KAG20250827 Open Thread & Operation Gladio – Fact or Fiction?

The question came up on my last article, AG202508013 Open Thread & Redacted Operation Gladio, whether the information was true or just a ‘Conspiracy Theory,’ — the CIA’s favorite put down. 😆


We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.
(William J. Casey, former CIA Director, per Barbara Honegger of the Reagan Administration).


If you look there is so much information available I can not put it all in one article. So I am going to start with this:

20 Declassified Files that Prove Governmental Crime and Conspiracy – Part 1

Declassified files are useful in a world where truthtellers and open-minded investigators are shut down, censored and accused of being “conspiracy theorists.” Our world is fast becoming a digital censorship grid, where corporate technological behemoths like Google (who own YouTube) and Facebook rig algorithms (which control search engine results and news feeds) to elevate the information they want you to see and bury the information they don’t want you to see. Amazon too is part of this emerging multinational corporate technological oligarchy, and you may remember they have been caught censoring books in the past (such as No One Died at Sandy Hook by Jim Fetzer) by forbidding them to be sold on their platform. The handy thing about declassified docs is that they are genuine pieces of evidence that prove governmental criminality. It’s hard for naysayers and censors to deny the authenticity of governmental declassified files which show that our history is full of conspiracy fact, not conspiracy theory.

With that in mind, here is part 1 (click here for part 2) of a list of 20 declassified files (most from the US Government) proving the very real crimes it has been engaged in, spanning a variety of areas including forced sterilization, mind control, weather modification, false flag operations and igniting war. The documents speak for themselves….

Sources:

*http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/wwii/paperclipcia.pdf

*https://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler/adolf-hitler-part-01-of-04/view

*http://humansarefree.com/2015/02/fbi-quietly-declassified-secret-files.html

*http://tst.greyfalcon.us/bizarre.htm

*https://thefreedomarticles.com/military-intelligence-complex-ex-agents-p1/

*http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//news/20010430/doc1.pdf

*https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro

*http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/operationmockingbirdCIA.pdf

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCfTIapds0

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIaFkR9uriU

*https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000707674.pdf

*https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01315R000200070024-3.pdf

*https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/the-dark-alliance-declassified/

*http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/operation-gladio/

*https://thefreedomarticles.com/jfk-assassination-who-how-why-part-1/

*https://thefreedomarticles.com/category/911-inside-job/

For Colonel Towner, Operation Sunrise is a critical operation.


Col Towner on Redacted video:

There was a secret meeting that most people have never even heard of called Operation Sunrise. It was conducted before World War II was even over and the main players on the US side were Allan Dulles and a man by the name of Major General Lyman Limitsker. …His brother John Foster Dulles was Eisenhower’s chief of staff… They worked for a law firm called Sullivan and Cromwell. Sullivan and Cromwell’s famous clients were many of these oligarchs…

Sunrise was so important [because] Wolff bought his, Galen and Otto Scorzini’s freedom out of the either not being prosecuted at Nuremberg, because Wolff and Galen were not. Otto Scorzini stood trial but he was found not guilty. This is the guy who trained all of the stay-behind units.

So was there an Operation Sunrise?

Secret meeting in Ascona – Swiss National Museum

On 18 and 19 March 1945, the spring festival in honour of St Joseph was held on the piazza of Ascona. Despite the war, large crowds attended, and celebrated in high spirits. At the same time, a set of secret meetings was taking place in this little fishing village. These meetings are known today as ‘Operation Sunrise’ or ‘Operation Crossword’, and brought together high-ranking representatives of the warring powers around one table. Swiss mediators rounded off the panel. The subject of the negotiations was the surrender of the German armed forces in northern Italy.

The meeting attendees, all of them dressed in civilian clothes, were SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, Major General Lyman L. Lemnitzer for the United States and Major General Terence S. Airey for the United Kingdom. The meeting had been organised by Allen Dulles, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Bern – a US intelligence agency associated with the US War Department – together with his right-hand man, the German-American Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz. Italian baron Luigi Parilli, Swiss intelligence officer Max Waibel, and Max Husmann, founder and director of the Montana Institute at Zugerberg, were also present. There were also adjutants, secretaries, translators and bodyguards. The group consisted of at least 20 people. The Russians were not present…

Operation Sunrise had advantages for many of those involved. SS General Karl Wolff was treated surprisingly leniently by the judiciary, despite his involvement in numerous war crimes. He spent less than nine years in prison, and died in 1984 at Prien am Chiemsee. SS Sturmbannführer Eugen Wenner was given no punishment at all, and worked for the CIA in South America after the war. Allen Dulles, who went on to become CIA Director, surely had a hand in this engagement.

