HALF-FULL REPORT 08/18/23
Sure is different today, isn’t it? 10 days ago (8/08), an unknown country singer uploaded a song on YouTube that got 5 million views in 3 days, going completely viral and hailed as “the blue collar political anthem”cri de coeur of bitterness and hopelessness in America now…
If you read through Skye’s Links yesterday (8/17), you’ll see why the very last thing we need now is resignation and hopelessness in the face of woke fascism.
But before we discuss this, I’d to make an announcement. Tomorrow, Saturday August 19, is Skye’s 80th birthday. Every week, he works his considerable brains out letting you know what recent events are useful to learn about. You might consider, then, telling him on the Forum how much you appreciate this, and wish him a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SKYE!!
To Skye!
AFRICAN FLATDOGS
Here in Zambia and elsewhere in Africa, crocodiles are nicknamed “Flatdogs.” You can see why. They spend much of their lives lying flat on the mud bank of a pond or river. Yet when on the hunt they can attack with astounding speed and surprise, leaping unseen from muddy water upon an unsuspecting target twenty feet away in an instant. This happened to a young boy fishing along the Luangwa River near our encampment just days ago. Africa is unforgiving of the unwary. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #142 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SKYE’S LINKS 08/17/23
The Fourth Turning becomes ever more dangerous. Jonathan Turley discusses the UChicago Project on Security & Threats survey finding many Americans are embracing violence as an option for political change. 30 million Americans say that violence is justified to prevent Trump from being re-elected, and 18 million say that violence is justified to help Trump be re-elected. The biggest difference between them? The former don’t believe in having guns, while the latter most certainly do.
To the 'Crats, everything that Trump did after the 2020 election is a criminal conspiracy. It’s truly mind-boggling what they accuse him of as criminal. This is TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, on stilts and steroids. Read these quotes from the GA indictment to see:
To the 'Crats, everything that Trump did after the 2020 election is a criminal conspiracy. It’s truly mind-boggling what they accuse him of as criminal. This is TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, on stilts and steroids. Read these quotes from the GA indictment to see:
THE WALLS OF TROY
Yes, these are the actual legendary walls of Troy that Homer immortalized in the Iliad. Or what remains of them 3,200 years later. You see here the East Gate of Troy VIIa, the layer demolished in ashes archaeologists believe where the historical basis of the Trojan War occurred in 1180 BC.
This was Troia or Ilium for the ancient Greeks, after the city’s founder Tros and his son Ilus. They firmly believed what Homer described was real history, and the heroes portrayed – Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Ajax, Patrocles, Paris and Priam – really lived. They knew just where it was – in the northwest corner of what is now Turkey they called the Troad where there were ruins with the tomb of Achilles.
Alexander the Great so firmly believed it was all true that when he crossed the Hellespont in 334 BC to destroy the Persian threat to Greece, he devoutly worshipped at Achilles’ tomb. 2,200 years later everyone thought Troy was a pure myth – all historians certainly did – except for a self-made German businessman named Heinrich Schliemann. He spent his fortune excavating a mound called Hissarlik in 1871 – and found Troy.
Today, you can explore these ruins of history yourself. Go there alone at night with a full moon above. Will the shade of Achilles come forth out of the moonlit shadows to greet you? (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #217 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WILL MICHELLE REPLACE JOE IN 2024?
The Queen of Mean telling her husband off in public
If Joe Biden is not the Democrat presidential candidate in 2024, will former first lady Michelle Obama take his place?
Some are betting that if the president is driven out of the race next year by corruption allegations, increasing signs of mental impairment and terrible approval ratings, only the former first lady has the name recognition and popularity to step in as a last-minute replacement.
Would, then, Mrs. Obama, allegedly one of the most admired people in the nation, have an excellent chance of winning?
For revelations about Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling and his father’s alleged complicity do not only taint Joe Biden’s presidency – they also cast a shadow on the Obama White House. To be sure, Michelle Obama was not the president, but it is her husband’s reputation and accomplishments that she would run on.
Quite soon, people will ask: what did President Obama know about Joe Biden’s evident corruption and when did he know it?
THE MUSKEGON VOTER FRAUD COVER-UP BY THE FBI
[Yesterday (8/15) on TTP, Jay Valentine told you about the 2020 ballot manufacturing in Muskegon, Michigan. Jay explains how this is to be prevented in 2024. Here Ben Wetmore explains how the fraud continues to be covered up – by our corrupt FBI.]
Critical information for investigating the Muskegon Michigan voter fraud in 2020 is being illegally withheld from public review.
Investigating systemic voter fraud in the 2020 election in Muskegon requires examining the 8,000-12,000 likely-fraudulent voter applications submitted by Biden campaign-financed GBI Strategies in October 2020… but those files have been withheld from public review on the argument that they are part of an ‘ongoing investigation’ by law enforcement.
