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This will be rough because I spent until late today at the emergency room with my friend.


Wolf Moon(@wolfmoon1776)  August 31, 2025 09:52

…Historical context is everything – and caring about it is a large part of what separates us from the screaming communist loony tunes!


And that is why the Cabal, not only targeted READING, they also targeted HISTORY. G Edward Griffins wrote about how our history was rewritten in The Chasm – The Future Is Calling (Part One) Also see my article Dear KMAG 20250101 & Rewriting History

First I wish to direct attention to an article I wrote on February 9, 2023, China, Opium, the Triads and the British East India Co.

In that article I cited: China’s Communist Party and Japan: A Forgotten History

… Before the second Sino-Japanese War commenced, the Communist Party was locked in a death struggle with Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT. The CCP fared poorly in this conflict, suffering repeated defeats at the hands of the Nationalists.

By the end of 1934, the CCP was on the verge of extinction after KMT troops delivered another heavy blow to the Red Army in Jiangxi Province, which forced the party to undertake the now infamous Long March to Xi’an in the northwestern province of Shaanxi. Chiang initially pursued the Communist forces, and would have almost certainly delivered a final blow to the CCP if war with Japan could have been delayed…

And Congressman McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation
Remarks in Congress, 1934

….”These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money out of this Country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a reign of terror in Russia with our money in order to help that war along. They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia, and thus drove a wedge between the allies in World War. They financed Trotsky’s passage from New York to Russia so that he might assist in the destruction of the Russian Empire. They fomented and instigated the Russian Revolution, and placed a large fund of American dollars at Trotsky’s disposal in one of their branch banks in Sweden so that through him Russian homes might be thoroughly broken up and Russian children flung far and wide from their natural protectors. They have since begun breaking up of American homes and the dispersal of American children….

Please at least skim my older article for background.

I am not going to Copy and past much from these article only a bit to give whet the appetite.

Mao was a Yale Man – A Yali for Skull and Bones_Part_1


Mao was a Yale Man – A Yali for Skull and Bones_Part_2

An example of the documentation in these articles:

Yale’s special “relationship” with China is long term and well documented.  

I never state China was “funded” by the U.S. – However in 1972 Mao was visited by Rockefeller setting up a line of credit for China, this preceded Nixon’s trip to China which finalized the relationship…
 
see: In 1969, Rockefeller Official Said US Would Be De-industrialized  

http://usb52.com/article/kiss_rock.html

Document 10: Kissinger and Chase Manhattan Bank chairman David Rockefeller, 13 March 1972, 11:12 a.m.
Source: Nixon Presidential Materials Project. National Security Council Files. HAK Office Files. Box 87. PRC Personal Requests 1971-73 Kissinger telephone recording transcript

Rockefeller traveled to China, in 1973 resulting in his bank becoming the National Bank of China’s first correspondent bank in the United States.

Source: Nixon Presidential Materials Project. National Security Council Files. HAK Office Files. Box 87. PRC Personal Requests 1971-73

After congratulating Kissinger on some undisclosed triumph and offering him a plane ride to the next Bilderberg meeting, Rockefeller asked how he could get a visa to visit China. Kissinger was not too surprised (the president of American Express was also trying to get one) and said he would try to find out through “various channels.” He assured Rockefeller that the Chinese were “less hung up on the name Rockefeller than the Russians. They don’t think they’re running the country.”

1949:  On October 1, Mao Tse Tsung declares the founding of the People’s Republic Of China in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.  He is funded by Rothschild created Communism in Russia and also the following Rothschild agents:  Solomon Adler, a former United States Treasury official who was a Soviet Spy; Israel Epstein, the son of a Jewish Bolshevik imprisoned by the Tsar in Russia for trying to forment a revolution there; and Frank Coe, a leading official of the Rothschild owned IMF

Cloak & gown: scholars in the secret war, 1939-1961 By Robin W. Winks

http://saintpaulsistercities.org/changsha/index.html
…

Yuelu Academy was founded in 976 AD (Song Dynasty), destroyed by war in 1127, and rebuilt in 1165 (Southern Song Dynasty). The celebrated philosopher Zhu Xi taught in at the Academy in 1165. It was destroyed by the Mongols but was restored in the late-fifteenth century (Ming Dynasty).

In 1903, it became Hunan High School. The modern day Hunan University is a descendant of the academy. The architecture of some of the buildings was restored from 1981–1986, presumably according to the Song design.

The 1903 Treaty of Shanghai between China and Japan opened the city to foreign trade. Consequently, factories, churches, and schools were built. A college was started by Yale University bachelors and later became a medical center named Xiangya and a secondary school named the Yali School.

Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China began his political career in Changsha. He was a student at the Hunan Number One Teachers’ Training School from 1913 to 1918. He later returned as a teacher and principal from 1920 to 1922.

The school was destroyed during the civil war but has since been restored. The Former Office of the Hunan Communist Party Central Committee where Mao Zedong once lived is now a museum that includes Mao’s living quarters, photographs, and other historical items from the 1920s

Mao Was a Yale Man – Rothschilds Create People’s Republic of China

“By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a “superpower” built by American technology and skill.”
Antony C. Sutton, American Secret Establishment published 1984

http://www.thecrowhouse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1888

Student Mao Zedong & Yale in China
“The fundamental difference between a “New World Order” under the United Nations and an independent United States are nowhere more clearly indicated than in our ‘Declaration of Independence’ affirmation that “men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” The UN’s total exclusion of God means that rights do not come from God, (but) that they proceed from government, and government can take them away.

[Start at minute 19 of this Oct 15, 2019 interview to understand modern China]

Skull and Bones reaches to all the leaders around the world and this may explain Bush’s obsessive support of China, regardless of the human rights violations and arsenal buildup.

“Skull and Bones is a secret fraternity at Yale University which restricts their membership to only fifteen per year. . The society was formed in 1832 by General William Russell, whose shipping firm later dominated the U.S. side of the China opium trade. Yale University was founded by Eli Yale, who made his fortune working for the opium smuggling British East India Company.

“Skull and Bones became the recruiting grounds and preserve of the most important New England-centered families–families who also made their money in the opium trade. These families, whose sons regularly join Skull and Bones, include the little known, but powerful, Coffins, Sloanes, Tafts, Bundys, Paynes, Whitneys. They are a dominant element of the U.S. ‘Eastern Establishment’ to this day. The Bush family is one of a cluster of lower-level Establishment families controlled by these interests.

“George Bush, the first U.S. diplomatic representative to the People’s Republic of China back in 1973, was a member of Skull and Bones. So was his father, brother, son, uncle, nephew, and several cousins. Winston Lord, the Reagan-Bush administration Ambassador to China was a member; so was his father and several other relatives. James Lilley, the current Ambassador to China, is a member of Skull and Bones, as was his brother. With the exception during the Carter administration, every U.S. Ambassador to Beijing ,since Kissinger’s deal with Mao Zedong was a member of the Skulls and Bones.

In 1903, Yale Divinity School established a number of schools and hospitals throughout China that were collectively known as ‘Yale in China.’ It has since been shown that ‘Yale in China’ was an intelligence network whose purpose was to destroy the republican movement of Sun Yat-sen on behalf of the Anglo-American Establishment. The Anglo-American “Establishment” hated Sun, because he wanted to develop China. On the other hand, they loved the Chinese communists because they intended to keep China backward, and were committed to the production of drugs. . One of ‘Yale in China’s’ most important students was Mao Zedong.

“During World War II, ‘Yale in China’ was a primary instrument used by the U.S. Establishment and its Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to install the Maoists into power….

1. Yale University was founded on the profits of the opium trade in China. Skull & Bones & Bush
www.subgenius.com/bigfist/evils/politics/X002_BUSHED.TXT.html .

2. Mao attended Yale-In-China and in fact was a writer and editor there after his first paper was closed by authorities. Thus when Yale educated, trained and hired him  the institution surely knew what they were doing. In fact ,
YALE-IN-CHINA OWNED THE BUILDING WHERE HE HAD HIS ‘CULTURE BOOKSTORE’ IN
1920. www.asiasource.org/society/mao.cfm .

3.Since the resumption of diplomatic ties with China due to the influence of Henry Kissinger (whose son David is a Yale graduate) on President Nixon, every US ambassador to China is a Yalie and known or suspected member of Skull
and Bones, the only exception being a brief period during the Jimmy Carter presidency.

The current Ambassador, Mr. Randt is known to be a member of S & B by   the chinese authorities and is described as a ‘fraternity brother’ of President GW Bush.

www.english.people.com.cn/english/200107/24/eng20010724_75677.html .
“New US Ambassador to China Promises Closer Relations”. Of course,   former President George H.W. Bush was a member of Skull and Bones and US ambassador to China as well.

Oddly, the paranoid Chinese Communist regime never seems to have a problem with this “fraternity” – for good reason as the following information will show.

EVIDENCE OF EXTENSIVE CHINESE PENETRATION OF U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY- – SELECTED AS MERELY ONE EXAMPLE OF MANY.

1. “CNOOC’s All Star Team”
www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/report.aspx?aid=737 . CNOOC , the chinese oil giant hired various lobbyists recently in its ultimately failed attempt to buy US oil company and owner of the only rare earth metals   mine in the USA, UNOCAL.
One of the lobbyists was BKSH an affiliate of Burson-Marsteller and part of the WPP group.

2. “Security Veteran Michael J. Hershmann To Head New Homeland Security Advisory Firm/18July2003.
www.wpp.com/wpp/news/press/press-release.html?content=wpp/news/press/
pressrelease_285.html
. The new company is to “help navigate the security landscape” possibly with the ‘great helmsman’ in mind. The subsidiary of previously   mentioned BHSH and WPP will join with StoneBridge International and be called
Civitas, LLC. So the lobbyists for CNOOC are also navigators for companies that want a piece of the security pie caused by the 9-11   attacks and the creation of DHS.

This is a data point I find most telling.

J. P. Morgan Bank in China

We have been doing business in China since 1921. Our integrated financial services include investment banking, global corporate banking, payments, markets, sales and research, securities services and asset management. Today, we serve Chinese and international corporations, financial institutions and government agencies through our network in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Suzhou and Shenzhen.

We have operated in the Asia Pacific region for over 100 years, and today are present across 17 markets in the region. Local corporations and institutions, multinationals, governments and private clients rely on us for market-leading financial services—a confidence bred from our strength and ability to deliver integrated services across the Commercial & Investment Bank and Asset & Wealth Management…


October 12, 2019 The People’s Republic of China: 70 Years of Economic History

From the CIA Library:

CONSPIRATORS’ HIERARCHY: THE STORY OF THE COMMITTEE OF 300
by Dr. John Coleman

It is 169 pages. A skim through it shows the plans of the Committee of 300 and today’s events show how they are coming true. It also dovetails with my own research that connects The British East India Company, the Opium Wars with control of China AND the USA today.

…Heroin, we are told, is more satisfying to addicts; the effects are far more intense and last
longer than the effects of cocaine and there is less international attention on heroin
producers than there is on Colombian cocaine shippers. Besides which, it is hardly likely
that the U.S. would make any real effort to stop the production of opium in the Golden
Triangle which is under the control of the Chinese military, a serious war would erupt if
any country tried to interdict the trade. A serious attack on the opium trade would bring
Chinese military intervention.


The British know this; they have no quarrel with China, except for an occasional
squabble over who gets the larger share of the pie. Britain has been involved in the China opium trade for over two centuries. No one is going to be so foolish as to rock the boat
when millions upon millions of dollars flow into the bank accounts of the British
oligarchists and more gold is traded on the Hong Kong gold market than the combined
total traded in London and New York.


