“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Today’s Health Friday post is one In Memoriam Mira Persona (In Memory of a Wonderful Person), Susan P. Sampson, known as Deplorable Patriot (or DePat) on this board. Susie (as she like to be called) passed away unexpectedly on Monday 20 January 2025. The woman leaning on the window, from a painting by Murillo, is very much like the real Susie in appearance.
Susie was a professionally-trained soprano, who was a professional cantor for the Catholic Church and also a vocal soloist; she had a splendid, agile, lyric-coloratura vocal range; while, at the same time, able to sing in the also range (an uncommon thing for a soprano to do.) Susie was also a professional writer and book editor. Yours Truly had the profound privilege of working with her to get the manuscript of my late husband’s Memoirs ready for publication. She had a deeply creative approach to all of her endeavors, mixed judiciously in with a “no-nonsense” perspective. The following are taken from yesterday’s heartfelt announcement post on the board by our host, Wolf Moon, with profound thanks to FG&C, who provided the information to him.
Yours Truly would like to recommend the following be taken on a daily basis:
250 mg Quercetin; 25 mg Zinc; 2,500 mg Vitamin C (may be also taken in lower amounts, supplemented with taking orange juice once or twice daily); 25 mcg Vitamin D (1,000 IU); 300 – 600 mg NAC (can go up to 1,000 mg, although one would do this in increments); 250 mg Turmeric; 1 cup green tea (regular or decaf.) Note: Some of these amounts may already be included in a daily multi-vitamin; some others may be from foods.
On a weekly basis, or as needed: Either Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine. Ivermectin may be secured through prescription ( https://covid19criticalcare.com/, which used to be FLCCC Alliance, now is Independent Medical Alliance: or, https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/, AFLDS). Below are some sources from where to purchase Ivermectin:
It is of imperative importance that people have, and maintain, the highest degree of general health, and of natural immune system health, that is possible.
May the life of Susan P. Sampson on this Earth be celebrated as one that touched literally millions of people via her blog posts at The Q Tree, her books, her X (formerly Twitter) account, and more. May her passing not be in vain. She is still with us in spirit. I am humbled to have known her. May she rest in Eternal Peace, singing for the Almighty God in His Kingdom. May her family — birth family and online family — find Comfort.
Thanks to our good Barb Meier for finding this photo of Susie, circa 2011.
The above is an image of roses that Susie posted in 2021. May she be surrounded by roses in the Heavenly Kingdom for all Eternity.
In this article I explain WHY we need to continue to remain alert. Yeah, it is actually much worse than we thought. I know this is long, but if you read none of the other articles I have written please read this one. For me, everything suddenly fell in place. This is why Hegseth, a major in the reserves and NOT a general or admiral was selected as Sec of Defense by POTUS Trump. Why the cartels were named terrorist organizations.
At the end of WWII the Nazis realized they were not going to win a CONVENTIONAL kinetic war so they switched tactics. Stay behind units, groups of 15 to 20 civilians, were originally created in Germany by Nazis. They were called Werewolf Units and placed in all the AXIS countries. At the Nuremberg trials, Skorzeny, who worked for never-indicted Galland, got off lightly. He features prominently in training and in execution of operations including the murder of JFK. And yes they are here and active in the USA. Some of their training is done at Fort Bragg. (SURPRISE!) Galland, who was Hitler’s Chief of intel, met with Dulles at the end of WWII and got off scot free. As a result of that meeting, stay behind units were seeded in other countries AND it is all run out of NATO. This is why Nazi war criminals became high ranking commanders in NATO after WW2. Also there is a secret agreement. If you become a NATO member you must have stay behind units. It is the reason Charles de Gaulle kicked NATO headquarters out of France. They kept trying to assassinate him. Werewolf Units have about 15 playbooks including Paragliders. Music festivals and other venues with a lot of women and children are considered ‘HIGH VALUE TARGETS’ because they have a maximum terror component that can then be used to control a population. (9/11 & the Patriot Act anyone?)
Just a taste from Colonel Towner at the end of Operation Gladio – Colonel Towner PART 1 The full transcript is at the bottom of the article. Please read it. It will blow your mind!
I’ll cover this real quick. We [The Werewolf Units] had to have training right? Even though Skorzeny had trained the units in the axis countries you had the allied operators that needed Gladio training. So off the coast of Portugal [are islands] like the Azores, Canary Islands, the Sardinia Islands, they all end up with Gladio training sites…. Just do a search on Sardinia and kidnapping. There are inordinate amount of kidnappings because what these people do is they practice on real people. OK? If you do the Canary Islands? That is where the sniper and snorkeling – sneaking up on boats — [training happens.] Do you know who was assassinated off the coast of the Canary Islands? Robert Maxwell. When he came up missing his boat was docked at the Canary Islands. I want to give at least the enlisted a pass. A lot of the Gladio training was done at Fort Bragg [NC] and Fort Benning. [Columbus, Georgia, Alabama border area] And there was an explosive school just north of the Rio Grande above Brownsville TX. 👉The assassination [training] was done at Fort Bragg.👈
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I was watching an excellent episode of Breaking History and realized, we here at the Qtree had never identified the driving philosophy of the Cabal. I am not talking Marxism or Malthusianism (De-population) I am talking about the actual philosophy that drives the Cabal and has for centuries.
I do not have the actual name for it, Mercantilism is as close as I can come.
The feudal economic system was replaced by mercantilism in Western Europe and it became the dominant theory between 1500 and 1800. While England was at the epicentre of the British Empire, they unfortunately had limited natural resources and were eager to increase their wealth. During this period, there was [more] frequent military conflict and tension than before. Every government’s main objective was to back their military base to prevent attacks from other nations whilst also expanding their territory and the only way to do so was to earn sufficient money.
Mercantilists [AND BANKERS] took up this opportunity to persuade their governments to enact policies that would protect their own businesses against foreign [AND DOMESTIC] ones. In exchange, they would pay taxes to back the military. This resulted in the introduction of fiscal policies that were against the colonists which banned them from buying foreign items. All nations wanted to export more than they imported and receive bullion in return as they strongly believed that a nation’s economic health could be weighed by comparing how much they owned in precious metals. Shipping was also considered imperative during the mercantile period as they were used for merchant or military purposes and whoever controlled the oceans was deemed the strongest.
Colonial manufacturing restrictions refer to the laws and regulations imposed by colonial powers, particularly Britain,👉to control and limit the manufacturing capabilities of their colonies.👈
Dead link is: https://fiveable.me/key-terms/american-business-history/colonial-manufacturing-restrictions
…mercantilism became the key economic model of the time. It encouraged the colonists to purchase goods from England rather than rival nations. 👉The colonies sent raw materials to England where they were manufactured into finished products and sold to the colonists.👈This allowed Britain to monopolize the slave trade, transporting slaves from English ports to America. High inflation and heavy taxation on the colonies caused a rift between the colonists and the British...
Essentially what you have is merchants, manufacturers and bankers working together to MAXIMIZE PROFIT. (World Economic Forum anyone?) Once you no longer have overt colonies, the best way to do that is to use wars, coups & the IMF to keep the 3rd world enslaved as raw material providers. Then you can use CHEAP labor in China & India to do the manufacturing in Cabal owned factories so the manufactured products can be sold, at a steep mark-up of course, to the first world middle class, slowly bankrupting them.
New convergence and strengthened interdependence coincide with a third trend, relating to income distribution. In many countries the distribution of income has become more unequal, and the top earners’ share of income in particular has risen dramatically. 👉In the United States the share of the top 1 percent has close to tripled over the past three decades, now accounting for about 20 percent of total U.S. income👈 (Alvaredo and others, 2012). At the same time, while the new convergence mentioned above has reduced the distance between advanced and developing economies when they are taken as two aggregates, there are still millions of people in some of the poorest countries whose incomes have remained almost stagnant for more than a century (see “More or Less,” F&D, September 2011). 👉These two facts have resulted in increased divergence between the richest people in the world and the very poorest, despite the broad convergence of average incomes.👈
The actual mechanism is the World Bank lends a country money. When the country defaults on the loan then the IMF steps in with their Structural Adjustment Programs. This link shows how the IMF implements their wealth transfer: IMF Structural Adjustment Programs
If a country does not ‘cooperate’ then the Cabal stages a coup.
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One of the key weapons the Cabal has used during the past century is Operation Gladio.
I want to stop at this point and point to this video that shows WHY Israel has been used to keep the Middle East in turmoil for nearly a century. War is a heck of a good way to prevent a country from developing a manufacturing base and having a chance of becoming a first world economy! Gore Bull Schiff Warming is the excuse fed to anyone on the Left who might notice this deliberate suppression of third world countries. It is also the excuse fed to the public for destroying first world countries.
Breaking history: Ep. 79: Breaking Free of Scarcity with NAWAPA and New Discoveries. The whole episode is good but you can start @ 40 minutes for the progress report.
Starting at 40 minutes, they go thru the massive water projects planned for the USA — passed into law in 1954 but side lined after JFKs death. — In China – dams are being built as we speak – and in Saudi Arabia — they are also being built. Water is a key necessity for not only Ag, but for industry. In the USA dams are targeted for destruction not creation. They also talk about Saudi Arabia’s breakthrough in producing lithium and other minerals from the waste water from oil fracking. The new technology is viable and being shared with Brazil.
If there is war, none of this could be done. ENTER OPERATION GLADIO
…we find that only 737 top holders accumulate 80% of the control over the value of all TNCs [Trans National Corporations] …This means that network control is much more unequally distributed than wealth. In particular, the top ranked actors hold a control ten times bigger than what could be expected based on their wealth…
…In detail, nearly 4/10 of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of 147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself. The top holders within the core can thus be thought of as an economic “super-entity” in the global network of corporations. A relevant additional fact at this point is that 3/4 of the core are financial intermediaries….
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Then Operation Gladio slides into place very nicely as the explanation. I am going to jump ahead to the first part of the 2nd in the series, to show how Operation Gladio fits into what we are seeing today.
OPERATION GLADIO – PART 2 “RELEVANCE”
Rough Transcript from 6:30 to 12 minutes.
The 2020 election was a cyber coup. Mike Benz spent 5-6 yrs investigating it and talks about the cyber end of it NAMING the culprits: NATO, EU, UK, CIA, the Defense Department, the State Department. Colonel Towner says those are who she is going to talk about. The exact same people Mike says are involved in the Cyber War. Operation Gladio has been taken Kinetic. [Think Purple Revolution -GC] Mike is looking at the CYBER component of Operation Gladio within the USA. [General Mike Flynn calls it 5th Generation Warfare. -GC]
The Colonel says if you Read Gen Flynn’s book on 5th Generation Warfare, lay that side by side with the Tucker interview with Mike Benz AND you have the background on Operation Gladio, It is CLEAR EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING!
OPERATION GLADIO – “BATTELLE AND THE CIA” – EP.376 — Jan 15,2025 2 hr
At 30 minutes the Colonel says BATTELLE, a nonprofit, was the overarching entity in charge of the DOE.
Battelle …was responsible for the ENTIRE CHAIN, from Ft Detrick, they are there. They are everywhere. 100 of millions of $$ of contracts with Ft Detrick. They have the custodial responsibility for the lab in Ukraine, the level 4 lab where all that schiff happened. And guess where else they are at. THE GEORGIA [The country of] LABS! BOTH known for releases of contagious diseases….
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Now to THE TRANSCRIPT. (It is long but worth reading or watching)
Operation Gladio & Colonel Towner PART 1 –February 13, 2023
Rough Transcript of this 1 hr, 45 minute video. I included rough time stamps too.
6:30
Synopsis of her bio:
Colonel Towner enlisted in the Air Force in 1979 right out of high school. She is mechanically inclined so work on airplanes. She was in for 8 yrs as an enlisted grunt, after 6 yrs she got a military scholarship and went to Indiana Univ. During that time she had a job with Evergreen airlines who had a contract with UPS. She was the only female mechanic but the guys found out a small female fits in spaces they do not.
When she finished her degree, the Air Force made her a personnel officer. (She was hoping for maintenance officer.) She was assigned to LA air force base in late 80s, during Star Wars. Nastar now GPS had just been declassified for civilian use. Put up a bunch of satellites. Re-asigned to Italy, Andrews AFB where Air Force 1 is. Whenever the pentagon went down to CENTCOM, US central Command, they used Andrews AFB. She was there over 9-11.
She got her masters at Air War college…. She was in for 30 yrs then retired. The she started watching Glen Beck and “realized everything I thought was true, was not true.”
Colonel Towner: “I am a big reader. I already had 2-300 books… Because my entire reason for enlisting was to get a college degree, at the end I had 6 degrees because I just like learning and they were free thanks to the tax payer. My idea was to give that information back… And to use my experience and education to help others understand what is going on in the world. You find out we have been lied to about everything. I now have about 800 books in my library….
“You can see God’s hand in everything that I do because I will go from one book [she does videos of her book reviews] and in talking about that book, someone will say something that triggers something else and I will get another book and another book and another book. And they all seem to cohesively — and the weird thing is they are ALWAYS PERFECTLY TIMED WITH WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE WORLD.