This tactic for evading FOIA at the state and federal level is well-known, but its use here to deny access to public records by removing them and not including a duplicate, is unique.
According to far-left Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, the files themselves, in violation of state law, have been sealed and have been ‘under investigation’ by Nessel’s office and the FBI for three years for a criminal case with no prosecutions. The fix is in.
BURMA’S SACRED GOLDEN ROCK
Some three hours’ drive east of Rangoon brings you to Mount Kyaiktiyo, at the top of which (3,600ft) is a gigantic granite boulder covered in gold leaf perched on the edge about to fall off. But it never does, held in place, legend says, by a strand of the Buddha’s hair put underneath it 2,500 years ago. Ever since, the Golden Rock has been a sacred pilgrimage site for the Burmese people and Buddhists around the world.
There are very few people here other than pilgrims, who devoutly pray, circumambulate the rock, and reverently place small strips of gold leaf upon it. It’s a marvelous experience to be among them. I plan to be here once again in an expedition soon – you might consider joining me. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #112 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE FULTON COUNTY HAM SANDWICH INDICTMENT
The Ham Sandwich Fulton County Courthouse
Gather 'round as we delve into the latest courtroom drama that has left legal minds across the nation scratching their heads.
Consider the grand jury indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, involving none other than the 45th President of the United States and no fewer than 18 co-defendants. The charges? A whopping 41 counts, all related to Trump's 2020 election challenge.
Can you smell the justice in the air? Or is that just the aroma of a certain cured meat product?
In a stunning display of efficiency, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis managed to convene a grand jury for a grand total of 10 hours. Now, I know what you're thinking – surely, such complex matters as racketeering charges involving over a dozen defendants warrant at least a few days of contemplation, right?
Wrong! Who needs the niceties of due process when you've got the news of a Hunter Biden special counsel to knock out of the news cycle?
BALLOT HARVESTING – ONLY THE BRAIN DEAD BELIEVE IT NOW!
The world of U.S. election fraud tactics changed forever -- in the most fundamental of ways -- last week with the Gateway Pundit publication of the alleged 2020 Michigan ballot manufacturing factory.
Not ballot harvesting – but ballot manufacturing.
The election integrity world is different today because the Gateway Pundit outed an official 2020 Michigan State Police report with all the pertinent info. As sleuths dug in, they found this ballot manufacturing scheme tied to an entity, GBI, operating in 20 states.
Fake, pre-printed ballots by the thousands. Fake addresses, guns, gift cards. Colorful stuff. Over $11 million came for 2020 “voter registration.” Some dough from the Biden Campaign.
Bottom line: All the ballot harvesting in the world (by the GOP) cannot stop one ballot manufacturing operation (by the Dems). To fight ballot manufacturing in 2024 one must freeze addresses -- publicly. We know how to do it.
THE SPEECH I’D GIVE IF I WERE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on July 14, 2011. It was written in the hope that some GOP presidential candidate for 2012 would have the courage to give it. None did, least of all Rino Romney. It’s more necessary today with the Democrat-caused danger to our country far more dire than twelve years ago. Who among the current crop has the courage? DJT? RDS? Vivek? Scott? Or perhaps RFK2? Or tragically, none at all? One thing is for certain: our country cannot survive 2024 being 2012 redux.]
TTP, July 14, 2011
[Note: No, I have no intention whatever of running for president. This is the address that Palin or Perry or Bachman or some major candidate needs to give if we want an end to our current political insanity.]
I am running for president because freedom in America is being systematically destroyed by Demagogues in Washington, and I am determined to restore it.
That capital "D" is there because it is the more appropriate label for Democrats. The Democrat Party should be referred to as the Demagogue Party, and that is what I shall do until the day comes when they abandon their opposition to fundamental American values and their advocacy of Marxist-Fascist ideology.
We are gathered here today to discuss solutions to the economic crisis the Demagogues have created – a crisis to which they claim there is no solution. Their Treasury Secretary, Mr. Geithner, has stated this publicly, saying that for a lot of Americans, their lives are going to be, quote, "harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come."
This is a textbook example of Demagogue Marxist idiotic nonsense. But it is nonsense with a purpose. Its purpose is to con people into believing it is true, into getting people so depressed and hopeless that they feel they must depend on government handouts for a living – so they will vote for Demagogues providing the handouts, instead of Republicans who want to provide economic opportunity and freedom.
Folks, restoring prosperity in America is easy. It can be achieved quickly, virtually overnight. Not automatically. It will require a lot of energy, a lot of focused and intelligent effort by all of us. The solution to America’s Malaise is so simple it can be summarized in seven words.
Those seven words are: