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THE JUDICIAL COUP IS COLLAPSING

Late last week NBC ran a “news” story featuring a dozen disgruntled federal judges whose rulings against various Trump administration policies have been stayed or overturned by the Supreme Court.

These lower court judges, none of whom had the courage to allow NBC to name them in the article, bewailed the failure of SCOTUS to provide sufficient justification for ruling against them.

It’s blindingly obvious, however, that the real issue they are whining about is the Court’s refusal to countenance their usurpation of the President’s Article II powers and frustrate implementation of his agenda.

Upon assuming office, the President signed a number of executive orders involving a variety of issues. Many of these EOs were challenged by lawsuits filed in district courts presided over by activist judges.

Inevitably, these judges issued “universal injunctions” that halted implementation of the EOs nationwide. The administration filed emergency appeals with SCOTUS to ensure these cases received expedited attention.

According to the NBC story, “The Supreme Court has granted Trump administration requests to block lower court rulings in more than 70 percent of cases brought by the administration that were decided via the shadow docket.”  [Cue ominous Darth Vader background audio]

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: CLIMBING THE MATTERHORN AT AGE 14

jw-on-the-matterhornThe Matterhorn at 14,692 ft in the Swiss Alps is arguably the most famous mountain in the world. By extreme luck, I was able to reach its summit with my guide Alfons Franzen at age 14 (in 1958!). The summit is not a point but a ridge 100 feet or so long and only 2 feet wide, like a knife blade in the sky.

This was my formative great adventure that set me on my life path. For over forty years that path has been providing friends and clients with great adventures for their own lives. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #30 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKSTORE

livraria-lello-bookstoreThis is the Livraria Lello bookstore in Porto, Portugal where I am right now. Built in 1906, its Neo-Gothic/Art Noveau architecture and design make it the world’s most beautiful place to buy books. Not only was J.K. Rowling inspired to write her Harry Potter books here, but she based the dramatic staircase at Hogwarts on the work of art staircase at “The Lello” that you see above. Porto oozes with such beauty, charm, and entrancement. You deserve to experience it for yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #230 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE PAINTED CHURCHES OF THE TROODOS MOUNTAINS

church-of-kykkos-monasteryFor 500 years, from Ca. 1000 to 1500 AD, the Byzantine Christians on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus labored with love to decorate the interior of their humble churches tucked away in hidden valleys of the Troodos Mountains.

There are a total of 10 such churches which are today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The one you see here is the church of the Kykkos Monastery, with its extravagantly painted vaulted ceiling preserved immaculately for centuries. Christianity remains very much alive in these mountains. Come here to be awed yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #235 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE GOLDEN ELEPHANTS OF DZANGA BAI

golden-elephantDeep in the African rain forest where the Central African Republic, Cameroun, and the Congo come together, there is a swampy clearing of mineral and salt-rich mud where hundreds of elephants come to soak in the mud to absorb the minerals, turning their skin golden.  Other forest animals congregate here as well – buffalo, sitatunga and bongo antelope.  In the mountains nearby, there are an uncountable number of gorillas.  The clearing is called Dzanga Bai by the native Ba’aka Pygmies who live in small encampments in the forest.

We conducted our Gorillas and Pygmies expedition here in 2012.  It was an unforgettable experience, never to be repeated. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #278 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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A KYRGHIZ EAGLE HUNTER

kyrghiz-eagle-hunterA Kyrghiz eagle-hunter doesn’t hunt for eagles to eat.  He hunts with an eagle he has trained from infancy to hunt food for his family.

Female eagles adapt to training the best and are fierce huntresses.  Retrieved as a young chick from their mother’s nest when she’s out hunting, it takes one or two years to train them.  The eagle the hunter is holding is age six.  When they are too old to hunt at around age 20, they are released back into the wild, where they can live free for up to age 50.

That would be among the high rock outcroppings dotting the high grasslands of Kyrghizstan in Central Asia.  That’s where the hunter’s assistant (usually his son) climbs up with the eagle gripping his forearm high enough to launch.  Upon the hunter waves thee command on horseback, the hood is removed from the eagle’s head so he can see and is released.