What you just heard in the Tucker Carlson – Putin interview? Putin was telling you about Operation Gladio without using the name.
Both the 2004 ‘Revolution’ in Ukraine was Operation Gladio and the 2014 coup in Ukraine while people do not use that term. We will go thru some terms so you have them in the back of your mind. Because once you learn the language of what’s going on, you can’t NOT SEE IT. (12:00)
After the spaces [on X], Jack Posobic talks of Operation Gladio for the very first time. I do not think that is coincidental. And the next day, he goes on Bannon’s War Room and mentions it again. But he mentions it in a limited hangout way, because not only does he mispronounce it, which is a dead giveaway, but he infers that it is a Gladio 2.0 [Jack was not tossed off Twitter or Youtube, which is another tell. –GC]
There is only one Gladio and one organization that runs it world wide….
Epstein
“I read 2 books by Whitney Webb, One Nation Under Blackmail vol 1 & 2 before I found out about Operation Gladio. When I read my 10th book about Operation Gladio, I was in a podcast and one of the girls who helps me do research put in the Chat, “We should do Whitney Webb’s book” Light bulb goes on and I say, Oh my gosh, that whole book is Gladio! I do book reviews on each book I read on Gladio, multi-chapter, We talk about each chapter…. We went back to do One Nation Under Blackmail, and when doing the 1st couple of chapters. She goes back to WWII and the OSS days when Gladio was created. AND IT’S ALL THE SAME PLAYERS every single step of the way.
Epstein & Wexner… I will just say this because it will be the tie in. When you realize the air operations, you and I were talking about. That contracted air that was set up in Columbus Ohio? It was done by the remnants of the Flying Tigers of the OSS out of Vietnam. It was also done in conjunction with Clinton and China selling small arms inside the USA. As soon as Congress forbid that, the air hub at Columbus Ohio exploded. There were flights coming from Hong Kong AND Clinton gave them their OWN two custom terminals. So every aspect of Operation Gladio, was fulfilled.
The Problem is until you know what the skeleton of Operation Gladio looks like. And you build the skeleton of Gladio, [for example] Whitney Webb does not know what Operation Gladio is. It is not mentioned in her book. She has no idea she is sitting on a powder keg. That is what you will find going forward. Once you have the framework you will see it everywhere. Because it is LITERALLY EVERYWHERE.
[Alpha talks of his Veterans show SitRep]
….The Vatican Church figures heavily in Gladio. They were a money laundering outfit for Gladio. Two of my best researchers I lost, they were both Catholic. They did not want to hear it. [Unfortunately this is a major problem. Having the veil ripped down so the filth and corruption shows is just too much for some people. — GC]
There is no one whose rice bowl got peed in more than Veterans. Because when you realize, every single mission you have been on more than likely in support of what I refer to as the International Syndicate, than it ever was for the USA that we, you & I, swore an oath to. [I call it the Cabal. -GC]
For People who were on the battle field and actually killed people, dropped bombs? To understand that you could have done that for an entity that has nothing to do with the safety and security of your country is devastating. BUT at the same time what you cannot do, is you cannot allow it to continue. So the only way we can fight is with truth. [THIS BTW is why Janet Napolitano & DHS labeled Veterans as potential Domestic Terrorists. They are a danger to the Cabal. — GC]
We have to know what the truth is, and once we understand what the truth is we can make sure it does not perpetuate itself. That’s why I am here. [AMEN! and that is why I do these articles – GC]
Every single thing I talk about has already been proven. It is not a theory. It is not a Conspiracy.
I am very picky about the authors I use. I want to see the State Dept. cables, I want to see the financial transactions. The ones I base my book reviews on have all that documentation. That is important because everything I say from here is highly controversial but it is all factual unfortunately.
I am going to start with terminology. The first thing you have to remember, because you are going to see these terms often in the future. So when you see them in the future your brain should immediately go OPERATION GLADIO.
Operation Gladio is an umbrella term. There are sub-elements of it. One of which is Operation Condor. Operation Condor was the Gladio effort dedicated strictly to South America.
Compass Rose was the initial effort of Operation Gladio that was launched inside of Europe.They were also referred to as stay behind units.
A Stay behind unit was a group of 15 to 20 civilians. As originally created in Germany by Nazis. They were called Werewolf Units. They carried that term from 1942 to the end of the war. They were civilians by day and killers by night. You are going to hear Werewolf a whole lot more in the future including Neo-Nazis in the USA.
The training squad in Ukraine from the US Air Force, right now training pilots, is called Grey Wolves, which is the operator Gladio from Turkey. The Neo-nazis in the USA today call themselves Werewolves because they are configured just like stay behind units.
In addition to having the personnel, and they were all trained, there are some designated training sites. You [Alpha] as a marine may recognize some of the sites because our special operations trained a lot of these people unbeknownst to them as they were ‘joint training’ in Europe. [Not suprising given Nazi war criminals became high ranking commanders in NATO after WW2 — GC]
They had stashes of weaponry to include; small arms, explosives, money and com equipment. They would bury them in chests. They would bury them in national parks systems that could be secured. Often times off limits to the normal foot traffic. That is true in the USA too BTW.
I watched a 2 hr documentary of an investigate journalist who went thru Holland trying to find these stay behind unit stashes. He spent 4 years looking. They found tons of them. I even asked the guy who brought it to my attention if he could translate so I could put subtitles on it. I posted it on my Twitter Acct…. In Italy alone there were over 600 of these stashes. Over 600 stay behind units with 15 to 20 people in each one. That is how massive it is.
It is also referred to as ‘Strategy of Tension’ It is important to understand this concept. The world we live in today operates on a strategy of tension. Most people do not know enough history to realize that if you look at a world map of 1910 and you look at a world map of 1950 there are a lot of ‘made-up countries’ that did not exist in 1910.
Well Putin just told you. Ukraine was made up out of whole cloth. There was no Ukraine. There was Poland and there was Russia. Look at the 1910 map of the Middle East. There was a country that no longer exists called Kurdistan. Well what happen to Kurdistan? Well the geniuses at the end of WWII decided that we are needed to break up Kurdistan and put the pieces in Turkey, Syria, Northern Iraq and Northern Iran. So where is all the conflict? Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Why is that? Because of the strategy of tension.
Pakistan did not exist in 1910. Where do we have a lot of Schiff going on? Afghanistan and India! Why? Because of Pakistan.
The International Syndicate [Cabal] decided to make up countries out of whole cloth. Taking what they KNEW to be fault lines, so they could create a perpetual War Machine to terrorize people, generate refugees – Called Human Trafficking – and forever establish the Military Industrial Complex that would be used to manipulate the world from the end of WWII until today. [I would say it was set up in 1913 if not well before. -GC]
We have never NOT KNOWN WAR. All of this has to do with this same concept. It is all done on purpose.
The Kurdish people over time had congregated into a geographic location because they were ostracized. They were not Muslim as we know Muslim. I was in Iraq for 6 months and talked to a lot of the Kurdish leaders because I was the exec officer for a 2 star Army general that ran Taskforce Bravo that was all of Northern Iraq during the 1991 conflict. So I spent a lot of time with these guys. It is almost a mix between Christianity & Islam. So they are not liked by anybody. So they kinda congregated in a location and then after WWII they sliced it all up and Well it would be like pouring acid on your body. So they created a scab, and the UK and USA pick that scab whenever they want to.
And they did this all over the world. So it is important they you understand ‘Strategy of Tension.’
In Italy it is know as the years of lead because of the lead bullets. When ever they activate these terror units, you get a lot of dead bodies. Journalists who write about it die, Judges that adjudicate it die, prosecutors that prosecute it die and obviously the victims of the explosions, the train stations, the banks… ALL over Italy lots of dead bodies.
And my last term… All of this system was set up under “ANTI-COMMUNISM”
As Putin pointed out and Tucker afterwards, the Soviet Union and now when it is Russia, they have never been an aggression focused nation. But the instigators set up the Soviet Union and then Russia as a bogyman, to terrorize their own population via the stay behind Gladios Units. They sold this concept, a little bit in the public but primarily to the under levels of the government. The senior levels knew what they were going to use it for. That it was going to be used for domestic use. But for the rest of the people, it was sold under the guise that it was Anti-Communist.
So just in case those Soviet people come over the gap and invade Europe, we have all these stay behind units that will pop-up and kill them all.
But if you start looking into the Anti-communist league, and anti-communist anything. They had anti-communist non-profits. Every single one of them is saturated with CIA agents, MI6 agents and MOSSAD agents. They are front companies, non-profits having to do with orchestrating Domestic Violence and ZERO to do with anti-communist. So when ever you hear anti-communist the hair on the back of your neck should stand up. You need to look at the board of directors, everything about them because it will be sketchy as hell.
The International Syndicate
When I first started doing this, if I said something about the Vatican or the Catholic Bank, I would get inundated with these bots – OH it is the Jesuits.
If I say anything about MOSSAD – Oh it’s the fake Jews or the Khazarian Mafia.
I do not know if any of that is true and it means ZERO to me. It is a limited hangout. You have already reached the conclusion without doing the investigation.
I call the industrialists, the bankers, the politicians, the elites and the religious organizations The International Syndicate. I have not gotten into who they are. I will get into a little bit of the theory that drives the entire thing because that is important to understand. Naming names at this point is not important and it bogs you down from understanding the apparatus.
ALPHA: If you know their names, they are not it.
The Colonel: Everything you see is a cloaking device for the people you don’t see.
The life cycle ( Business model)
600+ stashes plus the 15 – 20 people per stash, ready at a moments notice , that costs money. This is a big budget item. Well there is no money on the appropriations side so this is all black [off the books] funded.
[HMMMmmm Is this where some of the ‘LOST’ Pentagon billions went? -GC]
So how are you going to make the money. Initially the choice was selling drugs. Where are you going to get the drugs? Poppy fields. Just follow our wars. Every place we have had a war is a source of poppy fields.
…During veterans day, don’t the banks HAND OUT RED POPPIES?
ALPHA: I never thought about that! [Q said watch for the symbols – GC]
The military is there to guard the poppy fields. Most countries do not want the stuff in their country so you have to have wars. With wars you have mil equip ==> war zone & then drugs come back on the empty planes. [Or as Dr MacDonald found, in the dead bodies. GC] This is all documented BTW
Guns, fighter jets, helicopters, they don’t make it to where they are supposed to go . And then the items show up on black market. (37 min)
War makes a lot of ‘refuges’ so they can sell people too. They sell, drugs, weapons, human trafficking, this is what pays for Operation Gladio. People with a conscious get blackmailed (more money) Think Epstein. They are ALL tied to this business model. (39 min)
Stay behind units were first used in Boer wars in S. Africa in late 1800s. Boers were Dutch (and native) farmers. Then the Brits came down a bit further south. They started mining found diamonds & gold in Rhodesia. Think Cecil Rhodes & Milner Round Table. They wanted the gold found in S. Africa so they sent in the British military.
At the time Winston Churchill was a reporter with the Brit Army. They got their butts kicked by stay behind units. The Boers set up buried arms dumps. So during the second Boer war the Brits set up concentration camps to put women and children in and then they killed EVERYONE! The Brits were the first to use concentration camps. (41 min)
Rio Tinto (British) is a massive worldwide mining outfit. It uses slave labor. (41:45) They are a massive conglomerate that ruins everything they touch.
RioTinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world’s second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP). It was founded in 1873 when a group of investors purchased a mine complex on the RioTinto, in Huelva, Spain.…
The latest mining technology from Rio Tinto brings robotics, big data, and other automation capabilities to an industry better known for the black lung.
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The best example I have run across is in Brazil. The CIA under Operation Condor staged a coup in Brazil. Prior to the coup, there were 50-60 businesses, all owned by wealthy Brazilians. It was the ‘Democracy’ they [the Cabal -GC] all say they want. BUT they were not under the thumb of the UK or the USA… They did not have control of their industries. So they staged a coup. After the coup the big conglomerates [network of transnational corporations – GC] came in. Then there were only seven Brazilian owned companies.[After Reagan’s leveraged buyouts and the ratification of the WTO the USA saw something similar. -GC]
That is the reason they are doing what they are doing and they do not care how many people they kill in the process. PEOPLE ARE EXPENDABLE AS LONG AS THEY GET CONTROL.
Where they are going with this, and what Winston Churchill was feeding is this Fabian Society, one world government, London School of Economics, Balfour Agreement, all of those people got together and they decided we are going to have one government in the world and we will control it at the Round Table. You are going to have a Pan America, you are going to have a Pan Europe, you are going to have a Pan Asia, you are going to have a British Empire. Eventually the pan Arabic leg of it was added.. But there is no pan Africa because all those people in the syndicate think that Black people are inferior and will always be slaves. That is why when they started selling drugs in the USA every shipment was focused on inner city blacks…. They started off in Harlem, moved to LA, moved to San Francisco, to Baltimore, to St Louis, every inner city black was to be hooked on drugs and they were going to use them to imprison them. This is the mentality of the people were are dealing with. They are the scum of the earth.
