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THE GOVERNOR WITH A PAIR

With no doubt, absolutely the coolest governor in America is Florida’s Ron DeSantis. His website, rondesantis.com, offers a storefront with a variety of items for sale like t-shirts, etc. This week, a new product was introduced: a pair of golf balls. Yes, Florida’s Governor Has a Pair!

fl-gov-has-a-pair And enjoy the video ad with rocking music. How awesome is that? DeSantis has a pair, indeed.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/12/21

kenosha-mile-challengeFor the second time – the first was in HFR 08/28/20 – Kyle Rittenhouse is the HFR Hero of the Week.

First a quick summation.  The first BLM rioter chased after Kyle yelling threats and was grabbing his rifle barrel (shown by the soot on his hand in the autopsy photos and verified by witness testimony) when Kyle shot him dead in the head.  The second chased after Kyle, knocked him down with a skateboard and was grabbing his rifle when Kyle shot him dead in the chest.  The third pulled a loaded pistol and was aiming it at Kyle when Kyle blew his gun arm half off.

Your first conclusion is these three in attacking a guy with an AR-15 are clear Darwin Awardees, doing humanity a favor by getting removed from the gene pool.  Good job, Kyle.

There’s a lot in this HFR, which closes with a video and quotes from an extraordinary speech by America’s heroic president.  Oh, and don’t miss the advice on how to rid your body of those ghastly vax spike proteins if you’ve been vaxxed.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARINES!

tun-tavern Today, all American patriots celebrate the founding of our country’s most fabled fighting force, the United States Marines, at the historic Tun Tavern in Philadelphia 246 years ago.

As a token of this celebration, I’d like to tell you a little known story of USMC history --  how John Wayne saved the Marine Corps. Not in a movie but in real life.

Then we’ll go to Iwo Jima and the memorial atop Mount Suribachi.  We’ll close with a tribute to those who have always been at the tip of America’s protective spear.

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A COUNTRY TO BE PROUD OF

conquest-of-ceutaI took this picture last week.  It is a painting made of azuelos (Portuguese glazed tiles) portraying Prince Henry the Navigator’s Conquest of Ceuta – the stronghold of Barbary Coast Moslem pirates – on August 21, 1415.

Ceuta was on the African side of the Straits of Gibraltar, from where the Moslem pirates incessantly raided the Portuguese coast depopulating entire villages, carting off men for labor slaves and women for sex slaves sold in the Arab slave markets across North Africa.

Prince Henry (1394-1460) is legendary in history for launching the entire Age of Discovery, when, starting with the Portuguese, Western explorers mapped the world.  Yet it was at Ceuta at age 21, that he first performed an act of heroism still celebrated by the Portuguese people today.

The azuelos painting is proudly displayed on the foyer wall of the main train station of Porto, where Prince Henry was born.  I invite you take a close look at it, as I did to my TTPer travelers who were with me here last week.

I asked them to look at the fire in Henry’s unyielding eyes, the terrified Moslems on their knees surrendering their swords and bowing to him in submission.  Then I asked, “Can you imagine something like this being publicly displayed in America today, as a source of pride for all Americans to feel in their country’s history?”

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DO NOT COMPLY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 2021
Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 2021

Last Thursday (11/04), it was announced that OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is forcing employers with over 100 employees to comply with President Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate by January 4th, 2022 or face heavy fines.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is also giving 17 million healthcare workers until January 4th to be fully vaccinated.

In 2022 we will witness the emergence of a parallel society and I hope to help make that happen with the work we are doing here at Gab.

Over the past year we’ve provided tens of millions of people with a variety of resources to fight back against this medical tyranny and infringement of basic human rights.  Here they are

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VAX MANDATES AND TIMESHARE SCAMS

scam-alertFrom the beginning, the Covid “vaccines” have felt like a massive timeshare scam.

Initially, consider the source. Vaxxmania arises from, and is zealously sponsored by, the same “experts” who masterminded the epic Covid overreaction: Fauci, Walensky, the Democrat governors, and the media.  Like a timeshare sales pitch, the folly of lockdowns, closures, masking and mass testing should have been obvious from Day 1.

Viruses are ubiquitous, and respiratory infections are an unavoidable part of community life. Fortunately, such infections tend to be self-limiting. Further, Italian data from March, 2020 should have told everyone that healthy, non-old people were not at serious risk.

Nonetheless, as with timeshares, many Americans bought the scam. Nineteen months of mass psychosis later, many vaxxers are still fearful, wearing masks—even outside—and demanding universal “vaccination.”  Why?

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY MAKING IT A FAIR FIGHT

sweet-pastriesWe have a wonderful deli/bakery nearby that has great, healthy food -- and in the next display case very yummy, not-so-healthy treats – cookies, éclairs, pastries… very tempting stuff. Every once in awhile I’m seduced by these delicacies, and when I am, I almost always notice something afterwards: I don’t feel as good as I did before.

It’s not a severely bad feeling, and I can easily ignore it if I want to. But if I pay attention to the sensations in my body, there’s a clearly different feeling from my insides; it’s not as pleasant as it was before I had eaten the sugar filled morsel.

This is the key to making our fight against bad habits a fair fight.

