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DYING TO VOTE

What’s dying is the Dem chances for passage of their HR1 Vote Fraud bill. It went down in flames on Monday (6/21), the Senate is on July 4 Recess until the 11th, shortly after comes the August Recess, then comes the Raise the Debt Ceiling cat fight. There’s hope for a honest ’22 election yet.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 06/18/21

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You may have to listen to what Tucker is saying on Tuesday evening (6/15) more than once to grasp its enormity.

Namely, that our corrupt FBI didn’t just have an “intelligence failure” in not being aware of a “ terrorist insurrection” being planned to seize Capitol Hill last January 6, just didn’t warn the Capitol Hill police to take preventative measures once its agents found out about it – but that the FBI organized the “insurrection” with its agents in place with the express purpose of demonizing Trump supporters, patriots and conservatives as “domestic terrorists.”

Yet this, and so much more this week, is actually good news for us.

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SPEAKER TRUMP?

proud-president This could be the most genius political idea of our lifetimes.  Who thought of it first is unclear.  It wasn’t POTUS, as he was caught by surprise when passed by him.

There are five stages to follow in sequence.  Here they are in outline.  Be ready – to call this genius is no hyperbole.

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THE FATHER-SON ADVENTURE: FOUR WORDS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

Brandon Holiday Wheeler – Age 4
Brandon Holiday Wheeler – Age 4

Four Words That Changed My Life November 1987

Leading two lives had kept me away from home a long time.

At last I was back home.  That was in La Jolla, California back then.  In our den we had a two-person wide chaise lounge, upon which I was regaling our first son, Brandon with stories about where I had been.  He had just turned four years old. Brandon sat next to me quietly, not saying a word as I carried on and on… and on.

Then, in a break of silence from my monologue, he spoke, his voice barely above a whisper.  He said just four words.

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THE THREE-WAY SQUEEZE THAT SCREWS ZHOU XIDEN

lost-bidenHere is why the “Joe Biden” regime only has a few months to live: it is caught in a squeeze between some of the greatest lies in world history, and they’re all unraveling now.

Anyway, “Joe Biden” is not really functioning as president of the US; he’s just the doddering, photo-op front-man for a kind of politburo centered around Barack Obama, and that group lives in terror of being found-out, which it will be, despite its capture of the traditional news and social media.

Big Lie No. 1 is actually a whole bundle of lies surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.

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HOW CAN THIS EVIL BE HAPPENING IN AMERICA?

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”

Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution

 

Last week, five Republican senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding his office’s handling of January 6 protesters.

The letter revealed the senators are aware that several Capitol defendants charged with mostly nonviolent crimes are being held in solitary confinement conditions in a D.C. jail used exclusively to house Capitol detainees.

It is important to emphasize that the accused have languished for months in prison before their trials even have begun, in obvious blatant violation of the 6th Amendment.  I have been receiving letters from them or their families. Here are some. They will break your heart. This is America??

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DON’T BE TERRIFIED BY HOW MUCH TROUBLE WE’RE IN

Scared yet?

A basic premise of the American system, going all the way back to the Founding Fathers, was an educated population.

People weren't expected to be scholars.  However, the Founders required a literate and moral population to make their great government experiment work.  And that is what they got – while that is what we haven’t.

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THE GIRL EVERYONE HATES

kamalaKamala Harris' problem isn't race or gender.

True, those are the two excuses that she and her supporters have brought out to explain everything from her humiliating failure in the primaries to her humiliating failure on the world stage during her big international trip.

But no one is buying either of them.  The fact is, aside from her self-inflicted problems, and there are many of those, Kamala has no constituency.  She’s the girl everyone hates.

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SKYE’S LINKS 06/17/21

try-and-take-itCounty Sheriff pushback against the 2nd Amendment's death by a thousand cuts proponents:

Utah's 29 Sheriffs Vow to Protect 2A Rights from Federal Gun Controls

This is the peaceful and effective solution millions of Americans have been praying for to take back America county by county and state by state.” A peaceful revolt in support of the Bill of Rights, and it has just started:

#UNRIG: Two Nevada Counties Go Constitutional, Reject COVID-Fueled Government Tyranny

“Touch the ballots, go to jail,” Arizona AG warns Federalies attempting to intimidate Arizona election auditors:

'Touch The Ballots, Go To Jail': AZ Lawmaker Warns Biden AG As Audit Showdown Brews