This why you have to understand why they do what they do, where their focus is, and how they do it. Because in the future, … When I saw that Oct 7th Hamas attack? That was a Gladio operation.. We will talk about it later but, Hamas was created and funded by the US CIA and Israel’s Mossad.
ALPHA: When I was a young detective and first started learning about Gangs, esp out here in CA you hear about the Bloods and the Crips. But talk about gov’t officials being the ones to start this,…
Colonel Towner: Oh I can even tell you the names!, I have articles pinned. We can get into the details probably in the second show. I can give you the names of the CIA agents that were focusing on this and the DEA agent ?Anglinger? Or what ever. The first guy who was in charge of the precursor of the DEA, he is on record saying, that every major drug bust that they did, they were never able to get the top echelon because they were ALL CIA AGENTS! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. The ones who get arrested and held accountable are the low level guys. Wait til I get to the ‘War on Drugs’ (47 Min)
The second stage of all of this for me was figuring out — Well I have got who is doing it, this British Fabian round Table Crowd. So how did Communism and Fascism enter into the picture? You have to go back and read Antony C. Sutton’s books “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution” and “Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler” and “Wall Street and FDR: The True Story of How Franklin D. Roosevelt Colluded with Corporate America” I highly recommend reading his trilogy, they are not that thick.
There is an address in NYC called 120 Broadway. It is where the Fed was, it was where FDRs first office was, the Boys Club, the Dinner Club, the Rockefellers’ office is, the Rothschilds, the banks, JP Morgan, They are ALL in this building. They orchestrate EVERYTHING out of this building. They do not have to go out side. They funded the Bolsheviks.
Trotsky lived in NYC for several years waiting for the war to end so he could plant the Bolshevik flag.… The Russian civil war in the early 1900s was actually instigated. The were generals that wanted a national referendum, a democracy. Well that was not going to be allowed. Those generals were murdered by people who came from the USA or Britain. The money for the Bolsheviks came from 120 Broadway and London UK. London housed Lenin, NYC, housed Trotsky. Trotsky went from USA to Canada to Russia on a State Department Visa. [When Canada tried to stop him, the USA intervened -GC] Lenin left London went thru Germany, thru Finland into Russia. London & US facilitated the creation of Bolshevik “Communism.” (50 min)
They did the same thing with Nazism. When Hitler is in prison, Do you know who ‘paid’ to help him write Mein Kempf? We did! We took money from 120 Broadway. Anthony Sutton has the actual transactions because they were carried in diplomatic pouches thru the State Department to transfer the money to pay for his ‘Aide’ to write that doctrine. The Reichstadt fire was a false flag…. It was all set up to create Marshall law and usher in Hitler….
I say that because it is important to understand under the Strategy of Tension, if you don’t have chaos and control, then you cannot manipulate people…. So if I can make you really scared of Nazism…
Why do they call that Far-Right? Fascism is not on the right.
If I draw a line. At the start is anarchy with no government, then comes a republic with a very small amount of government. Then you have democracy and then fascism, communism and totalitarianism. There is NOTHING far right about fascism. So Why do they call it that? That is psychological operations. (52 min)
👉 Because what you have over here in anarchy and a republic is NATIONALISM. And it is not coincidental that they call them [the NAZIs] nationalists, in order for you to associate you standing up for your country, and Putin being a nationalist for Russia and Trump being a nationalist for the USA as Nationalism as in FASCISM. (53 min)
They want you, in your brain, to correlate nationalism with fascism because NATIONALISM is the death spiral, stab in the heart, to Global World Order.👈
Because there is nothing about fascism that is on the right side of anything. And it is not coincidental that when you label Left and Right in the USA that the Republicans became the Fascist ‘Right’ and the Democrats became the Communist Left. That is ALL Psychological Operations to mess with your head. Because we know, as quasi libertarian small government conservative, WE ARE NOT NAZIs! We love our country. But it is important that they label you that [NAZIs] So just keep that in mind.
That is the kind of stuff you discover when you read these books. It is all a mind game for them… It is to isolate you and to attack you.
Colonel Towner: My husband pointed out that the TV program ‘Get Smart’ [Created by Mel Brooks & Buck Henry -GC] had the two organizations called KAOS and CONTROL and was telling you to ‘Get Smart’ Strategy of Tension? MIND BLOWING! That is what they are actually doing. They create chaos (the bad guy) to get control supposedly the good guy. They are creating chaos to get control of you and they are using the Strategy of Tension to do it.
We know, thru operation Paperclip, that the CIA has programming discretion thru out Hollywood. It will really blow your mind if we get to Laurel Canyon and the whole 1960s movie industry THAT DID NOT EXIST. The movie industry was in New York. They [CIA] went to southern California and created the movie industry lock, stock and barrel.
ALPHA: WHAAAAaaat!
Colonel Towner: In Laurel Canyon. That was an entire CIA operation AND I CAN PROVE IT!
I will send you a link that you can share with your viewers. There is a guy who wrote a series of articles on this that is the best work I have ever seen. He wrote a book that you can read online.
[In the 1960s] Every single musician, go back and look at them, their Dad was either in the CIA or the military. How did they get out of the draft? OH, because they were already employed.
This journey has been SO MIND BLOWING TO ME. Every day, I have a couple of researchers helping me on stuff. We are working on domestic Gladio Units right now. Hands down it will blow your mind.
ALPHA: This makes me re-evaluate everyone who got out of the Draft good or bad.
Colonel Towner: When we get to WWII and they are setting-up these gladio units, there was a General Wolfe who worked for General Galland who was Hitler’s Chief of intel. [Although there is nothing said about that on the internet -GC]
The reason I say we did not win WWII, was because of a decision made around 1942.
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Colonel Towner makes it clear that this is her theory, based on what she has read:
If you under stand Operational War Plans, you have a strategic level, an operational level and a tactical level. The strategy is ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT. That is the goal. They wanted Germany to be in charge of the New World Order at that time. The Operational Level was how to go about doing that. And the Tactical Level is the kinetic level. They realized the Kinetic level was not going to be a winnable solution.
So if I change my operational focus to infiltrating the world; with all my Nazi scientists, all my Nazi operators like Skorzeny and thru Gladio; if I can get the apparatus built at the Operational level, then I can effect a one world government at the tactical level with my Gladio units. I can coup any government in the world. I can bring in my international syndicate [aka transnational corporations] to take over all of their resources. I can get as rich as I want. I can control the entire world without firing another shot in a conventional war.
In my mind, this is what I have been building towards the more I learn, because you see a drastic change in the war in 1942. With these stay behind units and the filtering out of them after the war is ‘officially’ over. The distribution of the Nazis, and not all of them are scientists. There is just so much to that.
When the change of focus occurs in Germany in 1942, they create the very first Werewolf Units and put them in all of the Axis territories. Now we get to the end of the war. Galland arranges a meeting with Allen Dulles. Allen Dulles is the OSS commander for the European theater under Wild Bill Donovan. Dulles meets with Galland and they come to an agreement. Galland gets to stay free. They are going to bring Galland in a 4 star uniform with fake documents to the USA. They will de-brief him. They will scout out all the stay behind units and networks in the Axis territories and they are going to take them over. They create the ‘mirror’ in alley countries AND it will all be run out of NATO.
There are two organizations in NATO that are the planning and funding coordinators for Operation Gladio. One of which is called the ACC. It is a highly classified organization. Most people assigned to NATO do not know it exists. It is documented in Paul William’s book Operation Gladio. And also mentioned in Daniele Ganser’s book NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
…In 1990, when Gladio got exposed in Italy, Italy is the only country that did an exhaustive investigation and exposed it. One of the things that came out on the magic date of Aug 2nd when it all got revealed, is there was a meeting in NATO of Gladio participants in Oct of 1990. They had the meeting despite the blow-up in Italy, probably to mitigate or cover-up. In Nov, reports paint Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti as the king pin in Italy. Well he is not going down alone. As soon as fingers were pointed at Andreotti, reporters start asking their politicians, what do you know about Gladio. Andreotti calls a press conference and on national TV in Italy, he says OH, pol XXX doesn’t know anything about Gladio? He was at the meeting last month. He named names and by doing so verified that NATO was the coordinator of ALL of it and they were the ones who hosted the planning meetings.
WHY was that hidden from the USA who was the primary funder of NATO?
[Alpha mentions the soldier who would not wear the UN uniform. — GC]
Colonel Towner says you will find enlisted special forces US military personnel, posing as mercenaries and fighting along side the CIA. The CIA posing as soldiers…. She then said the Covid Clot Shot was another litmus test. It was about getting rid of Patriotic Soldiers. It was a cleansing of the US military. In anticipation of what I do not know….. (1:09:00)
Skorzeny worked for Galland, 3 or 4 levels down. He features prominently in training and in execution of operations including the murder of JFK. He trained stay behind units. Hitler called him to rescue Mussolini. [Skorzeny rescued Mussolini ] Well they have about 15 playbooks. The one Skorzeny pulled of the shelf that day was PARAGLIDERS… think Hamas on October 7th. This has been used more than once in Gladio Operations around the world. They are trained to do this in isolated areas. Also they love attacking music venues because, from a psychological operation perspective, killing women and children are your high value target. This is because you get the emotional terror associated with it. If you want emotional trauma in your strategy of tension, you go for women and children every time… (1:11:11)
[….Discussion of soft targets like fairs & festivals where guns are forbidden…. -GC]
👉Skorzeny at Nuremberg? A guy from the UK testifies on his behalf and gets him off. A guy from Dallas Texas prepared his defense AND the same guy played a roll in the JFK assassination. (1:16:10)
In Paul William’s book, they established that in order for a NATO country to become a part of NATO, there is actually a separate secret agreement. You HAVE TO agree to create stay behind units. 👉I want everyone to understand, if you are in NATO you HAVE stay behind units and there are no exceptions. (1:17:00)
Also…. NATO did not start in Belgium. NATO was set up in Paris. Why don’t we know this? Well the first thing you would ask is why did they move? You want to know why they moved? Because they were kicked out. Because of stay behind units. They were kicked out of [France] because the OAS that eventually gets Kennedy, tried to kill Charles de Gaulle, who was the president, over 20 times. They set up over 20 assassination attempts IN FRANCE OF THE SITTING PRESIDENT! And finally deGaulle calls the NATO commander and says you’ve got 6 months dude, your OUT and I want YOU gone tomorrow. I want EVERYTHING GONE IN SIX MONTHS, and you are gone tomorrow. DeGaulle kicked the 4 star general out. And that 4 star general? He was the author of Operation Northwoods [Cuba] So he ran the ops to get DeGaulle and ALSO ran the ops to get JFK!…. (1:19:00)
So that sets the stage for the new operations, because most of it now is going to be ran by Skorzeny out of Spain…
I’ll cover this real quick. We [The Werewolf Units] had to have training right? Even though Skorzeny had trained the units in the axis countries you had the allied operators that needed Gladio training. So off the coast of Portugal [are islands] like the Azores, Canary Islands, the Sardinia Islands, they all end up with Gladio training sites…. Just do a search on Sardinia and kidnapping. There are inordinate amount of kidnappings because what these people do is they practice on real people. OK? If you do the Canary Islands? That is where the sniper and snorkling – sneaking up on boats [training happens] Do you know who was assassinated off the coast of the Canary Islands? Robert Maxwell. When he came up missing his boat was docked at the Canary Islands.
I want to give at least the enlisted a pass.A lot of the Gladio training was done at Fort Bragg [NC] and Fort Benning. [Columbus, Georgia, Alabama border area] And there was an explosive school just north of the Rio Grande above Brownsville TX. A lot of the Gladio trainees got ‘Specialized Training’ — on ‘Wetworks’ Primarily the assassination [training] was done at Fort Bragg. (1:20:30 – 1:21:30)
So it is not uncommon to have foreigners in classes. We teach foreigners all the time. You would not know they are Gladio operators. They can show up in uniforms even if they are civilians. Governments dress them up in uniforms to camouflage the fact they are civilians and send them to our schools for training. [My Ex, attending Officer training at Fort Sill, just after ‘Nam said they had Israelis and Arabs in his OTC classes. — GC]
Also favorite training sites were done under World Wildlife Fund [WWF.] The World Bank would lend money to African countries [they knew they could not pay back.] Get them on the hook and tell them, we will forgive that loan for ‘preservations’. [Property the WWF turned into ‘Wildlife Preserves’] Thus they would get large swaths of wooded land and set up Gladio Training camps. So every time you see WWF know it is a front organization for GLADIO. They did this a lot with non-profits, that is just the biggest one…
Again, they coerced a lot of African countries to give up a lot of their land, but again they think of them as slaves and that they do not matter.
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Discussion of it happening here in the USA follows. For example Alpha mentions a major bicycling event near a national park where a lot of people go missing. The colonel said to google Missing and National Park. There are like 1,200 people who have just disappeared. (1:23:00)
At 1:28:24 chat comment – HelpMeRhonda
At least 1,180 people were reported missing from US national parks between 2018 and 1st 2 months of 2023, according to records obtained by The Post via a Freedom of Information Act request – Jun 14, 2023
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Alpha then talks about GANGS. He mentions a gang conference he went to as a LEO and also about MS 13.
