Has the Sun’s true role in global warming been miscalculated?

Published October 3, 2023 | By campconstitution

This news release was sent to us by Camp Constitution instructor Professor Willie Soon:
 
A new international study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, by 20 climate researchers from 12 countries suggests that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) might have substantially underestimated the role of the Sun in global warming.

The article began as a response to a 2022 commentary on an extensive review of the causes of climate change published in 2021. The original review (Connolly and colleagues, 2021) had suggested that the IPCC reports had inadequately accounted for two major scientific concerns when they were evaluating the causes of global warming since the 1850s:

The global temperature estimates used in the IPCC reports are contaminated by urban warming biases.

The estimates of solar activity changes since the 1850s considered by the IPCC substantially downplayed a possible large role for the Sun.

On this basis, the 2021 review had concluded that it was not scientifically valid for the IPCC to rule out the possibility that global warming might be mostly natural.

The findings of that 2021 review were disputed in a 2022 article by two climate researchers (Dr. Mark Richardson and Dr. Rasmus Benestad) for two main reasons:

  1. Richardson and Benestad (2022) argued that the mathematical techniques used by Connolly and colleagues (2021) were inappropriate and that a different set of mathematical techniques should have been used instead.

  2. They also argued that many of the solar activity records considered by Connolly and colleagues (2021) were not up-to-date.

They suggested that these were the reasons why Connolly and colleagues (2021) had come to a different conclusion from the IPCC.

This new 2023 article by the authors of the 2021 review, has addressed both of these concerns and shown even more compelling evidence that the IPCC’s statements on the causes of global warming since 1850 are scientifically premature and may need to be revisited.

The authors showed that the urban component of the IPCC’s global temperature data shows a strong warming bias relative to the 98% of the planet that is unaffected by urbanization. However, they also showed that urbanized data represented most of the weather station records used.

While the IPCC only considered one estimate of solar activity for their most recent (2021) evaluation of the causes of global warming, Connolly and colleagues compiled and updated 27 different estimates that were used by the scientific community.

Several of these different solar activity estimates suggest that most of the warming observed outside urban areas (in rural areas, oceans, and glaciers) could be explained in terms of the Sun. Some estimates suggest that global warming is a mixture of human and natural factors. Other estimates agreed with the IPCC’s findings.

For this reason, the authors concluded that the scientific community is not yet in a position to establish whether the global warming since the 1850s is mostly human-caused, mostly natural or some combination of both.

The lead author of the study, Dr. Ronan Connolly, of the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES-Science.com) described the implications of their findings,

“In scientific investigations, it is important to avoid beginning your analysis with your conclusions decided in advance. Otherwise you might end up with a false sense of confidence in your findings. It seems that the IPCC was too quick to jump to their conclusions.”

Another author of the study, Dr. Willie Soon, also of the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences, explained:

“If the IPCC had paid more attention to open-minded scientific inquiry than trying to force a premature ‘scientific consensus’, then the scientific community would be a lot closer to having genuinely resolved the causes of climate change. Hopefully, our new analysis and datasets can help other scientists to get back to doing real climate science.”

This study reaches similar conclusions to another study that was recently published in a separate scientific peer-reviewed journal, Climate. This other study involved many of the same co-authors (led by Dr. Soon) and focused on a detailed case study of two solar activity estimates and two temperature estimates. It took a different approach to analyzing the problem but confirmed that varying the choice of solar activity and temperature estimates can lead to very different conclusions on the causes of global warming.

For media inquiries, please contact Dr. Ronan Connolly (Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences) at ronan@ceres-science.com or Dr. Willie Soon (Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences) at willie@ceres-science.com.
Link to the study:

  • R. Connolly, W. Soon, M. Connolly, S. Baliunas, J. Berglund, C.J. Butler, R.G. Cionco, A.G. Elias, V. Fedorov, H. Harde, G.W. Henry, D.V. Hoyt, O. Humlum, D.R. Legates, N. Scafetta, J.-E. Solheim, L. Szarka, V.M. Velasco Herrera, H. Yan and W.J. Zhang (2023). “Challenges in the detection and attribution of Northern Hemisphere surface temperature trends since 1850”. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23(10), 105015. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/acf18e. (Open access).

  • Link to accompanying datasets.

Links to other studies mentioned:

  1. R. Connolly, W. Soon, M. Connolly, S. Baliunas, J. Berglund, C. J. Butler, R. G. Cionco, A. G. Elias, V. M. Fedorov, H. Harde, G. W. Henry, D. V. Hoyt, O. Humlum, D. R. Legates, S. Lüning, N. Scafetta, J.-E. Solheim, L. Szarka, H. van Loon, V. M. Velasco Herrera, R. C. Willson, H. Yan and W. Zhang (2021). How much has the Sun influenced Northern Hemisphere temperature trends? An ongoing debate. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 21, 131. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/21/6/131. Supplementary Materials available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7088728.

  2. M.T. Richardson and R.E. Benestad (2022). “Erroneous use of Statistics behind Claims of a Major Solar Role in Recent Warming”. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 22(12), 125008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/ac981c. (pdf available here).

  3. W. Soon, R. Connolly, M. Connolly, S.-I. Akasofu, S. Baliunas, J. Berglund, A. Bianchini, W.M. Briggs, C.J. Butler, R.G. Cionco, M. Crok, A.G. Elias, V.M. Fedorov, F. Gervais, H. Harde, G.W. Henry, D.V. Hoyt, O. Humlum, D.R. Legates, A.R. Lupo, S. Maruyama, P. Moore, M. Ogurtsov, C. ÓhAiseadha, M.J. Oliveira, S.-S. Park, S. Qiu, G. Quinn, N. Scafetta, J.-E. Solheim, J. Steele, L. Szarka, H.L. Tanaka, M.K. Taylor, F. Vahrenholt, V.M. Velasco Herrera and W. Zhang (2023). “The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data”, Climate, 11(9), 179. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11090179. (Open access).

