Eric Clapton Rails Against Authoritarians Crushing Liberty in Anthem ‘This Has Gotta Stop’
One possible shape of things to come in the evolution of the COVID tyranny plan:
What Can We Learn About COVID Tyranny From Australia And Afghanistan?
How did Afghanistan get to be what it is now? It is all too reminiscent of the US 2020 election:
Lhasa, Tibet, 1986. Built in the mid-1600s, the Potala in Lhasa, Tibet was the home of the Dalai Lama as the incarnation of Avalokiteśvara, the Buddhist deity of compassion, until the Communist Chinese colonized Tibet in 1959.
The Potala is one of the world’s great architectural wonders, thirteen stories high with molten copper poured into the foundation to stabilize it from earthquakes, 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines, 200,000 statues. I’ve been here several times since 1986, and it’s always such a powerful experience. Yet to Tibetans, this is a “dead” building as the Dalai Lama is gone. It is my hope that someday, the Dalai Lama will live here in a Free Tibet once again. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #114 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
There is a part of Tibet the British kept from China and is now a part of India. The region is called Ladakh and this is its capital of Leh. It’s the Upper Indus river valley after it flows out of Chinese Tibet and before it reaches the Line of Control with Pakistan.
Ladakh is geographically and culturally Tibetan, where Tibetan culture still flourishes. Here the great gompas (monasteries) of Thikse and Hemis are active, and where you are welcome in hidden mysterious gompas like Lamayuru over a thousand years old.
There is an ultra-remote part of Ladakh called Zanskar where the Zanskar River flows through the crest of the Himalayas to reach the Upper Indus. Running the Zanskar is one of the world’s greatest whitewater experiences. We’ll see and do all of this next August on our Indian Tibet Expedition. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #120 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
In 52 AD, St. Thomas the Apostle, one of Jesus’ 12 Disciples, sailed down the Red Sea and across the Arabian Sea to the Malabar Coast of Southwest India to preach the Gospel of Christ. He found a receptive audience among the peaceful fisherfolk in the villages along the coast – so receptive he established a series of churches that still exist today. Some remain small and humble, others like the one above rebuilt with soaring glass and stone.
There are many Christian denominations in the Indian state of Kerala, which has the entire Malabar Coast, from the original St. Thomas Syrian Christians to Catholic, Pentecostal, Charismatic and others. Of Kerala’s 34 million people, at least 20% are Christian. Kerala is a place of relaxing beauty and peaceful serenity. The best way to explore it is via a luxurious houseboat along the many canals or “backwaters” dotted with fishing villages and churches. You’ll be warmly welcomed. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #155, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
This is Temple IV at the ancient Mayan capital of Tikal, now in northern Guatemala. It was from the top of Temple IV that the shot in the original 1977 Star Wars movie was filmed of the Millennium Falcon landing (at 44 seconds) near jungle temples (Temples II and III) at the Rebel Base on the moon of Yavin 4.
Built in 740 AD, at 230 feet it is the tallest pre-Columbian structure in all the Americas. While Tikal’s earliest buildings date to the 4th century BC, it was from 300 to 800 AD that Tikal flourished as one of the Mayan Empires most powerful kingdoms.
Then decline set in, with drought, deforestation, overpopulation, and constant warfare with rival kingdoms. With Tikal abandoned by the end of the 900s, it remained covered by rainforest jungle for over a thousand years. American archaeologists began excavations in the 1950s. Today with its major temples restored, Tikal is the most impressive example you can visit of Mayan civilization. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #118 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Most people consider Bangladesh a basket case country – all crowded overpopulated poverty constantly flooding etc. Yet I found it to be extraordinarily beautiful. The Shuvalong Falls here is just one example. It’s in the Chittagong Hills near the border with Burma. You’ll find Hindu shrines, massive mountain top Buddhist temples, small Moslem mosques, and a Christian church in almost every village
The charming main town of Rangamati is bustling with friendly energy. A boat ride on serene Kaptai Lake is soul-soothing. Everyone has a smile for you. It’s a place of captivating serendipity. A wonderful experience you might want for yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #154, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
As this man bows his head in shameful realization of what he is responsible for, so should everyone in America who supported his being allowed to cheat his way into the White House.
The photo you see has gone wildly viral across the Internet as the “defining image” of his catastrophically failed Oval Office occupancy, as headlined by the Daily Mail late last night (8/26): Nowhere To Hide, Joe: President Adopts Fetal Position Pose As He Crumbles Under Questioning From Fox News Reporter Peter Doocy And Tries To Blame Trump For The Catastrophe In Afghanistan.
