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HIDDEN AFRICA

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 24, 2014

Lijiang, Yunnan, China. I'm in the midst of conducting my Hidden China II adventure when an extraordinary opportunity has suddenly materialized.

What you see above is an actual unretouched photograph, not a painting. It was taken by National Geographic photographer Franz Lanting at sunrise at the base of the world's biggest sand dune in the world's oldest desert in Africa's most spectacularly unknown country: Namibia.

Namibia is as big as Texas and Oklahoma together, yet only has 2 million people. The former German colony of Southwest Africa, it gained independence in 1990. While it is one of Africa's cleanest, safest, and best-run countries, it only now is beginning to be discovered by savvy international travelers as the place to have an African Safari like nowhere else.

Even if you have been to the Serengeti of Tanzania, the Masai Mara of Kenya, or the Okavango of Botswana, Namibia's unique beauty, wildlife, and tribes will astound you. The opportunity is this:

I have been able to arrange a safari to Namibia's most spectacular places and tribes - The Namib Desert, the Skeleton Coast, the Painted Himba Nomads, the Etosha Pan with such a profusion of wildlife it's known as Africa's Last Eden - at a stunningly low cost for a luxury private air safari.

What's more, the Hidden Africa Safari is at the best time of year for game viewing, after the rainy season with the grass drying up and the wildlife congregating at the waterholes. And we can do it all in little more than one week, departing the US on Friday May 23 and arriving back in the US on Sunday June 01.

The catch is that I only have until March 15, then the opportunity goes away. And I can only take 8 TTPers. I can't post more than a few photos with the connection I have here in China. Here's a brief summary.

THE WASHINGTON WOLVES ARE WORSE THAN THOSE OF WALL STREET

Richard Rahn January 14, 2014

Are business people more corrupt than those in government? Hollywood loves to portray those in business as the baddies and those in government as the good guys. Exhibit A is the new movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, the largely true story of con man Jordan Belfort.

Belfort and his cronies formed a firm to sell stock in startup and small companies they knew little or nothing about. In order to sell the stock, they would make claims about the companies that they thought the potential buyers wanted to hear, whether the statements were true or not.

If a company had been called "Obamacare, Inc.," they probably would have said it will give you "better health insurance" at "lower cost" and "you will be able to keep your doctor."

Belfort and some of his cronies quite properly went to prison and had to pay large fines for fraud and misrepresentation. Don't the wolves of Washington -- such as Mr. Obama, others in the administration and members of the House and Senate who are guilty of equally false claims about Obamacare. -- deserve the same?

PLATINUM RENDEZVOUS UPDATE AND SCHEDULE

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 19, 2011

If you can't wait for May 6^th, you're not alone. This will be TTP's 10^th Rendezvous - Rendezvous X - and we plan to make it our best yet.

Miko has the full hour-by-hour schedule - from opening at 6pm Friday May 6 to closing at 12:30pm Sunday May 8 - below. Let me fill in the details. We have a program I think is a real mind-blow. Here we go.

UPDATE ON THE TTP VICTORY RENDEZVOUS FROM JACK WHEELER

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 14, 2010

Our Victory Rendezvous in Washington Nov. 05-07 is shaping up to be an extravaganza. Here’s the latest. In addition to the TTP regulars – Jack Kelly, Dr. Joel Wade, Richard Rahn, Marco the Wizard, famed intel analyst Alex Alexiev, and yours truly – we have:

Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington (you’ve seen him on Fox News)
Ariel Cohen, the Heritage Foundation’s expert on Russia and global energy policy (Ariel will tell us what’s it like to have a personal conversation with Vladimir Putin on a balcony of a dascha on the Black Sea)
Robert Agostinelli, the billionaire investor of a major global private equity fund (there is no one who knows more about where the global economy is headed than Robert)
A special guest whose name we cannot announce, but whom we guarantee you’ll be excited to meet. No one knows more about corruption in Washington than him.

1958: A KNIFE EDGE IN THE SKY

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 15, 2008

It was a rainy Saturday morning in March. I was 14 years old and bored out of my mind with nothing to do. Stuck indoors, I stared through the rain-splattered window of my room and sighed. My eyes wandered to the bookshelf nearby, and fell on a book that a friend of my father's had given me some time ago as a present.

