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KMAG DAILY THREAD 20260506 – Is SPLC a CIA OP?

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I decided to go into an Alpha Warrior – Colonel Towner discussion on the Southern Poverty Law Center. In chasing down a reference the ‘rabbit trail’ led to this info.

First:

The CCP’s Secret Weapon to “Storm and Shatter the Enemy’s Position”  (1 hour)

If you do not want to view a video here is the report:

Over 1,000 CCP-Linked Groups in America: Exposing United Front Operations | Peter Mattis

April 25, 2026 • 70 mins (I ❤ Radio)

A recent landmark Jamestown Foundation report maps Chinese United Front operations, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) effort to co-opt and weaponize civil society against the CCP’s enemies.

The report, titled “Harnessing the People” and authored by researcher Cheryl Yu, identifies more than 2,000 such organizations operating in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. More than 1,000 are operating in the United States.

They span a wide range, including student, business, professional, cultural, and “friendship” groups as well as media outlets.

In this episode, I sit down with Peter Mattis, president of The Jamestown Foundation. Few understand this complex web of Chinese influence and espionage operations as well as he does…

BRAVE AI

The 116th U.S. Congress held meetings in 2019 that included discussions about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), with Laird Wilcox, an expert on fringe political movements, providing testimony or commentary. Wilcox critiqued the SPLC’s approach to labeling groups as “hate groups,” suggesting it was incautious and politically motivated. 

 His remarks were part of a broader congressional examination of extremism and the role of organizations like the SPLC in monitoring far-right activity. 

Key points from the context:

  • On April 9, 2019, a House Judiciary Subcommittee meeting included documents referencing Wilcox’s analysis of the SPLC’s practices.
  • Wilcox argued that the SPLC used broad and potentially misleading labels, such as “hate group,” without rigorous standards.
  • The SPLC responded through spokesperson Mark Potok, who dismissed Wilcox as having “an ax to grind” against anti-racist organizations.
  • These discussions occurred amid growing scrutiny of both extremist movements and the institutions tracking them. 

One of the papers linked to the Subcommittee meeting, that was not mentioned is this:

MARCH 26, 2019 — THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER IS EVERYTHING THAT’S WRONG WITH LIBERALISM (18 pages)

Makes you wonder if this meeting was the beginning of the investigation into SPLC…

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OPERATION GLADIO – CHAPTER 93 – “SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER” – EP.541

ROUGH TRANSCRIPTION

03:17

ALPHA: We are on chapter 93 and going to be talking about the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s been in the headlines and of course we will have a Gladio perspective on that.

Colonel, I reached out to you this morning and you said we should probably talk about this.

06:15

COLONEL: I had looked into the Southern Poverty Law Center probably about a year and a half ago um somewhere in a thread somewhere. And what um what immediately stood out to me is if you go back in writings about the Southern Poverty Law Center, almost every article that someone would write about and um specifically a guy by the name of Laird Wilcox, what I found fascinating is on a regular search engine, number one, you almost cannot find any of his material. And archive.org has almost all of his references dead on archive.org, which was kind of like a red flag to me. But you can go through Yandex and do some digging to find some of his old articles about the Southern Poverty Law Center I posted a bunch of them today and all through the day. Of course everybody ignored him like usual, but he was on to this decades ago.

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SEE: The Laird M. Wilcox Papers via Yandex. One section is Left-wing extremists — United States not much info. On line This is better Meet Laird Wilcox 1986 — REASON Mag – GC]

Meet Laird Wilcox

…During college, Wilcox joined the radical left, a political tradition he inherited from his father. He founded the Student Peace Union and the Kansas Free Press at the University of Kansas. He was active in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the civil-rights movement. Then something happened.

What started out as a noble cause turned ugly. “When it came to the left,” he now says of that time, “I’d never seen such hate in my life.” He quit the movement as he saw it sliding into “mindless nihilism, self-destructiveness, and craziness.”

In 1965, before leaving the university and joining forces with the right to complete his intellectual journey, he sold his collection of political literature to the university for $1,000, thus beginning the Wilcox Collection.

For a time he waltzed as an observer through such organizations as the Ku Klux Klan, the John Birch Society, and some fundamentalist Christian groups. He participated to the fullest and built his collection of literature of the right.

Then Wilcox began to straddle the line. One week he could be seen at a Socialist Workers Party meeting and the next marching with the Nazis. He became plugged in at the highest levels…

An Expert on Fringe Political Movements Reflects on the SPLC’s Political Agenda Congress.gov >meeting>house>documents from 116th U.S. Congress (2019)

“….Recently, [2010] The Social Contract’s contributing editor Peter Gemma [TSC] went to Kansas City to tour the Wilcox Collection and interview Laird Wilcox….”

page 183

TSC: In the course of your research and cataloging work, when did you first become aware of the Southern Poverty Law Center?

Wilcox: About the time they emerged on the scene. Initially, the ideas implied by the name “Southern

Poverty Law Center” sounded kind of appealing, like an organization that would help poor people deal

with their legal problems. After a few years it became apparent that it was nothing like that.

TSC: How did you realize that it’s all a facade, that the SPLC has its own political agenda?

Wilcox: In looking over their fundraising stuff, I could see that they were sensationalizing racial conflict issues, and when their reports on “extremist” groups began appearing it was obviously a bogus fundraising scheme that was into demonizing and blacklisting. It reminded me so much of similar operations that were aimed at leftists during the fifties and sixties, that I concluded it was basically modeled after them…

Mr. Wilcox [left] is also co-author (with John George [right]), of American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists, & Others(Prometheus: 1996), and Be Reasonable: Selected Quotations for Inquiring Minds(Prometheus: 1994).

Laird Wilcox lectures widely on the psychology of ideological belief systems and these topics. — LINK

The above articles are all from Yandex.

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COLONEL: But what struck me when I was looking at it before, and today, was how often the Southern Poverty Law Center is attached to the ADL, the Anti Defamation League. In almost every article, there’s some tie between the two as far as them tag teaming issues, which again to me is a red flag. So, let’s start off by introducing a couple of the characters we’re going to talk about.

The first one is Morris, and you don’t ever see his middle name used. It’s Seligman, which is a very notorious German Jewish surname. [“Seligman is a surname of German and Ashkenazi Jewish origin, primarily derived from the root word selig (or Yiddish zeleg), meaning “blessed,” “happy,” or “prosperous” — Brave AI – GC] His last name is Dees. So, he’s from an area that’s just east of Montgomery, Alabama. All of the descriptions of him say that he’s the son of a farmer.

09:25

And what’s interesting is that area has been known for a school there just outside of that little town,  Mount Meigs.  Mount Meigs, had at the beginning of the 1900s, a school there that was a reformatory for black children. Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children – GC] And they had young children there. They had middle-aged children there. And basically it was a prison camp and they were starved. I mean there was horrific stories, They were sexually abused there. I found it rather ironic that he grew up in that area while that school was in operation. I just want to explain to people how Orwellian the name is, Southern Poverty Law Center. And that’s going to come back multiple times when I talk about some of the lawsuits that this guy was involved in because he’s a multi, multi, multi-millionaire.

He goes to law school at the University of Alabama and the first thing he does is open a direct mail sales company. He also publishes books and he creates an organization called Fuller and D’s Marketing Group. That’s what he was known for. It grew to be one of the largest publishing companies in the south. And you can’t find any evidence that this guy was concerned about poverty at all, even in his own backyard. No reaching out to any of those people that went through that torture of growing up in that [school.] As a matter of fact, many of the people later on in life resorted to violence and ended up, with life sentences in prison because they were psychologically tortured in that place. There was no legal representation for any of those people. He never went back and revisited any of their sentences, nothing. So to me that’s very noteworthy.

11:59

He gets approached by the Los Angeles Times to buy his publishing company. Now, those of you who followed me long enough understand that the media basically is all part of this [CIA] operation, right? So they offer him something like a million dollars for his publishing and direct sales company. I think that’s the point in which this guy is compromised. Of course he is given all of the normal awards from the establishment. The National Education Association, heaps awards on him. He gets all kinds of accolades like they’re building a portfolio for him. The USJC’s [U.S. Justice Coalition -GC] gives him awards, blah blah blah. In 1967 is the first time he started taking on controversial cases. He filed a suit to stop construction of a white university in an Alabama city that had a black state college there. He also sued to integrate Montgomery’s YMCA, which of course we all think is a great idea.

His partner’s last name is Joseph J. Levin, Jr. They both go to the same school. They graduate from the same law school and go in a business called the Southern Poverty Law Center with a civil rights activist by the name of Julian Bond. So now we’ve got the Southern Law Poverty Law Center. And again, he is heaped with rewards by the likes of the American Bar Association, which is corrupt as hell. [Boy don’t we know it! – GC] It gives him an award. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, gives him an award. I already mentioned the National Education One. So in 1972, he becomes the finance director for George McGovern’s presidential campaign because he’s a whiz at direct mailing, he raises over $24 million for George McGovern using his technique. He also served as President Carter’s national finance director in 1976. He served as the national finance chairman for Senator Kennedy’s 1980 presidential campaign. Now, you won’t be surprised at all if I tell you that if you go to the Southern Poverty Law C Center’s website and want to donate, do you know who runs their donations? Act Blue.

So Dees becomes the chief trial council at the Southern Poverty Law Center and he participates in creating that hate map. He’s infamous for suing quote unquote hate groups that he also funds. Kind of like the self-licking ice cream cone. And every case that he takes he uses as a marketing tool. So he says that he’s representing John Doe and then he advertises and uses direct mailing to get millions of dollars, donations from everybody. BUT while he’s representing these people, he doesn’t share any of that money with the victims of the lawsuits. And I’ll come back to that in a minute.

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So he writes books. And one of the first books he writes is A Season for Justice. He also writes a book called Hate on Trial: The Case Against America’s Most Dangerous Neo-Nazis that was published in early 1990s. And it basically talks about a trial and a $12.5 million judgment against a quote unquote white supremacist Tom Mezer and his white Aryan resistance group for beating up a young black student in Portland, Oregon. His third book was called Gathering Storm: America’sMilitia Threat. Of course then he goes out and creates his own militia. So he has now combined all of those aspects.

I need to also say this guy was married four times that I could track. In his last divorce, the woman accused him of being a pedophile for trying to go to bed with her daughter from another marriage and being gay and having sex with somebody that he tried to get into a threesome with his wife. He also was accused multiple times of sexually harassing females at Southern Poverty Law Center. Now, you can discount the divorce stuff cuz that came out in the divorce, the stuff about him being a pedophile and gay. You can take that for whatever it’s worth. There are charges made in divorces that are not necessarily true, but that’s part of this whole guy’s persona. So, just putting that out there.

So let me go back and talk about Joseph Levin, his law partner. As I said before, he graduated from University of Alabama with a law degree as well. He spent two years in the US Army and he goes into business at the Southern Poverty. They had a law firm and then that law firm basically becomes Southern Poverty Law Center.

20:10

I want to get to this other guy because he’s very interesting. He had a couple of things to say. He was one of the original guys that Dees was in business with. His name was Millard Fuller. He’ was Dees marketing guy. He allows Dees to buy him out from that marketing firm and donates all of that money to charity and he then goes on to establish Habitat for Humanity. So apparently he’s a good guy. But one of the articles that quoted Fuller that I saw basically said that his complaint and why he wanted out of that business was that Dees had said to him that he was only in it for the money. He was going to do whatever it took to get rich. And Fuller being more of a humanitarian was in it for the right reasons. So at that point I’ve made my assessment of what type of a person Dees is. I think that’s critical background for understanding the Southern Poverty Law Center.

