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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/13/26

Espionage isn’t what it used to be. Trench coats and dead drops are relics. Today, the battlefield is invisible: software supply chains, industrial permits, energy grids, logistics corridors. Foreign powers position factories near critical infrastructure, embed in supply chains, and quietly shape the flow of data and resources. Proximity is leverage. Legitimacy is cover. The system itself delivers the advantage.

This week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid it bare in Congress: control your industries or surrender your sovereignty. Tariffs, reshoring, supply chain security are national defense tools.

Private enterprise stays essential, but survival depends on protective perimeter control. Energy, steel, microchips, and critical infrastructure are treated like ports and pipelines in wartime: strategic assets that cannot be held hostage. Production equals freedom.

No production, no autonomy.

Globalism runs the opposite play. It centralizes power, fragments families, suppresses optimism, and builds dependency. Anti-growth greenism, fear campaigns, and fertility suppression weaken populations to make them governable.

The collapse of elites this week shows resistance is possible. The principle is clear: favor competence over connections, defend structural sovereignty, and build systems, including industrial, informational, social that generate durable advantage.

The battlefield is everywhere your nation produces, communicates, and decides. This week was critical. Review it, understand it, act before the next move lands.

Come on over to the HFR where we cover news like no one else.

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RECONQUISTA

[This Monday's Archive was originally posted in TTP on August 27, 2009.  It is a nutshell history of how Christian Spain was invaded and conquered by Muslims from Africa, and how it took the Christians of Spain almost 800 years to kick them all out, from 711 to 1492, a heroic epic they called their Reconquista.  Now, four days ago (2/05): Spain Migrant Amnesty Grants Legal Status to 500,000. Spain is being conquered all over again – willingly, as you can see by the picture above that I took a few years ago of the Madrid City Hall.  There is hope, for this amnesty decree is causing a massive backlash against the virtually Communist government of Pedro Sanchez.  The people of Spain are realizing they need another Reconquista. Ps: enjoy the photos at the end.]

 TTP, August 27, 2009

Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela.  If you want to feel Christianity, feel it in your bones, feel it resonate with history, feel its promise for the future, here is where you come.

Sant Iago – St. James – is the patron saint of Spain, and here is where the faithful believe he is buried.  For over a thousand years, peregriños, pilgrims, have followed the Way of St. James from all corners of Europe, over the Pyrenees, and across northern Spain to its northwestern corner in a region called Galicia.

Their goal is the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, which houses the tomb of Christ’s Disciple.  As it has been for centuries, so it is now.  Every day sees swarms of peregriños arrive, having completed their pilgrimage, flooding streets of the ancient city, filling up the cathedral to worship and pray.

Close to 200,000 Christians of all ages will walk to Santiago de Compostela this year, and more are expected next year.  They come to pay homage to the saint known as Santiago Matamoros – St. James the Moslem-Killer – whose images of killing Moslems are here for all to see.  St. James is the savior of Spain from Islam.  He is the patron saint of the Reconquista.

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DEMOCRATS’ ICE HYSTERIA HIDES THEIR DEEPEST MIDTERM FEARS

Democrats remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered substantial midterm losses in Congress. Polls show President Donald Trump suffering an average 11-point negative unfavorability rating.

But the left will never offer any alternative agenda on the economy, the border, crime or foreign policy.So absent a positive agenda, Democrats will simply run all their state and federal campaigns as if Trump, their satanic monster, is on every ballot.

Behind this stale Democrat boilerplate lies a deep fear that the Nietzschean Trump, just as he beat all their lawfare ambushes, will also do the impossible and avoid losing Congress in November.

And they should fear.  Here’s why…

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DEEP DIVE – AMERICA’S NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE

For half a century, the American Left has done its best to cancel the future.

We were promised nuclear-powered everything. Clean electricity too cheap to meter. Cities in the desert. Ocean liners and maybe even airplanes running on atoms. Nuclear rockets cutting the trip to Mars to months instead of years.

Instead, Democrats gave us rolling blackouts, German-style “energy transitions,” and a never-ending string of hysterical predictions that never came true and for which no one apologized (even if they remembered them at all).

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TRUMP TARGETING OBAMA’S GREENHOUSE GAS THREAT DECLARATION

In yet another return to sanity, the Trump administration is now planning to roll back a key Obama administration climate "finding" that was used to regulate the daylights out of energy production in the United States. That Obama-era regulation identified six greenhouse gases requiring regulation, which included CO2.

