KAG202508013 Open Thread & Redacted Operation Gladio

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I am going to cover three Operation Gladio videos. I consider them very important because they show how the Criminal Cartel creates the false reality we are now living in. These videos also make a good case that President Trump has been the target of a Gladio Operation since he came down the elevator. I know this is a long article and these three videos are long. However they are very important. Q was not kidding when he talked about the 16 year plan to destroy the USA.

For the first two videos I am just going to point out a few items. They provide more indepth info than the Redacted video.

OPERATION GLADIO – CHAPTER 64 – “OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY 2.0”- EP.442

In this video Alpha & the Colonel bring the actual documents backing up what she says in the Redacted Operation Gladio primer. For example @ 1:05:00 they show the declassified documents that contain the actual USA Gladio stay-behind manual (FM31-21A from 1961) stamped for use by US Police Departments and National Guard Units. Chapters 7 – 9 reproduced verbatim EU Gladio Handbooks. There is also a syllabus. They are basically a copy of the Italian Gladio Field Manual #2 for use INSIDE THE USA!

They go thru the PEOPLE and how they are all connected and what actions they take. Well worth a listen. They also discuss Operation Garden Plot Wiki. Alpha, as a former police officer tells of his brush with this mess @ 1:10:00

Colonel: THE CIA MAKES ‘INTELLIGENCE’ UP TO JUSTIFY THE END STATE. [Desired outcome.]They do not nor have they ever actually generated REAL intelligence. They CRAFT intelligence for an end state. [For example Russiagate.]


OPERATION GLADIO – CHAPTER 66 – “OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING”- EP.448

In this second video, they build upon the information in the first and show how Ruby Ridge, Waco TX & the Oklahoma Bombing are related via the SAME actors and then go on to 9-11, the Vegas & Walmart Massacres and then Jan 6th. So yes, Operation Gladio is ALIVE AND ACTIVE IN THE USA.

14 minutes & 1:40:00 Ruby Ridge (Gun Owners), Waco TX (White Christians) & the Oklahoma Bombing (Veterans as Domestic Terrorists) All were False flags & you needed all three of those elements in order to pass the legislation that gets passed the next year in 1996. On the Anniversary of the Oklahoma Bombing, Clinton signs the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) (See Link) She then goes thru the list of FBI & DOJ personnel that overlap in all three False Flags. As well as tactical agents (snipers & such) and Informants.

1:40:35 FBI asked Randy Weaver to be an informant on the “White Nationalists” in Idaho. He said NO! Then they tried to set him up on gun charges to force him to be an informant. he said NO! So the nasty SOBs shot his wife and child in retaliation.

1:46:40 1:47:30 DOJ person in charge of National Security Division who was overseeing all of this was Assistant Attorney General for Intelligence Policy & Review, Frank Hunger. He signed off FBI firearm raid warrants, electronic wire taps requests & classified counter terrorism operations for all three. [includes more on this guy including a FISA for WACO.]

1:46:40 1:47:30 DOJ person in charge of National Security Division who was overseeing all of this was Assistant Attorney General for Intelligence Policy & Review, Frank Hunger. He signed off FBI firearm raid warrants, electronic wire taps requests & classified counter terrorism operations for all three. [includes more on this guy including a FISA for WACO.]

1:49:00 The Colonel and Alpha explain the set-up used in order to get the FISA for a domestic situation.

1:51:50 Alpha goes into the Jan 6th set-up.


The Colonel suggests an article at https://rielpolitik.com/ article by Stuart Webb who was married to Millman’s daughter .He is not some crazy guy. AND people who were helping him DID DIE.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION


In August Of 1976, The House Banking Committee Staff Report Lists The Original Federal Reserve Board Members. Every Single Name Was An Associate Of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, One Of The Five Sons Of The Second Generation Rothschild Banking Dynasty. (16. September, 1777 – 28. July, 1836) The World Is In Fact Ruled By An Elite Group Of Evil Depraved Psychopaths Who Own The Banks, Control The Governments, Control The Pharmaceutical Industry, Control The Educational System, And Control The Main Stream Media. [They] Initiate And Maintain This Vicious Control With Manipulation, Bribes, Blackmail, Death Threats, And Murder. [They] Fund Both Sides Of War For Profit, Control, And Power, And Have Been Doing So Since The Napoleonic Wars. [They] Manufacture The Consent Of The Public Through The Propaganda Of The Main Stream Media. We Do Know Who [They] Are.

Colonel Towner says in the video below:

“A trilogy by Anthony Sutton talks about 👉the same group of oligarchs and bankers funded the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler’s rise to power and FDR’s campaign👈 ”

Robert Minor was a know communist.


1913 – Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith is an international NGO formed in NYC. It opposed McCarthyism during the Cold War. [Can’t have the Commies and other traitors exposed now can we? Nor people like the Rothschilds or George Soros criticized. — GC]

1917 Congressional Record, February 9, 1917 Rothschild agents take control of US Media.

In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, ship building and powder interestsand their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapersin the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press in the United States…

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”

February 17, 1950, James Paul Warburg declaration in an  appearance before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He was the son of Paul Warburg writer of the Federal Reserve Act. He was born in Germany and a nephew of both Felix Warburg and Jacob Schiff, both associated with Kuhn, Loeb & Company which financed the Russian Revolution through James’ brother Max, banker to the government of Germany. He was also chair of the Council on Foreign Relations. From various sources [Wiki even has the quote. -GC]

REFERENCES:

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL OIL OWNERSHIP

The Dutch royal family (The House of Orange) is still reportedly the biggest shareholder in the Dutch part of the group, although the size of its stake has long been a source of debate. The Queen of England was also a major stockholder link and Scuttlebutt and more Scuttlebutt. Another major stockholder is the Rothschilds, along with the Rockefellers.. The Rothschild Investment Trust was formed in 1988 => RIT Capital Partners. Rockefellers and Rothschilds Unite

Spies, Spooks, Snakes and The Sea Eye Aye

How Allen Dulles and the SS Preserved Each Other

Kissinger and Rockefeller Connections to American Central Intelligence and the Origins of AIDS and Ebola by Dr Leonard G. Horowitz (Short but terrifying, covid-19 was not the first…)

ORDO AB CHAO – Le Cercle (LEFT LEANING BUT LOTS OF INFO.)

…..Jack Anderson provided some of the gruesome details of the torture methods employed at Colonia Dignidad, in his column “Operation Condor, An Unholy Alliance” of August 3, 1979:

Assassination teams are centered in Chile. This international consortium is located in Colonia Dignidad, Chile. Founded by Nazis from Hitler’s SS, headed by Franz Pfeiffer Richter, Adolf Hitler’s 1000-year Reich may not have perished. Children are cut up in front of their parents, suspects are asphyxiated in piles of excrement or rotated to death over barbecue pits.[135]

As Peter Levenda concluded:

As the Colony is known for child-snatching, child sexual abuse, and weird religious observances,it gets the author’s vote as the only real, verifiable, satanic cult fitting the profile, a cult from which “satanic cult survivor syndrome” is more than today’s psychological fad.[136]

The CIA researches and teaches methods of torture. That factoid comes across loud and clear in these videos.

Clayton Morris sums up the following video: 👉”So [in] all of these instances where Operation Gladio was set up, it’s because of some sort of a resource, a mineral resource or something in that country… these terrorist activities that [were used to] created these false flag events.” 👈 Colonel Towner mentions during Italy’s “Years of Lead” there were THOUSANDS of 15 man Werwolf units within Italy.

Redacted: “Operation Gladio is Alive and Well” NATO”s secret terrorist army EXPOSED

or Youtube (8.5K)

I have taken the youtube transcript, cleaned it up and added links and some reference materials. I am not putting the entire transcript in quotes. The time stamps will serve instead. My comments and additions are in brackets. Outside sources are linked and in quotes.

TRANSCRIPT:

1:00: Clayton Morris: Operation Gladio WAS a Cold War-era NATO program that set up secret stay-behind armies across Europe. [At this point he does not realize these units are still alive and well AND the ‘Communist Threat’ propaganda was just a news talking point to cover up the over throw of governments that resisted the rape of their country by the transnational corporations.] Now it was originally intended, of course, to resist the Soviet invasion of these countries. But evidence later suggested, documents released a few decades ago that these units carried out false flag attacks, political manipulation, basically terrorist attacks as false flag attacks, raising serious questions about western covert operations. But this has been largely kept in the dark. But somebody who’s been on top of this story, has been exposing the lengths that Opweration Gladio went is Colonel Roxine Towner-Watkins.

0:40: He introduces Colonel Towner and NATO’s Operation Gladio.

2:30: Clayton Morris: What is Operation Gladio at its heart? Who put it in place? What years are we talking about? And what are the tentacles that reach into different parts of the US military?

2:30: Colonel Towner: So, if if I could step back in time prior to World War II, what I have I’ve read now over a hundred books that deal specifically with Operation Gladio. I had prior to this research project about 600 books in my library. All of them are non-fiction, military, general, biographies, state department. So, I had a very wide knowledge base and I stumbled across a couple of books um a trilogy by Anthony Sutton which talked about 👉the same group of oligarchs and bankers that funded the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler’s rise to power and FDR’s campaign👈 which again I had never learned in any of my education. And I felt that that was fairly intriguing.

3:50: And one of the reference in the footnotes was a book called The Third Way. And Joseph Ferrell talks about this manipulation of mass[es of] people to believe that there’s, and I’m going to use their terminology, a Left and a Right. And the Bolshevik Revolution gave us the left, i.e. communism. and Hitler gave us the right. And those two power structures have been used to create a third wave which kind of pushed people all over the world into the proverbial cattle cars to their own slaughter. I found this theory fascinating. Well,

4:30: In Joseph Frell book,he mentioned stay-behinds and he did it in a military context, which again, as a career military officer, I found fascinating because I’d never even heard the term. And so I began just look doing searches on the internet about staybehinds. I was dumbfounded at how much has been written about them by different authors.

5:00: So over the course of the last two and a half years, kind of if I could put it all in a nutshell so every one’s brain can wrap their head around it, what you had prior to World War II was a power structure of oligarchical com uh companies that had their own built-in paramilitary and intelligence functions. We knew them as like the British East and West Indies um and the Dutch East and West Indies, but they went around the world colonizing countries using their own intelligence and paramilitary. But after World War II, the entire globe put those functions in governments. So you have this intel intelligence apparatus that was set up after World War II. We created the CIA. West Germany created the BND. Korea um set up the KCIA. And they’re they’re all across the globe.

6:00: They were all trained and coordinated to operate together. There’s lots of names, but obviously Allan Dulles’s name comes up often in this network. On the military side, basically the same thing happened. So these oligarchs have outsourced something off their balance sheet to the taxpayers around the world.

6:40: What you find today is through the 1990s with the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of that capability has been outsourced. [from the government to hide their actions from Congress & FOIA -GC] For example, the CIA has lots of independent intelligence fronts doing this work and the military has outsourced a lot of their functionality to contractors like Hallebertton and Blackwater in its current state. So you have if you start now tracing those outsourced entities back, you find the same oligarchs. So not only did they off book all of their operations to us taxpayers, we’re still footing the dime, but they’re getting rich off of these contracted out sources….

7:30: So they’re profiting off of the overthrows of governments. And they’re doing that to take the resources that they took as colonial powers while making it look like they’re saving the world from this boogeyman called communism or this boogeyman called Hitler or whatever. And that was the hardest part for me to wrap my head around. But that is what we’re looking at.

8:00: Clayton Morris: So just so I can understand exactly, the idea is the governments were offloading these operations to these stand behind armies that were really third party defense, you know, contractors, blackwater, etc. to basically rape and pillage the land, steal resources, but they get to do it under a third party, sort of an NGO rather than direct US military. This is still in existence today. We can see it in Somalia. We can see it in Syria. We’re there protecting Syria’s oil fields, right? We’re there to protect the Syrian people and their oil from themselves, right? So, this is still happening today, right? It is still happening today. So now that you have that picture in your mind, 👉It’s important to understand their mantra is to create chaos so they can control.👈

9:00: And my my wonderful husband who puts up with me doing all of this research, because I spend about 12 hours a day doing it. Um came in one day and he said, “Hey, do you remember that TV show we used to watch called Get Smart?” And I said, ‘Yeah.’ And he goes, “Well, do you remember what the name of the two organizations were?” And I said, “No.” And he said, “It was called Chaos and Control.” And I looked at him and I went, “Oh my god.” Because that is exactly what they do. They go in and create chaos with these stay-behind units, which I call terrorist organizations, and just as you did. And it is done to control the people in that particular area so that these oligarch vultures can come in and monopolize the resources.

10:00: So going back to the beginning there was a secret meeting that most people have never even heard of called Operation Sunrise. It was conducted before the World War II was even over and the main players on the US side were Allan Dulles and a man by the name of Major General Lyman Limitsker. I like to tell the story of Operation Gladio through the use of people because the same people keep coming up over and over again.

Clayton Morris: Please can you, for our audience, if they’re not familiar with Alan Dulles, can maybe you just briefly explain who he is?

Colonel Towner: So Allan Dulles is one of the elites from the northeast. His brother John Foster Dulles was Eisenhower’s Secretary of State. Allan Dulles was the CIA director. They worked for a law firm called Sullivan and Cromwell. Sullivan and Cromwell’s famous clients were many of these oligarchs that I’m talking about. Sullivan and Cromwell was instrumental in the United States taking over the rest of the building of the Panama Canal from France. There was some slight of hand because we were actually in the middle of building a Nicaraguan canal and this French company went bankrupt that had the charter to build the Panama Canal. Through some slight of hand, John Foster Dallas, on behalf of Sullivan and Cromwell, was deployed to Paris to take up that mantra. It’s a long story but it ended up with the United States taking over the rest of the building of the Panama Canal. And most people don’t even know that it started off as a French project. And they used French colonial slaves from Africa to do the work for the first 40% of the Panama Canal. Alan Dulles also worked at this same law firm. So they represent the interests of these oligarchs.

12:15: Now think about that for a second. In Eisenhower’s administration, you have one of the premier lawyers as your secretary of state for these oligarchs and the other guy is sitting as the CIA director. Do you think they’re working on behalf of the United States? No! They’re working on behalf of their clients, which is not the United States. It is these oligarchs. And you find that time and time again between the CIA and the Secretary of State.

You have, I think it’s like nine, either number two or number one at the Secretary of State that are from the Skull and Bone Secret Society at Yale. They go to Groten, a grooming school. They go to Yale. Then they end up at Harvard Law and then they go into the government. They don’t work for us. They work for these oligarchs.