So, one of the first things that struck me is that the Southern Poverty Law Center, their big famous thing that they produce is called an intelligence report, which of course for me is like what? Who does that? Who writes an intelligence report at a nonprofit NGO? Like nobody, unless you’re in it for other reasons. So the intelligence report is the crux of the whole thing. The people that are in this intelligence group inside the Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and racial extremists throughout the United States and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies, the media, and the public. They are quoted as saying, “We publish our investigative findings online in the intelligence report. our award winning quarterly journal.” Of course, this intelligence report is used by law enforcement all over the country.

If you were the CIA, hypothetically, and you wanted to operate inside the United States and target groups, would you not use an organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center who has their own intelligence body inside of it?

ALPHA: Absolutely, I would.

COLONEL: And when you look at the production of the identification of hate groups, do you think 764 or Transtifa or any of those are on there as a hate group or the Muslim extremists? No. No, they’re not. They’re not on there anywhere. The only ones that are really on there are basically the more patriot focused organizations. You’ll find one or two, but it’s primarily focused at exactly the same people, the nationalists, that the CIA targets overseas. So if you go into any of the 90 plus countries that we’ve talked about, the focus is always on the people that don’t play ball, right? So you go to the Tupamaros en Chile, they are the ones that are the nationalist that don’t want the CIA operating and wants their government as a representative democracy. So, I have a sneaking suspicion that we’re going to find out that there are direct ties domestically. And these are one of the exact same organizations that we’ve looked at overseas multiple times in our Gladio series because they fit the exact footprint. So, let me transition here.

25:50

ALPHA: I like what you said there and I hope people caught it. You know, that it mimics the exact same footprint because that’s what matters. For those of you that saw last week’s show, you know, one of the organizations that Colonel was talking about and I was like, “Hey, this really sounds like Red Seat Ventures” Well, this is that situation what we’ve been talking about, you know, on all these different countries. Now you look at the behavior of the Southern Poverty Law Center and it mimics the same behavior. So I hope people caught what you said right there.

26:16

COLONEL: Let’s go over a little bit. We all know that there was an indictment that was released. It indicates that there was fraud and money laundering going on inside. Again this is another part of the whole footprint because that’s exactly what was going on in overseas vehicles that were used by the CIA to destabilize countries. So, when you look at them through your Gladio glasses, SPLC does not appear to be a civil rights watchdog. I’m going to go through a couple of cases in just a second, but it’s an institutionalized center for strategy of tension. So, if I can fund raise off of hate, I have to have hate. So if I don’t have enough hate, I just create the hate and I fund raise off of exposing the hate that I actually funded. And so I’m I’m going to get to a couple of examples of that, too.

I was trying to put all of this into words. What I came up with was it is the foundational logic of Gladio operations throughout Europe and around the world. Intelligence services and their proxies infiltrate extremist factions on both the far right and far left. The objective was never to eliminate dissent, but to facilitate and control chaos by funding, guiding, and radicalizing groups that were already pre-disposed to violence. These actors created a perpetual state of fear, justifying the expansion of state powers, the suppression of political enemies, and the validation of existing elite narratives. The indictment confirms that this model has been imported and institutionalized in American nonprofit sectors which is again exactly how USAID does it overseas using NOS’s. They do that by funneling millions of dollars to highly placed figures in the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi movements. The SPLC ensured that these groups stayed active, visible, and violent when they might have otherwise withered into irrelevance. This provided a steady state of quote unquote racism, even if it’s manufactured, that served as raw material for their fundraising apparatus. It’s the perfect system, generate the problem, weaponize the problem, and secure tax-exempt funding and use the money to fuel the problem further. And of course, we know the Southern Poverty Law Center material is used by the FBI. It’s used by police departments. And they use it as part of congressional testimony.

29:40

ALPHA:I told you before the show that I referenced them in a search warrant that I did many years ago. You think the data, because it’s used by these other entities and it’s referenced and you’re like, “Oh, this is legitimate.” And then you get over here and you’re just like, “Well, yeah, the numbers might have been real, but only because they created them.”

COLONEL: Right? So, the indictment also says that they created entities and potentially shell accounts that mirror all of the organizational structure used in Gladio overseas. They paid informants to stoke racial hatred or coordinated logistical support for rallies such as the 2017 Charlottesville event. Did you know that they were intimately involved in Charlottesville?

30:49

ALPHA: I do now and have been over the last 24 hours. i don’t know what you’ve researched, but a lot of the information that’s circulating, I have not vetted it, but a lot of the information circulating is that Charlottesville event is one of the events that helped launch Nick Fuentes’s notoriety.

COLONEL: Correct.

ALPHA: Interesting.

COLONEL: Yes. Isn’t it? and they provided logistical support. You know, if you read through it, it looks almost like they were controlling it. They talked about it and they even had several days before scenarios about using vehicles to run over people. So this is the textbook example of agent provocateur tactics used by the CIA and their European counterparts to ensure geopolitical and social outcomes are steered exactly where they want them to head. They didn’t act in a vacuum. They were deeply integrated in the FBI and political establishments, which allowed its quote unquote hate group list to act as a de-facto policy manual for domestic security. It created a feedback loop where the government and the quote unquote watchdog acted as a unified unaccountable superstructure that defined who the domestic enemy was in order for them to take action against them. SPLC’s role in this destabilization project goes beyond just money. It centers on the American heartland by demonizing the identity of historic white Christian population and labeling their legitimate political concerns as extremism.

The SPLC has been the primary engine for managed decline, and racial tension. By equating American nationalism with violent fringe groups they essentially subsidized, they effectively de-legitimized any serious attempt at organizing any type of national interest or conservative preservation in the United States. They criminalized being a patriot. That’s the bottom line. They criminalized being an American first patriot.

Now, this goes back to when we were talking about the three events with the Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma, right?

33:45

ALPHA: Correct.

COLONEL: Also, there were SPLC infiltrators in the Aryan Nation all, over, to include the Oklahoma location where Timothy McVeigh hung out. Where we also found Strassmeir who I track back to Germany whose dad [the Chief of Staff to Chancellor Helmut Kohl per WIKI –GC] was intimately involved as Germany’s what they call the Department of interior guy during the Gladio operations where there were bombings all over Germany. So his dad was the government entity in Germany responsible for preventing those but they happened everywhere and included killing several US service members in those bombings. That guy’s son was at the Aryan Nation location in Oklahoma where Timothy McVeigh was hanging out. He’s the guy that was, after the bombing, escorted out of the country. Kind of like the JFK, OAS agent was escorted out of the country by the Dallas Police Department. So, the Southern Poverty Law Center, like I said, had infiltrators inside, if not paying for some of the rabble rousing that was going on in the Aryan Nation location in Oklahoma. It’s all connected.

So, they basically provided The Hegelian Dialect. They provided the thesis i.e. extreme manufactured racism and the anti-thesis of globalist multi-cultural establishment, which they fully endorse. Keeping the public locked into this dialectical conflict that prevents any serious discussion of the collapse of the nuclear family or the erosion of national sovereignty or anything else. Because as soon as you broach those subjects, you’re called a racist, right? So, obviously this indictment exposes the administrative state here in the United States and their reliance on a controlled opposition. If you’ve got to create hate groups, you really don’t have hate unless you manufacture it.

A couple of key points on the indictment. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its affiliated financial entities constituted a massive indictment that is far worse than racketeering or state sponsored disruption. They talk in the indictment about racketeering and fraudulent conduit schemes. They alleged that they functioned as an expansive racketeering enterprise. It’s accused of utilizing pass through entities and domestic NGOs to move millions of dollars to fringe extremist organizations. It’s documented through a series of quote unquote consulting fees and research grants that were in practice salaries and operational subsidies for leadership figures in self-styled white supremacist and separatist groups. This goes back to your comment about Nick Fuentes, right? How many of these people that are spewing this garbage are on the SPLC’s pay list?

ALPHA: It’s absolutely important because you made me spawn a thought and that thought led to another one and I’m trying to find it right now to verify some information. I’m going to look a little deeper before I mentioned the second one. But one of the things that came to mind was, you remember the Sedition Hunters?

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COLONEL: Oh yes.

ALPHA: Because they were targeting a bunch of us.

COLONEL: I know they targeted my neighbors.

ALPHA:Exactly. And a lot of people might remember ‘Maga Granny’ , the one that ended up flipping on Trump? She tried to out me but didn’t realize that I keep everything recorded and long story short, she started working with the Sedition Hunters. People that are, very loyal to this show and cared about me took it upon themselves to go do investigations and were like, “Hey, look at this brand new car she’s driving after she’s talking about doing all these fundraisers, and It was just very interesting. So I’m very curious to what kind of connections the Southern Poverty Law Center had to the Sedition Hunters. But another organization I’m curious to if there’s any connections and I found one I’m trying to verify it right now as well, it is The Lincoln Project. And so you got my mind going because like you just said, it’s this this big circle of organizations. it’s the intelligence apparatus saying let’s just create these other organizations that don’t have to submit to FOIA. they don’t have to submit to different things that are out there.

COLONEL: They’re fronts.

ALPHA: They’re fronts, but here’s the other part. It is knowing that the FBI starting with them is something that would mimic a very large RICO case because you’re building your way up to the way this works. So, anyway, my mind’s going wild and I hope people are paying attention, because for all the people out there that have been screaming nothing’s happening. I think this is going to be freaking huge. I think this is Pandora’s. Colonel Please continue.

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COLONEL: Okay. Also in the indictment, they were accused of sending direct payments from SPLC linked accounts to bank accounts of identified extremists by the SPLC. So they identify them, then they pay them. These funds were used for tactical gear, travel, and logistics for rallies intended to draw mass media attention and public outrage. The indictment alleges a revolving door between radical group leadership, [and] the SPLC consulting roles. By paying these figures to maintain their visibility, the SPLC ensured a constant supply of inflammatory imagery and audio to sustain high levels of fear, to encourage donations and to add legitimacy to a increasingly bigger surveillance state. The indictment challenges the SPLC’s tax-exempt status by demonstrating that its core activity was not educational or legal advocacy but political warfare. Which is huge. It also says that they had tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to offshore accounts. And again, how ‘Gladio’ is that? They argue that they were not legitimate endowments, but a war chest intended to influence internal political outcomes, probably used for overseas as well. Allegations include a systemic filing of false financial disclosures with the IRS, failing to disclose the true nature of the expenditures and misidentifying political activities as civil rights legal defense.

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ALPHA: So, let me plug in a little information here because it ties into legal defenses. I told you I was looking at Southern Poverty Law Center and the Lincoln Project to see if there’s any connections. Now, this is cursory level just so folks understand. I haven’t gone deep into it. And here’s one of the ones that we have. First, the breakdown January 5th, 2021. This is from the Lincoln Project, the their program listed Nancy Abudu as a guest. Separate sources identify Abudu at the time as an SPLC voting rights

leader and later a strategic litigation leader. That is a documented personnel crossover in a media appearance. So there’s one. The second one, and this comes in 2024, the Georgia election case. The court filing hosted on SPLC’s site shows SPLC lawyers representing one group of Amichi while the same filing certificate of service separately lists councils for Georgia First Incorporated and the Lincoln Project Incorporated. That shows that SPLC and the Lincoln Project were at least in line on the same side of that litigation.

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COLONEL: It fits the pattern.

ALPHA: This is gonna be big.