Those individuals who fondly imagine they can do some kind of a deal with a minor
Chinese or Burmese overlord in the hills of the Golden Triangle apparently have no idea
of what is involved. If they had known, they would never have talked about stopping the
opium trade. Such talk reveals little knowledge of the immensity and complexity of
China’s opium trade, British plutocrats, the Russian KGB, the CIA, and U.S. bankers are
all in league with China. Could one man stop or even make a small dent in the trade? It
would be absurd to imagine it. What is heroin and why is it favored over cocaine these
days? According to the noted authority on the subject Professor Galen, heroin is a
derivative of opium, a drug that stupefies the senses and induces long periods of sleep.
This is what most addicts like, it is called “being in the arms of Morpheus.” Opium is the
most habit-forming drug known to man. Many pharmaceutical drugs contain opium in
various degrees, and it is believed that paper used in the manufacture of cigarettes is first
impregnated with opium, which is why smokers become so addicted to their habit… To advance to more modern history, the Chinese-British partnership was solidified by the
Hong Kong agreement which established an equal partnership in the opium trade. This
has proceeded smoothly, with an occasional ripple here and there, but while violence and
death, robbery and murder marked the progression of the Colombian cocaine trade, no
such baseness was allowed to disturb the heroin trade, which, as I said earlier, is once
again coming into the ascendancy as we near the end of 1991.


The major problem that arose in Sino-British relations during the past 60 years concerned
China’s demand for a larger slice of the opium-heroin pie. This was settled when Britain
agreed to hand Hong Kong over to full Chinese government control… The British oligarchical families of the Committee of 300 who were entrenched in
Canton at the height of the opium trade left their descendants in position. Look at a list of
prominent British residents in China and you will see the names of members of the
Committee of 300 among them. The same holds good for Hong Kong. These plutocrats
of a feudal era, that they seek to return to the world, control the gold and opium trade of
which Hong Kong is THE center. Burmese and Chinese opium poppy growers get paid in
gold; they do not trust the U.S. paper $100 bill. This explains the very large volume of
gold trade in the Hong Kong exchange….

2025.09.02 – American Stories: 24 Hours Dealing With The Medical Industry

Time for a break from the usual. I will return with more signers next week.

The following recent event happened a month ago in mid July. This is a discussion on the state of medical treatments for an average Joe, who likely represents thousands of patients nationwide each day. In this specific case it is about a close friend and brother in Christ, so it is personal.

For the record, our family’s approach toward the use of the medical industry has evolved into a belief that they are guilty until proven innocent in their motives. As a result we verify first, trust maybe after a great amount of consultation and prayer.

With the rebuild of the medical industry well underway through the Trump administration, it seemed appropriate to do an authored post about this very recent real life experience of our good friend, who has been sharing some of his story on fakebook. The idea for telling this story at all started with my reading this X post from Secretary Robert Kennedy that was shared by TheseTruths on here a few weeks ago.

Then there is this recent article,

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-unseen-cost-of-organ-transplants

The Back Story

For this true story I will call our friend “Bud”. Some may figure out he was a source for a BIMD story in that Bud is the same one who is long term friends and a former co-worker with country music superstar Morgan Wallen’s dad. Bud is in his early 50’s, married to the love of his life for 20+ years (his third marriage/her second); has three adult children from his first two marriages along with a step daughter from his wife, most of whom have spouses; has nine grandchildren; and has a growing six employee construction business with three family members working in it. He is nearly the same age as my step daughter, who went to high school with him although they did not know each other well.

I became acquainted with Bud a dozen years or so ago when he was referred to me by a neighbor as a good handyman. At the time Bud had been employed long term in the construction industry as a working supervisor in his speciality. However, he had learned a great deal about all aspects of residential and small commercial construction through the years. He also learned more from his father, who had built his own home as well as worked part time for other builders. Bud has been gifted the ability to figure things out and do them the right way when handling home construction, remodeling and repairs. With his after hours handyman workload picking up, he was faced with a decision, should he continue on his own full time or stay in a decent job that had no upside while continuing to moonlight as a handyman.

Over the next year he did work for us and many others around the area. We got better acquainted and learned each other’s life stories, shared our common faith, got to know each other’s families and friends, and so on. He justified my trust enough that we could leave town on a Fall Frolic or other trip and I could give him jobs to do in our absence and never have the first concern about it. He never had to be concerned about getting paid, beating him down on price, or ignoring his recommendations. We treat each other respectfully and fair, but more importantly, we have developed a bond of friendship well beyond the work. We love them and they love us as family.

One day he stopped by our house because he knew my business and banking background. He asked my opinion if he should go full time into his own business, that he felt led to do so and his wife supported whatever decision he made. Her job was good, stable and could provide health insurance. I told him that if the Lord was putting it on his heart, he had no choice. I confirmed that I had never met a more conscientious builder/home repair guy in all my years of lending into the industry as well as with my own, more limited residential home building and ownership experience. I reaffirmed he had the expertise and work ethic to be successful if he had access to good customers that needed his services at fair prices. We talked it through some more and he called me a week later to say he had pulled the trigger. His mid-life crisis at around age 40 was to start a business. 😀

From that point over the next decade his workload and business grew. He and his company are a rarity in an industry populated by a number of crooks, posers, and wannabes.

All of which leads to this current point in time and the related medical industry story.

Medical Emergency

Bud has been experiencing pains in his gut at infrequent, random times for a couple of years. For background purposes; diverticulitis runs in his family, so he attributed the pain to that. He would go to a GI doc, have blood tests and be scoped – nothing. Last month the pain knocked him for a loop and he headed to the nearest hospital ER fast due to the extreme pain. Bud’s wife works in an administrative office in a competing hospital, but there was not enough time to get there.

For those who are wondering, Bud took just the first jab, did not get the second and had nothing after that. He grew uneasy by what was going on. He has also been a half pack a day cigarette smoker. the periodic gut pains had been going on randomly for ten years, just not as acute.

Things started off well; he was seen quickly, admitted, scans/tests run, provided a room, etc. The nursing staff and on staff resident doc examined and gave him a pain med. They told him an assigned surgeon had read the scans and part of his colon was dead. They also saw another spot of concern at the lower end of his colon. The resection surgery would mean he would have to wear a bag for at least 6 months. He is a hands on builder who also does the electrical and plumbing roles himself, so there would be added financial and scheduling burdens from adding subcontractors for this replacement work as a result. Not good – Bud was worried.

They told him he would need a colonoscopy the following morning, then the surgeon (former military doc) would operate the day after that. Bud said if the man would not come to his room and talk to him personally first that he would not be cutting on him. They told him the surgeon was great, but never saw any patient before surgery. Bud’s wife verified that statement was true with her co-workers at the other hospital. Bud told his wife to have him moved to her hospital and find another doc for a second opinion. The current hospital agreed to release him. Then Bud and wife found out how much they would have to pay out of pocket to both hospitals if they did so. They could not afford it and were stuck.

It was at this point that he texted me from his hospital room to update. He said they were working on alternatives. I told him we were praying for him and that my father had exactly the same problem 60 years ago. His surgeon did a similar procedure without using a bag after giving him antibiotics for a serious infection first. My father recovered quickly after the surgery and lived another 40 years without issue. It lifted Bud’s spirits to learn this.

Bud’s daughter is in nursing in a city a couple hours away. She told them to do nothing that evening; to wait for her to get back with them. She had surgical nurse friends that might know a good alternative. So they bedded down for the night. The colonoscopy guy came in early the next morning and told him it was time to do the procedure. Bud said no it wasn’t, the nursing staff never prepped him for it. The guy was then pizzed at the nursing staff. They told him they thought Bud was leaving and going somewhere else. So they start prepping him only to mess it all up. Prep fluids and fecal matter start flowing out everywhere on Bud, the bed, the floor, etc. 😂 They then had to clean him and the room up. After all of that he was taken to be scoped.

Soon after he was brought back to his room a different surgeon (Doc #2) walked into his room. Doc #2 told him that a friend of Bud’s daughter had contacted his office and asked him to give a second opinion. He asked Bud if that was OK and he responded that he was relieved and appreciative. Doc #2 told him he had reviewed the scans, blood tests and exam notes – he indeed appeared to have a partially dead colon. He was relieved to learn from Doc #2 that all scans and tests showed he was negative for cancer, since idgit doc did not let him know anything. Doc #2 did a quick examination. Bud asked him about the spot they wanted to check with the colonoscopy. He responded that it was just a small amount of fecal matter that showed up in the scans. Bud asked what would happen after the surgery that was scheduled the next day. Doc #2 asked, “What surgery?” Then proceeded to explain there would not be surgery for several months unless his condition worsened if he chose to use his services.

Bud was puzzled at this point. Doc #2 told him he would first prescribe a series of antibiotics to clear the infection that set up in his colon that was causing the pain. Once it was cleared up he would do more scans and know more about its condition before doing any surgery. Bud asked why the idgit surgeon did not diagnose the infection so that antibiotics could be used first? Doc #2 rolled his eyes, but refused to speculate. Bud asked him if he would have to wear a bag after the surgery. Doc #2 said nope, he would remove the dead section and close. He predicted if all went well he would have a recovery time in the hospital of about four days afterwards. Bud decided to press his luck and told Doc #2 that he had a long planned vacation to FL before this happened that was supposed to start in two days. Doc #2 said to go, take the meds, and do no heavy lifting. The couple’s four grandkids who were going with them received the good news and were elated.

Bud called to give me an update after the exam. He thanked us for the prayers. I asked him if they fire hosed him and the room down after the colonoscopy prep. He had a good laugh, so I knew the pain meds were working well.

Sometimes the difference 24 hours can make is mind boggling. God is so good. All we have to do is to learn to wait and pay attention.

I talked with Bud again a few days afterwards as he was laying under a canopy at the hotel pool. His wife drove them down, he was feeling much better, the antibiotics seemed to be helping. His pain was minimal. It had dawned on him fully that the Lord still has plans for him springing from this crisis in his life.

God’s Provision

Bud’s father came to the Christian faith later in life at around age 40. He had lived rough up to that point. He was a former hard living Vietnam vet and factory worker. When he accepted Christ he changed dramatically and made a positive impact on the lives of his wife and children. This eventually led to him becoming a pastor in a small church in a poverty stricken community in his time off from his factory job. The church flourished and became a light to the community. Lives were changed. He retired recently at age 70. He is one of the finest men I have ever met.

During his father’s first visit that evening with Bud in the hospital he pointed out that God did not want him to go to the other hospital or it would have been an open door with the right surgeon provided and nothing would be getting in his way. He urged Bud to be patient and wait on God to provide what was best. The next day it all changed for the better.

I initially brought this story because of the ridiculous handing of the medical diagnosis and treatment of my friend. He was at a very vulnerable point and the medical system was set up against him. Had Bud and his wife not stood their ground he may have been butchered or given a death sentence by this grievous error. Had his daughter not solicited help for a second opinion from a reputable, competent surgeon they may have given in and had it done when all he needed immediately was antibiotics and rest. He should have been given options on treatment and surgery. The idgit surgeon had to know it was an option to try to heal the infection before any surgery, but refused to speak with the patient and was going to cut him open anyway. The untreated infection could have easily caused the surgery to be a failure. It also could have led to more of his colon being removed than was necessary as well. This would have affected Bud’s quality of life. Idgit’s actions were malpractice with what could be considered as malicious intent in my opinion

I shudder to think about what COULD have been if they had not delayed the decision and sought a second opinion under God’s guidance. There was potential for a tragic loss to loved ones, employees, customers, church and community.

In truth, at some point Bud could have been reduced to an organ donor by simply going to a hospital to be healed of something that has commonly been treated successfully in the manner that Doc #2 is using just as my own father’s situation was handled sixty years ago. Which makes me wonder about how many other people go through experiences similar to these throughout the nation on a daily basis.