Clayton Morris:The same Skull and Bones of course that George W. Bush was a part of, John Kerry was a part of this secret system.

Colone Towner: And where did John Kerry end up at? — the Secretary of State Where did George H. W. Bush end up? At the CIA.

Clayton Morris: And George W. Bush, who was also a member, president of the United States.

Colone Towner: It’s a pattern that keeps repeating itself.

13:30 Clayton Morris: So how widespread then would you say were Gladio’s stay-behind networks across NATO l and NATO countries and how involved was the US in their coordination? So we think of NATO after World War II all across Europe these armies sort of set up and structured how involved was the US in this disbursement and how widespread was it? What we talking thousands of people?

14:00: Colonel Towner: You’re talking tens of thousands of people, if not hundreds of thousands of people. So, let me go back to Operation Sunrise because it’s critical people understand why we ratlined Nazis out of Germany. It wasn’t just because of Operation Paperclip. They went all over the world, not just to the United States. This meeting with Alan Dulles and Lyman Lemnitzer  was with a particular Nazi general by the last name of Wolff. That’s important because stay-behind units originally were called werwolf units in Germany under Hitler.

In Turkey today, they’re called greywolf units. That is another common denominator. So these werwolf units, as Hitler pushed into the Soviet Union, they were set up in Ukraine, which we still see today. Because the Ukrainian Nazi symbolism is directly related back to Bandera and Lebed and several other Nazis that were personally trained by Otto Scorzini who worked for both Reinhardt Galen and General Wolff. So the seeds of what we’re seeing in Ukraine today were bore out of these stay-behind units.

15:25: So Operation Sunrise was so important that basically Wolff bought his ,Galen’s and Otto Scorzini’s freedom out of either not being prosecuted at Nuremberg , –because Wolff and Galen was not and Otto Scorzeny stood trial, but he was found not guilty. Now this is a guy who trained all of the stay-behind Werwolf units in Nazi Germany. [Note that the CIA run WIKI down plays the werwolf units asserting historians say“ that the plan barely existed.” Google diverts the search to Werewolf. – GC] So in the aftermath of that [WWII] they flew Reinhardt Galen — and keep in mind he becomes the de-Nazified West Germany’s Allen Dulles counterpart at the what they call the BND — So he is in charge of their spy organization and Allan Dulles becomes in charge of the CIA. And they both orchestrated the spreading of the stay-behind units all over the world.

Otto Skorzeny from WIKI:

was an Austrian-born German SS-Standartenführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. …he was charged in 1947 at the Dachau Military Tribunal.. He was allegedly an advisor to Argentinian president Juan Perón.[2][3] Skorzeny acted as an agent of Mossad, allegedly assisting with the execution of actions such as Operation Diamond….

16:15: I found them in Iran when we overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. They were in Guatemala when we overthrew that government, the year after Operation Condor. Operation Condor is kind of the kissing cousin of Gladio in Latin America. They were scattered throughout all of Latin America. They’re all over Africa. They were all over Asia.

Clayton Morris: Who are these people though? Are they American soldiers?

Colonel Towner: They are the people that were scattered in all of these disparate places. So the concept was to take normal everyday citizens in a country. and I’ll specifically talk about Italy because as you mentioned in 1990 Italy was the only one that did an in-depth investigation. That’s the reason why this entire network is now referred to as Operation Gladio. Every country called it something else like in Portugal they called it Aginter Press and I mentioned Turkey they called it Greywolves.

17:15: The French version was OAS [Organisation armée secrète ]. So they all had different names, but they’ve now all generically been called Operation Gladio because Italy was the only one that did an in-depth investigation. In Italy, what they did to recruit these people is they went into towns and there were like 15 people. They were given caches of weapons to include rifles, C4 explosives, communication equipment and money. [The Caches] they were buried in normally a wooded area so that when they got the call they could fall in on this cache of weapons and do whatever the mission was. And as you said the majority — all of the missions not the majority ALL of the missions were domestic terrorism.

18:10: And the only two people that the SDECE, which was the organization in Italy, just call it their central intelligence, their version of the CIA. The only two people of those 15 member units that they knew was the leader and the assistant leader. They didn’t know any of the names of the other citizens, and that’s why they called them werwolf units. They were citizens by day and killers by night. And the there was there were thousands of these units all over Italy. And this same thing, as a matter of fact, William Colby, a future CIA director, set them up in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. You know, Sweden, the “neutral” country? They were everywhere.

19:00: Clayton Morris: So, they were given money. So, I mean, I guess I’m just trying to understand the motivation of these people. In the same way that we see today when you have these like Bernie Sanders rallies and the whatever, patriot rallies they had back in this early part of the summer. We know that through George Soros funded groups, they were given hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars. Any of these protesters that want to come out and be agitators, they’re paid. Paid. We know this from Tik Tok influencers and others. So, what’s the motivation? Is it really just at the heart money or were they real were they somehow patriots in a way that we just didn’t understand?

19:30: Colonel Towner: I don’t know. A lot of people have been, and I can draw the analogy back then. There were a lot of people that were genuinely scared about the communists. I certainly was. I went through the drills of getting under my desk when I was a little kid. We were all taught that the communists any day was going to come across the Bulgar Gap [Iskar Gorge?} in Europe and annihilate everybody. But if you think back to 1948, the Soviet Unions had over 50 million people killed. Most of their industrial base had been destroyed. And the thought that there was a communist threat at the time is literally ridiculous. Not to say that communism is good or anything else. And yes, there was later on a Soviet threat, but not at the time this entire operation was being set up. So you go into a community who had just been ruled by Mussolini, a fascist dictator for decades. You tell them that there is this new boogeyman in town, and they’re much worse than Mussolini. They’re atheists. They’re going to destroy the Catholic Church, which of course is sacred in Italy. So, it wouldn’t be hard to find people who are patriots to volunteer to protect their town from this imminent threat. But again, that was never the intended purpose.

21:15: It’s not unlike the brainwashing that is going on with the propaganda in the United States right now, calling Trump a fascist. It is literally the same playbook. And they did this in country after country after country. And generally in every one of those countries, there was some resource that they wanted.

21:27: Indonesia: We went into Indonesia. We tried to coup the government of Sukarno and failed. Then we regrouped and overthrew that government a few years later because there were two resources there that both the Rockefeller family and the Dutch Royal Petroleum [Shell Oil] knew was there that they had never told the Indonesian people was there. There was a mountian, a literal mountain full of gold, the purest gold they had ever found and an untapped oil reserve that they kept secret. And in both of those cases, after they overthrew the government of Sukarno and installed their puppet government of Suharto, the Rockefellers and the

Dutch oil [Shell Oil] went in there and basically, again, it’s a long story, but they basically stole a lot of that by saying, “Oh, it’s not that pure.” Either the oil or the gold, and lied on what they were remitting back as the royalties to the Indonesian people. And that’s after they killed a million of them in the coup.

22:40: Clayton Morris: 👉So [in] all of these instances where Operation Gladio was set up, it’s because of some sort of a resource, a mineral resource or something in that country.👈
👉They used communism as the boogeyman,👈 the Soviets are going to invade Indonesia. They’re going to take over this territory. They’re going to come to Sukarno. They’re going to take over this territory. They’re coming to Italy next. And so we need to have these armies created, a sort of a militia if you will

23:06: Colonel Towner: Correct.

Clayton Morris: What was their mission then? So in the case of Italy I mentioned Bolognia. Maybe you could talk a little bit about some of these terrorist activities that created these false flag events.

23:17: Colonel Towner: Well originally their first operation in Italy was in 1948. It was the

election. There were two people running that were kind of the odds on favorite of being the prime minister and one of them was very pro- NATO. Oh my god, we got to get a NATO. One of them again because of Mussolini did not want to have anything to do with NATO. They wanted their country back. Of course that person is labeled a communist sympathizer. And the CIA used $10 million in 1948, $10 million to influence that election to ensure the pro-NATO guy got involved.

24:00: That was their first official interference in elections. It wasn’t their last, but it was their first. And that that’s the entire time that we’ve been talking about election interference. To me, it has been blatantly obvious both with the 1916 election and the 2020 election that the CIA is behind both of them. If you look at where Gina Haspel was as the London CIA station chief with the creation of the Steel Dossier, they are still intimately involved in election interference all around the world.

24:50: Clayton Morris: So would you say Operation Gladio is still alive and well today, just under a different name?

Colonel Towner: 100%. That’s why I think it’s critical that people understand not only it and how it functioned early on.

25:00: Let’s go back to Lyman Lemnitzer [& Wikispooks notes-GC] because with the JFK files you don’t hear anyone talking about this, but now that you understand the massive scope of Operation Gladio.

Lyman Lemnitzer was General Eisenhower chief of logistics in Europe. What’s that mean? Logistics in the military means that’s the guy that’s critical to get supplies where they’re needed. So, who would have been getting all of the weapons in Europe, now that the war is over, to these caches of weapons for Operation Gladio. It would have been General Lyman Lemnitzer. That’s why he’s

at this meeting [Operation Sunrise] in order to not only understand where all of the caches are that the Nazis set up, but they’re [NATO is] planning to put them all over Europe. So, he’s the logistics guy and he’s the guy that goes with Alan Dulles to this meeting.

26:00: Now, where’s the next time that we come to Lyman Limiter? Well, he ends up becoming a four-star general and he’s the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when JFK gets into office. Lyman Lemnitzer knows all about Operation Gladio. He’s the author of Operations Northwood. Do you know what that is?

26:20: Clayton Morris:I do, but can you educate our audience on this?

Colonel Towner: Operation Northwood was a document that is declassified, several pages. What it is, it is a laundry list of terrorist operations to be conducted inside the United States, killing American citizens and blaming Castro. It articulates that we’re going to dress Cuban exiles that are basically our Gladio elements, in the United States and were for decades. — Brigade 256.

Felix Rodriguez, the guy that Tucker interviewed about six months ago, he’s an assassin. He was part of Brigade 256. If you go back and look at that interview, he’s wearing the t-shirt, literally. And he was in El Salvador. He was in Nicaragua. He was in Guatemala. He was in Vietnam during the Phoenix program. He is one of them.

So this Operation Northwood was to take some of the CIA trained Cuban exiles in Miami, dress them up in Castro uniforms, have them go do bombings just like we were talking about in Italy. killing people, blaming Castro, and then justifying a full-scale military invasion of Cuba in order to overthrow Castro. That’s what Operation Northwood was. He briefed it to Robert S. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense and Robert McNamara didn’t find anything wrong with it. He said, “Hey, let’s go brief this to JFK.” When JFK read Operation Gladio, he’s like, “Are you out of your mind? We’re not going to kill Americans for any reason.” So, he fired General Lemnitzer. Unfortunately, and this clearly indicates to me that JFK did not know the extent of Operation Gladio, and this hydra that had been set up. He had just survived the Bay of Pigs and didn’t want any more military pissed off at him. So, he didn’t fire, fire him and make him retire. He reassigned him out of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

28:30: And do you know where they put him?

Clayton Morris: No.

Colonel Towner: He became the commander of NATO.

And do you know that the French OAS [Organisation armée secrète ] that were trained by Operation Gladio trainer Otto Skorzeny, a Nazi [former Nazi officer. -GC] Their OAS had two, depending on who you read, some people say four operatives in Dallas, Texas the day JFK was murdered.

There are documents talking about people speaking French up on the grassy knoll. Those two OAS agents, one was flown out of Dallas that night, the other one was driven by a Dallas police officer to the Mexican border.

29:10: Clayton Morris:The more you, you know. The more you study JFK and you realize how many people he pissed off, right? It’s not surprising at all that you have the mafia involved, you have you have, the Israelis involved, you have the CIA involved, members of NATO involved who trying to upend Operation Gladio. He pissed a lot of people off.

Colonel Towner: Yes. And he also was in direct contact with Sukarno over in Indonesia and had already scheduled a visit to see him in January 1964. They knew that if he ever went to see Sukarno and figured out what they were doing that they would all be in trouble. So that meeting was never going to be allowed to happen.

30:10: A lot of people think General Eisenhower was a great guy. Let let me just assure you, he was not. Not only did he oversee the creation of Operation Gladio while he was in Europe, when he becomes president, he’s the guy that overthrew Iran, he’s the guy that used this organization to overthrow the president in Guatemala. And what was the issue in Guatemala? Bananas. who owned all of the Guatemalan farmland. [ United Fruit now Chiquita] You know that thing that we think is absolutely horrible if China owns our farmland. Well, a US oligarch owned the majority of Guatemalan’s farmland and that was United Fruit. And one of the primary stockholders of United Fruit was the Dallas brothers and the Rockefellers. And so they decided when Guatemalan president gets elected he said that he did not want any foreigners owning farmland. Imagine that. And the irony of everything that’s happening right now just blows my mind. Because what’s happening in America today is what our government has done on behalf of these oligarchs all over the world.

Painting by Diego Rivera, “Gloriosa Victoria,” tells the story of the 1954 overthrow of the democratically-elected Jacobo Arbenz government. Coup Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas greets secretary of state John Foster Dulles, who holds a bomb with the face of Eisenhower, surrounded by people who were murdered in the coup. To his left is U.S. ambassador John Peurifoy with military officers and CIA director Allen W. Dulles whispering in his brother’s ear. On the right, the archbishop of Guatemala, Mariano Rossell Arellano, blesses the act, while Guatemalans protest.

So what do they do? They planned Operation PBSuccess which was the name of the operation to overthrow the Guatemalan president and that was [blessed by] General Eisenhower. Also, one of the very last things he [Eisenhower] did was issue a findings ,which is what it’s called when you order the assassination of a foreign head of state, to kill Patrice Lumumba [first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.] They killed Patrice Lumumba three days before JFK came into office. JFK was in office for at least three weeks before he knew that his CIA was complicit in killing Lumumba. He didn’t even know he was dead because they had kidnapped him. And how did they do that? What was the lead-up to that? Well, the Congo had uranium. They were the number one supplier of uranium. Uranium obviously was very important at the time because of the atomic weapons. The Congo had just gotten its independence from being a colony of Belgium for 350 years.

Patrice Lumumba, their first prime minister had said, “We do not want Belgium to continue to get rich off of our uranium. We want to deal directly with the United States. He flies to the United States and the vice president [Nixon] will not meet him. Eisenhower will not meet him. So he’s stuck going to see the Secretary of State [Christian Herter.] And he tells the secretary of state, “I’ll sell you 100% of our uranium, but I don’t want

Belgium profiting from it.” They told him to pound sand. And he goes back and he says, “Okay, well, if you’re not going to deal with me, I I know now that I’ve made this very clear and you made it very clear that you don’t like my stance on this. Um, the IMF is immediately turned off. The World Bank won’t talk to him. So, they economically strangle him and he has only one option to get weapons for what he knows is going to come. The only person that at that point will answer his phone is the Soviet Union.