The negotiations with Wolff put a significant shine on the poor operational performance of the OSS in Switzerland, and were a key argument for Dulles’ taking over directorship of the CIA. However, Dulles’ working methods remained contentious even after World War II. Under his leadership, several bloody coups d’état were carried out in Southeast Asia and in Central and Latin America. These events shaped US foreign policy for decades. In 1961 Allen Dulles was fired by J.F. Kennedy after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba…


OPERATION SUNRISE: AMERICA’S OSS, SWISS INTELLIGENCE, AND THE GERMAN SURRENDER 1945 by Stephen P. Halbrook (29 pages) Law Review Article pdf


This is an excellent article with over 125 footnotes.

…The key players in the Sunrise drama were Allen Dulles, head of the U.S. Office of 1 Strategic Services (OSS) stationed in Bern; Major Max Waibel of the Swiss Army Intelligence 2 3 branch Nachrichtensammelstelle I “Rigi”; and SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, head of the 4 German police, the Gestapo, and SD intelligence in Italy. This study traces Operation Sunrise from the American perspective primarily through contemporaneous OSS dispatches…

So there was an Operation Sunrise and it included the people Colonel Towner named.

General Lyman Lemnitzer – Wiki

Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (29 August 1899 – 12 November 1988) was a United States Army general who served as the fourth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. He then served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1963 to 1969. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lemnitzer was responsible for drafting Operation Northwoods, a proposed plan to create support for military action against Cuba, by orchestrating false flag terrorism acts in the United States.

Otto Skorzeny – Wiki

Birth nameOtto Johann Anton Skorzeny
Born12 June 1908
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died5 July 1975 (aged 67)
Madrid, Spain
Allegiance  Germany (1932–1945)
 Spain (1950–1975)
 Argentina[Note 1]
 Egypt[Note 2]
 Israel[Note 3]
Branch  Schutzstaffel
 Mossad[Note 3]
RankSS-Standartenführer of the Reserves
CommandsSonderlehrgang Oranienburg SS Panzer Brigade 150
Battles / warsWorld War II Eastern Front[specify] Operation Oak Operation Panzerfaust Battle of the Bulge Operation Greif
AwardsKnight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

…In January 1942, Skorzeny was hit in the back of the head by shrapnel; he was evacuated to the rear for treatment. He had previously been awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class while fighting in the Yelnya bridgehead. Recuperating from his injuries he was given a staff role in Berlin, where he developed his ideas on unconventional commando warfare.[9]

Strategically and tactically, Skorzeny’s proposals were to develop units specialized in such warfare, including partisan-like fighting deep behind enemy lines, fighting in enemy uniform, sabotage attacks, etc. In April 1943 Skorzeny’s name was put forward by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the new head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), and Skorzeny met with Walter Schellenberg, head of Amt VI, Ausland-SD (the SS foreign intelligence service department of the RSHA); Schellenberg charged Skorzeny with command of the schools organized to train operatives in sabotage, espionage, and paramilitary techniques. Skorzeny was appointed commander of the recently created Waffen SS Sonderverband z.b.V. Friedenthal stationed near Berlin (the unit was later renamed SS Jagdverband 502, and in November 1944 again to SS Combat Unit “Centre”, expanding ultimately to five battalions).[13]

Operations by Skorzeny

👉Werwolf SS – A planned Nazi underground resistance movement in Allied-occupied Europe.

Operation François – Co-ordination of guerrilla operations in Iran.

Operation Oak (Unternehmen Eiche, September 1943) – rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

Operation Long Jump– A planned operation to assassinate the “Big Three” (Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt) during the 1943 Tehran Conference. The plot was uncovered before its inception. Skorzeny denied that this operation had ever existed.

