Hal Shurtleff

Director and Co-Founder of Camp Constitution.

Understanding Minneapolis

Published February 2, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

What we see happening in Minneapolis is an old and effective tactic from the communist playbook with a few updates.   It was used by Martin Luther King in the 1960s and by left-wing labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s.   The tactic is called direct action.  And it goes like this:

1, Get people  into the streets with a grievance real or imagined.  To cause maximum disruption, ensure that demonstrators don’t have a permit.

2, Police or counter protesters clash causing deaths and/or injuries.

3, A sympathetic media, reports that either the police, local and federal, or counterdemonstrators are responsible. for the deaths, injuries and property damage.

4,  A demand is made to support the cause of the demonstrators.  In the case of Minneapolis, get ICE agents out and let dangerous illegal alien criminals remain in the United States.

5, Pass federal legislation to address the situation.  In this case, abolish ICE.

The books The Whole of Their Lives and And Not A Shot is Fired are two important resources to help people understand what is happening in Minneapolis.   The Whole of Their Lives was written in 1948 by Bengamin Gitlow, a former communist who became disillusioned by communist tactics.  He recounts a rent strike where communists were on the street protesting, while communists on the roof, unknown to the street demonstrators, were throwing debris down at the communists below.  The goal was to create martyrs.  The title of the book was what the communists expected from their members.

And Not a Shot is Fired by Jan Kosak, a Czechoslovakian communist, explains how a free nation is taken over via subversion without the need of a violent revolution. It was an internal strategy paper for the Czechoslovak Communist Party and reprinted in English by the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities. Over the years, numerous conservative organizations reprinted the book.  Camp Constitution reprinted it in the Spring of 2020 with a foreword by our friend John Perna.   Back in 2020, during the height of the Black Lives Matter, Antifa riots, copies of the small booklet were selling for over $200.

We have it available for  $20. shipping included:   https://campconstitution.net/product/and-not-a-shot-is-fired-the-communist-strategy-for-subverting-a-representative-government-by-jan-kozak/

For a free PDF version of  The Whole of Their Lives, E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com 

 

 

National School Choice Week January 25-31– Over 32 Governors Issue Proclamations Supporting School Choice

Published January 31, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

This week is National School Choice Week.   Our choice is homeschooling, but we appreciate the organization National School Choice Week https://schoolchoiceweek.com/            that is trying to help parents become aware of options to government schools.

From their website:

National School Choice Week: Celebrating Momentum and Meaningful Wins

National School Choice Week helps families learn more about the education options
available for their children. We raise equal awareness of traditional public, public
charter, public magnet, private, online, home, and nontraditional learning environments.Since 2011, National School Choice Week has shined a positive spotlight on opportunity
in K–12 education through 235,000 independent events hosted by schools, nonprofits,
and parent leaders. In 2026, NSCW will take place January 25–31.

Our Organization

National School Choice Week is a charitable program of the National School Choice
Awareness Foundation (NSCAF) and the National School Choice Resource Center
(NSCRC), both 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

NSCAF and NSCRC show parents how K–12 school choice can change their children’s
lives, and then guides them through each step of the school search process. NSCAF
and NSCRC also oversee the Navigate School Choice and Conoce tus Opciones
Escolares charitable programs, which provide families with free resources to help them
succeed in their school choice journeys.

NSCAF is nonpolitical and does not advocate for or oppose legislation at any level of
government.

 Over thirty governors issued proclamations celebrating National School Choice Week:  https://schoolchoiceweek.com/proclamations/

Camp Constitution 2025 Annual Report 

Published January 13, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

                                                                                  Our Annual Family Camp

While our numbers were down from last year’s camp, we still had an excellent turnout with attendees coming as far as Alaska, Wyoming and Utah.