What happens as soon as that phone call is made? They call him a communist. He’s not a communist. But because they call him a communist, — it started with Truman actually, 10-2, a national security action memorandum says if you are labeled a communist, we have the right to kill you — And so Eisenhower issues a finding to kill Lumumba.

JFK didn’t know about this. And you know, we all know that that four months from the time you’re a president-elect until you take um office that you are supposed to be being updated with intelligence briefings of what you’re walking into. He knew nothing about it.

34:30: Clayton Morris:This Mumba story, we’ve covered this before on our show and all of the secrecy around it and not allowing JFK to be aware of this um in the leadup to his presidency that this was carried out. There’s some I think there was some speculation that he did know about it or he was somehow briefed on it or whatever. but I have not seen anything conclusive on that. So you haven’t either then right?

Colonel Towner: I have not seen anything that he was briefed on it. I have seen statements from CIA officers that says he was not.

The Heroic Yet Tragic Life Of Patrice Lumumba

the Belgian rule of the Congo was marked by brutality. About 10 million Congolese people were killed during King Leopold’s reign alone — which lasted from 1885 to 1908. Countless others were mutilated for failing to meet production quotas for rubber, ivory, and minerals.

And even when the Congo became a Belgian colony — under control of the Belgian government rather than just one man — that didn’t mean the brutality came to an end. Many Congolese people were still forced into labor and abused by the Belgians who remained in the country.

Plus, the Congolese were considered second-class citizens in their own country. Before 1958, native Congolese couldn’t vote, hold office or high-ranking positions in the army, or attend Belgian universities….

A father in the Congo looks down at his child’s hand and foot, which were cut off when he didn’t meet his rubber production quota. Circa 1904.

Clayton Morris: So that’s just one example. We have Guatemala as another example. We have Italy as another example. How many people do you think have been killed?

Colonel Towner: Millions

Clayton Morris: Do we have a number of how many people were at the hands of these NATO stay behind armies?

Colonel Towner: Not directly. Because of the overthrows of these governments like in Indonesia, a million people ended up dying. We destabilized Cambodia. Pol Pot coming to power was a direct result of a CIA instigated coup. We had people there training in Cambodia. We had people training in Laos.

USAID & THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY

35:50: One of the most devastating parts of all of this is how much of our federal government was infected with it. You mentioned earlier USAID. USAID had an office called the Office of Public Safety. The Office of Public Safety is one of those things that once you start researching it, your mind just explodes. They recruited former cops from all over the United States and they trained them to go into these countries that they were going to destabilize to train national police forces. This is how they did Mosaddegh [The Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 who overthrew the Shaw & nationalized the huge British oil holdings in Iran. -GC] After Mosaddegh,[coup of the Shah] they had stay-behinds in southern Iran leading up to the overthrow of Mosaddegh. I didn’t know that until last week. I had never found any trace of stay-behinds in Iran, although I’ve researched Iran extensively, until literally last week. They had a military advisory group down there. The CIA was down there. After they overthrew Mosaddegh, they set up, under the guise of USAID, Office of Public Safety, what a weird name, under General Norman Schwarzoff SENIOR, the desert storm guy’s dad. He created the Savack. [Secret police, domestic security and intelligence service in Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty -GC] He trained the Savack under the Office of Public Safety. The Savack is a terrorist organization that basically kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared people that disagreed with the Shaw. You will find the office of public safety in like 50 or 60 different countries around the world and every one of them was done after the CIA installs a dictator there.

37:35: Clayton Morris: So this office of public safety is it under, what umbrella is it under?

Colonel Towner: USAID.

Clayton Morris: So, it’s under USAID. Have these recent changes to USAID and the disbanding of it, has that affected it? Cut it off?

37:50: Colonel Towner: The Office of Public Safety actually was done away with in 1974 because it came under intense scrutiny by Congress in the 1975, you know, family jewels of the CIA investigations. No one was held accountable. As a matter of fact, when you go back and look, at Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, which we know to be basically the same thing. It was torturing, kidnapping, and assassinating anyone that went against the puppet government that had been installed in the South.

38:30: Operation Phoenix was ran by the Michigan State University. [Also WIKI on Phoenix Program] A lot of people don’t know that Michigan State University hired CIA agents, literal agents, not fronts, not assets, agents. They dressed them up as professors and they deployed them to Vietnam basically to set up the Phoenix program. What I just recently learned is Indiana University, my old alma mater, was working as a partnership with Michigan State in that initiative and they deployed over to Operation Phoenix um under the guise of USAID, Office of Public Safety, and set up this apparatus of training. They set up torture prisons. You find a guy by the name of Dan Mitrione , who I’ve covered extensively. He was the police chief in Richmond, Indiana.

He was trained by the FBI. He sent his officers to Indiana University’s police training. This the same training partnership with Michigan State. He was selected as a part of the office of public safety. He was first deployed to Brazil right before their coup. Then you find him in Uruguay with their new military installed dictator there. And he was instrumental in training people how to torture people, how to kidnap people. And much of the torture led to the people dying. And that’s just one aspect of it. Not the entirey of these national police going out and literally bombing people’s houses just because they were suspected of resisting the military dictatorship that we had installed there. And so again, tens of thousands in every single one of these operations.

They were in Argentina. Argentina took their prisoners because they didn’t want to dig the graves, loaded them up on aircraft and flew them out over the ocean and dumped them out. So, it’s almost impossible to get a body count of the number of people that have been affected by these programs.

40:50: Clayton Morris: We talked about Operation Northwoods, which is really an extension of Operation Gladio. Has there been any other on on domestic US soil that we know of that would fall under the Operation Gladio umbrella? False flag attacks on the United States. I mean, other than 9-11, in the United States.

41:10: Colonel Towner: We had Gladio operators that killed the Chilean ambassador that got stuck here. He was here, and he couldn’t go back because of the, assassination of President Salvador Allende in Chile. Ambassador Orlando Letelier is his name. One of the Cuban exiles, I think two went to prison. They were trained Gladio people, went to Washington DC and ignited a car bomb, killing him and an American citizen, his aid, in downtown Washington DC. They were also implicated in the overthrow of Nixon. They were implicated in the assassination of JFK and RFK. when he was assassinated. If you trace the people that really did it not, Sirhan Sirhan, they were tied to the Cuban exiles and the CIA.

Clayton Morris: And MK Ultra mind control. I’ve done deep dives on MK Ultra of course, the CIA’s secret mind control brainwashing program to carry out nefarious things. Are there any blending here across Operation Gladadio and MK Ultra?

JIM JONES OF ‘DRINK THE KOOL-AID’

42:25: Colonel Towner: [Laugh] I’m glad that you asked that question. Do you know who Jim Jones is?

Clayton Morris: Sure.

Colonel Towner: Okay. Do you know where Jim Jones hometown was?

Clayton Morris: San Francisco, right?

Colonel Towner:Richmond, Indiana.

Clayton Morris: Oh, right. But Okay. When he really started getting going and building his church he moved his church to San Francisco.

Colonel Towner:Right. Jim Jones was classmates with Dan Meteron, the guy I just talked about.

Clayton Morris: Come on. [Laugh]

Colonel Towner: I’m not even kidding.

Clayton Morris: I give up. I swear to God. I mean, you know, I just try to go through my days as like a normal human being and all of these pieces, it’s just unbelievable to me on a regular basis. You’re blowing my mind.

Colonel Towner: Okay, so Jim Jones moves his “church” [Air quotes] out to San Francisco. He is almost immediately approved as a foster home in San Francisco, right? If you go back and you do the research, you find out that the mayor of San Francisco kills himself because he was one of the purveyors of the children in Jim Jones little compound. Jim Jones was part of the Democrat vote running that was going on both in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He was intimately involved in all kinds of nefarious things. What I didn’t know when I started looking into Jim Jones — I don’t have any concrete evidence evidence that while in San Francisco he was part of MK Ultra. I do have evidence of him being involved when he relocated to Guyana.

44:00: Why did he relocate to Guyana? The reason he did is because Congressman Leo Ryan, the only active congressional member to ever be assassinated on duty, began an investigation into Jim Jones and the CIA, into the operation that they were running out in San Francisco. So Jim Jones, because the pressure is getting to him, he relocates his commune to Jonestown. Well, I had already came across evidence that Jonestown existed long before Jim Jones moved his church there. It was used as a terrorist training camp for Operation Condor in Latin America. So, he had ships. He was going from Brazil to Guyana with weapons. They were using them against Venezuela in order to protect who? Rockefeller’s oil interests in Venezuela. So anybody in Venezuela that became a problem was taken out launched from Jonestown in Guyana.

45:10: So all these people show up and if you go back and read the autopsy of the local guyan coroner, you find out that none of those people were poisoned with cyanide. They all had injection sites at the base of their neck. If you read Colonel Purdy’s(sp?) book, you find out that the body bags for

those people were ordered the day before the massacre even happened. [For?] to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to fly the body bags in. And despite having flown the body bags in, they [the bodies] were left out for two weeks. So no one could see any of the evidence because it was hundred and some degrees there and their bodies began decomposing. And so a person that had been working for Jim Jones before all of the massacre happened had said that they were a whistleblower and got Leo Ryan to fly to

Guyana because they were going to reveal all of the nefarious things that he had alleged already, and he’s assassinated when he lands on the tarmac.

46:20: Clayton Morris: So cyanide was not used? I mean we had like over 300 children 300 children given like we you know drink heard like the flavor aid or whatever they were all drinking. It was not Kool-Aid. It was flavor aid. So right.

Colonel Towner: None of that happened.

Clayton Morris: You’re blowing my mind. None of that happened. They were, they had injections and of course Yeah, you’re right. They were left out. We have the visuals. We have the images of the I think it was the famous Newsweek cover, right? The aerial photographs from high up where you see them out in the sun. They’ve been sitting out. The bodies have been rotting in the sun for weeks.

Colonel Towner: Yes.

Clayton Morris: It’s s unbelievable. I just I don’t even know what to ask. I’m just blown away. You’re blowing my mind. I’ll let you run with I mean, put the pieces together for me because I’m just I’m just… [Shakes head]

FUNDING THE CIA & OPERATION GLADIO

Colonel Towner: So, the part we haven’t talked about is how’ they get the money to do all of this because it was all done covertly off the books. How’d they get the money?

At the end of World War II, you had a civil war going on in China. You had Mao fighting against Chiang Kaishek and other warlords in the south. Well, Colonel Paul Helliwell was one of the OSS officers who was somehow also in the military. I’ve come across a lot of that happening by the way.

Colonel Paul Helliwell was a military attache to Chiang Kaishek during World War II and he’s watching Chiang Kaishek pay for his military efforts against Mao by selling opium. Now there’s a long story of Indian opium flooding China at this time under the auspices of the British Empire who basically owned India, the boxer wars, all of that stuff. So Chiang Kaishek had a model of funding his revolution with drug money. So Paul Helliwell picks up the phone and he says, “Hey Allan Dulles, I got a great way to pay for that Operation Gladio thing that you’re kicking off. We could do it with drug money. It’s untraceable. It’s cash. Let’s do that.” And so they make a deal with Chiang Kaishek that they’re going to supply him military aid to fight Mao under the guise of anti-communism.

Chiang Kaishek gets kicked out of China. Eventually they move him to Burma. So Shanghai sets up his opium operation out of Burma. The Burmese government eventually kicks him out. So there’s this tiny little island over here called Formosa. We now call it Taiwan. But Formosa at the time was Japanese occupied. It’s a Chinese island. It was occupied during World War II by the Japanese and so under the guise of going onto Formosa to get the rest of the Japanese out of there, there are US people present. Well, they move Chiang Kaishek and his KMT army of drug smugglers over to Formosa.

And if you go through the first several, and I just pulled out of my notes, the first several State Department [people], they weren’t ambassadors at the time, that were in Taiwan. And the first several CIA chiefs, you find them also involved in other Operation Gladio destabilization efforts. So, for example, the first station chief, assigned in 1949 to Formosa, now called Taiwan, was Raymond Pierce. He was an OSS veteran who had parachuted to set up the KMT in Burma. He also was part of the Western Enterprise, Inc., which was a CIA front company headquartered in Taiwan that arranged arms to go into Formosa but not officially. It was black market arms. He also moved on to work with radio nets, opium finance, weapon drops, and other activity. I didn’t know until I started doing this research that Taiwan wasn’t just one island. It’s seven. And the KMT was set up on all of those islands after World War II after they kicked Chiang Kaishek out, to launch military operations into China to destabilize it.

One of the former ambassadors was involved in the destabilization of Tibet. And again, until I did this research, I didn’t know that we had an entire contingent of stay-behind units in Tibet. So, what we did was we took Tibetans, we flew them into Colorado to a an abandoned World War II base, taught them how to be terrorists, and then took them back out to Tibet for them to launch attacks internal to China as well. We did the same thing with the Uyghurs, by the way. We use Nepal for that. We took Uyghurs out of China, trained them in Nepal to be terrorists.

Clayton Morris: All in an effort to destabilize China.

Colonel Towner: Yes. So Taiwan now is the drug hub. Chiang Kaishek, immediately implements martial law. For the next 40 years in Taiwan, up until Richard Nixon actually recognizes China, going into the early 80s, Taiwan was under a dictatorship, under martial law. They were not a democracy at all. Chiang Kaishek, his son, and one other guy were the rulers, the dictators in Taiwan. So it is not a coincidence that in the immediate aftermath of having to recognize mainland China and we can no longer call Taiwan the Republic of China because they’re not. Another one of those oligarchical companies decided Taiwan is going to be where we put all of our semiconductors, because we have to have an excuse to defend Taiwan and we just lost it when they recognized mainland China. So now we have another excuse.

