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HOW TRUMP IS BURSTING THE BUREAUCRATS’ DC BUBBLE ONE AGENCY AT A TIME

A hallmark of President Donald Trump’s second term is that he’s not just promoting his own policies — he’s looking to shake up the American power structure from top to bottom.

Step by step, he is undermining or destroying the left’s decades-old program to achieve total dominance of government and politics through its control of money and institutions.

That’s what Trump is up to with his plan to move much of the federal bureaucracy out of the Washington, DC, area and into the rest of the country.

In doing so, he’s infuriating federal bureaucrats leading cushy lives in DC and (more…)

WILL NEW DOGE AI BREAK DEEP STATE POWER?

Image by GrokThe Deep State is a budget-busting, bureaucratic tyranny, crushing capitalist meritocracy and social values. It is a self-directed, out-of-control monster that fights MAGA tooth and claw.

However, the brilliant computer “nerds” of Elon Musk’s Department Of Governmental Efficiency are already using the first version of their Artificial Intelligence software tool. It may eventually curb the Deep State as much as possible. From an article at The Washington Post (7/28):

“DOGE Builds AI Tool To Cut 50 Percent Of Federal Regulations

The tool, called the ‘DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,’ is supposed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to determine which (more…)

IS TAIWAN A POSSESSION OF THE UNITED STATES?

Flag of the Republic of Formosa 1895
Flag of the Republic of Formosa 1895

[This Monday’s Archive was first in TTP on August 11, 2005.  Twenty years later, the question remains. Wikipedia’s article on the Political Status of Taiwan is completely unaware of it.  The argument that under international law the treaty that ended World War II resulting in the United States Military Government having jurisdiction over Taiwan and certainly not China remains valid today. This is perhaps one of the most significant geopolitical facts in the world yet remains unknown and unacknowledged.]

Communist China, the People’s Republic of China or PRC, never tires of denouncing Taiwan as a “renegade province” that belongs to it, and bitterly complaining that any attempt by any country anywhere in the world to treat Taiwan as a sovereign independent nation is a gross interference in China’s “internal affairs.”

This claim should  be publicly exposed as baseless – for it turns out that as a matter of international law, Taiwan is legally an overseas possession of the United States of America.

Taiwan has been inhabited by a Malayo-Polynesian aboriginal people for (more…)

THE DUNES OF SOSSUSVLEI

dunes-of-sossusvleiThe colossal red-orange dunes of Sossusvlei in Namibia are the world’s highest, largest, and oldest sand dunes. The one you see here is nicknamed Big Daddy at over 1,000 feet high. You climb it barefoot in early morning – and take plenty of water! The sand of Big Daddy is five million years old, filled with iron oxide giving its color.

Sossusvlei is in the middle of the Namib Sand Sea, which is the oldest desert on Earth, over 60 million years old. Plants, small animals and insects live here on the water from fog than often blankets the desert (more…)

FLASHBACK FRIDAY JACKSON AT NAMCHE BARWA

jackson-at-namche-barwaIn the summer of 2001, I led an overland expedition of 2,500 kilometers across Eastern Tibet, traversing by foot the “Great River Trenches of Asia,” over the 15,000’ Si-la pass between the Salween and Mekong Rivers, thence to the Upper Yangtze by 4WD following it to near its source, onto Lhasa, capital of Tibet.

Enroute we stopped at incredibly remote and rarely seen Namche Barwa (7,782m/25,531ft), the eastern terminus of the Himalayas, which run in a 1,600 mile-long arc from here in Tibet through Nepal, Northwest India, to end at the western terminus of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.

At nine (more…)

HULK HOGAN MAKES SURPRISE ENTRANCE IN HEAVEN TO CHALLENGE JACOB TO WRESTLING MATCH

HEAVEN — What began as a regular day in Heaven was quickly turned upside-down, as legendary sports entertainment icon Hulk Hogan made a surprise entrance to challenge Jacob to a wrestling match.

Jacob, long regarded as the most experienced and intimidating wrestler in the Bible, was reportedly standing in the heavenly ring and speaking to a large crowd of his fans when Hogan’s “Real American” theme music blared over the speakers, heralding the arrival of the Hulkster.

“Oh my! What’s this? Can it be? It is! It’s Hulk Hogan!” an angelic commentator said as Hogan walked to the ring. “What’s (more…)

HALF-FULL REPORT 07/25/25

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Welcome to the Stupefaction HFR.  We’re six months into Trump’s Second Presidency as of last Sunday (7/20/25) and it’s nothing short of outright stupefying.  POTUS and his entire White House have every right to strut, preen, and engage in hyperbolic pride.

And it’s all so scrumptiously Schadenfreudelicious how the Democrats and Woke Left are in a dark abyss of hopeless bitterness over it.

