstream media is not telling you about the newest worldwide assault on Christianity and persecution of Christians.

Links mentioned

Download a PDF copy of the Koran; use its search function to do your own research. This particular translation is by Abdullah Yusuf Ali and considered highly accurate.
Text of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights (and Wikipedia article on the CDHR)
Dr. Bruce Thornton (bio) is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, one of the nation’s leading think tanks, which seeks to advance “ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.
His book, Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow Suicide (2007) discusses the failure of European nations to integrate Muslim immigrants into their national culture *Check out Dr. Thornton’s other books: The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America (2011), and D emocracy’s Dangers and Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama (2014). Both are available via Amazon.
A must-read article by Dr. Thornton: “Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World“

Related Links & Info

Check out Jesse Water’s video (from The O’Reilly Factor) when he tried to get into a Muslim convention. As you watch it, remember the Islamic principle of “taqiyya.”
Steven Crowder video: “‘Moderate’ Muslim is a myth. Here’s why…”
Some verses from the Koran discussing treatment of non-Muslims
More on taqiyya, idtirar, kitman, and ḥiyal — the Islamic principles that allow for lying to non-believers: link 1 (Wikipedia), link 2 (better – from Islam Review), link 3 (also good, via Muslim Fact), and link 4.
Article from Citizen Warrior: “What Muslim Leaders Say About Islam Dispels the Myth that Jihadists are a ‘Fringe’ Element”
And finally, a glimmer of hope from the mainstream media, The New Yorker—yes, The New Yorker—is starting to get it about Muslim ideology. Check it out.

Show 5-05 | Socialism Exposed: Superiority of Capitalism

By Dr Mark | April 21, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Jan 30 & 31, 2015

By now, you’ve heard or read the usual conservative fact-checking of Obama’s State of the Union speech but we wanted to go deeper than just fact-checking to analyze the progressive ideology that lie at the heart of the speech.

This week on I Spy, we talk with author and economist Dr. Gerard Lameiro to analyze the underlying philosophies and values on display in Obama’s State of the Union address.

For example, most of I Spy listeners know that the free-market system is superior to socialism but why is it so superior? What makes it more successful from both an economic and philosophical standpoint? And what is so unique about the American system of capitalism that makes it better than any other free-market system in the world? We also analyze Obama’s faith in big government to drive the economy, the unfairness of wealth, that regulation is the solution, and much more.

Links mentioned

Dr. Lameiro’s terrific website: www.gerardlameiro.com
Why is American capitalism so superior? See Dr. Lameiro’s “Achitecture of American Capitalism“
Check out this terrific graphic about the characteristics of a free-market economy
See also his “Socialism’s Chain of Control“
His books include Renewing America and its Heritage of Freedom (What Freedom-Loving Americans Can Do to Help), America’s Economic War (A Citizen’s Handbook for Understanding the War between American Capitalism and Socialism), and Choosing the Good Life (two competing economic visions, capitalism and socialism).

Show 5-07 | Best of: Pebble Mine

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

Air Dates: Feb 14 & 15, 2015

It’s Valentine’s Day and nothing says “love” like a ring. A gold ring with a shiny pebble in it. But you can’t say “love” without getting all of that from a mine somewhere. So for you romantics, we’re running a best-of I Spy on the Pebble Mine and their fight against the EPA.

Show 5-06 | Red Money for Green Groups

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Feb 14 & 15, 2015

One of our listeners (thank you, David D.!) put us on to a story exposing Russian money being funneled to the environmental left, especially the anti-fracking movement. Needless to say, this got our attention but it turns out it was only the tip of the iceberg. We expose the Puppet Masters of the Enviro-Green movement with investigative journalist, Ron Arnold.

Want to know more about the pile of cash rabid environmental groups have at their disposal to do things like shut down mining and access to National Forests? This week on I Spy Radio, we expose the backbone of the environmental movements—their funding—and their illegal collusion with government officials.

We talk with Ron Arnold, Executive VP of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, and long-time investigative journalist who has tracked the far-left environmentalist for more than 4 decades. And, we look at foreign influences, specifically Russian oil oligarchs, who have been secretly funding environmental groups here in the U.S. All of this means, literally, tens of billions of dollars going to anti-oil, anti-mining, anti-timber, anti-ranching, anti-you-name-it.

Philanthropoids: The Puppet Masters of the Leftist Environmental Movement.

Links mentioned

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise’s website and Facebook page. (BTW, here’s I Spy’s Facebook page too).
For Ron’s books, see his Amazon page.
Free Beacon article – Russian money being funneled to the Far Left Enviro movement.
Ron’s article in The Washington Examiner: “The Hidden Persuaders of the Environmental Elite“.
Another related Examiner article: “If it’s Wet, the EPA wants to Regulate It” (beware: water is the next big target of the Left!)
Download a copy of the US Senate Minority Report The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA.

Show 5-08 | Investigating a Governor

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Feb 21 & 22, 2015

Within hours of Governor John Kitzhaber’s resignation, the FBI issued a subpoena, seeking records from multiple state agencies and 15 individuals. But this is a sitting public official, duly elected by the people of Oregon so what does it take for the FBI to suddenly get involved in the first place? And why didn’t this all happen before the election? We ask an FBI agent.