THE VATICAN BANK

You can’t overstate the importance of this drug network that was ran out of the golden triangle with Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and that entire region because they used the Vatican bank to money launder all of the drug money. And that’s another reason why Italy was critical to the exposure of Operation Gladio. The P2 Masonic Lodge was set up. Licio Gelli was the guy that was running the P2 Lodge. That’s how they met. They met under the guise of this Masonic lodge. There was like 800 names eventually released that belong to this P2 Masonic lodge. And according to Vatican rules, you’re not even allowed to be a Mason and be a Catholic. So, how are all of these Catholics belonging to the Masonic Lodge? P2 also shows up in Operation Condor. Their subsidiary was in Argentina and that’s how they were able to coordinate. And it’s not coincidental that when we lost the Golden Triangle, we moved to Afghanistan. That’s when we went in in the 1980s because of course in the 70s we lost control of Asia’s drug market. So we go to Afghanistan. There’s opium there. It’s not a coincidence that in the year 2000 the Taliban had eradicated almost all of the opium and the next year we have 911 and immediately we go back into Afghanistan because Bin Laden just so happens to be in Afghanistan. And what happens to the opium production? It skyrockets right back up. And Operation Condor created the ability, the control mechanisms to move a lot of the drug apparatus to Latin America. That’s why Colombia has been so important to the drug networking into the United States. So they set up all kinds of banks. The Bank of Commerce, Credit and Commerce International, BCCI, Castle Bank, Paul Helliwell actually set that bank up in the Caribbean. And Nugan Hand Bank

was set up in Australia. Those banks in conjunction with the Vatican was the money laundering apparatus to facilitate this entire network.

55:55: Clayton Morris: Do you think anyone in the Trump administration is as fully versed on this as you and is actively trying to eradicate this or is deep state forces so entrenched that this is perpetuating at a much larger level than even we knew about in the 1940s and 50s?

Colonel Towner: So I have to believe if they don’t know all of what I know, they know a lot of what I know because they wouldn’t have gone after USAID the way they did. because a lot of the facilitation of this has moved into USAID. USAID is a CIA front. The interaction between those two both in personnel and in mission is intrinsically linked.

Clayton Morris: How so?

Colonel Towner: Well, for example, the Office of Public Safety. I’m reviewing a book right now called Hidden Terrors, by A. J. Langguth,. That book illustrates that the Office of Public Safety actually had CIA agents working in it and that’s under USAID. That is just one. The Office of Transition Initiatives is another one that had CIA embedded in it. It functions as a CIA front.

Clayton Morris: How much of this is still left? Because we know some of it has been rolled into the State Department under Marco Rubio. A lot of it has been cut off, these people packing their boxes up and leaving. But how much of do you think this operation might have been rolled under into the State Department, which in many ways is as equally nefarious as the CIA?

Colonel Towner: Well, as my research has shown, ambassador after ambassador. They specifically move particular ambassadors to locations that they are going to destabilize with CIA and USAID operations. You find the same ambassadors showing up all the time.

One of the most intriguing guys that I ran across that I had never heard about before was William D. Pawley. He was supposedly this multi-millionaire businessman living in South Florida. Pawley Island in South Carolina is actually named after his family, a very wealthy family. And he ends up becoming an ambassador. He was the assistant Secretary of State at one point. Him and Paul Helliwell were very good friends and he owned the franchise of Curtis Aircraft in Southeast Asia. So he’s the guy that literally gave Chiang Kaishek all his aircraft. They set up sea supply together to give him a

navy. And he owned the bus system and several large sugar plantations in Cuba. He used his personal yacht to take a group of Cuban exiles to Cuba for a land invasion. He’s an ambassador out of the State Department! he also worked on the Guatemalan coup with a guy by the name of Tommy the Cork Corcoran who is CIA.

Tommy ‘the Cork’ Corcoran and El Pulpo

He [Pawley] also was an executive at Pan Am and Pan Am was often time used for cargo shipments for the CIA. So when you start researching these people, they go in and out of the oligarch class into the State Department and back in order to ensure their vested interests are what we’re after and not the interest of the United States as a country, right?

59:50: Clayton Morris: Oh, clearly. Yeah.

Colonel Towner: He’s fascinating. He’s mentioned in a book called The Legacy of Ashes. He literally went to a bank and pulled out $150,000 after meeting with President Eisenhower to buy three planes for the Guatemalan coup.

1:00:10: Clayton Morris: It’s funny I’ve interviewed Tim Weiner on that book. It came out years ago back when I was still working at Fox News at the time. I interviewed him about that and his book Legacy of Ashes and I read that years ago. You’re just refreshing my memory. It’s been it’s been a number of years now, but it’s remarkable. And you see it in the United States even in the book like Chaos about the history of the CIA in the 1960s in California and of course the infiltration of the CIA and all of these groups, you know, infiltrating the the hippie movement in Berkeley. it’s all happening right on the United States soil. It’s hard for Americans to believe it, right?

Colonel Towner: It was, certainly, having spent 30 years in the military, hard for me to believe that all of this stuff happened. And I was completely ignorant of all of it. And again, I’m educated, so I thought you are educated in what they want you to know. And if you start using internet search engines that pick up foreign news articles and things like that. Now again one of the things I have not told you is in 1990 when Italy first exposed Operation Gladio. I know the date because of Paul Williams book called Operation Gladio and I’ve interviewed him a couple of times on my podcast. It stuck out to me like a sore thumb because the 2nd of August 1990 is the very day I arrived at the Rome airport for my three-year assignment in Italy. So I’m reading his book a couple of years ago and I’m like 2nd of August 1990. [HUH?) What I noticed about Italy in the three years that I lived there, during this exposure operation, they were gunning down judges that were hearing cases about Operation Gladio, they were killing prosecutors. They were killing reporters. And I just thought that there was a crap ton of mafia in Italy. I had I never heard the words Operation Gladio. They called it “the years of lead”. I didn’t know anything about what was going on. I didn’t know it was all part of this. I didn’t speak Italian. But I heard my landlord and their daughters talking about it who spoke English. And I never put two and two together. What I also realized is if you [Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti ] are behind Operation Gladio, you know it’s being ran out of NATO. So he reveals this in August and all of the other NATO countries go we don’t have anything like that. That must have been just something Italy did. Well, October was a NATO planning meeting for Operation Gladio. There were two cells in NATO. One was called the Allied clandestine planning. The other one was called CPC. And one of them had a meeting in October. So Andreotti, the prime minister that exposed it in August, comes back on television in November of 1990 and said, “Hey, all you guys that said you didn’t have anything to do with Operation Gladio, here’s the list of the countries that had just just attended the planning meeting.” He told

on all of them. And so again, what I remember about the 2nd of August is getting off the aircraft at the international terminal and going into the airport. Now, it’s my first time overseas as a a military officer, and for every person that was in the Rome airport that day. There’s about 20 Carabinieri with AK-47s. And I’m like, what the heck did I just do? I had no idea that international airports were so militarized. What the heck is going on? That was the exact same day that Saddam Hussein had been given State Department authority to invade Kuwait.

And do you know what the convenient thing that all of the NATO countries said after the 2nd of August 1990 as to why they couldn’t answer any questions about Operation Gladio? We got to go to war. We’re too busy. We’re planning a war. We’re too busy to answer questions about something.

Clayton Morris: We’re too busy. We’re planning a war. We’re too busy to answer questions about something that’s a cold war relic. We can’t talk about it even though it was still happening. That’s amazing to me that well and and it’s convenient that Italy could use you know these are just mafia hits. So don’t you know don’t look any more deeply into this. We’re killing prosecutors. So the prosecutors that were killed, the judges that were killed, they were hearing cases about Operation Gladio. Yes. And what were the prosecutors zeroing in on? Who were they going after that that led them to be shot and killed?

Colonel Towner: Well, understand that Prime Minister Andreotti eventually goes to jail. It went to the very top of Italy. It involved the Vatican. It involved Lucio Gelli, the guy that was the P2 Masonic Grand Puba, whatever you call him. The bankers, Roberto Calvi, the guy that gets strung up on a bridge in London, the Banco Ambrosiano. The Vatican had so much money that they were laundering, they couldn’t do it by themselves. So they involved Italian banks. The chief of the military intelligence, the chief of the military, basically their Secretary of Defense, they were all involved in it.

Clayton Morris: Carrying out these operations.

Colonel Towner: Yes. The train bombing, the bank bombings, all of them.

Clayton Morris: The Bologna massacre. All of it. All of it.

Colonel Towner: Yes. Tied together. The attempted assassination on John Paul. II was two Greywolf Gladio people from Turkey. That’s who eventually went to jail for that attempted assassination. They were part of Operation Gladio.

Clayton Morris: You know, since you’ve already blown my mind enough, I mean, talking about Jonestown and all of these connections here and I think about like the USS Liberty false flag. Yes. under Lynden Baines Johnson, of course, all the way up to MOSSAD and the CIA working hand in hand there, to get us involved in a war in Egypt, of course. Operation Gladio involvement in any of that wouldn’t be surprised.

1:06:54 Colonel Towner: The same pattern is involved in all of them. So one of the things that I’ve found out is like Iran Contra. If you understand Operation Gladio and you go back and you start reviewing the attempted overthrow of the Nicaraguan government under the same auspices that we don’t want them to have their own farmland. They were primarily owned by United Fruit as well. The Sandinistas finally get in power. There’s a lot of people that don’t like the Sandinistas. Whatever. That was the government that got elected. So we began funding covertly using these covert same funds to fund the Contras. Reagan with George Bush as his vice president starts using Israel as a weapons cutout. So they become a major weapons trafficker.

The US is a funder

Clayton Morris: into Nicaragua.

So we can sort of wash our hands and then Nicaragua.

Colonel Tower: Into Iran and then into Nicaragua.

[So US funds ==> Israel, Israel Weapons ==> Iran, Iran Weapons ==> Nicaragua Contras. –GC]

Clayton Morris: So Right. Right. Yeah. But we could wash our hands of it then. We could sort of Oh, it’s we’re funneling it through Israel, so it’s not really going to Nicaragua. Yeah.

Colonel Towner: Exactly. Correct. And the same thing happened in Angola under Reagan. So we do not want the government that Angola is going to put in place. Angola backs up to the uranium, the gold, the diamonds. So we want to control Angola for the oligarchs. So we get cut off. The CIA gets cut off from funding Angola directly. So what do they do? They use Israel to funnel weapons into South Africa, which at the time was apartheid South Africa, and they’re running them over the border into Angola to fight this. Cuban exiles from the CIA trained Cuban exile farm down in Miami are in Angola fighting.


Rebirth of the East India Company: From Colonial Looters to Corporate Gods

1:08:50: I I told you about Felix Rodriguez. Felix Rodriguez was training the Contras. So Israel has been an integral part of all of this. As a matter of fact we didn’t even mention that Taiwan set up a thing called the political warfare cadre academy. It’s a terrorist training camp. The gist of it though, was that all of these national police organizations, these death squads that we were setting up covertly in Latin America, all they had to do was call themselves a political party. And in the US press, we’ll just say if you attack the death squads that you’re attacking democracy. I would argue a lot of the Democrat parties like that today in America. But it literally was a curriculum set up at a academy in Taiwan to teach these people. And if you go back and just do a search of how many of The School of Americas, which was set up in Panama, (it eventually moves to Fort Benning) were graduates. They all end up in the National Police Force in Latin America. How many of those people ended up in the Political Warfare Academy? A crap ton of them did. And if you go and look at the countries that still have political ties to Taiwan officially? The majority of them are all in Latin America because of that. And so again, it just [like] an onion. And the more you unpeel, the the bigger you understand this operation is. It has like enveloped the entire world. Cross continents, cross regional hemispheres and it was [and is] held together through this post world war II intelligence network.

1:11:00: Clayton Morris: So I guess I’ll get you out of here on this. I could spend all afternoon talking about it, but how much of this is still in operation today?

Colonel Towner: I don’t have any way of knowing that. What I look for today is patterns based on their past operations. I would say all of the 2020 Summer of Love was part of this operation. It is exactly the election interference in 2016, all directly ties to the CIA and the model that they set up when they destabilized Chile during Allende’s initial presidential run and then afterwards. So there are patterns of it happening in the United States. The infiltration of all of these illegal aliens into the United States. It provides the perfect cover. Whether or not, and we know a lot of them are criminals, but whether or not they’re actually Gladio cells doesn’t matter because they will be blamed for it and the real Gladio cells will not. So, do I believe that they were up to nefarious things? Absolutely. Because this is a very similar pattern to destabilization of other countries.

1:12:15 Clayton Morris: Well, Colonel, you’ve blown my mind on all of this. Where can people learn more about your work, research in all of this? Again, I’d love to have you back. We can do more deep dives on this, but I think this was a good primer for people to understand Operation Gladio.

1:12:30: Colonel Towner: So, primarily if you go to my X account one of my researchers assistants, Bridget, has created a pinned post that has, a four o’clock show where we do book reviews on X in spaces every day. I’m at @ Colonel spelled out Towner on X — t o w n e r — and that pin post has links to everything, the Rumble channel,my interviews with Paul Williams are over there, the guy that wrote Operation Gladio, the book. My Rumble channel is called the Colonel’s Corner and there are hundreds of hours of research. I also do a Wednesday night show with Alpha Warrior. It’s called the Alpha Warrior Show on Rumble and we started at a primer to Operation Gladio over a year ago and every Wednesday night at 9:30 we have a show. I just did the deep dive into Obama and the family CIA ties to not just his mom and dad, but his grandmother and grandfather in a two-part series there. So I’m all about the CIA at this point.

Clayton Morris: Oh, wonderful. Well, we’ll link it up in the description below and so people can look and follow your work. Colonel, great to have you here on the show. Thank you for this. Thank you for your incredible research and sharing it with our audience. We really appreciate it.

1:14:00 Colonel Towner: Thank you for the invitation to be here. I’m honored.

2025.06.17 American Stories: When in the Course…OK, I Lied

Yup, I said we would start back on Declaration signers today. Going to need to postpone that to next Tuesday’s opener. If I do not discuss the following I will probably forget and it is sneakily more important to the big picture of what our VSGPOTUS is doing than many realize. It is the industry in which I made my living as readers of BIMD will remember.

Small Business Acts of Importance

These links are short summaries – will not take long to read.

The official CEASE bill,

https://www.congress.gov/index.php/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2987/text

Next is an industry summary of what it is about. ABA stands for the banking industry in this instance, not the Bar Assn. for the legal industry.

Link below is to all of the bills that came out of the great work of the HR Small Business Committee, including CEASE.

https://smallbusiness.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=407198

Why Is All This Important?

Let’s answer that question with a simple statement that has been true for many, many years. Approximately half of the employed people in America work for who the federal government classifies as small businesses.

Must be kind of a big deal, right?

I am focusing on CEASE because of industry knowledge and experience. However, all seven Acts are very important and part of the much larger puzzle of what PDT is piecing together. Notice that all seven passed out of Committee along party lines at 15-11.

America should really stop pretending that bipartisanship can exist consistently. That idea is trash. It was promoted by the Uniparty for decades as a means for selling their dedication to American citizens, which we now know was hogwash. If you hear the word being sold by a politician or media propagandist you know what side they are on. Full stop.