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SKYE’S LINKS 11/11/21

what-am-i-doingThe 'Crats will learn nothing from the latest election.  They will triple down on their bad ideas.  Tighten the strap on your crash helmet; 2022 will be a challenging and hard year for us, but is likely to be catastrophic for them:

Luongo: Expect Democrats To Not Learn The Real Lessons From Virginia's Elections

The supply chain wreck is going to get a lot worse.  My advice?  If you don't already have a few months’ supply of your everyday canned and dried foods, get it while you can.  Pet food, too.  Don't buy survival foods; you don't need expensive ultra light weight portability.  Buy what you eat regularly, and rotate your stock.  Don't forget detergent and toilet paper  - and fuel.  Whatever the government does to "fix" the problem will certainly make a bad situation even worse

Here's Why US Supply Chain Problems Will Only Get Worse

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY SMUGGLERS PARADISE

jw-with-merchant-on-boat Khasab, Musendam, Enclave of Oman, October 2006. The sharp tip of Arabia, known as the Musandam Point, sticks into the Persian Gulf, separating it from the Indian Ocean. The Strait of Hormuz is only 30 miles wide from Musandam Point to the coast of Iran, and through it passes a substantial fraction of the world's crude oil.

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I came here to see the Persian smugglers. Go down to the wharves in Khasab and you will see them piled high with waterproof-wrapped bales of clothes, cases of soft drinks and juice, cartons of children's toys and electronic goods, an entire shopping mall of stuff, all ready to be crammed and tied down into 20 ft. long open speedboats with powerful outboard motors capable of outrunning Iranian Navy patrols.

There are dozens, scores, of waiting speedboats. The run from Khasab harbor to coves on the Iranian coast or the Iranian island of Qeshm takes about three hours. An average night will see dozens of speedboats racing across the Strait of Hormuz smuggling goods into Iran. The smugglers couldn’t have been more friendly to me. They hate the mullahs and are proud they are helping poor people in Iran. I had a great time with them. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #169 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE REMOTEST CHURCH

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Baihanluo Catholic Church is the remotest Christian Church on earth. The isolated village is in a roadless region high on a Himalayan mountain ridge deep in “The Great River Trenches of Asia” – one of our planet’s most dramatic geological features where four major rivers – the Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze all spill off the Tibetan Plateau coursing south in tight parallel for 100 miles.

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In the late 1800’s, French Catholic missionaries made their way far, far up the Mekong from the French colony of Laos to befriend the Nu and Lisu tribespeople up here. They responded by building this beautiful wooden church that has been lovingly cared for by the local parishioners ever since.

I led an expedition traversing all three of the great trenches twenty years ago (2001). We were welcomed so warmly by the devout villagers. It’s hard to get more remote than this, yet they have retained their faith for at least four generations now. You can imagine how powerful and experience it was to be with them. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #138 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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WHAT A REAL CANNIBAL LOOKS LIKE

nambas-cannibalOn the remote north side of the island of Malekula in Vanuatu, there lives a cannibal tribe called the Big Nambas. The men wear a penis gourd wrapped in pandamus fibers, and eat “man long pig,” cooked human enemies. You have to trek over mountains of thick jungle to reach them. When I was able to years ago, there were a few men who continued the practice. This gentleman is one of them. I was in no danger as they were very kind and gracious to me.

That wasn’t the case a century ago when the first explorers, Martin & Osa Johnson, reached them. Their 1918 film, “Cannibals of the South Seas,” made the Johnsons famous, and you can see it on YouTube. Today they are far more benign. It is an extraordinary experience to meet a culture of fearsome reputation and realize they are people like you and me. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #103 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE GOLDEN THRONE OF KING TUT

king-tuts-golden-throne Now on display in National Museum of Egypt in Cairo, the 3,340 year-old artistic masterpiece of Pharoah Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenamun portrayed on facing back of the king’s throne chair was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.

I was stunned beyond words when I first saw it in 1971, and every time I’ve seen it since, I’m shocked into the same state of awe.  It’s not simply the sheer beauty of the blue lapis lazuli, the red carnelian, the silver and the solid gold plate, nor the breathtaking skill of artistry.  It’s that the scene is so profoundly, so touchingly human.  As she gently rubs oil on to his arms, they are looking into each other’s eyes with the tenderness of love.

This is not some God-King high and mighty ruler and haughty Queen far above their lowly subjects, but a very human man and wife in love.  This golden throne speaks to us from 33 centuries ago that back then people were people like us.  Our connection to history is our common humanity.  I hope someday you will be able to see the Golden Throne of King Tut in Cairo, and be in awe of it for yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #168 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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TANTRIC BHUTAN

tantric-bhutanThe most fabulously exotic country on earth is the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. The Bhutanese religion of Tantric Buddhism is here exemplified by a prayer hall wall painting of Yab-Yum – the physical union of Compassion and Wisdom. Male compassion is personified as the deity Samvara with a blue body, multiple faces and arms. He embraces his consort of female wisdom Vajra-varahi.

It is important to understand that Yab-Yum is considered a sacred act as a path to Enlightenment. It is just one example of how Bhutan may stretch our comfort zone to learn ancient ways and practices, giving us a broader perspective on our humanity. For an in-depth understanding of Bhutan’s extraordinary culture, consider joining our Wheeler Expedition to the Land of the Thunder Dragon next year. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #16 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/05/21

Yes, Gloom, Despair, and Agony is the Dem-Woketard theme song this week.  What sweet music it is.

Of course, the amazing total sweep of Virginia made the most headlines. Yet the GOP Tide swept across the entire country – from Jersey and Pennsylvania, to Ohio, Seattle, Texas, and more.

However…. All this great news is not the best news of the week.  It really isn’t.  So what is?

Read on to find out, and to know the two fatal errors the Dems made this week.  Believe me, the second one and what to do about it will blow your mind.

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