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WHY THE DEFEATISM?

defeatismMillions of patriots have fight in them as the country confronts the greatest threat to the Republic since the Civil War.  Historic elections fraud, centered on the presidential contests, involving gross criminality make it so.

Whereas many patriots are ready to fight to restore the rule of law and our liberties, others express gloom and defeat.  The fix is in, they claim.  If Trump doesn’t secure a second term, then all is lost, they bemoan.  The powerful cabal that Biden fronts will run the board over 48 months.  A long, dark night will descend on America.

Here’s a modest proposal: Wars aren’t over until they’re fought.

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/31/20

2020-virusHere is an outstanding year-in-review of 2020.  Lots here for both investors and historians alike.  It was written by a tenured 60-something conservative/libertarian chemistry professor, so the BS content is remarkably low.  This is fascinating stuff from someone who works within the belly of the beast:

Dave Collum's 2020 Year In Review, Part 1: "Willfully Ignorant"

An interesting review of the past year and the shape of things to come for international investors:

The 10 Most Important Changes Of The Past Year

A 2021 wise warning for everyone:

Delingpole: Economist 'Great Reset Will Cause a Crash Worse than 1930s'

Goodbye 2020 – hello 2021!

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THE LOST CITY OF DJADO

city-of-djadoIn the remotest center of the Sahara Desert lies an unknown, unexcavated mysterious lost city known as Djado. No one knows who built it or when. Lying on the ancient Roman trade route from the Saharan salt mines of Fachi and Bilma to the Mediterranean, the Djado oasis flourished for a thousand years (the 1st Millennium AD), but has been forgotten and abandoned for many centuries.

The only people who live near Djado in the vast desert wasteland where Algeria, Libya, Chad, and Niger come together, are the wandering Toubu nomads with no permanent settlements. It is an indescribable experience to explore such a wondrous lost city right out of an Indiana Jones movie that you have all to yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #17, photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE ISLANDS OF SERENITY

mulafassur-waterfallMulafassur waterfall below the village of Gasadalur is only one example of the serenity of the Faroe Islands. They’re a self-governing Danish possession in the North Atlantic halfway between Norway and Iceland. You won’t find a place of more captivating serene and peaceful charm.

Warmed by the Gulf Stream, in the summer it’s so strewn with wildflowers the roads are known as “buttercup highways.” At every turn along them you’re stunned by the incredible scenery. The capital of Torshavn is so laid back the Prime Minister’s Office – the Løgmansskristovan – is a wood cabin with a green grass sod roof. Great beer from the Faroes’ two breweries is always flowing in the pubs, where the Faroese islanders welcome you like an old friend.

You can easily fly here from Edinburgh, London, Copenhagen, or Reykjavik, Iceland . A few days here will do wonders for your soul. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #18 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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INSIDE GIBRALTAR

rock-of-gibraltarWe’re all familiar with the famed Rock of Gibraltar, huge and imposing from the outside – but inside the Rock itself is the enormous St. Michael’s Cave with fantastical formations colorfully illuminated. For millions of years, rainwater created fissures in the Rock’s limestone widening into huge caves with the steady drip of mineralized water creating massive stalactites hanging from cave ceilings and stalagmites rising up from cave floors. A phantasmagorical experience.

Gibraltar has been a British territory since 1713 when Spain ceded it in the Treaty of Utrecht. Thus also high up inside the Rock are the Great Siege Tunnels the British dug then lined with cannon emplacements to defeat Spain’s attempt to seize Gibraltar in the 1780s. Walking through the tunnels, you peer below looking down where the Spaniards and their French allies were vainly dug in – and where there is now an airplane runway stretching across the isthmus.

That’s just a glimpse of what to discover visiting Gibraltar, as there’s so much more! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #12, photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 12/25/20

Welcome to The Merry Christmas HFR!

And yes, for us as Andy Williams immortalized it in 1963, this is The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – which we get to and will celebrate despite any attempt to stop us.

So before we go any farther, let’s take a moment to appreciate the joyousness in our hearts on this Christmas Day.  Feels glorious, doesn’t it?

It’s a sorrowful tragedy that many of our fellow Americans are suffused with such a depth of fear and anger that they resent our joy – to the grotesque extent of wanting government guns pointed at us to stifle it.

That fear and anger causes the abyss between us and them – we are pro-freedom, they are anti-freedom; pro-America, they are hate-America; pro-honesty, integrity, and moral decency while they have contempt for all three.

Given that, here is the most critical distinction between us and those of the Left:

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FIGHT FOR TRUMP

I must have watched this 98-second video at least two dozen times.  Every time I’m emotionally overcome, bringing tears to my eyes.  Wherever you are, fight for Trump however you can.  Save America.  Save the World. Fight for Trump – now.

As you cannot trust YouTube, here it is additionally on Vimeo and Bitchute.  Send it to everyone you know.