ALPHA: Go and research how MS 13 started. And it is OUR DELTA FORCE! It is a Delta force operator that trained that gang to be what it is. But the scary part is, in this conference, IT IS SATANIC and WITCHCRAFT and RITUALS that come along with it. And the CRIMES! If you think the cartels are scary? These, these people, the crimes they have been a part of? It will keep you up at night. And then we hear all of a sudden, they have become the hitmen of all the different cartels. All the different gangs. And we hear their coming across our southern border… It is a concern for me….
COLONEL TOWNER: Everything you said is SO CRITICAL! Many if not all of the CARTELS ARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE CIA. IT IS THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST TODAY. The same thing with the point you made with the Delta Force guy and the creation of gangs.
My worry is not the obvious which is what you talked about, with the people coming across the border. I think that is what they want us to focus on. MY WORRY IS WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN HERE AND IS TRAINED. They will use these people [illegals] as they did with the 9-11 hijackers. They wanted us to believe it was radical Islamists because they became the new boogeyman after the communists fell. So what ever they want you to believe? It is not that.
They are importing people to disguise the ones who are already here. If an event happens, they will try to frame a new person, but it will not be a new person. It will be units who are already here, trained to do what they are going to do. It will not be random. (1:26:00 – 1:30:00)
Summation of OPERATION IN A NUTSHELL: Since 1948, Everything they tell THE PEOPLE, without exception, IS A LIE!
I sure hope Q is on our side and that POTUS Trump is ‘well insulated’ and ‘Has it ALL!’
Precisely…um…(looks up hours left)…(smacks forehead)
Never mind. Trump is President!
No more “Once and Future” He’s the PRESENT President!
We have somehow survived the last four years. Some faced jail–they have now been freed.
And one man faced bullets;
From THIS:
To THIS:
And he’s off to a roaring start, signing executive orders, some of which are HUGE in their impact. Immediate cessation of DEI. Declaration of a national emergency on the Border. Declaring the cartels terrorist organizations. Freeing up energy production (though nothing was said aloud about using The (strong nuclear) Force).
Alas Holder is still at large.
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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.”
VICTORY!!!
How many times during the past four years have we calmed ourselves by knowing that, in the end, God wins . . . and therefore, so do we? Keeping the fact that God wins in our minds was a required survival tactic as evidenced during these past four years by the many, many times that “God Wins” was mentioned by posters in the face of the incomprehensible and evil actions perpetrated by the current administration. Yes, in spite of it all, God does win . . . and so do we.
The Bible assures us that God and His Son Jesus are Victors and that believers can share in their victories: “But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57).
Victory ultimately belongs to the Lord our God (1 Samuel 17:47). Since the days of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, whenever God’s people depended on Him alone, He gave them victory over their enemies (Exodus 15). Old Testament prophets consistently pointed to a future Savior who would bring the fullest expression of God’s triumph: “Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zechariah 9:9; see also Psalm 110:1). We know these prophecies refer to Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah, who has overcome the world (John 16:33).
Jesus won the supreme victory at the cross. Sin was atoned for, and the power of sin and death was broken (see John 12:31 and 1 Peter 2:24). After Christ’s crucifixion and burial, He rose from the dead three days later, and now we share that victory. Satan thought he had won the ultimate contest with the death of Christ. Instead, that death released our chains, set us free from the prison of sin, and disarmed the supernatural powers of evil: “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross” (Colossians 2:13–15).
The key to achieve victory is faith in Christ: “For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God” (1 John 5:4–5; see also Romans 8:37). The first step to victory in Jesus is accepting Christ as Savior. We receive the Lord by grace through faith, and we live in His victory by grace through faith as well. Our salvation is a gift of God’s grace, and our victory is a gift of God’s grace (Ephesians 2:4–8; Galatians 3:3).
The victory that Jesus shares with us includes victory over the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). Our Lord’s triumph over temptation and sin (Hebrews 4:15; see also Matthew 4:1–11) has become our victory as well: “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires” (Galatians 5:24; see also Romans 5:20–21). The apostle John elaborates: “But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work” (1 John 3:5–8).
Jesus has overcome Satan and the powers of evil (John 14:30; 16:11; Mark 1:23–27; Luke 4:33–36), and He shares that victory with us. Jesus says, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you” (Luke 10:18–19; see also Ephesians 1:21–22). The writer of Hebrews explains that Jesus took on flesh and blood and shared in our humanity “so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death” (Hebrews 2:14–15). We need not fear death or the devil because we share in Jesus Christ’s victory over them (Acts 2:24; Romans 6:9; 8:38–39; 2 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 1:18).
As long as we remain in this fallen world, we’ll still have struggles to overcome and battles to fight. At times we will fall and fail. But we continue to get back up, asking God to equip us with His grace and power to overcome (2 Corinthians 12:9). As believers, we fight our battles in the spiritual realm, on our knees: “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds” (2 Corinthians 10:3–4). God has given us spiritual armor to protect us from the powers of darkness that wage war against us (Ephesians 6:10–20).
Our victory is real and attainable now because our Lord Jesus has defeated Satan and every evil power of the world. We achieve victory by resting in Christ (Matthew 11:28) and trusting Him to triumph for us (Romans 5:17). While we remain on earth, the Lord reigns victorious through those who have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness and translated into His glorious kingdom of light (1 Peter 2:9). However, a day will come when the victories of Jesus will be fully realized and celebrated in the new heavens and earth: “He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. The LORD has spoken” (Isaiah 25:8).
2 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes until the Once And Future President, Donald John Trump, is restored to the office that was Rightfully his the last four years.
Not that I’m counting, mind you.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
Our Turn
[Yes, I did this one ten weeks ago. But it was too cathartic to just throw away.]
We’ve often seen that quote from David Plouffe: “It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again.”
This was of course a declaration of intent to annihilate not just Trump, but rather “his kind.”
You know what? I think we should flip it around. David Plouffe’s kind should be destroyed thoroughly and their kind must not rise again.
What is Plouffe’s kind? I suppose it depends on who’s talking and what they are thinking of in particular. Well, at the moment it’s me talking and I am thinking of the sort of maggot who is attracted to politics not to better his world but rather so that he can wield power over others, or line their pockets with “free” money. Often these people end up as what Ayn Rand called “pull peddlers,” receiving money in exchange for using their connections to do favors.
This type is parasitic. Utterly parasitic. And they should be destroyed thoroughly and not allowed to rise again.
The bad news is we will never eradicate them. Useless turds who can’t do anything productive will always be with us. As will the outright sociopaths.
Of course they find Trump to be their enemy. And of course they find us to be their enemy. If we won’t simply lie down and let our “betters” have their way with us, we’re a problem, we’re something to be got rid of. And of late, we haven’t lain down without a protest, as we are “supposed” to do. Dang uppity Garbage Deplorables! We don’t know our place!!!
The good news is we can provide far fewer niches for these parasites. The niches come into being when something that people formerly did of their own free will is taken over by the government; then every aspect of that activity becomes a political football.
Take for instance education. Since the government runs it, if you don’t like what’s being done, you have to form a political movement and try to work your way around the maggots embedded in the bureaucracy. If education were private, then if you didn’t like what they were doing to your child, you’d take your money and your child elsewhere. And people who didn’t even have school-age children presently would have no voice–and not have to pay money. Making it a government “thing” turned it into a political thing, and the maggots began to swarm.
So we wreck them by seriously cutting government and giving them fewer places to exist. Among all of the other benefits, the body politic would have fewer sociopaths and parasites in it.
People like Plouffe are the same type, but they are the full-on political hacks who set policy, rather than implement it. They’re just as bad if not worse; they help government grow, and steer it into serving its own ends, rather than those of the people it is supposed to be serving.
The Deep State is nothing more than a government that serves its own ends.
And we have had enough of this.
They must be destroyed thoroughly, and their kind must not rise again.
This election wasn’t the end, it was the beginning. There are millions of these malignancies in this country and we’ve just defeated two of them. Keep pushing. Now we can go after them wholesale.
It’s our turn.
Our turn.
Our turn.
OUR TURN!
You stole the 2020 election. You’ve mocked and ridiculed and put people in prison and broken people’s lives because you said this thing was stolen. This entire phony thing is getting swept out. Biden’s getting swept out. Kamala Harris is getting swept out. MSNBC is getting swept out. The Justice Department is getting swept out. The FBI is getting swept out. You people suck, okay?! And now you’re going to pay the price for trying to destroy this country.
And I’m going to tell you, we’re going to get to the bottom of where the 600,000 votes [are]. You manufactured them to steal this election from President Trump in 2020. And think what this country would be if we hadn’t gone through the last four years of your madness, okay? You don’t deserve any respect, you don’t deserve any empathy, and you don’t deserve any pity.
And if anybody gives it to you, it’s Donald J. Trump, because he’s got a big heart and he’s a good man. A good man that you’re still gonna try to put in prison on the 26th of this month. This is how much you people suck. Okay? You’ve destroyed his business thing. And he came back.
He came back in the greatest show of political courage, I think, in world history. Like, [Roman statesman] Cincinnatus coming back from the plough [returning to politics to rescue the Roman Republic]. He’s the American Cincinnatus. And what he has done is a profile in courage. We’ve had his back. But I got to tell you, he may be empathetic. He may have a kind heart. He may be a good man. But we’re not. Okay? And you deserve, as Natalie Winters says, not retribution, justice. But you deserve what we call rough Roman justice, and we’re prepared to give it to you.
Steve Bannon, on election night
OUR TURN!!
OUR TURN!!!
OUR TURN!!!
OUR TURN!!!
January 6 Tapes?
Paging Speaker Johnson…this is your conscience calling you out on broken promises.
For all your high talk about your Christian moral background…you’re looking less and less like you have any kind of moral background.
If You are a Patriot and Don’t Loathe RINOs…
Let’s talk about RINOs, and why they are the lowest form of life in politics.
Many patriots have been involved with politics, often at the grassroots, for decades. We’ve fought, and fought, and fought and won the occasional illusory small victory.
Yet we can’t seem to win the war, even when we have BIG electoral wins.
I am reminded of something. The original Star Trek had an episode titled Day of the Dove. It was one of the better episodes from the third season, but any fan of the original series will tell you that’s a very low bar. Still, it seems to get some respect; at a time when there were about 700 episodes of Star Trek in its various incarnations out there, it was voted 99th best out of the top 100.
In sum, the plot is that an alien entity has arranged for 39 Enterprise crew, and 39 Klingons, to fight each other endlessly with swords and other muscle-powered weapons. The entity lives off of hostile emotions, you see and it wants a captive food source. (The other 400 or so Enterprise crew are trapped below decks and unable to help.) Each side has its emotions played and amplified by the alien entity; one Enterprise junior officer has false memories implanted of a brother who was killed by Klingons. The brother didn’t even exist.
Even people killed in a sword fight miraculously heal so they can go do it again.
The second best line of the episode is when Kang, the Klingon captain, notes that though they have won quite a number of small victories including capturing Engineering, can’t seem to actually finally defeat the Enterprise crew. He growls, “What power is it that feeds our battle yet starves our victory?*”
Indeed. He may have been the bad guy, but his situation should sound familiar.
We are a majority in this country. We have a powerful political party in our corner. There is endless wrangling.
And yet,
What power is it that feeds our battle yet starves our victory?
In our case, that power is the RINOs in our midst. They specialize in caving when on the verge of victory. Think of Obamacare’s repeal failing…by one Republican vote. Think of the way we can never seem to get spending under control (and now our entire tax revenue goes to pay interest on the debt; anything the government actually does now is with borrowed money).
We have a party…that refuses to do what we want it to do, and that refusal is institutionalized. If you’ve been involved with GOP politics, but haven’t seen this, it’s because you refuse to see it. Or because you are part of the problem yourself. (If so, kindly gargle some red fuming nitric acid to clear the taste of shit out of your mouth, and let those not part of the problem alone so they can read this.)
We fight to elect people, who then take a dive when in office. But it’s not just the politicians in office, it’s the people behind the scenes, the leaders of the national, state and county branches of the party. Their job is to ensure that real patriots never get onto the general election ballot. They’re allowed a few failures…who can then become token conservatives who will somehow never manage to win (Jordan), or can be compromised outright (Lauren Boebert?).
That way it doesn’t actually matter who has a congressional majority. I remember my excitement when the GOP took the Senate in 1980. But all that did was empower a bunch of “moderate” puddles of dog vomit like…well for whatever reason forty years later the most memorable name is Pete Domenici. And a couple of dozen other “moderates” who simply had no interest in doing what grassroots people in their party–those same grassroots people who had worked so hard to elect them–wanted them to do.
Oh, they’ll put up a semblance of a fight…but never win. And they love it when we fight the Dems instead of fighting them. Just like that alien entity, whose motto surely was “Let’s you and him fight. It’ll be delicious!”