It had remained ignored and unopened, attracting dust rather than my attention, until now. The spine of the glossy book jacket proclaimed its title - The Complete Book of Marvels. What was that about? The author was Richard Halliburton. Who was he?

I reached for the book, and my life was changed forever.

Our home was in a prosaic suburb of Los Angeles - Glendale, California. Like most other kids, I knew very little about the world. America was an enormous island, with the rest of the world on the other side of huge oceans, far away.

The inside of the book jacket told me that Halliburton had been a famous adventurer in the 1920s and ‘30s. The book was 20 years old, and was a compilation of his exploits and experiences. As I paged through the descriptions and black-and-white pictures of dozens of the world's most extraordinary places, I was transfixed. The world, it dawned on me, was a vast place of endless wonders and adventures.

What mesmerized me in particular was Halliburton's account of climbing the Matterhorn. I stared at his picture of the Matterhorn, entitled "The Tiger of the Alps," for the longest time. Then, as if I were in a trance, I found myself getting up from the chair in my room and walking down the hall to my parents' room, where I found my Dad in his easy chair, reading an Erle Stanley Gardner detective novel.

He looked up at me, waiting for me to say something. I laid the Halliburton book over the Gardner book on his lap, open to the double-spread picture of the Matterhorn. He looked down at the picture, then looked back up, still waiting. I didn't consciously say anything. I pointed at the picture and heard myself say, "Dad, I want to climb that mountain."

Chapter Thirty-One: THE SPANISH PHOENIX

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 28, 2007

The Jade Steps
Chapter Thirty-One: The Spanish Phoenix

By nightfall, the expedition reached the town of Xaltepec on the far side of the valley. It was deserted, and everyone had to forage for food. Malinali tried to clean the bloody gashes on Cortez's head and the deep wound in his left hand, but Cortez shook his head. "To a man, all of us are wounded, exhausted, and hungry," he told her. "Organize help for them, tend to them... then you may have all night to tend to me."

When Malinali returned, she found Cortez fast asleep. At dawn the next morning, she tried to clean and bandage him as best she could, but he was anxious to get underway. "Our only hope of safety lies in those mountains of Tlaxcala," he said, as he gazed at them looming above Xaltepec. Slowly, slowly, the expedition trudged up into the mountains to the Tlaxcalan frontier fortress town of Hueyotlipan (way-oat-lee-pahn).

There to greet them were King Xicotencatl, Chief Maxixcatzin, and Commander Chichimecatecle.

"Malinche! Malinche!" they cried out when they saw Cortez. Chief Maxixcatzin threw his arms around him. "How grieved we are at your misfortunes, and the number of our own people who have been killed with yours," he told Cortez through Malinali. "We warned you not to trust the Mesheeka, but you went to their city and did not believe us. Now all we can do is help with your wounds and give you rest and food. Here you are home."

HALF-FULL REPORT 06/05/15

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 5, 2015

Abraham Lincoln was fond of asking a riddle of anyone he thought was proposing nonsense. "How many legs would a dog have if you called his tail a leg?" He would always get back the answer, "Well, five, of course."

Lincoln would smile and shake his head. "Of course not," he'd reply. "Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg. The dog still has four legs as before."

We can be confident that this would be Lincoln's answer - as it would be any rational person's - to Bruce Jenner's assertion that he is now somehow a woman. He is instead still a man - albeit a very, very psychologically ill one.

Thus there is no need to go apocalyptic about this, as if the cultural sky is falling. It's time to have fun instead. The easiest thing in the world to do is enrage a liberal - and it's so much fun. The libtards have given us a golden opportunity to ridicule what is "the intensely reverential reaction to Bruce Jenner's narcissistic self-mutilation."

This will drive libtards into sissy-fit tirades, calling you "transphobic." That's their latest insult. Oh, please, don't throw me in the transphobic briar patch! Thank you for sharing, now STFU.

The bottom line: It is not "transphobic" - and why should we care if it is, anyway? - to recognize this farce as a media publicity stunt.

