Dr Mark, Author at The I Spy Radio Show

In the battle of urban vs rural, city dwellers are starving rural areas—at their own peril

Show 5-19 Urban vs Rural

By Dr Mark | May 5, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: May 9 & 10, 2015

When it comes to land use and natural resources, it seems to be an unending battle for control between two combatants: urban vs rural. Often, this means that the Urbans (city dwellers) want or need the sanctimonious psychological safety of believing they’ve “protected” or “saved” the environment, which means blocking rural people (country dwellers) from accessing, using, harvesting or otherwise touching natural resources. In other words, they want the benefits of what the rural areas produces (food, wood, water, etc.) without actually harvesting any of it.

This is like wanting beef without touching cows.

Even worse, after blocking rural people from engaging in economic activities that they—the city dwellers—haven’t “sanction” they—the city dwellers—raise taxes and inflict other economic hardships.

If this sounds all too familiar, you probably live in a rural area. If you’ve never ever heard of this, you undoubtedly live in a city.

We talk with William Tucker about the “Detroit-ification” of rural areas and the incomparable harm city dwellers are inflicting on people who’ve chosen to living the country and provide city dwellers with all the benefits of life that the city dwellers just won’t get their hands dirty to do. And we talk with Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) about the perfect example of cities destroying rural areas—California.

Links Mentioned

American Media Institute – news the way it used to be. Reported and investigated, not packaged.
Article by William Tucker: “How high taxes and regulation are killing one of the most prosperous states in the nation.”
Rep. Tom McClintock represents the 4th Congressional District of California, which takes in both urban and rural areas. It runs east of Sacramento to the Nevada border, and then southeast, including mountainous regions and Yosemite National Park. (map)
Wall Street Journal article: “Where are the smelt” another article on California’s self-inflicted devastation.
Article – Gov Brown proposes $10,000 fines for water users

Show 5-18 ISIS Recruiting our Youth

By Dr Mark | May 4, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: May 2 & 3, 2015

This week on I Spy Radio, we’re going behind the headlines to give you the personal, tragic, and deeply moving story of Christianne (“Chris”) Boudreau, a normal, everyday Canadian mom whose son left to join ISIS. She is now reaching out to other families to help them avoid similar tragedies.Don’t miss this tragic yet heartwarming story as a mom seeks out to prevent other families from having to go through this heartache. The response by the Canadian government will shock you. See links below to her organization — they have people overseas who can get kids out if they come to their senses and want to come home.

But first up we talk with Raymond Ibrahim, a Middle-East expert, about the very real threat of ISIS operating right here in the United States — and the special appeal to ISIS to recruit Western youth. Born and raised in the U.S. by Coptic Egyptians, Raymond understands both Western and Eastern cultural mindsets and often works as a “translator” of one to the other. Raymond is an author (Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians and The Al Qaeda Reader), a widely published journalist (NYT, Fox News, The Blaze, CNN, Jerusalem Post, and many others), and a fellow at several think tanks, including the Hoover Institution and David Horowitz Freedom Center. Be sure to check out his awesome articles, below.

Links Mentioned

Raymond Ibrahim‘s terrific website with insightful article on Islam, the Middle East, ISIS, his books, and a great deal more.
Article mentioned on the show – “Pentagon admits no real strategy to blunt ISIS expansion“
Didn’t get to but will have to have him back on – “Christians Accept Beheading rather than Renounce Christ for Islam“
Christianne Boudreau’s facebook page, Support for Families Touched by Violent Extremism.
For families struggling with radicalization, or to donate, go here Hayat Canada Family Support – “a family counseling and outreach program for family and friends of persons involved in radical Islam or on the path to violent Islamic radicalization”

Show 5-17 Why Oregon Fails at Economics

By Dr Mark | April 27, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

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Air Dates: April 25 & 26, 2015

This week, it’s about economics. Yeah, yeah. Don’t groan. You need to know this stuff. Otherwise, you’ll be boondoggled into thinking raising taxes is good. Or that raising minimum wage doesn’t impact businesses. Or big government works. Or any number of progressive ideologies. Next thing you know, you’ll be believing global warming and then it’s all down hill from there.

With guests Jonathan Williams of American Legislative Exchange Council and Jan Meekcoms of National Federation of Independent Businesses.

