2020 – The Freedomist

The Cancel America Agenda Must Be Defeated In Our Hearts

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The Cancel America Agenda Must Be Defeated In Our Hearts

Bill Collier November 11, 2020

We must gather together exclusively with fellow freedom builders to defeat the cancel America crowd in our hearts, lives, communities, and nation!

By Bill Collier- The subtlety of subconsious manipulation is insidious and both mentally and morally corrupting in its influence. Even people who consciously reject the spiritual and moral premises of something can be influenced subconsciously to limit their thinking to its programmed parameters. In essence, the horizon of your potential is restricted in your own mind by hidden agents of influence.

The Cancel America agenda is just such a corrupting influence in our hearts. It is all-present and always under the surface of everything the corpostate ruling classes control. Your news and entertainment, your platforms, your games, and especially corporate policies all come from the place of saying and believing America is bad or racist or something that isn’t true and has never been true in the general sense.

If you examine your instincts about what to say in public, you will find the cancel America agenda governs your tongue, often for fear of being canceled yourself. But a society in which truth is suppressed in public discourse and where the ones who know the truth are cowed into silence is a dying society that has numbered its days.

Eventually, if this continues, your progeny will grow up in a land in which every voice and influence will pressure them into unconscious and unthinking acceptance of this cancel America agenda and its philosophical foundations. But it won’t stop there: they will be compelled to applaud and participate in the excess of depravity lest they be shunned and canceled. They will either grow up in a living hell by being punished for holding fast to truth or they will become deceived and morally compromised, no longer able recognize the truth.

Wanton self-indulgence in personal moral behavior, based on the lowest carnal pleasures (“excess of riot”), always goes hand-in-hand with collective control by the very few over the very many. In short, moral corruption leads to the kind of political and corporate overlordship (we call this the “corpostate” for short) we all sense is emerging. When the “corpostate” press arbitrarily proclaim the next President and suppress both all contrary news and news about his corruption, you know you are witnessing the end of individual freedom or accountability of the rulers to the ruled.

It all starts in your own heart. You are being corrupted into either silence or compliance, or both, with regards to a cancel America agenda and beliefs you find spiritually and morally reprehensible. You are not just being deplatformed online, your voice is being deplatformed in your workplace, among family, and in public.

People are losing their voice, knowing that the voices that are favored are saying things that are not true and that, if followed, will lead to the creation of a living hell for their own progeny. This is truly the dystopian nightmare of science fiction coming to pass before our eyes.

Your silence or just reticence to speak out is a crushing defeat to your very soul. Deep down this disturbs you and makes you feel dirty, incomplete, like a sellout.

The core problem here is not obvious to to many people. The core problem is a lack of personal support among those who refuse to go along with or embrace the cancel America agenda. We can stand up together, very few people have the means or courage to stand alone and suffer alone for speaking the truth boldly.

You may sense that, which is why you are here.

This is no indictment of your character or worth if you feel you have been silenceld or suppressed. We need each other, we are not meant to go it alone.

Gathering together in person and online EXCLUSIVELY with fellow freedom builders is not creating an echo chamber. This is propaganda and the Party line, meant to further cow you into submission.

This hobgoblin of “the echo-chamber”is a made-up apparition that we can see is merely projection of their own intent. How do we see this projection of their intent? We see how easily any voices that deny the cancel America agenda are deplatformed!

They, the cancel America crowd, create true echo-chambers and when we seek to gather for mutual support and comfort, they decry our echo-chambers! This is insidious and we must basically confront it with the strongest language and cast it to hell where it belongs.

Don’t let their word-salad nonsense sway you from finding ways to gather online and in person exclusively with fellow freedom builders. This is necessary to strengthen your heart’s resolve to resist and confront the cancel America agenda and its foot soldiers wherever you find them.

By gathering exclusively with fellow freedom builders for mutual support and comfort, you can find the courage to defeat the cancel America agenda in your heart and then in your life, communities, and nation.

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The Concept of Pomerium and Divine Protection

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The Concept of Pomerium and Divine Protection

Bill Collier October 28, 2020

The concept of a sacred boundary is lacking depth of understanding today, and yet this can be so useful to you. A modern application of this ancient concept could change your life.

Truth is truth and it is revealed, for Christians, primarily from the Bible, although it is also seen in many other places. People can have many things wrong in their beliefs and yet also have some grasp of deeper truths. Thus it is with the ancient concepts of place, what the Romans called a “pomerium”, even though in many ways ancient pagan beliefs were fundamentally flawed.