If you think about it, your entire political involvement has come to nothing because of these walking malignant tumors.
That should make you good and mad.
The twenty five who blocked Jordan, and the hundred people who took that opportunity to stab Jordan in the back in the secret ballot should make you good and mad.
I’ll close this with another example of RINO backstabbing, an infuriating one close to home.
In my county, the GOP chair is not a RINO. She got elected when the grassroots had had enough of the RINOs. Unfortunately the state organization is full of RINOs, and the ousted county RINOs have been trying to form a new “Republican Party” and get the state GOP to recognize them as the affiliate. I’m honestly amazed it hasn’t happened yet.
In other words those shitstains won’t just leave when they get booted out; they’ll try to destroy what they left behind. It’s an indication that they know we know how important that behind-the-scenes party power is.
So they must be destroyed. That’s the only way they’ll ever stop.
We cannot win until the leeches “on our side” get destroyed.
What power is it that feeds our battle yet starves our victory?*
We know it. What is going to be done about it?
*NOTE: The original line was actually “What power is it that supports our battle yet starves our victory.” I had mis-remembered it as feeds. When I checked it, it sure enough was “supports” and that’s what I originally quoted. On further reflection, though, I realized my memory was actually an improvement over the reality, because feeds is a perfect contrast with starves. I changed it partway through the day this originally posted, but now (since this is a re-run) it gets rendered this way from the start.
If one must do things wrong, one should do them wrong…right.
RINOs an Endangered Species? If Only!
According to Wikipoo, et. al., the Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is a critically endangered species. Apparently two females live on a wildlife preserve in Sudan, and no males are known to be alive. So basically, this species is dead as soon as the females die of old age. Presently they are watched over by armed guards 24/7.
Biologists have been trying to cross them with the other subspecies, Southern White Rhinoceroses (Rhinoceri?) without success; and some genetic analyses suggest that perhaps they aren’t two subspecies at all, but two distinct species, which would make the whole project a lot more difficult.
I should hope if the American RINO (Parasitus rectum pseudoconservativum) is ever this endangered, there will be heroic efforts not to save the species, but rather to push the remainder off a cliff. Onto punji sticks. With feces smeared on them. Failing that a good bath in red fuming nitric acid will do.
But I’m not done ranting about RINOs.
The RINOs (if they are capable of any introspection whatsoever) probably wonder why they constantly have to deal with “populist” eruptions like the Trump-led MAGA movement. That would be because the so-called populists stand for absolutely nothing except for going along to get along. That allows the Left to drive the culture and politics.
Given the results of our most recent elections, the Left will now push harder, and the RINOs will now turn even squishier than they were before.
I well remember 1989-1990 in my state when the RINO establishment started preaching the message that a conservative simply couldn’t win in Colorado. Never mind the fact that Reagan had won the state TWICE (in 1984 bringing in a veto-proof state house and senate with him) and GHWB had won after (falsely!) assuring everyone that a vote for him was a vote for Reagan’s third term.
This is how the RINOs function. They push, push, push the line that only a “moderate” can get elected. Stomp them when they pull that shit. Tell everyone in ear shot that that’s exactly what the Left wants you to think, and oh-by-the-way-Mister-RINO if you’re in this party selling the same message as the Left…well, whythefuckexactly are you in this party, you lying piece of rancid weasel shit?
Justice
It says “Justice” on the picture.
And I’m sure someone will post the standard joke about what the fish thinks about the situation.
But what is it?
Here’s a take, from a different context: It’s about how you do justice, not the justice that must be done to our massively corrupt government and media. You must properly identify the nature of a person, before you can do him justice.
Ayn Rand, On Justice (speaking through her character John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged):
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification—that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of shining metal, so you do not value a rotter above a hero—that your moral appraisal is the coin paying men for their virtues or vices, and this payment demands of you as scrupulous an honor as you bring to financial transactions—that to withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, and to withhold your admiration from their virtues is an act of moral embezzlement—that to place any other concern higher than justice is to devaluate your moral currency and defraud the good in favor of the evil, since only the good can lose by a default of justice and only the evil can profit—and that the bottom of the pit at the end of that road, the act of moral bankruptcy, is to punish men for their virtues and reward them for their vices, that that is the collapse to full depravity, the Black Mass of the worship of death, the dedication of your consciousness to the destruction of existence.
Ayn Rand identified seven virtues, chief among them rationality. The other six, including justice, she considered subsidiary because they are essentially different aspects and applications of rationality.
I’m sure enough of this that I put my money where my mouth is.
The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system. (This doesn’t necessarily include deposing Joe and Hoe and putting Trump where he belongs, but it would certainly be a lot easier to fix our broken electoral system with the right people in charge.)
Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2024 or 2026 is pointless 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 in the system is not part of the plan, you have no plan.
This will necessarily be piecemeal, state by state, which is why I am encouraged by those states working to change their laws to alleviate the fraud both via computer and via bogus voters. If enough states do that we might end up with a working majority in Congress and that would be something Trump never really had.
Martin Luther King
The 20th is also Martin Luther King day…a circumstance I find handy this year; it’s a “Floating Holiday” where I work. I can take that day, or take it some other time. I chose this time to take it on Monday.
Of course I’m doing it because it will be cold, and because it’s the end of the Brandon Administration.
But I’ll still say something about MLK. He was a decidedly mixed individual. As are we all. But I think he, and many others of his time, did something important and unpleasant; he (and those others) forced a recognition that even after the Civil War we were being hypocritical on the subject of equality under the law. Those people who descended from those who (shall we say) involuntarily migrated to what is now the United States were still getting the shitty end of the stick in many parts of this country, as a matter of law.
He was one hundred percent correct on that.
Unfortunately his successors have turned the point full circle and want a leg up from the law, supposedly to make up for the past mistreatment, but that can only lead to an endless round of back and forth. There are some signs that MLK himself had he not been killed (he would be turning 96 this year were he still alive), would have been right alongside the race baiters (which include some who were with him), other signs that he wouldn’t have.
But just as Thomas Jefferson penned these words, in spite of owning slaves, the words that eventually shamed us into abolishing the “peculiar institution”:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…
I’ll go with what Martin Luther King said…not all that far from where the Inauguration will take place:
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Emphasis mine. Judge people by the content of their character.
That is as it should be.
I see that, sometimes, on “our” side, at Trump rallies.
I see nothing but reverse racism on the Left. To them the world is defined by what one group does to another, some group must be on top shitting on everyone else. And it shows. There’s a false dichotomy in their thinking. Either white shits on black, or black shits on white. The way to recognize it as a false dichotomy, though, is not to gin up a third “group” to make it a trichotomy, or a fourth group to make it, what, a tetrachotomy? quadrichotomy? Is either of those actually a word? Gee maybe we can have a different group on top every week of the year at least until some jackass makes up a 53rd group! (Let’s leave aside the one or two day remainder you get from dividing 365(or 6) by 7. These are leftists studying critical race theory, not mathematicians.)
How about we do soemthing different? How about we work towards a system where the law shits on NO ONE except those who violate the rights of others?
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.
Gold went up nicely on Thursday, and dropped a bit on Friday but is still just over the 2700 “dollar” mark for the first time in a while. Silver didn’t kept up with those gains and so the gold-to-silver ratio keeps widening.
*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 Final Experiment: More Fallout
The desperate attempts by Flat Earthers to refute the Final Experiment continue.
It might be easier if they could agree on their attack. Is it A) irrelevant because lights in the sky won’t tell us anything about the shape of the Earth? Or B) filmed in a 360 degree studio so it’s fake? If A) is true B doesn’t matter, yet Eric Dubay the guru is going after B, and I’ve heard Flat Earth Dave go with A. (Flat Earth Dave by the way has often debunked a lot of the “it was faked” arguments including the claims that a chromakey glitch showed it was a green screen…when in fact it actually proved there was no green screen.)
We have a couple of videos by Dave McKeegan. These pretty much cover the gamut of ridiculous attempts to debunk TFE
So does this one, in Professor Dave style (which means he’s willing to be a bit insulting)
Before we begin this inspiring part of our signers of the Declaration of Independence series, I have one more note for the readers on the research involved in this series. Many of the historical accounts disagree with each other on specifics. For example some may have a person leaving a town for another in one year and others in a different year. Some may include career details in one place or another doing one one thing or another that are different than other accounts. Some of our subject signers left journals, letters and other accounts for posterity; while others left nothing, just the accounts of supporters and detractors. I have one account of a person dying in one year, but attending a gala later that same year. Details matter, however, in doing these summarized accounts of American Patriot lives going back over three centuries, I reserve the right to miss the mark in the minor details as I am working from other people’s sources and works. I consider numerous accounts before I write. I attempt to ferret through the details and determine what I believe best summarizes the truth and message learned from their lives. I also want to represent them as real people like all of us, not some gods whose actions or words cannot be questioned. After all, there is only the one I AM that holds that title.
It is now time for us to review the role of an important group of patriot trouble makers toward the British Crown. Their role is unquestioned in moving the needle toward independence for the colonists.
The Sons of Liberty
We started this series with John Hancock, a card carrying member of the Sons of Liberty if there ever was one. We can easily see how he would be associated with this loosely organized group of patriots who were antagonists to the Brits. He was proud of his role in the early days of the independence movement. To learn more about this group please read the link below.
Not much else needs said about them. You did not want to cross them, they would make your life miserable if you were an American loyalist Tory or sympathizer. They were some of the most important founding fathers of our nation. One Son of Liberty may have been the most important in the movement and I have briefly discussed him previously.
Samuel Adams
From the link above…
“The Sons’ most prominent leader was Samuel Adams, the son of a wealthy brewer who was more interested in radical rabble-rousing than commerce. Adams wrote his masters thesis at Harvard on the lawfulness of resisting British rule. While George Washington eventually led the war effort against the British, “the truth is that there might not have been a fight to begin with had it not been for the work of Sam Adams,” writes historian Les Standiford.”
Both Adams and Hancock were hated and feared by the Brits as will be discussed later in this story. Samuel Adams was so outspoken about independence that he put the world on notice while a student at Harvard, a college that was filled with loyalist students sent there by their aristocratic, Tory parents. It is no wonder that fellow average colonists who desired independence joined in with the Sons of Liberty’s exploits to push the Brits beyond their limits.
Samuel Adams was born in 1722 in Boston. He was the son of Samuel and Mary Adams, Sr. He was one of twelve children, however, only three survived past the age of three. His father was a wealthy merchant and deacon in the Puritan Church. His father became active in Boston politics and eventually rose to elected office in the MA House of Representatives. Integrity was instilled in the couple that passed to their son. Adams, Sr. was active in the town meetings and sided with the popular party, which was the precursor to the Whigs, or, Patriot party.
His parents hoped young Samuel would gravitate more toward ministry in the church, but as time passed Samuel became more involved in politics. After Harvard, Samuel became a partner in his father’s malthouse business. He was not a good businessman at all and it eventually was closed. During the period the local economy began experiencing a cash shortage. His father became involved with other business leaders in creating a local land bank that included the creation of paper currency in 1739 by using borrower mortgages as security. Most of the area citizens fully supported it, which concerned the loyalists. The aristocratic, Court Party held control over governance and used the Brits to dissolve the bank through an act of Parliament. Directors of the bank who included young Samuel’s father were held personally liable for all of the currency outstanding, which had to be repaid in gold and silver. Lawsuits continued over the years even after his father’s death. As Samuel dealt with them it remained a constant reminder to him of the untrustworthy Brits and loyalists, the Tories. It became fuel for his patriot fire.
Meanwhile Samuel’s interest and influence in politics and independence continued to grow. He was elected to a clerk position of the Boston market in 1747. To understand more about the market, Faneuil Hall, its origin and place in the American revolution, please read the link below.
At that point Samuel also assumed control over his family’s affairs when his father passed away a year later. A year after that he married Elizabeth Checkley, his pastor’s daughter. She bore them six children over the next seven years, but only two survived to adulthood. Elizabeth passed away with the stillbirth of their last child. Some years later he married Elizabeth Wells and they had no children.
As his prominence and popularity grew, in 1756 he was elected into the position of tax collector. The problem was he could not always force himself to collect taxes from some of the people. However, that did make him even more popular with the people. By 1765 the deficit in collections had risen significantly and become a governmental problem. His political opponents used it against him and by 1768 he was forced to pay a large judgment. Friends helped raise funds and a portion was written off. Yet, it did nothing to reduce his popularity with the people and the “popular party” of patriots.
The Brits had incurred huge debts in the winning of the French and Indian War. They looked to the colonies as a source of taxation to repay much of it, rationalizing their victory helped the colonies. Through the years leading up to the Declaration of Independence, Adams contested every move and interpretation taken by the Brits and loyalists. He led boycotts to counter. This led to confrontations over the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Townshends Act, and more. Many times his arguments and boycotts were successful. However, it did not stop the Brits from overreach. Finally, with the British occupation of Boston by four regiments of troops in 1768, Adams gave up any hope of reconciliation.