  4. IPCC (2021). “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. https://ipcc.ch

The Weekly Sam: The Gospel at War With the Yellow School Bus

Published October 3, 2023 | By Hal Shurtleff

This is a short and powerful presentation not just urging parents to get their children out of government schools but the evil ideology promoted in the government schools making the acceptance of abortion, gender mutilation and the destruction of the morals of a nation.

Sam Blumenfeld’s  work is well known to the folks at the Mid Atlantic Reformation Society, the organization that hosted this event https://www.midatlanticreformation.org/

 

Second Amendment Rally Newton, MA

Published September 27, 2023 | By Hal Shurtleff

Camp Constitution is having a busy and productive September with speaking engagements in PA, MA, NH, ME and MI and in a few days, our 2nd annual family weekend retreat.  This video is from the Sunday September 17 Constitution Day and 2nd Amendment forum sponsored by the Norfolk County Republican Committee.  I was one of the speakers and we also had a information table at the event.

Norfolk County Republican Committee’s 2nd Amendment and Constitution Day Forum held of Sunday September 17, 2023 at the American Legion in Newton, MA. Hal Shurtleff of Camp Constitution, Toby Leary of Cape Cod Gun Works, Mike HARRIS Gun Owner’s Action League (GOAL) – Charlie COOK “Riding Shotgun with Charlie” – Committeewoman Lynne ROBERTS 2nd Amendment Sisters – Hal SHURTLEFF from Camp Constitution – Moderator Bob HISS – Toby LEARY of Cape Gun Works – Kerri Ann AUCLAIR from the DC Project – Jim WALLACE from GOAL

 

 

 Will You Go to Hell For Me?

Published September 26, 2023 | By Hal Shurtleff

No, I don’t want you to go to Hell for me? But I want to introduce the readers to a powerful documentary of the same name, and the writings of the man who produced the documentary- Mr. Vince Ellison who is both a friend and a Camp Constitution instructor.

One of my duties as Camp Director is to serve as a “talent scout” by being on the lookout for potential instructors at our annual camps, and speakers’ bureau.   I find these instructors in various ways:  meeting them in person at their speaking events, recommendations, and while watching and listening to media outlets.  Since our inception, we have been blessed with an incredible list of instructors including a British Lord, Christophen Monckton, one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists Professor Willie Soon, a pioneer in the modern home school movement Sam Blumenfeld, a pioneer in the Right to Life Movement Dr. Mildred Jefferson, and now and Vince Ellison.

Vince first came to my attention in an interview he did on the Tucker Carlson Show early last year where he was discussing his book The 25 Most Damnable Lies of the Democrat Party and How to Refute Them.  He and Tucker have become good friends.   I also saw him on NewsMax and listened to him on the Grace Curley Show which airs on WRKO.  I contacted Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain and said that we need to reach out to him.    Rev. Craft visited his website, e-mailed him and shortly thereafter, had a lengthy phone conversation with him.  Vince told Rev. Craft that he was driving and listening to the radio when he heard the news of our lawsuit Shurtleff v Boston.  He was so excited to hear the news of the victory that he pulled the car over and did “A Holy Ghost Dance” which I wished he videotaped.

Vince lives near Lynchburg, VA where one of my daughters attends Liberty University.  We had to move our daughter in for her freshman year in August of 2022 so I was able to meet with Vince.  Our breakfast meeting lasted close to four hours and ended with the creation of a friendship.  Vince had a profound knowledge of the negative side of the Civil Rights Movement.  I learned from him that it was Communist Stanley Levinson that wrote Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Vince learned from me that King was the first recipient of Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award.

Rev. Steve Craft (left) and Vince Ellison holding a copy of The Boston Broadside

Who is Vince Ellison?

Vince was born on a cotton plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee, where his parents were sharecroppers.  Vince was taught a love of God and Country from his parents.   His father became successful in the insurance industry which raised him and his seven siblings from poverty to the middle-class.

His family started the   Ellison Family gospel singing group and performed in black churches and the gospel music community through Vince’s young life. Through his experiences in gospel music, Vince gained intimate knowledge of the inner workings and failings of many of black churches and their ministers.

While he received a degree from Memphis State University, he says his real-world education came from working as a correctional officer at a maximum-security prison in South Carolina. Vince later worked with many black civic organizations in the nonprofit arena. In 2000, he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 6th Congressional District of South Carolina.

In 2019, Vince wrote The Iron Triangle: Inside the Liberal Democrat Plan to Use Race to Divide Christians and America in their Quest for Power and How We Can Defeat Them, and 25 Lies Exposing Democrats Most Dangerous, Seductive, Damnable, Destructive Lies and How to Refute Them which both became Amazon #1 bestsellers. Vince’s upcoming book from Posthill/Simon & Schuster Crime Inc. will be released in early October.  He has appeared numerous times on Hannity, The Laura Ingraham Show, Newsmax, OAN, Tucker Carlson Show, The Joe Pags Show, The Brian Kilmeade Show, The Howie Carr Show, and many other radio and television programs. Vince is a member of Project 21 and has written numerous articles for American Greatness magazine, Bizpacreview.com, and other publications. Vince is also the producer and writer of the recently released documentary Will You Go To Hell For Me.

Vince is a member of Project 21 and has written numerous articles for American Greatness magazine, Bizpacreview.com, and other publications.

Here is a description of his book 25 Lies which I highly recommend:

Vince Ellison is America’s most fearless truth teller. Agree or disagree with his thesis, open-minded readers must grapple with the persuasive power of his arguments, his mastery of facts, and his passionate love for mankind and our Creator.