Soaring high, the eagle searches for game like rabbits which are plentiful in the grasslands.  Upon spotting one, the eagle swoops down to snare it on the run with her amazingly powerful talons.  Allowing her to eat a bite or two as her reward, she’s re-hooded and the rabbit soon to be on the family dinner table.  If you want to see this for yourself, come with us to Kyrghizstan on our next exploration of Central Asia. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #228 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 09/05/25

On TTP Wednesday (9/03) in RFK Jr Over The Target, you read:

“Tomorrow, Thursday (9/04), Kennedy will testify at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee.  We’ll see who’s in Big Pharma’s pockets by those who have a temper tantrum towards him. For all of this shows RFK, Jr. is directly over the right target.”
 

You just saw above how deep in those pockets  Ron Wyden (D-OR) is.  Then Kennedy accuses straight to Pocahontas Warren’s face, “You’ve taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, Senator!”

One after the other, the Committee Dems went wacko on Bobby as Big Pharma had instructed them to do. The result was sound and fury signifying nothing: Kennedy Turns Tables on Democrats in Fiery Hearing.  The beatdown went on for three hours. At the end, The Dems demanded he resign.  Bobby just laughed at them.

Get ready – frankly, this is an amazing HFR.  Let’s go!

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VOLTAIRE AND MOHAMMED

One of dozens of patriot protests across Australia yesterday (8/31)
One of dozens of patriot protests across Australia yesterday (8/31)

[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on March 10, 2006. For context, log on to @elonmusk to learn what Britain’s Labor Government under Keir Starmer is doing to protect Moslem rape gangs and mass Moslem illegal migration, and on to @MarchFor Australia to see hundreds of thousands of Aussie patriots in every major city protest yesterday (8/31) what the Aussie Labor Government under Anthony Albanese is doing to promote mass Moslem immigration and smear anyone who disagrees as “racist” – just as does Starmer. Given this, I thought it timely to know about Voltaire and Mohammed.]

 

TTP March 10, 2006

This Monday (3/6), the Wall Street Journal had a front page article about Moslems rioting in France over the staging of a play in a small village in the French Alps called Saint-Genis-Pouilly.  The play was written in 1741 by Voltaire (1694-1778), and hasn't been staged for centuries.  The title of the play is Mahomet, which is an older way to spell Mohammed.

The article provided very little information about the play's content.  The author of the WSJ article clearly did not see the performance himself.  An internet search turns up a French edition of the play but none in English.  It's far out of print, so to actually read the play, you'd have to go a large public or university library.

It just so happens, however, that I have the English translation of the complete works of Voltaire - all 42 volumes - in my personal library.  So I immediately sat down and read the entire play.  It is a drop dead, stone cold, mind blow.  It is fantastic.  And it couldn't be more perfectly written for our day than if Voltaire was a clairvoyant.

Here is the play's synopsis.

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RFK JR. OVER THE TARGET

This is Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, radical left woke gay Satanist with his “husband,” who is the now-former CDC (Centers for Disease Control) official leading Big Pharma’s War on MAHA, RFK2 in particular.

Big Pharma is by far the largest and most powerful lobbying power on Capitol Hill.  They are organizing an all-out effort to pressure Kennedy to resign.  Any politician you see calling for his resignation, like Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, is on their payroll. It’s because they are terrified he will expose their corruption.

RFK Jr. is busy disinfecting our health bureaucracy from its capture by the agricultural-medical-pharmaceutical complex.  CDC officials are adopting the Rosie O’Donnell self-deportation option to protest Kennedy’s actions.  Exhibit A is Dr. Demetre Daskalakis (pronouns: he/him/his)’s resignation letter, proudly posted to X.

Right, a guy who calls pregnant women “pregnant people” – meaning he’s a medical doctor claiming that men can get pregnant – says Kennedy is intentionally trying to harm us.  Vaccine manufacturers previously held a monopoly on that vice.

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THE NONEXISTENT EPSTEIN LIST AND THE DEMS’ FAILED TRUMP SMEAR

 

Yesterday (9/03) in Washington DC, the lawyer for Epstein’s victims, Brad Edwards, when asked by a reporter about Epstein’s “list” replied with the victims behind him nodding in agreement, “there’s not a list.”