Jenner is a mentally ill pathological publicity-seeker. The entire "transgender" hysteria is simply the latest lunacy of the left, which he cynically manipulated to gain gigantic publicity for a 65 year-old has been....

There's lots more in this week's HFR. Oh, and the Hero of the Week is a lawyer.

BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA, GOOD NEWS FOR AFRICA

James Delingpole June 3, 2015

I have good news for you, Mr. Obama! You don't have to worry about "climate change" being the "greatest national security threat our country faces" anymore!

In your Coast Guard Academy speech on May 20, you said that "severe drought helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram."

You can retract that now - because the latest evidence, published yesterday (6/02), is that northern Nigeria and the entire area of the southern Sahara Desert is getting greener because of more CO2 in the atmosphere.

Yes! Rising greenhouse gases -- all that CO2 which we've been pumping into the atmosphere that's been frightening you so much - has caused rains to return to the "Sahel" or southern Sahara from Senegal to Sudan,

Aren't you overjoyed? Absolutely thrilled for those Africans who've been starving, scraping a marginal and precarious living on the edge of the desert?

What's that? You're not? You think this is terrible news - because it threatens your narrative of climate change as a national security threat bogey-man?

FROM RUINS TO VIBRANCY

Richard Rahn May 12, 2015

Gdansk, Poland. Over the past 1,000 years, this city on the Baltic has gone through cycles of great prosperity and almost total destruction.

This is the city where World War II began 76 years ago on Sept. 1, 1939. And this is the city where the fall of European communism began in 1980.

This past week, several leaders of Eastern and Central European nations came to Gdansk to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II at the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970, who were shot by the communists for merely peacefully protesting their conditions.

They were also here to celebrate their liberation from the Soviet Empire and the blossoming of their economies ever since. No where can you see that blossoming more vibrantly than in Poland. There surely is a lesson here for America when it must soon attempt to rise from the economic and social ruins of the Obama Presidency.

AN OPEN LETTER TO POPE FRANCIS

The Cornwall Alliance April 28, 2015

Your Holiness:

As world leaders contemplate a climate agreement, many look to you for guidance. We commend you for your care for the earth and God's children, especially the poor. With this letter we raise some matters of concern that we ask you to consider as you convey that guidance.

Much of the debate over environmental stewardship is rooted in a clash of worldviews, with conflicting doctrines of God, creation, humanity, sin, and salvation. Unfortunately, that clash often works its way into the very conclusions of environmental science.

Rather than a careful reporting of the best evidence, we get highly speculative and theory-laden conclusions presented as the assured results of science. In the process, science itself is diminished, and many well-meaning moral and religious leaders risk offering solutions based on misleading science. The effect, tragically, is that the very people we seek to help could be harmed instead.

Specifically, the scientific method demands that theories be tested by empirical observation. By that test, computer climate models of the warming effect of enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide are wrong. They therefore provide no rational basis to forecast dangerous human-induced global warming, and therefore no rational basis for efforts to reduce warming by restricting the use of fossil fuels or any other means.

Further, we ask you to consider that substituting low-density, intermittent energy sources like wind and solar for high-density, constant energy sources like fossil fuels would be catastrophic to the world's poor.

SERIOUS PLAY

Dr. Joel Wade April 22, 2015

A relationship can have complex and unique needs at any given time, so there isn't really a "one size fits all" panacea for troubles. But of all the specific actions we can take to improve our relationships, I have found none that apply as often or as effectively as this:

Be playful.

Sounds easy, doesn't it? But it's more challenging than meets the eye, and there are clear guidelines for it to work:

We have to play as an ally, as a member of the same team; we have to be for our mate, our child, our friend; and the play must have a spirit of love, kindness and optimism, as opposed to cynicism or sarcasm. There cannot be bitterness or resentment clouding the play; it's the combination of creative, interactive flow and positive emotions that elevates us.

If you're up for the challenge, you're in for some pleasant surprises. Here's how to be seriously playful.

THE LESSON OF RABAUL

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 31, 2015

Rabaul, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea. The Brits called him George, a Melanesian native of Rabaul born here in 1934. He was 8 years old when the Japanese invaded and seized this island from the Brits - who took it and all of German New Guinea after World War I.