Adams continued to try to get the Brits to remove their regiments without full success. This culminated in the Boston Massacre of 1770 when five colonists were killed. Through his efforts this led to the remaining regiments being withdrawn from Boston even if the Brits resisted allowing trials of their murdering soldiers. In a compromise he arranged for his cousin, John Adams, to defend the accused to present a more balanced view of the hearings to both colonists and Brits. Six of the eight soldiers involved were acquitted of charges. The other two received reduced sentences for manslaughter with a simple branding on a hand.
Please note that despite many other depictions and representations, Samuel and John Adams were cousins, not brothers. They also became political opponents later in life.
The resolution of the Boston Massacre led to a “quiet” period of a couple of years. After losing an election for Register of Deeds, Samuel won another term to the MA House of Representatives. When the Brits took over the colonists’ role of paying the Governor, Lt. Governor and Superior Court Justices; Adams and supporters felt the Brits had overstepped their legal authority once again. Adams and associates devised a system of Committees of Correspondence to circulate information throughout the colony about the British activities. Loyalist Governor Hutchinson became concerned and entered into this discourse, which gave Adams an opening to make his points for the colonists and in support of independence. In mid 1773 Adams and associates seized the opportunity and published the widely circulated Boston Pamphlet that addressed colonist rights along with the past written statements from letters of the loyalist Governor to Adams. This effectively ended Hutchinson’s political career.
When Parliament passed the Tea Tax later in 1773 the colonies went into a rage due to the effect it would have on the economy of the colonies. This soon led to the often referenced Boston Tea Party and the Brits’ responses through the Coercive Acts. As they say, the rest is history; all of which Adams was in the middle of as a charismatic, rebel leader of the colonists along with John Hancock.
The events leading to the Revolutionary War began to happen at an increasing pace. After attending the First Continental Congress, Hancock and Adams decided to stay at Hancock’s Lexington home when they were informed by fellow patriots that British General Gage had been dispatched from Boston with troops for their capture. They escaped, but this move by Gage incited the American militia in Lexington and Concord to battle them in the start of the Revolutionary War.
As the Second Continental Congress met and the Declaration of Independence was introduced and signed by Adams and the others, he began a crusade against American loyalists. In a 1776 speech in Philadelphia, he went after all who sided with the Crown. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace,” Adams said. “We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.” A few years later he pushed for exiling all loyalists as well as the payment of reparations through confiscating their properties. He considered them traitors to the America he loved.
He helped draft the Articles of Confederation and in 1781 returned to Boston where he entered state politics. He was elected to the MA Senate, Lt. Governor and later Governor for three, one year terms after Hancock passed away. He remained a man of the people and supported free education for all including women, which was considered highly controversial. He tried to return to national politics as he had concerns about the soon to be enacted Constitution, but was not successful. In the end he signed along with Hancock to ratify the Constitution, which was approved by a narrow majority in MA. His influence began to wane and he lost a vote in 1796 for a potential VP position to his cousin, John Adams, on the Thomas Jefferson ticket. He was pleased when his cousin lost a run for POTUS four years later.
At that point he retired. He and his wife had no financial issues as he had received income from his surgeon son who had served in the Revolutionary War when he passed away at age 37. The couple had always lived modestly, so they had enough. He passed away in 1803 at the age of 81 from Essential Tremors that had plagued him the last decade of his life.
Samuel Adams was a political firebrand with Puritan ethics and integrity that influenced legions of moderate colonists to embrace independence. He had been deeply influenced in his younger years during his education and from literature that held the view and belief that all people are born with specific rights and that governments exist by consent of the people. It fit his worldview as a Puritan and patriot. This was imprinted even more deeply into his being when he observed what the Brits and American Tories did to the land bank. The resulting legal hardships it caused his father and later, himself, as he handled the family affairs after his father died were never forgotten. He wanted all Americans who sought independence to be free of the oppressors.
There may never have been a Revolutionary War and our independence without patriots such as Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty.
Charles Carroll
Seemingly entering the scene of patriots as a dignified wealthy aristocrat, Charles Carroll proved to have a steely resolve that was no less strong than that of John Hancock or Samuel Adams. Given his family’s background and circumstances one would think he would have sided with the Tories or otherwise taken a life of neutral, non-commitment to patriot causes. Perhaps his learned appreciation for all things French through the years influenced his future thoughts about British rule.
Charles “Charley” Carroll was born in Annapolis, MD in 1737 into a mega wealthy plantation family. At the time of the Revolution he was likely the wealthiest of all American colonists as he inherited a fortune of land and assets that was the equivalent of $375 million even then, the equivalent of multi billions today. His father’s side descended from Irish rulers and his mother’s side was English. Since they were Catholics, he attended Jesuit prep school until age 11 when he was sent to France where he was educated by Jesuits at St. Omer, France; at seminary in Rheims; as a graduate at the College of Louis the Grande in Bourges; as well as other studies in Paris and finally, an apprenticeship in law in London. He returned to Maryland in 1765 in the middle of the rancor of the Stamp Act that he adamantly opposed. He became involved immediately as his dignified manner and intelligence helped bring order to the response. He enthusiastically joined a group of patriots and fully supported independence even if it meant armed conflict. He made himself quite clear with the quote, “Neither my millions nor my writing will settle this just cause, but the bayonet will.”
Carroll was elected to represent Maryland on the 4th of July and was too late to vote for the Declaration, however he arrived in time to sign it. Since Carroll was a common surname, he signed it Charles Carroll of Carrollton. At which time he told Hancock, “Let there be no doubt there is only one Carrollton.” Throughout the period leading up to the signing Carroll had been a tireless promoter of independence and debated frequently with great eloquence and skill from his religious and law background. He represented Maryland within the Samuel Adams promoted Committees of Correspondence. Due to his fluency in the language he was chosen along with Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase and his cousin John Carroll to visit with French Canadian Catholics to seek assistance for the colonies. The effort was unsuccessful. This lack of success only strengthened his patriotic resolve.
He served on the Board of War during some of the darkest years for the colonies. He remained a staunch defender of George Washington as well as a close friend. Both were like-minded conservatives by nature from planters backgrounds and opposed the confiscation of Tory land that Samuel Adams and others proposed. They both fought against the enlistment of slaves into the army without there being adequate compensation to slave owners.
He served two years in the Continental Congress before returning to his native Maryland to assist in state government, where he was elected into the Maryland Senate and for a brief period as a U. S. Senator. He resigned the latter when he was prohibited by law from serving both roles as he much preferred serving his state. He did so in the MD Senate for nearly 25 years until retirement.
He was somewhat ambivalent about the issue of slavery. The Carroll family owned the most slaves of anybody at the start of the Revolution. He personally owned 400 – 500 at one point. Yet, he stated frequently his desire for slavery to end and even introduced a bill to gradually do so, which failed. Even with his beliefs on the issue he still did not release his own. In the later years of his life he supported and led the movement to return slaves to a free status in the nation of Liberia and other African nations.
He retired from public life and politics in 1801. He would occasionally be seen in ceremonial roles through the years. Much of his time was spent operating his many businesses. He lived the longest of all Declaration signers and passed away at age 95 in 1832.
His story could have stopped there. Most historical accounts of him do.
However, at this point in my research I noticed little had been stated about Carroll’s personal and family life in historical accounts other than his early years and his wife’s name, who passed away sometime around the end of the Revolutionary War. I searched deeper and found two sites dedicated to telling more of his personal story. The one quoted and linked below probably reveals why many historians did not go “there”…
“His family had become a wreck during his continued absences. His wife was addicted to opium before her death and his son, Charles Carroll of Homewood, soon became a miserable alcoholic. Carroll tried to intervene to save his family, but more often than not, his efforts were futile.
His record as a slave owner and early abolitionist is a testament to his faith. He sold slaves, but avoided breaking up families, and he offered weekly religious instruction. He once presented a bill in the Maryland Senate for the gradual abolition of slavery which required all slave girls to be educated and then freed at twenty-eight so they could in turn educate their husbands and children. When several proposals for abolition failed, he joined the American Colonization Society and in 1830 was elected president of that organization. Three older slaves kneeled at his bedside the night of his death, practicing the Catholic faith his religious instruction provided them.“
On his return to Maryland in 1765, Charles Carroll was given a 10,000-acre land tract called Carrollton, located in Frederick County. Although he would never live there, Carroll added the word “Carrollton” to his signature to distinguish himself from other Charles Carrolls. In 1768, he married his cousin, Mary “Molly” Darnall, and began major improvements to his family’s urban home and gardens in Annapolis. They had seven children, only three of whom lived to adulthood. Charles, their only son, would later live at Homewood, now located on the Baltimore campus of Johns Hopkins University.
The Carrolls were busy and gracious hosts to such dignitaries and governmental leaders as George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. The house and grounds were the scenes for many social events, “humble feasts” and after-the-races dinners. Politics kept the family busy through the Revolutionary War and in 1783, the Annapolis house and grounds were the sites of the Official State Celebration for Peace and Independence:
“Elegant and plentiful dinner provided for the celebration of Peace on Carroll’s Green; … sheep, calves, and whole ox were roasted, liquor in proportion … A convenient, extensive building was erected sufficient for the accommodations of many hundreds. Patriotic toasts were drunk, each attended with thirteen cannon. After dinner at night, the Statehouse, a superb building, was beautifully and magnificently illuminated and an elegant entertainment given to the ladies at the ball-room …” April 24, 1783, Maryland Gazette
No person, even the mega wealthy, is exempt from toil, trouble, and personal issues in the struggle of living well. Charles Carroll was another legendary patriot who overcame many challenges and America was the better for it. Despite being raised in wealth, Samuel Adams battled through numerous hardships that would have destroyed lesser men and lived in very modest conditions in retirement with serious physical limitations and far less popularity.
These men, their families, and supporters serve as reminders that freedom is not free for us. Do you count yourself as a modern day Son or Daughter of Liberty? We the People need you.
The above free image of a handwritten letter from 1889 is courtesy of Colourbox and Google Images.
Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As this post speaks of the disasters of COVID-19 and of the COVID-19 BTI (Bioweapon Toxin Injections, aka the “vaccines”), it is dedicated to the memory of Yours Truly’s “fully vaccinated and boosted” late brother, Sam; to her late cousin, Bill; and to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have passed away from the negative effects (direct or indirect) of the COVID-19 “vaccines” they had in the their bodies. However, the discussion is not limited to what is presented today: It is an Open Thread.
There are Important Wolf Moon Notifications, the Rules of our late, good Wheatie, and certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here.
Herewith, the letter:
Dear Incoming President Donald J. Trump and Incoming Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
Greetings. This letter is from an independent researcher who has been writing about the COVID-19 virus and the COVID-19 “vaccines” for over four years.
The COVID-19 virus is, by now, a part of human life on this planet. It will continue to mutate and infect humans. The failed COVID-19 “vaccines” were developed and mandated for use on humans to “prevent” infection by this virus. The COVID-19 “vaccines” are not “safe and effective” as they are claimed to be by the CDC, the FDA, and many medical organizations. In fact, these injectables induce thousands of types of medical conditions; can aggravate existing medical conditions; re-establish previously-controlled medical conditions; induce COVID-19 infection; and more, among those who have COVID-19 “vaccines” in their bodies. For further information, please see the Appendix 1. List of Adverse Events of Special Interest section of the following document, given to the FDA by Pfizer-BioNTech on 30 April 2021, regarding the company’s modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” BNT162b2: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf, “5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) Received Through 28-Feb-2021.”
It is now known that the COVID-19 virus was a lab-created biological weapon (bioweapon); and that the COVID-19 “vaccines”are lab-created and -enhanced biological weapons (bioweapons.) There were, and are, numerous entities and persons involved in the creation of this virus and these “vaccines” that must now be brought to justice for their activities. Among these activities was the deliberate withholding of vital information from you, President Trump, as then-President of United States, during “Operation Warp Speed”, which was part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in your first administration. Please refer to: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024.12.04-SSCP-FINAL-REPORT-ANS.pdf, “After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward”, by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Chairman Brad Wenstrup, for more information regarding the development of the COVID-19 virus and of the COVID-19 “vaccines.”
To gain more knowledge regarding the disaster of the COVID-19 virus and the COVID-19 “vaccines”, please refer to: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/game-over-medicare-data-shows-the, “GAME OVER: Medicare data shows the COVID vaccines increase your risk of dying”, by Steve Kirsch, 2 February 2023; and, also:
The following website lists links to contracts between the United States government and Pfizer-BioNTech related to the COVID-19 issue: www.keionline.org/covid-contracts, “COVID-19 Contracts.” These contracts involve the Department of Defense; the Department of Health and Human Services; the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR); the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA); the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID.) There are also links to contracts between the United States government and other companies related to COVID-19. These include companies such as, Glaxo-Smith-Kline; Johnson & Johnson; Moderna; and Novavax, among many others.