The pomerium for the Romans was a sacred boundary around the city of Rome that rendered the whole a special precinct under the protection of the gods. It was said of Rome, that everything in this pomerium was Rome itself, everything outside was territory (ager) owned by Rome. You did not carry weapons or bury the dead within this pomerium.

We see this concept in ancient Israel, more broadly, and in the Biblical concept of how God ordains the “boundaries of habitation” for the nations. These boundaries are ordained by God, therefore we can extrapolate that a nation whose God is the Lord is blessed only within its God-ordained boundaries. If and when nations extend their rulership beyond those boundaries then to that extent they violate their pomerium, the sacred boundary, and are not under Divine protection outside that boundary.

This concept of pomerium is a sort of sacred geography. The whole earth is divided in God’s eyes a certain way, but mankind has not respected those boundaries and has therefore brought ruin and travail upon itself.

It is also true these boundaries change in God’s eyes, for nations have a set time to exist and are overthrown while new ones are created, all ordained by God. Only within those boundaries can a nation of people be blessed, outside those boundaries they cannot be blessed and the further outside their pomerium they go, the more travail they bring upon themselves.

Conceptually, pomerium is something that we can apply to our lives. As it says in Ecclesiastes, “there is a time and season for everything” and, by extension, a place. Times and seasons and place are the pomerium of our individual and collective lives as human beings: a fact modern man has lost sight of and that brings much suffering upon us all.

To find and know and stay within your individual and shared pomerium is to stay within the realm of God’s protection and provision. Going beyond this is the wilderness, where you do not have Divine favor. Too many people and whole nations dwell in the wilderness and are not witin their own pomerium.

To understand and use this ancient concept one should not take a mechanistic view, e.g. try to define it in a linear fashion or by a legal definition. Pomerium is and should be an inner felt certainty that is not easily defined in dictionary language. To be within your pomerium is not confinement or limitation, because this is a whole universe which you can never fully explore in your lifetime.

While pomerium is conceptually applicable to your own life and being within the Divine pomerium of God’s possibilities for your life, it is also a sacred geography that literally applies to the lands of this earth and how God divides them.

All nations of people, and their kingdoms, have a pomerium in God’s eyes. If they remain within their pomerium and if God is their Lord, then they will experience Divine provision and protection within their pomerium. To the extent these nations of people follow God’s righteous standards in their way of life, from the heart and not merely from laws, and to the extent they stay within their pomerium, they will experience Divine protection and favor.

Nations and kingdoms are often connected in Scripture and in history. But they are neither synonymous nor interdependent. Both are agencies of provision within human civilization as ordained by God, the nation being a spiritual sovereignty and kingdoms being a landed sovereignty. Nations define a shared way of life while kingdoms are a magisterial authority as defined in Romans 13.

The modern nation-state attempts to and claims to merge these two things, but fails. Most nations of people, over 9000 today, do not have a corresponding and exact form of statehood and of the nearly 200 “kingdoms” recognized as political states today, few consist only of one nation of people.

A kingdom and a nation can be closely affiliated, as with the Japanese nation and its kingdom. But an “empire” such as the United States of America contains many diverse nations within its jurisdiction. An empire as we use the term isn’t a form of government but a single unitary, often decentralized, political state consisting often of multiple kingdoms and nations of people within its realm.

The pomerium of nations and of kingdoms and empires, again these terms as we use them are not referring to forms of government, is not the same as or interdependent of the pomerium of nations of people. We know this as a fact of history.

Land is sacred. That is, the boundaries of habitation for nations and the boundaries of the magisterium of kingdoms and empires are ordained by God and not understanding this leads to much harm and conflict. All conflict in this earth, that is all war, is rooted in a lack of understanding of the pomerium and violations thereof.

If all nations and all kingdoms and empires each followed God’s righteous standards for that agency of God’s provision to human civilization and stayed within their pomerium, then we would have peace!

Think then of the realms of kingdoms and the homelands of nations. These are rarely synonymous, some nations have homelands distributed among multiple kingdoms, e.g. the Kurds. Many kingdoms or empires contain multiple nations and homelands within their borders.

Pomerium is not static, neither for kingdoms nor for nations. But at any given moment there is a perfect optimal which, if ever achieved, leads to global peace. One day, in fact, Jesus will physically reign in this earth and He will establish all these pomeriums in perfection: every nation and kingdom will respect and be blessed within its pomerium!