Concerning all of the Acts passed in the committee, please notice that they are not all about small business necessarily. The SBA as an agency is a means to an end with some of the acts. It is also about using the agency as a weapon against illegal voter registration, against sanctuary cities, to cut regulatory burdens, and against climate change related scams.

Some on here will remember my recent posts about a fellow co-worker from my tree that took over a small business lending department for a bank in our area after I retired. He recently called and was distraught; considering early retirement over what Brandon and cronies did to the industry. They had opened the floodgates for borrower loan requests over $1 million and did not care if they were citizens or not or even if they were creditworthy. As a result fraud was rampant, delinquencies and defaults were soaring, and the agency was not honoring their guaranties on defaulted loans of even the honest lenders on a timely basis. In fact, they were trying to renege as often as they could. It had all turned into one giant clusterf–k.

i told him to be patient as I felt it would be addressed soon by the Trump admin and MAGA elected officials. Many of them experienced great heartburn over PPP program fraud that was administered by SBA during COVID. We see the results of their and the banking industry’s concerns in the bills linked above. We also see greatly improved internal policy decisions that reflect the changes below. Effective June 1, that hammer fell. All SBA lenders and small business borrowers must comply with the following revised, common sense, sound credit parameters and requirements to obtain SBA guaranteed loans.

https://www.commerciallendingx.com/blog/sba-policy-changes-effective-june-1st-2025

Most were parameters that were already required in some format and/or amount during my career that effectively ended on a full time basis 17 years ago. That they were not followed in the years since simply points to the systematic destruction of critically important financing options for small business owners who do not ordinarily qualify for conventional financing options at banks and other lenders. Brandon’s bunch desired the opposite to increase funds for the woke and money launderers.

The primary purpose of this private/public partnership between banks and the federal government is to provide capital to small businesses that need and deserve support. In turn they grow, provide products and services to the public, pay taxes, provide incomes and benefits to owners and employees, play important parts in communities and so on. In summary, they participate in the American Way. Many successfully become larger businesses and iconic brands that employ even larger numbers of people. However, it is true that many big businesses do not want increased competition. As a result they play politics with their smaller competitors to retain market share.

Which leads to the Main Street versus Wall Street tension that SD at TCTH discusses as well as in discussion within our federal government today. The former party of big business only is now the party of Main Street as well with the America First policies of the MAGA movement, thanks to the efforts of the patriots in league with PDT. The internal tension within the GOP will be to keep the playing field level for both big and small business. Which makes the next topics encouraging for us Main Street types.

CEASE Act

Some may ask why would an act be necessary to limit the number of non-bank lenders who could be active in SBA lending programs? Here is what led to it,

https://www.icba.org/newsroom/news-and-articles/2025/06/06/house-passes-icba-backed-legislation-to-protect-sba-lending

The truth is some of the non-bank small business lenders with licenses, SBLC’s, typically are bottom feeders. Some only meet minimum capitalization requirements and receive funding from other wholesale lenders at a higher cost of funds than banks typically realize. They also are not subject to regulatory scrutiny of the banking industry. That can lead to some shady dealings at times.

As a result some SBLC’s typically take more risk and charge borrowers higher interest rates to counter. As a natural consequence they experience higher delinquency rates and loan defaults. Like many other bank lenders in the program, they sell participations in the SBA guaranteed portions of loans to investors such as hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, credit unions, etc, that are usually represented by investment brokerage houses. The lack of credit worthiness of some of their customers impacts the overall performance of the pools of loans that go into securitizations that are sold to the end investors. This reduces their value over time, which reduces the premium offered to all lenders in the programs. It is not fair to thousands of banks that a handful of SBLC’s acting in bad faith are allowed to spoil the debt market barrel for the product. Not to mention the extra work created for SBA’s liquidation area on defaulted loans.

This is a weakness for all types of debt markets on Wall Street. it was the underlying cause of the debt market collapse of 2008 leading into The Great Recession. So what is the primary that weakness that can cause a nation’s economy to crumble? The Wall Street buyers of all types of loans are not “credit” people as bankers view credit. For example, bankers view credit from the perspective of the 5 C’s of credit, which bank regulators like from the FDIC understand and consider in their reviews. Those categories are character, capacity, capital, collateral and conditions. Commercial bankers are trained in the long established methodology of making loans to borrowers who are most likely to repay the bank back on time. This is the Main Street view – know your borrower and how they handle their business.

Wall Street sees credit differently. They do not drill down into individual loans to determine viability. They view historical performance of industries (SIC codes) and locational aspects along with loan pool average interest rates, terms, collateral, industry concentrations, etc. as the credit of the overall deal. They rely on rating agencies – S&P, Moody’s and Fitch to ascertain their overall rating of each pool of loans. The ratings agencies typically only review a small sampling of loans and are more interested in the documentation being correctly executed. To Wall Street, those are the factors that provide the credit worthiness of the macro pool of loans, not the micro individual loans themselves.

In my opinion this void in understanding credit was a major cause of the Great Recession because it happened in every type of debt instrument – residential mortgages, car loans, credit cards, commercial real estate, etc. This led to the banker version of credit being undercut by the crappy underwriting of non-bank lenders in all of those business segments, industries, and locations. Wall Street purchased huge volumes of loans from those sources in many overheated markets. When the borrowers began tanking on their loans in large numbers as the economy and job markets cooled, caused by politicians primarily, the funding for new loans in even stable industries also dried up. The institutional buyers were deservedly spooked and sought safe harbor in treasuries and other more stable investments. All of the insurance coverage with hedges, swaps and such went down with it. The Great Recession kicked in.

As it applies to SBA lending, when lesser performing SBLC’s provide lower quality loans to a mixed pool involving other lenders, they can taint the whole pool and hide crap loans. SBLC loans are mixed into pools with those of banks. Everybody is affected. As you will see below, they rack up some profits short term and once the crap begins to hit the fan – poof – they are gone.

Current Status

Below is the list of active SBLC’s as of 1/29/25 with authorization to make loans up to $5 million.

Alaska Growth Capital BIDCO, Inc. Nationwide
Arkansas Capital Corp. Nationwide
Centerstone SBA Lending, Inc. Nationwide
CRF Small Business Loan Company, LLC Nationwide
First Western SBLC, Inc Nationwide
Grow America Fund, Inc. Nationwide
Harvest Small Business Finance, LLC Nationwide
Lendistry SBLC, LLC Nationwide
Lendstream Small Business Finance, LLC Nationwide
Port 51 Lending, LLC Nationwide
Readycap Lending, LLC Nationwide
VelocitySBA, LLC Nationwide

Notice anything about the current list? There are 16 licenses authorized by the past act before Brandon and gang removed that restriction, at which time it went up to 19 approved lenders when they approved three new lender licenses. I will address an even worse atrocity associated with the 2023 changes involving the creation of special purpose lending companies later in this text below.

Currently, it is back to 16 authorized SBLC licenses again, yet, there are only 12 licensed lenders as of the beginning of PDT’s term of office. What happened to the four that were approved in the second half of 2024 – Cooperative Business Services (CBS), A10 Capital, Lafayette Square and Stonehenge Capital as replacements for four others who dropped out previously? They are not on the current list.

This is because their applications did not get activated with required Congressional approvals in time before PDT assumed office, so they lost out with PDT coming in. We also know one of the current licensees, Lendstream, has not made any SBA loans since 2022. They should not even have the license if they are going to be inactive, so something is “off” there. We also know that one of Brandon’s newbie three, Funding Circle, closed its operations soon after it started. Two were added that are still on the list, Alaska and Arkansas. So, sometime in 2024 they also replaced two that dropped off the list. That means a total of 6 lenders were approved to replace 6 on the list in 2024 and three were added above the former 16 limit, one of which failed. That is a movement of 9 non-bank licensed lenders in a year. That leaves 11 that are actually making SBA loans out of 16 authorized slots in 2025.

😂

Needless to say making fraudulent loans to formerly ineligible customers (i. e. illegals) by criminal enterprises using federal guaranties on the majority of the loans that create extra profits for the subject non-bank lenders is a recipe for disaster for the programs, SBA and Americans. The current admin is taking the approach of eliminating that possibility in opposition to Brandon and the Uniparty who had that as their MO for SBLC’s since banks are more controlled by Congressional acts as well as regulatory authorities.

Hypothetically, let’s say you are a higher up in a cartel and you have established some seemingly legit businesses to launder cash through. In the past you could invest into an SBLC with the Brandon regime’s approval through a shell company or other legit business. You would then have the ability to influence or otherwise approve loans to other connected businesses to pull cash and/or launder money. In those businesses there would probably be hordes of illegals as employees who were given some form of legal resident status by Brandon’s crims, which undoubtedly also led to some being illegally registered as voters, Medicaid recipients, Social Security recipients and so on. All of the above would support Dem politicians and designees.

Is some of this making sense now? SBA is just one agency of the federal government that was used for these type purposes, there were many more.

In my personal opinion, that cartel/crim scenario probably applied to more than one of the exited licensed lenders including the ones discussed in the link below. The legit SBLC’s generally make enough good loans to help cover for the excessive bad loans of the crims, who have lower loan volumes as they attempt to stay under the radar. The loan volume of the better lenders is higher and they have received SBA’s highly desired Preferred Lender status rating, which means they do things right. I know several of the leaders of these quality lenders; did business with one CEO when he was employed at a well known SBLC from BIMD.

The following SBA press release from a month ago gives clarity and examples of an explosion of the new special purpose SBLC’s that Brandon’s crims put in place.

https://www.sba.gov/article/2025/05/19/sba-overhauls-reckless-biden-era-lending-program

From the link; “However, in 2023, the Biden Administration revived Community Advantage and approved more than 140 new, unregulated lenders for the program, selectively certifying groups including “The Progress Fund,” “PeopleFund,” and “Black Business Investment Fund.” It then attempted to increase the loan limit for the program from $250,000 to $500,000 – or up to $2 million to fund climate-related projects in support of the Green New Scam.”

SBA as an agency and the industry was a goner if PDT had not won. Obviously the agency was a major source of fraud and money laundering using leftist scams and illegals.

Conclusion

All of these current congressional activities tell me the Trump admin is all over it and knows the game the crims have been playing. The plug is being pulled and it is a GREAT thing for America in many areas of concern.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Ukraine: Another Playground for Evil

This new post is being created for us to collect newer Ukraine history, background, details on the actors on the stage, corruption, shadow government evil-doings, and so on. There are older, related posts on this site by Daughn, here, and here, and a detailed timeline here.

But for today’s focus, let’s start with this interview of an American lawyer who is deeply involved in working to right the wrongs being done to the good Christians of the region.

Bob Amsterdam lays it all out with both compassion and unusual clarity from his viewpoint. NB: he is a liberal and seems to be conflating “right wing” and Nazism. Wolf would likely want to call them Jazis. Amsterdam would probably have no idea what that could mean.

The effort to right the wrongs is documented at this site: Save the UOC. It certainly seems worthy of our attention and our prayers.

May God show kindness and mercy to His people struggling under the oppression that is today’s corrupt government of the Ukraine.

American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 7

Wait a minute. I just remembered that I told readers that Benjamin Rush was a hero for helping Federalist John Adams and Anti-Federalist Thomas Jefferson to reconcile. That must mean those two strong willed, highly intelligent American patriots had a falling out? I thought they were great friends? What gives?

Continental Congress

The two first met at the Continental Congress and began working together in the Committee of Five that wrote the Declaration of Independence. There was a strong mutual respect as each saw the strengths of the other. The tall, handsome, wordsmith Jefferson and the short, more portly, born leader, extroverted Adams hit it off. Per worldhistoryedu.com,

Adams admired Jefferson’s eloquence and writing skills, and Jefferson respected Adams’s fierce advocacy and leadership. Their collaboration during the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 marked a high point in their relationship. Adams even suggested Jefferson for the task of writing the Declaration because of his “masterly pen.” This period of cooperation laid the foundation for their future interactions, though the seeds of their eventual rivalry were already present in their differing temperaments and political philosophies.

Per historyhit.com,

When Jefferson’s wife, Martha, died in 1782, Jefferson became a frequent guest at the home of John and Abigail Adams. Abigail said of Jefferson that he was “the only person with whom my companion could associate with perfect freedom and reserve”.

During the war both were sent as diplomats to Europe. For a time Adams worked with Benjamin Franklin in France, but they grew to despise each other. Franklin had decades of experience and a polished ease in social situations that fit in well in Europe while Adams was brash and direct. They separated and Adams was sent to Holland. Meanwhile, Jefferson served as Governor of VA and was nearly captured at his home in Monticello. Over time and as the war ended, Adams resumed the lead role in negotiating the Treaty of Paris.

The tensions between the two began well after the war was won and the Treaty of Paris signed. After signing Adams headed to London and Jefferson was dispatched to Paris to begin efforts to restore normalized relations for the new nation. From the time they had first met through their years in Europe, they exchanged many of the 380 letters accorded them in their lifetimes. It was what happened when they returned to America with the finalizing of the Constitution that caused the rift.

Both had very different views over the primary role of a federal government. As noted previously, Adams was a Federalist who strongly believed in a dominant centralized government and was very suspicious of the French Revolution. He was a student of classical world history and saw how great nations fell when they lost order and experienced chaos. He feared the people having too much freedom from democracy. He was also more oriented to populated urban areas.

On the other hand Jefferson was Anti-Federalist who believed in decentralization of government, who saw no reason to abandon relations with the French. He preferred an agrarian based nation and was all in on democracy for all. He believed in the basic goodness and wisdom of the common man from his experiences within the Enlightenment period. A link to an explanation of that is below.

https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/enlightenment

As both Adams and Jefferson dug in deeper in their beliefs and actions, their letter writing to each other slowed dramatically. With the POTUS election of 1788 each battled for the role of VP under President George Washington. Adams was the victor. At that point the publicly drawn battle lines between the two became more pronounced. The respect and friendship they once shared soured.

Adams and Jefferson ran against each other for POTUS in 1796 after Washington’s retirement. Once again Adams was the narrow victor. However, the rules provided for Jefferson to be the VP.

Awkward! 😆

Undeterred with the loss, Jefferson and his Democratic Republican party supporters stayed on the offensive and used the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 by the Federalists as proof of how removed Adams and his party had become from the will of the people. SOUND FAMILIAR?

So what were the Acts all about that caused the ruckus?