The following paper details how the dangerous lipid nanoparticles in the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” spread the ingredients of these “vaccines” throughout the body, inducing changes body-wide, particularly in the heart: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02528-1, “Nanocarrier imaging at single-cell resolution across entire mouse bodies with deep learning”, Hendrik Dietz, et al., 14 January 2025. Please see the image of the Abstract from this paper, below:
Please also see the image below, from the blog post by Dr. Jessica Rose, PhD, which discusses the above paper (https://jessicar.substack.com/p/lnp-spike-mrna-induction-of-changes, “LNP spike mRNA induction of changes in proteins related to vasculature formation and maintenance (collagen) in the heart”, 15 January 2025):
President Trump and Mr. Kennedy, Jr.: The double disaster of the lab-created bioweapon called the COVID-19 virus, and the disaster of the lab-created and -enhanced bioweapons called the COVID-19 “vaccines”, must not ever be allowed to occur again. The entities and persons involved in the creation of this double disaster must be held accountable. In addition: The use of the COVID-19 “vaccines” must be stopped immediately, for all age groups, until complete, detailed, and proper clinical trials are held regarding these products, with all data fully collected, analyzed, and published for the public to see.And,President Trump: Mr. President, it is also incredibly important that those who deliberately withheld from you, or minimized to you, information that you needed to know during “Operation Warp Speed” in your previous administration, be held accountable.
It is also imperative that all medical professional organizations, state medical licensing boards, and specialty medical certification granting organizations, which currently require their applicants, licensees, and certification holders, to be COVID-19 “vaccinated”, to use only FDA-approved prophylactics and/or treatments for COVID-19, and to urge these products on their patients, be enjoined to end these requirements. Furthermore, access to, and use of, prophylactic and/or treatment options for COVID-19 that are safe and effective, such as, Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Quercetin, Zinc, and Vitamin D, must become available to all persons, including to persons with COVID-19 infection, whether they are hospitalized or not. In addition, medical professionals who choose to treat patients with the products listed above must not become subject to “professional discipline” protocols, or to have their License to Practice Medicine and/or their specialty medicine certifications restricted or revoked.
With Peace, Good Energy, and great Respect, from an independent COVID-19 researcher,
Before we go farther, I want to inform readers about the sourcing of my information, which should have been done in the opening story. All of the content is in the public record and accessible via the internet. As a result I am not listing the individual sources in my stories with one exception. I am also utilizing a special edition insert from The Sun newspaper of the Conway/Myrtle Beach area of SC from the 1990’s titled “The 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence”. While on vacation there about 30 years ago I picked up this wonderful supplement to that newspaper and retained it in my files. It has been very helpful.
Our first three American patriot heroes were from the colonies of Massachusetts, New York and South Carolina. In our minds we can picture them in the assembly of many others from the colonies who were there to discuss their situations and the possible path forward. As they gathered there would be small group breakouts and much discussion, laughter, contentiousness, toasting, yawns, speech making, anger, joking, and even prayer. We tend to forget they were people just like us. Some slept well and others did not. Some were constipated, had colds, were stroke victims, walked with canes and so on. Some were healthy, near death, or somewhere in between. Some had alcohol addictions or drank socially while others abstained. Some had personality disorders. Some were loud braggarts and others were humble in spirit. Some were hawks and others were doves. They were all adult ages. There were the wealthy and those of more modest means. Some were reconciliatory toward the Brits and others could not rest until the last one on American soil was dead or back in England. Most missed their families, friends and life’s work at home while doing the work of We the People. They all had concerns and fears.
Most importantly, they all knew the magnitude of what they were doing.
When it came time for making decisions on the direction of the colonies and the formation of the new nation they were all focused on the task at hand to achieve consensus. As you will learn, many times the votes were split between the representatives within a state. These votes had consequences back home and some lost reelection for voting in ways that were against the will of the people. For the Declaration and Constitution that followed the war’s conclusion to come to fruition required divine inspiration and a guiding hand. As a result, God’s wisdom is interwoven into the document intentionally. The participants knew they were dependent upon God’s providence to succeed as they were going against the most formidable opponent in the world that they knew all too well. They demonstrated that understanding by referencing God multiple times in the documents.
Americans – Who Are We?
It is such a basic question, yet, I am afraid most people cannot answer adequately. For this part and those to come we need to review a foundational truth about America and being an American citizen. In my opinion it is most accurately reflected in something written by the great, great grandson of the next patriot I will feature. You may or may not be familiar with it, although it should be something imprinted in our heads and hearts as Americans. It was presented and accepted by the U. S. House of Representatives in 1917. As you read the words that follow, you will sense the passion and commitment. The statements may appear familiar, similar to those you see and hear that are associated with the America First MAGA movement today. Anybody or anything that seeks to change the definition of the following must do so within Constitutionally provided confines. Which is why the globalist criminals and other enemies of our nation work to corrupt and circumvent the Constitution at every opportunity. So as you read transport yourself back in time to the origin of it and understand the words contained within are in their purest form, uncorrupted by current times.
The American’s Creed
I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.
Beginning at age 13 in the role of a page in the U. S. Capitol, Page had a 61 year career in public service. In the middle of that career at age 49 he entered the above Creed in a nationwide patriotism contest and won. He drew his inspiration and wording from a widevariety of documents including the Declaration, the preamble to the Constitution, and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
Patriot William Tyler Page probably did not know at that time that some political and business globalist leaders had taken steps to completely undermine the very foundation of America and its Constitution four years previous to his Creed being accepted by the House. We can only speculate on how many of those elected representatives were in on that treason and sedition that ensued over the next century. The Creed is inscribed on a bronze tablet and displayed in the Capitol. How many of our current elected officials and administrative staffers even know it exists, much less believe the foundational truths it states?
What if those words that were written over a century ago by a descendent of a patriot signer of the Declaration of Independence have become the current marching orders for our America First MAGA movement that is led by President Donald J. Trump? We know our roles are to restore the republic and the American Way. The Creed is representative of the American Way. It is with it in mind that we turn to learning more about other Declaration signers.
Mr. Page descended from…
Carter Braxton
Carter Braxton was born into wealth on the Newington Plantation in King and Queen County, VA, east of Richmond in 1736. His maternal grandfather, King Carter, was the wealthiest man in VA at the time. Carter went to the College of William & Mary in the state and returned to be a planter. He married into wealth as well, wedding first the niece, Judith Robinson, of the Speaker of the House of Burgesses in the state. She later died during the birth of their second child. After she passed away he journeyed to England for two years before returning and later marrying his second wife, Elizabeth Corbin, who was also from a family of wealth and governance in VA. He is known to have a minimum of 16 children from the two marriages.
When his older brother died in 1761, Braxton became the wealthiest man in Virginia and of all of the signers of the Declaration. His holdings were so large that even after selling off large amounts of land for the war effort he still owned over 12,000 acres of farmland and 165 slaves after the Revolutionary War ended. With more land than cash to fund operations, he sold off 3500 acres over the next half dozen years and gave away many of his slaves to other family members and farmers. By the time of his death he had sold off or gave away more land to the point he only owned about 3900 acres. He differed from the other grandsons of his maternal grandfather as he wanted to continue slavery while they did not.
During his life he became very involved in politics and served in various roles from The House of Burgesses to county sheriff to colonel of a local militia. Considered a moderate to conservative in politics he was personally conflicted about independence and the war. Prior to the Declaration he served as intermediary when the Brits stole gunpowder owned by the colonists in VA. He negotiated a compromise financial settlement between Patrick Henry and his father in law who was a loyalist in government, Corbin, to settle it without conflict. For many years he could work in both worlds of the colonists and Brits while trying to bring compromise and mediate disputes.
However, the time came when he had to choose.
When Peyton Randolph of VA died in 1775 and John Hancock stepped into his role as President of the Continental Congress, Braxton was chosen to replace Randolph. It was in that role in 1776 that he signed the Declaration. It was an act that he took despite misgivings. He felt it was premature and had issued a pamphlet of his views to counter those of John Adams in his “Thoughts on Government”. However, he valued the unity of the colonists and agreed in consensus with the other signers. He then returned to his home soon afterwards and resumed roles in VA government, politics and with his plantation holdings.
No serious historian would question his commitment to the war efforts after signing. He gave and loaned a large amount of his wealth to the effort. During the war he lost half of his shipping interests and racked up large war debts that he struggled to repay. At one point he was even censured by the Continental Congress when his men illegally seized a neutral Portuguese vessel. He was constantly involved in business disputes and lawsuits. He basically was a royal pain in the azz from life’s challenges. The Brits inflicted great damage to many of his plantation holdings. His own business operations practices also created hardships as he made many mistakes. After the war he eventually moved to Richmond and more modest housing as he worked through his many financial mishaps. It is there where he is believed to have died after suffering a stroke that paralyzed him in 1797 at the age of 61. He was buried at his beloved Chericoke Plantation that is still owned by his descendants today.
He had outlived all five of his sons. However, there were many grandchildren that were produced from his children. A number of his descendants fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. A great grandson, John W. Stevenson served terms in the U. S House of Representatives, as a Senator, and as Governor of KY.
The years that followed his death have helped enhance his legacy. He is now seen as instrumental in winning the war, that his financial commitment to the cause was critical to the victory. During the gunpowder theft scandal it was his negotiation that kept Patrick Henry and men from engaging in a poorly thought out attack that would have caused the destruction of the town in the British response. In much the same manner he acted as a moderate to negotiate a resolution over unpopular duty taxes charged by the British before the war in VA.
Braxton was sympathetic toward the British and their interests often, but would never be considered a loyalist. He wanted to exhaust all avenues of compromise before resulting to more extreme measures. It is in that willingness to negotiate and seek common ground that he excelled. He became a legendary American hero despite being a large slave owner because he was willing to put all of his wealth on the line and work in government roles for the America he loved.
Thomas McKean
This one will take awhile. The historian and media focus seems to be on other founding fathers more often. But there are some real jewels for those who enjoy researching parallels and interconnections like I do. Hold on to your hats.
Thomas McKean was born in New London, PA in 1734. His father immigrated to America in 1720 and was a tavern owner. Thomas’ mother, Letitia, passed away when he was still a child in 1742. This led to his father becoming an alcoholic and incapable of raising their three children, so Thomas’ sister went to live with an uncle and aunt while he and his older brother, Robert, were taken into a school operated by Presbyterian minister Francis Alison in New Castle, DE. It was there he grew in all aspects of being a boy as well as in his studies. A noted Latin scholar, Rev. Alison was a leader of the Old Side (order and tradition) versus New Side (Great Awakening/Whitefield) struggle within the Presbyterian Church during the period. With the two sides reconciling in 1758, Rev. Alison continued to take the Old Side interpretation of theology.
At this point it is important to note that Thomas McKean is not the only signer of the Declaration of Independence that directly studied under Rev. Francis Alison in New Castle. It seems signers George Read and James Smith were his students as well. In addition the Secretary of the Continental Congress, Charles Thomson, also studied under Rev. Alison. Their foundational understanding of life and its application as well as education were rooted in the mentorship and teachings of one of the greats of the Presbyterian faith.
Funny, those truths never seem to make it into many of the historical accounts, publications and media reports about the clear interconnections of many of our patriot founders and their adherence to Christian principles in how they led and governed our nation. Rev. Alison was also a noted leader in the Philadelphia Synod of the American Presbyterian Church. He was a close friend of Benjamin Franklin who took a special assignment from same to assist in teaching and the development of the College of Philadelphia, which is now known as Ivy League school Penn. This is the school that educated eight future signers of the Declaration and twelve future signers of the Constitution, including Gouvenor Morris, the brother of Lewis Morris we discussed in the previous part. See link below.
Rev. Alison was a defender of Presbyterian theology in opposition to the influence of the Church of England. He stood with both feet firmly planted with American patriots. Finally, he was the founder of New Ark Academy that eventually merged into the institution that later became the University of Delaware. It is clear that Rev. Alison was a man of great accomplishment and value for the kingdom of God as well as this nation.
Among other connections through the years there is a major current connection, Donald J. Trump. The same Donald Trump that attended Penn University and graduated from its Wharton School of Business in 1968. The same Donald Trump whose mother was a Gaelic speaking Scottish Presbyterian who had immigrated to the States in 1930 and married Donald’s father, Fred, in 1936 at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church with its Old Side theology and connections decades before to member, Andrew Carnegie.
Fred Trump was already established as a real estate developer in the Queens area. Mary Anne MacLeod Trump became a naturalized citizen in 1942. Donald and all of his siblings were raised in the Old Side Presbyterian faith. A Christian worldview that has been expanded with his political career as POTUS that has introduced him to more evangelical elements of Christianity that would have common interests with the Presbyterian New Side and George Whitefield. Benjamin Franklin had commissioned a great preaching hall at the school where he wanted his close friend Whitefield to preach while there at Penn. Until 2020, Penn displayed a statute of Whitefield on its grounds. They placed it in storage to accommodate the woke cancel culture at that point.
Is it any wonder that Donald J. Trump is a flag loving American patriot with a historically rich Christian background? What Rev. Alison helped start at the behest of the American patriot great, Benjamin Franklin, is flowing through his veins. We see our heritage unfolding before us and why Donald Trump is willing to take a bullet for all of us. I dare say that no POTUS has ever worked harder for his country with more focus and dedication to American values than him.
