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TEENAGERS OF BUKHARA

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 21, 2026

Bukhara is the oldest city on the fabled Silk Road. You’ve seen Glimpses of The Well of Job, where legend says Job of the Old Testament struck the ground with his staff, creating a well bubbling with fresh pure water that still flows today.

And of The Ark of Bukhara, the palace-fortress of Bukhara rulers since 500 BC. The ancient Silk Road oasis has a history of 5,000 years. I was first here in 1963, a 19 year-old teenager with a summer job of filming fabulously exotic places in Central Asia unknown to the West for a Hollywood stock film company.

I was not much older than these teenage ladies back then. I took this picture of them when I was last in Bukhara in 2019. It was so extraordinarily lucky of me to experience such magical places as Bukhara when young. It’s enabled me to stay young at heart so many decades later.

Perhaps you have a teenage child or grandchild with whom you could experience its wonders together. It will be a life-long treasured memory for you both. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #214 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

HOW CLOSE CAN YOU GET TO A BABY SPERM WHALE?

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 20, 2026

This close – if you’re at the right place at the right time in the right boat. That would be the Canal do Faial channel between the islands of Faial and Pico in the Azores, populated by more spawning sperm whales that just about anywhere else. It’s also a haven for many other whale and dolphin species on their migratory route between the North and South Atlantic.

You won’t believe how truly paradisical Madeira and the Azores are. Not just the weather and the beauty, but how safe, calm, and serene they are, how friendly everyone is – so friendly because everyone here is at peace with themselves. You’ll discover your inner peace here too. While never being bored as there’s always something exciting to see and do. Like being this close to a baby sperm whale. (Glimpses of our breathtaking world #195).

SAGRADA FAMILIA

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 19, 2026

The Cathedral of Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) in Barcelona, Spain, was designed by legendary Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). Construction started in 1883, continued after his death, to be finally completed and consecrated this June 2026. It is the tallest church in the world and perhaps the most extraordinary. You have to see it to believe it. Worshippers come from all over the world to experience it. Christianity is flourishing here in Barcelona. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #317 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

HISTORY AS TRAGEDY THEN AS FARCE

ToThePoint October 23, 2026

HALF-FULL REPORT 10/16/26

Mike Ryan October 16, 2026

Globalism Is All Fun and Games Until Somebody’s Sovereignty Gets Hurt

Globalism promised prosperity through cheap imports and international trade. Americans were encouraged to outsource production and trust foreign markets to supply their energy and materials. Everybody made money until dependence became a weapon. In March 2025, Ontario imposed a 25 percent surcharge on electricity exported to Michigan, Minnesota, and New York to pressure Washington over tariffs. The surcharge lasted only a day, but the shot heard round the world was unmistakable. A foreign government could deliberately raise energy costs for American businesses and families to influence American policy.

A nation need not be invaded to lose its sovereignty. It need only discover that foreign powers can cripple its factories, drive up its energy costs, and restrict its freedom of action without firing a shot. The warning is as old as the Republic: a nation that surrenders the means of its own survival eventually surrenders the freedom to govern itself. And by the time economic dependence becomes political submission, rebuilding what was surrendered may no longer be an option.

Consider diesel fuel. An American farmer can own his land, an American trucker can own his rig, and an American manufacturer can own his factory. Yet their operating costs are heavily influenced by international commodity markets, including a major diesel benchmark traded in London. Behind that market stands a network of powerful financial institutions. Meanwhile, Canada has demonstrated its willingness to use energy prices as political leverage, European governments have developed economic retaliation mechanisms, and major financial institutions have discussed using American dependence upon foreign capital as a negotiating weapon. Our economic vulnerabilities are well understood by people who may have every reason to exploit them.

But something remarkable is happening in America. In Minnesota, an enormous new iron ore processing plant is preparing to supply the raw materials for an $18 billion steelmaking program. In Maryland, the historic Sparrows Point industrial site is being transformed into a modern naval manufacturing center, supported by billions in private investment and military contracts. These projects represent more than construction jobs. They are efforts to restore America's ability to produce its own steel, manufacture its own military equipment, and rebuild the skilled workforce upon which an industrial civilization depends. Meanwhile, Europe faces serious challenges involving energy security, advanced semiconductor production, and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The industrial balance of power is changing.