COLONEL: That’s a great find. So obviously they have a monopoly on the watch list or terrorist list. The prosecution for the indictment argues that the information used by the SPLC to lobby federal law enforcement both at DHS and FBI was often derived from individuals that the SPLC was funding. Talk about a self-licking ice cream cone! It alleges that SPLC provided evidence of domestic threats to federal agencies that they themselves had manufactured via their network of informants and subsidized radicals. This is framed as a breach of federal law regarding the manipulation of intelligence and the subversion of internal security processes. Because they’re basically passing off fake information. Oh, who else does that? Oh, I don’t know. the CIA who actually creates intelligence as opposed to gathering intelligence? That’s exactly what SPLC is doing. They’re acting as a mini CIA domestically. That’s exactly what the indictment says. They are part of Operation Gladio in the United States.

ALPHA:100%. Because it’s my opinion that’s what Sedition Hunters were. They were doxing all of us and they were doing that at the behest of the corrupt side of the intelligence agencies.

COLONEL: Well, there’s there’s I wouldn’t even say they were doxing. They were literally tracking people down.

So, just so you guys know, I’ve told this story a couple of times. I had a friend of mine that was running for political office in the local area here and she knew a lot of people and she talked to all the cops and the fire department blah blah blah cuz she was running for mayor. She called me one day and said I needed to meet her immediately. I had made it well known that my neighbors were the three people in my hometown here that were implicated in January 6th and they were tracking one of them down. They couldn’t find him. The other two had on electronic monitors so they could try to find the third one since they all are related. So I drove over and met her and she just handed me a piece of paper. In the note that she handed me, because she didn’t want to even say it out loud, was that the sedition hunters had been to all of the local businesses here asking about that guy. The one that got away. That they couldn’t find. And so I went to my friend who is the aunt of the one that they couldn’t find and walked out in the woods and had a conversation with her husband about that. I just handed him the note. We had a conversation talking about just how ridiculous the whole thing was. But they were actively combing the area, talking to every business owner, trying to find him. They were conducting a manhunt. It was crazy.

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I want to stop here and point out the government’s vastly different response to these Sedition Hunters and to Nick Shirley with the  “Stop Nick Shirley Act” to Criminalize Investigative Journalism

or the people canvassing voters in the aftermath of the 2020 election.  This article documents the court case against Ashe in America and her co-defendants. In all three cases private citizens are investigating possible criminal behavior but only the Sedition Hunters were praised and paid. No mention is made of the physical harassment by these people mentioned by Alpha and Shawn Taylor in the following article: Biden’s FBI paid anti-Trump ‘Sedition Hunters’ as informants in J6, Arctic Frost probes, memos show

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So the prosecution claims that SPLC’s actions were intended to spark civil unrest by intentionally facilitating high-profile confrontations. The SPLC created an environment where the state could justify their surveillance of political dissident, which is exactly what they’ve [CIA] done in every country. This is the Phoenix Program, people. The censorship of alternative media and the expansion of de domestic counter-terror authorities. SEE: The CIA’s ‘Phoenix Program’ in Vietnam: Practice run for the “war on terror”

The filing also argues that SPLC utilized these manufactured tensions to prevent any broad based consensus among American citizenry, specifically by weaponizing the quote unquote hate group label to shut down any legitimate debate regarding immigration, demographic shifts, or the erosion of the traditional American values.

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Now let’s talk about Patriot Front. Do you remember them?

ALPHA: Oh, I do.

COLONEL: And everybody kept saying that they were basically FBI agents, right? >>

Well, the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center addresses Patriot Front, characterizing the organization not as an independent grassroots entity, but as a critical node in an SPLC managed controlled opposition network. It provided a detailed breakdown of the institutional and financial intersections which aligned with operational patterns observed in many of the overseas operations. It says that the operational capacity of Patriot Front was significantly enabled by funds originating from SPLC linked entities like direct wire transfers. Supposedly they conducted forensic accounting and it presented consistent masked wire transfers from NGOS’s under the SPLC umbrella to private accounts owned by key Patriot Front leadership. The indictment links SPLC funds to specific logistical expenditures. Remember all those vans? Those U-Haul vans? Those expenditures included the leasing of those vans, the procurement of uniforms, and the purchasing of communication equipment used during high profile demonstrations. No wonder they all got away all the time and nobody tried to unmask them except for a few times. They also said that documents indicated that the timing, locations, and specific messaging of Patriot Front marches was coordinated to coincide with political moments where white supremacist threat narrative needed to surge. The indictment says that SPLC pushed for the use of mask face coverings for Patriot Front members. This was not a security measure for the members, but a deliberate tactical decision to prevent personal identification and ensure they remained viewed by the public as a monolithic threat to individuals.

ALPHA:Now, can you see the screen Colonel?

COLONEL: Yep.

53:19

ALPHA: So, this flag here to the left, one of the first things that caught my attention, there were so many obvious signs here, but I want you guys to pay attention what our star where our stars would normally be. And any of you that have followed any of the coverage that I’ve been doing, you know, over the last couple years on the Azov battalion and the Nazis and Ukraine and all that stuff going on, you will recognize that symbol [Used by the Patriot Front – Wiki –GC] because it is also known as the black sun. And so I’ll just read just the first two sentences. “The black sun is a type of sun wheel symbol originating in Nazi Germany and later employed by neo-Nazis and other far-right individuals and groups. “ WIKI

THE BLACK SUN


“Former badge of the Azov Brigade,

which uses a Black Sun and the

 National Idea symbol in the forefront”

COLONEL: No, they’re trying to create them. They’re trying to create a narrative. It was a Psyops. It was a psychological operation conducted on the American people.

54:14

ALPHA: So this way you remember. You make it look organic but it’s synthetic. That way once you do get ordinary people sucked into it emotionally and make the mistake then those people are going to get hammered. It’s the whole thing in Michigan with Gretchen Whitmer. And the brothers and all that stuff that went out there. It’s 90% FBI agents, 10% people. That was the operation. That’s ridiculous. And and and there’s no tactical leader in the world that would have ever allowed a legitimate operation like that to go through. If they were legitimate. If I would have went to my police chief and said, “Hey, chief, you know, there’s these two guys and I think we can bust them being part of an organization.” How big’s the organization? Well, 12 members. Well, ain’t 10 of you guys in there, though. That’s besides the point. He would have looked at me like, “You’re crazy. What’s wrong with you guys?” But yet, that’s what they did.

55:21

COLONIAL: It also suggests that SPLC researchers were the ones providing the guidance for Patriot Front rhetoric. When Patriot Front would subsequently release a manifesto or make a provocative statement, the SPLC would then discover. in air quotes and highlight this rhetoric to the FBI or DOJ and media, thereby validating their own manufactured feedback loop. So, I’m going to give you the script, you read it, and then I’m going to act outraged. The indictment claims that SPLC personnel served as a clearing house for information provided to federal agencies regarding Patriot Front activities, effectively curating which extreme groups the government would focus on and which ones they would allow to operate unhindered, which again is exactly what the CIA does overseas. The indictment further contends that the Patriot Front was maintained purposely to erode the legitimacy of the broader American nationalist movement by keeping the group active, well funded, and highly visible. They created a psychological lightning rod. Every action taken by the Patriot Front was used to broaden the definition of hate to cover mainstream patriotic and pro-Western sentiment. The indictment says that SPLC used these stunts to pressure corporations, social media platforms, and political representatives to de-platform and suppress nonviolent legitimate desenters by associating them with the manufactured optic of the Patriot Front, which they themselves created. So it basically functioned as a part of the strategy of tension serving as a foil that SPLC could manipulate to justify suppression of the historic American population. The indictment represents the group as a modern-day iteration of a false front organization utilizing intelligence operations to ensure legitimate political opposition remains trapped by characterized by radical optic and damaging. That’s crazy.

58:12

Now, let me go back to the comparison of the SPLC and the anti-defamation league, the ADL…

I started doing a side-by-side comparison of the tactics used by the ADL for their agenda and the SPLC for their agenda. And it’s weird just how closely they mirror each other. They basically are operating like a two-headed monster within the administrative state. They actually share intelligence data between the intelligence project of the SPLC and the ADL’s center on extremism. They function as a private sector CIA for domestic social management. They share files on political dissident, coordinate de-platforming campaigns against journalists and activists and trade information with the federal law enforcement to ensure that their version of hate becomes codified in state sanctioned policy. By having two massive tax-exempt organizations reporting on the same threat, they create an echo – system. If the SPLC identifies an individual as dangerous, the ADL echoes it and vice versa. This creates a feedback loop for media outlets themselves often staffed by people with similar ideological commitments and they can then treat it as objective truth with independent verification of the other. It provides a cover of legitimacy that destroys people’s livelihood and reputations.

Both the SPLC and the ADL have been the tip of the spear for advocating for mass migration, the eraser of heritage-based identities for the majority population and the active promotion of multiculturalism. The globalist agenda. It’s a deliberate strategy, a form of social engineering that effectively functions as a survival mechanism against perceived threats. The ADL pioneered this industry obviously with the historical trauma of the Holocaust as a political cudgel to shield its own political agenda from criticism. And what does the SPLC use? Slavery. It’s the same thing. Their tactics are identical to each other. Almost like they share it.

62:54

ALPHA: Well, what you’re looking the timing of this exposure is good. really really good because and I mentioned this on on my show earlier this week, Colonel, the Carmela Anthony case is coming into play. And I’ve had been warning people since last year, keep your eyes on this case. They’re going to use it. If the religious tribalism is not getting the results they want, they’re going to default to back to the one that they know always works. Black versus white in these crimes. I go, “So, keep an eye on the  Karmelo Anthony case.” and that, you know, the judge came out and and had some choice words about not letting people exploit it. But seeing that these institutions are getting exposed now, that’s a good thing because it can probably rug-pull any event that they probably had planned for that trial. >>

63:48

COLONEL: Yep. I couldn’t agree with you more. So both groups are currently acting as enforcers of post-Christian globalist regime and in our case regime change. they basically are trying to set the agenda of what’s acceptable politically to talk about. They also thrive on the existence of domestic conflict, which of course destabilization, which is what the CIA is known for. Without an extremist boogeyman, their funding evaporates, their influence declines, and their reason for existence vanishes. They have successfully embedded themselves as recognized experts into the FBI, the DOJ, the Department of Homeland Security, and many other organizations to include the military when the government produces domestic terrorism briefings. They are often essentially citing reports generated by the SPLC or the ADL. This is basically a private public outsourcing of state power.

…The other thing. The SPLC was intimately involved in a lawsuit with the Women’s League of Voters, .. they joined up with the Women’s League of Voters to thwart the lawsuits that happened about the 2020 census. They challenged whether or not you could count illegal immigrants. They both got together and if you look over the list of people that donate large large sums of money to the SPLC, it’s a very interesting list that looks exactly like the oligarchs that we’ve talked about in the past.

66:41

ALPHA:Here’s some names right here.

COLONEL: Oh, look, JP Morgan and George Soros. What? That’s crazy. You mean the same JP Morgan that funds all of this Gladio shit and George Soros that funds all of this Gladio shit more recently? They would be funding the SPLC. Yes. Yes, they would.

ALPHA: I’m very shocked.

67:04

COLONEL: Yeah. Isn’t that interesting? There’s a ton more, but I think we’ve pretty much made the case that this is definitely Operation Gladio inside the United States.