Operation Knight’s Leap (Unternehmen Rösselsprung, May 1944) – An attempt to capture Josip Broz Tito alive.

Operation Armoured Fist (Unternehmen Panzerfaust a.k.a. Unternehmen Eisenfaust, October 1944) – kidnapping of Miklós Horthy Jr. to force his father, Admiral Miklós Horthy, to resign as Regent of Hungary in favor of Ferenc Szálasi, the pro-Nazi leader of the Arrow Cross Party.

Operation Griffin (Unternehmen Greif, December 1944) – A false flag operation to spread disinformation during the Battle of the Bulge.

The next question is, was Operation Gladio real?


Operation Gladio

This is a 10 year old article with some sourcing.

Gladio was part of a series of national operations first coordinated by the Clandestine Committee of the Western Union (CCWU), founded in 1948. After the creation of NATO in 1949, the CCWU was integrated into the Clandestine Planning Committee (CPC), founded in 1951 and overseen by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), transferred to Belgium after France’s official withdrawal from NATO’s Military Committee in 1966 – which was not followed by the dissolution of the French stay-behind paramilitary movements.

The role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Gladio and the extent of its activities during the Cold War era, and any relationship to terrorist attacks perpetrated in Italy during the “Years of Lead” (late 1960s to early 1980s) is the subject of debate. Switzerland and Belgium have had parliamentary inquiries into the matter.[2] …

Historian Daniele Ganser alleges that:[3]

Next to the CPC, a second secret army command center, labeled Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC), was set up in 1957 on the orders of NATO’s 

Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR). This military structure provided for significant US leverage over the secret stay-behind networks in Western Europe as the SACEUR, throughout NATO’s history, has traditionally been a US General who reports to the Pentagon in Washington and is based in NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium. The ACC’s duties included elaborating on the directives of the network, developing its clandestine capability, and organizing bases in Britain and the United States. In wartime, it was to plan stay-behind operations in conjunction with SHAPE. According to former CIA director 

William Colby, it was ‘a major program’.

Coordinated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), {the secret armies} were run by the European military 

secret services in close cooperation with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British foreign secret service 

Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also MI6). Trained together with US 

Green Berets and British 

Special Air Service (SAS), these clandestine NATO soldiers, armed with underground arms-caches, prepared against a potential Soviet invasion and occupation of Western Europe, as well as the coming to power of communist parties. The clandestine international network covered the European NATO membership, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey, as well as the neutral European countries of Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland.

The Central Intelligence Agency responded to the series of accusations made by Mr. Ganser in his book regarding the CIA’s involvement in Operation Gladio, by claiming that neither Ganser nor anyone else could have solid evidence supporting their accusations. At one point in his book, Mr. Ganser even talks about the CIA’s covert action policies as being “terrorist in nature” and then accuses the CIA of using their “networks for political terrorism”. The CIA has responded by noting that Daniele Ganser’s sourcing is “largely secondary” and that Ganser himself has complained about “not being able to find any official sources to support his charges of the CIA’s or any Western European government’s involvement with Gladio”.[4]

The existence of these clandestine NATO units remained a closely guarded secret throughout the Cold War until 1990, when the first branch of the international network was discovered in Italy...

Upon learning of the discovery, the parliament of the European Union (EU) drafted a resolution sharply criticizing the fact (…) Yet only Italy, Belgium and Switzerland carried out parliamentary investigations, while the administration of President George H. W. Bush refused to comment.[5]

Continuing with Dr Ganser.


NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation GLADIO and the Strategy of Tension — Interview with Dr. Daniele Ganser

From the Transcript:

…DG: It was really my interest that guided my steps. I tried first to establish whether it was a fact that NATO had secret armies. So I went back to the records and looked at the November 22nd 1990 Resolution of the European Parliament, which I have here, and which states: “The European Union Parliament protests vigorously at the assumption by certain US military personnel at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) and in NATO of the right to encourage the establishment in Europe of a clandestine intelligence and operations network.” By this I understood there was a secret network in Europe against which the European Union was protesting, and NATO was declining to respond. So it was like a fight between the big guys: the European Union on the one hand and NATO on the other.