We cannot set ourselves up as judges over these matters! No human agency, such as the UN, no Nimrod 2.0, can delineate or determine these boundaries of habitation (nations) or landed sovereignty (kingdoms).

It is a frustrating, from the human perspective, reality that the understanding and appropriation of God’s truth cannot be grasped in purely mechanist or legalistic terms and that no human authority is a Solo Grandee over such matters. The “milk of the Word” truths of the Gospel and Christian universals of doctrine and basic morality can be so defined, but even here if one merely understands these things in a mechanistic and legalistic manner, one has too limited an understanding of these things.

Concepts such as pomerium, while we can extrapolate them from the Bible and history, are less amenable to such mechanistic definitions than the Christian universals.

This takes us to a specific application on two scores: the redefining of landed sovereignty beyond contiguous territory and the redefining of homelands in the same way. We may be witnesses to a new and more enlightened form of non-territorial statehood through the web and of the reassertion of nationhood as something intentionally adopted by each individual.

These new forms of statehood and nationhood will not necessarily replace the old forms, which are rooted in contiguous territories and blood ancestry. The emergence of non-territorial states and of intentional nations will not displace the old forms any time soon.

To add to the confusion, this does not mean pomerium no longer applies, it means it will apply differently. A non-territorial state may serve diverse nations of people and individuals around the world who may also be part of territorial states and ancestral nations. Likewise, an intentional nation of people may have its members distributed around the world who are also each connected to an ancestral nation and both a territorial and non-territorial state.

For you as an individual there are potentially five primary forms of pomerium: your own individual pomerium, the pomerium of your territorial state, the pomerium of a non-territorial state, the pomerium of your ancestral nation or nations, and the pomerium of an intentional nationhood.

While few people are conscious of any one of these pomeriums, we propose that those who are conscious of and who respect these pomeriums will find much less conflict and far more success and happiness in this life.

Might we we one day live in a world of non-territorial statehood and intentional nationhood? This is not really a question we ask as such. What we envision is that these new forms of kingdoms and nations will emerge and will lead to blessings and provisions being released which have not been released before.

The legal structures and framework for these new entities will also emerge. We generally tend to propose the form of a cryptonation platform as the basis of a non-territorial “empire of liberty” with a virtual-to-local approach coupled with hub communities and intentional networks as a new form of non-territorial statehood. We also generally see the convergence of legal structures such as NGO’s, fraternal benefit societies, and tribal/domestic nation statuses as a new form of intentional nationhood.

The ancestral nation and the territorial state are unlikely to go away any time soon, and we cannot be sure they ever should go away. But their ability to cope with and accommodate these newer forms of statehood and nationhood may be vital to their long-term success.

In the Upadaria project we see the potential for developing a new model and framework, a new bleuprint and architecture, which we define as the makings of a new Christian civilization. This civilization, as it emerges organically from the proclaimation of its ideals and vision, will potentially attract territorial and non-territorial states and both ancestral and intentional nations.

One of the key foundations of this emerging civilization is the intentional application and understanding of the pomerium from a Biblical and historical perspective, but applied to a modern and cyber-connected world in new ways.

This is not new or hidden knowledge. God’s truths are eternal but their application and expression are both diverse and evolving. On one hand, the world is growing more evil and manifesting its final state before judgment. On the other hand, a remnant of people within the Body of Christ who exist within this world right now is growing more in harmony with its ideal and perfect state before the final Return of Christ.

The manifestation, expression, and even understanding of nations and kingdoms has evolved over time. Even within Scripture we see this evolution, as with Israel and the Jewish people from the time of Abraham to the Diaspora after the New Testament.

Even when a pomerium is not just in one contiguous place but is distributed to wherever people within a non-territorial state or an intentional nationhood dwell and gather together here and there, the concept of pomerium remains connected to its eternal definition and application.

Your understanding of YOUR PLACEMENT within any pomerium, as we have described it, sets your own boundaries of habitation within which are endless possibilities and great favor but outside of which you will only find wilderness. We are of the conviction that for every person there is a pomerium which may include all or a few of these things: that of a territorial state of which they are citizens, that of a non-territorial state of which they are also citizens, that of any number of ancestral nations they identify with, and that of a particular intentional nationhood that identify with.

