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THE ANTI-AMERICAN RIGHT

[This Monday’s Archive was originally posted in TTP on October 29, 2003.  Lately in TTP, you’ve been learning about the Anti-American Right of today in Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens’ Terrifying Descent into Madness, and The Freak World of Nick Fuentes.  So it may be illuminating to realize that the Right has always been infested with once-sane folks who’ve gone wacko.  The causes may be different – although a pathological anti-Semitism seems a common denominator. That and being a Useful Idiot for the Kremlin. Feel quite free to offer your opinion in the Forum.]

TTP, October 29, 2003

Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it?  It’s the Left — liberals, left-wingers, socialists, commies, pinkos, the Noam Chomskys and Alec Baldwins and Barbra Streisands — that hates America.  But the Right — good old flag-waving patriotic God Bless America conservatives?  How could they possibly be anti-American?  It sounds ridiculous.

Yet whatever sense or nonsense it makes, Anti-Americanism is seeping into the entire conservative movement and is threatening to splinter it into pieces.  This is going to cost me friendships as I’m about to name names.

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AZENHAS DO MAR

A cliff-top fishing village on the Italian Riviera? Nope, Azenhas (ah-zhane-yas) do Mar – Watermills of the Sea – is on the Portuguese Riviera. This is a magic place of fairy tale castles, thousand year-old fortresses, luxury boutique hotels, fabulous food, great wine, gorgeous beaches, and postcard-perfect scenery everywhere.

The Portuguese people are among the kindest in Europe, while Portugal is one of the safest countries in the world. Of all the planet’s First World countries, it’s hard to find one more calm and serene than here.

If you’d like a personal experience of the best of Portugal, Wheeler Expeditions can arrange it for you. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #87 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/20/26

This past week has seen political dynamite going off all over the place, but most explosive of all has been set off by a Brit named Rupert Lowe.  An MP (Member of Parliament) with Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, he couldn’t handle Nigel’s endlessly catering to the gigantic horde of Muslim immigrants taking over and actually raping his country.

Instead of stopping the catering, Nigel ejected him from Reform – whereupon, last Friday (2/13), he formed his own party, Restore Britain.  Instantly, Brits in the tens of thousands abandoned Nigel’s Reform and joined Restore. In one week, from last Friday to this, Restore Britain has 80,000 members  Here is Rupert Lowe’s  announcement that sparked the explosion (notice the over 40 million views): Instead of stopping the catering, Nigel ejected him from Reform – whereupon, last Friday (2/13), he formed his own party, Restore Britain.  Instantly, Brits in the tens of thousands abandoned Nigel’s Reform and joined Restore. In one week, from last Friday to this, Restore Britain has 80,000 members  Here is Rupert Lowe’s  announcement that sparked the explosion (notice the over 40 million views):

Rupert may well succeed in being the next UK Prime Minister.  With that, America has a vital partner in rescuing Western Civilization.  OK, everyone, we’re off on another illuminating HFR!

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CIVILIZATIONAL CONFIDENCE

[This Monday’s Archive was originally published in TTP on December 28, 2006. It was a plea that America regain the civilizational confidence that we had lost 20 years ago. Last Friday (2/13) that plea was answered.  As Mike Ryan was writing his astonishingly brilliant HFR – which is an absolute must-read – at the same time at the Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was delivering an unabashedly heroic call for Western countries – what was once called Christendom – to regain their confidence in Western Civilization. Nothing could be more important that it be regained.]  

TTP, December 28, 2006

Here’s a tip for all of you younger folks in your 20s and 30s.  If you think the world is strange now, wait ‘till you get older.  For the older you get, the weirder the world looks.

There comes a time for us when the observation of scientist J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) regarding the ultimate laws of physics governing the universe comes into play, that “the Universe is not only weirder than we suppose, but weirder than we can suppose.”

Then again, Haldane had an unusual sense of humor.  His famous reply, when asked what attribute of God, the Creator of the Universe, he personally found most remarkable, was:  “An inordinate fondness for beetles.”

