THE ADULTUROUS BIDENS
For 48 years they’ve lied to the world
Ordinarily, most of us wouldn't care too much about a political leader's love life. After all, President Trump is a stellar president but his personal life hasn't been perfect. Big deal. Trump's never brought it up to win votes out on the campaign trail.
Joe Biden's different. He's using the occasion of his previous wife, Neilia Hunter Biden's death in a car crash along with that of his baby daughter to tell us how compassionate he is, in a bid to reap political hay.
Now it looks like he was cheating on Neilia by having an affair with another man’s wife – yes, the now-Jill Biden.
THE LIQUID RAINBOW – WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL RIVER
This is Caño Cristales, a river flowing through an ancient tableland in a remote roadless region deep in the forests of Colombia. Known as The Liquid Rainbow, geologists consider it the world’s most beautiful river.
The colors are due to endemic riverweeds that grow only here, clinging to the rocks of the riverbed, and the crystal clarity of the water. It is not easy to get to – fly a light plane to an airstrip, take a boat upriver for miles, then walk a few miles more. But then you get to explore one of the most beautiful sights nature has to offer – replete with dozens of small fun waterfalls, surrounded by an uninhabited forest teeming with tropical birds.
No wonder National Geographic calls Caño Cristales “the River of the Garden of Eden.” Yet it is only one of the many extraordinary experiences in this huge country – for Colombia is larger than Texas and California combined. Wheeler Expeditions will be conducting an exploration of Hidden Colombia in 2021. Hope you can be with us. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #22 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE – Preface and Introduction
Evil Eye pendants, Khiva, Uzbekistan, Central Asia ©Jack Wheeler
This is the start of the serialization in TTP of my next book, No Fear of the Evil Eye: Key to Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity.
We did the same for The Jade Steps – which prompted me to finish it. On most Mondays, we’ll present each chapter in succession. Today (8/17), we embark with the Cover photo that you see above, Epigraph (a quote at the beginning of a book), a short Preface, and Introduction.
The Preface you see here is, however, something of a placeholder, as what needs to be said will be very different depending on the outcome of the November 3 election. It, the Introduction, and every succeeding chapter is a work in progress.
I have written a lot in TTP about the book’s subject, and here is where I must put it all into a comprehensive whole. I will be thankful for any TTPer comments that help me reach that goal. So feel free to let me know what you think!
THE BLUE CITY OF CHEFCHAOUEN
My wife Rebel and I love this uniquely picturesque ancient Berber village in Morocco where everything is painted in shades of blue. Suffused in soothing blue, there’s no more relaxed place than just about anywhere. Everyone is welcome from the wealthy staying in sumptuous boutique hotels to backpackers in hostels. There are no “tourist spots,” for every café and bar is where the locals go themselves. (It’s pronounced shef-shah-win, by the way.)
Berbers – “Amazigh” (Unconquered) in their language, are the original people of Morocco having lived there for over 12,000 years. They are directly related to the reindeer-herding Lapps of Lapland in northern Scandinavia (they share the same mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U5b1b). Both are descended from the same stock of Cro-Magnon Ice Age hunters in Western Europe that split in two 15,000 years ago – one moving far north, the other south crossing the Gibraltar Strait to Africa.
One more reason why Morocco is so magical. Would you like to experience the Magic of Morocco with us next year? (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #21 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
IS THERE ROOM FOR ALL THAT, JOE?
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/14/20
USPS mail sorting machine
It’s tempting to call this the O Joy! HFR. The entire Woketard World is suddenly on Four Alarm Hair-on-Fire Alert this week over a fellow named DeJoy.
Never heard of him? You will. The saga begins last May 6, when the United States Postal Service (USPS) issued this announcement: USPS Board of Governors Announces Unanimous Selection of Louis DeJoy to Serve as Nation’s 75th Postmaster General.
The decision was bipartisan and nonpartisan – so why the uproar? First, DeJoy is a GOP and Trump campaign “mega-donor” – so he’s being attacked just for that alone, such as the charge he has up to $75 million invested in “USPS competitors” like UPS. But the real freakout came yesterday (8/13). You’re going to love this. And this whole HFR!
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – WITH THE ANTI-COMMUNIST GUERILLAS IN CAMBODIA
July, 1984. The KPNLF – Khmer People’s National Liberation Front – was the Anti-Communist guerrilla movement fighting the Soviet-backed Vietnamese Communists in Cambodia. When I was first there in 1961, Cambodia was then a land of serenity, with a gentle and tranquil people who were at peace with themselves and the world. Now it was a land of indescribable Communist horror.
It was such a privilege to be with these brave men willing to wage war against that horror and bring freedom to their country. I told their tale in Turning Back the Terror, the February 1985 cover story for Reason magazine. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #20 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SKYE’S LINKS 08/13/20
New Normal: From "Corona-Totalitarianism" To The Invasion Of The "New Normals"
Fed promises to steal our US dollar savings: Fed Commitment To Let Inflation Run Isn't A Promise; It's A Threat
More on the HCQ narrative: Big Pharma's 'Narrative' Is Failing
Paying for infections - what could possibly go wrong? California Will Soon Be Paying $1,250 To People Who Test Positive For Coronavirus
And lots more!
THE DEMAGOGIC DUO
According to media accounts, a “power outage” delayed the debut of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris yesterday (8/13) — a foreshadowing of what we can expect from an anti-energy Biden–Harris administration.
Both are committed to an extreme environmentalism that will cripple America’s oil and gas industry. Harris is opposed to all fracking. Biden has made as his vice-presidential running mate a San Francisco radical, whose voting record puts her to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
But the media, seeking to con independents, is casting Harris as a “pragmatic moderate.” Right. She is no more moderate than Biden, who has promised to be the most liberal president ever. His administration would combine the worst of the Obama years with all the extreme Left radicalism of today’s Democrat Party.
On ample display Wednesday was the ticket’s relentless demagoguery. Both Biden and Harris are audacious and monumental liars. It is a toss-up as to who lied more in their speeches.
HOW TO AVOID THE LIFE CYCLE AND DEATH SPIRAL OF A REPUBLIC
The Fall of Rome by Thomas Cole, 1836
To understand the extraordinary events in America today, it is helpful to look at the ancient wisdom of Greece and Rome. As the wise historian Thucydides said, “If we forget the errors of the past, we are doomed to repeat them.”
The ancient Greco-Roman historian Polybius (200-118 B.C.) developed a theory of the “lifecycle” of a republic. Like a human being, a republic is born, is young, matures, grows old, and dies.
Ironically, the virtues of an early republic—hard work, honesty, courage, frugality, morality—lead to the great wealth and power which then contribute to its decline.
Imperial regimes become proud and arrogant, depraved, foolish, self-indulgent, and unethical. Sound familiar?