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THE AFRICANIZATION OF AMERICA

THE AFRICANIZATION OF AMERICA[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on March 21, 2012.  Then we were suffering under the rule of an America-hating autocrat  from Kenya.  Today, New Yorkers may soon be under the rule of an America-hating autocrat from Uganda. It was written while in Ghana, West Africa, and recounts how a Marxist named Kwame “Africanized” Ghana’s economy into ruin.  Zohan Kwame Mamdani threatens to do exactly that to New York, as it is who  his Marxist father named him after to be his model,  The description below of Ghana’s Kwame fits New York’s Kwame to a T.]

TTP, March 21, 2012

Accra, Ghana.  When the early European explorers sailed down the west coast of Africa and established trading posts, they named sections of the coast according to what was there they could most profitably trade.

There was the Pepper Coast (present day Liberia), for the abundance of melegueta peppers, a valuable spice; the Ivory Coast (still called that today) for elephant tusks; the Slave Coast (present day Togo and Benin, where the brutal Dahomey kingdom sold slaves to the Portuguese to be shipped off to Brazil).

The most prized region they called the Gold Coast – (more…)

FLASHBACK FRIDAY – SLEEPING IN AN IGLOO

jw-bw-iglooApril 1990. When our oldest son Brandon was six years old, I took him with me to the North Pole. It was my 14th expedition there, and as always, we stopped to visit friends at Canada’s northernmost community, the Inuit hunting village of Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island. Brandon thought it would be cool to sleep in an igloo, which the Inuit do only when they’re hunting seals or walrus far out on the ice.

So the villagers happily complied, showing him how they built one, carving out blocks of wind-blown snow, shaping and placing them in an inward-sloped (more…)

OBAMA DISTRAUGHT AS TRUMP BOMBS COOL NUKE FACTORY HE PAID FOR

EDGARTOWN, MA — With the news that the U.S. military had carried out a successful bombing operation in Iran over the weekend, former President Barack Obama was reportedly distraught that President Donald Trump had bombed the cool nuke factory he had paid for.

After several days of speculation, Trump revealed that the U.S. had carried out air strikes to destroy several of Iran’s key nuclear research sites, leaving Obama despondent that the facilities he had fronted the Iranians billions of dollars to build were now gone.

“All those years of money and hard work just blown to bits,” Obama was (more…)

HALF-FULL REPORT 06/27/25

Good grief – how much winning can we take in a week?  Somehow we’ll handle it, comforted by knowing that all of America’s enemies foreign and domestic are in a deep dark hole of depression.

From last Saturday night’s (6/21) epic obliteration of Mullah Iran’s nuke dreams…

 

…to SCOTUS 6-3 scuttling Demtard universal injunction dreams by Trump-hating judges this morning (6/27)…

THE CHRISTIAN CATHEDRAL OF A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T EXIST

cathedral-of-christ-the-saviorBanja Luka, Srpska.  You may never have of this country, the Republic of Srpska, that takes up half the size and 40% of the population of the Balkan country of Bosnia-Herzegovina.  The entire country was conquered and ruled for centuries by the Islamic Ottoman Empire, thus after the Ottomans fell in WWI and Yugoslavia broke apart after the Soviet Union fell, those Bosnians who retained adherence to Christianity through those centuries of Islamic occupation found themselves greatly outnumbered by those who had converted to Islam (“Bosniaks”).  So they (Bosnian Serbs) formed their own country which remains unrecognized by (more…)

IF ILLEGALS ARE ILLEGAL WHY ARE THEIR BABIES CITIZENS?

On his first day in office of his second term, President Trump signed an executive order ending anchor babies, the practice of treating kids born to illegals on U.S. soil as full-fledged citizens.

Three federal district court judges promptly issued (you’ll never guess) nationwide injunctions blocking Trump’s order. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on those injunctions any day now.

It may be that the anchor baby lunacy is, as the Manhattan Institute’s Robert Verbruggen says, “a nutty policy we’re probably stuck with.” The exclusionary rule was invented out of whole cloth, too, and it also did great damage (more…)

MOUTHWASH FOR YOUR BRAIN

Amyloid plaques form among neurons in the brain
Amyloid plaques form among neurons in the brain

Last month (5/01), I told you about Water and Your Brain in a Live Long & Prosper column.  This month, we’re going to talk about… mouthwash for your braln.

And for the same reason – to prevent what you see in the photo above:  orange blobs of amyloid plaques in the brain that cause Alzheimer’s.

As we learned last month – “one of the most common causes of senile dementia and Alzheimer’s is chronic dehydration” – it turns out that another common cause of AD is gingivitis.