There are an estimated five to eight million separate species of beetles comprising the order Coleoptera.

 

But far weirder to me than beetles and science’s inability to explain sub-atomic particles in terms other than probabilities is being at an airport.

Specifically, being at an airport waiting to board an incredibly complex machine that will lift me and hundreds of other people thousands of feet into the air, and land us safely on the ground thousands of miles away in a few hours – a simply astounding achievement of reason and civilization – while a few minutes before I had to take off my shoes and had a tube of toothpaste confiscated because of fear of proto-hominid barbarians chanting Allahu akhbar who want to destroy such achievements.

What is stone cold weird is that the civilization capable of such achievements tolerates the proto-hominids for a picosecond.

So we come to the key fundamental issue of our day, the outcome of which will determine our future:  civilizational confidence.

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“THE OLD WORLD IS GONE”

I am here to tell you that the pundits are wrong: that America First never meant America Alone, that Donald Trump has no intention of dissolving or “shattering” NATO.The Trump foreign policy is not to abandon allies but to force them to stop freeloading, to make them true partners, not surly dependents, and by doing so, across the world, from Europe to the Middle East to Taiwan and Japan, reduce American overreach — paid for endlesssly by the American taxpayer — and replace it with an unassailable alliance that maintains peace through strength.

It is true nationalism: the idea that discrete groups of people should have the right to rule themselves, not to be ruled by a foreign elite in some distant capital, whether London or Moscow or Beijing or Brussels. It is the idea that those nations are responsible to and serve the interests of their own people. And it is the axiom that such nations should be able to defend themselves, not outsourcing their sovereignty but standing upright, individually, or in concert.

Indeed, “the old world is gone.” The order now ushered in is not just different: it’s better.

The following address, above in full video and reprinted in full and beautifully articulating the vision I’m sharing with you, was delivered to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday(2/14) by Donald Trump’s Secretary of State and my former Senator Marco Rubio. In Munich, Secretary of State Marco Rubio buries the old order, defines the new era in geopolitics in which American allies must be true partners, not dependents...and gets a standing ovation. …RDM

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THE GROUND TROOPS OF THE REVOLUTION ARE BEING TRAINED BEFORE OUR EYES

I'm pretty sure that most parents have no idea that their children are being trained to become cannon fodder for the insurgency that has been gaining steam for quite a while.

Insurgencies are fundamentally different in their tactics from revolutions, even though their goals are largely the same.

Revolutions seek to replace the current order through a spasm of violence, and while they can and often do build upon work done by an insurgency, they need not.

They can be triggered by events or by a perceived weakness of the regime, whether caused by internal or external factors, while insurgencies aim to erode the regime's strength through some form of asymmetrical warfare.

The whole point of the "long march through the institutions" was to slowly build an insurgency by weakening the American regime through internal subversion and by training several generations through ideological indoctrination and destroying social trust.

First, take over academia, then government, and K-12, coopt the media and turn it into Pravda, and only then resort to low-level violence and unleashing criminals.

Because most adults fail to see the pattern and still trust our institutions despite their hollowing out, the left has made huge strides in achieving its goals, and perhaps the most important success story has been its takeover of public schools.

Conservatives rightly focus on the propagandistic efforts of Pravda to brainwash people, but that brainwashing is aimed at adults who will not be the ground troops of the revolution they hope to spark.

Children are especially ripe for brainwashing and recruitment for obvious reasons, and one of the key tasks of schools is teaching students how to be citizens in a Republic.

They used to teach civics. Now they teach activism and revolution.

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THE FREAK WORLD OF NICK FUENTES

[TTP:  Mature audiences may not be aware of Nick Fuentes or his “Groypers,” but our kids and grandkids almost certainly are. It behooves us to make ourselves aware.] [TTP:  Mature audiences may not be aware of Nick Fuentes or his “Groypers,” but our kids and grandkids almost certainly are. It behooves us to make ourselves aware.]

Whatever else may be said about him, one fact cannot be denied: Nicholas J. Fuentes, the 27-year-old racialist influencer, is on the run of his life.

