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WHAT DO YOU SEE HERE?

boy-in-pyongyang-nature-park-streamA young boy playing among rocks on a stream, yes. But where? I took this photo in a nature park in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Gives you a different perspective, doesn’t it? This young North Korean boy, how so innocently playing amidst beautiful streams and waterfalls, has no future except to grow up to be a human robot in subjection to a tyranny. He has no idea of the fate in store for him. That’s why, for me, this is one of the saddest pictures I have even taken.

Perhaps he will escape from his political prison, but the odds are gravely against him. Life does have its somber moments. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #244 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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SLOW-MOTION NATIONALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY

Global liquidity is expanding. In the past three months, the global money supply has soared by $4.7 trillion.

This rapid increase started when the Federal Reserve panicked the first time and delayed the normalization of the balance sheet in June.

Since then, we have seen a chain of fresh stimulus policies implemented by developed economies, adding to the large fiscal packages already in place.

Multi-trillion-dollar investment packages like the EU Next Generation Fund now include massive deficit spending plans.

However, money velocity is not rising.

All these programs only lead to secular stagnation. Government projects and current expenditures are consuming money at an unprecedented rate.

Developed economies cannot live without new and larger spending plans. The result is more debt, weaker productivity growth, and declining real wages.

 

In a recent report, Bank of America showed that the rise of unproductive debt has created a significant problem for the United States economy.

For every dollar of new government debt, the gross domestic product impact has slumped to less than fifty cents. The United States is drowning in unproductive debt.

However, at least the United States has some productivity growth.

If we look at the euro area, the negative multiplier effect of new government debt is extremely evident.

Despite enormous stimulus plans and negative nominal rates, the euro area has been stagnating for years.

Many of you may believe that bad policies and careless government spending are to blame, but I think this is intentional.

It is a slow process of nationalizing the economy.

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SOS FROM GEORGIA – SHADY GOINGS-ON WITH SEC. OF STATE RAFFENSPERGER

As Twitchy readers know, we have to be very very very very very (did we say very?) careful when writing about election interference in any way because we don't want Big Tech spanking us. So while we are sharing this post from Kylie Jane Kremer, we can neither confirm nor deny if this is true.

But we think it's important enough to share so here we are.

Sounds like Kremer believes that Secretary of State Bradfor Raffensperger may be up to no good.

Take a look:

Her post continues:

“Raffensperger sent an email, in a private capacity, that went to a listserv of trial lawyers across Georgia soliciting $5 million by November 1st to help in his effort for a 501(c)4 called “Election Defense Fund,” asking lawyers to donate or contact him via his private gmail account & personal cell phone number.

 

In this email, Raffensperger states, “Election Defense Fund, Inc. is a 501(c) (4) dedicated to protecting this year's election results, and standing up against those who attempt to delay certification. EDF will identify local election officials who are most likely to not certify or otherwise attempt to interfere with results."

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BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE OBAMA-BIDEN DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Harris and Walz have made a thing of “turning the page,” but the page that must be turned is the one they are on.

In recent years, beginning with Obama, the Democratic party has become unmoored from its basic center-left policies and embraced ideas and policies that are illogical, absurd, and increasingly unpopular. Things like these:

  • Allowing open borders coupled with a very generous social welfare system to be tapped by all who enter;
  • Endorsing chemical castration of children and allowing transgender women into the private spaces of actual women;
  • Engaging in endless wars in which we have no genuine national stake;
  • Supporting UNWRA, which exists solely to attack our longtime ally Israel;
  • Issuing regulations that limit productivity in everything in the name of preventing the chimerical and unproven climate change;
  • Fighting all efforts to make national elections auditable;
  • Ignoring the violence on college campuses;
  • Committing significant First Amendment violations and pursuing frivolous lawsuits against their opponents;
  • Defunding the police and allowing crime to flourish in blue cities;
  • Embracing corrupt dictatorial international bodies like WHO and WEF;
  • Promoting DEI policies that are discriminatory and result in ethnic and racial identity, rather than merit, being the criteria for hiring and promoting employees.
Looking at some tea leaves, I see the beginning of the end of this party as presently constituted. It will soon have to refashion itself, jettison its most outrageous members and their notions, or be replaced by another new party altogether.

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HYPERSONIC WEAPONS REVISITED

Hypersonic technology is critically important, so it’s time to check in to see where we now stand. According to news reports, nothing much has changed.

Newsweek in March said, “China is winning the hypersonic weapons race and is moving full speed ahead with plans to expand the reach of these hard-to-target weapons.”

Jeffrey McCormick, senior analyst with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, said in testimony to the House Armed Services Committee, “China’s missile programs are comparable to top-tier producers internationally, and China now has the world’s leading hypersonic arsenal.”

He added, “Russia currently has three deployed hypersonic weapon systems, including two that have been used in conflict against Ukraine.”

Furthermore, “China has an extensive and robust research-and-development infrastructure, including many wind tunnels, devoted to the development of hypersonic systems.”