As I finish this story, I need to relay a more recent conversation with Bud. He went to a scheduled appointment with Doc #2. After exam and tests he determined that the infection is being handled well. It is now time to start the pre-surgery preparation, which will be in early October as compared to the Idgit’s desires. It will be robotic with a laparoscopic incision to reduce chances for infection and improve healing time. Idgit planned traditional surgery with the bag. I doubt he would have even been capable of doing what Doc #2 is planning, who is obviously much more qualified. Bud also learned Idgit was planing to leave on a two week vacation the next day after the scheduled surgery. Hard to believe, but true.

Once again the lesson is to wait on the Lord.

In preparation Doc #2 wants Bud to do a one mile fitness walk every day to build his core stronger and ready for the surgery. The couple live on top of a hill and the road has a steep incline, so building his core should not be a problem. His wife is also using it as an opportunity to improve her health as they walk together in the evenings. A revised diet has started with no red meat, no desserts, more water, less caffeine, soft foods, etc. The third thing was addressed with him eye to eye – Doc #2 ordered him to quit smoking if he wanted to live. He wants all of the nicotine and stuff out of his system over the next two months to improve his chances for a full recovery. Bud is on board with it and began immediately.

Doc #2 plans to have him out of the hospital in four days post surgery as predicted previously. He will be under a no lifting restriction for three months to keep the bag away. Needless to say, Bud has no problem with complying and has employees who can handle the heavy lifting.

He is in an introspective, more joyful state of mind now. He is thinking things through and waiting on the Lord to give him clarity about how to proceed with his life from here. Selfishly and from the cheap seats, I would tell him to keep doing what he is doing. He just needs to take more time to decompress and enjoy the blessings in his life. So many people need the presence of this man until the Lord calls him home.

If you get a spare moment, please pray for Bud’s healing. Then take time to let others you care about know what they mean to you. If you need a medical provider, keep your eyes and options open. As we see in this story; there are sincere, competent professionals you can trust. There are also money hungry losers with no concern for you. Take nothing at face value, ask questions, consult with others you trust, and spend time with the Lord to gain clarity. Do not allow yourself to be set up to be a potential organ donor.

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!

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On this day and every day –

God is in Control
. . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . .
Keep Looking Up

Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.

“This day is holy to the Lord your God;
do not mourn nor weep.” . . .
“Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet,
and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared;
for this day is holy to our Lord.
Do not sorrow,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Israel & Messiah

“Will Israel repent? Will GOD grant them repentance? Will GOD reveal His Son, their Messiah and Savior to them? We can pray so.”

Matt. 23:39, “For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”

Zechariah 12:10, “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.”

Is Zechariah 12:10 a Messianic prophecy?

Zechariah 12:10 reads, “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.” This prediction, that Israel will see someone whom they “pierced,” is amazing because it is God Himself speaking—the Lord is the One who is “pierced.” This appears to fit later descriptions of Jesus Christ’s suffering. Indeed, the New Testament specifies that this prophecy is truly Messianic.

This verse indicates a future time when the Jewish people will plead for the mercy of God. This will happen when they see “the one they have pierced.” Zechariah’s verse is mentioned in John 19:36-37 when Jesus, hanging on the cross, was pierced with a spear: “These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: . . . ‘They will look on the one they have pierced.’” Revelation 1:7 adds, “Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him”—definitely an allusion to Zechariah 12:10. Isaiah 53:5 also predicts that the Messiah would be pierced: “But he was pierced for our transgressions.”

In addition to the idea of a “pierced” God is the concept of the “only child.” Zechariah’s mention of a “firstborn son” bears an unmistakable connection to Jesus as God’s Son. The Hebrew word bekor was translated in the Septuagint as prototokos, the same term used for Jesus in Colossians 1:15: “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn [prototokos] of all creation.” And, of course, there is John 3:16, which includes a reference to Jesus as God’s “one and only Son.”

This Messianic prophecy has not yet been completely fulfilled. Jesus has been “pierced,” but there will still be a future time when all of Jerusalem will see Him and mourn their ill treatment of Him. At that time, they will cry out to God for mercy, and He will answer them by saving them from their enemies: “On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem. . . . I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem” (Zechariah 12:8-9). These events will occur at the end of the tribulation period at Christ’s second coming.

In summary, Zechariah 12:10 predicts the piercing of the Son of God, the Messiah, fulfilled at the first coming of Jesus Christ when He died on the cross and was pierced by a spear in His side (John 19:36–37). The complete fulfillment of this verse awaits the last days when the Jewish people will plead for mercy from the One they have pierced.

Romans 11:  25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”

Will all Israel be saved in the end times (Romans 11:26)?

Romans 11:26 plainly says, “All Israel will be saved.” The question that arises is: “What is meant by Israel?” Is the future “Israel” literal or figurative (i.e., referring to the ethnic Jews or referring to the Church)? Those who take a literal approach to the promises of the Old Testament believe that the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will be restored to a right relationship with God and receive the fulfillment of the covenants. Those who advocate replacement theology basically affirm that the Church has completely replaced Israel and will inherit God’s promises to Israel; the covenants, then, will be fulfilled only in a spiritual sense. In other words, replacement theology teaches that Israel will not inherit the actual land of Israel; the Church is the “new Israel,” and ethnic Israel is forever excluded from the promises—the Jews will not inherit the Promised Land as Jews per se.

We take the literal approach. The passages that speak of future Israel are difficult to view as figurative for the Church. The classic text (Romans 11:16–24) depicts Israel as distinct from the Church: the “natural branches” are the Jews, and the “wild branches” are the Gentiles. The “olive tree” is the collective people of God. The “natural branches” (Jews) are “cut off” the tree for unbelief, and the “wild branches” (believing Gentiles) are grafted in. This has the effect of making the Jews “jealous” and then drawing them to faith in Christ, so they might be “grafted in” again and receive their promised inheritance. The “natural branches” are still distinct from the “wild branches,” so that God’s covenant with His people is literally fulfilled. Romans 11:26–29, citing Isaiah 59:20–21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33–34, says:

“And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: ‘The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.’ As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.”

Here, Paul emphasizes the “irrevocable” nature of Israel’s calling as a nation (see also Romans 11:12). Isaiah predicted that a “remnant” of Israel would one day “be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the LORD” (Isaiah 62:12). Regardless of Israel’s current state of unbelief, a future remnant will in fact repent and fulfill their calling to establish righteousness by faith (Romans 10:1–8; 11:5). This conversion will coincide with the fulfillment of Moses’ prediction of Israel’s permanent restoration to the land (Deuteronomy 30:1–10).

When Paul says Israel will be “saved” in Romans 11:26, he refers to their deliverance from sin (verse 27) as they accept the Savior, their Messiah, in the end times. Moses said, “The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live” (Deuteronomy 30:6). Israel’s physical inheritance of the land promised to Abraham will be an integral part of God’s ultimate plan (Deuteronomy 30:3–5).

So how will “all Israel be saved”? The details of this deliverance are filled out in passages such as Zechariah 8—14 and Revelation 7—19, which speak of end-times Israel at Christ’s return. The key verse describing the coming to faith of the future remnant of Israel is Zechariah 12:10, “I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.” This occurs at the end of the tribulation prophesied in Daniel 9:24–27. The apostle John references this event in Revelation 1:7. The faithful remnant of Israel is epitomized in Revelation 7:1–8. These faithful ones the Lord will save and bring back to Jerusalem “in truth and righteousness” (Zechariah 8:7–8, NASB).

After Israel is spiritually restored, Christ will establish His millennial kingdom on earth. Israel will be regathered from the ends of the earth (Isaiah 11:12; 62:10). The symbolic “dry bones” of Ezekiel’s vision will be brought together, covered with flesh, and miraculously resuscitated (Ezekiel 37:1–14). As God promised, the salvation of Israel will involve both a spiritual awakening and a geographical home: “I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land” (Ezekiel 37:14).

In the Day of the Lord, God will “reclaim the surviving remnant of his people” (Isaiah 11:11). Jesus Christ will return and destroy the armies gathered against Him in rebellion (Revelation 19). Sinners will be judged, and the faithful remnant of Israel will be set apart forever as God’s holy people (Zechariah 13:8—14:21). Isaiah 12 is their song of deliverance; Zion will rule over all the nations under the banner of Messiah the King.

2025·08·30 We Will Have Justice Daily Thread

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

Speaker Johnson: A Reminder.

And MTG is there to help make it stick.

January 6 tapes. A good start…but then nothing.

Were you just hoping we’d be distracted by the first set and not notice?

Are you THAT kind of “Republican”?

Are you Kevin McCarthy lite?

What are you waiting for?

I have a personal interest in this issue.

And if you aren’t…what the hell is wrong with you?

Fun Quote

(HT Aubergine)

This is amazing. This is glorious. Summon a surgeon – it’s been a little over a week and you’re supposed to call the doctor after just four hours.

From Kurt Schlichter, who can certainly write a good rant (https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/01/30/trumps-winning-streak-is-totally-discombobulating-the-democrats-n2651308)

Yep, Kurt has noticed that lots of people are getting twanging schadenböners.

And you do not have to be male to get this kind of böner.

Hat tip to Scott (I think–if it wasn’t Scott it was 4GodAndCountry) for this video, which implies a LOT of schadenböners in our future.

[WOLF EDIT – for whatever reason this YouTube video no longer embeds, even as the shortened URL (below), so I have converted both URLs to links which open up in a new tab.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGOddatJVku0026amp;pp=ygUfc293IHRoZSB3aW5kIHJlYXAgdGhlIHdoaXJsd2luZA%3D%3D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGOddatJVku0026amp

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

Spot (i.e., paper) Prices

Last week (all prices Kitco bid/ask):

Gold $0,000.00/0,000.00
Silver $00.00/00.00
Platinum $0,00.00/$0,000.00
Palladium $0,000.00/0,000.00
Rhodium $0,000.00/0,000.00
FRNSI* 000.000±
Gold:Silver 000.000±

This week, 3PM Mountain Time, Kitco “bid/ask” prices. Markets have closed for the weekend.

Gold $0,000.00/0,000.00
Silver $00.00/00.00
Platinum $0,00.00/$0,000.00
Palladium $0,000.00/0,000.00
Rhodium $0,000.00/0,000.00
FRNSI* 000.000±
Gold:Silver 000.000±

[Blah, blah, blah.]

*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.

The Unit You (Probably) Never Heard Of

It’s oftentimes convenient for people in technical fields to think in terms of ratios. For instance, a translucent object might block 90 percent of the light that goes through it.

It makes no sense to talk about the object blocking so-and-so many lumens, because how much it blocks depends on how bright the light source is. But it does make sense to say something like “it blocks 90 percent of the light that goes through it.” Or that it “transmits ten percent of the light that goes through it.” You could write down that its “transmissivity” is 0.1. The problem is that the “transmissivity” could be some really low number, like one over a billion, 0.000000001.

To make the numbers more manageable, use logarithms. 0.1 is 1×10-1, so say the transmissivity is -1. And in the second case, you’re dealing with 1×10-9, so the transmissivity is -9. And you could call the unit the “bel.” So a transmissivity of -1 bel, or -9 bel.

Convenience like this is not quite sufficient reason to justify using a logarithm instead of a “straight” number, though. But it does make sense to do it this way for other reasons. For example, if you’re dealing with a light source, or a signal, going through multiple things that cause a loss, it turns out you multiply the losses together. Going through two translucent objects each of which have a transmissivity of -1 bel, thus each blocking 90 percent of the light, leaves you with one percent–the first object reduces to ten percent, and the second reduces to ten percent of what’s left over, i.e., ten percent of ten percent, which is to say one percent, total transmissivity -2 bels…which is the sum of the two individual transmissivities (-1 each).

