HALF-FULL REPORT 12/02/22
What’s really unbelievable is they insist on force-feeding it down the throats of little children: Over 70 Per Cent of Children Aged 7-12 Now Afraid of Climate Change.
Which illustrates that the Number One Crime being committed across America today is Criminal Child Abuse. E.g.:
It’s for bulls-eye good reason that, on Monday (11/28), former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo specified who the most dangerous person in the world is:
SKYE’S LINKS 12/01/22
Narrative Control.
It's All They Have.
And They Will Fight to Keep It.
This week we look at a number of links that appear disconnected at first but, upon a deeper examination, reveal the struggle between the forces to create and control the single world narrative on everything, and the centripetal forces pulling it all apart.
Testimony to Congress has shown that our government was really just winging it during Covid. There was little science but a lot of bureaucratic turfism and careerism. The result was widespread economic destruction, personal losses that will never be recovered, and trauma to children that will last their lifetimes. Careerism among our elites is laid bare for all to see.
Elon Musk has bet his fortune that centralized narrative control is failing as institutions from Washington to Beijing to the corporate campus are found to be inauthentic and residing on a throne of lies.
The Fourth Turning might very well turn out to be a global struggle for authenticity.
Please join us at Skyes’s links, and share your insights.
THE MONTE PALACE GARDENS OF MADEIRA
The island of Madeira in the Atlantic some 320 miles west of Morocco was first discovered, uninhabited, by Portuguese explorers in 1418. It has been a part of Portugal ever since. In the 1600s it became renowned for its Madeira wine, with English wine makers settling there and exporting it to England and the American colonies. The English consul Charles Murray built a beautiful estate, "Quinta do Prazer", Pleasure Estate, high above the capital of Funchal, which by the late 1800s was converted into the Monte Palace hotel.
100 years later, Portuguese entrepreneurs developed the property into one of the most spectacular tropical gardens in the world, with lakes, waterfalls, and exotic tropical plants turning it into a fantasy wonderland. You can spend hours wandering around relaxing and luxuriating in this peaceful paradise. Which is just what we do whenever we are here. We’ll be here again early next summer. You should plan on being with us. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #243 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
A KHAN, AN EMIR, A SULTAN!
Is this the all-powerful potentate of a remote exotic Khanate, Emirate, or Sultanate hidden in the deep recesses of an unknown corner of Asia? Wielding his mighty sword ready to bestow a knighthood on those who please him or decapitate those who don’t?
Could be – he looks ready to do either, doesn’t he?
Or is it me, dressed up as a Khan, an Emir, a conquering Sultan, just for fun? Your call.
Whatever you decide, this photo was taken in the fabulously exotic ancient Silk Road Oasis of Bukhara in the heart of Central Asia not long ago. And to have this same photo of yourself, come with me when I plan my next Central Asia expedition soon. You’ll have one of the great adventures of your life if you do. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #184 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
BIDEN MUTE AS PROTESTS DEMAND FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD
What does the United States stand for? With Joe Biden in the White House, absolutely nothing.
Apparently, we don’t stand for freedom. As brave citizens in China desperately protest that country’s heinous lockdowns and censorship, a spokesman for the Biden administration says that the White House is “going to watch this closely.”
We don’t stand with women’s rights. Violent and widespread protests in Iran over the killing of a young woman arrested for not wearing a hijab haveresulted in hundreds of deaths. All Joe can do is mumble about “standing in solidarity” with the protestors.
Yes, the Biden administration has stood up to Russia after Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and despicable invasion of Ukraine. But, only to a point. Heaven forbid we actually declare an intention to help Ukraine win the war – a goal never once expressed by our president.
WILL THE BRUNSON BROTHERS SAVE AMERICA?
This is going to blow your mind. Please be sitting down in your most comfortable chair, relax, breathe deeply, and have your favorite adult beverage at the ready – just sip between paragraphs or you might lose it.
The four Brunson Brothers all play the trumpet, and have a recording studio, Rock Canyon Studios, in Provo, Utah. Deron, however, is also a lawyer, a very smart lawyer who has cases heard in the Supreme Court. He recently initiated a lawsuit now stuck in Federal Court, with his brother Loy as the Claimant.
So Deron filed the suit again with Raland as the Claimant, filing it as Brunson v. Alma S. Adams; et al. in Utah 2nd District Federal Court on June 21, 2021.
And who are the Defendants in addition to Alma Adams? 385 Members of Congress (of whom Adams is one), plus Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, and Joseph Robinette Biden.
On what grounds?
THE SCENT OF ANTI-CHICOM REVOLUTION IN THE AIR
This photo report from the Sunday Mail (11/27) is quite extraordinary. Protests have engulfed at least seven major Chinese cities -- Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Urumqi, Zhengzhou, and others, all against COVID lockdowns, with the big one going on in Shanghai, where the locals are openly demanding the ouster of China's supreme leader, Xi Jinping.
When a billion-strong nation rises up on a cause that has unified them such as this, there's clearly the scent of revolution in the air.
HELP STOP A GENOCIDE
The First Holodomor, the genocidal starvation by Josef Stalin of millions of Ukrainians 90 years ago, was kept hidden from the world for many decades. The Second Holodomor, now being attempted by Vladimir Putin, is in the open for all the world to see.
The notion that Ukraine does not exist, that its state is artificial and its national consciousness a confusion -- this Putinist rhetoric is genocidal. Moscow’s claims that Ukrainians are all Nazis or gays or Jews or Satanists (the current line) is nothing more than a fascist politics of us-and-them: the enemy is defined via hate speech as subhuman, as beyond any ethical concern, existing only to be destroyed.
The Russian intention in Ukraine has been genocidal from the beginning.
THE DONGBA SPIRIT OF NATURE
Originally nomads from the Tibetan Plateau, the Nashi people settled in the fertile Himalayan foothills of Yunnan over 2,000 years ago. From the ancient Tibetan religion of Bön, they developed a unique religion of nature-worship called Dongba. The progenitors of humanity and nature were two half-brothers, two mothers with the same father. Nature is controlled by a human-snake chimera called Shv – a statue of whom you see here.
The Nashi are a peaceful gentle people whose ideal is living in accordance with nature. They dress very colorfully, women have equal respect with men, they write with the world’s only still-functioning pictographic script, and are proud of preserving their culture for millennia. It is an enchanting experience to be among them. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #163 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH THE ANTIDOTE TO THE HEDONIC TREADMILL
One of the often unspoken expectations when we buy something is that it will, to some degree, make us happy. And when we become used to the availability of good things, when we come to expect them as a regular experience of a good life, we enter what’s called the “Hedonic Treadmill.”
Needing more and more good things in order to feel what we’ve come to expect as a baseline of happiness can be exhausting. It can undermine the sense of happiness we enjoy with each positive experience.
And in that way we can undermine our sense of being happy about our life.
But there is an antidote; something we can deliberately practice and gets easier over time, and that can significantly affect our happiness. Here it is.