So let’s enjoy being stupefied as we recount how the winning has continued this week.  We’ll start with Tulsi and a deeper dive into Obama’s Russia Collusion Hoax. You’ll have a reminder of who enabled the hoax, (more…)

NAPOLEON’S DEATH BED

napoleons-death-bedLongwood House, Saint Helena Island, Atlantic Ocean. On May 5, 1821, Napolean died in this bed. He was surrounded by some 15 of his companions with their wives and children, doctors, servants, a priest, and a British Officer. There has been much speculation of the cause, but arsenic – either poisoning or in the wallpaper – has now been ruled out, and the original diagnosis of stomach cancer seems now confirmed. He was 51.

After his escape from exile on Elba, an island a few miles off the northwest coast of Italy, Napoleon suffered his final defeat at Waterloo on (more…)

THE ENEMY WITHIN: THE BILLION DOLLAR CHINESE GROW HOUSE INDUSTRY

the-enemy-within-the-billion-dollarIt’s a billion-dollar industry, illegal and controlled by Chinese mafia networks in quiet rural and suburban neighborhoods across America.

If that weren’t concerning enough, it also involves drugs, money laundering, illegal immigration, slave labor, and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) extensive influence in the American heartland.

Earlier this month, a major FBI bust of a grow house network in New England was reported with details of the massive scale of marijuana production used to generate profits routed back to China. Boston Herald (7/09): Feds Take Down Chinese-Operated Grow Home Network In Massachusetts, Maine

It’s frankly shocking to read the July (more…)

AMERICA DESERVES BETTER THAN A CRACKED-OUT CLOWN CAR DEMOCRAT PARTY

America deserves better than the degenerate propaganda machine that passes for “elite” journalism. We deserve better than the evil “cracked-out clown car” the Democrat Party has become.

The New York Times and the Washington Post all but ignored DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell press conference yesterday (Wednesday 7/23), at which she announced that she had sent criminal referrals to the DOJ and FBI implicating former President Barack Obama and his national security team in the “seditious conspiracy” of the Russia collusion hoax.

No wonder the best of the Democrats have switched to the Trump GOP. Authentic, principled leaders who might once (more…)

MYSTERY LAKES OF THE GOBI

mystery-lakes-of-gobiThe southernmost portion of the Gobi Desert is called the Alashan in Inner Mongolia. Traversed by Marco Polo in 1273 on his way to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, he said it contained a “mystery.”

For in the hidden center of the Alashan is an area known as Badain Jaran, “Mystery Lakes” in Mongolian. There are some 140 of these small lakes surrounded by enormous sand dunes. The photo you see is of one of these lakes, taken in late afternoon on a windless day, with the giant dunes above reflected on the water.

We were there in (more…)

RUSSIA’S SUMMER OF DOUBT AND FOREBODING

Russia Faces Intense Barrage Of Ukraine Drones Shutting Down Moscow Airports | Sunday July 20, 2025

Ukraine drone attacks on Moscow and all over Russia are a regular occurrence now.

No wonder, then, that the fourth summer of Moscow’s war against Ukraine has brought feelings of tiredness and hopelessness, rather than the usual seasonal optimism, to Russia.

The spring expectations of a probable cessation of hostilities are gone, and the messages from the Kremlin about the firm determination to stay the course aimed at subjugating Ukraine undercut the longing for a normal life.

Opinion polls cannot fully capture this shift (more…)

PROTECT YOUR DEUCE — ASSEMBLING EVERY DAY EMERGENCY SUPPLIES

deucewild_survivalkit1aEnd of the world scenarios are bad enough to consider.  You have the entire nature of the American social and legal contract hinging on the outcome of every election.  You can’t bend down to get anything without asking the people behind you who they voted for.

It is true that aliens, Al Qaeda, or just your nutty neighbors may attack in the middle of the day and plunge you into a Battle Los Angeles situation, but the more likely scenario is that some ridiculously common issue is going to have you sweating and going wee-wee-wee-all-the-way-home before the apocalypse happens. (more…)

IMPRESSIONISM’S ISLAND

lakshadweepBangaram Atoll, Laccadive Islands, India. The “Lacquered” islands or Laccadives are legendary for the glossiness of the Indian Ocean surrounding them. There are three dozen of these coral atolls over 150 miles off the coast of southwest India – but moorkh Indian bureaucrats insist on calling them “Lakshadweep,” Sanskrit for “100,000. Go figure.

Paintings of the French Impressionists of the 19th century merged dreams and reality. Here that is for real. The beauty in the Laccadives can be so astonishing that it seems surreal – like when the ocean and sky merge into one in a palette of (more…)

THIS MAKES WATERGATE LOOK LIKE AMATEUR HOUR

notabovelaw_vidscrnshtIn recent days, new evidence has emerged showing that the Obama administration intentionally manipulated and politicized intelligence to advance the Russian collusion hoax — despite conflicting assessments from within the intelligence community itself.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has accused former President Barack Obama of orchestrating a “manufactured, politicized piece of intelligence” to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency before it began. A cache of over 100 declassified documents that her office released includes a December 2016 President’s Daily Brief reportedly confirming that Russia had neither the intent nor capability to alter the outcome of the 2016 election.

According to Gabbard, (more…)