HALF-FULL REPORT 12/06/24
Have you seen all the headlines about the RNC lawsuits challenging the dozen House seats and the four Senate seats the Dems won by clear vote fraud, or all Elon Musk’s X posts to his 206 million followers exposing the scandal of 2024 Dem election theft?
No? That’s because they don’t exist – the sounds of silence by the GOP RINOs who are determined to disenable Trump from demolishing their Deep State gravy train. Doing that requires legislation passed by Congress, and with a miniscule House majority and small Senate one, it’s the RINOs in charge of both, not MAGAs.
Here’s a headline you’ve no doubt seen: Republicans Face Narrowest House Majority in 90 Years. So let’s talk about California. This week it was announced, after a month of counting phony ballots, that the Dems had stolen Congressional Districts 13 and 45….
…It’s been a wild and crazy week, not just in the US but all over the world. Lot to talk about so here we go!
A CHANGPA NOMAD GIRL ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU
“Changpa” means “northerners” in Tibetan, the nomads who survive with their herds of goats and yaks in the 15,000-foot high plateau of northern Tibet known as the Changtang.
In 1987, I conducted an overland expedition from Beijing to Kathmandu, crossing the entire Changtang north to south. TTP’s Dr. Joel Wade was with me. Occasionally, we’d chance upon a Changpa encampment. For many of them such as this young girl holding a handful of barley meal, we were the first white people they had ever seen.
The Changpa live in one of the most remote and harshest places on earth. We can hardly imagine what life is like for them any more can they imagine ours. Being with them is an unforgettably profound experience. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #254 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE ANTI-WHITE, ANTI-HETEROSEXUAL, ANTI-WEST IDEOLOGY POISONING YOUNG MINDS IS ABOUT TO END
Indeed, for decades, ordinary Americans have sat back and watched a small radical fringe take over their public education system and academia. They did nothing as “woke” professors promoted a self-flagellating ideology that sees everything in terms of race, gender and oppression.
What started as “political correctness” 30 years ago has morphed into an explicitly anti-Western, anti-white, anti-heterosexual belief system. Middle America has had enough of it.
Team Trump is targeting the Department of Education not primarily to reduce government waste, but to end government “woke”. That means important implications for what happens to the federal government more broadly.
BASIC MAKE-READY FOR URBAN UNREST (PART ONE)
I abide in my conviction that the Left was caught off guard by the victory of Donald Trump. I believe that is the reason why we have not seen mass violence yet, for violence has always been a centerpiece in their playbook, whether on the streets of Europe a hundred years ago, or more recently around the world.
As The Donald’s cabinet picks come up, it appears that, if the people he chooses do, indeed, get confirmed and perform as they are capable of doing, then the array of Jacobins that have been screwing up the US for generations will be running like rats off a burning ship. But they are unlikely to go quietly.
Let me repeat that—these our enemies will not go without a fight, and I mean that quite literally. Before it is over, you and those around you could be facing violence, whether it is sporadic acting-out from leftist manchildren melting down in your businesses or other public places, or the more anarchic organized variety.
You need to start preparing now if you are not already. I offer the following points for your consideration. We start by learning how to evaluate everything.
IF PUTIN LOSES HIS TARTUS BASE IN SYRIA HE MAY LOSE IN UKRAINE
On November 27, a powerful force led by Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched an offensive in northern Syria. Taking advantage of the dysfunctional Assad regime forces – the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) – and Russia’s preoccupation with its grinding war in Ukraine, HTS and its Turkish-supported allies advanced to the south – and swiftly took the city of Aleppo from Syrian strongman Bashar Al-Assad, his SAA and his Russian backers.
The Russians know Tartus is in trouble. On December 3, commercial satellite imagery revealed that every major Russian warship known to operate from Tartus – three missile frigates, a diesel-electric attack submarine and two lightly-armed support ships – had unmoored from the port’s three large piers and sailed into the Med.
Losing Tartus would be catastrophic for Russian power projection in Southern Europe and North Africa. Realistically, the only way for the Kremlin to replace the vital shore infrastructure in Tartus is to regain access to the Med via the Bosporus.
But there’s almost no prospect of that happening while the war in Ukraine still rages. Russian president Vladimir Putin may soon face an unhappy choice: keep fighting in Ukraine but lose influence in the Mediterranean region; or sue for peace in Ukraine and open up access from the Black Sea to the Med.