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/alien-and-sedition-acts

At this point, please do not make the mistake of drawing a parallel of the Federalists kicking out the aliens as the same as what is happening today. The aliens of yesteryear were not here to overturn the government and were in fact here legally. They were invited here to become citizens in a young country bursting with opportunities that was expanding westward in need of workers and settlers. This is why the period of residency before becoming a citizen was only 5 years. The fearful reaction of the Federalists to this population growth in other regions of the country drove the passage of the Acts that increased the residency requirement to 14 years among other onerous, controlling provisions. They knew the newer citizens would not be interested in more control from a central government and would be attracted to the Democratic Republicans’ promise of liberty and a decentralized government. It was an attempt to keep the status quo and the Federalists in power. SOUND FAMILIAR?

Today’s Uniparty throws in millions of illegal ballots in key races and areas. It is a current version of the Federalist operatives who gamed the system to stay in power. Different method, same result. The parallel you can draw effectively is that the will of the people won out in 1800 just as it did on November 5, 2024. Thomas Jefferson won the POTUS role in 1800 and Adams was defeated. It was called The Revolution of 1800 as it was a dogfight between the two camps. Personal attacks and partisanship ruled the campaigns. It got ugly. At one point James Madison joined forces with Jefferson to promote states rights.

The election actually ended in a tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. It was finally determined in the House of Representatives for Jefferson. The oppressive Acts subsequently expired or were repealed. With the loss Adams retreated from government and politics. He returned to his farm in Quincy, MA and largely withdrew from public life.

Jefferson went on to served two terms successfully. Both Adams and Jefferson had very little contact with each other and held resentments. In 1812, the friend of both, Declaration signer Benjamin Rush, took the big step to restore their relationship. He had been saddened by their lack of communications as well as the effects it had on the nation as a whole. After conversations with both over the years he took it upon himself to approach Adams about the prospects of reconciling with Jefferson. Adams agreed and sent a short cordial letter to Jefferson. That was all it took for the two to resume their friendship. Over the next 14 years they wrote each other often, discussing a wide variety of subjects that included politics, philosophy and personal matters.

Their words revealed a deep mutual respect and a shared sense of history and their involvement in it. They discussed their disagreements and were even humorous about their past behavior. They bridged their divide and reconciled as people. It was a very meaningful event for America that these two patriot giants could settle their differences and remain bonded in friendship and love of country. Again, it may have been the most important act Benjamin Rush took out of an incredible number of important acts he undertook in his storied life.

How appropriate that both Adams and Jefferson died on the same day; July 4 ,1826 – Independence Day. The last words of Adams were, “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” He was mistaken: Jefferson had died five hours earlier at Monticello at the age of 83.

Shivers.

Let’s move on to more signers.

John Hart

I am going to go with 1713 as John Hart’s birth year primarily because it is the year Congress officially recognized, although other sources state 1711 and other years. In reality they do not know with certainty. What they do know is that his father was Captain Edward Hart and that John was born in Stonington, CT. His father was in the local militia that was active in the French and Indian War as well as being a farmer, public assessor and justice of the peace. The family relocated to New Jersey early in his life and he was baptized in a local meeting house that is now a Presbyterian Church, although it appears his family had some association with Baptists as John deeded some land to them to build a church on in 1747.

John married Deborah Scudder in 1741. They went on to have 13 children together. He held a county position beginning in 1750 and by 1761 was elected to the NJ Colonial Assembly where he served for ten years. His primary occupation was a farmer and earned the name “Honest John Hart” from within the state. As a patriot he was appointed the state’s Committee of Safety as well as the Committee of Correspondence. As the First Continental Congress was formed he was chosen as one of the representatives of the state. That led to him being one of the first sent to the Second and as a result an approver and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

As the war came to New Jersey, The British sought him out as a signer as well as Speaker of the Assembly in NJ. As this was happening his wife lay dying in their home. He refused to leave until she breathed her last, then departed for the nearby Sourland Mountains he had hunted for many years even though he was well into his sixties by that time. He remained for a year until the threat of the British had passed there before returning home and finding that they had severely damaged his property. In the summer of 1778 he offered his farm along with other local farm owners to become the staging and planning area for General Washington’s 12,000 man army. He and Washington dined together while camped there. However, before the year was out he experienced life threatening kidney stone attacks that left him in great pain until his death six months later in 1779.

Honest John Hart literally gave all of himself and his possessions for the cause of liberty without regard to its cost. He was a great America Patriot.

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Born St. Luke’s Parish, SC in 1746, Thomas Heyward. Jr., was from a wealthy plantation owning family that were known for growing tidal rice. His father was Col. Daniel Heyward. He was educated at home in classical studies and Latin, while later being trained in law locally and in England. While in England he observed that the Brits there viewed the colonists as their lessers, which angered him. He continued to travel Europe and saw that the lives of luxury around him stood in contrast to the simple lives of the farmers he liked at home. It made a distinct impression on him.

When he returned in 1772 he soon married Elizabeth Matthews, daughter of Col. John and Sarah Matthews. The couple had six children together although she passed away in childbirth in 1782. Only one survived to adulthood.

When the Stamp Act was passed Heyward was its most vocal critic. He began to rise in patriot circles, much to his loyalist father’s dismay. At one time the Heyward family were the largest slaveholders in America, so his beliefs about independence ran contrary to long held family interests. In 1775 he was elected to the General Assembly and subsequently to represent the state in the First Continental Congress. His father warned him of the consequences, but was unable to dissuade him. However, prior to his father’s death in 1777, the two reconciled.

He became a Declaration signer as well as later, a signer of the Articles of Confederation. In 1778 he returned home to take over operations of the family plantation after his father’s death the previous year. He assumed control of a small artillery militia and was wounded in battle, from which he recovered. He was subsequently captured in the Battle of Charleston and sent to St. Augustine with other officers. He was later sent to Philadelphia in a prisoner exchange near the end of the war and was nearly killed when he fell over board of the prison ship. After the exchange, it was not long until his wife died during childbirth. He had lost his wife, his plantation had been destroyed, his slaves ad other possessions taken away, and yet, he continued to serve as a judge and in the affairs of his state including the writing of the state Constitution until his retirement in 1798. His personal life recovered with his second marriage to Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Col. Thomas and Mary Elliot Savage of Charleston. They had three children together. Heyward passed away in 1809 having fulfilled his life’s mission of serving his country as a great American Patriot.

Lessons From The Life Of Thomas Heyward

Picture yourself as a young man born into southern plantation society and wealth, whose family is aligned with the Crown. Life has been plentiful. Your family is highly respected in the community and state. Slaves work the fields and serve throughout the mansion and grounds. You have been afforded an elite classical education at home that has led to an apprenticeship and training into the law. Your parents see your abilities and send you to England to complete your education and training in law. You spend the next five years traveling Europe and then realize as you set sail for home that you do not care for those people or the lives they represent.

This leads to getting sideways with your father as you have determined that liberty is the only path for the colonies. You go your own way, though fortunately reconciling with him before he passes. Over the ensuing years you give your all for the cause that includes your freedom as a prisoner of war and nearly your life on multiple occasions. You go from being shot to being imprisoned to nearly drowning from going overboard on the voyage that was to take you to freedom. Then you lose your wife in the childbirth of one of your six children, only one of whom survived. All of this only to return home after the war to find your family’s plantation in ruins and all of the slaves gone, most of whom having been sent to Jamaica.

Instead of throwing your hands up in surrender, you rebuild your life. You become a judge and continue to be active in state affairs. You marry again and have children. And the one constant through it all remains your commitment to the service of your country and your memories of having signed the greatest document in American history.

Thomas Heyward was a man of qualities and flaws like all of us. However, his life illustrates his commitment to our nation no matter the cost. It is a strong lesson for all who would be patriots.

Conclusion

I only have time for two signers this week. I have finally recovered from Flu A and much work remains on the project for the kids’ house. I will likely skip a week before restarting the series as I want the content to continue to reflect our nation’s return to its patriot roots with the Golden Age upon us.

I am in awe over what PDT, JD, Elon, cabinet members and supporters are delivering. It is literally a long held dream come true for this old head and heart. I wanted it so badly for the children and grandchildren, so they could carry the day and fight well into the future. Our America First MAGA leaders get it. They have the spirit and the will of our 1776 Sons of Liberty coursing through their veins. I am so proud to be an American again.

May God continue to bless our united efforts to restore and lift up the republic for His glory and the good of His people.

American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 6

Now would be an excellent time to pay honor to a great American who is probably enjoying the show in our nation from Heaven.

America is back! God bless America and all freedom loving people worldwide.

Time To Get Into The Weeds

This is an appropriate time to discuss Federalism versus Anti-Federalism. Since our leaders in the national experiment called the United States of America back in the day were playing hard, fast and for keeps; we should be made very aware of what was involved. If you have not spotted the truth of this issue still being in play today along with a nasty fight between the political forces aligned with PDT versus the Uniparty, then you need to take a dose of cold reality. The parallels are amazingly similar. Below is a primer to get you started.

https://thisvsthat.io/anti-federalists-vs-federalists

For more detailed information,

https://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/4.5_Primary_Source__Who_were_the_Federalists_and_the_Anti-Federalists__.docx_.pdf

Now, extend what you learned or were reminded of and apply it to America today.

Do you consider the federal government your friend and partner, or, the potential usurper of God and/or Constitution granted rights as an American?

If you believe the former, you are probably a Federalist. If you believe the latter, you are probably an Anti-Federalist.

Do you believe the federal government should be involved in curing the perceived weaknesses of society and righting perceived wrongs of equal rights for all classes of citizens, or, do you believe that responsibility to redress should be left to local citizens and/or related state and local authorities?

The former is Federalist, the latter is Anti-Federalist.

If a power or authority has not been assigned by the Constitution to handle a subject or concern of importance to the nation, do you believe it is a federal or a state responsibility per the Constitution to address?

Yup, Federalist or Anti-Federalist.

We could continue the game, but you probably get the point. The founding fathers worked through the subjects between them and delivered our Constitution and Bill of Rights as the answer to the desires of both sides. Which is the exact same positions we still fight over today for many of the same reasons they did. Let’s review the officially long deceased Federalist Party and what it represented per an accurate Wiki description. Who does that party resemble today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Party

Yup, it describes the current Democrats and Uniparty in general.

Now lets look at the Anti-Federalist movement as it never officially became a political party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Federalis

Backers of the Anti-Federalist movement formed a political party called the Democratic Republican Party with Thomas Jefferson as its leader. These Anti-Federalist influenced backers were for smaller central government, states rights, less regulation, lower taxes and the abolition of slavery. As the years passed the Federalist Party became the limited party of the elites in the New England and eventually died. With Andrew Jackson’s rise to power and the Presidency, the Democratic-Republican Party split with Jackson on the Democratic party side supporting individual and states rights rivaling a coalition formed primarily of remaining Republicans and Anti-Mason Party supporters into the Whig Party. It was led by Henry Clay supporting Federalism and greater power of Congress over the President.

The 1850’s brought the demise of the Whig Party with their support of slavery and elitism. That led to the rise of the Republican Party and eventually Abraham Lincoln and the anti-slavery forces. This Grand Old Party (GOP) as it became known, arose from the Union’s victory in the Civil War. The party typically dominated federal politics for several decades afterward. The Democratic Party became the broad based party of conservatives and agriculture rooted in the “solid south” as well as other scattered segments. As backers of states rights, they generally opposed the anti-slavery changes. They would occasionally win control of houses of Congress along the way.

Fast forward to today. My, oh, my how things change!

We are back to Federalists being Uni-party elitists with cobbled together minority segments in the Democrat Party and RINO’s versus the Anti-Federalists being the rapidly growing, populist America First MAGA segment of the GOP that is all about operating as a republic with states rights being important.

What has happened since our nation’s founding and today is a continuous morphing between these primarily Federalist versus Anti-Federalist viewpoints. America and its politics have never been one thing or the other throughout its history. Yet, the tension remains from the negotiations surrounding the interpretation of the Constitution and with the accommodation provided by the Bill of Rights.

As things stand today, did the Democrat and RINO Uniparty exceed their authority by claiming powers over subjects, issues and people that are not enumerated in the Constitution? Of course they did and still attempt to do. That is why EO’s and EA’s have been flying out of the Oval Office in droves under President Trump already. To increase their power and reach, central governments tend to naturally grow and extend their tentacles increasingly into the business of the people. That is not a question, it is a fact demonstrated over thousands of years in governments all around the globe.

Can a fully decentralized republic adequately defend itself against foreign and domestic forces and enemies without central governance and leadership? Probably not very well in America as the independent states may opt out of their responsibilities and enter into disputes with each other as well as the federal government. There would be no hammer to cover all aspects of government in place to force them back into compliance. Our strength as a nation against foreign powers is in unity, not division.

As a result the pendulum of change has swung both right and left since the Constitution’s ratification in 1788 and implementation in 1789. The excesses of the Uniparty activities in our times are obvious and the reason Donald Trump is POTUS. Very few are willing to admit it, but the Constitution still has problems that the Anti-Federalists foresaw. The compromise over the Bill of Rights did not go far enough. It addressed some of the major issues of the day that would probably survive as time passed. But as we have subsequently learned over time it left gaping holes of how to prevent and penalize federal government overreach when they venture into powers and authorities that are not enumerated. When transparency is the law, those in federal authority have rarely provided it without prodding, outright threats or legal actions. Attempts to permanently change the responses have been unsuccessful at times, just as Anti-Federalists predicted could happen.

The truth is the development and use of political parties has stymied our nation’s progress frequently. The tension of partisanship that is built into the system can help, but it also can hinder as we have seen repeatedly in our times. We will touch more on this and the life of James Monroe in particular down the road in this series.

The partisanship has led our nation into the long overdue corrective phase today that Anti-Federalists of old would celebrate. We populist, American First, MAGA, states rights, kill the Fed, modern day Anti-Federalists won the election despite the current day, Federalist, Uniparty cheating the elections as they have for at least a century. Too big to rig got it done, however, that should not have been required. As a law abiding nation our citizens could choose to be honorable and have integrity. Unfortunately, the past 235+ years years since Constitution implementation reveals the truth that honesty and honor are not always present or enough. One of the primary reasons for that is radical partisanship. Many throw up their middle finger on reasoning and consensus building, two ingredients that are required for effective leadership.

Which is why the theme of the POTUS Trump administration has been “common sense“.

Strengthening constitutional enforcement issues could be a meaningful answer as well as satisfying the obvious need for honest, accurate elections. When one side or the other goes rogue or overreach becomes the modus operandi while in control, they can choose to enforce or not enforce the provisions of the Constitution and related law with minimal blow back because of the mockery they have made of law enforcement activities and the judiciary. We have seen this blatantly demonstrated in the past three decades with the weaponization of the DOJ and Intelligence Community (IC). Political gain replaced bipartisan administration of the law in the highest offices of our land.

