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THE SACRED LAKE OF PHOKSUNDO

phoksundoWest of the Himalayan giants of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri in Nepal lies a roadless high wilderness inhabited only by Tibetan nomads called Dolpa.  The region is named after them, Dolpo.  The Dolpa practice the ancient pre-Buddhist animist religion of Tibet called Bön.  They worship sites of nature they consider holy.  And holiest of all is the Sacred Lake of Phoksundo.

The Dolpa consider the blue of Phoksundo an act of magic by the gods.  Once you see it, you can only agree.  This picture is not photoshopped – it is real. We visit it in late October when it is ice free on our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #41 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE SACRED MONKEY FOREST OF BALI

bali-monkeysNear the town of Ubud on Indonesia’s paradise island of Bali there is a Hindu sanctuary of spectacularly luxuriant rain forest providing a haven for over 1,000 Balinese long-tailed monkeys. Here’s one communing with a group of moss-covered monkey statues that dot the sanctuary.

This is a sacred place for the Balinese people, as it contains three temples over 600 years old, and is devoted to the Hindu principle of Tri Hata Karana – “three ways to reach spiritual and physical well-being” -- harmony between people, harmony between people and nature, harmony between people and the Supreme God.

There is perhaps no place on earth in which to better experience the blissful harmony of Tri Hata Karana than Bali.  It is a marvelous privilege to be here and experience it for yourself.  (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #106 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 12/18/20

livefree-or-die-patchThere is one fundamental fact of political reality:  everything the Left is allowed to touch, it ruins and destroys.

At the end of 2020, it becomes difficult to avoid hyperventilating over the ubiquitous scope of unadulterated Satanic Evil the Left has been allowed to perpetrate upon America this year.

All the tens of thousands dying with life-saving drug denial, all the hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs destroyed with fascist lockdowns, all the never-ending tsunami of lies and deceit by Big Media and Big Tech, all the treason allowing China to subvert and control America from the Oval Office --- ALL OF IT just to prevent the reelection of President Donald Trump.

And now the Supreme Court of the United States – including the Justices we were so very sure would protect us, Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh – have acquiesced to this murderous, thieving, traitorous cabal to achieve its criminally insane and satanic goal.

So – as TTPer Paul Rosenberg asks, What now?  Here is my answer.

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THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT IS REALLY PAINFUL TO BE RIGHT

snake-attacks-birdI am writing this on Sunday as my wife and I are on our way to Bali, Indonesia to spend Christmas-New Years with our son Jackson and his wife who live there now.

By the time you read this on Monday (12/14), thanks to the Coward Court all the news will be about a Electoral College Vote Fraud making the Dem theft of the presidency official.

Maybe there’s still some hope that POTUS can triumph in the final Electoral vote count by Congress on January 6.  Yet many a TTPer has reminded me of what I wrote 21 months ago, in March 2019.  It made a lot of people really mad at me at the time, but now, in re-reading it myself, what I feel is real torment, real pain over realizing that I had been right all along when I didn’t want to be.

As we try to figure out where we go from here in a fully lawless land that no longer has courts and a constitution, we’ll step back in time 21 months ago to contemplate the warning that was not heeded.

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COVID HYSTERIA IS NOT ABOUT HEALTH – IT’S ABOUT FASCIST POWER

no-to-the-maskWe finally reached the latest peak COVID-19 madness last week, when a family was ejected from a United Airlines flight because their two-year-old girl could not tolerate a muzzle. So, on the apparent theory that you can’t be too safe or too careful, even from a two-year-old, the airline enforced its zero-tolerance policy and booted the girl and her family from the plane.

None of this is about health, of course. It’s about power- fascist power. All it takes is a manufactured hysteria, fueled by a hysterical media, and aimed at a trusting, even gullible public, and tradition dissolves in the face of fear.

As those who lived under communism and other forms of fascism know from bitter experience, the point of 2+2 = 5 is not to get you to believe it, it’s to make you afraid to say it’s not true. Rubbing our noses in our own impotence is the very hallmark of tyranny.

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THE ABJECT COWARDICE OF AMERICA’S JUDICIARY

”Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty.”  General George S. Patton
Several weeks ago, we worried that the judges and justices, state and federal, may not have the courage to take up the cases before them addressing the massive election fraud that took place November 3.  Now we know they are all cowards, the Constitution be damned.

Even the three SCOTUS justices Trump fought for were too terrified to do the right thing.

The intimidation tactics of the left — Antifa, BLM, and the campus fascists — have worked.  They have frightened each and every judge and justice, with the not surprising exceptions of Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, into disregarding Articles II and III of the Constitution.  They are all scaredy-cats, like little children running from bullies.

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DETAILS ON GIGANTIC DEM VOTE FRAUD IN JUST ONE COUNTY

The first inkling Americans had that there was something going on with voting machines came when Antrim County, Michigan admitted that its computer had a "glitch" and gave 6,000 Trump votes to Biden.

County officials quickly backtracked, calling it "human error," but it was too late.  The computer fraud cat was out of the bag.  Now, thanks to a judge pushing past the Michigan secretary of state's effort to suppress information, we can finally see the preliminary forensics report on Antrim County's Dominion systems.  This post summarizes the highlights.