Returning instructors included Professor Willie Soon, one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, who attended with his family, Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Rev. Steve Craft who serves at the camp chaplain, Mrs. Catherine White of the Constitution Decoded, Dr. Felecia Nace, author of several books, and author and host of the Liberty Sentinel program, Alex Newman. Guest instructors included Michelle Gallagher, author of A Guide to the Forefather’s Monument, Mr. Kurt Hyde, an expert of election fraud, and Mr. Chris Burke who taught an optional class on the use of HAM Radios.   A link to our YouTube playlist of classes and activities at our camp:

https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PL7jnzBzBiNYDeD_94loNG8mUcUMFM2m2N/videos

 

                                               Camp Constitution Ladies Annual Spring Fling

We had our largest turnout for the Ladies “Spring Fling held for the 2nd year at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center in early May.  Our guest speakers were Karen Testerman, author and gubernatorial candidate, and Sue Ianni, a January Sixer.  The ladies also took a field trip to the Belknap County Sportsmen’s Club to do some marksmanship training.

                     

                                                                 Camp Constitution in the News

Our “Shurtleff v Boston” case was cited in the  the 3-0 decision of the First District Federal Court in its  Scaur v Nashua https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/25-1356/25-1356-2025-12-22.html announced a few days before  Our case was mentioned during “Pride Month” when towns and cities refuse to fly rainbow flags.   And .our case was  cited in a decision by the University of Massachusetts Amherst when the “Pride” flag was removed from a building, and in February our case was mentioned in a controversy at the Marblehead, MA High School.

The publisher of the Rochester Voice, an on-line news for Greater Rochester, NH, gave us a monthly column. -the Camp Constitution Report. Our monthly article now runs in four media outlets “The Boston Broadside” ‘The Weirs Times.” “The Granite Grok” and “The Rochester Voice.”

 

                                                              Camp Constitution on the Air

 In December, The Tamara Scott Show interviewed us on the subject of Bill of Rights Day.  Tamara also had on for President’s Day. In September, we were interviewed by Landry Crawford, a 16 year-old homeschooler who hosts HisStory podcast.  We were also return guests on the Duke Pesta Show, The Sentinel Report hosted by Alex Newman, and The Chuck Moscowitz Show.  And first time  New Hampshire Gospel Radio, and  by Shawn Crenshaw, the host of the  Biblical Conservative Show on the subject of Planned Parenthood.

                                                             The Camp Constitution Report

 In late August we received this E-mail regarding our podcast:

 “My name is Anuj Agarwal, I’m the Founder of FeedSpot.

I would like to personally congratulate you as your podcast The Camp Constitution Report has been selected by our panelist as one of the Top 15 Constitution Podcasts on the web.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/constitution_podcasts/

 

This is the most comprehensive list of Top 15 Constitution Podcasts on the internet and I’m honored to have you as part of this!

You can also add your website link and other social media handles to get more visibility in our list and get discovered by brands for collaboration.

We’ve created a badge for you to share with your audience. You can display it on your website or post it on social media to showcase this amazing milestone.

We’d be grateful if you could help us spread the word by briefly mentioning about the Top 15 Constitution Podcasts list in any of your upcoming post.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions.”

As a result, we have received some interesting requests for interviews.

   We did 25 shows including interviews the Write Side Blonde, Pastor Max Lyons of The Biblical Thinker, Alex Kocman of Baptists for World Evangelism,  Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer of the White House Faith Initiative, Adam Swart, founder of Crowds on Demand Jody Underwood of New Hampshire Educational Options, Karen Siegmund, President of the American Freedom Alliance, Woodrow Johnson, CEO of Revere Solutions, Michelle Gallagher, author of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook, Elena Barbera, producer and director of the documentary “American Groomer.

This show airs on our YouTube Channel, Rumble, Podomatic, Spotify, and about five other podcast formats: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2025-05-22T05_29_44-07_00

                                                                               Special Projects

Working with  with the Matric Coalition, a New Hampshire based entity whose mission is to donate poster of the Forefathers Monument, and copies of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook to local schools.  We donated several copies of the book and framed copies of the poster to Manchester Public Schools.  We donated hundreds of pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Winnipesaukee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, numerous libraries Cornerstone Christian School in Ossipee, NH, and two Trail Life Troops in MA and NH.    

We have donated individual copies as well as cases of Alpha-Phonics to homeschool parents and several homeschool organizations and several Christian schools.

 

In October, we hosted a field trip to the Forefathers Monument in Plymouth where we had a guided tour of the monument by our friend Leo Martin of the Jenney Museum. In December, we hosted Leo and his wife Nancy at our annual “Reason for the Season” potluck.