As a young man, Ellison began his career in the belly of the beast—as a prison guard working in the worst cellblock imaginable—the one housing mass murderers, rapists, child molesters, and others who would never be released, and whose crimes would never be redeemed in this world. Vince Ellison saw the face of evil up close. He knows it like few of us ever could.

And it was to his dismay and sadness that he has seen that same evil later in life. This time, not in the faces of hardened, incarcerated criminals. But rather in the eyes of the leaders of the Democratic party. In this stunningly persuasive work, Vince marshals his own experience and couples it with a learned and original analysis to conclude that the leaders of America’s “progressive” party aren’t just wrong on their policy stances—they are deliberately and intently destructive. Ellison painstakingly dismantles the twenty-five lies underlying Democratic policies and arguments and provides readers with the tools they need to understand and refute these myths and deceptions. Finally, Ellison implores his fellow Americans and Christians to open their eyes to the damage being done to the nation’s heart and soul in the name of progressivism.

Will You Go to Hell For Me?

This is a powerful documentary that exposes the pernicious grip the Democrat Party has on the inner-city black community. The major thesis of this documentary is that one cannot be a Christian while at the same time vote for Democrat candidates and support the anti-Chrisitan programs of the Democrat Party.  Doing so will send you to Hell.  Vince contends that the Democrat Party is the evilest institution in the history of the world and makes a strong case in defense of his claim.

Vince says that the Democrat Party controls every whorehouse and crack house in the black community.  He lays the blame of this control on three groups of people:  black politicians, the black clergy that deliver the votes (with notable exceptions), and black social workers who fuel the flames of racism and the idea that blacks are victims of white oppression.  It is necessary to point out that Vince isn’t a shill for the Republican Party.  Many Republicans support the agenda and have made an unwritten treaty with the Democrats to leave the black communities alone.  This is evident by the lack of support the Republican National Committee gives to black Republicans contesting Congressional seats in black communities.

The most controversial aspect of this documentary, and why readers may be hearing about it for the first time, is Vince’s condemnation of Martin Luther King.  While most Americans have been led to believe that King was a noble man, Vince isn’t afraid to condemn him.  Vince exposes King as a pro-communist and a supporter of Planned Parenthood.  King, as Vince reveals, was the first recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award named after the racist founder of Planned parenthood who launched the infamous “Negro Project.”  Sanger considered blacks to be inferior and enlisted black clergy and black doctors to promote birth control. The Negro Project has been successful beyond Sanger’s wildest dreams.

Vince tells the story of how liberal Democrat U.S. Senator Patrick Moynihan, concerned about the high rate of single parent households, about 20% in the mid-1960s, visited King and his fellow Civil Rights activists insisting that Civil Rights bills must promote the father in the household.  This idea was so widely rejected by King and his colleagues, that Moynihan said that he was lucky to get out of that meeting alive.  Today, thanks in part to the Civil Rights and Welfare reform legislation, black single parent households are close to 80%, and few have the political courage to discuss the issue.

Vince believes that if a sizable minority of black voters stop voting for Democrats, the party will never win national elections. This explains why Democrat leaders constantly promote racial division and hatred.   He is committed to bring black and white Christians together fully realizing that both groups have much in common, and by working together, our nation can be healed.

We are making plans to bring Vince to New England for some speaking engagements. Readers who would like to help make that happen are urged to contact me.  My E-mail is campconstitution1@gmail.com Tel # (857) 498-1309

Constitution Day September 17, 2023  “A Republic If You Can Keep It.

Published September 17, 2023 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention September 17, 1787, Mrs. Elizabeth Powel, a friend of George and Martha Washington, asked Benjamin Franklin, the oldest delegate to the convention “Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy.”  Dr. Franklin replied, “A republic if you can keep it.”  How well have we done in keeping that republic.  A glance at the current occupant of the White House as well as the majority of members of Congress leads me to conclude that we have done a poor job of it.

 

 Is the U.S. Constitution an outdated relic?

  Critics and detractors of the United States Constitution believe that it is an outdate relic of our agrarian past which may have served us well 200 years ago but needs to be replaced.   Back in the mid-1990s, I was a guest on the Al Diamon Show- a talk show in Portland, Maine.  Mr. Diamon, and the vast majority of his audience did not share my worldview to say the least.  I had a very interesting conversation with one of his college age callers. This young man told me, in no uncertain terms, that the U.S. Constitution was outdated, and should be replaced.    I asked him if it was written in 1848, would it also be an outdated relic.  He replied in the affirmative and I told him that the Communist Manifesto was written in 1848 but oddly we never hear people on the Left demand that it be repudiated.   I then asked him if he believed that the 1st Amendment-the one that protects the right of free speech, the press, and the right to peaceable to assemble among other things be abolished.  He said that he wasn’t in favor of its repeal.    I followed up with asking him about the 4th Amendment that protects us against unlawful search and seizure, the 5th that protects an accused from self-incrimination the 6th that guarantees us a speedy trial judged by impartial jury and the 8th that protects us from being drawn and quartered.  He didn’t think that these amendments be repealed either.   This caller, like too many American like him are victims of a clique-potentially a dangerous one, that if enough Americans believe, could lead to the end of the liberties we take for granted.

I contend that the U.S Constitution which granted few, defined and specific powers to the United States Government is just as relevant today than when it was first ratified.   As King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”   While we went from horse and buggy to the space age and the quill pen and the broadside to Twitter and Facebook, human nature stays the same.  Our Founders were learned men who knew history and understood man’s sin nature.  This is why they gave us a constitutional that granted limited powers to the U.S. Government.

  The U.S. Constitution has a preamble, seven articles and 27 amendments. 

