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GREENIE ENERGY LEAVES EUROPE IN THE FREEZING COLD

freezing-euGreenie energy has been vaunted by politicians such as Barack Obama, Zhou Xiden, and virtually every European politician in power as progress itself, the way forward, the wave of the future.  Anyone who's got problems with it, as Obama smarmily assured, is "stuck in the past."

Turns out that's nonsense.  After going green and shutting down its coal, fossil fuel, fracking, and nuclear energy production, and feeling mighty virtuous for doing it, Europe is now going cold — freezing cold.  The region faces a bad winter ahead with energy shortages across the board.

It’s not even October yet, and here’s a headline (9/27: Record-Breaking Cold Sweeps Europe.

Seems green energy can do everything to make a lefty European feel good except produce the actual energy, even as Xiden is doing his darnedest to take America down that cliff.

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SKYE’S LINKS 09/30/21

unmasked-celebsDropping the mask; limousine liberal signals of class distinctions:

Pinkerton: The Mask Comes Off in a Two-Tier Society Where There's One Rule for Elites and Another for the Rest of Us

I pointed out some time ago that Xiden would have a real problem with vaccine mandates imposed on blacks, since this group has a low vaccination percentage.  Black Lives Matter of NYC has revolted:

Black Lives Matter NYC Leader Promises "Uprising" Against City's "Racist" Vaccine Passports

Is Xiden merely amazingly incompetent, or is he actually trying to kill off Trump supporters?

Nolte: Disgraceful Timeline of Biden's Badly Bungled Booster Boosterism

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY RIDING A YAK AT RANGDUM

yak-riding-at-rangdumRangdum Gompa, Zanskar, August 1993.  Ever ridden a yak?  Brandon did when was 10 at the Rangdum Tibetan Monastery or Gompa atop a small hill at 13,225 feet high in an extremely remote region of the Himalayas in India called Zanskar.  It was part of our Indian Tibet expedition which will be repeating next summer (2022) – and this time Brandon will be leading the expedition.  I’ll just be along for the ride.  (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #161 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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FISHING AT DAWN IN HA LONG BAY

ha-long-bayHa Long Bay near Haiphong, Vietman – meaning Descending Dragon – is a World Heritage Site as one of our planet’s great scenic wonders, with thousands of limestone karst rock pinnacles, towers, and islets.  The most beautiful time is dawn, peaceful and serene, with small fishing boats of local villagers out for the morning catch.  A few days aboard a comfortable junk cruising Ha Long will do wonders for you. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #160 ©photo Jack Wheeler)

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THE TIBETAN KINGDOM OF LO

This is one of the magical places we experience on our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions. An independent kingdom for 650 years in the remote Mustang region of Nepal, it is one of the last places of traditional Tibetan culture on earth, unchanged for centuries. There are sky-caves here – apartment complexes carved out of vertical cliffs 2,000 years ago – Drok-pa nomads in the high pastures, spectacular sacred ceremonies, all in a mysteriously beautiful setting where the Himalayas meet the Tibetan Plateau. We’ll be here again next April. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #86 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE MOTHER LEATHERBACK

leatheback-turtleThe leatherneck sea turtle is the world’s largest turtle, weighing up to 1500 pounds. This female was about half that. They have an enormous range, all the way from the North Sea to South Africa in the Atlantic, spending their lives at sea eating jellyfish – except when a female comes ashore to her hatching beach and bury her clutch of eggs in the sand above high tide.

Dropping several dozen glistening white golfball-size eggs into a depression scooped out with her flippers, she covers them up with sand, and heads back to sea, never to see them again. More than two months later, the born hatchlings dig out of the sand and wiggle their way into the sea, where the lucky ones survive.

I was able to watch this mommy’s entire egg-birthing process at dawn on a remote beach in the West African country of Gabon. It was such a privilege to witness an act of elemental nature by such an extraordinary creature. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #127 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE SHERMAN TANK THAT’S STILL THERE

tank-at-tarawaThe horrifically heroic Battle of Tarawa was fought November 20-23, 1943, with the US Marines determined to take the entrenched Japanese – which they did, both sides suffering ghastly losses. The Marine amphibious force assaulted the Japanese garrison on the small island of Betio in Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands – now the country of Kirimati.

The spearhead of the assault was led by the Marine’s Charlie Company, 1st Corps Tank Battalion and its M4-A2 Shermans on what was codenamed Red Beach. One particular Sherman sank a few yards offshore and lies there to this day. It’s easy to wade out and clamber upon it, as these friends of mine did when I brought them there in 2016.