Democrats and liberal media have relentlessly politicized the Jeffrey Epstein case because they are more interested in trying to spin it as a Donald Trump scandal than in seeking justice for Epstein’s victims.

This political exploitation is glaringly obvious, given the Democrats’ own silence when they controlled Congress and the White House; they never released the Epstein files they claim are under wraps to protect Trump.

Despite repeated and wild insinuations, there has never been any credible evidence tying Trump to Epstein’s horrific abuses. The whole spectacle has become less about victims and more about Dem “Get Trump” political grandstanding.

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NEW GALLUP POLL SHOWS DEMS TRULY ARE MISERABLE ANTI-AMERICAN TRASH

If you ask a liberal how things are going right now in the United States, bring a helmet and pads, because violence is likely to ensue. Donald Trump has broken these people, and the damage may be long-lasting.

Like the nuclear facility in Fordow, Trump’s 2024 win was a political bunker buster that obliterated liberal America. They’ve become more insane, more unhinged, and more susceptible to defending atrociously unpopular public policy stances: they’re fighting to keep violent illegal aliens from being deported.

Still, this just-released (8/28) Gallup poll  about satisfaction with the state of the country is peak comedy.

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EUROPE IN THE BALANCE

muslim-school-kids-in-europe-chartAlmost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Sweden a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant -- often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime -- surfaces.

Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders, more police protection, and stiffer penalties of being "racists" or "xenophobes."

Until recently, that is.

Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party's open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for immigrants who arrive illegally and without authentic "political refugee" status.

Greek officials, also swamped by illegal immigration, now cite President Donald Trump's secure border policies as new models for their own.

The majority of European immigrants now come from majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet many arrivals seem angrier at their newfound liberal hosts than at the dictatorships they fled back home.

Europe's immigration policies will not work in a multi-ethnic democracy.

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THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS PUTTING ON A FASCINATING ANTIQUE SHOW IN UKRAINE

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Russian T-55 blown up by Afghan Mujahaddin 1984 photo ©Jack Wheeler

The Ukrainian intelligence service has reported the destruction of a Russian D-74 artillery piece on the battlefield. The destruction of a single howitzer on its own is fairly unremarkable against the scale of the fighting there until you realize that this gun was made in the 1950s and phased out by the Soviet Red Army in the 1970s.

We can put this together with reports that, having lost more than 6000 tanks, Russia is once again fielding T-55s. The T-55 was a great tank but its design dates from the end of World War 2. I last saw one being blown to smithereens by a British Challenger 1 during the first Gulf War in 1991.

Quite apart from the one million casualties Russia has suffered – and two million more will be required to take the remaining 25 per cent of the Donbass, according to a recent British intelligence update – even the most fervent and optimistic supporter of the tyrannical Russian regime must realize its army is at its last gasp.

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DURK PEARSONS DEFENSE STRATEGY

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Durk and Sandy

[Note by Jack Wheeler: I’ve been taking Durk & Sandy’s personal life extension formula since we mixed it up in their home lab, put it in bags and took it by the spoonful as they didn’t have an encapsulation machine. That was in the 70s before I got Durk on the Merv Griffin Show and he became famous. I’ve been taking this formula every day for 50 years.]

In this issue of Live Long & Prosper, here’s the story of how a pioneer in life extension science designed Lifeshield™ to help the body protect itself.

Durk Pearson, one of the pioneering voices in life extension science, spent much of his career focused on one central question: How can we give the body its best chance to defend itself naturally? His answer led to the creation of Lifeshield™, one of the most potent antioxidant multivitamin formulas on the marketplace.

Durk & Sandy recognized that modern life places constant strain on the immune system. Stress, environmental toxins, nutrient-depleted diets, and aging itself all erode the body’s ability to protect itself. Even minor immune weaknesses can open the door to infections or chronic health issues.

Durk often said the immune system should be viewed as a shield—a frontline of defense that needs daily reinforcement. Unlike emergency medicine, which intervenes after problems appear, his focus was prevention. His guiding question was simple but powerful: If the immune system had the right tools every day, could it keep the body healthier and more resilient?

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