As President Trump said last night on Hannity, this “would not be happening” if he were in charge. That is, without Democrats committing election theft, without the Supreme Court allowing the theft, without VP Pence refusing to turn the electoral college back to state legislatures where the cheating was most blatant. All Biden supporters and Never Trumpers who celebrated these acts of treason bear responsibility for the mass slaughter at Kabul Airport yesterday. The very least they could do is to apologize to us.
An American and his son had been captured by a Moslem bandit chieftain in Morocco and demanded an enormous ransom. Teddy sent Navy warships, the Marines, and the telegram. Rasuli returned Perdicaris and his son unharmed, and all America reveled in Teddy’s heroism.
The history is a lot more complicated than that, but legendary enough for Hollywood to make a move about it, The Wind and the Lion in 1975 starring Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, John Huston and Brian Keith. Of course it’s Hollwoodized, but the actual history is enough to draw an eerie, albeit grotesque, parallel to the White House, American hostages, and Moslem bandits at this moment today.
To say of someone they “have a green thumb” is to note everything in their garden grows and blossoms. Joe Biden’s thumb is not green – it is brown. Everything he has touched since entering office has turned to feces.
None of his blame-gaming, none of his distortions, none of his fantasies and unreality can mask that truth. Everything from the Afghan Catastrophe, to the Inflation Fiasco, the Border Disaster, to Energy Insufficiency, the Race Calamity, to the Crime Explosion – there are several proposed explanation of his fecal touch.
As the Afghan Fubar continues to worsen, here’s something to consider. We’ve done this three times since 1975, all to horrific results for those who were left. What is the singular constant of those last 46 years?
Joe Biden was somewhere in the decision tree.
First as a US Senator from Delaware, who along with his senate majority refused to fund military support to the South Vietnamese.
Second came in orchestrating the withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 as O’Bama’s VP. That withdrawal gave us ISIS.
Final withdrawal is from Afghanistan, which is still underway.
Before my son became a Marine, I never thought much about who was defending me. Now when I see a picture of a member of our military who has been killed, I read his or her name very carefully. Sometimes I cry.
In 1999, when the barrel-chested Marine recruiter showed up in dress blues and bedazzled my son John, I did not stand in the way. John was headstrong, and he seemed to understand these stern, clean men with straight backs and flawless uniforms. I did not. I live in the Volvo-driving, higher education-worshiping North Shore of Boston. I write novels for a living. I have never served in the military.
[On Sunday, 8/22, Senator Ron Johnson, R-WI, sent the letter below to the Directors of the NIH and CDC, and the Acting Commissioner of the FDA, explaining why the impending vaccine approval is not justified on medical or health safety grounds, but rather has the “political purpose of imposing and enforcing vaccine mandates.” On Monday, 8/23, the FDA did exactly that, serving to further confirm that the Biden Regime’s agenda regarding the Chinese Communist Virus is to impose further government control over Americans rather than protect their health. --JW]
Chilling Pew poll results - 65% of 'Crats now "say the government should take steps to restrict false information, even if it means limiting freedom of information"; 2/3 of 'Crats are now literally un-American enemies of freedom. If you still live in a Blue County, get out before it is too late - to say that this is not going to end well is a horrific understatement:
Pew: Democrats Increasingly Favor Government Censorship of ‘False’ Ideas
One third of Apple's sales and essentially all of their production are in China, hence it is no surprise that Apple has become a lackey of the CCP. Apple sucks up to the Chinese Communist Party and censors words that the CCP don't like in China, Hong Kong -- and even censors those words ib Taiwan:
Report: Apple Censors Anti-Communist Engravings on Products in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Thousands of Americans are trapped in Kabul and the administration has no plans to save them:
"Get Us!" Surreal Footage Shows Trapped Americans Pleading To Be Let Inside Kabul Airport
10,000 feet high in the Amazon cloud forests of northern Peru is a mysterious lost city built by an unknown people many centuries before the Incas existed. Known as Kuelap by villagers in the lowlands below, the Incas called the people who built it Chachapoyas, “Cloud Warriors.” I led an expedition here in 1994, climbing high up into the Amazon Andes to come upon gigantic stone walls 60 feet high surrounding hundreds of stone structures. Here you see Rebel among them. We’ll be here again in a year or two in another exploration of Peru. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #153, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