We hear a lot about “climate change” causing “the oceans to rise.” But as you can see, the sea level at Tarawa has been the same for the past 77 years. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #124 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 09/24/21

on-a-leashYou may have seen this meme before, but it’s here now as it explains every single one of the multiple disasters currently befalling our America.

It was Xi who carefully wove a web of blackmail around their puppet using his utterly corrupt drug-addict son, so that once installed in the Oval Office, the puppet would follow orders to unleash a cornucopia of catastrophes upon America – all with the unwavering support of key media/social media leaders and influencers on the Chicom payroll.

Yes, all this is treason.  The man inaugurated as President of the United States is a bona fide traitor to his country.  To what extent those in cahoots with him are knowing accomplices or merely useful idiots only time will tell.

What the coming chaos of the next few weeks will tell is whether the Xiden Presidency will survive or not.

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LET THE DEMS DROWN

drowningThere is a basic reality in Washington. Democrats have a slim margin in the United States House of Representatives and no margin in the United States Senate. In the House, Democrats can lose roughly three votes for their agenda. In the Senate, Democrats can lose no votes.

Now the Democrats are squabbling amongst themselves over infrastructure, a continuing resolution, and a debt ceiling. They have no unity within their ranks on these issues. Now, they have a bold new strategy — expect Republicans to throw them a lifeline to avoid a government shutdown and a debt ceiling through which the United States runs off a fiscal cliff.

Let. Dems. Drown. Give the Democrats no lifeline.

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A SEA OF MISERY OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS

sea-of-southern-border-misery"A sea of misery of biblical proportions" is how Steve Bannon described the humanitarian crisis on the southern border.

Within hours of his inauguration, President Biden stopped the building of the border wall and made it clear to all comers around the world that our border is open.  He invited all those migrants who have arrived from all over the world to enter what the Left swears is an irreparably racist nation.

There are hardly words to adequately describe the damage done to America since Biden took office, both here and among our soon-to-be former allies.  It sure seems as though he is doing China's bidding.   At China’s direction, Biden seems determined to turn all of America into a sea of misery.

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THE INCURABLE ROT OF THE FBI

corrupt-cultureThe incurable incompetence, corruption, and moral rot of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was on full display last week.

Within a 24-hour period, some of America’s best female athletes recounted to a Senate committee their painful tales of how the FBI ignored evidence that team doctor Larry Nassar was a sexual predator -- and a powerful attorney who colluded with the FBI to concoct one of the most animating chapters of the Trump-Russia collusion fiction was indicted for lying to federal officials.

Overlap in the two cases is more than ironic, it’s illustrative:

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AMERICAN MAOISM

uncle-sam-says-choose-sidesNever forget class struggle!” proclaimed Mao in Fall 1962 at the Chinese Communist Party’s annual retreat. This maxim quickly became the fevered chant of the day, paving the way for the Cultural Revolution resulting in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese.

Modified into “Never forget race struggle!,” the command has the same appeal in today’s Woke America.

As a student of the totalitarianism of Mao’s China—which was exceptionally effective in peddling propaganda and staging performances of feigning, preening, and indignation—I find Woke America’s reinvention of Maoism fascinating and terrifying. Mao is the unsung hero for contemporary CRT intellectuals.

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THE DEATH OF SCIENCE

The Woke Are Waging War on Science
The Woke Are Waging War on Science

The scientific method used to govern much of popular American thinking.

In empirical fashion, scientists advised us to examine evidence and data, and then by induction come to rational hypotheses. The enemies of “science” were politics, superstition, bias, and deduction.

Yet we are now returning to our version of medieval alchemy and astrology in rejecting a millennium of the scientific method.

Take the superstitions that now surround COVID-19, aka the Communist Chinese Virus.

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A CRUCIAL SANITY PERSPECTIVE FOR MASTERING OUR MOODS

santa-cruz-surfing
Surf’s up at Santa Cruz

Popular fads about our brains come and go – for Descartes they were machines, for Freud they were like steam engines, many today liken them to computer hardware and software.

We’re much more complicated and elegant than any of these ideas. At our foundation, we are biological organisms. Growing, learning, changing, living beings.

I find that understanding this seemingly self-evident truth makes sense of a tremendous amount of human experience; and helps to de-mystify a lot of our troubles and challenges, too. So let’s talk about surfing.

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