ALPHA: It is. I want to just highlight my brother Shawn Taylor. He sent me this. “Share this I got to help make it go viral. So I will be posting it It comes from the pamphleteer out in Nashville. I haven’t had a chance to verify this story, so I want to be very clear about that. The SPLC is a recurring character in the Phil investigation. If you guys remember, this is Phil Williams. We’re talking NC5 News out there in Tennessee. This is the one that came after brother Shawn Taylor, the Millersville PD when they were looking into the cases that involved some of the corruption there, the human trafficking there, the child trafficking there. But they had also stumbled upon a gentleman, I don’t remember his name, so I don’t want to get inaccurate, but they had a drone contract with our department defense to train the guys out in Ukraine over this. And it was a large contract. And when the TBI raided them because they said this investigation that they’re doing into human and child trafficking went beyond the scope of their duty. One of the things in their search warrant that they asked the judge for was files related to that guy, which had nothing to do with those other cases. But on the heels of yesterday’s indictment, Williams Confronting Hate Series, which builds its authority off the SPLC’s work, is worthy of further scrutiny. So, looks like there might even be some connections coming out of there, folks. And I think you’re going to see this on a lot of things. I think this is the rugpull of that. call me excited cuz I am, Colonel. And for those that have been tracking my other shows, I told everybody, and this lines up in that window, that we were going to see some people that were just going to start disappearing off of social media. Not violent stuff, just their accounts were going to start vanishing. I think related to that because once the funding is removed from all these inorganic accounts that are out there that are pushing this propaganda they’re going to disappear. The only reason they’re doing it is money or something that might be leveraged on them and I think we are going to see social media heads that are going to find themselves if not charged at least named in the indictments, Things like what they did with Patriot Front. I think we are going to see that broaden into some of these other third party applications. They try to use shell companies to conceal everything. And so when these influencers.. then you find out who was paying them and before you know it, you’re just like, “Oh, so it was money that just got washed a few times in in laundry before it made its way to these influencers.” I really do believe that we’re going to see stuff like that, Colonel.

70:34

COLONEL: Oh, 100%. You definitely need to be looking at that exact thing because they apparently have been doing this for a very long time. I did want to mention when I was talking about some of the lawsuits they were involved in. So, this black woman had her son killed by what was alleged to be a Klu Klux Klan hit .They the SPLC sue and she got a single digit million dollar settlement, but the people that were involved involved had $52,000 to their name. So that was what the grieving mother was going to receive from the lawsuit. Meanwhile, thanks to Mr. Dees’ direct mailing, he got double digit millions of dollars frpm being involved in that lawsuit. And that woman saw not a penny of it. Not a penny. And she got like a $6 million award during the trial, but of course the people didn’t have the money, so she didn’t get that. She got like $50,000. This is repeated throughout their very selective taking of cases. [example of another case.]

And that so that brings in a completely different line. These are the same people, the ADL and the SPLC that were the backing of hate crimes. Just like they tried to do with the terrorism charge on January 6ers, right? So, you can you convict them of something and then you up-charge them with a terrorism enhancement. That’s what hate crime is. There’s no such thing as a hate crime. That’s BULLSHIT. And you know who created that? The SPLC and the ADL. And so if you kill somebody and that somebody happens to be a minority, they can upcharge you for that. It’s still murder. If it even is murder and not self-defense, it’s murder. It has nothing to do with the race of the victim, but thanks to these people and all of their nefarious bullshit and they will encourage hate crimes because they profit off of them. They turn everything into a hate crime to profit off of them.

75:25

ALPHA: I know what it’s like being on the law enforcement side of this. In the area where I was working, we had a a a larger than average demographic of people from the LGBT community. You would get the news trying to influence investigations, trying to say that this was against somebody’s sexuality. We know the facts of the case had nothing to do with that. This was just a robbery. There needs to be people held accountable… But again, it’s one of those things where on the law enforcement side, if you are the good guys and you’re honest investigators, you can see the media manipulation. Now, granted, if you got some good administration, good chiefs like we did, they’ll pull back the radios. “Hey, these encrypted radios we gave you guys, we’re going to take those back.” And it’s the the politics, right? That tug-of-war went back and forth. If you’re going to go out there and try to influence our investigations, well, these, , extra things that we’ve given you that we don’t have to give you, well, we’re going to pull that back. But imagine areas where you got corrupt law enforcement administration, you got corrupt media, and then you have entities like this. You’re screwed.

77:02

COLONEL: I also think it’s very very important to look at everything that has happened since the 2015 time frame of this massive ramping up. So today when I was looking into this was looking at the numbers of alleged KKK. So back in the day, in the 60s or 50s time frame, you saw like tens of thousands of estimated KKK members. The number had dwindled down to like under 5,000 and that’s lumping a whole bunch of people in that may or may not have been KKK members but you see the significant drop off. It was reported as 50 or 60,000 and you’re down to 4,000. But they can’t let it die. You know that whole thing of David Duke and his association and they’re talking to Trump about oh my god he endorsed you well let’s go back and look how much David Duke got paid from the SPLC wouldn’t that be an interesting number to know because you have to have somebody like that to create that narrative right? And that was their go to thing to denounce him… I’ll give you this money so I can use you as a statistic in my Hate Map.

And I also came across something where somebody said that the SPLC put Charlie Kirk and Turning Point [on their Hate Map] l right before he was assassinated.

ALPHA: Wow. Well, this is how it works. If you go back to The ‘Seditious Six? They did that. Five of them excluding the the military dude, five of them all had training from the same activist organization. All of this all of this is is them.

80:23

COLONEL: But again so we were just doing the Lebanon thing. How MI6 had created that training to deploy in Lebanon to create those activists. [mi6-plots-with-islamists closest I can come –GC]

It’s the exact same thing. This has been done all over. They did it in Chile. In all of these different coups that we’ve looked at. They basically just train people in those stay-behind units to create havoc. It wasn’t a more sophisticated destabilization. But that started changing in the early 1970s. The first one that I noticed significantly with the training aspect of actually teaching people how to be the agitators was in the Chile in 73-74 time frame. So from then on it gets progressively more sophisticated and you get to 2004 when they did the first coup in Ukraine and then up to the 2014 one for the Maidan coup and it’s much more sophisticated as far as training the people. The whole Serbian and Croatia destabilization with the Albert Einstein Institute. So now they have actual entities that are making their livelihood on setting up these regime change destabilization efforts.

And the SPLC is doing in the United States is the same thing the Albert Einstein Institute did overseas. They’re doing the exact same thing. I hope that came across today. They have very nefarious beginnings as far as I’m concerned when he sells his direct mail order business to a media company called the LA Times. And he then uses that money to launch the SPLC. This just stinks of CIA all over.

82:45

ALPHA: 100% agree with you on on that, Colonel. And you know, we knew the timing window. I don’t know if you’ve heard me say in some other shows, but we’re approaching that choke point. Trump and them are. I always knew they’re going to weaponize. I kept telling everybody, you’re going to see all kinds of stuff happen in a very small window. How do I know? Because it’s what they were trying to do to Trump and the good guys. Overwhelm them with everything. Impeachments, you know, this is going on. That investigation, did he declassify?

You overwhelm everybody with this. So, nobody knows where to even begin to fight. And that’s exactly what’s happening to the deep state right now. That’s exactly what’s happening to the globalists and all their funding apparatuses. Trump is brilliant.

COLONEL: I meant to say this earlier. The first black lawyer that worked for the SPLC quit. He was disgusted with the SPLC. And that to me says everything. He was absolutely disgusted with what he saw on the inside of the SPLC. There were numerous people that were alleged to have sexual relationships with Dees during his tenure there. That’s probably why he was married four times. It certainly was an allegation in the last divorce proceedings. but there were lots of accusations and workplace shenanigans going on in the SPLC.

84:50

ALPHA: There was. And then I don’t know if you saw this when I brought this guy up from one of the founders from the SPLC. You brought him up. Joseph Levin. Talk about limited info. It is Like they scrape this guy’s digital footprint very, very well. That what you see on the screen for a cursory search. Obviously, if you start using some of these other sites like Yandex and all that, you’ll probably get more, but

COLONEL: No, no, there’s almost nothing out there on him.

ALPHA: Wow. So, that in and of itself tells you a lot. Colonel.

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I certainly hope Jeff Childers is correct!

Dear MAGA: 20260503 Open Topic

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On this day and every day –

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

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

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

This Present Evil Age

In Galatians 1:4, the apostle Paul writes that Christ “gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.” Here, Paul introduces the purpose of the sacrificial death of Christ, the nature of the world we inhabit, and the eternal plan of God the Father. In obedience to the Father’s will, Christ voluntarily gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age.

To appreciate the significance of Christ’s saving work, we must first understand our own depravity. In Scripture, sin is defined as falling “short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). This suggests a moral standard that we are unable to meet. The reason we cannot live up to the righteousness that God demands from us is that we are sinners both by nature (Psalm 51:5) and by choice (John 3:19). Christ is the only solution to our sin problem. In Him, we are delivered from our sins and from “the present evil age” (Galatians 1:4).

The phrase present evil age refers to the current reality that the world is in the grip of Satan. Sin is rampant in our world, and sinners are enslaved to the bondage of sin. In Ephesians 2:1–3, Paul says, “You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind” (ESV). Since dead people cannot raise themselves to life, God must make us spiritually alive. In Christ, we are “blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom [we] shine as lights in the world” (Philippians 2:15, ESV).

Freedom from the present evil age has profound implications for how we live. God calls us to live Christ-centered lives in the present evil age. This is accomplished by adopting the mind of Christ, “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:6–8, ESV). To avoid being corrupted by the present evil age, then, we must humble ourselves by allowing God to work in and through us. Consequently, people will “see [our] good works and give glory to [our] Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16, ESV).

The present age in which we live is indeed evil, but there is another age yet to come, one that will be characterized by righteousness and justice, not sin (see Isaiah 9:7). Living in the present evil age, those of us who have been rescued have a wonderful future ahead of us.

2026-05-02, Simply Saturday.

Administrivia.

Wheatie Wisdom.  If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.  No running with scissors.  No food fights. 

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

Wolf Speak.  No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.  But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post. 

America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…

In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.

  1. Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
  2. Pass SAVE Act
  3. Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
  4. Trash Filibuster
  5. Trash Blue Slips
  6. Confirm Trump Nominations.
  7. Codify Trump Executive Orders.
  8. Ban Sharia Law.

Speaking of embracing…THIS.

If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.

KK

It’s Saturday.  GOT Coffee?  GOT Tea?  GOT Scroll Wheel?  😊

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Road To Liberty.

Nothing new available. 🙁

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George Washington

The only sitting President to lead soldiers in the battlefield.

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Fast forward from 1776, ~84 years.

Henry Rifles created in Civil War era.

Henry History

Benjamin Tyler Henry
His invention: The Henry Rifle

In every field of human endeavor there is a select group of individuals who are given credit for making such major contributions that they become synonymous with their achievements. In the area of firearms development, one name that must be included on that honored roster is Benjamin Tyler Henry. His invention: The Henry Rifle.

It was Mr. Henry who conceived the first practical, lever action repeating rifle patented in 1860. The Henry gave a single man the firepower of a dozen marksmen armed with muzzle-loading muskets.

America was engulfed in the searing flames of the Civil War, and the first Henry rifles were in the hands of Union soldiers by mid 1862. Due to its revolutionary design and rapid rate of fire, the Henry quickly found popularity both with the military and civilian purchasers. Early sales were especially brisk in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Indiana.

With its reliable .44 caliber rimfire metallic cartridge, the Henry produced a rapid and highly accurate fire. Reports of the successful use of Henry rifles in the Civil War were numerous. The incredible firepower unleashed by the Henry is evident in Major William Ludlow’s account of the Battle of Allatoona Pass. “What saved us that day was the fact that we had a number of Henry rifles” wrote Major Ludlow. “This company of 16 shooters sprang to the parapet and poured out such a multiplied, rapid and deadly fire, that no men could stand in front of it and no serious effort was made thereafter to take the fort by assault.”

After an encounter with the 7th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which had the good fortune to be armed with Henrys, one Confederate officer is credited with the phrase, “It’s a rifle that you could load on Sunday and shoot all week long.”