But the fact of the matter is, we don’t use bels for this sort of thing. We use units one tenth that size, i.e., decibels. A tenfold reduction is given as -10 decibels (dB), not -1 bel (B). It turns out that -3 dB is roughly 1/2; -6 dB is roughly 1/2*1/2=1/4, -9 dB is 1/8th. Electrical engineers and technicians often deal with losses (and sometimes boosts to signals) and work in decibels all the time, and will often refer to a doubling (or halving) as 3dB.

Photographers work in “stops”–a stop is a doubling or halving of the light hitting the film or sensor–you can go a stop higher by doubling the exposure or changing the aperture by a factor of 1.4 (aperture is an area, so making it 40 percent wider makes it twice as big). So one “stop” is 3dB. If your camera can adjust exposure in thirds of a stop, it’s working in single decibels–unbeknownst to almost all photographers.

Absolute strengths, like say electrical is sometimes characterized in “dBm”–decibels compared to a milliwatt. A ten watt source is “40 dBm” because it’s 10,000 milliwatts and that’s 40 decibels above a milliwatt.

But one of the most common uses of decibels in in something called the “Signal to Noise Ratio” (SNR). Compare the strength of the signal you want to receive–say a radio transmission–and compare it to the strength of the static (noise). You get a ratio; maybe the signal is eight times stronger than the static. Turn that into decibels, and your SNR is 9 dB. If the two levels are identical, SNR is 0 db (not 1).

I didn’t write this section to add to the science series, but rather to explain why I am now about to tell you to…

Consider It Permanent

Before I continue, while you all are still not boiling mad at me, I want to give a loud shoutout to TheseTruths. TheseTruths is the best at identifying logical fallacies and pushing back on the BS that all people sometimes bring here, but some people always bring here. I do not except myself. TheseTruths is better at this than I am. Sometimes I’d read something, it would peg my bullshit meter, but I couldn’t tell why; at least not in a way I could put into words. TheseTruths would often post, identifying exactly why.

You all would do well to emulate These Truths. I hope you can. If Q was there to teach us how to think, then we should think well and not just latch onto whatever bullshit is tossed out there that fits our prejudices.

Anyhow, to start the story, clear back in the Spring, I anticipated working on a big project running into August and decided to curtail writing science posts until then.

In hindsight, though I didn’t know it at the time, the beginning of the end was when two…individuals…decided that because I don’t think it’s a good idea for Iran to have a nuke, I must therefore be more loyal to Israel than the United States. (No, you fucking morons, it’s because I consider an Iranian nuke a threat to the US. And so does President Trump. Is he a Zionist?)

One of the two is a very prolific poster, mostly bullshit, but occasionally I would respond to something that wasn’t just a long discursive dump from the paste buffer. I liked this individual in spite of the bullshit. Not any more; even after all these weeks I have nothing but contempt for her.

My recent total absence from this site starting a couple of weeks later, however, was because I was sick of the histrionics being engaged in at the time (I didn’t say so then, but it was the histrionics over Epstein). There’s no particular reason why that should be the straw that broke the camel’s back. It wasn’t that bad. But in hindsight, it was just sheer luck in timing; I was close to the big “Fuck It” already thanks to the shitbags; this just pushed me over the line.

I thought I simply needed to go away for a while; I fully intended to come back, eventually. I was running out of time for the project anyway, so it was just as well.

I could tell you that the project was a success–but frankly, I doubt anyone will care by the time they get done reading this.

Because a funny thing happened about two weeks after I went completely absent (and well before the last minute crunch on the project).

I realized that on the whole I simply don’t miss this place.

There ARE individual people that I do miss, but the site as a whole? The SNR is less than zero.

It is unfortunate that I must leave some of you in the position of wondering whether I considered you part of the problem–that’s assuming of course that you’re not towering mad at me right now and don’t care what I think.

But I’ll say that the overwhelming majority of you aren’t. There are good people here, but you’re drowned out by noise from prolific noisemakers.

At the end of the day, the sad fact is that thanks to a very few this place had become a poor use of my time, and I find now I have time to do other things. Relaxing things, or productive things. I can even read a book!

And I honestly feel the same way I felt when I stopped watching network TV entertainment; like I’ve given up something addictive, time-sucking, and mind-impairing. A sad comment for a site that’s supposed to be about getting people to think. Instead we drown in propaganda brought by our own people, we drown in endless argumentation, and we also risk locking ourselves into a bubble of unreality.

So…to make it plain, I am Out Of Here, not just as an author but as a commenter, and I am sure the celebration by most will be deafening.

I don’t expect I’ll ever be back, and I doubt I will ever be welcome back.

Farewell.

Health Friday 8.29.2025 Open Thread: Gain-of-Function Research Is Still Going On

The featured vintage image of a laboratory for today’s offering is courtesy of iStock and Google Images.

Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics.

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images in links included in today’s post. If readers wish to add any AI-generated content to the discussion thread today, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Today’s offering is about the “under-the-table” work, the “being performed but under another name” work, the “grandfathered-in” work, of Gain-of-Function (GoF) experiments that are onoing. These GoF experiments involve experiments with mRNA-based platforms; with “inactivated virus” platforms; and, with “novel delivery” platforms. These GoF experiments are being funded by “private Big Money”; and, by the United States government (in other words, with taxpayer money.) This post is long; please bear with me.

It is now well-known that the COVID-19 disaster was a product of GoF experiments, of two types: One, the GoF work that was performed in various labs (the Baric Lab at UNC, Chapel Hill; the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, Communist China; the United States Army biological weapons labs at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, among others.) And, Two, the GoF work that was performed using the lab-created Wuhan Hu1 SARS-CoV-2 virus itself as the foundation for the modRNA (aka mRNA) COVID-19 “vaccines” that were developed by numerous companies, among them: PfizerUSA (at the company’s Pearl River, New York, facility; and, at other facilities); and, BioNTech (Mainz, Germany); Moderna (with the NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, and at other facilities) — for use in the United States and also world-wide. (Note: PfizerUSA and BioNTech are separate companies that operate as a “joint venture” called Pfizer-BioNTech. PfizerUSA and BioNTech each have a separate CEO [Chief Executive Officer].)

Three articles by Jon Fleetwood start today’s offering. The first is here: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/260-children-infected-with-tubersulosis, “260 Children Infected With Tuberculosis in Gates-Funded Study Injecting Children with Live Mycobacterium bovis Bacteria: “New England Journal of Medicine'”, 8 May 2025. The second is here: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/new-bill-gates-funded-chimeric-polio, “New Bill Gates-Funded Chimeric Polio Vaccine Sheds 100% in Recipients, Spread Documented: ‘The Lancet’ Journal”, 18 August 2025. The third is here: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/bill-gates-funds-slim-microneedle, “Bill Gates Funds ‘SLIM’ Microneedle Tech That Self-Assembles Inside the Body”, 24 April 2025.

Regarding the first Jon Fleetwood article: The 260 study subject children were living in South Africa, and were between the ages of 10 and 18 years. They were confirmed by to be HIV-negative at the time they were added to the study subject pool. They were injected with the Danish tuberculosis vaccine BCG1331 strain (Bacille Calmette-Guerin). The Package Insert for this vaccine is here: https://nibsc.org/documents/ifu/07-270.pdf. The BCG1331 strain is the Mycobacterium bovis strain, which causes tuberculosis in cattle and can also cause the disease in humans, especially in HIV-compromised persons. Please see the screenshot from the Fleetwood article, below:

The paper that resulted from the study is here: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2412381, “BCG Revaccination for the Prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection”, Alexander C Schmidt, et al., 8 May 2025. Please see the screenshot from this paper, below:

In other words, 260 children now have tuberculosis because of the BCG1331 strain vaccine that they were injected with. And that Bill Gates funded this “human guinea-pig experiment.” But there’s more — the Fleetwood article also describes the Bill Gates-funded Mycobacterium bovis experiments at the University of Texas, performed in 2012, that resulted in a what may be called a “turbo-charged Gain-of-Function” version of this tuberculosis bacterium. The paper that was published from the 2012 study is here: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1472-9792(13)70007-6, “Mycobacterium tuberculosis MtrAY102C is a gain-of-function mutant that potentially acts as a constitutively active protein”, Akash T Satsangi, et al., published December 2013.

Regarding the second Fleetwood article: Another Bill Gates-funded effort, this time about a lab-created chimeric polio oral “vaccine” that was tested on human subjects in the United States. The study results are nothing short of terrifying. Please the screenshot from the Fleetwood article, below:

There was a 100% incidence of “shedding” of this lab-created chimeric oral polio “vaccine.” Six human subjects were released from the study when it was found that testing of their stool showed they had possibly contracted the oral vaccine virus from other study subjects. Several human subjects had severe adverse reactions to this lab-created chimeric oral polio “vaccine.” This lab-created chimeric oral polio “vaccine” caused “unexpected” interactions with the type 2 poliovirus.

The team that lab-created this chimeric oral polio “vaccine” were from medical centers across the United States, including: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Vermont; and, Dartmouth. The paper that was published from the study is here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00285-3/fulltext, “Safety and immunogenicity of novel live attenuated type 1 and type 3 oral poliomyelitis vaccines in healthy adults in the USA: a first-in-human, observer-masked, multicentre, phase 1 randomized controlled trial”, Laina D Mercer, PhD, et al., 13 August 2025. The clinical trial for this lab-created chimeric polio virus “vaccine” is listed here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04529538. Again, from the Fleetwood article:

Regarding the third Fleetwood article: Bill Gates has funded the creation of a new technology, called “SLIM microneedle”, which injects “microcrystals” of a contraceptive drug (levonorgestrel) into the body of a female; and, which microcrystals then”self-assemble” into an “implant” inside her body. Please see the screenshot from the Fleetwood article on this situation, below:

This type of “self-injected, self-assembly inside the body” approach has profound implications. Please see below, again from the Fleetwood article:

The paper that was published on this issue is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00194-x, “Self-aggregating long-lasting injectable microcrystals”, Vivian K. Feig, et al., 24 March 2025. Note how “self-assembling” has magically become “self-aggregating” — in some attempt to hide the fact that the microcrystals really do “self-assemble?”

The SLIM “delivery system” for the contraceptive levonorgestrel (called “LNG” in the paper above) uses a solvent called Benzyl Benzoate (called “BB” in the paper above.) The paper describes the experiments performed to find the “right combination” of levonorgestrel + Benzyl Benzoate to create the SLIM delivery system — the “winning delivery system candidate” was named “LNG-BB.” Benzyl Benzoate is clearly dangerous. Part of Section 4 FIRST AID MEASURES from the MSDS Safety Sheet on Benzyl Benzoate from Spectrum Chemical (https://www.spectrumchemical.com/) is below:

And this is the “long-lasting solvent” that is used in the SLIM microneedle “self-aggregating” delivery system for levonorgestrel. Which means that this solvent will be acting in the body of the female who uses this delivery system for this drug for an (undetermined) amount of time.

