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PROPHECY ONLY HELPS IF YOU HEED IT
Years before Covid, the scientist credited with eradicating smallpox warned against shutting down the world to combat an epidemic. In 2006, ten years before his death at the age of 87, the legendary epidemiologist D.A. Henderson laid out a plan for how pu ...
THE EXISTENTIAL SLAP
[The Existential Slap is what Dr. Nessa Coyle calls, “That moment “when a dying person first comprehends, on a gut level, that death is imminent. It changes everything. It is what Israel received on October 7, 2023, and America would be wise to wake up ...
ELEPHANTS IN THE SAHARA
10,000 years ago, the Sahara was green, with lakes, rivers, and such an abundance of animals it was a hunting paradise for people who lived here. You’ll find their petroglyphs carved on to rock outcroppings like this that my son Jackson and I found on a ...
THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY PEACEFUL PLACE IN IRELAND
St. Finnbarr’s Oratory, Gougane Barra, County Cork. St. Finnbarr (550-623) is the patron saint of the city of Cork, now Ireland’s second largest city, on the south coast of the Emerald Isle. He established this tiny church in the late 500s, and has b ...
BEYOND THE PALE
[This Monday’s Archive is TTP’s celebration of St. Patrick’s Day with its “nutshell history” of Ireland, first written in 2006. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all TTPers!] Ronald Reagan’s origins are even more humble than Abraham Lincoln’s log ...
BORDER CONFUSION
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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/15/24
The Irish Story _________________ It is hard to believe that St. Patrick's Day is upon us again. My great-grandfather from Cashel, in County Tipperary, left home at 15 after hearing that gold had been discovered near San Francisco. He secured work on a ca ...
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – TIGER LEAPING GORGE
Many centuries ago, a tiger was plaguing the Naxi people who live in the mountains where the Yangtse River cascades off the plateau of Tibet. He was eating the goats the Naxi needed to feed themselves. So Naxi hunters chased the tiger into a deep narrow go ...
A VIEW OF MOUNT EVEREST YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE
Photo taken at an altitude of 22,000 feet (6,700 meters) in a AS 350 B3 ultra-high altitude Eurocopter on our Himalaya Helicopter Expedition. We are looking into the Western Cwm (valley), West Shoulder of Everest in the left forefront, entire Southwest Fac ...
SKYE’S LINKS 03/14/24
Try to contain your excitement, but a Nobel Prize-winning Leftist economist has finally realized that mass migration may not be such a great idea after all! Plus, more proof of malfeasance by Fauci and Liz Cheney; spying by the PTB (powers that be); contin ...
HORSESHOE BEND
Looking down 1,000 feet above world-famous Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River at sunset is one of most iconic views our planet offers us. It is to be found near Page, Arizona near the border with Utah. Yet in truth, the number of different mind-blowing i ...
THE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC DEMOCRATIC LEFT
Joe Biden has claimed that his opponents are assaulting democracy on the basis of the January 6, 2021, buffoonish riot. But sometimes storming the Capitol Rotunda is deemed permissible—as in the recent pro-Hamas takeover of it. And sometimes disrupting ...
TIKTOK TIME BOMB MAY BLOW UP IN CHINA’S FACE
[Editor’s Note: We’ve merged two short articles by Ms. Griffin on the subject of TikTok – one sounds a warning, the second offers potential schadenfreude!] TikTok has long been a threat to the American people and U.S. intelligence agencies. The vid ...
THE ITCHAN KALA OF KHIVA
The inner town (Itchan Kala) of the ancient Silk Road oasis of Khiva has been unchanged for centuries. Surrounded by 40ft-high snake walls that writhe around the city, its labyrinth of narrow lanes adorned with blue and aquamarine tile mosaics is a living ...
MENTAL ILLNESS: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
[TTP’s homegrown Law Enforcement specialist shares a career’s-worth of good advice.] Anyone in law enforcement deals with mentally ill persons frequently, and a successful career requires an understanding of some practical truths about mental illness. ...
BIDEN ADMITS THE REAL GOAL BEHIND CEASEFIRE REQUEST
The most obvious thing to leap out of Joe Biden’s weekend interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capeheart was Biden’s abject apology for referring to the fact that Laken Riley’s confessed killer is an illegal alien. However, what that interview also rev ...
THE TOMB OF TAMERLANE
This is the interior of “Gur Emir,” the tomb of Tamerlane (1336-1405) in Samarkand, the great Silk Road city now in Uzbekistan. Tamerlane was the last of the nomadic conquerors of Eurasia, a Turkic-Mongol whose conquests extended from New Delhi to east ...
THE MOSLEM MYTH OF JERUSALEM
Mohammed’s “Night Journey” [This Monday’s TTP Archives feature was originally published on December 3, 2003. "From the river to the sea," the Palestinian battle cry that woke Wikipedia describes as an Arabic "focus on freedom," is based on the li ...
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: A DAZZLE OF ZEBRAS
Groups of animals have collective nouns, like a pride of lions or a school of fish. A group of zebras is called a dazzle. The term is excellently appropriate. You may wonder why zebras have such clearly obvious stripes that any predator can see. Th ...