Zero to 60 mph in 0.81 seconds.

Let's talk about it in this week's Half Full Report, where the glass is filling to the brim and America is on the move.

COLUMBUS DAY IS A CELEBRATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 12, 2026

Landing of Columbus October 12 1492” Capitol Building Rotunda, Washington DC

This Monday’s Archive was originally published on October 12, 2006. Today, America faces an existential choice between Patriots who revere Columbus and Western Civilization and their moral opposites who despise both. You might, then, consider reading what follows below to you children of grandchildren so they may understand the difference in the choice between Columbus Day and “Indigenous Peoples Day” graphically made clear between the painting above and this:

TTP, October 12, 2006

October 12 is for celebrating the 525^th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America, for on that day in 1492, the Great Admiral landed on Guanahani (now known as San Salvador or Watlings) island in the Bahamas.

We commemorate this as a true discovery in contrast to all the claims of Vikings, Chinese, Irish, and others who supposedly came earlier – for once and only after Columbus discovered America, it stayed discovered.

Unfortunately, Columbus Day is for most Americans just an excuse for a three-day weekend. What it should be is a commemoration and celebration of Western Civilization – which is why the Left hates Columbus and his holiday.

So there will be the usual spectacle of American Indians using the holiday to denounce the White Man and his genocidal war-mongering culture-destroying earth-murdering imperialism, blah blah blah – with self-hating White Liberals like the fascists of Antifajoining in, masochistically condemning their own civilization.

If it’s your misfortune to run into any of these folk bemoaning the nightmare and tragedy of our coming here, you might suggest to them that they abandon every vestige of the civilization they hate as so evil.

A ‘GO WOKE, GO BROKE’ CASE STUDY

Mark Alexander October 14, 2026

“There are certain social principles in human nature, from which we may draw the most solid conclusions with respect to the conduct of individuals and of communities.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788)

Over the last three years, there have been downward trends in corporate support for leftist woke agendas and efforts to identify with progressives and social justice activists.

Hit hardest are corporate campaigns promoting gender confusion and diversity, equity, and inclusion agendas. Those declines started in the Joe Biden years and have accelerated under Donald Trump.

Community and corporate support for so-called “Pride Month” celebrations has been trending downward for several years, driven in part by the Demos’ ever more deviant transnormalcy agenda — especially promoting the Demo/LGBT advocacy for so-called “gender-affirming” care for children, which is code for “gender mutilation” of children.

As our managing editor Nate Jackson concluded during last year’s Pride Month: “Maybe it’s a reaction to the overreach of leftist culture warriors foisting ‘pride’ on everyone through increasingly lewd public displays, often billed as ostensibly ‘family friendly.’ Maybe it’s simply that more people are figuring out that Pride Month is gross.”

And the question now, especially given the high-profile increase in mass violence perpetrated by those suffering from gender-disorientation pathology, is this: Will the gender cult implode?

OLD HOTNESS: IMMIGRANTS STEALING JOBS FROM NATIVES | NEW HOTNESS: NATIVES STEALING JOBS FROM MIGRANTS

David Strom October 13, 2026

Diversity is Britain's strength, we're told. But apparently the immigrants in Birmingham aren't so certain about that.

They are complaining that British natives are stealing their jobs, which explains why they are on welfare.

Since they can't find work by taking the jobs from white Brits, they are forced to rely on those native Brits' taxes to fund the welfare that keeps them living in comfort.

That seems to be the upshot of Michael Deacon's interviews in the migrant neighborhoods of Birmingham, where welfare use is through the roof. Wondering why, he decided to find out by asking the people who need it.

Over the past couple of decades, more than a few British people have accused immigrants of stealing their jobs, by under-cutting them on pay. At last, though, it seems that things may be starting to change. Because these days, apparently, it’s the other way round.

THE UNTOUCHABLES – OR, AT LEAST, THE UNTOUCHED

Everett Stern October 15, 2026

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,

My name is Everett Stern.

In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations.

The enemies of the United States.

I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.

The result was a $1.92 billion settlement.

At the time, it was one of the largest in American history.