Now, on to a recent GoF experiment, this one funded by NIH / NIAID, at the University of Pittsburgh. This GoF experiment resulted in the lab-creation of a chimeric H5N1 Avian Influenza virus strain that could infect dairy cattle. Jon Fleetwood wrote about this situation, here: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/nih-funded-pennsylvania-researchers, “NIH-Funded Pennsylvania Researchers Build New Frankenstein Bird Flu Virus: ‘Journal of Virology'”, 26 August 2025. Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a virus that infects horses and cattle. In humans, Stomatitis infection can result in HSV-1 (the “cold sore” virus: per https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/stomatitis-oral-mucositis.) However, the researchers at the University of Pittsburgh concentrated on “splicing” an element of VSV with H5N1. The paper that was published from this experiment is here: https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00621-25, “Dairy cattle herds mount a characteristic antibody response to highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses”, Kevin R. McCarthy, et al., 25 August 2025. Please see the screenshots from the Fleetwood article on this issue, below:

Isn’t it “convenient timing” that this “new, chimeric VSV + H5N1 virus” comes on the heels of the announcement by the White House on 5 May 2025, that Gain-of-Function research would be stopped — but it appears that “certain contracts” would be permitted to “finish out”? And, that one of those “certain contracts” is with Arcturus Therapeutics for its self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) Avian Influenza “vaccine”, ARCT-2304? The White House announcement is here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/improving-the-safety-and-security-of-biological-research/. The news release related to the second quarter 2025 financial update and “pipeline progress” for Arcturus Therapeutics in which ARCT-2304 is mentioned, is here: https://www.biospace.com/press-releases/arcturus-therapeutics-announces-second-quarter-2025-financial-update-and-pipeline-progress, 12 August 2025. The clinical trial for ARCT-2304 is registered here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06602531; which, by the way, has NO saline-only Placebo control group; the only “control groups” in the study will be injected with a “control vaccine” or a “placebo vaccine” (which last, in and of itself, is not a true Placebo.)

And now, regarding something else: the GoF experiments that resulted in the lab-creation of an Avian Influenza “vaccine” which is a “Cocktail of Inactivated Avian Influenza Viruses”, a patent owned by Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, a “career medical employee” of HHS and the federal government, and who is also the current Acting Director of the NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, previously headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci), and who now is in control of the $500 Million dollars that was pulled from mRNA research activities in May 2025. This “bird flu vaccine cocktail” contains BPL (Beta-propiolactone), a known carcinogen.

The NIH TechTransfer information on this “cocktail” invention by Dr. Taubenberger is here: https://www.techtransfer.nih.gov/tech/tab-3388, “Broadly Protective Influenza Vaccine Compromising a Cocktail of Inactivated Avian Influenza Viruses”. Sounds “benign,” yes? Until one starts reading the actual Patent document itself, found here: https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11369675, filed 21 July 2020. The following are screenshots from the Patent document:

Note it appears that Dr. Taubenberger was experimenting with as many as sixteen different strains of Avian Influenza to lab-create his “cocktail vaccine.”

Note it appears that Dr. Taubenberger is perfectly all right with “vaginal” and “rectal” administration of his “cocktail vaccine.”

Note that the Patent was registered in July 2020 — which can only mean that work on the experiments to lab-create this “Avian Influenza cocktail vaccine” must have begun at least nine months earlier. This would place the commencement of the experiments around October 2019 — just before the COVID-19 original virus was unleashed on on the world.

Here are two screenshots from the MSDS Safety Sheet for Beta-propiolactone from Sigma Aldritch (https://www.sigmaaldritch.com/US/en/sds/sigma/p5648):

And THIS ingredient is part of the “Avian Influenza Cocktail Vaccine” of Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, two possible methods of administration of which are INTRANASAL or INHALED, per the Patent document images above?

It is not enough that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., terminated 22 contracts for mRNA research in May of this year, but allowed “certain contracts” for mRNA (and saRNA) research to “finish out.” It is not enough that the White House announced a ban on Gain-of-Function research, since this type of research is still going on — funded by “private Big Money”, and/or by the NIH / NIAID (in other words, the United States government). The entire Gain-of-Function situation must be stopped, from all funding sources and on all levels of research and experimentation — until there are clear, firm, and enforceable regulations and restrictions on who can perform this type of research; that such research can only be permitted under strict circumstances; that such research must be under tight supervision; and, that such research can only be performed where there is a clear need in the area of public health — not what amounts to a “chimeric fishing expedition” to lab-create viruses. It is time for any and all “go-along-to-get-along” activities to stop — such as, bowing to the “demand” by Sen. Dr. Bill Cassidy for his “cooperation” in “working with” HHS as regards hiring, or anything else. By the way — Sen. Dr. Cassidy has received donations from multiple pharmaceutical entities (United Health, AstraZeneca, Pediatrix Medical Group, and so on: per Open Secrets (https://opensecrets.org/.) And — that the further development of the above-discussed “Avian Influenza Cocktail Vaccine” must be stopped.

HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr.: Please understand that the “career medical bureaucrats” in the CDC, the FDA, and the other divisions of the HHS, are not inclined to your views. They want “the good old days” of these divisions brought back. They are working “behind the scenes” in some instances, and in other instances, out in the open, to obstruct, delay, and thwart your efforts to clean up HHS and “re-tool” the department to reflect Make American Healthy Again. There is even what may be called “soft interference” by persons not employed by HHS such as, Sen. Dr. Cassidy.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

2025.08.26 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 25

Today we conclude the Pennsylvania signers as well as third part of the B. Franklin, Printer and George Whitefield relationship that charted a path that had a lasting effect on America.

Out of all of the sources the more enlightening on this subject has been the book, The Faith and Vision of Benjamin Franklin by Eddie L. Hyatt. I downloaded an inexpensive digital copy from Amazon to reference. The book is concisely written with many well known, legitimate sources. Below there is also a list of some of the less mainline sources other than Wiki, Descendants, historical societies, etc.; that provided bits of interesting information to add to this.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/constitutionalconvention-september17.htm

https://www.learnreligions.com/christian-quotes-of-the-founding-fathers-700789

https://benjaminfranklin.net

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/signers-factsheet

https://mycharisma.com/culture/why-benjamin-franklin-wanted-to-partner-with-great-awakening-preacher-george-whitefield

https://believersweb.org/george-whitefield-1714-1770-english-evangelist

1739 Revival in London

B’s Vision For The People

Besides sponsoring regular events at Penn for Whitefield to use the facilities and facilitating other venues for appearances, B had a vision of what life should be like in the colonies.

It all started formulating in his mind due to the following. From B’s autobiography;

“In 1739 there arrived among us from Ireland the Reverend Mr. Whitfield who made himself remarkable there as an itinerant preacher. He was at first permitted to preach in some of our churches, but the clergy, taking a dislike to him, soon refused him their pulpits, and he was obliged to preach in the fields. The multitudes of all sects and denominations that attended his sermons were enormous, and it was a matter of speculation to me, who was one of the number, to observe the extraordinary influence of his oratory on his hearers. It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious so that one could not walk through the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.”

The quote below is from Eddie Hyatt out of his book: The Faith & Vision of Benjamin Franklin: How the Skeptical Printer of Philadelphia Returned to His Puritan Roots & the Puritan Vision of a Christian America. Kindle Edition;

Whitefield emphasized that church membership, good works, family pedigree, and position in life were of no value in making one acceptable to God. He pointed out that these were “faulty foundations” upon which many had put their trust. What was necessary, Whitefield preached, was a new birth through faith in Jesus Christ. Although accounts of his meetings often describe the multitudes as standing and listening in rapt silence, accounts also reveal intense emotional responses experienced at times to his preaching, as well as spiritual manifestations, such as weeping, falling and crying aloud to God. On one occasion, after preaching to a huge throng gathered outdoors, Whitfield surveyed the crowd and noted the amazing response.

That statement echoes the words of Jesus Christ in various scriptures. However, just as it did with the Pharisees and Sadducees in the times of Christ, the religious authorities became angry and rejected attempts for Whitefield to preach in “their” churches. That did not deter him as the great outdoors awaited. More from Hyatt’s book;

On one occasion, after preaching to a huge throng gathered outdoors, Whitefield surveyed the crowd and noted the amazing response.

“Look where I would, most were drowned in tears. Some were struck pale as death, others wringing their hands, others lying on the ground, others sinking into the arms of their friends and most lifting up their eyes to heaven and crying out to God.“

That right there would be what we hillbillies call sending the Holy Ghost on down…

B was eight years older than Whitefield, but they hit it off as good buddies. George would stay at B’s home when visiting Philadelphia over the next 31 years until George died. He counted on B to assist him with printing his sermons and devotionals along with business matters. He asked advice about the orphanage he wanted to build in Georgia. B would not hear of it, he wanted it built in Philadelphia. Whitefield would not relent and kept preaching to raise money for the purpose. So B said he would not get any money from him.

B told the story that one night his curiosity got the better of him and he slipped in the back of an outdoor event and heard George’s pitch for donations for the planned orphanage. He said he resolved to give him nothing. As Whitefield preached on he wilted under the pressure. Per Hyatt’s book B stated;

“I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector’s dish, gold and all.”

😂

B got Holy Ghosted.

Ohio Vision

B had a vision for what life in America could be that included Christianity at its core. He proposed to Whitefield that they partner to establish a new colony in Ohio that would adhere to Christian values and be an example for all of the colonies by honoring God throughout its culture. From his letter to Whitefield,

“I imagine we could do it effectually and without putting the nation at too much expense. What a glorious thing it would be, to settle in that fine country a large strong body of religious and industrious people! What a security to the other colonies; and advantage to Britain, by increasing her people, territory, strength and commerce. Might it not greatly facilitate the introduction of pure religion among the heathen, if we could, by such a colony, show them a better sample of Christians than they commonly see in our Indian traders, the most vicious and abandoned wretches of our nation?“

Whitefield had obviously moved B back to his Puritan roots, which would mirror what most of the early settlers in the colonies would have desired. Franklin demonstrated repeatedly that he saw no conflict between faith and public affairs, in fact he stated throughout his life that he viewed it important and preferable for them to operate hand in glove. With the proposed venture with Whitefield, B wanted to finish his life on this final high note, that it would bring him pleasure and he felt certain God would bless it.

It did not happen as desired by B due to distances and complications in the lives of both men before Whitefield passed away in 1770. It also seems God had bigger plans for B over the ensuing two plus decades after George’s death. It was a period when the lessons learned and the inspiration gained from his friendship with Whitefield built a base of understanding to reference that moved him to do extraordinary things on behalf of God and our nation that changed world history forever.

So maybe B’s vision did happen; just on a much grander, God determined scale that began in His timing.

😉

Let’s move on to our last Pennsylvania signer.

John Morton

John Morton was born in 1724 or 1725 in Ridley County, PA of John Sr. and wife Mary (Archer). Both sides of his family originated from the Sweden/Finland area. His father died the year he was born. His mother later married John Sketchley, who was a strong influence on young John’s life as a child. He educated and raised him to be intelligent and moral as he was very involved in the Episcopal church. As an adult he oversaw books and maps as well as surveyed. He married Ann Justis of Chester County and through the years they had three sons and five daughters.

In 1756 Morton was elected as a representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly. After the local sheriff died a decade later, he served in the role for a couple of years before being reelected as a representative. Through the years there he served as a justice of the peace, sheriff, judge in several courts, and associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He was well noted for his common sense in all of his roles.

He was voted to represent the state in the First and Second Continental Congresses. It was his final vote that decided in favor of independence for Pennsylvania and he proudly signed the Declaration. He remained active in the Congress in 1776 and 1777 and later worked with an assigned committee on the formation of the Articles of Confederation. Throughout all of it he remained faithful in attendance and with his actions as a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church where he is buried. He passed away after falling ill on his farm in April of 1777. Several months later his widow, Ann, fled the area after the British won the Battle of Brandywine. In her haste to reach safety in New Jersey, many of Morgan’s important papers, documents and artifacts were left behind. The British burned them all and destroyed their home, so records were lost that could have added to his story.

John Morton was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence to pass away. His contributions to the independence movement are noteworthy as his vote in support decided the position of one the most influential states in the future republic. He worked tirelessly to bring about organization, common sense, and fairness to the process of governance. He will always be noted for promoting the theme of natural law into our founding documents. We give thanks today for this great American patriot.