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY — AFGHANISTAN 1984

afghan-jackI showed this picture to my mother after my latest sojourn with the Afghan Mujahaddin fighting the Soviet Union and she didn’t see anything unusual. She didn’t recognize her own son standing in the middle. Good thing – if I had been caught by the KGB or Spetsnaz, it would have been, ahh… unpleasant. I was there with the “Muj” at least a dozen times until they defeated the Soviet Red Army in early 1989 – which led to the Fall of the Berlin Wall eight months later and the extinction of the Soviet Union itself by the end of 1991. It was one of the most thrilling – and consequential – adventures of modern times. ( Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #80 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE HYPOGEUM OF MALTA

hypogeumThe extraordinary rock-cut necropolis known as the Hypogeum (hi-po-gee-um) is the only prehistoric underground temple in the world. For over a thousand years (3500-2500 BC), the temple and burial complex (eventually housing 7,000 skeletons) was carved out and down – dozens of chambers, with rock-cut replicas of above-ground temples including simulated corbelled roofs. (A corbelled roof uses stone slabs that progressively overlap each other until the room is roofed over.)

The Megalthic Maltese learned to cut from the limestone bedrock with tools of stone and antler horn for they had no metal. These folks figured out all by themselves how to build extraordinary temples to their gods and goddesses close to six thousand years ago. Nobody taught them. They were the first. Only one reason Malta is one of our planet’s most fascinating places. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #109 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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MOROCCO’S DADES GORGE

dades-gorgeThis astounding road is how you traverse the Dades Gorge on the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs in Morocco. Kasbahs are fortified villages of the Berbers, who have lived here since the end of the Ice Ages 12,000 years ago (related to the Lapps of the Scandinavian Arctic, both descending from Cro-Magnon hunters in Cantabria of northern Spain).

The road is rated as one of the most scenic drives in the world. It is in the High Atlas Mountains (once higher than the Himalayas and joined to the Appalachians in the northeast US before splitting apart to form the Atlantic Ocean 200 million years ago). Here you go from the sand dunes of the Sahara to the fabulous kasbahs of Skoura, Ouarzazate, and Ait Benhaddou. The drive is one of the many life-memorable experiences we have in our exploration of Moroccan Magic. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #110 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE REMOTEST CHURCH

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Baihanluo Catholic Church is the remotest Christian Church on earth. The isolated village is in a roadless region high on a Himalayan mountain ridge deep in “The Great River Trenches of Asia” – one of our planet’s most dramatic geological features where four major rivers – the Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze all spill off the Tibetan Plateau coursing south in tight parallel for 100 miles.

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In the late 1800’s, French Catholic missionaries made their way far, far up the Mekong from the French colony of Laos to befriend the Nu and Lisu tribespeople up here. They responded by building this beautiful wooden church that has been lovingly cared for by the local parishioners ever since.

I led an expedition traversing all three of the great trenches twenty years ago (2001). We were welcomed so warmly by the devout villagers. It’s hard to get more remote than this, yet they have retained their faith for at least four generations now. You can imagine how powerful and experience it was to be with them. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #138 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE PILLARS OF HERCULES

pillars-of-herculesOn either side of the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar there are two small mountains known since great antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules.  The pillar on the northern, European side is the famous Rock of Gibraltar.  That on the southern, African side is Mount Abyla, Phoenician for “lofty mountain.”

The legend for the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans was that Hercules pushed the two pillars apart to join the Mediterranean with the Atlantic. We think today of Hercules as a comic-book bodybuilder, while the truth is opposite. The entire ancient Mediterranean world very seriously worshipped him.  For the Phoenicians, he was Melqart, King of the Earth.  For the Greeks, he was Heracles, Divine Protector of Mankind. He was the same for the Romans, who pronounced his name as Hercules.

The Phoenician trading port of Abyla has a history of 3,000 years, from Phoenician to Carthaginian to Roman to Byzantine to Christian Visigoths to Islamic Berbers to Portuguese – and since 1668 to Spain, which continues to govern it today as the Spanish Autonomous City of Ceuta on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco.

Ceuta is a charming European city with beautiful beaches, open air cafés with great sangria, very relaxed and pleasant.  It is here you find the statue of Hercules separating his Pillars commemorating the legend pictured above.  Easy to get to with high-speed ferries from Algeciras near Gibraltar, Ceuta is definitely worth your while to experience. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #137 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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