Article 1 established the legislative branch, qualifications for office of members of Congress, and grants certain powers including the power to borrow money and declare war.

Article 2 concerns the executive branch which grants very few powers and duties to the president.  Being “the most powerful man in the free world” is not one of the duties granted to the president.  Nowhere in Article 2 do we read that the president is the most powerful man in the free world.

Article 3 concerns the judicial branch which established “one supreme Court” and gave Congress the power to regulate it.  The Supreme Court may be the highest court in the United States, but it is not the highest law of the land.

Article 4 concerns the states.  Article 4, Section 4, guarantees every state a “Republican Form of Government and shall protect them against Invasion.  Today, it is the official policy of the U.S. Government to aid and abet invasion.

Article 5 concerns the amending process which a made difficult for good reason.

Article 6 makes “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof…. shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”

Article 7 calls for the ratification of nine state before the Constitution will be established.   New Hampshire was the 9th state to ratify the Constitution on June 2, 1788, making it the law of the land.

The Constitution has 27 amendments but one-the 21st canceled out another-the 18th.   The first ten, known as the Bill of Rights were ratified on December 1791.  The 27th Amendment, which concerns Congressional pay raises, would have been part of the original Bill of Rights but wasn’t ratified until 1992.

Keeping this republic begins with us.   As is my habit, I am offering free pocket copies.  If interested in one, Email me at campconstitution1@gmail.com

What to learn more about this incredible document?  Why not attend our weekend retreat which runs from Friday September 29 to Sunday October 1 at Camp Sentinel in Tuftonboro

The Weekly Sam: How I Became a Christian by Sam Blumenfeld

Published September 15, 2023 | By campconstitution

First, the question is: what is a Christian? To me the answer is quite simple. A Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, who was sent to this earth to save men from their sinful natures, to offer them salvation and eternal life after death. God’s purpose was to extend the covenant he had made with Abraham and, through Jesus, extend it beyond the Jewish people to the rest of mankind. That is why Christ’s mission was so important: to bring to the rest of pagan mankind a knowledge of God and, for each human soul, a personal attachment to God through Jesus, his son. Many Christian scholars and theologians have written thousands of pages to explain what Christianity is. And so, I don’t know if my definition of a Christian would coincide with theirs.

I am not a theologian and therefore cannot give any explanation beyond my own personal understanding. That is my humble conviction, and it has provided me with an intellectually and spiritually satisfying way to explain my beliefs. I believe that all important philosophies can be explained simply or summed up in a simple paragraph. If they can’t, they are not true. The truth does not hide behind an impenetrable curtain of verbiage, but falsehood always does. All of my life I have had a tremendous respect for truth, for reality, for fact. I have never avoided reality. I love it too much, even when it is cruel. But I can understand those who would love to escape it. How I, a Jew, came to accept Jesus Christ was part of an intellectual journey that started in high school, continued in the Army during World War II, and continued in college. In the Army, my closest buddies were Catholics. At the City College of New York my friends were Christians and Jews.

After college, I studied in France for two years. Most of the friends I made in Paris were Christians, or I should say, non-Jews. They were American expatriates of a secular persuasion. The Europeans I got to know were typically non-religious. In Europe I visited the Cathedrals and was awed by their grandeur and beauty. During my stay in the army in Italy I had visited the Vatican and climbed the stairs in St. Peter’s Basilica right into the ball at the very top of the dome under the cross. Christianity was, of course, full of Old Testament references. Michelangelo had carved that great marble statue of Moses in St. Peter’s and the breathtaking statue of David in Florence. With my Christian friends I attended Christmas mass at both Notre Dame de Paris and at Santa Maria Maggiori in Rome. Catholic priests officiating at the Mass in their splendid dress never looked particularly holy to me. The men who looked holy to me were the old men in the synagogue, covered by their prayer shawls, swaying quietly in prayer. In other words, despite my visits to cathedrals and attendance at Masses, I was not attracted to Jesus. I simply ignored Him.

As an American Jew, I had become quite secularized and hardly practiced my own religion let alone the religion of my Christian friends who for the most part were as secular as I was. For me, Christianity provided the esthetic enjoyments for a lover of the arts. I had no interest in Christian theology or any other theology for that matter. There was a brief period, shortly after my father’s death in 1958, when I was an atheist. I wasn’t proud or happy to be an atheist, I simply believed, much to my sadness, that God did not exist. I had undergone psychoanalysis during that period, trying to understand myself, and I probably adopted Freud’s atheism. Most New York intellectual Jews were atheists or agnostics, practitioners of modernity and the secular lifestyle. Jews took a liberal view of the dietary laws, ate bacon and lobsters, and the synagogues were sparsely attended on the Sabbath. It was only on the Jewish holidays that secular Jews celebrated their heritage. And it was more cultural than theological.

After Freud, I got to know Ayn Rand. At the time, I was an editor at Grosset & Dunlap, and a literary agent had brought a manuscript by Isabel Paterson to me for possible publication. Paterson, a great believer in individual freedom, had inspired Ayn Rand in her early days as a writer, and the agent suggested that perhaps Rand might be willing to write an introduction to the book. Paterson had died, and an introduction might be a tribute to a friend. I called Rand and invited her to lunch. It was a delightful occasion. We discussed our mutual love of laissez-faire capitalism. I was a libertarian, and she was an Objectivist. She suggested that I attend a series of lectures on Objectivism given by her protege Nathaniel Branden at a midtown hotel. Objectivism was a new pro-individualistic philosophy which Rand had formulated, with the assistance of Branden. I attended the lectures and was delighted with Branden’s well-reasoned and rational opposition to Socialism and collectivism.