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!

2025·08·23 We Will Have Justice Daily Thread

We should all remember Deplorable Patriot and Wheatie as we push forward with the fight. This is NOT over by any means.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Because JUSTICE must be served on those who foisted the “Vax” shit on us. And for all the other things they have done to this country.

“Don’t Tread On Me,” it says.
You failed to pay attention to this advice.
You went out of your way to do the opposite.
You chose to rub our faces in it,
imprison those who dared complain,
and even to kill our people.
Now you shall pay just a tiny fraction of the real price, Ratfuckers.

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

RINO scum. Like Murkowski and Collins.

That’s OK. We go around ’em for now.

January 6 Tapes Reminder

OK…I’m sick and tired of reminding you to no effect, Speaker Johnson, so I’ll do the more emotionally satisfying thing and call you a cowardly, lying, fraudulent sack of diarrhetic monkey shit.

Johnson, you are a cowardly, lying, fraudulent sack of diarrhetic monkey shit!

A Caution

Just remember…we might replace the RINO candidates. (Or we might not. The record is mixed even though there is more MAGA than there used to be.) But that will make no difference in the long run if the party officials, basically the Rhonna McDaniels (or however that’s spelled–I suspect it’s RINO), don’t get replaced.

State party chairs, vice chairs, secretaries and so on, and the same at county levels, have huge influence on who ultimately gets nominated, and if these party wheelhorses are RINOs, they will work tirelessly to put their own pukey people on the ballot. In fact I’d not be surprised if some of our “MAGA” candidates are in fact, RINO plants, encouraged to run by the RINO party leadership when they realized that Lyn Cheney (and her ilk) were hopelessly compromised as effective candidates. The best way for them to deal with the opposition, of course, is to run it themselves.

Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Kamala Harris has a new nickname since she finally went west from DC to El Paso Texas: Westward Hoe.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

Paper Spot Prices

All prices are Kitco Bid/Ask, 3PM MT Friday (at that time the markets close for the weekend).

Last Week:

Gold $0,000.00/0,000.00
Silver $00.00/00.00
Platinum $0,00.00/$0,000.00
Palladium $0,000.00/0,000.00
Rhodium $0,000.00/0,000.00
FRNSI* 000.000±
Gold:Silver 000.000±

This week, markets closed at 3PM Mountain Time Friday, Bid/Ask:

Gold $0,000.00/0,000.00
Silver $00.00/00.00
Platinum $0,00.00/$0,000.00
Palladium $0,000.00/0,000.00
Rhodium $0,000.00/0,000.00
FRNSI* 000.000±
Gold:Silver 000.000±

[Blah, blah, blah.]

*The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) is a measure of how much the dollar has inflated. It’s the ratio of the current price of gold, to the number of dollars an ounce of fine gold made up when the dollar was defined as 25.8 grains of 0.900 gold. That worked out to an ounce being $20.67+71/387 of a cent. (Note gold wasn’t worth this much back then, thus much gold was $20.67 71/387ths. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.67 back then, it was $20.67.) Once this ratio is computed, 1 is subtracted from it so that the number is zero when the dollar is at its proper value, indicating zero suckage.

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Health Friday 8.22.2025 Open Thread: “Clean Sweep” Edition: An Opinion Piece

The header image of smallpox vaccination in Paris in 1905 used in today’s offering is courtesy of Alamy and Google Images.

Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks of the disaster of COVID-19, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have suffered injuries, illnesses, or disabilities, either COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced, or as the result of a COVID-19 infection; and, to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away either from the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” they had in their bodies, or as the result of a COVID-19 infection.

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except for AI-generated images that may be included in links in today’s offering. If readers wish to add any AI-generated content to the discussion thread today, they must cite their source. Thank you.

“Clean Sweep.” This means completely dismantling the FDA (the Food and Drug Administration); the NIH (the National Institutes of Health); and, the NIAID (the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), all of which are divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — and completely rebuilding them from the top down. Why “Clean Sweep” for these divisions? Because it is becoming more apparent by the week that they are more devoted to using “career” medical bureaucrats/officials, many of whom are “holdovers” from the “Collins / Fauci era” in the NIH and NIAID; they are more devoted to injecting American citizens with the proven-dangerous, proven-deadly COVID-19 “vaccines” than they are to approving readily-available, cheap drugs (such as, Ivermectin) and other therapeutics (such as, Zinc) to prevent or to treat COVID-19 infection; and, they are more devoted to pushing through injectables via “Fast Track” or “accelerated approval” methods, rather than taking the time to fully test and analyze test data. “Completely rebuilding them from the top down” means establishing entirely redesigned divisions that are fully devoted to the betterment of the public health.

Yours Truly presents a transcript of the op-ed published in the Washington Post on 12 August 2025 by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the current Director of the NIH (National Institutes of Health); the op-ed appears here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinons/2025/08/12/nih-mrna-vaccines-jay-bhattacharya/, “Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines”, 12 August 2025. Yours Truly provides her personal commentary, which will appear in Bold and surrounded in brackets. (The Washington Post op-ed is behind a paywall; Yours Truly is indebted to Shannon Joy, whose X tweet has the entire article: https://xcancel.com/ShannonJoy/status/1956140133474034025.) Note: Yours Truly will make it clear that the commentary is done with all due respect to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD.

The transcript:
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to wind down its mRNA vaccine development activities marks a necessary pivot in how we steward public health innovation in vaccines. The right path requires us to consider the inherent strengths and weaknesses of a technology as well as any alternatives, along with public attitudes and experience with the technology. The mRNA platform is promising technology. I do not dispute its potential. In the future, it may yet deliver breakthroughs in treating diseases such as cancer, and HHS is continuing to invest in ongoing research in oncology and other complex diseases.”

[YT: First of all, if HHS is truly going to “wind down” mRNA vaccine development, why is Moderna being allowed to progress to Phase 3 clinical trials of its modRNA “vaccine” against CMV (Cytomegalovirus), mRNA-1647? This “vaccine” contains six different mRNA sequences, two different antigens, the dangerous lipid nanoparticle SM-102 (the same LNP that is in the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, SPIKEVAX), and apparently targets both the IgG immune system cells and the CD4-CD8 cells of the body. Please see: https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01603-23, “Characterization of humoral and cellular immunologic responses to an mRNA-based human cytomegalovirus vaccine from a phase 1 trial of healthy adults”, Kai Wu, et al.; J Virol. 2024 Mar 25;18(4):e01603-23. Please refer to Fig. 2 and Fig.4. Secondly, the current modRNA (aka mRNA) COVID-19 “vaccines” have demonstrated that they do not have “inherent strengths”: in fact, they only have what may be called “inherent dangers.” These “inherent dangers” include: altering of the LINE1 Human Liver cell line; replacement of natural Uridine RNA with the lab-created N1-Methylpseudouridine; crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier to attack areas of the brain that are not protected by this barrier (for example, the Pituitary Gland); causing autoimmune attack on heart tissue via aggregation of lymphocytes induced by the COVID-19 “vaccines” in that organ; and, causing infiltration of lymphocytes in lung tissue. Regarding the DNA alteration, and heart and lung damage, caused by the COVID-19 “vaccines”, please see: https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/causality-article.pdf, “Vascular and organ damage induced by mRNA vaccines: irrefutable proof of causality”, Michael Palmer, MD, and Sucharit Bhakdi, MD, Slide 9 through Slide 14. Thirdly, why on Earth is oncology (cancer study, diagnosis, and treatment) included in the phrase “and other complex diseases?” Yours Truly calls this a writing mistake; however, one believes someone should have proofread the op-ed for “context or syntax” issues before publication.]

“But as a vaccine intended for broad public use, especially during a public health emergency, the platform has failed a crucial test: earning public trust. No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission.”

[YT: The “public trust” for the COVID-19 “vaccines” was destroyed when it was proven that hundreds of persons who took these injectables passed away from immediate heart attacks induced by them just after being injected; when “vaccinated” persons began to present with myocarditis or pericarditis after being injected; when stillbirths and miscarriages began to be reported among pregnant women who had been injected; and much, much more. And, by the way, the initial modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” rollout in December 2020 was intended for the elderly and for healthcare workers; it was when the “COVID-19 health emergency” was declared in March 2021 that the “vaccines” began to be “mandated” for all persons. “Elegant science?” Does “elegant science” include the kind of “science” that was rushed through the initial EUAs for the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” without proper testing and data analyses?]

“It is critical to understand the development of the mRNA coronavirus vaccines in the context of the very successful Operation Warp Speed launched during the first Trump administration.”

[YT: Does “the development of the mRNA coronavirus vaccines” include the fact that neither Pfizer-BioNTech, nor Moderna, had never previously brought a successful mRNA injectable to market prior to “Operation Warp Speed?” And that Dr. Albert Bourla, DVM, the CEO of PfizerUSA, admitted on video that he had been “convinced” by Pfizer scientists to use the then-new and unproven mRNA technology in a COVID-19 “vaccine?” (10 March 2022, “Albert Bourla on why mRNA technology was “counterintuitive” to producing an effective vaccine”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9_YRw7jBF4.)]

“Operation Warp Speed represented a paradigm shift in how the government should invest in new technologies and solutions and embrace strategic investments in public-private partnerships, innovation in trial design and removal of bureaucratic red tape to allow parallel rather than sequential vaccine development. It produced a new vaccine in record time and also helped develop a successful monoclonal antibody.”

[YT: Really? “Embrace strategic partnerships in public-private partnerships?” What about that “public-private partnership” document between the NIAID and Moderna, which includes development of RNA-based vaccines, and that was filed with the SEC in 2015, several years BEFORE the COVID-19 disaster? That “partnership” is still going on, with patent-ownership sharing, royalty payments sharing, “partnering” in developing new COVID-19 “vaccines”, and so on, until at least 2041. “Innovation in trial design?” — Meaning the “Next Gold Generation Standard”, announced in May 2025, in which lab testing with animals using humane, safe protocols, then progressing to better and safer human-subject testing, may well be replaced with “Petri-dish testing” only” for new “vaccines”? “Parallel vaccine development?” — Meaning that “Universal Vaccine” that’s touted in the “Next Gold Generation Standard?”]

“Unfortunately, the Biden administration did not manage public trust in the coronavirus vaccines, largely because it chose a strategy of mandates rather than a risk-based approach and did not properly acknowledge Americans’ growing concerns regarding safety and effectiveness.”

[YT: So, “risk-based approach?” Like the “risk populations chart” in the “opinion piece” that Dr.Martin Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad published in the New England Journal of Medicine in May 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929, “An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination”— a chart in which, for example, even healthy pregnant women are considered to be at “risk” for “severe complications from COVID-19” and should get COVID-19 “vaccinated?” And what about the statements about how the “known and potential benefits of the for COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the known and potential risks?” — like the one here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/planning/children/6-things-to-know.html, “6 Things to Know about COVID-19 Vaccination for Children.“]

“Consider the data: In a late 2024 Pew Research Center survey, 60 percent of American adults reported no intention of getting an updated coronavirus mRNA vaccine despite the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s advice that nearly all adults receive yet another dose. As of late April 2025 (the latest data published reported by the CDC), only 13 percent of children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years had received an updated coronavirus vaccine, even though the Biden-era CDC had placed the vaccine on the childhood immunization schedule.”

[YT: It appears that the real reason behind why “only 13 percent of children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years had received an updated coronavirus vaccine” is that their parents or guardians have concluded that these “vaccines” are more dangerous than helpful. And how did these adults come to this conclusion? Because of the news spreading that these “vaccines” cause myocarditis / pericarditis in children; because of the news spreading that these “vaccines” do not prevent COVID-19 infection, but instead actually damage the “vaccinated” person’s immune system, making it vulnerable to COVID-19 infection; and so on. In Yours Truly’s opinion, the COVID-19 “vaccines” have no place in the CDC Childhood Immunization Schedule whatever — due to the foregoing and other reasons.]

