HALF-FULL REPORT 05/28/21
It has been a wonderfully terrible week for Notpresident Zhou Xiden. Above is last Sunday’s lead headline on Fox. Here is this morning’s (5/28).
Yet this “China toying” story is only the tip of an iceberg poking above water. You’re about to find out what TTP has been able to how much bigger the story is underwater.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – DEWAR’S AT THE NORTH POLE
April, 1979 – on the sea ice at 90 North latitude, the North Pole. I was one of the more unusual Profiles for Dewar’s Scotch. It was the 3rd of my 21 expeditions to the very top of our planet. One thing that stood out for me was the photographer brought false ice cubes of carved polished crystal for the photo you see of a glass of scotch perched on a small pressure ridge. That’s the way the pros do it. One genuine item he brought was a case of Dewar’s. We had one heck of a party on top of the world! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #75 photo of Jack Wheeler)
ADAM AND EVE AND AMANITA
Our last Glimpse (#98) was the back panel of the Painted Monastery of Voronet. Here you see a side panel fresco of Adam and Eve tempted by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Startlingly, however, the couple is not eating an apple at the serpent’s behest but a hallucinogenic Amanita muscaria mushroom – recognizable as the classic Disney cartoon mushroom with the red cap and white spots. Sounds hard to believe but there it is, 532 years old. It’s the center panel of a triptych, the left panel has Adam and Eve each grasping an Amanita stalk, the right panel knowing they are naked covering themselves with fig leaves.
In all three panels, the Garden of Eden is an Amanita garden. This is devotional art by deeply devout Christians over 500 years ago. What’s going on? Amanita muscaria is commonly found in the Carpathian forests to this day. Did the Voronet painters engage in Amanita ceremonies giving them visions they used to paint their churches? Did those visions make them decide it was Amanita and not an apple that Eve ate?
From time immemorial, people have used hallucinogenic plants to commune with the spirit world. Researchers have shown that Soma, the god instantiated on earth in the earliest Hindu texts, is Amanita muscaria. And they’ve made another connection. Google Amanita muscaria + Santa Claus to find out. Better be sitting down. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #99 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
RUSSIA’S DIPLOMATIC WAR UPON AN UNFRIENDLY PLANET
Anti-Putin protest in Prague, Czechia – April 2021
Over the past couple months, Russia and the West (the European Union and the United States) have mutually expelled more than 150 diplomats—high numbers in quick succession that, some observers argue, “did not even happen during the Cold War” (Newsru.com, April 24).
From the European Union, the Czech Republic (Czechia), Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, and Bulgaria as well as EU candidate North Macedonia all became participants of this diplomatic war with Russia.
As you can see above, revulsion towards Putin’s Russia is expressed on European streets as well.
SKYES LINKS 05/27/21
The truth is leaking out about the origins of the CCP virus:
Report: Leaks Show Mystery Disease Outbreak at Wuhan Lab in 2019
Gottlieb: Circumstantial Evidence Coronavirus 'Could Have Come Out of a Lab'
Rand Paul accuses Fauci of perjury:
Rand Paul: Dr. Fauci Committed Perjury over Gain of Function Comments
Emphatic Blexit:
Former NBA Star Kwame Brown Calls Woke Black Dems 'New Version of the KKK'
How to not get run over by America's woke cultural revolution:
THE WHITE HOUSE OCCUPANT SUPPORTS BLM IN AMERICA AND CHILD SLAVERY IN AFRICA
Child slave at Chinese Cobalt Mine in Africa
One of Zhou Xiden's initiatives is to get Americans into electric cars. In so doing he is supporting child slavery in Africa.
In his first week in the White House, he announced that he wants every car that the federal government owns to be electric. Moreover, his $2-trillion "infrastructure" plan calls for giving taxpayer-funded rebates to electric car buyers and to increase the number of charging stations (although without also increasing the amount of available electricity).
What Xiden and other Leftist Green Deal proponents are ignoring is that the cobalt that is an essential ingredient in electric car batteries comes from child slave labor in Africa.
WE NEED ASPERGER’S REPUBLICANS
There’s a claim of Wokeists on Twitter that Florida Gov Ron DeSantis has some form (there are many) of Asperger’s, like it’s a bad thing.
It’s not. It’s a great thing, and we need more GOP pols with that condition’s political manifestation.
People with Asperger’s tend to miss social cues and fail to respond as society expects, but many are also focused, driven, and generally amazing in their areas of interest. [Note by JW – can’t wait for Skye to comment on this!]
When you put those qualities together in a right-wing officeholder, that means you have a Conservative Terminator.
THE ISLAND OF SARK
There are five Channel Islands in the English Channel. Best known are Guernsey and Jersey. Least visited is Alderney, along with tiny Herm. Most fascinating is Sark, Europe’s only remaining feudal fiefdom. No motor vehicles are allowed, excepting a few farmers’ small tractors. The governor and chief constable is called the Seneschal. He rides to his office on his bicycle.
It’s an ancient office with a tradition of many centuries. When I was there in 2010, it was held by Reginald Guille, a very friendly fellow as all Sarkese are. We rode our bikes around the island, even along La Coupée, the connecting path along the razor sharp high isthmus connecting two parts of the island – it’s pictured above.
There are gorgeous pocket beaches here, and beautiful natural swimming pools. Flower gardens are everywhere, the island could not be safer, cleaner, calmer, and more exquisitely charming. A few days here will do wonders for you. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #131 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
FEET OF CLAY ICONS
"The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay."
— Daniel 2:33
Just ask: What now do Hollywood, network news, the media in general, Silicon Valley, the NBA, NFL, MLB, or higher education all have in common?
A propensity to lecture Americans on their moral inferiorities, a general ethical decline in their own disciplines, and a strange obsession to acquire great wealth while living in contrast to what they advocate for others. That’s what.
WHEN WILL ISREAL LEARN ITS LESSON? WHEN WILL WE LEARN OURS?
So the Israelis have once again let themselves and much of the rest of the world down by calling a halt to their latest skirmish with the “Palestinians” of Hamas, to whom they unwisely transferred control of the Gaza strip back in 2005.
The recent round of rocket-launching and retaliatory air strikes accomplished nothing strategic, but merely kicked the can of resolution down the road yet again in the vain hopes that the elusive “peace process” might someday resolve the conflict.
There’s only one resolution to this fight, however, and that is total victory for one side or the other. And that will be the side that wants it more, and is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that end.