COURTSHIP IN THE GALAPAGOS
The male Magnificent Frigatebird has a flap of loose bright red skin on his neck called a “gular sac.” During mating season, they huff and puff, filling it with air to blow it up like a balloon. They then parade around showing off for the ladies, for the bigger the red balloon, the more the ladies are aroused. Size matters, even in the Galapagos.
This is only one of many courtship displays among the birds and animals of these extraordinary islands. No wonder the Galapagos are called “evolution’s laboratory.” (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #199 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE POCKET PARDON STRATEGY AND THE FINAL CORRUPTION OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
The most shocking aspect of President Biden pardoning his own son, Hunter, may be that it was not in the least shocking, given the history of the Biden family.
This abuse of the pardon power was widely anticipated even by his allies as the president repeatedly denied that he would ever do such a thing as he ran for reelection. Indeed, it may be the single most premeditated unethical act in political history. However, it may not achieve what President Biden most hopes for: a clean slate for his son and himself in this massive corruption scandal.
Biden has recreated a sweeping immunity grant through his own powers by pardoning his son not only for the crimes of which he was convicted, but of any crimes committed between Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024. Think on that. It would cover anything from perjury to murder.
But it is not the absolute “get-out-of-jail-free” card that President Biden would like, for the pardon has that sell-by date. Any crime he commits after then, such as being made to testify under oath to Congress and caught lying, is jailable.
AMONG A MILLION PENGUINS IN SOUTH GEORGIA
The Antarctic island of South Georgia is home to a million King penguins, plus countless fur seals, gigantic elephant seals, staggering numbers of seabirds such as albatrosses, amidst a backdrop of towering mountains with massive glaciers spilling off them.
Nothing can prepare you for the incomprehensible size of the penguin rookeries here, densely packed as far as the eye can see (all those white dots on the hills behind are penguins). Nor for the size of bull elephant seals weighing up to 8,000 pounds, especially when they rise up and crash their chests against each other in mating challenges emitting deafening bellows. Nor being surrounded by a thousand fur seals unafraid of you. The density of wildlife combined with the magnificent beauty of the island is completely overwhelming.
Here also is the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken where the heroic explorer Ernest Shackleton is buried. You can only get here by expedition cruise ship. South Georgia is one of the great experiences on our planet. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #96 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HOW PUTIN’S LONG WAR IS DESTROYING THE FABRIC OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY
“The greatest pleasure of the Russian people is drunkenness, in other words, oblivion. Poor folk! they must dream to be happy.”
Astolphe de Custine, Letters From Russia - 1839
Russia has a long history with alcoholism. But after the fall of the Soviet Union, drinking was in decline. Now, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, official figures show alcohol addiction is surging again for the first time in a decade.Vodka sales this year surged to a record high and policymakers are scrambling to halt a rise in alcohol-related deaths. What has changed is the war. It is becoming increasingly clear that the fabric of Russian society is falling apart.
As in the 1980s, Russian soldiers are returning from the frontline wounded and traumatized. Thousands more are dying, leaving grieving families at home.
But what is happening today is on a completely different scale. Around 15,000 Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan. The Russian death toll in Ukraine is at least ten or more times that already.
Between Feb 24 2022 and Nov 19 this year, there have been at least 120,000 Russian military deaths in the war in Ukraine, according to analysis of probate records by Mediazona, a site that works in collaboration with BBC’s Russian service.
As many as 728,000 more have been injured, according to analysis by The Economist, based on leaked documents from America’s defense department. Vast numbers of them have turned to vodka to drown their pain and trauma.
BANKRUPTCY, DEPRESSION, AND RANDOM DEATH: XI’S CHINA IS TEARING ITSELF APART
Mourners place flowers for the mass killing in Zhuhai, China on November 11
On November 30, Chinese social media posts showed what appeared to be half a dozen bodies left strewn across a busy road in Neijiang City in China’s Sichuan province, after another apparent attack using a car.
We will perhaps never know the truth of what happened, but since February, China has suffered one mass killing after another. In an especially horrific incident on the 11th of last month, a man drove his SUV on the exercise track of Zhuhai Stadium, killing 35 people and injuring 45 others. For decades, disaffected Chinese have resorted to violence as a first choice instead of the last one.
But the Communist Party’s reaction has been to censor news of incidents and prevent expressions of grief and mourning. These actions, by further bottling up emotions, are making a bad situation even worse.
CCP authorities are especially worried at the moment because the economy is suffering a prolonged downturn, the first since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.
Further, the gloom in Chinese society is forcing collapse of birth rates. “In this country, to love your child is to never let him be born in the first place,” has become a popular sentiment.