George showed me where the Japanese kept the Australian and British prisoners they captured, all overgrown now. Hidden in the bush, he watched as they were hung or beheaded, and then... eaten. "The officers thought human liver was a delicacy," he said. "The soldiers would cut off pieces of thighs and arms to fry in strips."

I recount George's eyewitness not to guilt-monger, as I'm aware of how difficult it was for TTPers of Japanese ancestry to read The Lesson of Iwo Jima last week.

The evidence for Japanese cannibalism during WWII is extensive, along with numerous other hideous atrocities. Entire cultures and societies have the capacity to go criminally insane, as do individuals.

One of the most recurrent themes in history is barbaric savagery - from the constant blood feuds of primitive tribes to the Mongols of Genghiz Khan to the Reformation's Thirty Years War to Stalin's genocidal murder of millions of Ukrainians and Hitler's of Jews.

There is a famous scene in the movie classic The African Queen, when Bogart tells Hepburn such savagery is "natural" - and Hepburn responds that "Nature is what we were put here on earth to rise above."

Christianity offers a way to do this for individuals - but how can an entire culture, an entire people rise above their past?

THE PLATINUM VEGAS RENDEZVOUS XIV

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 11, 2015

We're having a Platinum TTP Rendezvous in Vegas and you're invited.

Rendezvous XIV - our 14^th - will be at The Platinum Hotel at the Strip, Friday April 24 to Sunday April 26.

Just a block away from the Strip itself right behind Bally's & Paris, and a half-block from the monorail that takes you along the entire Strip, The Platinum is a no-smoking, all-suite, casino-less boutique hotel that has gone all out to welcome TTP.

Miko got us a room rate for TTPers of $132 a night. This is for a suite with a king size bed and pillow top mattress, living room, full gourmet kitchen, 42-inch plasma tv, double-size whirlpool tub and walkout balcony. Thanks, Miko!

Of course, The Platinum has a great bar where TTPers can gather, and we have our own dining and meeting rooms. The food is great too.

All of you who attended a Rendezvous before well know what an extraordinary experience they are. If you've never been - now's your chance. TTPers are a community of rational pro-Americans and we love each other's company. You simply have to be there!

We haven't had a Rendezvous since 2012. It's taken us this long to recover from the shock of Zero's reelection - but now that the end of the Curse of Zero is in sight, it's high time we focus on the future. Here's the rundown on the speakers we have so far.

MY FANTASY RESOLUTIONS

Richard Rahn December 31, 2013

New Year's resolutions are difficult to keep. That is why I find it easier to make them for others, rather than myself, as part of my other-people improvement program.

The country would not be on the road to ruin if those in government would follow the New Year's resolutions I propose for them, starting with President Obama (as part of my fantasy world).

Resolution #1: The President should start telling the truth.

As is well known, the president has difficulty telling the truth, which, as most children learn at an early age, can lead to many troubles. He must have a review committee to verify the truth of his statements and speeches before he makes them. This would also have the side benefit of causing the president to say far less.

Resolution #2:...

LEARNING HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ASSETS

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 17, 2013

I was tempted to drop off the "-ets" but this is a family-friendly website. Two friends of mine specialize in helping people do this, Joel Nagel, whose Caye Bank in Belize focuses on private offshore accounts, and Mike Cobb, whose ECI Development creates escape havens in Central America.

Joel and Mike just told me they are holding a Seminar on Offshore Asset Protection Strategies in Gaithersburg, Maryland this Friday, December 20. It's 12 Noon to 2. It's only 20 bucks to attend.

They'll be discussing the latest on FATCA Fascism, offshore banking, the key questions to ask regarding buying property overseas, their Top Ten asset protection strategies, and can answer whatever questions you may have.

If you live anywhere near the DC area, I suggest you strongly consider being there. To do so, give Valerie Espinoza a call at 786-738-6038 or 800-959-6422 - email her at vespinoza@granpacifica.com. Again, it's 20 bucks and that includes lunch. Gaithersburg, Maryland, this Friday the 20^th. Could be the most valuable lunch you've had in a very long time.

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