We do not propose that every Christian should be part of our particular manifestation of non-territorial statehood or distributed intentional nationhood. It may be that this is not God’s way for your life! We certainly don’t expect or want people to dishonor or disrespect their territorial statehood or their ancestors.

What we envision is the intentional nested identity of all these things in a way that reflects God’s righteous standards and as pursued by individuals without any form of coercion. This is not about imposing our terms, definitions, and standards but it is about broadcasting them to the world and giving individuals a chance to embrace and utilize them if they choose.

When we consider pomerium we see within this sacred boundary God’s unlimited possibilities and provisions. We see this as a border protected by Angels so that we need fear nothing that can harm our souls. (As to suffering and offenses, it is clear, in this life, we will all suffer such things, but our soul will be safe.)

So if then you own a piece of land and declare it, as God leads, within any pomerium, such as an intentional spiritual nationhood, this boundary is thereby protected by God Himself. This doesn’t mean you secede from the state or stop paying taxes! This is a spiritual boundary, not a political boundary.

As an important aside, the ACTUAL God-ordained pomerium for any kingdom or nation rarely perfectly aligns with a political border. It is good when political borders reflect the true pomerium for a landed sovereignty (kingdom), but we do not mean “political borders” when we speak of pomerium!

If you understand the “boundaries of habitation” for your life and whatever kingdom or nations of this earth God had connected you to, and you can if you seek the Lord, you will not be limited but, rather, liberated!

A Freedomist Circle- A Local and Virtual Freedom Building Activity

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A Freedomist Circle- A Local and Virtual Freedom Building Activity

Bill Collier October 24, 2020

The concept of a Freedomist Circle is simple: it is a circle of Freedomists who are pledged to one another and to America for mutual support, self-preservation, self-reliance, and upholding the rights, persons, and property of each member from all hazards.

A Freedomist Circle is dedicated to the fulfillment of America’s true manifest destiny as an empire of liberty and our spiritual constitution based on our four core ideals of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law.

These can and should be informal groups of 5-30 adults who take and abide by The Freedomist Pledge and who also Pledge to one another their mutual support through all hazards. While such Freedomist Circles may come together and create more formal community clubs and networks, each Circle is independent and can operate in isolation.

Knowing people have your back is fundamental to being free and experiencing freedom. Our aim must be to encourage and support the creation of these independent Freedomist Circles and to show people how to connect with others and build these informal support groups for freedom.

A Freedomist Trust Circle is a mutual support and self-help activity using economic, social, and civic action among members mostly to support fellow members but also to nurture other Trust Circles and spread the Freedomist message person-to-person and face-to-face, outside any platforms or controlled media.

To create a Freedomist Circle, take cognizance of people who live near you and who are trustworthy and yet also devoted to America’s core ideals and liberty values as you are. Ask them if they would be willing to take and keep The Freedomist Pledge and of so, tell them about the Freedomist Circle. Set up periodic social gatherings for members to get to know one another, to hear or watch a lecture or other freedom-related content, and to ask four key questions to promote mutual benefit and support.

The four key questions include:

1. What have you done lately to increase your own level of practical freedom and/or success and prosperity and how did you do it? (This is meant to inspire and edify your peers.)

2. Does anyone need an introduction to anyone in business or any other field to help them advance in any manner? (We cannot understate the power of networking and we will use this power intentionally.)

3. Does anyone face any issue, problem, opposition, or crisis that the group might work on helpin them resolve or find the right resources to solve? (Mutual assurance of help in time of need is a power freedom tool!)

4. Does anyone have any good examples of wise advancement of freedom and success or bad examples of failure that might inform the group? ( It is vital to learn from the success and failure of others!)

The group will also assign their own Delegates to different local officials or entities and these people will report on the activies and conduct of those officials or entities to the group. Additionally, a member will be tasked with following local to national news and giving a summary at each meeting.

Freedomist Circles will keep the identity of their members confidential, respecting privacy and confidentiality at all times, although members are not prevented from making their affiliation with a Freedomist Circle known. We are not a secret society, we simply respect privacy.

A virtual Freedomist Circle is a group who meet virtually and do a lot of what a local group does, using video conferencing, but who also work on ways to use the web to help one another in their various pursuits. Generally, the group follows national news and monitors the platforms in issues related to their online freedom.

A Freedomist Circle is something you can build on your own and if you keep following us here you will learn more nuts and bolts.

