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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 (more…)

THE REVEAL OF HOW DEMOCRATS PULLED OFF THE GREATEST POLITICAL TRICK IN HISTORY

The Conjurer (1502), Hieronymus Bosch

Washington has been  rocked by new releases in the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian investigation. The material shows further evidence of a secret plan by the Clinton campaign to use the FBI and media to spread a false claim that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.

With this material, the public is finally seeing how officials and reporters set into motion what may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in American politics. There never was a Russian collusion conspiracy.

This is the emerging story of the real Russian conspiracy to (more…)

DOJ DEALS CHINA A CRUSHING BLOW AND DEMS HATE IT

The Bondi Justice Department just dropped a bombshell on Beijing, and it’s about time.

The DOJ recently greenlit theHewlitt-Packard (HPE)-Juniper telecom merger, which may create a company big and strong enough to finally end the reign of terror of Huawei, the Chinese Communist Party-backed tech giant whose goal is global domination of everything from 5G to AI and enterprise networking.

Ten days after President Trump’s inauguration, an interim antitrust chief — acting before President Trump’s core DOJ team was confirmed — tried to block the HPE-Juniper merger.

 

Why the U-turn?

Well, according to an Axios report that was published (more…)

AFRICAN FLATDOGS

flat-dog-crocHere in Zambia and elsewhere in Africa, crocodiles are nicknamed “Flatdogs.” You can see why. They spend much of their lives lying flat on the mud bank of a pond or river. Yet when on the hunt they can attack with astounding speed and surprise, leaping unseen from muddy water upon an unsuspecting target twenty feet away in an instant. This happened to a young boy fishing along the Luangwa River near our encampment just days ago. Africa is unforgiving of the unwary. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #142 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

HILLARY IS GOING TO LOSE

[This Monday’s Archive was first in TTP on September 2, 2016.  Now at last, her evil deeds are finally catching up with her.  Megyn Kelly is but one of a growing chorus demanding she be prosecuted and imprisoned.  Arrest Hillary is trending on X. Last night (8/03) on Fox News: CIA Director Ratcliffe: Clinton’s Russia Collusion Hoax ‘Greatest Political Scandal’ of Our Time’. Two months before the 2016 election, this article explained how she would lose that election.  Now it looks like she’s going to lose her freedom,  deservedly so.]


TTP, September 2, 2016

What does she stand for? What are the genuine accomplishments in her life? What new innovative ideas does she have to change the current direction of the country that two-thirds of voters think is wrong?

Then there are questions of ethics and morality. Ereyesterday (8/28), Roger Simon laid out the stakes:

“The truth about the Clinton Foundation is already clear: (more…)

FLASHBACK FRIDAY – WITH THE KHAMPAS IN TIBET

jw-w-khampas-in-tibetOctober 1987, on an overland expedition across the entire Chang Tang Tibetan Plateau. Here is where you find the warrior nomads of Tibet, the Khampas. Renowned and feared for fierceness, they couldn’t have been friendlier to me when I gave them each what they treasured most in the world – a photo of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, far more valuable to them than gold.

Before, they were suspicious and angry at a stranger intruding upon them. Instantly with gifting the photos, they were joyous and smiling. They had no idea who I was, all they knew was that (more…)

AWKWARD! OBAMA, HILLARY HIRE SAME HITMAN TO KILL EACH OTHER

U.S. — In an awkward turn of events, former President Barack Obama and former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton reportedly hired the same hitman to kill each other.

The two political figures were allegedly compelled to target each other as more information related to the Trump-Russia collusion hoax was declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who claims the two were complicit in a coup to undermine the Trump presidency.

This prompted the pair to allegedly target the other in a desperate attempt to tie off any loose ends.

The matter became known when a hitman working under the pseudonym (more…)

HALF-FULL REPORT 08/01/25

But hasn’t the Supreme Court ruled Presidents have immunity from prosecution?  Yes… but.

Remember Trump’s infamous Second Impeachment Trial?  The trial began on February 9, 2021 – when Trump was no longer President (he was acquitted Feb 13).  This is precedent for impeaching a president for offenses committed while in office after he is out of office.

