A DISASTER ENTIRELY OF BIDEN’S
The more we learn about the true dimensions of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, the worse it is.
On Sunday (5/16), the New York Times reports that in the last few months, U.S. authorities have encountered illegal border crossers not just from Mexico, or the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, but from 160 nations around the globe.
People are coming to Mexico from the most distant spots on the planet in order to cross illegally into the United States, confident that Joe Biden will let them stay. And Biden is doing just that. [Note: long comment by Jack Wheeler at end]
GUESS WHERE BIDEN WILL CAPITULATE NEXT TO PUTIN
Yes, Greenland. Yesterday (5/18), Comrade Zhou just caved to Putin, allowing him to use the Nordstream Pipeline to chokehold energy to Poland and Ukraine.
This is a big deal, allowing the Russian dictator to grossly increase his energy leverage over most all of Europe. Naturally, with a victory like that, a predator like Putin is hungry for his next meal. His eyes are focused today on Greenland.
On last Saturday, May 15, Russia assumed the rotating two-year chairmanship of the Arctic Council, a role President Vladimir Putin has already said Moscow will use to advance his country’s interests in the High North.
THE LAND OF NOAH
We all know the story of Noah and the Ark told in Genesis (chapters 6-9). But do you know where Noah’s grave is? You’re looking at it. There is a tradition thousands of years old that he died and is buried here in the Land of Noah – Nakhchivan.
Known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as “Nakhsuana,” today Nakhchivan is an isolated enclave of Azerbaijan, cut off from the rest of the country by a strip of Armenia reaching Iran. You never heard of it because it’s unknown with a strange name – but the name literally means the Land of Noah. “Noah” is the Anglicization of Hebrew Noakh, or “Nakh” (“van” means “land,” “chi” means “of”).
Noah’s tomb has been built, destroyed, rebuilt, and destroyed again repeatedly over the millennia. It’s now been built yet again on the original site. Looming near is Haça Dag, the Notched Mountain – where Noah’s Ark they say ran aground as the Flood waters receded, carving a notch on the summit before coming to rest on Mount Ararat about 50 miles to the north (in present-day Turkey).
The people here are wonderfully friendly. I was always told “welcome” everywhere. I was even spontaneously invited to a wedding party in a remote village. You’ll find it easy to make friends here too. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #3, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE FUTILE RAGE OF THE NEVER TRUMPERS
The suicide plunge of U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) appears to be the psychopathic backlash of NeverTrumpers.
They are starting to realize Donald Trump’s defeat in November and the allegations he was attempting to overturn the election by provoking an “insurrection” at the Capitol on January 6 do not bring back the Republican Party of the Bushes and McCain and Romney, as those families seem to imagine.
This is only the first shoe dropping. It will soon be followed by the realization of the role the NeverTrumpers have played in shackling the country and the Western world to the unfolding disaster of the Biden presidency.
CENSORSHIP, MASKS, RIGHTS AND REVOLUTION
The New York Times on May 6 said that “our democracy” demands shielding voters and their representatives from what it considers “untrustworthy content” concerning the 2020 presidential election
Whence does the New York Times or Facebook get the right to decide once and forevermore that certain facts and arguments are so “untrustworthy” that ordinary people cannot pass judgment on whether they are true or not?
Then again, denial of human equality, of right, wrong, and persuasion, is the essence of what the ruling class calls “our democracy.”
FIVE FEET AWAY FROM AN 800-POUND GORILLA
©2019 Jack Wheeler
You know the adage about the “800-pound gorilla” going wherever he wants to – such as five feet from you in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. It is one of the world’s great thrills to be this close to these giants and feel at ease doing so. They are “habituated” to small groups of people whom they ignore. You of course are very quiet and do nothing to alarm them, just observing the little ones playing, mothers nursing, young ones climbing trees, huge male silverbacks watching over their families.
Gorillas are vegetarians, males eating up to 75 pounds of vegetation a day – thus they spend most of their waking hours chewing! The biggest silverbacks never get anywhere near 800 pounds by the way – 450 to 500 pounds at most (like the fellow in the photo). Big enough, believe me.
Rwanda is one of the best-run countries in all Africa. President Paul Kagame deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for healing his nation after the genocidal horrors of the 1990s. That’s far in the past now in this beautiful, peaceful land. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #93 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
KEEPING YOUR SANITY XVIII
As a Captain in the US Marines responsible for keeping his men alive during daily combat for months in Afghanistan, my son Brandon quickly became fully aware of the vital need for situational awareness.
Today, all of us in America today have the same vital need, engaged whether we want to be or not in daily combat with the Dems and the Left waging war against us. Here’s a current case in point.
THE NATURAL INFINITY POOL OF SOCOTRA
National Geographic calls the remote island of Socotra off the coast of Yemen in the Indian Ocean “the most alien-looking place on our planet,” because of its incredibly weird and bizarre plant life like the Dragon’s Blood Tree.
Yet it is safely far away from anarchic Yemen, peaceful and serene in its isolation. And it contains places of mesmerizing beauty – like this natural infinity pool on a cliff edge high above the ocean in full view. Socotra is spectacularly exotic, like nowhere else in our world. It is truly life-memorable to experience it. Wheeler Expeditions was there in the Spring of 2014 – and we’ll be there again in the Spring of ’22. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #129 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
DON’T WE ALL – UNLESS YOU WERE BORN YESTERDAY
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/14/21
This was Wednesday’s (5/12) front page lead headline story on Fox News. A headline of Schadenfreudelicious beauty. And here’s even better news – it’s all downhill for the Dems from now on.
Yet this is just the prelims, the warmup, and there’s no way Dems can avoid the main event: double digit inflation. You saw where we’re headed in Skye’s Links yesterday (5/13): The Inflation Monster Has Been Unleashed
There are claims that means Jimmy Carter’s Misery Index of inflation, interest rates, and unemployment all three in double digits – but it’s worse than that. POTUS is right – because the Dems are in a trap of doom: they can’t raise interest rates.