That’s a remarkable shift from 2017, when Fuentes was a little-known university freshman who hosted a little-watched political talk show. Over time, he developed a fanatical, cultlike following known as the “Groypers.”

His digital following soon crossed over into the real world: first, with his involvement in the 2017 Unite the Right rally; then, with his long-running feud with conservative activist Charlie Kirk; and finally, with his role in “Stop the Steal,” which culminated outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Fuentes has cultivated a reputation as the most provocative and controversial figure on the Right. He has done this by embracing taboos, praising Hitler, and opposing interracial marriage.

In turn, he has ridden a wave of spectacle and outrage to new heights, with an appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show, and garnering frequent coverage in outlets such as the New York Times and The Atlantic.

Attempting to undercut his growing influence, the media and Fuentes’s right-leaning critics both tend to focus on Fuentes’s record of offensive remarks. Take Fuentes’s appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. During the two-hour interview, Morgan played a litany of clips from Fuentes’s talk show, highlighting bigoted comments he’s made over the years.

But this line of attack merely plays into Fuentes’s hands.

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RUMINATING ON RUEMMLER

You may only now be hearing about Kathryn Ruemmler because of her connections to Jeffrey Epstein — including reports that she referred to him as “Uncle Jeffrey” and accepted a $9,400 Hermes handbag from him — but you have seen her work. Those associations ultimately led to her recent resignation from Goldman Sachs, yet Ruemmler, Barack Obama’s White House counsel and often described as a political “fixer,” has been near some of the most consequential controversies of the past two decades.

Washington insists it runs on rules, but every so often the public sees something else — not a cinematic conspiracy, but a professional ecosystem. A network, sometimes called the “swamp,” a governing class that moves from government to law firms to finance to media and back again, carrying influence with it almost like diplomatic immunity.

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THE STALLING OF THE SAVE AMERICA ACT –A GIFT?

Rarely is there a political issue like the SAVE America Act, which is extremely popular with the American people, but lacks support in the upper house of Congress. The SAVE America Act, if voted into law, would put an end to most vote fraud and election irregularities in America. About 80% of voters support the bill, yet it has less than 50% support from U.S. senators.

It is obvious why there is overwhelming support from the people for this legislation. Election integrity is the DNA of America. The legitimacy and moral authority of the country come only from the people who express their preferences for their local, state, and national government officials through free and fair elections. When there is vote fraud and election irregularities, the moral authority of government is compromised, causing the people to disrespect and distrust their own government.

The moral authority of United States is also critical in maintaining regional and world order and peace. The most crucial factor in prevailing against corrupt regimes and dictatorial foreign governments is often the moral authority of the United States. When the U.S. loses its moral authority, as it did during the Biden administration, the deterrent power of the United States is compromised and foreign adversaries are emboldened.

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DOES MIGHT MAKE RIGHT?

We’d all like to think we live in a just world. A world in which the strong take care of the weak, and where good ultimately triumphs.But if we’re being honest, we know that’s not the case. There is no shortage of injustice in the world or examples of rulers abusing their power.

For many people, this is a painful realization they come to only in adulthood.

But to the Greeks, it was common knowledge.

Writing nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides highlighted this in a famous passage from his History of the Peloponnesian War. Known today as the “Melian Dialogue,” the section reveals the harsh reality of power politics. It has inspired leaders and politicians ever since, and debates continue to rage as to what the proper response should be to the reality Thucydides portrays.

Today, we look at the Melian Dialogue to respond to the question, “Does might make right?” The answer, you might be surprised to learn, is far from straightforward…

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: SMUGGLERS PARADISE

jw-with-merchant-on-boat Khasab, Musendam, Enclave of Oman, October 2006. The sharp tip of Arabia, known as the Musandam Point, sticks into the Persian Gulf, separating it from the Indian Ocean. The Strait of Hormuz is only 30 miles wide from Musandam Point to the coast of Iran, and through it passes a substantial fraction of the world's crude oil.

