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CAN RAND PAUL SAVE THE SENATE?

Every day in every way I like Rand Paul better. He gives libertarianism a good name by standing for something, unlike almost all his colleagues, right and left.

Just the other day he stood up to the tedious hyper-partisanship of ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

And yesterday (1/26) in the Senate – as you can see above – he weighed in, to great effect, on the impeachment farce, although I suspect it wasn’t just his impassioned and eloquent speech, a point of order actually, that swung 45 Republican senators to his side.  There was something else too.

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OAMU – A FIELD MANUAL ON ORGANIZING A MASS UPRISING II

green-dragonChapter Two: Recruitment

One person can start the work of creating a local activist organization.

A person who does this work by our method will be called, with respect for tradition, a field secretary -- because that is the title used by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Recruiting in a Nutshell.

Field secretaries can perhaps be best described as expert specialists in startups. Their main job as the instigators of an uprising is to go into a community (or campus), find the right people, and get them talking together in a meeting.

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SKYE’S LINKS 01/28/21

cruz-take-it-maskThat's the spirit!

Sen. Ted Cruz Wears 'Come and Take It' Mask to [FPX's] Inauguration

An interesting admission:

Capitol Rioter Accused of Beating Cops Says He Was Not There for Trump

The far left is going big - very big - and this is producing pushback , even from the usually useful idiots.  Here is an amazing and refreshingly honest criticism of FPX, Fauci, and Bezos by Meghan McCain - when they have gone too far for her to take it any longer, they have really blown it:

Meghan McCain: [FPX], Fauci, Bezos COVID Hypocrisy Is Total Breakdown of Trust

Welcome to Skye’s Links to the New World Disorder!

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY — A FIRST CONTACT WITH THE NAKED AUCAS

naked-aucas-tribe-and-jwJuly, 1972. That’s what these people were known as back in 1972 who lived in the Amazon forests south of the Napo River in Ecuador killing anyone foolish enough to enter their territory.  The Quechuas living along the north bank of the Napo were terrified of them, calling them “Aucas” – naked savages.  I found them, as you can see, naked but not savage.

This was a true first contact.  A helicopter pilot friend, Tony Stuart, and I chanced upon them, landing in their clearing.  We were literally space aliens in a space ship from outer space, for all they knew was the jungle.  They had nothing from the outside world.  I gave them a box of matches which was the most exciting thing they had ever seen.  Despite their fearsome reputation for killing outsiders including missionaries, they smiled and laughed like anyone else.

They also understood trade and exchanging gifts.  Beside the matches, we gave them some rope and a small machete (first metal they had ever seen).  They gave (without our asking) Tony a hand stone axe, and me a blowgun.  After a few hours it was time to go.  Our goodbyes to each other were with huge smiles.  I will never ever forget them. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #113 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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SCOUNDREL’S VIEW OF MOUNT EVEREST

scoundrels-view-of-everestYou’re looking face on Everest’s West Ridge, the border of Tibet and Nepal. On the right is the Southwest Face in Nepal, on the left is the North Face in Tibet. Called Scoundrel’s View because this is a better view than trekkers to Everest Base Camp see (a viewpoint called Kala Patthar).

You have to make another trek up the Ngozumpa glacier (longest in the Himalayas) in the Gokyo valley, where above the fifth Gokyo lake at 16,400 feet you get to call yourself a “scoundrel” for seeing what Everest trekkers don’t.

High on the Northeast Ridge on the left horizon is the last place Mallory and Irvine were seen heading for the summit in 1924, and then disappeared. Hillary and Tenzing summited in 1953 via the Southeast Ridge over the right horizon. Everest Base Camp in Nepal is at the foot of the big snowy buttress below the West Ridge. Called the West Shoulder, it blocks any view of Everest from Base Camp.

On our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions, we get an abundance of spectacular views of Everest, up close and personal – Scoundrel’s View is only one of many. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #29 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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BURMA’S SACRED GOLDEN ROCK

golden-rockSome three hours’ drive east of Rangoon brings you to Mount Kyaiktiyo, at the top of which (3,600ft) is a gigantic granite boulder covered in gold leaf perched on the edge about to fall off.  But it never does, held in place, legend says, by a strand of the Buddha’s hair put underneath it 2,500 years ago.  Ever since, the Golden Rock has been a sacred pilgrimage site for the Burmese people and Buddhists around the world.

There are very few people here other than pilgrims, who devoutly pray, circumambulate the rock, and reverently place small strips of gold leaf upon it.  It’s a marvelous experience to be among them.  I’ll be here again in January of ’22 – you might consider joining me. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #112 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE MONSTER OF SEFAR

monster-of-sefarCharlatans like Erich von Daniken convinced many gullible readers of his books this “monster” was of an alien in a space suit. Real archaeologists know it’s of an ancient tribal shaman, to be found among the greatest profusion of prehistoric rock art on earth over 10,000 years old in a remote plateau of the Algerian Sahara called the Tassili n’Ajjer.

There are no roads – you must climb up here with pack mules carrying your supplies. No one lives up here, it’s uninhabited. You’ll be among spectacularly gigantic rock formations with over 300 huge natural rock arches, so geologically unique it seems unworldly. In the center of Tassili n’Ajjer known as the Tadrart is a vastly deep gorge, like a knife sliced open the mountain. Clamber down to the bottom and you will discover a forest of 2,000 year-old Saharan cypress trees – yes, a forest in the Sahara, remnants of when the Sahara was green millennia ago.