 

We had floats in the Alton, NH Old Home Day Parade where we distributed 400 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution, and  a float in Lexington. MA’s 250 Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Lexington.  The evening before the Lexington Parade, we hosted our 3rd Annual Patriot’s Day Overnight at the Lane House where we took in the reenactments of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battle of Lexington.  We had information tables at six New Hampshire Education Options expositions.

The Freedom Project Academy led by our friend Dr. Duke Pesta sponsored an essay contest for his students and offered three families free tuition at Camp Constitution’s annual family camp.   We had the opportunity to conduct an on-line class for a group of students both national and international. The topic was the U.S. Constitution.  We did a video for the Potomac Tea Party that was aired on Independence Day.

For the 17th year in a row, (with the exception of the Covid lockdown) we had info tables at the Mass HOPE homeschool convention, Homeschoolers of Maine, and the Crown of Maine’s Balloon Festival in Presque Isle. For the 2nd year in a row, we had an info table at the Londonderry, NH’s Old Home Day, and we co-sponsored Patriot Camp- a day camp program in Rockport, Maine hosted by Camp Constitution instructors Jessica Whitworth and Victoria Buckland.

(Lexington Parade Float)                                                   (Patriot Camp Rockland, ME)

                                                                              Camp Constitution Media

We videotaped  numerous presentations including “The Pilgrim Story” by Leo and Nancy Martin, A Tour of the Forefathers Monument by Leo Martin, the Sixth Annual Christian Education Initiative held in Lynchburg, VA in September, events at the last day of Patriot Camp held in Rockport, Maine, the classes and activities at our family camp, the Memorial Day Parade in Alton, NH sponsored by the American Legion and a presentation .by Dr. Chris Gnanakan of Liberty University.

                                                                                YouTube, and Rumble

We got 455 new subscribers for the 2025 giving us  close to `17,270 subscribers overall.  We received 126,000  views this year, and 2,134,000 lifetime views.   We uploaded 177 videos and  now have a total of 1,800 videos on our channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN7ME18Q1xiqcrPEn5h5FbA

Our Rumble channel received 6,155 views giving us 172,000 all time views. .  We have uploaded some documentaries including “Operation Keelhaul” and “MAAFA 21 Black Genocide in the 2oth Century” as well as some classic anti-communists movies.

https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all

 

                                   Camp Constitution Report on Podomatic and Other Platforms

 

We have received 342 plays and 2,512 downloads of our shows. And since we created the account, we are in the top ten for the category of conservative-right.  In addition to our weekly show, we have uploaded some classic interviews and speeches by Dan Smoot, Gary Allen, and E. Merrill Root. A link to our show:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal

                                                                       Camp Constitution Press

 We reprinted in an 81/2” x 11” format, the free market classic “Frogs and Freedom” and produced T-Shirts with a quote from Pastor Voddie Baucham.

A link to purchase copies of these:  https://campconstitution.net/product/frogs-and-freedom-free-market-classic/

                                                                                Speakers Bureau

In September, we spoke at the Goffstown, NH Homeschool cooperative.   We spoke at the August meeting of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Massachusetts chapter.  Also in August, we did three presentations in Aroostook County, Maine titled “Borders and Banners:  The Biblical View.” We gave a presentation at the Homeschoolers of Maine’s annual convention in May.  We were the keynote speaker at the Berkshire (MA) Republic Committee’s annual Lincoln-Reagan where we gave a presentation on our Christian flag lawsuit to a very receptive group.  Rev. Steve Craft was a speaker at an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Republican Assembly in late March.

                                                                                 Website

We have received 23.4 thousand views with 13.7 thousand visitors.  Twenty percent of our views come from foreign nations   We published 190 articles on our blog.  https://www.campconstitution.net

                                                                    Sam Blumenfeld Archives

We received 932,974 hits. 1791 downloads of the “Alpha-Phonics” workbooks, 1014 downloads of the “How to Tutor” books, and 1,248 “Alpha-Phonics manuals, 3,772 downloads of Sam’s ‘How to Marry a Rockefeller.”

