HALF-FULL REPORT 12/27/24
Well, here we are at the last HFR of 2024 as we say Goodbye to a historical year. This was the year America finally decided to climb out of the abyss of despair and degradation it had dug itself deeply into, choosing instead to stand above ground in the sunshine of freedom and hope.
Next Friday’s HFR on January 3 will be the first of 2025. We’ll be only 17 days away from America Reborn on January 20. What to expect will be in clearer focus by then. Let’s now discuss where we and the world stand at this year’s end.
We’ll start with a moment of true schadenfreude. On Christmas Eve (12/24), Fox News host John Roberts had three Democrat strategists explaining why the Democrat Party is on the verge of actual collapse.
Clinton advisor Gloria Romero: "I believe that in history we are seeing a major inflection point, the complete collapsing of the Democratic Party. This party refuses to recognize that it has lost its way, it is gone with the wind. Whether a new party emerges out of this, we wait to be seen."
Advisor to both Bill and Hillary Clinton Doug Schoen: "Democrats have created the greatest deficit in history. And it's ultimately what cost Kamala Harris and the Democrats control of the White House and the Congress. We need a fiscally prudent Democratic Party that focuses on people's economic concerns, not woke ideology."
Founder & CEO of Latino Wall Street Gabriela Berrospi: "The Democrat Party, I cannot recognize it. I'm a former Democrat. Latinos voted in this election with their wallets. We didn't vote for pronouns. We voted for our paychecks. We voted for safety. We voted with our Catholic values. And the Democrat Party does not represent that. They've really lost us." Watch:
THE MATTERHORN OF THE HIMALAYAS
This is Ama Dablam – “Mother’s Necklace” in Sanskrit – famed by climbers and trekkers as the Matterhorn of the Himalayas. Standing 22,349 ft, the favored climbing route is the southwest ridge, which you’re looking at face on. It towers as sentinel above the Tengboche Monastery of Nyingma (Red Hat) Tibetan Buddhism, and the famous trek to Everest Base Camp (EBC).
We were at EBC this morning, and shortly later flew by Ama Dablam in our expedition AS350B3 helicopter at 20,000 ft. It is from this altitude you can see the summit of Everest. And yes, that’s Everest on the left of the photo. In the shadow is Everest’s southwest face, in the sun the east face, the southeast ridge between them is the climber’s route to the summit. Breathtaking only begins to hint of what it is like to experience such a sight. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #202 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE PARTRIDGE IN THE PEAR TREE
For twenty years, it is a TTP tradition to explain the meaning of Partridges in Pear Trees. Enjoy.
I hope you had the Merriest of Christmases yesterday, Wednesday December 25, but according to the song, the First Day of Christmas is the day after Christmas, December 26. That’s today.
Ancient Christians celebrated Christmas starting with the day after the birth of Jesus and ending on January 6th with the visit of the Magi in Matthew 2:11 known as the Epiphany.
Start with 12/26 and end with 1/6 and you get: the Twelve Days of Christmas.
No doubt you’re really tired of hearing Christmas songs by now, including this one, yet you may still be wondering what the heck partridges in a pear tree and eight maids a-milking have to do with the birth of the founder of Christianity.
So I thought it might be entertaining, as we recover from all the festivities, to take a look at the song’s origin, meaning, and myth.
First published in London in 1790, it was a "memory and forfeits" game played by children in the form of a song, where the leader recites a verse, each player in turn repeats it, the leader keeps adding verses until a player’s memory fails him/her and has to forfeit a piece of candy.
Even though The Twelve Days of Christmas was a kids’ song-game, it nonetheless had a deep religious meaning. Despite Santa Claus’ cultural appropriation, Christmas is above all a religious celebration. All of the song’s twelve gifts are Christian symbols.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
WORLD’S MOST SECRETIVE SOCIETY APPOINTS NEW LEADER AS TRUMP SPARKS SEISMIC SHIFT IN GLOBAL ORDER
The Bilderberg Group - a secret organization of the global elite - is undergoing a leadership transformation as Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House.
The society, which consists of leaders in politics, industry, academia and the military, has selected former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to chair its 'steering committee.'
Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees hold discussions on international relations, economics and security.
Heads of the CIA and MI6 have been among its members, while Henry Kissinger was a regular alongside the likes of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and then-Prince Charles.
Now a major power shift is afoot as Stoltenberg, who attended his first Bilderberg summit in 2002, has been tapped for his expertise in transatlantic strategy.
Key among his Bilderberg colleagues is Trump insider Peter Thiel, boss of AI giant Palantir, whose technology has been used by Ukraine in the fight against Putin. A staunch supporter of Donald Trump, Thiel's influence has steadily grown within Bilderberg.
THE TTP TEAM WISHES ALL TTPERS THE MERRIEST OF CHRISTMASES
Enjoy this Glorious Day of All Christendom
And laugh with Trump Impersonator Shawn Farash in celebrating a Trumpian Christmas
A CUP OF YAK BUTTER TEA IN A TIBETAN NOMAD TENT
At 14,000 feet, Tibetan nomads called Drogpa set their summer encampment for their yak herds to graze on green pastures. You find them with difficulty in the remote Himalayan highlands of the Kingdom of Lo. They are happy to welcome you into their home, a single large tent of black yak wool, and serve you a cup of delicious yak butter tea.
It is a rare privilege to be with these people and experience their ancient way of life. It is something we strive to do on our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions. I took this picture in May. Here is their home from the outside. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #203 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
TEN IDEAS TO MAKE AMERICA’S ECONOMY GREAT AGAIN IN 2025
Here's my wish list for the incoming Trump administration to make America healthy and prosperous and great again in 2025.
- Slash Job-Killing Regulations
- Make the Trump Tax Cuts Permanent
Why? Because they worked almost exactly as we anticipated they would.
- Replace Welfare With Work
PUTTING JOE BIDEN’S LEGACY IN THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY
‘Twas the night before Christmas and…you know the drill. Since it is Christmas tomorrow and we are only three weeks away from booting Joe Biden and the Democrats out of power.
It’s time to get the professional cleaners to come out and remove the stench of what they’ve done over the last four years. The budget and the country need a deep, deep cleaning to remove what it is they’ve done, then we need to resolve to never allow it to happen again.
Joe Biden’s legacy is disgraceful. May his last memory be one of realizing the American people rejected him and what he’d done, overwhelmingly favoring his opponent from 2020 over his protégé.
It's time to get serious. How many billions of the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” have yet to be spent? Or is it trillions? Stop anything left. In fact, repeal the whole furshlugginer thing. There are literally trillions in “green” subsidies that monstrosity obligates the federal government to spend over the coming year, according to the Cato Institute. Kill it, kill it now.
THE CASTLE PRISON OF RICHARD THE LIONHEART
This is Durnstein Castle, perched on a precipice high above the Danube River in Austria some 60 miles upriver from Vienna. Built in the early 1100s, here is where King of England Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned, having been captured by his enemy Leopold V of Austria on his return from the Third Crusade in the Holy Land.
The story is well known of how Richard’s brother John had usurped the throne and impeded paying Richard’s ransom – and the legend of Robin Hood raising the money pilfering it from thieving nobles. The ransom was finally paid in 1194, with Richard returning to be crowned King of England once again. The castle fell into disrepair, uninhabitable since the late 1600s. It is an eerie journey back into history to explore it today. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #197 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
A CHRISTMAS LETTER TO AMERICA’S ANTI-CHRISTIANS
TTP. December 21, 2004
Merry Christmas! If that offends you, why should I care? It’s your problem, not mine. Let me explain your problem a little more fully.
America is a Christian country. It’s your job to deal with that, because you’re not going to change this fact. America has always been a Christian country, and – open wide now, because you’re going to have to swallow this – it will continue to be.
It will continue to be because most Americans aren’t Euroweenies. They haven’t lost the moral courage to be proud of their country and their civilization. Notice the “most” – which you are not a part of.
You are anti-Christian because you are anti-American. You are anti-American because you are anti-Western Civilization. You are anti-Western Civilization because you are afraid of and intimidated by the envy of the world’s impotent. Fear of being envied defines your soul.