Always fun talking with Mark Anderson @ispyradioshow about #oregon #tcot. I just wish Oregon had a better outlook https://t.co/d6TcClSnnp
— Jonathan Williams (@Taxeconomist) April 25, 2015

Links mentioned

ALEC – American Legislative Exchange Council. One of the good guys. You can tell, because the political Left hates them so much they think one of the Baldwin boys needs to rename himself.
NFIB – National Federation of Independent Businesses. Here’s the state chapter for Oregon (have you joined yet??) and the national organization.
Download your own copy of Rich States, Poor States and take a look at how your state is doing (you might want your legislators’ number on speed dial)
A quick one-sheet verview from ALEC on Oregon’s outlook (this link opens a PDF)
NFIB-Oregon is holding its Day at the Capital on April 29. More info.
Both of these fine organizations offer memberships. Why not join them and add your voice to the chorus of conservative voices trying to safeguard your economic freedom?

Additional Links & Info

Talk to liberals? Not sure how to answer their unicorns-and-fairies myths about the minimum wage? Here’s a great Forbes article (by an NFIB economist no less) that debunks progressive myths.

Rally ‘Round the Flag Event

When: Saturday, June 20, 2015, 10am – 4pm
Where: Fairgrounds, Cottage Grove, Oregon
Cost: Free!

Here in Oregon, we have a strong heritage of using our natural resources wisely. But well-intended yet weak-minded “environmentalists” believe they are “protecting” the environment by not touching it–or allowing anyone else to harvest them. Worse, our lands are being controlled by people out east who’ve never set foot on them and have no idea about how to manage them; people who’ve been persuaded by the well-funded environmental lobby that we should never touch these lands.

Oregon Citizen’s Lobby invites you to join them for a fantastic day of speakers, networking, and fun! And a chance to learn more about the effort to transfer control of the federal lands to the people who know best how to manage them: Oregonians.

The event will feature prominent leaders in this effort, booths, networking opportunities, and a panel discussion to answer your questions.

Featured Guests:

Rep. Ken Ivory (UT) of the American Lands Council
Noah Wall, FreedomWorks Grassroots Director
Jeff Kropf, Oregon Capital Watch
Mark Anderson, host of I Spy Radio
David Hunnicutt, Oregonians in Action
Dennis Linthicum, former Klamath County Commissioner

Show 5-14 | Best of: Shroud of Turin

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

Air Dates: April 4 & 5, 2015

It’s Easter weekend, and that’s a great time to take some time with your family—which is what we’re doing. That being the case, we aired a best-of I Spy, our show with Barrie Schwortz, the documenting photographer on the Shroud of Turin Research Project. This fascinating show is always definitely worth another listen.

Battle for Public Lands

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

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Air Dates: Jan 10 & 11, 2015

The federal government holds title to 640 million of acres of land, mostly west of the Mississippi. In some states, this is more than 60% of all land within their borders. The battle as to who should own that land, whether the feds or states, has been going on since before the 1900s. Why does this matter? They represent trillions of dollars of economic activity.

This week on I Spy Radio, we talk with Rep. Ken Ivory (UT) about the continuing battle to force the federal government to honor their promise to transfer land to the states in which it belongs. We start by getting some clarification and history on exactly who legally owns the land: the feds or the states? We also discuss on-going battles in states like Utah—which threw down the gauntlet, demanding their land by Dec. 31, 2014—and Wyoming, which had 1 million acres unilaterally seized by Obama’s EPA. Find out what counties can do, why Canada is already transferring control of its land to its territories, and what strategies and tactics the new Republican-controlled Congress is likely to pursue.

Links mentioned

The American Lands Council – be sure to sign their petition to let lawmakers know this matters to you!
Great resource on the issue of the transfer of federal lands: American Lands Council FAQ’s.
Utah passed HB 148 in 2012, demanding the federal government transfer ownership of the land to Utah. Here’s a link to more info on HB 148 (via Constitutional Defense Council)
1 million acres seized from Wyoming by Obama’s EPA 1 million acres seized from Wyoming by Obama’s EPA & an update regarding lawsuit by WY against the EPA’s actions
Politifacts article: Napolitano: Unconstitutional for Fed to own land.

Related Links

The battle over federally held lands is an ongoing effort – Lawmakers from 9 states gather in Utah, discuss ways to take control fed land.
Why this matters: EPA wants to assert control over any land that gets wet.
An interesting timeline of land-use laws in Oregon.

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.