With the Governor’s attempt to destroy thousands of e-mails, the FBI issued a subpoena just hours after he resigned. The subpoena requests a massive amount of information and documents from 15 individuals and multiple state agencies as a part of their investigation, so this week we go in depth with a former FBI agent to understand not only the process the FBI goes through to obtain a subpoena in the first place but how they build their case and just how far this will go.

Our guest this week is attorney Chris Mazzella, former FBI agent and Inspector General with Dade-Miami County who has a depth of experience prosecuting racketeering and investigating public corruption. We get an inside look at the process of discovery, the relationships the FBI will dig into, and why associates of the former governor and Cylvia Hayes should be worried.

Links mentioned

Many thanks to The Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, Inc.! Visit their website.
The FBI subpoena of (former) Gov. John Kitzhaber (courtesy of Willamette Week).

Have information or insights that could help the FBI investigation? Here’s the contact information for the Portland, OR, field office:

U.S. Department of Justice
S. Amanda Marshall
United States Attorney
District of Oregon
1000 SW Third Avenue, Suite 600
Portland, OR 97204-2902

Show 5-09 | Pop Culture: Real American Heroes

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: Feb 28 & March 1, 2015

In a week of depressing news stories, we need to remember the real heroes of America, like Chris Kyle—the title character of the blockbuster film American Sniper. We talk with Chris’s co-author Scott McEwen.

Even though American Sniper didn’t get the Oscar nod that its fans hoped it would, it was a tremendous success with the people who truly mattered: the American public. And we can guarantee that the 19 medals and awards that Chris Kyle earned meant far more to him than any silly gold statuette. With the incredible success of American Sniper at the box office, we check back in this week with Scott McEwen, Chris’s co-author, to talk about the film and he does not disappoint. We get his—quite literally—behind the scenes insights into the film, his thoughts on the Oscars and his reflections on Chris Kyle, the man and the hero.

If you’ve seen the film or read the book, you know a big part of Chris’s own healing was to help other vets—only to be tragically killed by a Marine. Now that the trial is over, we’ll get Scott’s take on it as well as the healing help that vets need. And don’t miss his incredible news on what could be the next James Bond franchise.

Links mentioned

Scott McEwen’s books can all be found on his website. Be sure to check out his latest book, coming in May!
The Variety announcement about Scott’s movie deal.
Find Scott on Twitter (@authorsmcewen) and on Facebook.
Iran tests bombs on a replica USS aircraft carrier article.

Show 5-10 | Best of: 2nd Amendment

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

Air Dates: March 7 & 8, 2015

Host Mark Anderson was taking his comprehensive exams for his doctorate program so needless to say we needed to run a best of on the 2nd Amendment.

Show 5-11 | Culture Wars

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: March 14 & 15, 2015

Are the political far Left and Islam kindred spirits? Are American Sniper and Fifty Shades of Grey continuing evidence of America’s cultural divide or just the way it’s always been? And is Fifty Shades a dire indication of the future direction of Hollywood?

This week we talk with James Hirsen of Headline Hollywood, who also has a degree in media psychology to get his perceptions on two recent big box office films on completely different ends of the spectrum: American Sniper and Fifty Shades of Grey. One demonstrates love of county and fighting evil while the other showcases sex and degrading actions towards women. Even some Hollywood insiders were shocked about Fifty Shades’ mainstream release. We’ll talk about the cultural divide happening now in America and whether this is evidence of that divide — and whether it’s indicative of things to come.

Next, we talk to Dr. Andrew Bostom about Islam, the political far left, and the GOP 47 letter to Iran and Netanyahu’s speech. Most I Spy listeners are familiar with the Islamic ideology of taqiya, which makes it permissible to lie to non-believers. But we’ll also talk about the third pillar of Iran’s doctrine of hate, najis. Tune in to hear more about it and how najis is reminiscent of the dehumanizing hatred you sometimes hear from the political far left. Are Islam and the far left kindred spirits? And don’t miss our discussion of the Assembly of Islamic Jurists, which is already operating right here in the US. The Far Left: America’s cultural equivalent of suicide bombers?

Links mentioned

James Hirsen’s websites: JamesHirsen.com, Headline Hollywood, & Hirsen on Hollywood
James’s review of Fifty Shades: The Darkest Shade of Grey. (Not mentioned during the show, but see his take on American Sniper putting the Hollywood elite into state of shock.)
All of Dr. Bostom’s books on Islam can be found right here.
The Assembly of American Jihadists (er, Jurists)
Check out some of Dr. Bostom’s articles on Islam on Brietbart: Israel & the US: two dogs in the same fight against Iran and Jihad, Islamic Jew-Hatred, and ‘Najis’ Doctrine in Shiite Iran.
NewsMax video of Dr Bostom: Muslim Leaders Seek Sharia in the US.

Related Articles

PJ Media’s Takiya Theater and the Iranian Nuclear Talks.
Can’t tell Sunnis and Shi’ites apart? Here’s a great side-by-side comparison chart of their beliefs.

Show 5-12 | Best of: Supreme Court Win over the EPA

By Dr Mark | April 20, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

Air Dates: March 21 & 22, 2015

Due to a technical glitch, we had to reschedule our intended broadcast with Shannon Goessling. In light of that, we re-aired the show with her victory at the Supreme Court over the EPA.