A link to the archives:  http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm

 

The Blumenfeld Archives

                                                                                    Facebook Page

We have close to 3.6 thousand likes  and over 3,600 following our page.  We also manage six other groups and one other page-all of them growing in members

                                                                   Stopping An Article V Convention

We helped defeat an Article V Convention resolution and a “faithful delegate bill in New Hampshire.”  We are part of a nationwide movement to protect the Constitution from an Article V Convention.  Thousands have read our articles, blogs and videos on the subject as well as downloading our on-line resources.

Massachusetts recently rescinded all of its applications for an Article V convention.  While we were not directly involved in this effort, we think that our years of educating state elected officials on this issue  played a role in this success.

                                                                            Looking into 2026

We have a media event in Lynchburg, VA with author Vince Ellison on January 10.  A field trip to the 250th celebration of the Henry Knox Trail on January 17.  Several New Hampshire Education Option fairs, at least two homeschool shows.  We are gearing up for our Ladies “Spring Fling” in May,  our 18th annual family camp and celebrating our nation’s 250th Birthday.

                                     

                                                           

                                                                          How You Can Help

Make a monthly donation or a one-time donation. Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net  Donations can be earmarked to help pay camp fees for worthy youngsters and families.

If you own a business or are involved with a non-profit, consider a sponsorship for a minimum of $100. A year.

And please keep Camp Constitution in your prayers.

Thank you for helping to make Camp Constitution possible.

Blessings.

Hal Shurtleff, Director

Camp Constitution

Alton, NH

I Want to Get into the  Not Having Any Children at My Daycare Business

Published January 1, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff

Some years ago, a letter was circulated in some circles that pointed out the waste, abuse, and ludicrousness  of federal programs. There were various versions but here is a condensed one:

Subject:

Application to Enter the “Not Raising Hogs” Industry

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to express my keen interest in joining the highly esteemed and, I understand, quite lucrative field of not raising hogs.

For years, I have successfully refrained from raising hogs of any breed, size, or temperament. In fact, my property has remained entirely hog-free, and I have maintained a spotless record of zero hog-related activity. I believe this demonstrates my exceptional qualifications for this line of work.

If accepted into the program, I am prepared to continue my diligent efforts in not feeding, not housing, and not marketing hogs. I am also open to expanding my operations into not raising other animals, should such opportunities arise.

Please advise me on the proper forms to complete, the payment schedule for my non-efforts, and whether there are any government-approved breeds of hogs I should specifically avoid not raising.

 

In the spirit of the above letter, I want to get into the Not Having Any Children at My Daycare Business:

Dear Congressman:

I am thinking about getting into the Not Having Any Children at My Daycare business.  Unlike our Somalian friends and fellow Americans who are in the business, I am not asking for much.  Maybe $1 million a year for not having 100 children at my daycare business.  This modest request isn’t meant to be critical my fellow American Somalian Not Having Children at Daycare colleagues.  I can only imagine how m much it costs to recruit, train and fund private militias in Somalia.

While the funds that I hope to get won’t be used for daycare purposes, I pledge to spend the funds supporting local businesses which I know you care about so much.   And unlike my Somalian colleagues, not that I am passing judgement on them, I pledge not to support Sharia Law.  I cannot possibly get my wife to wear a burka.

May I hear from you.

Sincerely,

Your faithful constituent

P.S.   I may get into the Learing Center” business as well, but I need to do a little more research to see just what is a “Learing” Center

American Minute with Bill Federer How did January 1st become New Year’s Day? and How is it connected to Leap Day?

Published January 1, 2026 | By Hal Shurtleff
 Camp Constitution wishes all a Happy and Blessed New Year.

Why is January 1st New Year’s Day on our calendar.

It is a simple question, but one has to go on a journey to find the answer.

First, we must look at the origins of our calendar … continue reading …

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Prior to the invention of clocks, watches and digital devices, ancient peoples used calendars based on the moon, whose lunar cycles incrementally shifted through the seasons every 19 years, serving as an enormous generational clock.
Countries had their own calendars, usually connected to agricultural growing seasons:

Sumerian, Egyptian, Assyrian, Elamite (ancient Persia), Zoroastrian, Greek, and Hebrew.

These calendars had different numbers of days in a week and different number of weeks in a month, often with an extra “catch-all” month in the winter of varying lengths.