I found this very interesting, so I looked further into the details and discovered that the Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, had confirmed the existence of a secret army in Italy. And it was very funny, because the French President at the time, FranÇois Mitterand, said: “No, we didn’t have a secret army.” Then Andreotti said: “Oh yes, very much so, there was a meeting in 1990 and the French were part of it.” So, Paris was really embarrassed, because they had to retract their denial and admit that they had a stay-behind army. It was a scandal with countries contradicting each other. Suffice to say that in the end I had enough solid data to confirm absolutely and beyond any doubt that NATO had secret armies, called Gladio in Italy and stay-behind in other countries.…

 One thing is solid. We know for sure that these secret stay-behind armies were co-ordinated by NATO, because Italian Generals, who directed the secret armies, openly admitted that NATO had two branches that secretly co-ordinated those networks, the Allied Clandestine Committee and the Clandestine Planning Committee. These are substructures within NATO. People don’t understand that NATO is not a transparent organization. They think they can just call NATO and ask about Gladio, and the Press Officer will give them the information. That’s not the case; NATO is a military organization, and it guards its secrets very well. Here’s another point. On November 5, 1990, a NATO spokesman told an inquisitive press:

“NATO has never contemplated guerrilla war or clandestine operations.”

So, in 1990 when the scandal broke, NATO at first denied having any link to Operation Gladio. However, the following day NATO officials admitted that the previous day’s denial had been false, adding, however, that the alliance would not comment on matters of military secrecy. So, basically, NATO denied the existence of the stay-behind units, and then when enough countries said otherwise, they said: “Ah yes, but we can’t comment; it’s Top Secret.” Actually the CIA and MI6 did the same thing. When we (that is, our network of researchers who study secret warfare) asked NATO, the CIA and MI6: “Are you linked with terrorism?”, they replied: “No, we have nothing to do with terrorism. If anyone in the stay-behind network were linked to terrorism, that person would be a rogue agent with, perhaps, alcohol, moral or sexual problems.”….

So yes, Operation Gladio is real and it is connected to NATO.

Colonel Towner also said the CIA uses the sale of illegal drugs to fund their black ops.


CIA & Drugs: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00845R000100170001-8.pdf Note it is a CIA paper.


BOOK: DESTROYING AMERICA: The CIA’s Quest to Control the Government

“DESTROYING AMERICA: The CIA’s Quest to Control the Government” lays out the most shocking information that has ever come forth on corruption in the CIA and the United States government.

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CIA officers and CIA “assets” have been targeted for the Presidency in Presidential races from 1964 to 2016, and there have been CIA officers in Congress since the earlyi950s.

Over the years, CIA officers in Congress have risen through the ranks to become some of the most powerful and influential members of Congress. They have ranged across the political spectrum from the far left to the far right, as both groups were easy to exploit while CIA officers established themselves in government, supporting liberal and conservative causes.

President Kennedy’s assassination was also part of the CIA’s quest to control the government, and the CIA was behind the attempt to assassinate President Reagan in 1981.

DESTROYING AMERICA is a shocking expose that will change the course of history in the United States. When it comes to exposing the Deep State, it does not get any better than this. Anthony Frank’s first-hand knowledge of this massive corruption in the CIA and government, and how he became a personal witness to the corruption, is contained herein. — The Thinking Conservative

Colonel Towner in another video mentioned this Ft bragg. BOTH attempted assassinations of President Trump had Fort Bragg connections if you recall.


The CIA School of Assassination at Fort Bragg

“Sometime in the early Fifties … assassination became an instrument of U.S. national policy.  It also became an important branch of our invisible government, a sizable business, and a separate technology involving weapons and devices the ordinary taxpayer paid billions for but was never permitted to see, except perhaps in the technicolor fantasies of James Bond flicks.” –Andrew St. George, journalist for Life magazine, cited by Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation….

[Several more quotes – GC]

[Then the transcript of an] Interview of Lt. Col. Dan Marvin — A Graduate of Fort Bragg’s Guerrilla Warfare School transcribed from the documentary, The Men Who Killed Kennedy:  Part 6:  The Truth Shall Make You Free


George Washington University The National Security Archive — White House Efforts to Blunt 1975 Church Committee Investigation into CIA Abuses Foreshadowed Executive-Congressional Battles after 9/11

Members of the “Church Committee” meet in Washington, D.C., February 6, 1975. (Source: Henry Griffin / AP)

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 522 Posted – July 20, 2015		Advisers to President Ford Sought to Protect CIA’s Image Abroad by Having Its Capabilities “Cloaked in Mystery and Held in Awe”

Ford Administration Stratagem of Withholding Sensitive Intelligence, Spearheaded by Dick Cheney, Set Tone for Future Clashes between Claims of Secrecy and Public’s Right to Know

½ down the page is a list of 31 documents and then the footnotes.