The only problem with Objectivism was Rand’s strident atheism. While my atheism was of the sad variety, Rand’s was unrelenting. I truly wished that God existed, while Rand rejected anything resembling “mysticism.” But it wasn’t until the 1970s that reality posed so many problems in my life, that I finally had to call on God for help. Both Freud and Rand had failed to provide the spiritual certainty I needed. But how do we find God? By simply crying out to Him whenever life’s burdens seem unbearable. We cry out to our Father in Heaven when no one on earth can help us. And God, in some way, answers the prayers of the wretched and bewildered and suffering.

It is said that Charles Darwin rejected God because he could not believe in a deity that would permit his favorite child to die. But what would life be like if God suspended all-natural phenomenon, including illness and disease? We would be living in an unnatural, supernatural state which Darwin’s theory of evolution says does not exist. Darwin preached natural selection. His daughter died because of the process of natural selection. In other words, Darwin simply used the death of his daughter to justify his rejection of God, when in reality it was his intellectual pride that was behind it.

I never had that kind of intellectual pride. So, when I turned to God, it was in the way that men seek a lifesaver when shipwrecked. You float in a hostile sea hoping to survive. It is not a very rational nor dignified way to seek God. It is more like a child’s way. But atheists are more like petulant children than mature seekers of the truth. And slowly but surely, I found my way onto dry land with a new belief in the mysterious power of the Creator of the universe. But I was still not a Christian and knew very little about Christianity. I could not really tell the difference between a Methodist and a Presbyterian. To Jews, all Christians are alike, and all Christian denominations are essentially alike. They all profess to believe in Jesus Christ. In the early 1980s I began to write a book about the origins of public education. As a libertarian I wanted to know why and how the American people gave up educational freedom so early in our history and opted for a government owned and controlled system of education. And it was through that process of research that I became a Christian.

(The above is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives- a free on-line resource containing the works of the late Sam Blumenfeld  https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/

Patriot Camp 2023 Rockland, Maine Co-Sponsored by Camp Constitution

Published September 12, 2023 | By Jessica Whitworth

This year’s Patriot Camp was a great success. Big thanks to Life Church, Jake and Tanja
Barbour! This is the first year we did a three-day camp, with the first day covering the Declaration of
Independence, the second day covering the U.S. Constitution, and the third day covering our
Constitutional Republic. With eighteen kids in attendance, we had several twenty to forty minute
lessons on our nation’s founding history with games and activities following each lesson. Again, we
offered a quill pen demonstration where the students were able to sign a Declaration with a quill pen.
Other activities included three-headed eagle to demonstrate the three branches of government, rope
making, flint fire demonstrations, tug-a-war, root beer making, and flag folding. We played various
outdoor games. We ended the 3-day camp with a parade, singing “You’re a Grand Old Flag” and the
students carrying a live American flag.

We were blessed to have Mrs. Bonnie Wilder from Camp Constitution teach various songs: the
Constitution song, There are Many Flags, The Constitution’s Preamble, and You’re a Grand Old Flag.
To compliment these songs Bonnie taught the kids hand signs. We are looking forward to another great
camp next year! A huge thank you to all the generous sponsors who helped make this camp a success.

I’m a prophetess, but nobody knows it.

Published September 12, 2023 | By Dominique Uhl
Ok, so confession. I actually wrote the following that is between the line breaks back in July because I wanted to help prepare people BEFORE the next plandemic was underway to not be afraid and stand strong, but I tabled it because
1. I had to start working on something that could potentially help motivate our country (all political parties) off the election machines (which I still am working on, please pray) and
2. I thought I had more time. I thought they were going to start this plandemic closer to the new year, possibly even later winter, like February 2024, but I guess that’s too late for the first presidential primaries. They’re so subtle in their quest for an absentee mail-in election, aren’t they?
Why so early?
I think we’re winning too many lawsuits against them with ICAN (Informed Consent Action Network) and CHD (Children’s Health Defense)
I also think Robert F Kennedy Jr is waking too many people up with his thought-provoking answers to tough questions in his interviews, and they want to limit/eliminate big crowds with either RFK Jr or Trump.
They want to cripple us with fear and crush our spirits. Nothing like sending people into PTSD than telling us they are going to take away our ability to breathe oxygen AGAIN, use people’s bodies as their lab rats without true informed consent AGAIN, and planning a full lockdown AGAIN by December.
The binary murderers know we’re headed into the fall flu season and they have to have a “reason” people are dying to keep the spotlight off themselves, the true perpetrators.

Honestly, I’m surprised that it would be just another variant of Covid that they would attempt to lock Americans down for, haven’t they already beaten that cow to death?!? How much more mileage can covid “crisis” give them? I know it’s been in the works for decades according to the patents, so I guess they’re going to milk it – but only as far as Americans will allow them to.

