LOTS OF ‘COINCIDENCES’ IN TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
The U.S. Secret Service (USSS), established as a personal bodyguard for U.S. presidents, is playing an increasingly dangerous role in U.S. politics.
Assassination attempts on the life of former president Donald Trump, by Ryan Routh on September 18 and Thomas Crooks at Butler, Pennsylvania, raise the disturbing possibility of designed convergences of security lapses that give assassins the opportunity to kill.
Trump’s protective detail was purposefully stretched thin
Details are still missing regarding Routh’s attempt, but he apparently camped out for approximately 12 hours waiting for Trump to appear at hole 6 of the Trump International Golf Club.
Trump was headed that way, teeing off at hole 5 when a Secret Service agent saw a rifle sticking through some shrubbery and flushed Routh out with a few shots.
There was no prior sweep done of the golf course.
Newly consolidated details on Trump’s Butler rally reveal a more sophisticated plot.
THE MOST DELICIOUSLY DEVIOUS PART ABOUT ISRAEL’S PAGER ATTACKS
As a spy thriller fan, I love reading about the clever gadgets the good guys use to vanquish the bad guys, which is why I've been fascinated by the story of Hezbollah's deadly exploding pagers.
How did Israel pull this off? Was it really Israel who did this? This attack is even more exacting than the exploding bed at the Iranian "safe" house.
Now we're learning more details of the attacks, and they're as impressive as they are diabolical.
Three thousand beepers exploded this week, killing a bunch of Hezbollah terrorists and some innocents. Iran's ambassador to Lebanon lost an eye in the attack.
After that attack, Hezbollah began using walkie-talkies, and they exploded.
When the terrorists decided to meet in person in Lebanon Friday, someone bombed the meeting.
Israel has not confirmed it carried out the attacks, nor is it likely they will ever lay claim to them, but U.S. intelligence officials who talked to their favorite intelligence mouthpiece, the New York Times, claimed Israel pulled it off. Time will tell what the truth is.
This operation has obviously been planned for quite some time.
Though Israeli intelligence agencies were completely caught off guard by Hamas's Iran-backed October 7 attack, they appear to be trying to make up for that huge intelligence debacle.
THE PAINTED CHURCHES OF THE TROODOS MOUNTAINS
For 500 years, from Ca. 1000 to 1500 AD, the Byzantine Christians on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus labored with love to decorate the interior of their humble churches tucked away in hidden valleys of the Troodos Mountains.
There are a total of 10 such churches which are today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The one you see here is the church of the Kykkos Monastery, with its extravagantly painted vaulted ceiling preserved immaculately for centuries. Christianity remains very much alive in these mountains. Come here to be awed yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #235 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL IS CHINESE
[This Monday's Archive was originally published on November 18, 2005. It is about the prospects of Christianity in China. Those were the days of a Christian president, George Bush, and its predictions were overly optimistic. Christianity in China stagnated during the non-Christian Obama years, started to resurge under Trump 45, and resumed stagnation under Biden-Harris. Under Trump 47, it will resurge again, resulting in the growing possibility of a future Christian China on the horizon.]
TTP November 18, 2005
The famous story in Chapter 5 of the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament tells of a banquet held by the King of Babylon, Belshazzar, during which a magical finger writes mysterious words on the wall: mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.
After a fruitless debate by the king’s advisors over the words’ meaning, the king asks a Jewish captive, Daniel, to translate, who explains the strange words mean “counted and counted, weighed and divided.”
Meaning that Yaweh, God, has counted and numbered Belshazzar’s kingdom, weighed its balance, and now will bring it to an end by dividing it up among Babylon’s enemies, the Persians and Medes.
This prophecy is said to have taken place in 559 BC. 21 years later, in 538, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, occupied Babylon, ended its independence, and freed the Children of Judah from their captivity. Ever since, “the handwriting on the wall” has been used as an expression of foreboding doom – or of liberation.
Today, the handwriting on our wall is in Chinese. And just like back in 559 BC, there is a huge debate over the correct translation – this time between two factions on the President’s National Security Council. But where is Daniel?
THE HEZBOLLAH HELLTON
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/20/24
There will be a third. As you read in Skye’s Links yesterday (9/19), Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz claims a senior DHS official confided that there are “five known assassination teams out to kill Trump” in the US now, three of which are foreign.
We all know that Gaetz is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, that his neuronal circuits aren’t all wired up right, so it never dawned on him that he was being gamed. Mayorkas’ DHS is likely running a psyops to divert blame on the Dem Deep State teams gunning for Trump.