The ancient Babylonian calendar began with the first new moon after the Spring Equinox, March 21.

The Egyptian calendar was tied to the annual flooding of the Nile River.

The word “calends” is the Latin name of the first day of each month in the Roman calendar.

As the Roman Empire conquered other countries, it found it difficult to sync all the different calendars.

To fix this, in 46 B.C., Julius Caesar borrowed from Egypt and instituted a single solar calendar based on the sun.

It was called the Julian Calendar, with 365 days, the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate around the Sun.
There was a problem. Each year was six hours short, so to keep it accurate, ever four years the Julian Calendar added an extra day – a “leap” day, on February 29.

The Julian Calendar also officially recognized that the Romans moved the beginning of the year from March to January first.

January was named after Janus, the Roman god in charge of doors, from where we get the word “janitor.”

March was named after Mars, the Roman god of war.

Remnants of March being the old first month is still in our calendar, with the names: September, October, November, and December.

“Sept” is Latin for seven, but now September is the ninth month.

“Oct” is Latin for eight, as in octagon – an eight- sided figure, but now October is the tenth month.

“Nov” is Latin for nine, but now it is the eleventh month, and

“Dec” is Latin for ten, as in decimal, divisible by ten, but now it is the twelfth month.

Rome’s old fifth month, Quintilis, was renamed after Julius Caesar, being called “July.”

Since it only had 30 days, Julius Caesar took a day from the old end of the year, February, and added it to July, giving the month 31 days.

The next emperor, Augustus Caesar, renamed the old sixth month, Sextilis, after himself, calling it “August.”

He also took a day from the old end of the year, February, and added it to August, giving that month 31 days, and leaving February with only 28 days.

Augustus Caesar also had his version of global surveillance to track everyone. It was called a census or tax enrollment.

Luke 21:1-3 “In those days … there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.”

Romans persecuted Christians for three centuries in ten major persecutions until Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in 313 A.D., legalizing Christianity.

Just as Julius Caesar unified the Roman Empire with the Julian Calendar, Constantine wanted to unify the Christian Roman Empire by having everyone use the same date to celebrate Christ’s Resurrection, the most important event in the Christian calendar.

The Apostle Paul wrote in First Corinthians 15:20

“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”

At the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., Constantine insisted that Easter be on a Sunday.

This was a defining moment. It separated Jewish Christians — as Jesus and his disciples were Jewish – from the emerging Gentile Church.

Prior to Constantine, Christians would ask Jewish rabbis when Passover would be celebrated each year, which was the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan.

The Latin word for “fourteenthers” is Quarto-deciman.

Since Constantine wanted Easter on Sunday, and the Jewish day related to Passover could occur on any day of the week, it turned into the Quarto-decimanism controversy.

Constantine ended the controversy by creating a non-Jewish formula to determine the date of Easter on a Sunday.

It would be the first Sunday after the first paschal full moon falling on or after the Spring Equinox.

“Equinox” is a solar calendar term:

“equi” means “equal”

and

“nox” means “night.”

Thus “equinox” is a day when there is an equal amount of daylight and nighttime.

It occurs in the Spring around March 20-21 and in Autumn around September 22-23.

In the year 325 A.D., Constantine’s new date for Easter was March 21. Those not complying with his new formula were persecuted.

A liturgical table of church dates was compiled with all the future dates of Easter.

Not everyone was happy with Constantine’s formula, in fact it was a big sticking point between Celtic Christian tradition in the British Isles and Roman Catholic tradition.

The Celtic date of Easter was very meaningful as that was the day Saint Patrick confronted the Druid chieftain King Loigaire – “King Leary,” circa 433 A.D., resulting in a large number of Irish converting to Christianity.

Nevertheless, at the Synod of Whitby Abbey in 664 AD, King Oswy of Northumbria agreed to have the Celtic Church come under the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and adopt its liturgical table of church dates.

In 526 A.D., during the reign of Christian Emperor Justinian, the scholarly monk Dionysius Exigus thought it inappropriate that dates were still being recorded in relation to the reign of anti-Christian Emperor Diolcetian – “anno Diocletiani.”

He began making notations marking down dates in relation to the birth of Jesus – “anno Domini,” which in Latin means “in the year of the Lord’s reign.”