President Donald Trump's administration is poised to walk back an Obama-era greenhouse gas finding that serves as a lynchpin for justifying climate regulations across the country on Wednesday.

The 2009 "endangerment finding" identifies six greenhouse gases that the Obama administration said pose "a threat to public health and welfare." That harm finding was then used to justify sweeping climate regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), such as raising fuel economy standards and limiting power plant emissions, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin hailed the move as cutting through government red tape in an interview with the Journal.

Those regulations, of course, were like putting a sea anchor on the economy. It seems Democrats never saw a scheme for jacking up energy costs that they didn't like, and the Obama people were no exceptions. Now we're seeing some of the stupidity reversed.

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TUCKER CARLSON’S AND CANDACE OWENS’ TERRIFYING DESCENT INTO MADNESS

Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have gone to the dark side. Disturbingly, their transition seems to have been planned so carefully that they were able to convince their fans not only to follow—but to run full speed ahead into the pit of hell.

Careers that began as critiques of establishment politics have devolved into outlandish conspiracy theories that blend New Age spirituality, esoteric metaphysics, and elaborate claims about the hidden masters of reality and society.  Plus virulent Anti-Semitism.

Coincidentally, both podcasters have fixated on giants lately—those biblical beings that have morphed into symbols of hidden knowledge and elite cover-ups—almost as if scripted from the same fringe playbook.

Both have also been discussing out-of-body experiences (OBEs), with Tucker focusing on psychic spies and Candace discussing astral projection (she claims both she and Charlie Kirk practiced astral projection, which is best described as the non-physical “self” traveling independently—and exploring the physical world as well as other dimensions on the astral plane.)

You can’t make this up, but they have.

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WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL IS GOING ON IN RUSSIA?

I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream at the top of my lungs, What's going on? —4 Non-Blondes in arguably the worst song of the 1990s

Let's get this out of the way right at the start: I have questions but no answers. But, dang, are the questions head-scratchingly fascinating for what they very nearly almost reveal about wartime life in Russia and on the frontlines of the Russo-Ukraine War.

It all started, as so many things do these days, with a popular messaging platform.

In Russia's case, the platform is Telegram, an end-to-end encrypted sharing platform that anyone can use — including soldiers on the battlefield. And this might shock you, but Russian strongman Vladimir Putin respects Telegram's power, and even feted some of its most popular users who just happen to be Russian nationalists unafraid to call Putin's generals to account.

Pretty much everything you get from Russia's official news outlets like RT and TASS reads like Rosy Scenario wrote it, but Telegram milbloggers..  .  .

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JIMMY LAI AND THE PRICE OF TELLING THE TRUTH

Jimmy Lai’s chains expose Beijing’s fear: Truth endures, courage spreads, and tyrannies tremble before a lone publisher who would not bend.

Dozens of those lined up outside the Hong Kong court where Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years on Monday had been there all night, keeping vigil. They’d camped out so as to be in position to put themselves at risk by standing with Lai, whose only crime was publishing pro-democracy journalism and then refusing to back down.

Courage is contagious, so how right Beijing is to see this 78-year-old Chinese-born UK citizen – “a man unfortunately very close to dying,” his son said on Tuesday – as a threat to lies.

In December, after a two-year show trial, he was found guilty of a conspiracy to collude with foreign forces – meeting with American officials – and a conspiracy to publish seditious materials, a.k.a. facts, in Apple Daily, the popular newspaper he founded in 1995.

“This is a dark day in Hong Kong’s history,” with dissent now treated as a serious crime, one of Lai’s lawyers, Jonathan Price, said at a Tuesday news conference via Zoom.

Press freedom is only a memory in the once-autonomous territory.

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: THE FOURTH PEARL OF SHING

4th-pearl-of-shingThere is a series of stepping-stone lakes in a hidden valley in Tajikistan known as The Seven Pearls of Shing. This is the fourth, taken at dawn’s early light with the lake a mirror reflecting the sky and surrounding mountains. Each Pearl are of different colors, each of uniquely mesmerizing allure. It is one of the many wonders – natural, cultural, historical – we’ll experience in our next  exploration of all Five Stans of Hidden Central Asia this coming September. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #52 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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TIGER-LEAPING GORGE

tiger-leaping-gorgeMany centuries ago, a tiger was plaguing the Naxi people who live in the mountains where the Yangtse River cascades off the plateau of Tibet. He was eating the goats the Naxi needed to feed themselves. So Naxi hunters chased the tiger into a deep narrow gorge of the Yangtse where they were sure they had him trapped. Suddenly, the tiger sprang onto a large rock in the center of the raging river and from there leapt to the other side and escaped, never to be seen again.