It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.

I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at PF Changs to eat.

I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.

FRENCH TOAST

Mark Deuce October 14, 2026

As we go to press, France is once again awash in riots.

Civil disorder actually has a long tradition there; with possibly the most notable occasion being the Revolution of 1789.

This is often compared to the American Revolution, as they occurred very closely together in time; and certainly, French support in ours was invaluable.

However, their revolution was very different in character from the American one.

The recent trouble in France began in earnest on September 17^th, coinciding with a teacher’s strike. This story is evolving daily, but over a third of French high schools are now besieged in forty cities with an estimated 250,000 participants.

The protests have spread. Currently, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Germany, Italy, and Austria are having them on a smaller scale.

What we have to remember is—as with any contemporary disorder—the alleged reason is almost never the actual one.

AGELESS PRIORITY

Michelle Pryor with Mellie Smith October 15, 2026

Durk’s fierce interest in the extension of life, not only in years but in vitality right to the end, was, one might say, ageless. [Don’t blame that dad-joke on Michelle, it was all me. But still true.] Durk wasn’t interested in a dwindling but long old age. His goal was vibrant good health right up until one was used up.

So he and Sandy worked up a formula to support the proper function of your nerves and blood vessels, the kidneys, lungs, and eyes, and the skin, liver, and arteries. This formula they (and the Pryors, who still produce his formulas) named Ageless Priority. It assists in slowing down and minimizing the effects of somethig called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs) by giving your body a proper mix of the nutrients needed specifically to reduce AGEs.

What are these artfully named AGEs, you ask?

HOW MONEY CAN BUY HAPPINESS

Dr. Joel Wade October 13, 2026

The popular saying is that money can’t buy happiness.

The Beatles sang that they don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy them love.

I think the Beatles were mostly right about money and love.

But there are ways of spending our money that can actually make us happier.

After a few years of frugal living, Cindy and Jeff had saved enough for a down payment on a house they liked. They bought the house, which they like a lot. Even though the mortgage payment was a bit of a challenge, they could manage it. For years they put all the extra money they had into the house – new appliances, furniture, decorating, repairs…

FLASHBACK FRIDAY – BRANDON AT LAMAYURU

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 16, 2026

High in the Himalayas of India in the remote moonscape of Tibetan Ladakh is the gompa (Tibetan monastery) of Lamayuru. It is older than Tibetan Buddhism, for it was originally a gompa for the lama monks of Bön, the ancient animist religion of Tibet. I took my son Brandon here on an expedition through Tibetan India in 1993. Brandon had his 10^th birthday here. Behind him is the enormous statue of blue-eyed Sakyamuni Buddha in the central prayer hall.

Brandon has never forgotten Lamayuru as anyone who has been here never does. We’ll be here again soon – and Brandon will be leading the expedition. (Glimpses of our breathtaking world #151 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

THE TIBETAN KINGDOM OF LO

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 15, 2026

This is one of the magical places we experience on our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions. An independent kingdom for 650 years in the remote Mustang region of Nepal, it is one of the last places of traditional Tibetan culture on earth, unchanged for centuries. There are sky-caves here – apartment complexes carved out of vertical cliffs 2,000 years ago – Drok-pa nomads in the high pastures, spectacular sacred ceremonies, all in a mysteriously beautiful setting where the Himalayas meet the Tibetan Plateau. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #86 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

THE INDIA LESS TRAVELED

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 14, 2026

This is Mysore Palace, home of the Wadiyar Rajas who ruled Mysore from 1399 to 1950. It is one of the many wonders of Southern India that’s far less known than traveler’s meccas up north like Agra and Rajasthan.

There’s the Nagarhole Tiger Sanctuary, more Asian elephants than anywhere else in the world, over 100 tigers, scores of leopards, their prey in profusion. Christian churches founded by Christ’s disciple St. Thomas in the 1st century AD. Towering Hindu temples covered with tens of thousands of eye-popping multi-colored sculptures. The gorgeous beaches of Goa, the serene peace of the Kerala Backwaters – “one of the most beautiful locations on earth” according to National Geographic, that you explore by luxury houseboat. It goes on and on.

And here also you find the business metropolis of Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #81 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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