 

Now let’s cite Article I Section 3 Clause 7 of the Constitution:

“Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the (more…)

THE WALLS OF TROY

walls-of-troyYes, these are the actual legendary walls of Troy that Homer immortalized in the Iliad. Or what remains of them 3,200 years later. You see here the East Gate of Troy VIIa, the layer demolished in ashes archaeologists believe where the historical basis of the Trojan War occurred in 1180 BC.

This was Troia or Ilium for the ancient Greeks, after the city’s founder Tros and his son Ilus. They firmly believed what Homer described was real history, and the heroes portrayed – Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Ajax, Patrocles, Paris and Priam – really lived. They knew just where (more…)

THE WAR ON HOT WOMEN: WHY THE WOKE MOB HATES SYDNEY SWEENEY

It’s the Woke Mob’s latest insanity – an ad for blue jeans excoriated for promoting Whiteness making it “Nazi propaganda.”  Leading the charge is MSNBC producer Hannah Holland, writing on Wednesday (7/29):

So let’s cut the nonsense: liberal women aren’t mad at Sydney Sweeney because she’s “setting women back.” That’s just the excuse they’re throwing around because they don’t want to admit the truth.

They’re mad because she’s young, hot, White, and blonde. And they’re mad that corporations are finally waking up to the truth: that the American people are done with woke!

 

If she were 300 pounds and (more…)

RUSSIA’S PERPETUAL WARS

putnsperpetualwarHere is an excerpt from a memorandum (1900) written by the Russian War Minister General Kuropatkin to Emperor Nicholas II:

“Your Imperial Majesty! Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Russia spent 128 years at war… Of those, only 5 were defensive wars; all the rest—aggressive campaigns… The foreign wars lasted more than 67 years of continuous fighting; the defensive wars lasted 2 years and 1 month. The rest, 121 military operations, were waged beyond the borders of the empire.”

 

The Soviet regime became the direct heir of tsarist power, though far bloodier and more aggressive. During the USSR’s 73 (more…)

THE JADE ROAD

the-jade-roadThe oldest part of the Silk Road was originally called the Jade Road along the string of oases watered by runoff from the Kunlun mountains of northern Tibet on the southern edge of the Takla Makan desert in Chinese Turkestan. This is where the finest jade was to be found, washed down from Tibet. This is the route that Marco Polo took with his father and uncle in 1272 to reach the court of the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan.

This is what the Jade Road looks like today, near the fabled oasis of Khotan. Save for the road being asphalted (more…)

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY BECOMES THE GRAVEYARD OF PROGRESSIVE MISADVENTURES

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Sometime after the election of Barack Obama in 2008, the American Left began exploring, then embracing, and finally enacting agendas that proved not only unhinged and unworkable but also fatal to the left-wing project itself.

How did the party so alienate the middle classes when it once professed it was the sole party and protector of those in-between? How did the Democrat Congress sink to a 16 percent approval rating in a current liberal Quinnipiac University poll? How could 63 percent of registered voters view the Democrats unfavorably in a recent Wall Street Journal poll?

In sum: despise the middle (more…)

THUNDER WITHOUT SOUND: MELANIA TRUMP’S SILENT COMMAND

There’s a rare kind of elegance that doesn’t come from handlers, stylists, or algorithms. It comes from knowing who you are before the world decides who you should be.

Melania Trump didn’t arrive in Washington looking to be molded. She arrived whole. A woman who had already survived a communist upbringing, brutal fashion circuits, and tabloid cruelty, which meant she didn’t need America’s approval.

And that’s precisely why they couldn’t look away.

While others in the political orbit begged for the spotlight, Melania Trump did something that felt borderline rebellious: She stood still. She didn’t chase applause. She didn’t retweet (more…)

WALT DISNEY’S REAL CASTLE

castle-of-st-hilarionThis is the ruins of the Castle of St. Hilarion in Northern Cyprus. In 1191, the Byzantine ruler of Cyprus made the mistake of capturing a ship carrying Princess Berengaria of Navarre and held her hostage. She was the fiancée of England’s King Richard the Lion-Heart. You don’t do that to a guy nicknamed Lion-Heart.

Richard proceeded to conquer the whole island and turned it over to a group of French Catholic knights led by Guy de Lusignan. The knights built a series of fortified castles around the island to ward off the Moslem “Saracens.” The most spectacular was atop (more…)