President Trump and America First supporters aim to change all of that. We are already seeing a great deal of Anti-Federalist approaches to powers not enumerated and a great deal of leverage applied. President Trump, cabinet, and all supporters are going back to the original intent of the Massachusetts Compromise we discussed in a previous part. That compromise led to that key state’s ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Some of the actions President Trump is intentionally taking will end up on the desks of the SCOTUS due to lawfare by the Uniparty if they are not codified through actions of Congress. We will have clarity on which to base future steps soon. As that happens it will be critical to gain even more patriot control over Congress in the future as the Uniparty will be fighting against us with all they have. There are more amendments to the Constitution that are necessary to assure our nation’s viability for centuries to come.

If history is our guide, political parties based on partisanship control will eventually die and morph into something else. That is exactly where the Democrat Party finds itself today. The GOP through POTUS Trump and supporters morphed from the party of big business to the party of the people over a couple of decades. What signaled that change was coming was when the Democrats lurched left. The Solid South left the party and have become GOP stalwarts.

Given a personal choice of one side or the other, I think readers know I am an Anti-Federalist in my core. Power and money corrupt and nowhere is that seen in a greater display than in our nation’s Capitol. I have personal experiences during my career on which to base my position. I also recognize that in regard to the powers that are enumerated to the federal government, we all must support without reservation as long as the activities are legally conducted. They are not mutually exclusive positions.

On we go to discuss more signers of the Declaration of Independence. We will look at a leader of both the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists as well as one who help reconcile both sides to make it all happen as it did.

George Read

Born in 1733 in North East, MD, George Read was born to John and Mary Howell Read. His father was an Englishman from a family of great wealth. He moved to the colonies and bought a large estate in Cecil County, MD. With six others he went on to found the City of Charleston on the Chesapeake Bay. While there he held numerous military offices.

Soon after his birth, George’s family moved to an estate in New Castle, DE. He went to school with American Patriot Thomas McKean at Rev. Francis Allison’s Academy in New London, PA at age 15. He then studied law in Philadelphia, passed the bar in 1753, and moved back to New Castle to establish his law practice. In 1763 he married the daughter of an Anglican Church rector, Gertrude Ross. They joined the Episcopal Church there. They had three sons; George Jr., William and John.

He was appointed as the Crown Attorney General of three counties in DE by the governor. He remained in that position until he joined the first Continental Congress in 1774. Read preferred that the colonists find common ground with the British and loyalists. When it became time to vote on the Declaration of Independence he voted against it. This caused Rep. Caesar Rodney from the state to ride all night to break the tie for DE to approve the Declaration. However, when it came time to sign it, George Read did so in support.

With the future of the United States on the line in the Revolutionary War. He returned to serve in DE, but soon learned of the capture of the Continental Congress President John McKinley. He was nearly captured himself in Philadelphia, but escaped and served as President of the Congress for six months. He recruited men for the military and helped in the defense of the colonists during the period wile serving in the Legislative Council after the end of his term. He then returned to his home and activities in the state legislature. He took one year away to recover his health.

He was called into service again by DE with the work towards the approval of the Constitution. He was a leader in the fight for a strong federal government, advocating at one point for the abolition of states altogether. None of his fellow representatives agreed with him, so he moved on to protecting the rights of small states versus their larger neighbors. Once those rights were assured he led the approval of the vote for the Constitution for which DE was the first to ratify. In leading these efforts Read became a major voice in the Federalist Party.

The DE General Assembly elected Read to be a U. S Senator in 1789. He served there until 1793. He strongly supported George Washington and believed in centralization, including the creation of a national bank. He left the Senate when appointed the Chief Justice of the DE Supreme Court and served there until his death from heart problems in 1798. His wife passed away five years later. His son George Read, Jr. became the first U. S. Attorney for DE. His grandson, Read III, became the second. He had two brothers serve as officers in the Continental Army and Navy respectively.

George Read was a highly influential American Patriot who gave his all and left a family legacy of doing likewise.

Richard Henry Lee

In addition to prominent Anti-Federalists John Hancock and Samuel Adams, there was Richard Henry Lee. Born in Westmoreland County, VA in 1732, Lee came from a long line of aristocratic military officers, diplomats and politicians in his family. His parents were Colonel Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell Lee. Lee was sent to England to study and during the period both of his parents died in 1750. He continued in Europe until 1752 when he returned home to settle the estate of his parents with his siblings. In 1757 he was appointed justice of the peace and a year later elected into the House of Burgesses, serving until 1775. Also in 1757 he married his first wife, Anne Aylett, with whom he had six children with four surviving. After her death in 1768 he married Anne Gaskins Pinckard a year later. The couple had seven children together of whom five survived.

Lee was strongly in favor of independence and was a founder of the VA Committees of Correspondence. However, he was not in the tar and feathers promoters. He preferred boycotts and verbal persuasion in a gentlemanly manner. In 1766 he authored the Westmoreland Resolution that was against the enforcement of the British Stamp Act. Among those who signed it were several of George Washington’s family members. He was even more actively opposed to the Townshend Acts. He was selected by VA to attend the First Continental Congress. It was Lee who brought the motion for independence in the Second Continental Congress is 1776. The key part of his resolution read,

“Resolved: That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

He had returned to VA prior to the actual vote, but returned in time to sign the Declaration. Later in 1783 he was selected as the President of the Congress. He served for a year and was selected as U. S. Senator from 1789-1792.

Lee strongly supported states rights and a reduced presence of the federal government. He was very active in the Anti-Federalist movement and instrumental in the inclusion of the Bill of Rights. His proposal of the language of the 10th Amendment was adopted substantially as he presented it. With the compromise, he backed the ratification of the Constitution and had high regard for the performance of George Washington through the years. He soon grew to appreciate the Constitution as he saw how it actually performed. He passed away in 1794 at age 62 with his wife passing away two years later at age 48. He never fully recovered from an overturned carriage accident in 1791. Within the founding fathers as a group, he was considered as important as the bigger names of Jefferson, Adams and Franklin.

Richard Henry Lee was a great American Patriot.

Roger Sherman

One of the patriots who was critical to building consensus between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, large states and small states, providing a compromise that led to the House and Senate structures as well as other meaningful agreements was Roger Sherman. Born in Newton, MA in 1721, Sherman was the son of farmers. His parents, William and Mehetabel Sherman, moved when he was two years old to Stoughton. Sherman had little formal education outside of grammar school and his father’s library. He was also taught by his Harvard educated parish minister, Rev. Samuel Dunbar. His first job was as a shoemaker.

After his father died in 1743, he moved to New Milford, CT with his mother and siblings. He opened a cobbler store with a brother. He became the county’s surveyor two years later. This helped him save money to later purchase land and earn a good reputation among county residents. He married Elizabeth Hartwell in 1749. She passed away in 1760. He then married Rebecca Prescott in 1763. Between the two wives they had 15 children, 13 of whom lived to adulthood. He published a successful almanac for eleven years as well as studied law. He passed the bar exam in 1754. He became very involved in church and civic affairs, resulting in his election as town clerk of New Milford. He was also elected to the CT House of Representatives for several terms during the period. He was named a justice of the peace in 1762 and a judge in 1765. From that position he was named Justice of the CT Superior Court for the next 23 years. During this time he was also appointed Treasurer of Yale College and taught religious studies there for years.

He represented CT in both the first and second Continental Congress. He was one of the Committee of Five who drafted the Declaration of Independence. His involvement continued into the production of the Articles of Confederation and a member of the related Congress. As such he also became a signer on the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.

Sherman attended the Constitution Convention with no preconceived positions. He actually preferred amending the Articles of Confederation as he saw the problem with it being primarily the lack of the ability to enforce its provisions. (SOUND FAMILIAR?) 😂

Sherman was the definition of a nationalist and viewed his state in isolationist ways. He saw it being essentially self sufficient and aligned with his religious (Puritan) views. Even then he foresaw the future end to slavery in America (SOUND FAMILIAR?) So, he worked to encourage compromises between the two sides even though he was personally anti-slavery. He was a very active participant in legislative and development sessions no matter the project or meeting. He was not an eloquent speaker as he was described as being very direct and terse in his many presentations. This led to him not being quoted as much as others as well as the fact he did not keep extensive journals of his activities.

He was also an opponent of “paper” money. He saw a national currency of same being a future problem to the individual states.

Roger Sherman was largely responsible for the current organization and voting functions of Congress. He forged a compromise, the Connecticut Compromise, through the Grand Committee he formed to deliver a compromise between the large and small states that would balance the interests of both more fairly. He went on to serve as a U. S. Representative and later, as a U. S Senator of his state until his passing from typhoid in 1793. The great American theologian Jonathon Edwards preached his funeral. His wife, Rebecca, passed away in 1813.

Roger Sherman was the only person in our history to sign all four major documents of the United States from our period of founding; the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U. S. Constitution. His more famous contemporaries Jefferson, Adams and Madison had deep admiration for the man and held all of his works in high regard.

Conclusion

A Federalist, an Anti-Federalist, and a Consensus Builder walk into a bar…

OK, start to a bad joke. However, this has been how America has evolved over many years by building consensus among dissimilar individuals who are linked by the common bonds formed from our great Declaration of Independence.

May God bless America.

American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 5

Saratoga. Everything hinged on Saratoga. From history.com we have the following:

British strategy in 1777 involved two main prongs of attack aimed at separating New England (where the rebellion enjoyed the most popular support) from the other colonies. To that end, General John Burgoyne’s army marched south from Canada toward a planned meeting with Howe’s forces on the Hudson River. Burgoyne’s men dealt a devastating loss to the Americans in July by retaking Fort Ticonderoga, while Howe decided to move his troops southward from New York to confront Washington’s army near the Chesapeake Bay. The British defeated the Americans at Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvannia on September 11 and entered Philadelphia on September 25. Washington rebounded to strike Germantown in early October before withdrawing to winter quarters near Valley Forge.

Howe’s move had left Burgoyne’s army exposed near Saratoga, New York, and the British suffered the consequences of this on September 19, when an American force under General Horatio Gates defeated them at Freeman’s Farm in the first Battle of Saratoga. After suffering another defeat on October 7 at Bemis Heights (the Second Battle of Saratoga), Burgoyne surrendered his remaining forces on October 17. The American victory at Saratoga would prove to be a turning point of the American Revolution, as it prompted France (which had been secretly aiding the rebels since 1776) to enter the war openly on the American side, though it would not formally declare war on Great Britain until June 1778. The American Revolution, which had begun as a civil conflict between Britain and its colonies, had become a world war.

At one time, France actually had a spine. The colonists rejected their oppressors and earned the assistance of the long time British enemies, France. What is not remembered often is that Spain entered the conflict as an ally of France. America owed Spain a debt of gratitude for what they did to assist. They provided critical supplies and funding. They were in their own conflict with the British and saw it as an opportunity to further weaken their enemy so that that could retake Menorca, which was successful a few years later.

Win-win-win for the colonies, France and Spain. An enemy of my enemy is my friend.

But let’s take a closer look at General Horatio Gates in the fall of 1777, the reported hero General who changed everything for the colonies. From mountvernon.com:

“When British troops under the command of Major General John Burgoyne invaded New York in 1777, Gates’ army defeated Burgoyne twice, on September 19, 1777 and October 7, 1777. Gates’ troops forced Burgoyne to surrender his 5,700 man army near Saratoga on October 17, 1777. This victory, a major turning point of the American Revolution, convinced France to form an alliance with the Americans against Great Britain in 1778.

Tensions between Gates and General George Washington grew immediately following Saratoga, after Gates informed Congress directly of his victory rather than informing his Commander-in-Chief. Washington was further angered that Gates did not promptly return troops sent to help Gates during the New York campaign. General Washington was also convinced that Gates played a role in the Conway Cabal in late 1777, which was a supposed plot to remove Washington from command and replace him with Gates. In November 1777, Gates became president of the Board of War and technically became Washington’s superior. Bickering continued between the two men as Gates drew up plans for an invasion of Canada without consulting Washington.

Wait… what? There was dissent in the highest ranks during the Revolutionary War? Somebody got the big head after battle victories? Somebody decided to posture for personal career gain like our political and military idgits do today? Tell me it isn’t so! What is this about a “Conway Cabal” being involved? Enjoy reading the backbiting of some of our founding fathers in the link below. Be sure and click on the second page prompt at the bottom left of the first page.

https://www.ushistory.org/march/other/cabal.htm

As if Benedict Arnold was not enough, Gen. Gates played politics and showed his pompous azz in the middle of our fight for independence. But in the ultimate “what goes around comes around” result, the following explains what happened next. Unfortunately it came with a heavy cost of lives for the colonists.

“In the spring of 1778, Gates returned to field command in the north, controlling troops in New York and Massachusetts. Gates took command of the Southern Army in South Carolina in July 1780 to meet the British army that had invaded that state earlier in the year. Abandoning the cautious strategy he employed against Burgoyne in 1777, Gates marched his army toward the British troops in Camden, South Carolina, despite the fact that his men were running low on supplies. This action led to the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780, which was one of the largest American defeats of the war. As the American troops retreated, Gates left the battlefield and abandoned his army, riding nearly 200 miles in three days. Accused of cowardice, his reputation was ruined. Gates was removed from command in October 1780.

Congress briefly reinstated Gates into the army in the summer of 1782, but after uneventful service he left for the final time in 1783. In 1790 Gates sold his Virginia plantation, freed his slaves, and bought an estate in New York called “Rose Hill Farm.” He ended his career serving one term in the New York legislature from 1800-1801. Gates died on April 10, 1806.”

Proverbs 16:18 – Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. We have seen this scripture proven true countless times over the years. We should always heed these wise words.

Time for more signers. Let ‘s go with one of the players in the Conway Cabal debacle.

Benjamin Rush

The most celebrated physician in America post Revolutionary War was Benjamin Rush. He was born in Byberry, PA in 1745. He was born to merchant John Rush and Susana Hall, the middle of seven children. His father died when he was six and he was sent with a brother to live with an aunt and uncle two years later so they could receive an education. He studied under Dr. Samuel Finley at the West Nottingham Academy. Not long after that he graduated at age 14 with a BA degree from the College of New Jersey, which became Princeton later. For the next five years he apprenticed under Dr. John Redman in Philadelphia before accepting an opportunity to study at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland for three years, where he earned an M. D. degree. While there he became fluent in French, Italian and Spanish. He returned to America in 1769 and opened a medical practice while also teaching chemistry at the University of Philadelphia (UPenn – there it is again). Later in life he published the first American textbook on chemistry.