America at this moment is facing the scariest time since the Civil War. The Democrat depth and breadth of literally murderous hate for the man who could save our country has become criminally insane. As you also learned from Skye, a full 28% of Democrats advocate Trump’s assassination. More than 1 in every 4.
It was conducted by ace pollster Scott Rasmussen, who commented: “It is hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to have your political opponent murdered.” It has of course become the Dems’ election campaign mantra that “Trump is a threat to democracy,” when it’s now proven to be the other way around.
Could there be a silver lining to this? Maybe. Read on.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – DIVING IN A GALAPAGOS FISH BALL
Galapagos Islands – November 2015. In the waters here, enormous schools of striped mullet swim together in one huge swirling ball by the tens of thousands.
One of the more astounding experiences a scuba diver can have is to swim far below one of these rotating living balls, then slowly rise straight up into it. The fish do not scatter, but merely create an empty column or vertical tunnel for you – so you float inside the ball with countless thousands of calm unperturbed fish circling around you and your dive buddy (who took this picture of me).
I’ve had the good fortune to go diving all over the world for the past sixty -plus years, and this experience is surely one of the most memorable of all. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #140 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE GOLDEN ELEPHANTS OF DZANGA BAI
Deep in the African rain forest where the Central African Republic, Cameroun, and the Congo come together, there is a swampy clearing of mineral and salt-rich mud where hundreds of elephants come to soak in the mud to absorb the minerals, turning their skin golden. Other forest animals congregate here as well – buffalo, sitatunga and bongo antelope. In the mountains nearby, there are an uncountable number of gorillas. The clearing is called Dzanga Bai by the native Ba’aka Pygmies who live in small encampments in the forest.
We conducted our Gorillas and Pygmies expedition here in 2012. It was an unforgettable experience, never to be repeated. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #278 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SKYE’S LINKS 09/19/24
That’s what 28% of ‘Crats say – when Trump is the target in question. It’s hard to believe, I know. We’ll cover that today, and aspects of the new attempt on President Trump’s life, as well as the Secret Service and DHS coverup that becomes more apparent by the day.
Then we’ll take another look at the AI being taught and coded by the Left and Google’s preference for it than for fallible humans on the web (I’m wondering at what point – and how - AI attains deity after it has been schooled by fallible leftist humans – unless, of course, the Left really is the repository of All Truth—hmmm. But how can that be when they deny the existence of Objective Truth? Truly, as Yul Brenner said in The King and I, “’tis a puzzlement.”)
Where were we? Ah yes, covering the threats to POTUS – they are greater than we had even supposed, as it turns out; there are multiple assassin teams in the US looking to get a bead on him. And the Dems, themselves, are targeting SCOTUS again, this time it’s the Chief Justice in the crosshairs. While they’re busy with that, Heels Up is eyeing our guns again, and talking about the Guv’s “right” to enter the homes of licensed owners just to “check” on them. You’ll want to be hospitable to them, of course – a Tea Party sounds like just the thing [wink wink, nudge nudge].
Trump has a great idea for folks on Social Security that is polling wonderfully, and then we’ll wind things up with some important information on the Economy, Inflation, and the Fed’s last move. Let’s dive in!
A KYRGHIZ EAGLE HUNTER
A Kyrghiz eagle-hunter doesn’t hunt for eagles to eat. He hunts with an eagle he has trained from infancy to hunt food for his family.
Female eagles adapt to training the best and are fierce huntresses. Retrieved as a young chick from their mother’s nest when she’s out hunting, it takes one or two years to train them. The eagle the hunter is holding is age six. When they are too old to hunt at around age 20, they are released back into the wild, where they can live free for up to age 50.
That would be among the high rock outcroppings dotting the high grasslands of Kyrghizstan in Central Asia. That’s where the hunter’s assistant (usually his son) climbs up with the eagle gripping his forearm high enough to launch. Upon the hunter waves thee command on horseback, the hood is removed from the eagle’s head so he can see and is released.
Soaring high, the eagle searches for game like rabbits which are plentiful in the grasslands. Upon spotting one, the eagle swoops down to snare it on the run with her amazingly powerful talons. Allowing her to eat a bite or two as her reward, she’s re-hooded and the rabbit soon to be on the family dinner table. If you want to see this for yourself, come with us to Kyrghizstan on our next exploration of Central Asia. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #228 photo ©Jack Wheeler)