Knowing this history, it is then no surprise that Thomas McKean was known to work harder and in more positions of service than any other signer of the Declaration. He learned at the feet of a master, which continued into the practice of law. After he finished school with Rev. Alison in 1750 he left and moved in with his uncle, John Finney, a wealthy attorney. He studied law there and passed the Delaware bar four years later. In 1753 he married his first wife, Mary Borden of Bordentown. Once again we find connections to the Revolutionary War era with local Bordentown resident Francis Hopkinson signing the Declaration along with Thomas Paine living there. Thomas McKean and his wife had six children together in the years that followed until her passing in 1763. A year later Thomas reconnected with a woman from his youth, Sarah Armitage, who was a toddler friend before he had been taken in by Rev. Alison. They married and moved to Philadelphia where they had four children together.
McKean was active in many roles throughout the region that ranged from law to holding government offices as well as in the military. He identified as a Country Party member in Delaware that supported independence from the British. The Court Party were loyalists. McKean’s family arrived from Britain as Irish Presbyterian refugees known as Scotch-Irish (Scots-Irish). The slogan “no taxation without representation ” originated with northern Irish Presbyterians and Catholics who were not allowed to vote in Parliament. McKean became a noted leader and represented Delaware in the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 along with Caesar Rodney. This work eventually led to the Continental Congress accepting the recommendation of McKean on voting procedures. The Congress of the Articles of Confederation adopted the practice and as a result, the young nation established the value of the equality of states in the composition of the U. S. Senate.
Despite living in Philadelphia, McKean remained a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congress representing Delaware. When it came time to vote for independence, the vote was split with McKean for it and George Read against it, which meant a tie for the state and no agreement. This led to McKean sending word to Caesar Rodney, the third DE delegate, to ride all night to come vote and break the tie. He did so and Delaware voted for independence. A few days later McKean joined the Fourth Battalion militia of the Philadelphia Associators that had been created by Benjamin Franklin, rising to the rank of colonel. The battalion joined in Gen. Washington’s defense in battles in New York and New Jersey. Having left soon after the vote to join the military, McKean did not sign the Declaration initially. It is speculated he signed after certification, possibly as late as 1781.
Not all went well in Delaware when other officials learned of the independence vote as the Court Party stood in direct opposition and all citizens were wary. McKean and Rodney were not reelected to their roles in the Congress as many sided with the loyalists or were fearful. That is until the Brits occupation of the colony/state after the Battle of Brandywine. Moods and attitudes changed quickly and McKean was reelected back to Congress in 1777. However, McKean and his family remained on the move as he was a top target of British forces. He and his family relocated five times in just a few years to stay out of their reach.
He served in Congress throughout the war and drafted The Articles of Confederation in 1783. He served in Delaware’s House of Assembly for several years beginning in 1776. For a brief period he was chosen as President of the Congress for an interim period. He also worked on keeping civic order and recruiting militia in Delaware during the period.
While all that was going on in the Congress and Delaware, McKean was also Chief Justice in Pennsylvania. Yup, he served in that capacity for 22 years. This service led to him being elected Governor of Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1808. He was noted for expanding free education and leading the local war effort in the War of 1812 at age 80. He spent his retirement in Philadelphia writing, talking politics, and enjoying the wealth he had gained with business and real estate investments. He passed away in 1817 at age 83 and is buried in Philadelphia. He was honored by many and there were probably just as many detractors at various points in his productive life. He had served an Assemblyman, Judge, Delegate, President of Congress, State Representative, Chief Justice, and Governor for a total of 36 terms over 42 years in three states (PA, DE, NJ), often holding office or acting in an official capacity in more than one state at the same time.
During his time as Chief Justice of PA, his decisions became part of the basis of the future ruling of Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury vs. Madison that freed the way for SCOTUS to overturn an unconstitutional law. It is a basic legal principle that applies to this day.
It is mind boggling that he survived all of his experiences and had time to be married and have ten children. I have linked a bullet point style summary of the man, events and his many accomplishments for those who want to know more.
Our government and judiciary today use principles and conduct business using practices that Thomas McKean established prior to, during and after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War. He is a legendary American patriot.
Conclusion
There is only time to discuss two signers and the great grandson of one to keep this part from running too long. As we read we need to think about their actual lives. For example, we can clearly see that Thomas McKean was a workaholic that operated at a furious pace with a quick, highly intelligent mind that could accomplish many great things. We also see that he did so with zero concern for the potential personal repercussions. He did what he thought was right and damn the consequences. He seem to have developed this disciplined approach to life as a child and young adult from the mentorship of Rev. Alison and his uncle.
With Carter Braxton we see a man of great wealth and historical standing in the colonies with loyalist friends. He felt pulled between two worlds, yet, knew that what the King and Brits were doing was wrong and harmful to the colonists and their families. He saw the need to act as an intermediary attempting to find compromise to help prevent harm to either side, but in the end chose the way of freedom for the nation even if he did see that as something his slaves might be worthy of as well. When he committed, it was all in and the treasury of America was the beneficiary when they needed it most to battle the oppressors. He died with far less than he had, having given away much to the war effort as well as to family members during the last years of his life.
Both of these signers were larger than life figures. They had many people who thought highly of them as well as many detractors. However, the war results hung in the balance and may never have tipped in the colonists favor without them.
There is ample history to write about concerning the signers’ achievements and failures. Whereas the great, great grandson of Carter Braxton, William Tyler Page, served as a humble civil servant in a support role of a government apparatus that grew into the one we MAGA types abhor today. He worked most of his career as a clerk in the House of Representatives with involvement in the U. S. Flag Association. He married, had five children and passed away at age 74 in 1942. Yet, he left Americans with something we should all ascribe to believe and be for as long as America exists. He is also an America patriot, just like so many people who serve America without fanfare today.
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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.”
It’s Revival We Need
We have read of wonderful revivals; history records the prodigies of the Reformation, and the marvellous way in which the gospel was spread during the first two centuries; we pine to see the like again, or to know the reason why it is not so, and with holy boldness it is our desire to come before the Lord and plead with Him, as a man pleadeth with his friend. May God help us so to do in the power of the Holy Ghost. – Charles Hadden Spurgeon
Revival refers to a spiritual reawakening from a state of dormancy or stagnation in the life of a believer. It encompasses the resurfacing of a love for God, an appreciation of God’s holiness, a passion for His Word and His church, a convicting awareness of personal and corporate sin, a spirit of humility, and a desire for repentance and growth in righteousness. Revival invigorates and sometimes deepens a believer’s faith, opening his or her eyes to the truth in a fresh, new way. It generally involves the connotation of a fresh start with a clean slate, marking a new beginning of a life lived in obedience to God. Revival breaks the charm and power of the world, which blinds the eyes of men, and generates both the will and power to live in the world but not of the world.
In the USA, the first revival, also called the First Great Awakening, produced an upsurge of devotion among Protestants in the 1730s and 1740s, carving a permanent mark on American religion. It resulted from authoritative preaching that deeply moved the church members with a convicting awareness of personal guilt and the awesome nature of salvation through Christ. Breaking away from dry ritual and rote ceremony, the Great Awakening made Christianity intensely personal to the average person, as it should be, by creating a deep emotional need for relationship with Christ.
Revival, in many respects, replicates the believer’s experience when he or she is saved. It is initiated by a prompting of the Holy Spirit, creating an awareness of something missing or wrong in the believer’s life that can only be righted by God. In turn, the Christian must respond from the heart, acknowledging his or her need. Then, in a powerful way, the Holy Spirit draws back the veil the world has cast over the truth, allowing the believers to fully see themselves in comparison to God’s majesty and holiness. Obviously, such comparisons bring great humility, but also great awe of God and His truly amazing grace (Isaiah 6:5). Unlike the original conversion experience that brings about a new relationship to God, however, revival represents a restoration of fellowship with God, the relationship having been retained even though the believer had pulled away for a time.
God, through His Holy Spirit, calls us to revival in a number of situations. Christ’s letters to the seven churches reveal some circumstances that may necessitate revival. In the letter to Ephesus, Christ praised the church for their perseverance and discernment, but He stated that they had forsaken their first love (Revelation 2:4-5). Many times as the excitement of acceptance to Christ grows cold, we lose the zeal that we had at first. We become bogged down in the ritual, going through the motions, but we no longer experience the joy of serving Christ. Revival helps restore that first love and passion for Christ. Revelation 2:10-11 refers to the church at Smyrna, which was suffering intense persecution. The cares and worries of life can beat us down, leaving us emotionally, physically, and spiritually exhausted. Revival can lift us up to new hope and faith.
Revelation 2:14-16 talks about the problem of compromise with the world and incorporating worldly values into our belief systems. Revival helps us to rightly discern what values we should hold. Revelation 2:20-23 discusses the problem of tolerating false teaching in our churches. We need to examine the messages that we hear and compare them to the message of the Bible. Revival helps us to find the truth. Revelation 3:1-6 describes a dead church, a church that goes through the motions outwardly, but there is nothing underneath. Here is a picture of nominal Christianity, outwardly prosperous, busy with the externals of religious activity, but devoid of spiritual life and power. Revival helps to resuscitate spiritual life. In Revelation 3:11, we are further warned against complacency, a life that does not bear fruit. All of these scenarios call for revival.
The evidence of revival is changed lives. Great movements toward righteousness, evangelism, and social justice occur. Believers are once again spending time in prayer and reading and obeying God’s Word. Believers begin to powerfully use their spiritual gifts. There is confession of sin and repentance.
Revive Us Again
We praise Thee, O God! For the Son of Thy love, For Jesus Who died, And is now gone above.
We praise Thee, O God! For Thy Spirit of light, Who hath shown us our Savior, And scattered our night.
All glory and praise To the Lamb that was slain, Who hath borne all our sins, And hath cleansed every stain.
All glory and praise To the God of all grace, Who hast brought us, and sought us, And guided our ways.
Revive us again; Fill each heart with Thy love; May each soul be rekindled With fire from above.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory. Hallelujah! Amen. Hallelujah! Thine the glory. Revive us again.
9 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes until the Once And Future President, Donald John Trump, is restored to the office that was Rightfully his the last four years.
SINGLE DIGITS!!! (Too bad we don’t use binary numbers.)
Not that I’m counting, mind you.
What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?
January 6 Tapes?
Where are the tapes? Anyone, Anyone? Bueller? Johnson??
Paging Speaker Johnson…this is your conscience calling you out on broken promises.
News Flash
Today, it is still the case that Joe Biden didn’t Win.
I realize that to some readers, this might be a shock; surely at some point things must change and Biden will have actually won.
But the past cannot actually be changed.
It will always and forever be the case that Joe Biden didn’t win.
And if you, Leftist Lurker, want to dismiss it as dead white cis-male logic…well, you can call it what you want, but then please just go fuck off. No one here buys that bullshit–logic is logic and facts are facts regardless of skin color–and if you gave it a moment’s rational thought, you wouldn’t either. Of course your worthless education never included being able to actually reason–or detect problems with false reasoning–so I don’t imagine you’ll actually wake up as opposed to being woke.
As Ayn Rand would sometimes point out: Yes, you are free to evade reality. What you cannot do is evade the consequences of evading reality. Or to put it concretely: You can ignore the Mack truck bearing down on you as you play in the middle of the street, you won’t be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring the Mack truck.
And Ayn Rand also pointed out that existence (i.e., the sum total of everything that exists) precedes consciousness–our consciousnesses are a part of existence, not outside of it–therefore reality cannot be a “social construct” as so many of you fucked-up-in-the-head people seem to think.
So much for Leftist douchebag lurkers. For the rest of you, the regular readers and those lurkers who understand such things: I continue to carry the banner once also carried by Wheatie. His Fraudulency didn’t win.
Let’s Go, Brandon!!
His Fraudulency
Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, we haven’t heard much from the person who should have been declared the victor, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.
One can hope that all is not as it seems.
I’d love to feast on that crow.
(I’d like to add, I find it entirely plausible, even likely, that His Fraudulency is also His Figureheadedness. (Apparently that wasn’t a word; it got a red underline. Well it is now.) Where I differ with the hopium addicts is on the subject of who is really in charge. It ain’t anyone we like.)
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 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.
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.
Gold has been jumping up one day each week only to fall the next two days, lately. Well this time the jump was on Friday. Will it drop on Monday and Tuesday? Silver has done slightly better than that on a percentage basis.
*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 Final Experiment Fallout
The fallout continues.
Flerfs are saying that 1) it was faked and 2) it was consistent with a flat earth after all and 3) it doesn’t matter, lights in the sky don’t prove the shape of the earth and 4)…well I’m not sure. (Note that sometimes the same Flerf will hold two or more of these positions within minutes of each other.)
Jeran of Jeranism, one of the Flerfs who went on the Final Experiment, apparently has said he is no longer a Flat Earther. But I doubt that he’s gone glober. Here’s a livestream from Friday; I’ve not watched it yet.