What defenses do we have against such systems? The answer is essentially none.

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THE AMAZIGH

amazighThey call themselves Amazigh – meaning “the unconquered” – who are the original people of Morocco having lived there for over 12,000 years. You’ve heard of them as Berbers, a name they find offensive. Another people you’ve heard of are the Lapps, the reindeer-herders of far northern Scandinavia, who call themselves Saami.

Astoundingly, they are directly related, for 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 thousands of miles far north, the other thousands of mile south crossing the Gibraltar Strait to North Africa. Geneticists know this because the Amazigh and Saami share the same mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U5b1b. (See Saami and Berbers – An Unexpected Mitochondrial DNA Link, American Journal of Human Genetics, March 2005.)

So when you visit Morocco and meet a gentleman like that pictured above amidst a display of spectacular Amazigh artwork, you’ll know what incredible history resides within him. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #242 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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YASUHIKO’S HALF-FULL REPORT 01/10/20

[In last Friday’s HFR, you learned that beloved TTPer Yasuhiko Kimura has Stage 3 Esophageal Cancer.  Many of you have already been kind enough to donate to the Help Yasuhiko Genku Kimura Heal from Cancer GoFundMe, for which he and his wife Mira Joy are deeply grateful.  This week’s Archive is an extraordinary HFR written by Yasuhiko when I was gone on one of my expeditions, as I am right now.

Written in early January 2020, it was Yasuhiko’s explanation of the enormous promise of the Trump presidency in the year to come.  It was not to be, as neither he nor any of us had any inkling of the evil catastrophe Chicom China was about to inflict upon the world, the pandemic flu bug the Democrats used to ruin Trump’s economy and put in place the plethora of cheating and voter fraud mechanisms that allowed them to steal the White House that November.

Now that Trump is on the verge of triumphing over Democrat perfidy, the promise of that triumph comes alive again.  Thank you for this, Yasuhiko. Our prayers are with you.  Again, please consider helping Yasuhiko heal via the link above. –JW]

 

HALF-FULL REPORT (1/10/2020) Yasuhiko Genku Kimura

[Jack Wheeler is on another exciting adventure. Thank you, Jack, for your trust in me. — YGK]

1. The Year 2020

President Trump speaks:

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On January 8th, President Trump addressed the nation after Iran attacked US military facilities in Iraq the previous day (purportedly) in retaliation against the killing of the Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani. President’s presence was commanding, befitting the Commander-in-Chief and his delivery magnificent, truly statesmanlike. A powerful way to start the new year!

 

President Trump and Sun Tzu

The ultimate purpose of military strategy is to ensure winning before a possible war so as to render the war meaningless and unnecessary. Sun Tzu (孫子) states in The Art of War (兵法): “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”

By demonstrating, with supreme tact and gallantry, the overwhelming and unsurpassed superiority of the United States in its military and economic strength and military intelligence capability, President Trump has been achieving the greatest victories that require no battle by subduing the enemies without an actual war.

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THE TOMB OF THE FRAGRANT CONCUBINE

tomb-of-the-fragrant-concubinePrincess Iparhan, granddaughter of the ruler of the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar, was so famous for her beauty and the intoxicating natural aroma of her body that the Manchu Emperor far to the east called for her. She was 22, the year was 1756. The Emperor became completely infatuated with her, making Iparhan his Imperial Noble Consort, loving her deeply until her death 33 years later in 1789.

In mourning, the Emperor kept his promise to her that her body would be returned to Kashgar and buried in the mausoleum of Apak Hoja, built in 1640 by her Apaki family. And there she rests today. Everyone in Kashgar and beyond, however, knows the mausoleum as The Tomb of the Fragrant Concubine.

It’s a wonderfully romantic legend, and even though there are several conflicting versions, let’s hope this one is true. Regardless, a visit to this peaceful shrine is certainly memorable. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #54 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: THE LOST CITY OF KUELAP

rh-at-kuelap10,000 feet high in the Amazon cloud forests of northern Peru is a mysterious lost city built by an unknown people many centuries before the Incas existed. Known as Kuelap by villagers in the lowlands below, the Incas called the people who built it Chachapoyas, “Cloud Warriors.” I led an expedition here in 1994, climbing high up into the Amazon Andes to come upon gigantic stone walls 60 feet high surrounding hundreds of stone structures. Here you see Rebel among them. We’ll be here again in a year or two in another exploration of Peru. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #153, photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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DEMOCRATS WONDERING IF IT’S TOO LATE TO GO BACK TO JOE BIDEN

U.S. — After watching Kamala self-immolate on national television, Democrats have begun wondering if it's too late to just go back to Joe Biden.

"He was at least able to answer some questions, occasionally," said strategist Neil Massey. "I mean Biden was like Winston Churchill compared to this word salad of vindictive psychopathy."

At publishing time, Democrats had decided that Biden was indeed too senile, but checked to see if perhaps Jimmy Carter was interested in a second term.

– Babylon Bee reporting

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