Ever since, where this took place has been known as Tiger Leaping Gorge. Here you see Tiger Leaping Rock. I was first here in July 2002 on our overland expedition across eastern Tibet. Last time 2015. Maybe again? (Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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MAGIC MOUNTAINS

In a remote valley between the northern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau and the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia, you find these magic painted mountains of red sandstone created by Himalayan uplift and millions of years of erosion.  It’s at the sunrise light of early dawn that the colors are most apparent before they get sunwashed in the bright of day.  It takes quite a hike in pre-dawn darkness to get to the right viewpoints at the right time, but certainly worth it. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #261 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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PANTELLERIA’S MIRROR OF VENUS

pantelleriasBetween Sicily and Tunisia in the Mediterranean lies a secret hideaway of Europe’s rich and famous – the small Italian island of Pantelleria. Peaceful and quiet, the opposite of glitzy places like Ibiza, wealthy elite retreat here in luxurious yet very understated villas to get away from it all. It helps that the shoreline is all volcanic rock cliffs, which dissuades hordes of African “migrants” attempted to claim “asylum” in the EU welfare state by landing here.

The most beautiful spot on Pantelleria is this volcano crater lake known as “The Mirror of Venus” – of such magic color that, the legend goes, the goddess Venus would admire herself in its reflection. Come here for a tranquil escape of your own. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #164 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE LESSON OF RABAUL

The small black mountain in front of you is a volcano called Tavurvur on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. In 1994, Tavurvur erupted, covering New Britain’s beautiful capital Rabaul in ash.  The entire area is volcanic, including the hot springs where I’m standing to take this picture.Tavurvur is very much alive and smoking today – starkly beautiful and dangerous.

History can be like this – beautiful and peaceful, then without warning it explodes in violent destruction.  The lesson then is how to overcome, rebuild, and avert its repetition.

It’s an obvious lesson to learn right now, with the theft of the presidency in 2020 becoming blindingly obvious, and the coming attempted theft of our entire electoral system by the Democrats with millions of illegals they imported for voter fraud.  We must overcome these twin evils, and we must make extremely sure that we never allow such travesties to threaten our country ever again.

You can climb to the rocky rim of Tavurvur to stare down into its smoking caldera.  There’s fabulous scuba-diving along the coral reefs offshore of Rabaul, and upon sunken Japanese battleships from World War II.  It’s a worthwhile experience to come here as you learn the Lesson of Rabaul. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #97 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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CANADIAN REPORTER PERSON ANNOUNCES POLICE PERSONS HAVE IDENTIFIED GUN PERSON

18-year old biological male trans “woman” mass murderer Jesse Van Rootselaar

VANCOUVER — Breaking News: Canadian Police Refer to Biologically Male School Shooter as ‘They’.

Canadian reporterpersons announced that policepersons have confirmed the identity of the gunperson in Tumbler Ridge.

Anchorpersons at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation confirmed that newspersons on the ground had confirmed the identity with multiple policepersons and firepersons present at the scene.

"CBC News can now confirm that local patrolpersons have a positive ID on the gunperson," said reporterperson Brad Stevenson. "The identification came through a city councilperson who passed a tip from a mailperson on to a policeperson. We now go live to our cameraperson who is on the scene."

At publishing time, the CBC anchorperson had turned things over to the station's weatherperson for what to expect this weekend.

~ Babylon Bee reporting

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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/06/26

This is getting Kafkaesque ridiculous, fast approaching traitorously ridiculous.  Early next week, Speaker Johnson has promised a House vote on the revised Save America Act. The link is to the Bill itself.

Updated version includes - Voter ID - Requires proof of US citizenship to register to vote - Mandates states to verify citizenship of voters - Requires removal of non-citizens from voter rolls - Requires states to use available federal and state databases (such as those from DHS, SSA, or others) to verify citizenship status - Imposes penalties (including criminal penalties) for election officials who register individuals without the required proof of citizenship.

Once the Save America Act passes, as Johnson assures us it will, it goes to the 53R-47D Senate with Fetterman expected to bolt and vote Yes.  Ah, but Majority Leader Thune is in the way, continuing to refuse eliminating the filibuster blocking a simple majority to pass. Why?  You’re invited to give your theory in the Comments.  Somebody owns this guy. Who do you think?  Let us know!

OK, off we go on an amazingly interesting, informative, fun and totally worthwhile HFR – jump on board for the ride!

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