My son Jackson and I explored here in 2003. Perhaps it’s time to be here again. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #28 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE LEG ROWERS OF INLE LAKE

intha-peopleThe men of the Intha people living on Inle Lake in Burma have a unique way to fish. Using their large conical nets, they row by standing on one leg on the prow of their canoe, and paddle with their other leg. They feed their families this way. Burma (Myanmar) is one of the most picturesque, historical, and serene places on earth. We’ll be there again next February. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #27 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 01/22/21

total-nutsAnd not just goofy, kooky, plain weirdo nuts – but pathologically evil nuts, full-scale, full-bore Orwellian evil nuts.  It’s one of those dystopian movies portraying the future as Hell on Earth, Orwell’s Future in 1984, actually coming true for real.

You go to bed at night thinking, “How could this have happened to America – America! Not some Third World banana tyranny, but the Land of the Free, the freest in history.  How could the American people have done this to themselves, allowed this to happen?”

You wake up the next morning after a troubled sleep thinking, “What a terrible nightmare about America I just had… no, wait… the nightmare is reality…”

Then you realize the nightmare began only day before yesterday, the Day of Infamy, and is going to continue day after day after day for year after year after year.

Keep doing this and you’ll soon go totally nuts yourself.  So here’s what to do.

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A DAY OF INFAMY

The day after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed a Joint Session of Congress and via radio the nation to declare December 7, 1941 “A date that will live in infamy.”  His “Day of Infamy” speech is the most famous of his presidency.

Eighty years later, today, January 20, 2021, is another Day of Infamy for America.  Most tragically, it is worse than that of Pearl Harbor – and a far greater threat.

Pearl Harbor was a military attack on an American island 2,500 miles from our shores by a foreign power.  There was not the slightest ability of the Imperial Japanese to pose a serious threat to seize and conquer our country.

On this day, our country has been seized and conquered as never before in our history, not by a foreign power but by domestic enemies, homegrown fascists dedicated to destroying America’s founding principles, obliterating our Constitution, eliminating our freedom, and being treasonously allied to Communist China.

And so on this day, we must note that FDR’s response to the Day of Infamy at Pearl Harbor was the opposite of defeatist:

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY

JW watching sunset, Funafuti, Tuvalu – photo by TTPer Kellie Ramsey
JW watching sunset, Funafuti, Tuvalu – photo by TTPer Kellie Ramsey

Not just America but the entire World has been going progressively more insane for over a year now, ever since Red China attacked the planet with its Chicom Virus.

Now, the Democrat-Fascist Party has successfully politicized the Scamdemic to enable its theft of the presidency and the demolition of democracy itself.  We are entering a period of darkness for America during which it will be difficult to keep ourselves sane.

Thus today TTP launches a weekly Monday series that hopefully will help in Keeping Your Sanity.  My first effort will be to share something very personal with you.

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WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

How pathetic can you get? Faux-inauguration 2021
How pathetic can you get? Faux-inauguration 2021

[Notice: TTP does not recognize the legitimacy of the Chicom puppet illegally occupying the White House.  Henceforth, every TTP article will refer to this individual as FPX – Fake President Xiden.]

As I grabbed some coffee before heading to the Capitol Building to watch the faux-inauguration of the faux-president, the lovely lady behind the counter told me she had never seen anything like this in D.C. in her life.

And all I can say as I stand here now in the freezing cold with a handful of others is that I hope America never has to see anything like this again. Nothing is as it seems. It is just horrible, in every sense.

There is no one here. What I mean is that there is literally no one here. Even pressed up to the gates within sight of the Capitol Building there is barely a handful of FPX supporters. And he supposedly got 81 million votes?  If you believe that, do I have a great London Bridge deal for you.

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THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, PRESIDENT TRUMP!

worlds-best-president Thank you, Mr. President, for everything you’ve done.

It shouldn’t be ending this way, but I and 74 (really 80 to 100) million other Americans just want to thank you for all your efforts on our behalf over the past four years, actually since you came down the escalator at Trump Tower back in the summer of 2015.

In no particular order:

Thank you for restoring the U.S. as the world’s leading producer of energy – after your predecessor sternly lectured us that we “couldn’t drill our way” out of our dependence on unstable Middle Eastern oil providers.

Thank you for the tax cuts for the middle class.

Thank you for destroying genocidal ISIS, which your predecessor called “the junior varsity.”

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OAMU – A FIELD MANUAL ON ORGANIZING A MASS UPRISING

sncc[Note by JW:  As freedom is being extinguished in a post-Trump America, the principal hope of regaining it is mass peaceful civil disobedience.  TTPer Dale Woolridge has written a manual on how to achieve this.  It will be presented in a series of installments on Mondays.  We expect a lively discussion of his method, strategy and tactics on the Forum, and encourage you to participate]

"America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of the government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long." Ron Paul

Chapter One - Introduction

This manual describes a method for organizing mass uprisings. The method was used with great effect during the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s by a little-known group called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “Snick”).  Note its logo above of racial cooperation, rather than the antagonism of today:

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