So in the end — is the following that I wrote in July truly prophetic if the globalists told us what they’re going to do to us, and I’m just pointing it out? I’m probably joining you in shaking my head no, especially not in the biblical definition of prophecy. But in light of the current scenario, it’s the closest I’ll ever come to being a prophet – or prophetess – so here goes, what I wrote in the past (with the exception of adding the 9th top video, I have to say as a writer it’s really hard NOT to edit this before sending)…
The beginning of my “prophecy” in July:
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I hope you all had a wonderful Independence Day! As America and I celebrated our birthdays together under the fireworks, I said goodbye to the last year as explosions of color mirrored in the lake’s lucid face. It was beautiful. And thought provoking on what this next year may hold…
I have been very busy with family related activities and needed to unplug for a bit – and I haven’t sent you some of the most incredible, powerful, thought-provoking videos, let alone written about them to my group, but they are extremely important, so —
Here is a MUST-SEE Movie list if you haven’t seen them yet. I’ve put them in my selected best viewing order, not order of release, I apologize that I can’t write more about each one, there isn’t time, I’d just start watching if I were you. And if you have questions on where some of the sources for my conversation/musings below come from, watch all the movies and then get back with me if you didn’t find your answer and I will get you the source. I’m just trying to keep this more streamlined.
1. Pandemic Of LIES,
BEST docu-speech by Del Bigtree!! Enriching, entertaining, what he can prove in a court of law, and I love his “We are Winning” vibe!!
1 1/2 hrs
2. Tucker Carlson Interviews Edward Dowd on the rise in all-cause mortality in the employed, 12 standard deviations above the norm, once in 800 yr event.
(right before Tucker got fired from Fox), Truth is truth, no matter who believes it.
54 min
3. Died Suddenly,
WOW, just WOW, unforgettable, you can never “unsee” this video. (As an aside, use this information to help save lives – Dr. Ryan Cole reports some of this substance has been pulled from the veins and arteries of the LIVING, they aren’t all pulled from corpses, thank God lives have been saved!)
1 hr 9 min
4. 4,070% Increase in Miscarriages/Stillbirths Since the mRNA Roll-out,
Dr. Naomi Wolf on Pfizer docs and reproductive system destruction – and even Chinese warfare on several fronts
30 min
5. Plandemic 3
Know your history or we are doomed to repeat it
1 1/2 hrs
6. Never Again is Now Global, speechless
Part 1, 1 hr 10 min
Parts 1 – 5, complete Never Again series, 5 hrs 43 min
7. Breaking the Oath: Unauthorized
This one is so poignant because it takes the personal story of the murder of my friend’s daughter, sweet Grace, interwoven with some of the most evil demagogues in history, ongoing genocide in America revealed by current whistleblowers to draw a holocaust comparison I dare someone to refute.
“This heartbreaking story of the Schara family, and those this film is dedicated to, provides a stark warning to all. There is a profound evil in the world the likes of which we haven’t seen for nearly one hundred years.  History is shaking us awake, urging us to remember times in which civilization was brought to the brink of collapse. “Breaking the Oath” draws parallels to our past, showing the shocking similarities all around us. We need only to open our eyes.”
1 hr 40 min
8. Sound of Freedom trailer
I’ve only seen the trailer, it’s not out on video. It’s outselling other movies. Theaters have been stopping its viewing mid-stream and refunding tickets for various “reasons”.
3 min trailer
9. Dr David Martin addresses European Union Parliament at the International Covid-19 Summit 
downloaded over 4,000,000,000 times (yes, as in billion)
WHY? Why watch these, why share them? Isn’t it all over?
 
It is not enough that you and I already know the following. 
We MUST make sure OTHERS know the following, 
or their collective weight — and their compliance — will pull us ALL into tyranny, 
even if some of us are kicking and screaming on the way down.
 