“In 2021, the Biden administration’s HHS spent nearly a billion dollars on a campaign supporting the coronavirus vaccine, the most expensive pharmaceutical campaign in history. The government spent the money on a vast number of TV, radio and internet spots, which misinformed the American public that the vaccine would protect them from contracting and spreading covid. Nevertheless, just a few years later, less than half the U.S. adult population will heed the CDC’s guidance. Some outlets have blamed the poor coronavirus mRNA vaccine uptake on poor messaging or “anti-vax” counter-messaging. But the Biden administration made suppression of speech — and a mandate for all on the vaccines — into a priority.”

[YT: Perhaps Dr. Bhattacharya should look at the FDA Package Insert for the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, COMIRNATY (Pfizer-BioNTech), section 1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE. The Package Insert is here: https://www.fda.gov/media/151707/download. Notice that the FDA officially states that COMIRNATY is “to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19.)” Is the FDA “spreading misinformation?”

“The failure was thus not a communications problem. It is a trust problem due to the Biden administration’s scientific overreach, public pressure and, frankly, arrogance.”

[YT: Does this mean that “the new FDA”, and the “Next Generation Gold Standard”, and the “accelerated approval” of “vaccines” that may be lab-created in Petri-dishes will somehow magically restore public trust?]

“In addition to the trust problem, the mRNA technology has special biological features that make it different from other vaccines in that it (ideally) instructs our cells to produce proteins that subsequently invoke an immune response. To do so with complete confidence about vaccine safety and efficacy requires an exact understanding of dosage, biodistribution and off-target effects. Unfortunately, we fall short in all three. We lack clarity on how much antigen each mRNA molecule produces, where in the body the mRNA product winds up, how long it stays in the body, and whether unintended proteins are created.”

[YT: Unfortunately, this paragraph, in Yours Truly’s opinion, “has more holes than a Swiss cheese.” First: the mRNA “vaccines” do instruct the cells of the “vaccinated” person to “invoke an immune response”: that “response”, among other things, causes multiple types of autoimmune attack within the COVID-19 “vaccinated” person’s body — for example, in the heart (please refer above to the article by Doctors For COVID Ethics.) Second: Perhaps Dr. Bhattacharya would like to read this report, which Pfizer-BioNTech gave to the FDA in January 2021, regarding the biodistribution of BNT162b2 (FDA-approved in 2022 as COMIRNATY.) The report is here: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/125742_S1_M2_pharmkin-tabulated-summary.pdf, “MODULE 2.6.5. PHARMACOKINETICS TABULATED SUMMARY.” Yours Truly has included images of Page 7 and Page 8 of this report, which are the Biodistribution Tables for BNT162b2. (The BNT162b2 used in this experiment is the same one that was granted the initial FDA for use in the United States in December 2020.) Third: Stephanie Seneff, PhD, and Greg Nigh, wrote back in 2021 about the unintended consequences of the mRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” creating “unintended proteins.” Their paper is here: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Worse-Than-the-Disease-Reviewing-Some-Possible-of-Seneff-Nigh/, “Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19”, 16 June 2021, International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research 2(1), May 10,2021 Page 389 – 430. The point is: there is an “exact understanding” of multiple aspects regarding the mRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” already.]

“From a regulatory perspective, getting approval for a vaccine with such inherent uncertainties should be difficult.”

[YT: Agreed— except that the “new FDA” is doing exactly that already (such as the recent FDA “approval” without any human trials testing of the “2025-2026 Formula COVID-19 Vaccines” by Pfizer-BioNTech, by Moderna, and by Novavax.)]

“Still, I do not believe the mRNA vaccines caused either mass harm on the one hand or saved 14 million lives on the other. Those estimates swing wildly based on speculative modeling, not concrete evidence. A recent modeling study conluded that the global coronavirus vaccination campaign saved 2.5 million lives from 2020 to 2024, mainly among the elderly.”

[YT: “Still I do not believe the mRNA vaccines caused either mass harm…” Really, Dr. Bhattacharya? Did you read through the OpenVAERS website? (https://openvaers.com/) Have you read through the thousands of actual reports of persons who took a COVID-19 “vaccine” and then either died from the injection, or had serious medical issues afterwards from the injection? Are you saying that these reports are “wildly based on speculative modeling?” Are you saying that these reports are not “concrete evidence?” Are you dismissing the extensive work of Ed Dowd, who analyzes statistical reports of claims from insurance companies, claims that have skyrocketed since the COVID-19 “vaccine” rollout in 2021? https://phinancetechnologies.com/, then click on the “Our Projects” PDF brochure on the webpage to find the “Current Projects” section, then click on any of the green arrows.]

“The scientific controversy over the vaccine’s effect on mortality rages on. Science isn’t propaganda agenda. It’s humility.”

[YT: Real science is truth. There isn’t a “controversy” about the “vaccine’s effect on mortality” — the COVID-19 “vaccines” have increased mortality across the board and across the world. Have you read Steve Kirsch’s Substack, Dr. Bhattacharya? (https://kirschsubstack.com/). Mr. Kirsch’s Substack has many articles that quote studies which show that the COVID-19 “vaccines” increase mortality across the board. However, since Mr. Kirsch is not a medical professional, that removes him from “credibility” in the medical professional world, as far as the NIH is concerned? It doesn’t matter that Mr. Kirsch makes his living from collecting and analyzing data (financial and medical)?]

“And when public health officials stopped communicating with humility, we lost much of the public, an absolute necessity for any vaccine platform.”

[YT: Actually: It’s when public health officials withheld the truth about the dangers and the deadliness of the COVID-19 “vaccines” (which the FDA knew about back in early 2021 — please see here: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf, “5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021.” Please go to the APPENDIX 1. LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST section.) — and the public had to find out the truth themselves — that public health officials “lost much of the public.”]

“I am not here to litigate the past. I am here to chart a better path forward. That is why the NIH, under the leadership of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is investing in new vaccine technologies based on whole-virus inactivated vaccines, which offer a broader immune response and have a longer track record of safety and public acceptance.”

[YT: So, here, apparently, is the “kernel” of the op-ed. Dr. Bhattacharya is not interested in anything related to how dangerous and deadly the current types of COVID-19 “vaccines” have been, and still are. “Let bygones be bygones and just move on” seems to the situation. Not so fast, Doctor. And that “whole-virus inactivated vaccine” scheme that is central to the “Next Generation Gold Standard?” The “Universal Vaccine?” Which, according to the “Next Generation Gold Standard” ethos, may be developed in Petri-dishes in federal government-based facilities only? And the PATENT for which “Universal Vaccine” is owned by the current Acting Director of NIAID, Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger? (https://www.techtransfer.nih.gov/tech/tab-3388)]

“We are continuing the Operation Warp Speed model of investing in technology with the most potential to help Americans.”

[YT: And, will this “continued” Operation Warp Speed model again be done in such a way that important information is deliberately withheld from President Trump47, as was the case with the original Operation Warp Speed in President Trump’s first term?]

“We will move forward with scientific rigor, transparency, and humility. At the NIH, we will fund promising research based not on hype, but on evidence. And I will continue to use my platform to communicate candidly in public conversations where debate and disagreement are welcomed.”

[YT: “Humility” is always a good thing. So is TRUTH.]

“We are entering a new era of public health, grounded not in wishful thinking or performative consensus, but in open inquiry and respect for the American people’s intelligence. The only to rebuild trust is to earn it — one honest conversation at a time.”

[YT: The “one honest conversation at a time” must include the honest admission by the NIH / NIAID / FDA / CDC, that the entire COVID-19 “vaccine” disaster could have been prevented through FDA approval of using re-purposed items to prevent or to treat COVID-19 infection: Ivermectin, Hydroxycholorquine, Doxycycline, Zinc and Vitamin D supplementation. There are plenty of peer-reviewed, published scientific papers which prove that these work. Instead, the FDA, TO THIS DAY, still refuses to approve the use of these items to prevent or to treat COVID-19. Can you explain why this is still the case, Dr. Bhattacharya?]

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

2025.08.19 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 24

In the next two parts we take a walk back in time to the first half of the 1700’s in England and then back across the pond to the colonies. We need to establish the influence one fiery preacher of the Gospels had in both England and the colonies as well as on one B. Franklin, Printer among millions of others who heard the preaching. Yes – millions. Per numerous historical accounts George Whitefield preached to over 10 million people during his years on the planet. It is believed over 2 million people accepted Christ from his efforts during this time with most of that number within America’s population.

This discussion of Whitefield will help us better understand not only B and his personal beliefs, but establish why he and that preacher friend of his was so important to our independence and success as a nation. If you are unaware of the history and the seeds that were planted leading up to the patriot movement’s acts of rebellion, you may not grasp the full importance of what the Declaration of Independence states. Despite the anti-Christian recency bias we find today, America would not be America without Christianity. It is a cornerstone of our foundation as a nation. From the pilgrims forward it has guided our principles and approach to relations domestically as well as with the rest of the world.

George Whitefield was born in 1713 in Gloucester, England. His parents kept an inn there and he was the fifth of seven children. His father died when he was two years old. As he aged he helped his mother with the inn. Also as he grew older he discovered he had a passion for acting. However, the family had no money for him to continue his education. So he became a servitor to be able to attend the University of Oxford. This involved him becoming a servant doing simple basic living chores for staff and students there in exchange for free tuition.

George wanted to do good works and obey God, but had not yet fully understood the salvation offered by acceptance of Christ. That all changed when he read the book, The Life of God in the Soul of Man. Finally realizing he could not earn God’s favor by doing good works, he accepted Christ as his personal savior and was converted. He realized that all mankind has sinned against God’s will for us and that he needed God’s grace in the person of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice. He accepted that this righteousness of Christ was then imputed to all who believed and accepted, thereby creating a new heart and nature that willingly desired to serve God.

We hillbillies call it taking off the old coat and putting on the new. Hi there, Wolf!

After Whitefield’s conversion the Bishop of Gloucester ordained him a Deacon in the Church Of England. He began preaching one week after his ordination. He soon took to preaching the Word of God wherever the people were since the Church of England did not give him a church. He was disappointed, but it did not deter him and as a result he went to the parks and fields to reach the people who did not go to church.

Soon, America and Great Britain would never be the same again. However, there was a friend/foe relationship with another major evangelical contemporary of that period who was educated in the same university in the same general time frame as George.

John Wesley and George Whitefield

Rather than summarize this relationship, I am going to post a link below to a short story about the two. In this part I would prefer to avoid a discussion about the issue that divided them – Calvinism versus Arminianism. The truth is that I personally believe elements of both of these Christian doctrines. At that time it was an extremely divisive issue within the clergy. It drove a wedge in the relationship of Wesley and Whitefield. There are letters to each other available for review online that are heart-wrenching. One I read from Whitefield to Wesley sounds like Paul’s reproach of Peter that we read in his letter in scripture. Just know that the two reconciled late in life, basically agreeing to disagree, as should all of us who allow a dividing doctrine to infest our hearts.

https://myrealchurch.org/disputable-matters-john-wesley-and-george-whitefield

The common theme of the two was that they went to the people in both England and the colonies with the intent to bring the message of salvation in Christ as well as providing for the least of these. Both were active in ministry in England prior to going to the colonies. Both were religious until experiencing a time when they found their personal hearts strangely warmed by Christ, a situation and understanding that many believers would call being born again. Both sought for all the experience of seeking Christian perfection as a life long worthy endeavor.