The Corbett Report  does a much better job than I can using sources such as EVELYN DE ROTHSCHILD, RICHARD ROCKEFELLER, HENRY KISSINGER, & ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI. He also talks about a favorite source of Colonel Towner, Antony C. Sutton.

Episode 297 – China and the New World Order | The Corbett Report

…And so we have on one hand the fiery and bellicose rhetoric of the would-be belligerents of the Cold War of the twenty-first century and on the other hand the conciliatory or even cooperative pronouncements of the usual gaggle of super gophers, the “Superclass” identified by Henry Kissinger protégé David Rothkopf in his recent book of the same name, that identified about 6,000 global actors able to implement transnational policy agendas, thanks to their political and financial influence.

Are these two positions, which seem to go head-on and seem to be completely irreconcilable, in fact resolvable, if we look at this not as a two-dimensional surface-level conflict taking place between nation-states or groupings of nation-states on the geopolitical chess board, but in fact as a three-dimensional problem that involves hierarchies of control vying in different levels of this game for different squares. Not just squares on a chessboard but a 3D chess board, if we can extend the metaphor.

Well, in fact, that is exactly the position I would take. And as strange as that might seem, as difficult as it might be to wrap our heads around that type of conflict which is happening at one level—which is actually cooperation at another level—it should be noted that this is not the first time in history that we’ve noticed this type of phenomenon. And in fact even within the past century we’ve noticed very, very similar analogous—one would almost say template or prototypical—examples of this very phenomenon, as identified by a researcher whom I have name-checked a number of times on this podcast in the past, so I certainly hope my regular listeners will be familiar with his work already.

I am referring of course to Antony C. Sutton, the author of such trade books as Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Wall Street and FDR, but also the author of many scholarly publications, academic publications that were published under the auspices of the Hoover Institution in the 1970s and that have been well-regarded scholarly works that were even name-checked by the likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski as being convincing proof of the thesis that these books were forwarding. And that thesis revolved around the idea that, in the case of, for example, the Bolshevik Revolution or the rise of the Nazis, that it was the Western powers—specifically the financial center of Wall Street and the Wall Street bankers—who were helping to fund their supposed arch-enemies, the socialists of various stripes, whether that be the Bolsheviks or the National Socialists in Germany, for their own agenda purposes…

An interview of Dr Sutton follows. You can either read or listen.

There is much much more which is why Colonel Towner has read over 100 books just on the subject of ‘Operation Gladio.’ [She and others use it as a generic term. Operation Condor and Operation Northwoods are specific examples] she discusses those books, I think on X-spaces . She also has a Rumble channel where she often has Brady, (War Hamster) another avid historian, on for discussions.

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

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

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

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

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

https://benjaminfranklin.net

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

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

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

1739 Revival in London

B’s Vision For The People

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

😂

B got Holy Ghosted.

Ohio Vision

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

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

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

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

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

😉

Let’s move on to our last Pennsylvania signer.

John Morton

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

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

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

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

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

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Dear KMAG: 20250825 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

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

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

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

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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

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

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

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

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

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

Joe Biden didn’t win.

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

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

darraign

verb

  • to vindicate
  • to justify
  • to prove
  • obsolete spelling of derrain
  • to move things out of place
  • to respond to an accusation
  • to settle a dispute
  • an archaic or obsolete word that means “to defend” or “to protect”

Used facetiously in a sentence

Be sure to bring your umbrella if you go out in darraign!

Not shown in a picture. Or maybe it is shown. You decide.

Not shown in a video. Or maybe it is shown. You decide.

MUSIC!

Let’s just drop this in here…..

THE STUFF

Hopefully Steve is at least lurking occasionally at this point, and if so, perhaps he’ll enjoy this shorter video by Erica d’Anthropologie, which I found intriguing for several reasons, including just a good look at how science works when it’s actually working.