THE STATE OF THE UNION IS PATHETIC
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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/08/24
The State of the President Address _________________ The State of the Union Address occurred last night and can be summed up as red meat for the left's constituent blocks. Biden arrived 25 minutes late for various unconvincing reasons. However, watching i ...
HAWAII IN EUROPE
Equivalent to the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific are the Azores in the European Atlantic. You’re looking at Lagoa das Sete Cidades (Lagoon of the Seven Cities), an example of the Azores’ astounding beauty. As Hawaii is a part of the US, the Azores are ...
SKYE’S LINKS 03/07/24
NOTE: Important info for investors was inadvertently left out and has now been put back in at the end. The University of Florida says good-bye to DEI Google is desperate to fix its ludicrously woke AI A must read; artificial reality is pandemic... Co ...
THE GREAT BLACK OF MAKALU
The 5th highest mountain on earth at 8,463 meters/27,765ft, Makalu is Sanskrit for “Great Black” – a name for Shiva, the Hindu god of creative destruction, as here is one of his homes. You’re looking face on the Southeast Ridge (the right side in ...
AMERICAN PARALYSIS AND DECLINE
"We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies." So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse ...
AN EXTRAORDINARY CONTRAST – TRUMP AND BIDEN’S BORDER SPEECHES
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden offered dueling speeches at the nation’s southern border on Thursday, but geography proved all they had in common. Standing on Texas soil a mere 325 miles apart, their policies came from different political universes. ...
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
In these trying times, it’s important to appreciate the beauty of America – both the physical beauty like here at the McWay Waterfall in California’s Big Sur, and the moral beauty of America’s founding principles expressed in the Declaration of Ind ...
TRUMP’S PROMISE – RETRIBUTION OR REVENGE?
Former President Donald Trump is cruising toward the GOP nomination. In the general election, Trump has a 2 point lead over President Joe Biden in the RealClearPolitics average, with most polls showing Trump ahead by anywhere from 1 to 6 points. Throw ...
THE RUSSIANS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES WITH OLIGARCHS
Many of us have experienced people in our lives who build a certain narrative which we accept despite evidence before our eyes. Sometimes it’s easier to accept the narrative, sometimes the benefit of the relationship outweighs the cost of facing the fact ...
THE KASBAH OF AÏT BENHADDOU
Aït Benhaddou is a thousand year-old kasbah or fortified village on the ancient trade route from the Sahara to Marrakech in Morocco. It’s constructed entirely of rammed earth, adobe, and wood. Remember the famous scene in Gladiator where Maximus shouts ...
MEXICO AS TAKFIRISTAN
Almost 20 years ago to the day TTP warned about the disaster looming on our southern border. It was checked for a while, but now it has reached critical mass. It is not enough, now, to simply choke off the flood -- we must find a way to eject the invaders ...
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/01/24
The Eurasian Grand Narrative _________________ Grand narratives continue to slug it out on the world stage. Russia is pursuing its Eurasian narrative with everything it has. Russians understand the consequences of failure. CPAC wrapped up in Washington w ...
THE HIJACKING
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – MEETING THE DALAI LAMA
Eighteen years ago, October 9, 2003, I had the privilege to meet and have an unforgettable conversation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It was at a luncheon hosted by India’s Ambassador to the US at his residence in Washington. His Holiness loved my te ...
AZENHAS DO MAR
A cliff-top fishing village on the Italian Riviera? Nope, Azenhas (ah-zhane-yas) do Mar – Watermills of the Sea – is on the Portuguese Riviera. This is a magic place of fairy tale castles, thousand year-old fortresses, luxury boutique hotels, fabulous ...
SKYE’S LINKS 02/29/24
[There’s LOTS to enjoy in Skye’s Links today, starting with a long-awaited announcement.] At long last, the Turtle is stepping down, though not immediately: McConnell stepping down in November -- Read more... ...
THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS OF MALTA
They look real, don’t they? Ready to defend their Christian land with their lives. We are in the Palace Armory Museum of Malta, where you realize there is no nation on earth more proud of their Christian heritage. It was on Malta in 1565 that a few ...
THE PEOPLE WHO LOOK THE OTHER WAY
[Alexei Navalny gave this speech in a courtroom in 2014. Konstantin Kisin translated it into English because it is so powerful and important for us all, not only the Russians.] How many times can a man who isn’t breaking the law give his last words? Zer ...
JAVIER MILEI ENDED A DC-SIZED DEFICIT IN…NINE WEEKS
Argentina’s Javier Milei is racking up some solid wins, with the fiscal basket case seeing its first monthly budget surplus in 12 years. Apparently, it took Milei just nine and a half weeks to balance a budget that was projected at 5% of GDP under the ...
THE FOURTH PEARL OF SHING
There is a series of stepping-stone lakes in a hidden valley in Tajikistan known as The Seven Pearls of Shing. This is the fourth, taken at dawn’s early light with the lake a mirror reflecting the sky and surrounding mountains. Each Pearl are of differen ...