Gradually, this method of recording became the dating system used throughout the world, with all dates being either B.C. “Before Christ” or A.D. “Anno Domini.”

In the late 19th century, secular academia popularized the use of BCE – “Before Common Era” and CE “Common Era.”

The futility of this is displayed with the question, when did time change from Before Common Era to Common Era?

The answer is the birth of Christ. In their attempt to ignore Christ, they nonetheless acknowledge Him.

In 567 A.D., the Council of Tours considered January first a pagan date since it was associated with Rome, so it moved the beginning of the year to Christmas Day.

The Council of Tours also made the twelve days between Christmas, December 25 and Epiphany, January 6, when the wise men visited, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

The days were called “holy days,” which later came to be pronounced “holidays.”

During the Middle Ages, France celebrated New Year’s Day on Easter.

Henry the Eighth’s Tudor England celebrated the New Year’s Day on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation.

The Julian Calendar, upon which the liturgical church tables were based, had one slight discrepancy – it was off each year by 11 minutes and 14 seconds.

Because of this, the date of Easter incrementally moved ten days ahead of the liturgical church table of dates based on Constantine’s formula tied to the Spring Equinox.

In 1582, Pope Gregory the Thirteenth decided to revise the calendar by eliminating ten days.

He kept the leap day every 4th year but added a minor adjustment.

There would be NO leap year in years divisible by 100 unless they are also divisible by 400.

For instance, there IS a leap day in the years 1600, 2000, 2400, but there is NO leap day in the years 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100.

 

It sounds complicated, but it is so accurate the Gregorian Calendar is used internationally today.

Pope Gregory’s “Gregorian Calendar” also reversed the Council of Tours and moved the beginning of the New Year BACK to Julius Caesar’s January 1st date.

Catholic countries quickly adopted the Gregorian Calendar, but Protestant countries continued to use the Julian Calendar for nearly two more centuries.

England was an Anglican Protestant country and therefore reluctant to adopt the more accurate Catholic Gregorian Calendar.

This gave rise to some interesting record keeping.

For example: ships would leave Catholic Europe on one date in the Gregorian Calendar, called “New Style,” and arrive in Protestant England at an earlier date on the Julian Calendar, called “Old Style.”

Another example is that England’s William Shakespeare and Spain’s Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote of La Mancha, died on the same date, April 23, 1616.

But when the differences between England’s Julian Calendar and Spain’s Gregorian Calendar are taken into consideration, Cervantes actually died ten days BEFORE Shakespeare.

The Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts on November 11, 1620, in the Old Style Julian Calendar, which equates to November 21, 1620, in the New Style Gregorian Calendar.

In 1752, England and its colonies finally adopted the Gregorian Calendar, but by that time there was an 11-day discrepancy between the “Old Style” – OS and the “New Style” – NS.

When America finally adjusted its calendar, the day after September 2, 1752, Old Style, became September 14, 1752, New Style. There were reportedly accounts of confusion and even rioting.

As countries of Western Europe, particularly Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English, began to trade and establish colonies around the world, the Gregorian Calendar came into international use.

Eventually, it was used to date all events globally, and with it, the first day of January became recognized as New Year’s Day.
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The Betrayal of China: “Again May God Forgive Us”

Published December 31, 2025 | By Hal Shurtleff

 Again, May God Forgive Us is an updated version of Robert Welch’s May God Forgive Us- a book which exposes the people in the United States that helped betray the Chinese people into the hands of the communists.

 

ON July 14, 1951 an American business man sat down to write a letter to a friend. It was a letter that took some thirty days, and ran to thirty-seven typewritten pages. In these pages, Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., set forth brilliantly and convincingly a straightforward clarification of some important recent history in Asia. At the same time he poured into paragraph after paragraph his indignation at the stupidity and suspicions of treason revealed by this history, and his alarm at the continuing course of events. This book is his letter, now published only after his friends had distributed several thousand mimeographed copies.

Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., gives here the historical background of events which culminated in the dismissal of General MacArthur. Using on the public information available to him, he goes back twenty-five years to the first Communist uprising in China, Step by step he traces the blunders, betrayals, and deceptions which formed the United States foreign policy, the policy which led to sweeping Communist victories in China. As a concise, thorough summary of these events this book is invaluable.
The final part of the book is a short biographical sketch of Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975), leader of the Republic of China between 1928-1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in Taiwan until his death.

“Your treatise is just the kind of concise exposition of a whole picture which, as a publisher, I was constantly seeking and so seldom found. It presents for the first time in brief compass, with convincing honesty, crucial and appalling facts of a foreign policy that has led from one Communist victory to another; a foreign policy that, in spite of all revelations of stupidities and betrayals, has not been corrected and is still heading in the same direction. If your small book is read widely enough it can have far-reaching results.”—W. T. COUCH, Former Director, University of Chicago Press

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Vietnam: Background to Betrayal

Published December 31, 2025 | By Hal Shurtleff

The best book I have ever read on the subject of the Vietnam War is Background to Betrayal by Hilaire du Berrier.  It was published by Western Islands in 1965.   The author was a friend of the Emperor of Vietnam and his family.  In the early 1990s, I was invited to a private meeting with the author but had a prior engagement.

 From the foreword by Robert Welch:

At the time this book is being published, the heated words of dispute over what is really happening in Vietnam have soared into a conflagration. Everybody from Suzanne Labin and Senator Dodd to Henry Cabot Lodge and Maxwell Taylor has versions to give you of who is doing what to whom, and why and for what purpose. And in some of these versions, anyway, any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental.

This book, however, is not concerned primarily with the present tragedy in Vietnam. Its subtitle is “the tragedy of Vietnam,” which indicates a far longer perspective. The carefully stage-managed horror now being acted out in that unhappy country is of great interest because of the undisclosed purposes for which this fraud is being perpetrated and prolonged. But this volume is history, not conjecture. It was the destruction and demoralization of anti-Communist groups and leaders in South Vietnam, already carried out by the end of the Eisenhower Administration through the regime it had imposed on the Vietnamese people, to which the current confusion is but an epilogue. And regardless of whatever whole new tragedy this confusion may be intended to serve in turn as a prologue, the author of this book is simply attempting to make clear the background to the total betrayal.

It is apparent, to anybody who will study all of the antics on this stage with prerequisite knowledge and objective vision, that Communist influences are pulling strings and determining actions on both sides, exactly as we now know to have been the case in the Korean War. And it is entirely possible that a repetition of that sham, on a far more extensive scale and with far more serious aspects and results, might be in the making.

A war between ourselves and the Chinese Communists, in and supposedly over Vietnam, exactly as took place in Korea, would enable leftwing influences in the present Administration, and their Soviet allies, to make even more effective use, than has been achieved so far, of the highly publicized but wholly fictitious feud between Red Russia and Red China. As in World War II, the Soviets would again become our “noble allies.” The rapprochement between our government and the Soviet government could be made visibly far greater, and in detailed practical effect far more extensive, than it is today. And the regimentation that could be imposed on the American people, by an Administration which has already shown itself to be hell-bent for tyranny, with this war against Red China as the excuse, would make the government controls of World War II look like a study in free enterprise and personal liberty.

When Communist-led students and Communist front groups parade and picket against our remaining in Vietnam, right while the actual results of our staying there continue to be so damaging to any residue of real anti-Communist strength in that country, you can be sure that the plotters activating these poor misguided puppets are seeking to support the belief, of the even more misguided American people, that we really are trying to save Vietnam from Communism – and are willing to use force to do so. This psychological buildup of a willingness on the part of the American people to accept a state of war against the Red Chinese is just one of a great many straws in the wind, indicating that such a phonily controlled, play-acting, but horribly cruel, war may be blowing towards us.

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The Green Mafia At It Again

Published December 30, 2025 | By Hal Shurtleff

It has been my observation that the two times that the Green Mafia raises the crescendo of its fright peddling is when we are experiencing unusually warm weather or unusually cold weather.  This month, of course is the latter especially in the Northeast.  Over the past few days, fake news outlets have been reporting that 2025 was the warmest in history, etc, etc.

Back in 2019, I had the opportunity to interview weather historian Tony Heller who offers a sound perspective on the subject of heart waves and the world is coming to an end.

 

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