The Henry rifle would go on to play a significant, if not dominant role in the frontier days of the American West. It would soon become one of the most legendary, respected and sought after rifles in the history of firearms. A contemporary rifle collection isn’t complete without one.

https://www.henryusa.com/about-us/henry-history

Hickok45 shows off a Henry.

1860 Henry Rifle

1860 Henry Rifle 23:06

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Image AI. From American Thinker

“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Arnold Toynbee.

We, can NOT allow America to go the way of Europe and England. Down the…

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Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.

Merica…The Land that I, We Love.

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Jefferson Airplane-Starship Saturday

Somebody To Love

3:13

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White Rabbit 

2:45

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Miracles

6:54

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Nothing gonna stop us now

4:25

Seriously…

…We’ll get through this, just fine!

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Relax. It’s Saturday. Back To Basics…

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Ray Stevens – “Too Drunk To Fish” 

4:11

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 5.1.2026 Open Thread: Some Interesting Links

The header image for today’s offering is courtesy of Google Images.

Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: AI-generated content in today’s offering will be cited as such. If readers with to post AI-generated content in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

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Today is a “remembrance day” for Yours Truly. Twenty years ago today — 1 May 2006 — my late father suffered a massive stroke, the complications from which eventually took his life two months later. Yours Truly was the one who found him on the floor, hours after he had the stroke. Yours Truly spent the next two months at his side, going through Hell with him as he fought like a lion to regain some kind of health, ability to walk, to feed himself…while, at the same time, Yours Truly’s own husband was just starting to recuperate from the massive fall that he himself suffered a few months prior, in which he fractured his pelvis, broke numerous ribs, had a concussion, and, after days in the hospital, was being cared for 24/7 at home by rotations of private-duty CNAs and RNs. My father was 89 years old in May 2006; my husband was 96 years old.

My father was a Registered Pharmacist for 55 years at the time of his stroke: 45 years in practice; then, after his retirement, 10 more years in keeping his license current. He was working on Continuing Education credits for his upcoming license renewal when he was stricken. He was able to “dictate” answers to a few of the CE questions while at the rehab facility, until he lost the power of speech. When he died, he was still a Registered Pharmacist. His customers loved him. Hundreds of them came to his viewing at the funeral home in Pittsburgh — on the same street where he had kept his pharmacy for so many years.

My father hoped that Yours Truly would go into Pharmacy. Instead, I went into music. My father never said a word about any disappointment he may have felt. He would come home from work and sit on the living room sofa, listening to me practicing Beethoven and Chopin and Brahms. I think about my father when I research and write the Health Friday posts. Perhaps he is looking down from Heaven, where I believe he is with my mother, and saying, “You done good, Chick”, which was his humorous “stamp of approval.”

Some of the pain; some of the “what did I miss?”; some of the grief — still remain with Yours Truly, twenty years after my father’s death. The intensity has lessened, but grief never really leaves. Grief must, instead, be integrated into the life of the survivor. It is integrated as a combination of memory, acceptance, and resolve to move on in the healthiest way possible for the body, mind, and spirit. The integration is not quick or simple. It is a process. The “timeline” is different for each survivor. It is not a straight line. It is not “defined” in terms of weeks, months, or years. There are curves; there are twists and turns; there are times of feeling “stuck”; there are times of anger, intense regret, and deep, searing sorrow. Counseling can help; books on grieving can help; trusted friends and family can help; self-care can help; and more. But, ultimately, the integration process is carried on inside the survivor. It is organic. I feel that this inside, organic process is, at the deepest level, anchored in belief in a Higher Power — a Supreme Being — the Almighty God.

Samuel Regis Lewis, Sr., R.Ph. 1916-2006. Rest easy, Daddy. Stay with Mother. Be happy and at Peace in the next world. Love you. Miss you. Thank you — Thank you.

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Some Interesting Links:

Multiple types of cancer diagnoses have increased by over 6% since the COVID-19 modRNA bioweapon “vaccines” were rolled out in January 2021: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-us-government-cancer-data, “BREAKING: U.S. Government Cancer Data Shows Early-Onset Cancers Surged 6.4% From 2021 to 2023”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 23 April 2026. The figures are from National Cancer Institute data. The aggregate increase for all cancers diagnosed in persons under age 50 is 6.4%. Below is an image of the various cancers increase breakdown:

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The United States government funded a recent Gain-of-Function experiment at the University of Georgia (Athens, GA) that created a dangerous, highly pathogenic H5N1 virus strain which was deliberately given to Jersey cows: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/taxpayer-funded-scientists-create, “Taxpayer-Funded Scientists Create Human Bird Flu Virus in Georgia BSL-3 Lab That Successfully Crosses Species”, Jon Fleetwood, 26 April 2026. Please see the image from this article, below:

The paper published about this experiment is here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44433-025-00002-5, “Experimental infection and viral pathogenesis of a human isolate of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza strain in Jersey cows”, Flavio Cargnin Faccin, et al. 26 March 2026.

Note that this experiment was conducted in 2025, after President Donald Trump 47 assumed office.

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Dr. Peter A. McCullough weighs in on the nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new Director of the CDC, and more: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-deep-state-medical-playbook, 27 April 2026. This is a video interview by Emerald Robinson with Dr. McCullough and an AI-generated “text summary” of the interview in the above link. Two screenshots from the “summary” are below:

Note the use of “might grant here the necessary credibility…”, and “provided she shifts focus…” In Yours Truly’s opinion, if Dr. Schwartz is confirmed, it will represent a “watershed” situation for the CDC (and, indeed, for HHS) — either to face up to the truth regarding the need for real reform within the CDC (and the HHS), and to face up to the truth regarding the dangers and deadliness of the COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines”; or, it will signal the return to “the good old days” at the CDC (and the HHS), with further consolidated control by Establishment Medicine and Big Pharma.

Note that Johns Hopkins is working on “advancing patents” for Ivermectin and for mebendazole.

What does this mean? Since a Patent cannot be granted for something found in nature, Johns Hopkins will have to “add” or “subtract” some element(s) from Ivermectin and from mebendazole, thus “inventing” a “newly isolated material.” https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/77228/can-you-patent-natural-things. It means that Johns Hopkins (and/or the entity that Johns Hopkins “assigns” the Patent to) will own the “newly isolated material.” It also means that the item can be used for making money for the Patent owners / assignee(s). It also means control of access, of availability, of manufacture, and of patient use. It also means that the use of the “newly isolated material” patented Ivermectin and mebendazole will be under the control of healthcare professionals who prescribe it for use in cancer treatment. It also means that the “newly isolated material” patented Ivermectin and mebendazole can be used as an ADJUNCT treatment for cancer, alongside conventional Establishment Medicine treatments such as radiation, surgery, and/or chemotherapy. It also means that the “newly isolated material” patented Ivermectin and mebendazole will become a “cancer treatment drug”, costing much more than the current Ivermectin and mebendazole which are non-patented. It also means that private insurance companies and/or Medicare and Medicaid can choose to either cover, or to not cover, treatment by the “newly isolated material” patented Ivermectin and mebendazole.

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The scientist who invented the “template” virus for COVID-19 — Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is finally being unmasked and brought to account:

This occurred immediately AFTER Dr. David Morens (a deputy of Dr. Anthony Fauci when Dr. Fauci was Director of NIAID) was indicted for his activities at NIAID in suppressing release of any information that would lead to the truth behind the real origins of the COVID-19 virus: https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/psyop-19-justice-incoming-first-criminal, “PSYOP-19 JUSTICE INCOMING: First Criminal Indictment Against Senior COVID Official & Pressure Mounting on DOJ to Prosecute Dr. Fauci”, 30 April 2026. The five-year Statute of Limitations about lying to Congress runs out for Dr. Anthony Fauci on 11 May 2026. It is impossible that HHS Sec. Kennedy, Jr., does NOT know this. Is the United States government going to let the Statute of Limitations on Dr. Fauci run out on 11 May 2026? https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/04/30/will-they-let-the-clock-run-out-on-charging-this-mass-murderer/. Yours Truly’s opinion — that possibility needs to be faced.

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The FDA deliberately “masked” (suppressed) 25 safety signals found in VAERS reports of COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine”-induced health conditions AND deaths between March 2021 and July 2021: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-senate-investigation-finds-f15, “BREAKING: Senate Investigation Finds FDA Officials Covered-Up 25 COVID Shot Safety Signals”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, 29 April 2026. Dr. Ana Szarfman, an FDA employee, created a program that would basically sort out and identify COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced safety signals. Dr. Szarfman was eventually told by her superiors to “cease and desist” her work — the agency was afraid that the truth becoming known would “feed into vaccine misinformation.” Dr. Janet Woodcock was the Acting Director of the FDA in 2021. She must also be indicted and prosecuted.

THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE HUMAN BODY FOR AN mRNA, A modRNA, AN saRNA, OR A taRNA PRODUCT, OF ANY KIND.

THERE MUST BE MUCH MORE RESEARCH INTO THESE TECHNOLOGIES. THE RESULTS MUST BE FULLY ANALYZED. THE DATA MUST BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

ALL COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “VACCINES” MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM USE. NOW.

THOSE WHO LAB-CREATED THE COVID-19 BIOWEAPON VIRUS ITSELF, AND THE COVID-19 BIOWEAPON VACCINES, MUST NOW BE BROUGHT TO ACCOUNT.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

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2026-04-29, Hump Day Special CANCELLED. Please see Gail’s post.

Administrivia.

Wheatie Wisdom.  If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.  No running with scissors.  No food fights. 

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Wolf Speak.  No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.  But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post. 

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KK

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Stuff…

— Later

Image AI. From American Thinker

Seriously…

…We’ll get through this, just fine!

KK

2026.04.28 Daily Thread: The World According To Trade(Bait)

Do you sometimes feel forgotten, that the world is cold and hostile? Are you lonely or ignored by loved ones or friends? Does it sometimes feel like God has totally forgotten or forsaken you, left you without experiencing His touch on your life?

Welcome to the story of Joseph. Yes, Joseph was a real person per religious as well as secular historical text. He was a Hebrew and his story is found in the Book of Genesis beginning in Chapter 39. From privilege and being the apple of his deeply respected father’s eye as a child in what is now called Israel; to being sold into slavery by his own jealous brothers; to a prison of Pharaoh in the foreign land of Egypt after being wrongly and evilly accused of attempted rape by the wife of the Captain of Pharaoh’s guard, Potiphar; to being forgotten until the royal Cupbearer told Pharaoh that Joseph could probably interpret his troubling dreams; to the highest position overseeing all of Egypt while reporting directly to Pharaoh due to the Godly wisdom he provided the nation while being held captive. He goes on to forgive his brothers who forsook him and sold him into slavery after making them sweat spear tips for a time. His wisdom and actions not only saved his family from starvation, his faith and actions save everybody in the nation of Egypt as well as all people who came there to trade or stay to avoid the great famines in that region of the world.

Many of you will already know that story. To others it is nothing but that, a story, and they could care less whether it was true or not. However, the reality is that it aligns with known living conditions of the period in Egypt from other archaeological and scientific evidence as well as texts and narratives in that nation’s history. The lesson taken from it is extremely valuable to our lives today no matter whether we believe in God or not.

OK, Trade, why are you bringing this up now? I am doing so because the story about Joseph is one that clearly illustrates what living under God’s Providence in America is also about as the Declaration of Independence states. It seems appropriate to apply its principles today just as it was during the times of its author, Thomas Jefferson. My hope is some will see the important benefits of living under God’s Providence that includes remaining faithful no matter what we face. Doing so should settle their MAGA spirits.