Russell Ramsland, of Allied Security Operations Group, LLC (ASOG), wrote the report.  You may be familiar with him from videos like above.  If you haven't watched the video, I recommend it, because it's a great overview of how computer systems can be used for fraudulent elections.

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SEVEN STATE LEGISLATURES CHOOSE COMPETING ELECTORS TO ILLEGAL DEM ONES

GOP legislators blocked by police, Lansing MI 12/14/20
GOP legislators blocked by police, Lansing MI 12/14/20

Yesterday (12/14), Republicans in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Nevada entered competing slates of electors for President Donald Trump on Monday as Electoral College members in six contested battleground states officially cast their ballots for Democrat Joe Biden.

And please add Michigan.  Although initially blocked by state authorities, a delegation of 16 Michigan Republican Electors were eventually able to convene and cast their ballots for President Trump, bringing the tally to seven states entering competing slates.

By casting conditional votes for Trump, the GOP electors have set up an epic showdown in a joint session of Congress next month on January 6 when lawmakers convene to count the electoral votes and officially declare the winner.

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WHAT NOW?

coolidge-quoteSome eighty million Trump voters (plus ten or twenty million likeminded others) have slowly woken up to a dystopic situation: People who want to raise families, do meaningful work and be left alone, have found themselves to be the playthings of lunatics.

The system they expected to support them had seen better days, to be sure, but in one short year they saw it become something they never would have imagined.

What, then, are such people – you, me, us – to do? The support system they were committed to has not only let them down but stabbed them in the back, and repeatedly.

What to do is the question of the moment. And so, having some small experience with such things, I’ll give you several points to consider. What you do will be your choice, of course, but please do something. Do not sit and hope that things will work themselves out. If that worked, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

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THE TRAGIC FAILURE OF BILL BARR

barr-dissapoints-trump_tweets I used to be a big fan of Attorney General William Barr. No more.

Now, as of Dec. 14, 2020, he’s gone, effective Dec. 23, almost a month before the actual end of a Trump administration, assuming that happens.

Technically, Barr resigned, accompanied by the usual complimentary letter to the president, but something obviously went wrong in his relationship with Donald Trump.  What was it?

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SKYE’S LINKS 12/17/20

white-bullFor investors; I hope that the wheels will stay on long enough for Biden/Harris to become the next Herbert Hoover:

BofA: Central Banks Are Buying $1.3 Billion In Assets Every Hour, Creating A "Frankenbull" Market

Biden has not been sworn in, yet the overproduced elite predators are already fighting over access to power in his administration.  Expect a great deal more of such discord:

Did BLM Leak Compromising Biden Comments After Being Shunned From Race Debate?

I think that it is all too likely that China will invade Taiwan during the next 4 years.  Jack Wheeler thinks it could be as soon as next year “if Cadaver cheats his way into the Oval Office”:

A 2021 Gray Swan: Could The US And China Go To War Over Taiwan?

Next up: "A Biden win is the most befitting ‘punishment’ of the anti-Trump cocktail." Read on!

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – EVEREST NORTH FACE

north-face-of-everestMy first Everest expedition was in October, 1987. I took this photo climbing above the Rongbuk Monastery. The enormous North Face of Mount Everest is entirely in Tibet.  The summit at 8,848 meters/29,029 feet is in the jet stream with the plume flowing left along the Northeast Ridge, the climbing route of Mallory and Irvine in 1924.

On the back side of the ridge is the Kangshung Face, also in Tibet.  On the right side is the West Ridge, the border between Tibet and Nepal.  At the right time of year, the setting sun turns the whole North Face bright pink.  At any time of year on a clear day like this, you are witnessing one of the most magnificent sights our planet has to offer. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #105 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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WHAT WOULD HE THINK OF US?

xikrin-kayapo-tribesman This Xikrin-Kayapo tribesman and his people live in the deepest heart of the Brazilian Amazon on tributaries of the Xingu River. You wonder what he would think of us as panic, fear, and madness engulfs our civilization. Having spent time in his village not long ago, I’m confident he would simply shake his head in bewilderment and say, “Please just let us live our lives in our forest, that’s all we want.”

True indigenous tribes who keep to their traditional way of life are so rare now in the Amazon or anywhere else where they once flourished. Each one is a precious living cultural heritage of humanity. It is such a privilege when they share their way of life with you. They deserve to have their wish granted, as my tribesman friend would express it. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #4 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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ELEPHANTS IN THE SAHARA

©2019 Jack Wheeler10,000 years ago, the Sahara was green, with lakes, rivers, and such an abundance of animals it was a hunting paradise for people who lived here. You’ll find their petroglyphs carved on to rock outcroppings like this that my son Jackson and I found on a Trans-Sahara Expedition in 2003.

The Milankovitch astronomical cycles that drive Earth’s climate produced a West African monsoon that greened the Sahara back then. When the cycles shifted ending the monsoon, the Sahara turned dry desert as it remains today. Political cycles that permitted a peaceful crossing of the world’s greatest desert have also shifted, making this too dangerous now.

A Trans-Sahara Expedition is one of the world’s great adventures. Hopefully, one will be possible again in the not-too-distant future. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #7 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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