I’ve learned a lot from this gal.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

Dear MAGA: 20250824 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.

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: 
https://www.theqtree.com/2019/01/01/dear-maga-open-topic-20190101/

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.”

The Promised Land

God promised a heritage to His people, Israel (Genesis 12:7; 15:18–20). The Promised Land was an endowment from Earth’s Creator to the children of Israel. Israel acquired the Promised Land only through God’s guidance and His miraculous intervention in history (Exodus 33:14–16; Psalm 44:1–8; 136:10–22).

The promise of a land for God’s people began in Genesis 12 when God appeared to Abram (Abraham) and told him that he had been chosen to be the father of many nations. God promised to bless Abram and lead him into a land that would belong to his offspring as a lasting heritage. God later confirmed this promise to Abraham’s son Isaac (Genesis 26:3) and then to Isaac’s son Jacob (Genesis 28:13).

The boundaries of the Promised Land were from the River of Egypt (the Nile) to the Euphrates (Exodus 23:31). Also, in Joshua 1:4 God promised Joshua that the land of Israel would include territory extending “from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.” This territory would include the land from the southern tip of Israel along the Red Sea to the Euphrates River on the east, the border of Syria on the north (land of the Hittites), and the Mediterranean Sea (Great Sea) to the west: Modern-day Israel, including Gaza and the West Bank, and Jordan, as well as parts of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.

By the time Israel was ready to take the land, hundreds of years after Abraham, it was inhabited by pagan nations: Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (Exodus 33:2). When it was time for the Israelites to inherit the Promised Land, God raised up Moses to bring His people out of slavery in Egypt and used Joshua to lead a military conquest of Canaan.

The Bible teaches that God will eventually fulfill the promise to give Israel full control over the Promised Land. Israel’s full territory will ultimately be ruled by the Messiah during the Millennium (Revelation 20:1–6). God’s promises, partly fulfilled throughout history, will have complete, literal, fulfillment prior to God’s creation of new heavens and a new earth (Revelation 21—22; cf. Psalm 72:8).

For all time?

In Deuteronomy 4:40 the Lord gave the Israelites this command: “Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.”

This passage contains a conditional offer. Israel would have the Promised Land as they kept God’s “decrees and commands.” The Israelites had to obey God’s statutes in order to remain in the land. History reveals that the Israelites often disobeyed, resulting in temporary times of exile from their land. However, the end of this passage notes that God is giving Israel the Promised Land “for all time.”

There are both a conditional and unconditional aspect to God’s promise. God offered blessings within the Promised Land conditionally, related to the Israelites’ obedience. Yet God also made an unconditional vow that Israel would have the Promised Land “for all time.” The promise of Deuteronomy 4:40 is a far-seeing promise, extending to the end of this world’s existence and even into the time of the new earth.

Many other passages of Scripture support the fact that Israel will possess the Promised Land forever. For example, God spoke to Isaac in Genesis 26:3, saying, “Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.” The Lord also spoke to Jacob in Genesis 28:13–14 with similar words: “There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.’” See also Psalm 132:14; Isaiah 14;1; and Zechariah 2:3–5, 10–13.

2025·08·23 We Will Have Justice Daily Thread

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

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

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

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

RINO scum. Like Murkowski and Collins.

That’s OK. We go around ’em for now.

January 6 Tapes Reminder

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

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

A Caution

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

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

Running good candidates is only HALF of the battle!

Justice Must Be Done.

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

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

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

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

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

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

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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

Paper Spot Prices

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

Last Week:

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

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

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

[Blah, blah, blah.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

Dear MAGA: 20250821 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic

This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

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

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W

Not a placeholder. A short selection of tidbits.

(1) AI Sydney Sweeney, bad AI political humor, and bad AI dialogue. UGH. And yet, weirdly watchable, like figures in a small-town wax museum.

(2) This is funnier, and definitely NOT AI.

(3) Is this wasp video AI? Your opinions welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RMDTFO6iZ0

Not sure why you have to watch it on YouTube.

(4) Science LYAHF video turns out to be good for all the wrong reasons!