Rush joined the Sons of Liberty soon after his return from Scotland. He was so respected that Thomas Paine consulted him about content in his Common Sense book. He represented PA when he signed the Declaration. In a letter to John Adams he recalled the signing in a similar manner as fellow signer William Elery. Per Wiki, he wrote the following,

He described it as a scene of “pensive and awful silence”. Rush said the delegates were called up, one after another, and then filed forward somberly to subscribe to what each thought was their ensuing death warrant. He related that the “gloom of the morning” was briefly interrupted when the rotund Benjamin Harrison of Virginia said to a diminutive Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, at the signing table, “I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry, when we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes and be with the Angels, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.” According to Rush, Harrison’s remark “procured a transient smile, but it was soon succeeded by the Solemnity with which the whole business was conducted.”

He served in the Continental Congress as well as in the war in the field with the Philadelphia militia. He laid the foundation for battlefield treatments of the Continental Army during this time. For a period he served as Surgeon General in the Continental Army’s Middle Department until the lack of medical supplies and underreporting of casualties by officials caused him to make the ill fated Conway related comments, after which Washington asked him to resign. He regretted what he said greatly. Per Wiki, in another letter to John Adams in 1812 he stated, “He [Washington] was the highly favored instrument whose patriotism and name contributed greatly to the establishment of the independence of the United States.” Rush also successfully pleaded with Washington’s biographers Justice Bushrod Washington and Chief Justice John Marshall to delete his association with those stinging words.

Benjamin Rush accomplished an incredible amount in his life in the post revolutionary period. Perhaps the greatest was facilitating the reconciliation of two of the great founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. He had lifelong friendships with both as well as other signers.

A biographical summary is linked below and you will probably be as amazed by his accomplishments as I was.

https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/benjamin-rush

On a personal level Benjamin Rush was a devoted Christian. He believed (as I do) that the United States of America was the work of God: “I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as perfectly satisfied that the Union of the United States in its form and adoption is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament”. In 1798, after the Constitution’s adoption, Rush declared: “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in Religion.” He had involvement in several denominations through the years and assisted Richard Allen in the formation of the AME Church at one point.

He had married Julia Stockton in 1776. The couple had thirteen children, nine survived past one year. One son, Richard, went on to become part of the administrations of the presidencies of James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincey Adams, Andrew Jackson, James Polk and Zachary Taylor. Benjamin Rush died of Typhus Fever in 1813 at age 68. Julia, 14 years his junior, lived until 1848. Both remained faithful to the Lord and their country throughout their lives.

Benjamin Rush was an incredible American Patriot who left a legacy that continues to this day.

Joseph Hewes

Born in 1730 in Princeton, NJ to Society of Friends (Quaker) parents. He also graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton). He left the area soon after and joined a family member’s mercantile business in Philadelphia. He attended Quaker meetings while there and apprenticed in the business. He learned of business opportunities in the port town of Edenton in North Carolina, so he moved and formed a company with Charles Blount there that succeeded for a time. However, the death of his fiancee soured him on life as well as the business, which was dissolved. He recovered and partnered with a local attorney, Robert Smith. His business ventures began to flourish. He owned many properties, warehouses and became involved with shipping at the port; owning multiple ships, sloops and brigs. He created a rope walk to be used between ships as well developing and selling rope and related products to the shipping industry.

Over the years he became a justice of the peace and later was elected into the NC Assembly. He remained active as a Quaker and at one point was believed to have joined the Anglican church. Many historians report he believed as a deist.

He became more and more involved in the independence movement. He joined the NC Committee of Correspondence and represented the state in the Continental Congress. He actively supported the Suffolk Reserves, which called for a termination of trade with Great Britain in 1774. He was sold out to the causes of the colonists and independence. Ultimately this led to his signing of the Declaration.

For a month afterwards he visited his mother back in Princeton, NJ. The gravity of the situation had begun to weigh on him. Per Wiki, “Hewes wrote “I had the weight of North Carolina on my shoulders within a day or two of three months. The service was too severe. I have sat some days from Six in the morning till five, and sometimes Six in the afternoon without eating or drinking. My health is bad, such close attention made it worse. …Duty, inclination and self preservation call on me now to make a little excursion in the County to see my mother. This is a duty which I have not allowed myself to perform during almost nine months that I have been here.” Towards the end of September Hewes returned to Edenton for rest and recuperation.

Hewes fully realized what was to come from the Declaration. He assisted in training the NC militia and began preparing ships for Naval use. In truth, some of this work had been done well before the signing of the Declaration as he saw the course the colonists were on would lead to war. He was appointed to a marine committee that began outfitting of privately owned ships with guns. He even leased one of his brigs to the marine committee in the Continental Congress with the committee providing him insurance for potential loss.

In the late 1770’s his health began to suffer as he dealt with continuous head aches. He served in the Continental Congress until mid 1779 despite a group of fellow marine committee members objecting to the money he made while providing marine services to the country. He returned to office with the NC Assembly and continued to represent the state in the Continental Congress. He returned home from the Congress in October 1779 due to his health. He passed away a month later at 49 years of age.

Joseph Hewes never married. The earlier loss of his future wife was too much for him to overcome. As a result he had no children. Her loss had led him to throw all of his efforts into his business ventures and service to our country in the Revolutionary War period. He was a self made man of great wealth who remained committed to the cause of independence unto his death. In his honor and in a demonstration of respect, members of Congress wore crape on their left arms for one month after his death.

Joseph Hewes was a true, devoted American Patriot.

William Williams

Born in Lebanon, CT in 1731, William Williams was one of ten children of Congregationalist Church minister, Solomon Williams and wife, Mary Porter Williams. He studied both law and theology at Harvard and graduated in 1751 as well as studying the ministry with his father. Four years later he served in a local militia in the French and Indian War. He returned and opened a store in Lebanon. He never owned slaves as he felt it was morally wrong.

At nearly 40 years old he married Mary Trumbull who was about 15 years younger. She was the daughter of CT Royal Governor Jonathon Trumbull. Trumbull went on to serve as the second Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives. William and Mary went on have three children together. He took the job of town clerk, a position he held for 44 years.

Williams spent over two decades as a representative in the CT House of Representatives. He was elected Speaker in four of those years. He was strongly for independence as he was a member of the Sons of Liberty, on the Committee for Correspondence as well as the Council for Safety. At one time he anonymously had a satirical letter published in the local newspaper that confronted the King and his actions. He became an even more fierce opponent to the Crown after the Coercive Acts of 1774. He was elected to replace Oliver Wolcott as a representative from CT in the Continental Congress one week after the Declaration was formally announced, so he did not get to vote. However, he arrived in time to be a signer. Following this act he resigned his militia commission as a Colonel to serve in the Congress. He also served as a county judge for 28 years beginning in 1776.

Williams refused to sign the Constitution. He was opposed because Article VI banned religious tests for government officials. As a devout Christian and Congregationalist Deacon he felt it was a necessary requirement. He lived a life of dignity with a humble attitude and consistency that he felt was necessary for government officials. He lived his entire life as an example for Christ and for America. During the war, he closed his business, gave generously of his time and contributed much of his wealth for the cause. He regularly opened his home for military members to stay and rest.

In his latter days Williams read, meditated and prayed. He passed away at age 80. The day of his death, August 2, was exactly 35 years to the day from the date he signed the Declaration. His wife, Mary, passed away 20 years later.

William Williams was the epitome of a Christian servant leader and American Patriot.

Conclusion

As we wind our way through the Declaration signers, we come across stories such as these with Gates, Conway, Washington and Rush that remind us that nothing in life happens in a linear progression of goodness. Sometimes it all comes across as a soap opera. Yet, somehow the hand of God always has appeared at the right time to steer us in a direction that restores our destiny. Indeed, we are going through such a resurgence of the American spirit today.

It is interesting to me that an active faith in God, in a higher power, always seems to be the catalyst that drives the renewal.

In this story we have two devout Christians and a probable deist from different states who were working on the same team as patriots and signers of the Declaration of Independence. They gave their all for America, just as American First MAGA is doing today.

May God continue to bless America.

Dear KMAG: 20230724 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Word of The Week:

Dunning–Kruger effect

noun

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task.


Link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Graphical display

Explanation of graph

People are actually fairly good at estimating relative abilities, but they are not as good at estimating actual abilities – and the fit is increasingly bad at lower abilities, where people overestimate their own competence.

The effect is commonly used as a justification of authoritarianism by leftists and elitists, and as an argument in favor of the anti-popular positions of scientism.

In words

“The more you know, the more you know that you don’t know.”

“The less you know, the less you know that you don’t know.”

Relevance

There is a fake news site that exists for the purpose of fooling conservatives, and thereby discrediting them in the eyes of everybody else. As a form of insult to its victims, this website calls itself the “Dunning-Kruger Times”.


LINK: https://dunning-kruger-times.com/garth-brooks-booed-off-stage-at-123rd-annual-texas-country-jamboree/

While the Dunning-Kruger Times (DKT) website claims that its stories are satire, the stories are always remarkably unfunny, and IMO are clearly not intended to be funny.

They are intended to be believable.

True satire sites of a similar nature typically run stories which slowly increase the level of absurdity until the reader recognizes hyperbole and begins to get the joke. These sites can be incredibly (no pun intended) funny, and have often had me breathless with laughter.

DKT never crafts funny satire. The goal appears to be to get reasonable people to see the story and recognize that the story is reasonable, likely to have occurred, and affirming of conservative values. The stories are easily posted to social media. The trouble is, the stories are never true.

As I have said, the stories are discrediting of whoever posts them, and many famous conservatives (Gov. Greg Abbott and Juanita Broaderick, most recently) have been fooled.

The stories are ALMOST libelous, but under the cover of satire, they remain protected and legal speech. Moreover, because the false allegations are very plausible, the accusations anticipate likely real positions by the people who are libeled, and are thus unlikely to be argued against.

It is my belief that these sites and stories are the work of the 3-letter agencies and/or the DNC, both as a psychological operation against Americans, and in particular as a way of discrediting those who would be expected to post or “like” the stories on social media.

For example, Juanita Broaddrick posted this valid tweet, showing significant public sentiment in favor of country music artist Jason Aldean.

Shortly thereafter, she was apparently misled into posting this tweet.

She also posted this tweet.

Notice how the regime media then amplifies the outcome, by pushing the semi-libelous article onto Broaddrick and not onto the DKT.

LINK: https://www.tmz.com/2023/07/22/blake-shelton-jason-aldean-controversy-fake-article-satire-site/

In my opinion, Broaddrick was the victim of a disinformation operation.

The good news is, Juanita Broaddrick just keeps fighting. She doesn’t lose heart because the other side got in a couple of sucker punches.

Personally, I think that the DKT needs to be investigated all the way back to their (IMO) CIA, big tech, or DNC roots.

DKT is a discreditation site – a psy-op – and NOT a regular satire site.


For your enjoyment, some MORE country music!


Happy to have grabbed a few hours to work on this post. No placeholders yet!

Hope you’re having a great summer!


ENJOY THE SHOW

Have a great week!

W

Treehouse

Dear KMAG: 20230717 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


Welcome to the Qth of July!


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Word of The Week:

progestogen

noun

  • a type of medication which produces effects similar to those of the natural female sex hormone progesterone in the body.
  • synthetic progestogens are also called progestins.

Synonyms

  • progestagen
  • gestagen
  • gestogen

Examples

  • progesterone
  • medroxyprogesterone
  • norethisterone
  • norgestrel

Uses

  • most commonly in hormonal birth control
  • also most commonly in menopausal hormone therapy
  • treatment of gynecological conditions
  • to support fertility and pregancy
  • to lower sex hormone levels

Relevance

FDA approves Opill, the first daily birth control pill without a prescription

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187460902/opill-fda-approve-otc-birth-control-pill

Norgestrel is a synthetic progestin comprising a 50% racemic mixture, in which levonorgestrel is the biologically active form. Levonorgestrel’s most common use is as a contraceptive agent either alone or in combination with the synthetic estrogen ethinyl estradiol.


For your enjoyment, some country music!


As the election season approaches, I will be getting more and more involved in local politics. I may do some more placeholders, particularly for the final weeks before the election. I’ll just have to see how much time I have. My top priority on this site will be interacting with people, and reading the content that people bring here, rather than bringing my own content.

I just want to make sure people know that I’m not losing interest in this site, by my not being here or by my not doing more analytical posts. Between necessary time for health, family, and local politics, something has to give, and it will typically be posting my own content on this site.

But like Wheatie always said. We WILL get through it!


ENJOY THE SHOW

Have a great week!

W

Treehouse

Dear KMAG: 20230710 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Word of The Week:

guidestone

noun

  • A traditional stone marker providing directions for travelers.
  • Something serving as a guide.

‘They’re gone, that’s all I can tell you’ | Mystery behind Georgia Guidestone explosion remains

One year after the Georgia Guidestones were blown up, no suspects have been named.

So – do you think this next video is REAL, or a COVER EDIT?


For your enjoyment, some MOAR epic orchestral music in Wheatie’s favorite style.


ENJOY THE SHOW

Have a great week!

W

Dear KMAG: 20230703 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This week, we begin a new half-year of Monday posts.

I am returning the post format to “Wheatie-style brevity” while sometimes adding short topics or notifications.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Word of The Week:

Glock switch

noun

  • a device which people can (most often illegally) attach to handguns, particularly Glock pistols, to turn them into fully automatic weapons
  • technically, the device is a kind of “auto-sear”
  • causes nearly instantaneous depletion of the magazine
  • leads to extreme inaccuracy
  • results in frequent killing or wounding of innocent bystanders
  • leads to increased federal involvement and anti-gun rhetoric
  • can be made with 3D printers, but most are imported
  • like fentanyl, mostly made in China

Just in case you missed that:

MOSTLY MADE IN CHINA

Pictures of ONE typical Glock switch:

Links:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_switch

Forbes via MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-s-shockingly-easy-to-buy-illegal-gun-modifiers-on-instagram-facebook-and-twitter/ar-AA1d9jJ7

Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-s-shockingly-easy-to-buy-illegal-gun-modifiers-on-instagram-facebook-and-twitter/ar-AA1d9jJ7


For your enjoyment, some epic heroic orchestral music in Wheatie’s favorite style.


I will soon be publishing a statement on the end of Affirmative Action in university admissions. I thought that I might include that statement with this open thread, but I wish to do a better job and not rush it into print. Please bear with me.

Thank you, and God bless you all! -W


ENJOY THE SHOW

Have a great week!

W

Thanks to Valerie for this and other images.

PS – may you have a very, very patriotic Fourth of July!