THREE WAYS THE INDICTMENT OF DONALD TRUMP HURTS AMERICA
There are three reasons every American — even those of us not supporting Trump’s 2024 campaign — should find this further assault on the former president repugnant.
All three are glaring demonstrations of how corrupt the Biden Deep State is on a gargantuan scale. Let’s discuss them.
WHY CORPORATIONS ARE DOUBLING DOWN ON WOKE EVEN AS THEY LOSE BILLIONS
“Inclusive Capitalism” – the globalist buzzword for fascist control over all our lives
It’s been a bloodbath for the majority of companies that go overtly woke in the new era of American consumer rebellion, and the establishment is not happy. Corporations like Disney, Anheuser-Busch and Target are plunging in profits and losing billions in market cap after pledging fealty to the trans agenda.In particular, the public is setting out to make examples of institutions that support trans indoctrination of children. Simply put, a line in the sand has been crossed. With conservative boycotts far more effective than leftist boycotts ever were, the movement makes evident that the political left is a paper tiger and that conservatives and independents have the real majority power in the US.
So why are corporations actually willing to destroy the very brands they spent so much time and money developing all in the name of political idolatry. It seems like pure madness, but what if they know something we don’t? What if they are riding out an engineered economic crisis so that they can be rewarded later with “too woke to fail” riches?
Here’s how they’re planning it.
FISHING AT DAWN IN HA LONG BAY
Ha Long Bay near Haiphong, Vietman – meaning Descending Dragon – is a World Heritage Site as one of our planet’s great scenic wonders, with thousands of limestone karst rock pinnacles, towers, and islets. The most beautiful time is dawn, peaceful and serene, with small fishing boats of local villagers out for the morning catch. A few days aboard a comfortable junk cruising Ha Long will do wonders for you. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #160 ©photo Jack Wheeler)
DRAKE AND THE SULTAN
The Spice Islands
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on July 15, 2016. It’s one of TTP’s Histories in a Nutshell, and I thought you’d enjoy it simply as fascinating and informative history, just to take a break from all the current lunacy we are all enduring.]
TTP, July 15, 2016 – all photos ©Jack Wheeler
Ternate, Spice Islands of the Moluccas, present day Indonesia. I am here in the place that started the Western exploration of the world.
It was the goal of Columbus in 1492 to get here – which of course he never did with the American continents getting in the way. Vasco da Gama decided to try the other way around Africa – which he did, reaching the southwest coast of India in 1498.
By 1512, Vasco’s fellow Portuguese made it all the way – to the fabled Spice Islands, the only source on earth for nutmeg, mace, and cloves. Since the Middle Ages, they were esteemed by Europeans for their medicinal and culinary properties.
As such, they were fantastically expensive, especially because the Arabs had a monopoly on the overland trade routes. Breaking the monopoly with sea routes meant unbelievable profits. So the Portuguese cashed in. A pocketful of nutmeg seed pods could buy you a home. Imagine what an entire shipload was worth.
Ferdinand Magellan convinced Portugal’s rival, Spain led by Charles V, that he could break the Portuguese spice monopoly by sailing west – for by now (1518) everyone knew there was an ocean on the other side of the Americas but no one had crossed it. Magellan did it, but was killed in the Philippines in 1521 before he got here.
So the Portuguese got to keep the Spice Islands, where they built their first fort – called Kastela – here on Ternate in 1522. The Spanish found there were almost unimaginable amounts of gold and silver for the taking in their new colonies along the west coast of South America and forgot about the Pacific Ocean.
Fifty years later, history was about to shift.
SURREALISTIC ART IN NATURE
We’re now well over 100 Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World since we instituted this daily feature on TTP last July. So to refresh your memory of them, we’ll be sprinkling a recycle of them from now on in the series.
Our very first was Surrealistic Art in Nature, which you’ll find unsurpassed in Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon near Page, Arizona. No artist could paint something more surrealistic than what nature has created here. It’s a photographer’s fantasy land – enhanced by a Navajo Indian guide who knows all the best lighting and perspectives.