Enough brainwashing on the masses’ part.
Enough complacency on our part, “well, I can’t say anything, it may affect our relationship.”
Do you know what is coming? According to the globalists?
“Preparing a series of massive crises and global shocks
to get people to submit to their global agenda.”
– Alex Newman
If people believe the worst is behind us, they will be a prime target for fear, panic, and compliance to totalitarianism.
People MUST have the eyes of their understanding enlightened, so that they recognize and know the truth, so that when the globalists implement what they are telling us that they plan to do to us, that most of the people resist along with us. This is only possible if we have reached the masses with the truth, finally, and they have claimed it as their own.
“Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.
Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”
It’s funny but it’s not funny.
Someone asked, “What is it with Americans, ignorance or apathy?” The friend responded, “I don’t know. And I don’t care.”
We have a very small window here people, and now is not the time to be lulled into complacency because things seem to be settling down. Famous warfare tactic.
Big Pharma is salivating, rubbing their gloved hands together in glee contemplating the trillions they will make on the multiple modRNA injections they have in the pipeline for multiple conditions, for multiple people (other than themselves). Incidentally, these new modRNA injections will be released without safety testing, because they’ve already “proved” the modRNA covid shots were “safe & effective”… gag.
But we have another problem. In Oct of 2022, the world leaders just had another tabletop exercise (Like their “Event 201” in Oct of 2019 for their Covid-19 plandemic) to plan the next pandemic, calling their latest simulation “Catastrophic Contagion”. I imagine they’re planning for this drama to “naturally” come to a fevered pitch before the 2024 presidential election. (in fact, maybe you should add [s]election.code to your movie list https://selectioncode.com/, 1 hr)
They are gearing up for it, Resident Biden just started the unconstitutional “Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR) to be sure they are ready with a lean mean fightin’ machine against our rights that must all be given up the next time someone gets sick, right along with his administration’s obsession with unconstitutionally jeopardizing Americans to submit under the WHO for all things “health” related.
Since SO MANY (63%) – praise GOD!!! – have awakened to the harsh reality that our “protective” regulatory agencies such as the FDA/CDC/HHS, etc have been captured (watchdog turned snake-oil salesman),
Whereas We the People now also have an understandable and healthy distrust of “health authorities”/”health” agencies and the shills who masquerade in white coats who give good doctors a bad name,
Whereas 82% of Americans refused to take the bivalent booster,
There will be MANY more resistors to the globalists’ tyrannical assault on our bodily autonomy and dismantling of our Constitutionally protected God-given rights this next round!
But we must work to get many more. We can’t just be a “meaningful minority” as Bill Gates has labeled us, we need to be a meaningful majority to save humanity from their clutches.
And the globalists know that We the People are many more than they. If we joined together we’d be unstoppable to them. In fact, even piecemeal, in small numbers of even 1 person standing alone at his work, we stunned them. They weren’t prepared for us. For everyone who resisted them, stood up to them, spoke out against them, dumbfounded them, I thank you. But diabolical narcissistic eugenicists that they are, you could bank on the fact that they’re regrouping to succeed the next round.
They are the masters of illusion. The challenge is that we must remember they worked the world into a panic over a less than 1% fatality rate for those 69 and under – and additionally killed people with deadly hospital covid protocols while simultaneously withholding life-saving protocols, so thousands died every week who could still be alive today. This was “necessary” in order for the FDA to grant emergency approval of their “vaccine” and to induce a panic in order to get people to line up for the “vaccine”, which pharmacovigilance trial won’t conclude until 2031. My doctor told me last week she now has patients who had no boosters and no adverse reactions, but whose adverse reactions just started from their original dual set of injections 2 years ago, this is why we should have had a long-term trial)
So what happens if in this new plandemic, they work the world up into a panic for a 60% fatality rate like smallpox or ebola, or an 80% fatality rate for Marburg? What about CERS that targets children (as if they haven’t targeted our posterity enough) that they conveniently already have an mRNA RSV/Polio “vaccine” ready for? Globalists like Bill Gates not only “assure” us there will be another pandemic, but he promises, “It will be a different pathogen next time.” (Thanks for the heads up on your plans, Bill.)
The biggest health threat we’ve never heard of that they’re making a new DNA based “vaccine” for, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever.
They’ve tried to panic the world over monkey-pox, Marburg, now Malaria, RSV, etc – hold the line everyone. Don’t be afraid, but be wary, and warn others to not be afraid. Must not panic. Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.
God says not to fear 365 times, one for every day of the year.
The eugenists almost have no choice at this point but to start another pandemic to hide their crimes against humanity.  Because the unvaccinated held their ground, we are the natural control group. We are the contrast that will become more and more stark as the decade of this experiment proceeds (Covid modRNA injection 2021-2031). And with the astronomical rise in all-cause mortality, even though more people are dying today than during the pandemic, the legacy news is silent, no longer terrifying people on a nightly basis. No, they haven’t taken pity on your nerves, it just doesn’t fit their narrative – do you think they would be silent if it was the unvaccinated who were dying and not the vaccinated?
Honestly?
Sometimes I wonder if it will be real, or if they will PRETEND there is a new pandemic. Yes, people will be dying for real, but why? Will it be smoke & mirrors, the global elites SAYING it’s a new pandemic, when in reality they are operating a cover-up for their Crimes against Humanity, relabeling the consequential deaths from the covid shots & the trashed immune systems they’ve already set in motion??? They are just diabolical. I put nothing past them.
So the global oligarchs are climate-controlling up a back-up plan to implement their Great Reset. Not just to pursue future success of their prior failed “vaccine” passport, but to tax our breathing & eliminate meat, with the privilege of eating bugs and paying for carbon credits – all while the planet is screaming for MORE carbon dioxide, not less. The globalist decree “they” decide what “sustainable” is, and they are aggressively moving for a cashless society to gain complete control of our freedom to buy and sell through Central Bank Digital Currency (he that controls the water/food/energy supply controls the people, and what better way in their mind than social credit scores?). I surely pray we don’t have a WWIII, but war is also a very convenient tool they love to pull out of their tool box, it solves all sorts of nasty national sovereignty problems, hikes debt to all new highs, and in this case, even masks covid injected military deaths or adverse reactions, labeling their death in the line of duty.
While I see the signs of the times all around me, and as things proceed to a greater head, I disagree with some Christian’s complacent attitude, “Well, if it gets more evil, and we are persecuted, then the Lord will return even sooner.” This is out of touch both with the reality that many people in the rest of the world for centuries have suffered, and that suddenly when Americans start suffering, then the Lord will return?  as well as out of touch with the truth that only the Father knows the day and hour of the coming of the Son of man.
I see no need to live in tyranny until Jesus Christ raptures me before the Great Tribulation when there WILL be a one world government where no man may buy or sell save he that hath the mark of the Beast – after, all, tyranny isn’t necessary before the rapture, because everything will fall quickly into place for a one-world system once all of us have been raptured out. In fact, the globalists won’t let a crisis go to waste, and uniquely, this is one they haven’t actually created, or spearheaded, or herded, or manipulated into accomplishment, so that’s unique to them. However, they are not ignorant of what is clearly laid out in Scripture, and which many people have written books and produced movies about, so don’t think they aren’t plotting out how to spin the rapture to their advantage should it happen in their lifetime. There is a lot of talk of aliens today, not just the stuff made of dreams, but real things, impossible things, that real pilots have seen up there (I think it’s demonic activity, personally). They’re probably prepping.
I believe it is poor stewardship both as Christians and Patriots not to resist evil, today. Indeed, apathy in the face of all that is at stake demonstrates an utter disregard for the sacrifice of those who’ve gone before us, securing the blessings of liberty in both Christianity and Country – a Country who has sent missionaries to the farthest parts of the world.
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The end of my “prophecy” in July
Present day:
The Globalists may find that Eris is simply not enough fear to beat Americans into subjection again and may resort to the big boys of polio or smallpox or one of the many other hoaxes/climate crises they have planned, and in a layering effect. After all, even leprosy from Bible times is back, thanks to these covid modRNA injections suppressing the immune system’s defense mechanism. https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/leprosy-makes-a-comeback-in-the-us/
“Eris” is predicted to be no big deal for the unvaccinated (in fact we’ve all been recovering from mild colds at our house, maybe it’s actually “Eris” we had? I don’t know, our family and our immune systems had such a robust fight with Covid in Nov of ’20, we never got covid again to our knowledge, but a cold here or there could have been another variant upgrade on our system, but again it was no big deal, just like colds of yesteryear.
Whereas even a normal cold can overwhelm those whose immune systems are primed and nearly non-existent through multiple modRNA covid shots. So I’m not saying we won’t see the continual rise in deaths (sadly we are already at 12 sigma above the norm in all cause mortality, once in 800 yr event). If you are one of those who’ve taken numerous covid shots/boosters, Dr Geert Vanden Bossche asks you to please consider taking an antiviral immediately [eg: Ivermectin] as a routine treatment for the next few years to help your immune system help you fight common illnesses.
Here are some doctors trying to help the “vaccinated” recover
Dr. Peter McCullough treatment: https://www.petermcculloughmd.com/
Dr. Paul Marik and Dr. Pierre Kory FLCCC treatment: https://covid19criticalcare.com/protocol/i-recover-post-vaccine-treatment/
Dr. Lee Merritt vaccine remorse treatment: https://drleemerritt.com/covid-information