In my opinion we MAGA types need to slow our roll sometimes. Getting all out of sorts, huffy, fearful and impatient will not make justice happen faster. Being diligent and doing our parts as needed and without complaint will get it done in time. We need to remember who is calling the shots in this clean up and it is not us. Whether you personally believe in God or not, many of the people doing the major work successfully do. They have been placed in positions to do so by God and his assigned American redeemer, which is currently Donald J. Trump, along with the leaders of his cabinet, law enforcement and military forces. As long as they do things by the book (Constitution/laws) and THE Book (Holy Bible) it will all turn out as God wills it. Even unbelievers will benefit from the efforts of those who do believe and are faithful.

The Way It Works

Submit to God’s will as Joseph did. Despite being forgotten, lonely, falsely accused, abused, and in prison – he did good works for his captors and never failed to be in communion with God as well as to do His will first and foremost. In the end of the story he forgave his treacherous brothers and saved them from disaster and death. The family was restored and the people of Israel continued to develop.

That’s the secret sauce. It is not enough to acknowledge the God of Joseph exists or that He is powerful. You have to personally place Him first and ONLY in your submission. There can be no other “gods” before Him.

Your freedom comes from your submission to I AM.

You remain faithful and true. You say and do what is right the best ways you can daily no matter the circumstances. You seek God’s face, guidance, forgiveness… and… WAIT. Good things come to people who wait on the Lord to move mountains for them. When it happens, not if it happens, you realize you are never alone. You realize you matter and are loved by the Creator. From that understanding comes freedom and the formerly paralyzing fear dies.

From Psalm 27:14,

Wait for the Lord;
Be strong and let your heart take courage;
Yes, wait for the Lord.

It feels good to be faithful to God because He is faithful to us without fail. Again, this world is not our home, we are just wayfaring strangers. No matter how far and long we have distanced ourselves from God and other people, there is time to turn it around as long as we are above ground and breathing. If we are honest with ourselves, we all have a prodigal son bone in our bodies that tempts us to stray from these universal truths that are built into our existence of which Jesus addressed in Luke 15. All we need to do is throw off our pride and humbly return to the Father just as Brandon sings below. This song has a personal connection for him per his past comments. It also represents my life all too well – a prodigal son saved from ruination and death by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

THIS is how it works in America under God’s Providence. Return to the Father, I AM, and be healed. Find peace as people and as a nation. Those that foment hateful rhetoric and violence are serving the wrong master. Pray for their change of heart and repentance. May God’s will be done.

Over the next couple of months I will begin tying the loose strings of this series together as we approach our nation’s founding. You will read the words Providential Restoration often.

Remember Wolf’s site rules. Note and label all AI. Please be kind to one another, we are all in this together. May God richly bless America and all of you.

Before all things and people – In God We Trust. Also, trust Trump and the plan.

Dear MAGA: 20260426 Open Topic

This Rejoice & Praise God Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.

It’s also a place to read, post, and discuss news that is worth knowing and sharing. Please post links to any news stories that you use as sources or quote from.

In the QTree, we’re a friendly and civil lot. We encourage free speech and the open exchange and civil discussion of different ideas. Topics aren’t constrained, and sound logic is highly encouraged, all built on a solid foundation of truth and established facts, and not by agenda-driven accusations and pronouncements.

We have a policy of mutual respect, shown by civility. Civility encourages discussions, promotes objectivity and rational thought in discourse, and camaraderie in the participants – characteristics we strive toward in our Q Tree community.

Please show respect and consideration for our fellow QTreepers. Before hitting the “post” button, please proofread your post and make sure your opinion addresses the issue only, and does not confront or denigrate the poster. Keep to the topic – avoid “you” and “your”. Here in The Q Tree, personal attacks, name-calling, ridicule, insults, baiting, and other conduct for which a penalty flag would be thrown are VERBOTEN.

In The Q Tree, we’re compatriots, sitting around the campfire, roasting hot dogs, making s’mores, and discussing, agreeing, and disagreeing about whatever interests us. This board will remain a home for those who seek respectful conversations.

Please also consider the Guidelines for posting and discussion printed here: 
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On this day and every day –

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

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

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

Entering Into God’s Rest

The concept of entering into God’s rest comes from Hebrews 3—4. What is this “rest” the Hebrew writer is talking about? How do we enter it? And how do we fail to enter it? The writer to the Hebrews begins his discussion of God’s rest in chapter 3, where he references the Israelites wandering in the desert. In giving them the land of Canaan, God had promised them that He would go before them and defeat all their enemies in order that they could live securely (Deuteronomy 12:9–10). All that was required of them was to fully trust in Him and His promises. However, they refused to obey Him. Instead, they murmured against Him, even yearning to go back to their bondage under the Egyptians (Exodus 16:3; 17:1–7; Numbers 20:3–13).

The particular “rest” referred to here was that of the land of Canaan. Into that rest God solemnly said the Israelites who disobeyed Him would never enter (Hebrews 3:11). They had been rebellious. All the means of reclaiming them had failed. God had warned and entreated them; He had caused His mercies to pass before them, and had visited them with judgments in vain; and He now declares that for all their rebellion they should be excluded from the Promised Land (Hebrews 3:16–19). But, eventually, the next generation did place their faith in God and, by following the leadership of Joshua, they, some forty years later, entered into God’s rest, the land of Canaan (Joshua 3:14–17).

Using the Israelites as an example of those who were not resting in God’s promises, the writer of Hebrews goes on in chapter 4 to make the application personal, both to the Hebrew Christians and to us: “Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it” (Hebrews 4:1). The promise that still stands is the promise of salvation through God’s provision—Jesus Christ. He alone can provide the eternal rest of salvation through His blood shed on the cross for the remission of sins. God’s rest, then, is in the spiritual realm, the rest of salvation. Faith, the author goes on to assert, is the key to entering God’s rest. The Hebrews had had the gospel preached to them, just as the Israelites knew the truth about God, but the messages were of “no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith” (Hebrews 4:2). Some had heard the good news of Christ, but they rejected it for lack of faith.

Hebrews 4:10–13 explains the nature of this faith. The kind of faith that enables us to enter into God’s rest is a faith that first demands that we rest from relying on our own works. Then the writer seemingly contradicts himself by telling us to make every effort: “For anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience” (Hebrews 4:10–11). What this apparent paradox means is that such biblical faith involves our submissiveness to God, and our efforts in that area.

Though we desist in our self-efforts to earn salvation and the promised eternal rest, we also “make every effort to enter that rest” by choosing to depend solely on God, to trust Him implicitly, to yield totally to the promises of God through the free grace of His salvation. Why? So “that no one will fall by following their [the Israelites’] example of disobedience” (Hebrews 4:11). We either trust ourselves to save ourselves, or we trust God to do that for us through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. By failing to trust God fully in His promises, we become disobedient and fail to enter the rest that is eternal life, just as the children of Israel became disobedient when they failed to enter the Promised Land.

So how do we stop trusting ourselves? How do we place our full trust in God and His promises? We enter into God’s rest by first understanding our total inability to enter God’s rest on our own. Next, we enter God’s rest by our total faith in the sacrifice of Christ and complete obedience to God and His will. “And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief” (Hebrews 3:18–19). Unlike the Israelites whose unbelief prevented them from entering the Promised Land, we are to enter God’s rest by faith in Him, faith which is a gift from Him by grace (Ephesians 2:8–9).
xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/enter-Gods-rest.html

2026-04-25, Simply Saturday.

Administrivia.

Wheatie Wisdom.  If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.  No running with scissors.  No food fights. 

AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts.

Wolf Speak.  No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree.  Every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post. 

America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…

In No Particular Order, The House AND Senate MUST.

  1. Pass SAVE America Act
  2. Trash Filibuster
  3. Impeach Activist Judges & Fire Activist Magistrates.
  4. Pass, Ban Sanctuary States and Cities
  5. Trash Blue Slips
  6. Confirm Trump Nominations.
  7. Codify Trump Executive Orders.
  8. Ban Sharia Law.

Speaking of embracing…THIS.

If nothing follows KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.

KK

It’s Saturday.  GOT Coffee?  GOT Tea?  GOT Scroll Wheel?  😊

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APMEX https://www.apmex.com   Bitcoin https://www.bitcoin.com/

Prices pulled last afternoon.  Gold $4,733.50  Silver $77.11.   Bitcoin $77,400

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Road To Liberty. (A series)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250

The Story of America: John and Abigail Adams

12:32

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Today in History: April 25, Spanish-American War declared

On April 25, 1898, the United States Congress declared war against Spain. The 16-week Spanish-American War resulted in an American victory, after which the United States took possession of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam.

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Stuff…

Please take a few minutes. Enjoy Hung Cao’s Incredible Journey. Vietnam – Africa – America.

They just thought Pete Hegseth was over the top, now we have a man in charge of the Navy who blew shit up for 30+ years and was really good at it. A great time to be alive!

Congratulations @HungCao_VA

Hung Cao, the former refugee who is Trump’s new acting navy secretary

Vietnam-born Cao stood twice for federal office in Virginia and has called for upgrading of fleet to face new threats

The acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, who steps into the role after the sudden departure of John Phelan, is a veteran naval officer and former refugee who earned a position with the Trump administration with campaigns for political office in Virginia marked by religious intolerance.

When Cao was first appointed, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, set him to modernizing base infrastructure and quality-of-life issues for sailors and marines, and to raise recruiting standards. Cao has also been a point person in the administration on permitting vaccine refusal and eliminating “DEI” policies in the military.

He has been sharply outspoken about the military’s recruiting practices, saying in a debate with Tim Kaine when he ran against him for Senate in 2024 that the military should be recruiting “alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them, and ask for seconds”.

At his confirmation hearing, Cao described an aircraft carrier as “99,000 tons of American diplomacy” but noted that the availability of ships hovered at about 60%, which he described as “horrid” readiness.

Asked about his views on how to either use the existing fleet or to transition to a new paradigm for naval warfare, Cao said the military was living each day like it was 10 September 2001, and that the country must accelerate shipbuilding while improving technology so that it can defeat hypersonic missiles and other threats.

“We need to rethink naval warfare,” Cao said last June. “We need to be ready for what happens tomorrow.”

Cao ran twice for federal office as a Republican candidate in Virginia, falling to US representative Jennifer Wexton in a House race in Virginia’s northern suburbs in 2022, then to Senator Tim Kaine in 2024.

Cao’s comments in an interview about Monterey being taken over by “witches” and a joke about being “African American” because he lived in Africa as a child became a campaign issue. Cao expressed support for a national abortion ban as a candidate.

Cao, 55, fled Vietnam with his family when he was four. He lived in Niger as a child while his father worked for USAID. Cao enlisted in the navy in 1989 before graduating from the US Naval Academy and earning a commission as a special operations officer.

He served on active duty as a diver and explosive ordnance technician with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, notably leading the team that recovered the body of John F Kennedy Jr off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.

Cao was section head for the budget programming division in the office of the chief of naval operations before retiring as a captain in 2021. He has a master’s degree in applied physics from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and completed fellowships at MIT and Harvard.

“I came to this country with nothing, as a refugee,” Cao said in response to a question during his confirmation hearing as undersecretary of the navy. “We grew up in Africa, actually. In 1979, when the shah of Iran was overthrown, the marines brought us into the embassy and stood watch over us in case they had to do an evacuation … I wanted to be like those heroes, so I have dedicated my entire life to serving the military.” (Bold mine.)