This LYAHF (Let’s You And Her Fight) physics attack video, in which a rather malicious woke establishment science dude obsessively goes after Sabine Hossenfelder and Eric Weinstein, by interviewing six scientists whose fields she has snubbed, turns out to have some amazing explanations of current aspirations in physics by his less malicious and very serious guests.

Watch the attacker act like a typical MSM journalist, pushing his guests to try to get them to say what he wants them to say – that Sabine is a “fraud” and a crackpot.

Nonetheless, very worth the watch to gain an understanding of current progress in string theory, particle physics, etc.

(5) Want to know more about ancient Egyptian?

It takes a while for the story to get there, but it’s worth it.

Have a great weekend!

W

Dear KMAG: 20250820 ✾ Wolfian Wednesday Persnickety Placeholder and Open Topic

Gail Combs is off tonight due to the tragic death of her neighbor, as well as the insurance company coming after her home, and other assorted trials and evils. Please join me in praying for Gail, her husband, and their neighbors. May they be strengthened in their hour of need by the Almighty.

We must endeavor to persevere with this placeholder.

This is a placeholder.

Most of this post is boilerplate, but with sprinkles of minor mirth.

Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Wolfian Wednesday Persnickety Placeholder and Open Topic, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Wolfie’s WOO-WOO Wednesday, due to the author’s expected rambling about his most WOO-WOO opinions. Please bear with us!

We are living in an episode of The Outer Limits.

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s WEDNESDAY…again.

So are we halfway through the week? Is this really HUMP DAY?

Let’s try that again.

OK – maybe Wheatie’s rules need to be posted on Wednesday, too.

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

Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.

If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a pure placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday Wednesday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

How did Q put it? Ah, yes.

“Enjoy the show!”

W

OK – y’all got a real placeholder on the Monday upon which this post was saved. We’re gonna try to give you some actual fresh content today.

(1) Beware Charybdis

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

Pot may not kill you, but it has friends like jet engines who are willing to do the job. Stay safe out there, mellow tokers!

(2) The Far Out Dude Prophesies

How did the 1970s get the future so right by warning us about what we shouldn’t do wrong, and then somehow failing to stop it?

(3) Pick a Number – Any Number!

Not so easy, when you think too much about it! Welcome to the “axiom of choice” – which fixes everything and breaks it, too.

(4) Dark Energy Is A Placeholder!

No, I did NOT say that Placing Holder Under Arrest is a Dark MAGA Energy. Nor did this lady. But she did say that “Dark energy is a placeholder for a lack of knowledge of what leads to the expansion of the universe.”

Actually, she said a whole lot more. If you want a good general explanation of the state of modern physics in words and no numbers, this gal can provide, during the first half hour.

After that, you enter the arena of physicists fighting each other. Grab some popcorn!

(PS – as you can see by the image on the video, these new AI anti-wrinkle creams and age-reversing formulas for men and women really work!)

(5) Does This Research Smell Sweet or Stink?

“Scent of a woman’s tears brings calm to men”

Remember – the Weizmann Institute had some researchers who straight-up lied about some covidian stuff, IIRC. This would mean that there are simple volatile chemicals that pacify human aggression. Are they putting those in everyday products? And if not, why not?

This was brought here a long time ago by somebody – and sat in my tabs forever.

LINK 1: https://studyfinds.org/womans-tears-calms-men-down/

LINK 2: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002442

So – we got some massive tab-clearing done. But there is still more to do! See you next time!

W

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Wesley and George Whitefield

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

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

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

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

The Fields Were Ripe For Harvest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Wilson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

Dear KMAG: 20250818 Trump Won Three Times ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

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

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

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

Wheatie’s Rules:

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

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

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

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

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

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

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

Joe Biden didn’t win.

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

Hey – we actually got him out! *salutes Wheatie*

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

pantochronometer

noun

  • combined sundial and compass

Used in a sentence

A pantochronometer is a Horizontal Magnetic Dial, i.e. a floating sundial on a compass card. The rotating card automatically aligns itself along a north-south axis.

Shown in a picture

Shown in a video

MUSIC!

Another Sydney Sweeney AI parody for your inspection!

THE STUFF

Finnish genetics – evidence of more cross-pole traffic, headed the other way from the ancestors of the American Indians!

Complicated business.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W