Being “born again” is a real thing. It happened to me.

The Fields Were Ripe For Harvest

By 1738, Whitefield felt the call to go to Georgia in the colonies to minister to orphans there after an unsuccessful, despondent Wesley returned to England at the same time. George began preaching at Christ Church in Savannah, which had been founded by Wesley previously. The Wesley brothers (John and Charles) were not all that pleased with their own results in that colony as they were met with much resistance. Whitefield felt the opposite. He embraced the people and the mission. His passion for the orphans was legendary. He solicited funds and opened three schools, one of which was for girls. He spent every available moment preaching the Word throughout the region. His bullhorn like voice could be heard a mile away, so he was very effective with outdoor assemblies where thousands would attend each time.

Seven months later he decided to return to England and arrived there months later after a very perilous voyage. Not long after arrival he was ordained a priest in the Church of England. After all he was willing to do and had accomplished he believed churches would be opened for him to preach, but the opposite was true. As a man of the people growing up in a lower status he was not welcomed in the pulpits of establishment churches. He made the best of it, preaching wherever he was welcomed. His presence was greatly appreciated when he preached in coal country where 10,000 people at a time would come to hear him speak. What an amazing sight and sound it would have been there to witness thousands standing to sing hymns and praise the Lord during the times he spoke. It was said that the singing could be heard some two miles away.

His largest successes in reaching the people came when preaching in a large, open tract of land known as the Moorfields. He set no schedule for doing so, but no matter whether he preached in the early morning or at night, thousands would come to listen and participate. One morning 20,000 came and later that evening the same day some 35,000 were there to hear him. Not all appreciated what he had to say. He once said, “I was honored with having stones, dirt, rotten eggs and pieces of dead cats thrown at me.”  😂 During one event, 80,000 people came to hear him preach 1.5 hours.

Yet, he was only 25 years old during those days. Wow.

Unfortunately his popularity with the masses disappointed the establishment and his bishop denounced him by August 1739. So, he headed back to the colonies with donations for his planned orphanages. He arrived in Philadelphia in late October and began preaching there. During the short time he was there he preached to tens of thousands of colonists at at time. It was during one of those times he first met B. Franklin, Printer.

His intent was always to return to Georgia and establish the orphan ministry there, but his next stop was New York where there was a similar response to his preaching. He stayed a short time before preaching his way down the Atlantic coast, traveling by horseback, until he finally arrived in Savannah in January 1740. He then went about building the orphanage. By September he was sailing back north to the New England area to begin preaching there. It was in this period that historians state our country’s first “great awakening” occurred.

The great American evangelist,Jonathon Edwards, had been preparing the area for revival for some time before Whitefield. When George arrived, it all broke loose. He was invited to speak by colonial governors and colleges such as Harvard. The places would become so crowded they had to turn people away. This revival lasted 1.5 years before Whitefield returned to England again. The Christian seeds had been planted that would eventually lead to our founding as a nation.

Whether you the reader personally believe in Christianity or not; this historical truth cannot be altered by those seeking to rewrite history or introduce counter narratives. The changes in mind and hearts of We the People in those days flowed into our founding documents that have governed our nation for 250 years. Within those documents We the People acknowledge God’s providence. The law itself is largely in alignment with Biblical principles. We the People of those days cut a forever deal with the Almighty. As has been proven in our nation’s history, any turning from it by leaders or We the People will result in great angst and even violence as discipline. We just need to stop being the prodigal son as a nation and start doing God’s will. Back to Whitefield…

Upon his arrival in England he learned that his friend John Wesley had turned from the Calvinistic Methodism that both embraced as younger preachers. As a result they went their separate ways. Whitefield’s base of preaching moved back to the Moorfields and a tabernacle was built, however, he traveled throughout Great Britain preaching as requested. While in Wales he met his future wife, Elizabeth, a widow. They married and had one son in 1743, who passed away as a four month old baby.

He made seven trips in total to America before passing away in Massachusetts some two hours after preaching before thousands in 1770. His words and presence always sparked an emotional response from those who heard him. Again, the response would be negative at times. There was one occasion he was beaten badly with a cane by a deranged man and other times when he was stoned both in England and in the colonies. Throughout it all he never lost his fervor for bringing God’s Word.

At this point we will conclude until next time with some of his interactions with B, a key founding father with whom he never lost contact and cared deeply about. It is now time to discuss another signer from Pennsylvania.

James Wilson

With James Wilson we have another brilliant attorney and associate justice to the Supreme Court as a founding father who served nobly only to fall victim to seeking riches in land speculation with excessive debt at the end of his life. It sounds like a familiar story with decisions and a similar fate that awaited another previous discussed founder, James Morris.

James Wilson was born in Fife, Scotland in 1742, the middle child of seven in a hard working farming family of the Presbyterian faith. His father rented the land he farmed. At age 15 he entered, studied and graduated from the University of St. Andrews. He followed that with studies at Edinburgh and Glasgow without graduating. In 1765 he emigrated to the colonies at New York in the middle of the Stamp Act controversy and soon moved to Philadelphia. He brought with him letters of introduction that enabled him to receive a job tutoring and teaching at the College of Philadelphia (Penn). While there he proceeded to study law under highly respected John Dickinson. For his work at the school he received an honorary Masters of Arts and later in life, a LL.D. Two years after arrival in 1767 he earned admission to the bar and established a law practice in Reading, PA, where he became very successful. In 1771 he married Rachel Byrd and they had six children together.

The aftermath of the Stamp Act encouraged him to deeply study the legal relationship between Great Britain and the colonies. Taxation without representation was a deal killer as far as Wilson was concerned, so he published his position on the subject. As he continued to research he concluded there was very little basis for the cause of independence for the colonists, yet, there was a recognition that all colonists were citizens of Great Britain with equal rights as residents. As a result in his view the acts Parliament took that related to the colonies were illegal due to the colonists lack of equal representation in governance in the same manner as citizens located in Great Britain.

This legal approach was utilized when the Declaration of Independence was drafted. It called out the King for misconduct as a result as we can see from the wording in the document. Wilson published this legal interpretation in 1774. What happened next is best described by this quote from the Descendants site;

Wilson’s language adopting the doctrine of popular sovereignty and natural rights foreshadowed the content of the Declaration of Independence two years later, as indicated by an early paragraph:

All men are, by nature, equal and free: no one has a right to any authority over another without his consent: all lawful government is founded on the consent of those who are subject to it: such consent was given with a view to endure and to increase the happiness of the governed, above what they could enjoy in an independent and unconnected state of nature. The consequence is that the happiness of the society is the first law of every government.

Seems we have seen that content phrased into our Declaration of Independence. But who knew James Wilson was the primary source? Not this guy.

Later in 1774, Wilson was made head of the committee of correspondence at Carlisle and was elected to the first Provincial Conference at Philadelphia. In January 1775, he was a member of the Convention of the Province and in May joined the Continental Congress. A year later in June 1776 as the Congress contemplated Richard Henry Lee’s resolution for independence, Wilson sensed the Congressional members were not yet ready for an affirmative vote as the states were split seven for and five against at that point. He voted for a delay with other key members. After more spirited discussions, three weeks later the vote was held. He, John Morton, and our boy B voted for it, which put Pennsylvania in the for independence column by a vote of 3-2.

After approval and signatures, they quickly moved toward the establishment of state constitutions. Wilson found himself on the wrong side of the issues in Pennsylvania, so he was removed from Congress in 1777. In addition to his return to the law practice, from which he assisted many loyalists, he became an advocate general for France for a handful of years. He was also involved in the formation of the Bank of North America with Robert Morris in 1780 that we addressed in that part. This bank formation provided a much needed funding source for our young nation’s treasury.

Wilson returned to Congress when conservatives assumed more power over state affairs in 1782. He served in it until 1787 when it came time for the Constitutional Convention. His wife had passed away the previous year, so all of his efforts went toward the work.

While at the Convention he played a major role as a framer of the document and was considered by many to be the most knowledgeable lawyer in the group. He was a prominent speaker in the assembly. He continued stressing his emphasis on natural rights within the proposed law. With groups opposing each other regarding election of the President by popular vote (Wilson supported) or legislative vote, Wilson proposed the Electoral College that is now used. At first the idea was rejected in favor of a legislative vote, however, those supporters could not agree on the terms. With James Madison and Gouverneur Morris as strong supporters of Wilson’s proposal, a compromise was reached in the committee incorporating an acceptable version of the Electoral College into the Constitution.

After this work Wilson was selected by Washington to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court in 1789. He served until his death from a stroke brought on by malaria in 1798. In 1790 he also became the first law professor in the history of the College of Philadelphia/Penn. In 1793 he married Hannah Gray. They had a child together who passed away at age three. Although Wilson claimed to be anti-slavery, he had a slave for most of his adult life. Hannah requested the man’s release and in 1794 he did so.

However, this last decade of Wilson’s life was tumultuous. He fell victim to the same temptation of Robert Morris through excessive land speculation. He owed hundreds of thousands of dollars on land deals, but would not stop buying more until he became insolvent. He was briefly jailed in debtor’s prison in New Jersey before his son paid the related debt off. He spent the last year of his life running away from other creditors and ended up dying in Edenton, NC in poverty. He was initially interred there before his remains were removed and brought back to the Christ Churchyard in Philadelphia where other founders are interred.

James Wilson as a founding father is another man who is not typically discussed. However, he left a long lasting positive imprint on our nation through his law career and particularly with the Constitution. We remain greatly appreciative of his patriotic service to our country.

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Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Dear MAGA: 20250817 Open Topic

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On this day and every day –

God is in Control
. . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . .
Keep Looking Up

Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.

“This day is holy to the Lord your God;
do not mourn nor weep.” . . .
“Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet,
and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared;
for this day is holy to our Lord.
Do not sorrow,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Support Israel . . . or Not?

Christians should definitely support the nation of Israel. We must remember that Israel, the nation, is very special to God. We read in Deuteronomy 7:6-8 these words: “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”

God’s eternal purpose is to bless the world through Israel. Already He has done so in measure, for “salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22), but the fullness of future blessing is indicated in the wondrous promise of Isaiah 27:6: “In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.”

The declaration that “salvation is from the Jews” suggests our immeasurable debt to Israel. All that we have worth having has come to us through the Jews. Our Bible is a Jewish Book, and our Savior is a Jewish Savior. Let us never forget to pray for God’s chosen people. It is true that Israel is currently in rebellion against God because of their rejection of Christ. The nation is a secular, unbelieving (as to the claims of Scripture and their Messiah, Jesus Christ) nation; but “…at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace” (Romans 11:5). Some Jews are being saved and are becoming members of the body of Christ through faith in their Messiah.

Jews are, biblically speaking, the “chosen people of God” and dearly loved by Him. Another reason for Christians to support the nation of Israel is because of the Abrahamic Covenant. We read of God’s promise in Genesis 12:2-3, “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (see also Genesis 27:29; Numbers 24:9).

From the biblical declarations of God’s love and care for His chosen people, the nation of Israel, and from the history of nations being destroyed because of their evil dealings with God’s chosen people, the Jews, Christian believers should give support to the chosen people of God. This is not to say that we necessarily support the methods they use in their relationships with the Arab nations. The Bible warned that conflict would always characterize the relations between the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael. Sadly, this conflict will continue until Jesus comes back to judge the nations and sets up His 1,000-year reign of peace on earth. We must look at the “big picture” with a biblical worldview. While we do not have to support everything Israel does as a nation, we most definitely should support Israel’s right to exist. God will fulfill His promises and covenants with Israel. God still has a plan for Israel. WOE to anyone who seeks to defeat that plan; “whoever curses you I will curse” (Genesis 12:3).