Here it is additionally on Vimeo and Bitchute.  Send it to everyone you know.

https://vimeo.com/492770825

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ff5n9pubSmqy/

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STICKING WITH TRUMP TO EITHER THE BITTER OR GLORIOUS END

trump-smiles“To defeat Trump,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, “many of our institutions were deformed.”

Indeed, we have witnessed a flagrant burlesque of electoral procedure, including the specter of foreign interference by China, Iran and Russia via Dominion Voting Systems in gerrymandering electoral results, as Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has confirmed.

And there will be lasting consequences. The effect of installing a parodic figure like Joe Biden, straight out of the Commedia dell’Arte, as the next president of the United States will result in three extremely destabilizing factors. They are:

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THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW

mike-penceYes, he’s Mike Pence.  Here’s why and how.

As we all know, the President of the United States isn’t actually elected by the popular vote. He’s elected by the college of presidential electors from each US state. The important question then is: Who counts the votes cast by the presidential electors?

That is clearly specified by the 12th Amendment of the Constitution:

“The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.”

And who, then, is the President of the Senate?  Article 1, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution answers it clearly:

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THE PENCE CARD

Ywhat-pence-must-doesterday (12/23), President Trump played “The Pence Card” with this tweet.  Attached to it is a memorandum appended below.

For the most part, Americans assume that the Vice President lacks power. The President may assign him responsibilities, but the Constitution does not. Instead, he’s the understudy, there just in case something happens to the president.

Except that, in this strange year of 2020, we may learn that the Vice President is the most powerful man in America. Ivan Raiklin, a constitutional lawyer, claims that the Constitution grants Mike Pence the power to overturn a manifestly fraudulent election.

Here is what POTUS is asking Pence to do.

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WHY I WILL NOT ACCEPT A CHEAT AS PRESIDENT

trump-tweet-on-ginrich-re-cheat-president [Newt speaks for me, and every patriot in America – JW]

A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked why I was not recognizing Joe Biden’s alleged victory.

The friend made the case that Mr. Biden had gotten more (electoral) votes, and historically we recognize the person with the most. Normally, we accept the outcome of elections just as we accept the outcomes of sporting events.

So, my friend asked why was 2020 different?

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THE BIGGEST POLITICAL BLUNDER IN AMERICAN HISTORY

“It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder” Talleyrand on Napoleon’s ordering the murder of the Duke of Enghein, 1804
“It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder” Talleyrand on Napoleon’s ordering the murder of the Duke of Enghein, 1804

If the courts refuse to award the presidency to the rightful victor, the anti-Trump cabal, driven by a four-year single-minded obsession to defeat President Trump, will have committed the greatest political blunder in American history -- the unabashed and overt theft of the 2020 presidential election.

These conspirators smugly believed that they had successfully set up a scenario wherein Donald Trump would be defeated in such a massive landslide that a vast majority of the citizenry would never question the results.  Instead, the worst-case scenario played out.

Thus, this cabal, which consists of the Democrat party establishment, Tech and Wall Street billionaires, the mainstream media and left-wing elitists, will find itself in a quagmire of being unable to govern.

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DOES HISTORY SAY AMERICA WILL SPLIT INTO SEPARATE NATIONS?

us-flag-torn The nation’s current divide is partly geographic but mostly cultural and juridical.

The Texas-led states now stand for the rule of law and the civil rights protections of the 1868 14th Amendment. The California-led states now seek to undo over 150 years of human rights laws so that they can override the suffrage and petitions of a “suspect class” (Republicans).

Half the country believes the Nov. 3 election was illegitimate because they share Texas’s understanding of what citizen rights are and what constitutes evidence.

Half the country believes the election was legitimate because they share California’s understanding of citizen rights as framed by context and by goals, with any means being justified by the right goals, depending on the group involved.

For the first time in anyone’s living memory, we have to contend with the real possibility that the United States will split into separate nations. Looking at history, I’ve come upon the following possible precedents in history that may help us understand the potential outcomes.

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/24/20

“Stand and Deliver" -- an anti-lockdown song performed by Eric Clapton and written by Van Morrison.  Listen and enjoy!  Crank those speakers up and rock on for freedom. Happy Christmas Eve!!

Delingpole: Eric Clapton Sings Anti-Lockdown Song; Trolls Mock His Dead Kid

The compliant response of state and local officials to Antifa and BLM violence and threats of violence has taught a dangerous lesson. Since politically motivated violence by the left has generally been rewarded by 'Crat politicians and elites, we can expect to see more of it, and not just from the left.

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Force Way into Oregon Capitol, Some Armed

When seven Supreme Court Justices decided to wash their hands of ruling on clearly unconstitutional state and local voting processes in Texas v. Pennsylvania, they unleashed the most obvious and immediate alternative: escalating political violence.

Here we go for the best Skye’s Links ever.

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