The Weekly Sam: Libertarians for Life

Published September 8, 2023 | By Hal Shurtleff

This letter from 1978 and the pamphlet was in Sam Blumenfeld’s papers.

August 23, 1978

 

An Open Letter to All Libertarians,

Libertarians for Life recognizes that many libertarians have given their support to abortion for one reason or another. Because of this, some of us have thought it necessary to commit some of our time, money and effort to the pro-life cause, all of which we would rather have been able to devote directly to furthering the general cause of libertarianism and the Libertarian[1]an Party.

We deplore the destructive divisiveness and ad hominem attacks which have in the past caused many people to retire from direct participation in the fight for individual liberty. We believe in the airing of reasonable expressions of disagreement wherever an error is seen, for liberty can triumph only if the philosophical foundation of libertarianism is as well constructed as is humanly possible. To help achieve this end, we have worked to publish this pamphlet. We hope that you will give some of your valuable time to consider what we have to say. We hope you also will consider the importance of revising the Libertarian Party’s platform in order to reflect a respect for human life at all stages of development (without, or course, adding to the unjust powers of the state). At the very least, the elimination of the current pro-abortion language and the drafting of a carefully reasoned and consistent pro-life plank should be included as part of the order of business at the next convention and platform hearings. Life, Liberty and Responsibility,

Doris Gordon
Coordinator
13424 Hathaway Drive
Wheaton, Maryland 20906
(301) 460-41

A link to the pamphlet from Sam’s archives:   http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/Other/Libertarians%20For%20Life.pdf

U.S. Speaking Tour Dates for Charl van Wyk Author of “Shooting Back” and “Reloaded Shooting Back Again”

Published September 8, 2023 | By Hal Shurtleff

Charl van Wyk U.S. Speaking Tour begins next Saturday in Manheim, PA.  He has six engagements in New England and then several in Virginial and finishes his tour in California.  Camp Constitution is honored to sponsor his New England speaking engagements.  Here is his itinerary:

 
I’m, Lord willing, speaking at the following public meetings, in the United States:

September 15-17
Host: Future of Christendom Conference!
Theme: The Gospel at War
Venue: Spooky Nook Sports, in Manheim, PA
Details and registration at: https://futureofchristendom.org/

Monday September 18
Host: Camp Constitution Speaker’s Bureau
Venue: Lane House, 177 Waltham St., Lexington, MA.
Time: 12 Noon
Menu: Sandwiches are ordered from Bertucci’s – Cost $15 – No obligation to order from the menu. Feel free to bring your own lunch.
RSVPs required – Hal Shurtleff (857) 498-1309

Monday September 18
Host: Camp Constitution Speaker’s Bureau
Venue: The Stoppe House, 16 Gould Rd., Bedford, MA
Time: 7:00 PM

Tuesday September 19

Host:  Camp Constitution Speaker’s Bureau

Venue:  Loudon Congregational Church 7018 Church St.  Loudon, NH

Time:  11:00 AM

Tuesday September 19
Host: Camp Constitution Speaker’s Bureau
Venue: Community Church of Alton, 20 Church St., Alton, NH
Time: 7:00 PM

Wednesday September 20
Host: Camp Constitution Speaker’s Bureau
Venue: Union Baptist Church of Littleton, 1468 N Rd (Rt 10), Littleton, ME
Time: 7:00 PM (The event includes a potluck dinner.)

Thursday September 21
Host: Camp Constitution Speaker’s Bureau
Venue: Lee Mogul Pounders Snow Mobile Club, 108 Skunk Hill Rd., Lee, ME
Time: 8:00 AM

For all the above Camp Constitution meetings – admission is free – donations accepted.
For more info call: Hal Shurtleff (857) 498-1309

Sunday September 24
Host: Cross and Crown Church
Venue: Warrenton Community Center, 430 East Shirley Avenue, Warrenton, VA 20186 – https://crosscrownchurch.com/
Time: 10 AM

Sunday October 1
Host: Providence Baptist Church,
Venue: 1441 Erickson Ave, Harrisonburg, VA 22803 – http://www.pbc1689.com/
Times: 10 AM and 11 AM

Sunday October 1
Host: Shenandoah Valley Reformed Presbyterian Church – www.svrpc.org
Venue: 1 Ruritan Road, Mount Crawford, Virginia
Time: 4:30 PM

Friday October 6
Host: Iron Sharpens Iron Men’s Group
Venue: 5734 Lonetree Blvd, Rocklin, CA 95765
Time: 6:30 PM
RSVPs required – Steve Wisniewski at spw@oefcinc.com

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PS. I’ll also be visiting the following towns and states, for personal visits, in case you’d like to meet over coffee: Damascus MD, Richmond, Lynchburg and Springfield VA, Wilmington NC, and Dallas/Fort Worth TX

See you soon!

We recently interviewed Charl:

 

And a link to an audio version of the interview:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2023-09-08T10_36_46-07_00

 

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