Cao’s son graduates this year from the US Naval Academy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/hung-cao-new-navy-secretary

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Chiefio https://chiefio.wordpress.com/

Australia, Fuel History, Present Risks

An interesting review of the Australian Oil Shortages over many decades

The short form is that W.W.II was the worst due to dependence on Asian sources (under British Empire control) and then being cut off by war. Gee, Asian sources cut off in war… rather like now when Australia depends on imported fuel from Asian refineries that in turn depend on Arabian Gulf oil…

During the 1970s Arab Oil Embargo Australia had rationing, but due to domestic “work actions” (strikes) by oil workers. The country was nearly self sufficient in oil and oil products then.

Fast forward to now: All the “lessons learned” have been discarded, all but 2 refineries closed in favor of Asian ones (and one of those two just had a major fire…), and the crude oil supply is disrupted by a war.

“Those who do not remember their history are doomed to repeat it.”

Stockpile Food To Prepare For Worst Food Crisis | China Cuts Fertiliser, Farmers Abandon Paddocks

12:20


Australia’s Fuel Supply Is More Fragile Than Anyone Realises (This Is How Rationing Starts)

9:58

In Conclusion

It didn’t have to be this way. Australia could have kept its oil refineries, continued to develop oil fields and production, and built a nitrogen fertilizer plant. They did not. They chose in stead to save a couple of pennies on the $A for Urea and other nitrogen fertilizers, and similarly for oil products.

Literally “penny wise and pound foolish”.

FWIW, he says “you will not see it today”… yet we are seeing it today. So when the really hard bit hits, expect it to be a lot worse.

We are at the start of a Cascade Failure. Shortly it will be impossible to prevent the cascade.

Today I did a Walmart run (for things I’d not already prepped, like laundry detergent, fresh fruit, condiments, and another round of paper goods)…

Closing thoughts at the link. 

https://chiefio.wordpress.com

SLOW GUY here. I continue, to not see food or daily essentials shortages in the USA. Come 1 May, if Strait of Hormuz remains closed, Slow guy will likely bump up stocks. Previously planned, picking up a pig, from the processor next week. Plenty of beef in the freezer. It’s the stuff on supermarket middle aisles, I’ll bulk on again. Stuff has long shelf life. So no big deal there. No spoilage. It’ll get used, Nothing tossed.

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Image AI. From American Thinker

“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Arnold Toynbee.

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“Meme them until they cry, then make memes about them crying” – Don Tzu…

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Never, Ever Forget…What they did to us during Covidiot, the Poisonous Jabs.

Merica…The Land that I, We Love.

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Alan Jackson Saturday

Work In Progress.

Remember When

Chattahoochee

Seriously…

…We’ll get through this, just fine!

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Relax. It’s Saturday. Back To Basics…

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Billy Currington – Bad Day Of Fishin’

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

Health Friday 4.24.2026 Open Thread: The COVID-19 Bioweapon “Vaccines”: Why Are They Still In Use?, Part One: Pfizer-BioNTech (COMIRNATY)

The vintage image of a vaccination record from 1867 for today’s offering header is courtesy of iStock and Google Images.

Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; theRules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: AI-generated items in today’s offering will be cited as such. If readers wish to post AI-generated content in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Today’s offering begins here: https://icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/125742_S1_M2_26_pharmkin-tabulated-summary.pdf, “MODULE 2.6.5 PHARMACOKINETICS TABULATED SUMMARY“, FDA Approved on 21 January 2021 at 23:22 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time.) This is the report regarding biodistribution data of the Pfizer-BioNTech modRNA COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccine”, BNT162b2, for which the FDA had granted the initial EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) for use in the United States on 11 December 2020. The experiments performed by Pfizer-BioNTech to produce the report, using BNT162b2 injections, were conducted on Wistar Han lab rats, Sprague Dawley lab rats, Cynomologus monkeys, and human liver microsomes and liver fractions. Data were extracted from in vivo and from in vitro results. The formulation of BNT162b2 used in the experiments was the same as that which was granted the FDA Emergency Use Authorization of 11 December 2020 for use on human beings in the United States.

Yours Truly presents images of page 7 and page 8 of this report:

Note: the above data are the results from the injections given to the Wistar Han lab rats. Note also the accumulations of the lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), ALC-0159 and ALC-0315, used in the BNT162b2 formulation. Again, this is the same formulation that was granted the initial FDA Emergency Use Authorization on 11 December 2020, for BNT162b2 to be used on human beings in the United States. LNPs are the tiny fat molecules-based, lab-created “delivery system” that encases the “vaccine” ingredients to protect them from being detected and eliminated by the natural immune system of the body. Instead, the LNPs facilitate the entry of the “vaccine” into every cell of the body. Look at the highest accumulation amounts:

Adrenal Glands: 18.2. The adrenal glands release hormones, such as, adrenaline, directly into the bloodstream. These glands are crucial in the proper function of blood pressure and the body’s stress response. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23005-adrenal-glands

Injection Site: 165. The injection of COMIRNATY into the arm of a human being results in the following: The body immediately sends “alarm signals” that there is an “enemy invader”, and starts the natural immune system process of fighting it / eliminating it. This is manifested in several ways, including: pain at the injection site, and/or a “rash” at the injection site. However, these immediate reactions can also indicate early-warning signals of anaphylactic shock — and must be closely monitored. Establishment Medicine explains this away by, first, stating that this reaction is “rare”, then proceeding to minimize the situation: https://ubiehealth.com/doctors-note/rash-after-covid-vaccine-causes-serious-warning-49121exp1, “Why do some people get a rash after the COVID vaccine and when is it serious?”, Yoshinori Abe, MD, 17 December 2025. This situation is called “COVID Arm.” In fact, Establishment Medicine minimizes “COVID Arm” reaction even if it occurs DAYS or a WEEK after “vaccination”: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/19970.htm. “Arm Rash After COVID-19 Vaccination”, updated by Linda J. Vorvick MD, 1 January 2025.)

Liver: 24.3. This incredibly important organ performs five hundred different functions in the body to maintain health. https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/what-does-the-liver-do-and-how-do-i-keep-mine-healthy

Ovaries: 12.3. The female ovaries make and release eggs for fertilization. They also produce hormones. At birth, a female has all the eggs that she will ever have. The ovaries constantly “communicate” with the brain. https://axiawh.com/resources/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-your-ovaries/

Spleen: 23.4. The spleen creates white blood cells and stores red blood cells. It helps to regulate blood platelets (which assists in proper blood clotting.) It filters out old or damaged blood cells. https://www.healthline.com/health/what-does-the-spleen-do

The above report, in Yours Truly’s opinion, needs to be required reading for any healthcare professional who is still “recommending”, let alone administering, COMIRNATY. And, in case a healthcare professional raises objections, such as, “The new COMIRNATY formula is different”, the facts that ALC-0159, ALC-0315, N1-Methylpseudouridine (all which were in the original BNT162b2 formulation), and the S1 spike protein (that can be traced back to the original Wuhan Hu1 SARS-CoV-2 strain) are ingredients in the “2025-2026 COMIRMATY” version of the injectable.

There is a reason behind why the accumulations of ALC-0159 and ALC-0315 are so high for the above body areas and organs: these lipid nanoparticles ensure that the ingredients and mechanisms of COMIRNATY enter these areas and organs: with the result that said areas and organs are interfered with, and/or damaged, and/or that the body’s ability to properly use them is destroyed. Example: over 60% of the lifetime supply of a female lab rat’s eggs are either damaged or destroyed due to it being “vaccinated” with COMIRNATY: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-covid-19-mrna-shots-destroy, “BREAKING: COVID-19 mRNA Shots Destroy Over 60% of Female Non-Renewable Egg Supply”, Nicolas Hulscher, 9 May 2025. If this is what happens with female Wistar lab rats being injected with these “vaccines”, the potential for damage to human female eggs is ALSO THERE: and, in fact, the Manniche, et al., study demonstrates this: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202504.2487/v1, “Rates of Successful Conceptions According to COVID-19 Vaccination Status: Data from the Czech Republic”, Vibeke Manniche, et al., 29 April 2025. Note: this paper is a preprint — therefore, it can be Removed, Retracted, or Withdrawn at any time. Yours Truly urges interested readers to download or otherwise archive this paper.

Before leaving the discussion of ALC-0159 and ALC-0315, please see the following images from the MSDS Safety Sheets for these lipid nanoparticles, below. First, from https://cdn.caymanchemical.com/cdn/msds/34336m.pdf, for ALC-0159:

And, from https://cdn.caymanchemical.com/cdn/msds/34337m.pdf, for ALC-0315:

Note that both compounds are for research only. In fact, both compounds rate as a carcinogen (ethanol content.) In particular, the Cayman Chemcial MSDS for ALC-0315 reads like a textbook example of a very dangerous compound.

**** Note from the images of Page 7 and Page 8 above, that BNT162b2 crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier, as seen in the accumulation data images above: the “vaccine” accumulates in the Brain and in the Pituitary Gland. In addition, there is BNT162b2 accumulation in the Skin and in the Kidneys — this indicates that the “vaccine” ingredients can be “shed” from the skin and/or excreted via the kidneys into urine.

The Appendix 1: List of Adverse Events of Special Interest section of this report about BNT162b2, also given to the FDA by Pfizer-BioNTech (April 2021) has the reports listings of over 1,200 serious / fatal side effects induced by this “vaccine.” The report is found here: 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“, FDA date-stamped 30 April 2021 at 09:26 GMT. This, in Yours Truly’s opinion, also needs to be required reading for any healthcare professional who is still “recommending”, let alone administering, COMIRNATY.

The COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” are actually gene-altering injectable therapies: they are not, strictly speaking, vaccines. Please see: https://academic,oup.com/intimm/article/33/10/521/6194108, “Development of COVID-19 vaccines utilizing gene therapy technology”, Hironori Nakagami, 27 March 2021. Every single person who has ever taken an injection of COMIRNATY has had a gene-altering therapy “cocktail” (under the guise of “it’s a vaccine”) injected into their body: something that “vaccinated” persons were never told about, nor for which they never explicitly granted permission to have put into their body.

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is not being allowed to do his job — and, in fact, to quote another blog writer, he is being “muzzled.” The COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” have been, via the American Academy of Pediatrics lawsuit and subsequent “ruling” by Federal Judge Brian E. Murphy, are now fully back into the CDC Childhood Immunization Schedule. The new nominee to head the CDC, Dr. Erica Schwartz, is an Establishment Medicine “vaccine” proponent: https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/the-queen-of-mandating-vaccines, 18 April 2026. A screenshot from this article is below:

Please also see: https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/iatrocide-by-design-rfk-jr-bombshell, “Iatrocide by Design: RFK Jr. Bombshell: “They had to DESTROY Ivermectin and Hydroxychoroquine…” “, 23 April 2026. A screenshot from the latter article is below:

The linked tweet from the above article:

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THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE HUMAN BODY FOR AN mRNA, A modRNA, AN saRNA, OR A taRNA PRODUCT OF ANY KIND.

THERE MUST BE MUCH MORE RESEARCH INTO THESE DELIVERY PLATFORMS, WITH EXTENSIVE TESTING AND DATA ANALYSES, AND WITH THE RESULTS BEING MADE PUBLIC.

THE COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “VACCINES” (GENE-THERAPY INJECTIONS) — ALL OF THEM — MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM USE IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

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2026.04.21 Daily Thread: The World According to Trade(Bait)

Enjoy your spring days!

Today’s opener is primary about two children, grandsons #1 and #2. Updates on both follow. Granddaughter – #3 grandchild – is perfect of course. She is two years old going on fourteen and thoroughly attacking the terrible twos in the most bossy way possible. Any references to mamaw and her mom along with apples and trees do not usually end well.