You can explore the world to experience the greatest wonders of nature, but they are also to be found here in the American West. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #1 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/09/23
Changing Metaethics
Trump was indicted over boxes of files again this week. The announcement came at just the right moment to tilt the media narrative away from an FBI informant notifying Congress of two $5 Million bribes paid to Joe and Hunter Biden.
The bribes were quid pro quo in exchange for firing a Ukrainian prosecutor and securing $1 Billion in foreign aid to Ukraine.
Trump supporters already knew this happened, as Trump was impeached for discrediting this truth.
The plot thickens as a deal was struck between the House of Representatives and the FBI; the FBI would deliver the bribery documentation in exchange for the House dropping contempt of Congress charges against Christopher Wray.
Ukraine launched its counteroffensive and immediately ran into a significant problem. Russia blew up the dam over which much of the counterattack would roll across. Humanitarian damage is terrible.
It seems that the world is experiencing a crisis of metaethics.
Metaethics, or the branch of philosophy concerned with the rightness of decisions, became utterly inconsistent this week. It seems that the great powers are pulling metaethics in different directions. Objectivists seek truth and reason, while Relativists descend into the schizophrenia of tribal affiliations. Semantics must decide whether truth comes from Divine Command, the desk of Vlad Putin…, or the source code contained within an A.I. system.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: EVEREST BASE CAMP
I’m at 17,500 feet with the Khumbu Ice Fall behind me. To the left in the photo is the West Shoulder of Everest, to the right is a flank of Nuptse. Climbers begin from where I am to ascend the Icefall, thousands of gigantic ice blocks all shifting and moving, reaching Camp I at the top, up a steep glacier-filled valley called the Western Cwm to Camp II, up the even steeper face of Lhotse that adjoins Everest to Camp III, then on to the saddle between Lhotse and Everest called the South Col at Camp IV. To summit, they start at night up the Southeast Ridge hoping to beat the crowd standing in line at the summit ridge.
The irony of being at “EBC” where I am is that you never see Everest itself – it’s hidden behind the West Shoulder. Unless you’re a climber doing all the above, the only way to see the world’s highest mountain is on one our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions (HHE). We fly over the Khumbu Ice Fall and into the Western Cwm where we see the entire Southwest Face of Everest from summit (29,028 feet) to base and the entire face of Lhotse as well. There are no words adequate to describe the experience.
To have this experience yourself, you can join us this October. We will operate two HHEs, with one already sold out – but there’s still room for the other: Himalaya Helicopter Expedition Oct 21-28. This is beyond doubt the greatest one-week adventure on earth. Carpe diem! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #267 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
TEAR DOWN THIS WALL
SKYE’S LINKS 06/08/23
Yet it’s been declared an AI fake. Most Russians don’t know what to believe with many panic-stricken. The lesson to us is that AI-created video fraud spread by skilled hackers is just beginning:
There’s good news, inspiring news, heads-up watch out news, weird news – and even weirder news (yes, flying saucers are real, and I explain the physics of why). I suggest making a first pass scroll through the images to see what catches your eye, and go from there. Welcome to a full plate of Skye’s Links!
THE SULTAN ASTRONOMER
You’re looking at something historically and scientifically astonishing. It is what remains of an astronomical observatory built 600 years ago – in 1420 – by a Sultan in Central Asia who loved science and mathematics more than war and conquest.
It was in Samarkand, the most fabled oasis of the Silk Road, that Sultan Ulugh Beg built his circular observatory, three stories high of white marble. All that’s left today is part of the underground sextant that you see in the photo.
For the full story of what he achieved, with many more photos, click on The Sultan Astronomer in TTP I wrote in 2020.
This Glimpse is to whet your appetite to learn about this amazing Sultan and his scientific achievements.
It’s also to whet your appetite for joining your fellow TTPers on our Heart of Central Asia expedition this September. The story of The Sultan Astronomer is but one example of what awaits you in exploring Central Asia, an enrichment of your life beyond description. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #212 photo ©Jack Wheeler)