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I came here to see the Persian smugglers. Go down to the wharves in Khasab and you will see them piled high with waterproof-wrapped bales of clothes, cases of soft drinks and juice, cartons of children's toys and electronic goods, an entire shopping mall of stuff, all ready to be crammed and tied down into 20 ft. long open speedboats with powerful outboard motors capable of outrunning Iranian Navy patrols.

There are dozens, scores, of waiting speedboats. The run from Khasab harbor to coves on the Iranian coast or the Iranian island of Qeshm takes about three hours. An average night will see dozens of speedboats racing across the Strait of Hormuz smuggling goods into Iran. The smugglers couldn’t have been more friendly to me. They hate the mullahs and are proud they are helping poor people in Iran. I had a great time with them. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #169 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA

sands-of-iwo-jimaThis is the black sand beach the US Marines stormed on February 19, 1945, beginning the legendary Battle of Iwo Jima. Overlooking the beach is Mount Suribachi, where four days later Joe Rosenthal took his iconic photo of six Marines planting the US flag on its summit.

You can come here once a year at a commemoration jointly held by the US and Japanese militaries. Guests of honor are the few Marine veterans of the battle still alive. I attended on the 70th Anniversary of the battle in 2015. To be here on these sands and on the summit of Suribachi, where the memorial lauds them – “On Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue” – with these heroic men is an indescribable privilege. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #23, photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS OF MALTA

christian-knights-of-maltaThey look real, don’t they?  Ready to defend their Christian land with their lives.  We are in the Palace Armory Museum of Malta, where you realize there is no nation on earth more proud of their Christian heritage.  It was on Malta in 1565 that a few thousand Christian Knights led by 70 year-old Jean de Vallette defeated in utter humiliation a massive horde of Moslem Ottomans led by Suleiman the Magnificent.

In seeking to use Malta as his launchpad to conquer all of Christian Europe, Suleiman was bitter in defeat: “This cursed island is like a barrier interposed between us and our possessions,” believing that Allah ordained all Christian lands need be taken for Islam by the sword.

Vallette knew what he and his Knights faced: “It is the great battle of the Cross and the Koran which is now to be fought. A formidable army of infidels is at the point of invading our island.”

The incredibly heroic saga of the Knights’ victory is told in The Siege of Malta, on TTP since 2009.  What’s critical to understand now is that, after 5½ centuries, the Maltese people are just as proud of their history and Christian heritage as ever.

Come with me in early November to meet them, to make this history a part of your life, and experience The Magic of Malta.    (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #264 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE GREAT BLACK OF MAKALU

black-of-makaluThe 5th highest mountain on earth at 8,463 meters/27,765ft, Makalu is Sanskrit for “Great Black” – a name for Shiva, the Hindu god of creative destruction, as here is one of his homes. You’re looking face on the Southeast Ridge (the right side in sun, the left side in shade), which is the primary climbing route.

You’re seeing the entire south side of Makalu in Nepal, while the north side is in Tibet with the border running along the horizon crestline. Makalu Base Camp lies below the bottom right corner of the photo. This was taken at over 20,000 feet on our approach from Everest and Lhotse – 12 miles away – during our Himalaya Helicopter Expedition, or “HHE.”

Everyone is understandably entranced with Everest – yet the other 8,000 meter Himalayan giants are breathtakingly magnificent in their own right, and you can see why with Makalu. On our HHE, we went to them all! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #37 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE KASBAH OF AÏT BENHADDOU

ait-benhaddouAït Benhaddou is a thousand year-old kasbah or fortified village on the ancient trade route from the Sahara to Marrakech in Morocco. It’s constructed entirely of rammed earth, adobe, and wood.

Remember the famous scene in Gladiator where Maximus shouts “Are you not entertained?!” to the bloodthirsty crowd? It was filmed here, as were scenes in many other movies such as “The Jewel of the Nile,” and “The Mummy,” or the series ”The Game of Thrones.”

Yet this is no location set – people live here, scores of families, as they have for a millennium. You’re welcome to come here to see how they live for real – as here Hollywood is far, far away. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #181 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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