 

According to research (more…)

THE SPIRAL CHURCH OF UVEA

church-of-the-sacred-heartHalfway between Samoa and Fiji in the South Pacific lies the French Territory of Wallis and Futuna.  It’s so hard to reach I had to charter a King Air private plane to get here in 2016.  The capital is Mata-Utu on Wallis Island which the native Polynesian islanders call Uvea.  French missionaries arrived at Uvea in 1837 to convert the islanders to Roman Catholic Christianity.  They were Marist Brothers, a branch of the Society of Mary. Today, 99% of the native islanders are Catholic.

The spiral church you see, Église du Sacré-Coeur (Church of the Sacred Heart) was (more…)

MULLAH IRAN SURRENDERS TO DONALD TRUMP

Mullah Iran has long cultivated the image of a nation unwilling to bend to foreign pressure. From Ayatollah Khomeini’s rejection of the West in 1979 to today’s battles over nuclear sovereignty, the Islamic Republic has projected an unyielding front.

Even now, it promptly violated a ceasefire with Israel. Yet, behind this posture, events of the past 72 hours tell a starkly different story.

On June 23rd, Iran fired a volley of missiles toward Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar—America’s largest military installation in the Middle East. All failed to reach their target. The U.S. had been warned of the attack in (more…)

TRUMP BOMBED IRAN – HERE’S HOW 12 MEDIA OUTLETS COVERED THE STORY

[It’s Wednesday – let’s have some fun….]

Okay, Trump bombed Iran. The Babylon Bee has assembled headlines from various media outlets here in one place so you can pick a little bit of the truth out of each to learn the whole story.

 

Here’s how different media outlets are covering the historic news:

  1. New York Times — Quiet Middle Eastern Community Devastated By Unprovoked Trump Attack
  2. Fox News — Trump Neutralizes Terrifying Iran Nuclear Threat With Mere Seconds To Spare
  3. New York Post AYATOLL-YA SO!Iran Out Of Luck As Trump Drops Bodacious Bunker Buster
  4. CNN — Trump Cruelly Deprives Poor Iranian Children Of Nuclear Weapon (more…)

TEENAGERS OF BUKHARA

bukhara-teenagersBukhara is the oldest city on the fabled Silk Road.  You’ve seen Glimpses of The Well of Job, where legend says Job of the Old Testament struck the ground with his staff, creating a well bubbling with fresh pure water that still flows today.

And of The Ark of Bukhara, the palace-fortress of Bukhara rulers since 500 BC.  The ancient Silk Road oasis has a history of 5,000 years.  I was first here in 1963, a 19 year-old teenager with a summer job of filming fabulously exotic places in Central Asia unknown to the West for a Hollywood (more…)

ISRAEL GOES ALL IN FOR REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN

It’s official without being official.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put Israel all in to try to help facilitate regime change in Iran.

He is not saying it 100% explicitly, and the IDF is very carefully avoiding saying it, but on Monday (6/23), for the first time, the IDF attacks on Iran seemed to be overwhelmingly against the regime’s internal political power versus its nuclear or external military power.

Israel is now doing almost everything it can to remove the obstacles preventing the Iranian people to rise up and remove the mullahs from power.

Israel’s air force took the time (more…)

PRESIDENT BADASS

president-badassThe word “badass” was bandied about a lot after the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump last year.

Famously, the bloodied Republican candidate raised his fist in defiance.

In a different context, the same pungent word applies to his 2 a.m. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Trump the TV star has a knack for the theatrical and grand gesture. That obviously matters in domestic politics, but in international affairs, too, where projecting strength and command are just as important.

 

We don’t know where the war heads from here, and need to learn more about the damage that was inflicted. (more…)

HOW CLOSE CAN YOU GET TO A BABY SPERM WHALE?

baby-sperm-whaleThis close – if you’re at the right place at the right time in the right boat.  That would be the Canal do Faial channel between the islands of Faial and Pico in the Azores, populated by more spawning sperm whales that just about anywhere else.  It’s also a haven for many other whale and dolphin species on their migratory route between the North and South Atlantic.

This is one of the world’s best whale-watching sites each year in June—and we plan to be there again on our exploration of Atlantic Paradises next year.

You won’t believe how truly paradisical (more…)

TRUMP’S GENIUS HEAD FAKE

I woke up early yesterday morning (6/22) to this NY Post cover and realized I was suddenly living in Mea Culpa City.

In Friday’s HFR, I had been totally suckered by POTUS’ head fake that morning (6/20): Trump To Decide ‘Within Next Two Weeks’ Whether To Join Iran Strikes — White House. Along with just about everyone else including every government leader on the planet save for Bibi, I thought this was yet another feckless Trump delay – never dreaming that the B-2 war plan was already underway at the time of the “Two Weeks” announcement.

Perhaps most astonishing (more…)