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Grandson #2

Starting with #2: There are no lingering issues after having his leg run over by his dad with the family car at the drop zone at school a year ago (#2’s fault – see ADHD that follows). Dad even got over his fear and will drop and pick him up occasionally. 😂

Per his pediatrician #2’s leg is perfectly fine – a God miracle. The growth plate seems unaffected. Along the way ADHD has been diagnosed by the pediatrician for some time. It has been obvious to our entire family as well. He does well in his academics, yet, struggles to stay focused while being somewhat disruptive and getting in mild trouble along with his buds at times. Very recently he was diagnosed with mild to moderate food allergies – wheat and dairy primarily – as well as excessive glucose readings for his age. It also added to some restless legs and poor sleep. In short, his nutrition sucked, which further fed the ADHD. Mom and Dad realize they were too easy on it and have to do better as they rebuild his diet and more disciplined eating patterns.

He is in the 97th percentile on height and 85th on weight. Big dude for his age and very strong. Since he is only 9 years old, his reboot should not be a major challenge. He wants to play middle school football next season, so he knows he has to get his act together. He is the type child that if you explain why he needs to change or do something he accepts it readily and does his best. His parents must cooperate and remove as many temptations as possible, which they are committed to doing.

Intuniv (Guanfacine), a mild non-stimulant med has been prescribed for the ADHD and so far the results have been good. It is mild and acts purely as an enhancement for focus while taking out some of the excess motion. The teachers have all raved at how he has responded in class and with the other kids now with no disturbances and great focus. We have also noticed a return to his creative artist side at home, which has been welcome. We will continue to monitor closely along with follow up blood labs to see how the med and the reworked nutrition does with his system. The Intuniv use will be as short termed as possible, especially if the revised nutrition works well as he goes through puberty.

Grandson #1

The results for 6th grade with the Miacademy homeschooling curriculum are in. Grandson #1 blew through it with flying colors. Four A’s and one B. He also had an A in one course with the previous Time 4 Learning curriculum we left. Once again, science was his B (Earth Science). Language Arts, Math, American History, Biblical Studies and Life Skills (Typing) were the A’s. We are going to switch with his parents taking World History and me taking on Science this next school year. We want to see if a different voice and orientation toward science can help him excel like he is doing in the other courses.

That said, for the past two months he frequently completed the course videos, lesson questions, quizzes and final tests unassisted. We made ourselves available for any questions about the work, but for the most part left the room for him to figuratively go to school. His average time range spent per day was 3-3.5 hours. The exception was his parents providing assistance conducting experiments in the science course. He took short breaks in between segments to get a snack, something to drink or go to the bathroom. To see his confidence grow has been priceless.

His parents and I monitor the course content from the parent’s portal. We know in advance what he will be studying. It is no wonder so many who use this curriculum go on to college. It is thorough and well taught by interesting teachers in videos that generally last ten minutes per segment on average. The method and presentations keep the attention of the student.

Following each video the student goes through an extensive series of questions about the presented material that are in multiple choice or fill in the blank form. Students are not allowed to proceed with wrong answers. For every wrong answer the lesson segment adds two more related questions until all are answered correctly. If needed, the student can go back and rewatch the teaching video, consult PDF’s, and restart the lesson questions. After watching the video and completing the lesson questions; a quiz is given that counts for their score in that particular subject matter’s segment. There may be as little as four segments to as many as a dozen segments per chapter in each subject. There may be as little as five chapters for an elective course or more than a dozen for core subject courses. All subjects have additional PDF provided material in each segment that can be printed that supports and even goes beyond the video content should a more in-depth look be desired. In several subjects I found the PDF’s to be very helpful for better comprehension.

The curriculum’s emphasis is the opposite of many public schools today. The schools tend to teach for students to test well and are losing their minds over state required student assessment test requirements. This curriculum teaches for the students to simply learn well. As a result their students also test well. With less distractions than in a normal school environment, the student learns more in a shorter period of time because they remain focused on the material and not on what may be going on around them. Student social interactions can be provided through local homeschool support groups as desired.

There is some flexibility with selecting subjects. There are at least a half dozen electives for each grade level. Students can accelerate into higher grade level core subjects if desired. For example, #1 loves American History and we wanted to strike while the iron was hot. With this curriculum that course is a 7th – 8th grade subject. He took it anyway and aced it. He will take the normal 6th – 7th grade subject of World History as a 7th grader. There are a few choices for each grade level even within core subjects.

To complete the balance of his 180 school days to meet the state requirement, he is doing an outside subject of cursive writing, continuing music (vocal) lessons, library time, field trips, golf, tennis, etc. Since he started this school year in late July of 2025, there are not many days left to finish it anyway as he worked on subjects during Christmas break when he had nothing else to do. That’s flexibility. No matter where you are and what day of the week it is, you can have school if you have a computer and internet access.

The primary caution for parents with any curriculum that is selected is to monitor for objectionable content. Each have their own methods, so parents can choose the curriculum that best suits the child. Below is a reminder of what parents must navigate for their children both in schools and even in some homeschool curriculums.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/04/18/woke-school-book-stores-exposed-scholastic-publishing-pro-trans-anti-racist-books-for-ten-year-olds

It was the school provided language arts Taylor Swift dream story trans images that ignited our rapid departure from 4th grade public school with #1. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

A handful are much easier on subject matter content, which fits academically challenged kids. However, most users prefer academically challenging subjects that have ample content. We found this with Miacademy with the bonus of them using teaching methods that work well for #1 and many kids. We found a couple of narratives and woke type lessons that we addressed with him as they happened. There were not nearly as many or as obnoxious as Time 4 Learning, which is the largest curriculum provider in the nation that we used previously. They have also begun using AI totally for grading purposes. It was a nightmare with the written responses to questions for many students and parents alike. That ended for us with the switch and we now wish we had always used Miacademy or a similar curriculum and system because #1 remained interested in the subjects and learned well. MUCH better video presentations, methodology, testing, etc. in our and his opinions.

I have continued to update #1’s progress periodically to make a point. No child should be left behind. That slogan from the government was true. The methodology chosen to deliver it in many public schools stunk. More were left behind than in the past as the progressive narratives and methods took root. That has led to crap results and American school children falling well behind peers around the world. The good news is that it is now easier than ever before to educate your child, or have your child basically educate themselves. Academic achievement generally soars. Homeschooled children have been documented to collectively test higher on college entrance exams than public school peers. Students tend to take ownership of their performance much better as there is nobody else to blame for getting distracted or refusing to complete assignments.

We chose to use an umbrella school at a low annual fee for reporting. They then report his progress and attendance to our county school system. This umbrella school has its own private school and is accredited in four states. When #1 is finished, he will receive a high school diploma just like all other students in public and private schools with a transcript for submission to colleges and universities as desired. He can take the college entrance exams, submit all of it and go from there just like everybody else.

Some remember #1’s health story. He was born three weeks premature with birth trauma as he was stuck in the birth canal for three hours until an emergency C-section was performed. He did not have many motor skills. He never crawled normally and had therapy for over a year to learn to walk. He suffers from Dyspraxia that contributed to the condition, which presents body awareness and coordination issues. He had a full set of teeth by age 15 months. Had tubes in his ears as well as adenoids and tonsils removed by age four. He was diagnosed lactose intolerant, which had contributed to GERD. That condition went away as he aged fortunately. He has severe sensory issues from the birth trauma that will be long lasting and includes foods. This condition worsened when the schools forced masking during COVID. His anxiety went off the charts, which triggered the sensory responses.

I discussed his binocular vision issues previously, which were resolved through eye therapy – another blessing. However, his eyes are still very sensitive to sunlight. We are using a good pair of wrap sunglasses to help with that as needed. What was once observed and misdiagnosed to be absence seizures, a form of pediatric epilepsy, turned out to be focal events triggered by anxiety associated with the sensory issues. As he has matured and become more confident they have subsided and he has learned to manage them on his own.

Many of these issues have contributed to ADHD type symptoms that persist, but are subsiding as he matures. The condition did lead to hyperfocus on things he likes to the exclusion of those he doesn’t. This is addressed by family and therapy regularly. The good of hyperfocus is revealed with his high degree of intelligence that when focused, manifests itself in excellent learning and academics as well as music, golf, etc. performance. The negative is the over focusing to the exclusion of what may be going on around him.

Fortunately, his height is normal for a 12 year old, but his weight is well below due to the food sensory issues. We encourage him to eat anything and everything he likes while exposing him to other foods to try. He continues to have monthly chiropractic adjustments, which have been essential for helping his CNS develop normally. Some will recall how horribly his spine was out of alignment until discovered at age 8 after we took him to an excellent chiropractor who had years of additional medical training on brain and CNS functions. This has reduced the effects of the Dyspraxia and helps him be much more coordinated with a more even keeled personality, which improves his confidence strongly.

We have addressed all of this as a family with the help of professionals and found that at NO time were medications helpful for #1. In fact, as I posted previously, when we agreed to use prescriptions from physicians they had moderate to severely negative effects. Chiropractics, Physical (OT), Vision and Eating therapies have improved or resolved many of the issues. It seems he has been through every test possible – MRI. scans, scopes, biopsy, blood tests, EKG, allergy testing, etc. Traditional medicine was helpful in the testing and eliminated some potential medical causes of the issues he faces. But as for providing cures – nope.

Throughout it all #1’s behavior and attitude have been exceptional. He loves the Lord, family, church buddies, and neighbor friends. His friends think he is the coolest, most fun guy on the planet, which strokes his ego. The golf and tennis have strongly helped coordination as well as assisted with sensory issues. He sings from his heart and is making good progress as a vocalist. In a year or so he will add back guitar lessons as his dexterity has improved greatly.

In less than three years starting from abysmal public school IEP reviews per teachers and administrators at the time that had him being a first grader academically, he has advanced 6 grade levels academically. He would have been a total failure if left in public schools. They are not equipped to honor “no child left behind” as they are manufacturing type facilities built on widget production. We cannot cast all the blame on them, his health issues would have made it difficult to thrive in that type of environment even with more dedicated assistance. We do blame them for not honoring the conditions of the IEP’s and the law by refusing to provide the required services without us pursuing legal remedies. Instead, their initial refusal and our decision to do it ourselves turned out to be the biggest blessing we could ever imagine. We give thanks and praise for all God has done to heal and grow #1. We know He has been involved in directing his path. Along the way we would hit a wall and not know what to do. Then when it was needed most there would be a clear answer that worked. We would then proceed down the path that led to the next solution to a problem. Some of those answers came from QTree members along the way. We are eternally grateful.

In summary, we have learned and worked hard to improve his lot in life. He has responded by giving his all and truly appreciates all of the help and attention. Very few if any people do not like #1. He is a light unto the world, but he is not an angel on earth. The teenager wiseazz is kicking in, which can be very funny or exasperating depending on the moment. Have no idea where that comes from.

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There are keys that open doors to living and learning well for all of us, to achieve more that we thought possible. Find the keys, ask God to help, then use them to unlock and open doors. Pay attention to what God lays on your heart and do it, He will equip you. This is one old guy who never dreamed he would find complete fulfillment in helping homeschool a child, yet, here I am blessed beyond measure and still learning.

Some scripture to help us,

“When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.’” – Mark 10:14

“And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.” – Matthew 18:5

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.” – Matthew 18:10

“Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.” – Psalm 127:3

“Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 18:4

““Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, ‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?” – Matthew 21:16

“Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.” – Colossians 3:21

“All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace.” – Isaiah 54:13

Finally, strive for the following with your own children and grandchildren,

“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.” – Proverbs 17:6

Remember Wolf’s site rules. Note and label all AI. Please be kind to one another, we are all in this together. May God richly bless America and all of you.

Before all things and people – In God We Trust. Also, trust Trump and the plan.