A new Circle may begin with one person gathering a few friends, each of whom can nominated up to 5 people, so each friend also has their own smaller core of other friends they bring into the Circle. As the Circle grows it can them subdivide and a few members repeat the process but also stay connected to the starter Circle, creating an organic network that doesn’t have to be formal.

Generally, we envision each Freedomist having a local Circle that may gather weekly, a starter Circle they stay connected to once a month, and a virtual Circle that meets weekly but also belongs to a larger Group of Circles all started from the same Circle.

None of these Circles will use the platforms to gather and connect, they may use our platform or set up their own email lists or what have you, but they will all have each other’s personal contact information in case these means fail.

Having a Freedomist Circle in your locale and online can be a very real and practical way to not only increase your level of freedom but also your chances for success and prosperity.

My Predictions for 2020

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My Predictions for 2020

Bill Collier October 22, 2020

I am predicting a 55% chance for a Republican sweep of the election: keep the Senate, regain the House, and keep the White House.

Let’s explore the reasoning behind this prediction, which almost every political pundit and insider will laugh at.

First, there are “the polls”, and I suspect the polling is over sampling for Democrats and desperately wants to demoralize the Republicans: their bias is beyond the pale and there is not going back for them.

The second reason are the “shy voters.”

In this cancel hysteria environment, Trump and Republican supporters are totally gun show, they don’t want their liberal family, friends, or colleagues to shine, shame, and banish them. While the proper response is to band together, shame those who shame others, and push back, the real response is the creation of a simmering plurality of shy voters who refuse to make themselves known.

We have seen accounts of these silent voters, some say silent majority, but, as can be expected, the press refuse to give much oxygen to this story. I don’t think these shy voters are the majority, but I think there are enough of them to give the GOP a sweeping win.

Indeed, taking oxygen away from the opponents of the collectivist corpostate cabal is the chief aim and characteristic of the press and their political allies, the Democrats. Deplatforming, shaming, shunning, and banishing the strongest voices from the center and right is designed to put fear in the hearts of everyone else. Call it a soft tyranny or shadow dictatorship, but one thing it isn’t is freedom.

This insidious assault of free speech and freedom of association against all opponents of the corpostate is pushing people against a wall and the general idea is that the ballot is the last and only place where one can act in opposition without directly being targeted for doing so.

And so we suppose an American populace who still wants freedom will lean toward Republicans as the only wah to voice opposition to the cirpos, whose champion is the Democratic Party. This is by no means an endorsement of the GOP, whose failures are legendary. It is the only visceral and safe way to show opposition and stick it to the man, as it were.

But the probability for this to happen isn’t overwhelming, we give this scenario a 55% chance as opposed to a host of other scenarios, which include a 33% chance Democrats sweep as cowed Americans retreat and surrender to what they feel is either inevitable or not as dangerous as some portray it.

What we cannot know with certainty is who will vote on what numbers and what is driving them. A substantial plurality of Americans totally embrace the “America is bad”, or at least in need of dramatic “reforms” and that the President and Republicans are unjust, hateful bigots with a criminal intent.

It is the press who have spread these seditious lies and smears while working mightily to suppress dissent and any evidence that contradicts their glowing praise of Democrats and practical blood libel of Republicans. The real question is: will the press’s narrative of GOP Monsters prevail or will the thirst for freedom that sees through the blood libel prevail?

To say the Press are enemies of the people is no stretch. They march in lockstep with the corpostate and its Party, the Democrats, and they evince a design of soft or shadow tyranny, mostly carried out by and through monopoly platforms that deplatform and cancel dissentors into financial and social ruin.

The corpostate cabal include old money and new money bankers who control and ally with major platforms like Amazon, Paypal, Ebay, Facebook, Twitter, and Google and the major press outlets to craft a corpostate hegemony over the lives of every single one of us. Every other institution in our entire Western Civilization belongs to or is controlled by this cabal.

Against this flow the masses who may still yearn for freedom have little more they can do, or that they THINK they can do, then to vote GOP and stick it in the eye of the corpostate goons. It is on such grounds we say the GOP has a 55% chance of a sweep.

But we have a 33% chance the rot is too deep and wide and too few American voters can think beyond or around the endless diet of sensational headlines meant to convince them that bondage is liberation and freedom is just a word for shallow carnal self-indulgence and nothing more.

If indeed after election day the corpostate and its Party win, serious Freedomists will have to find new venues and gaps for freedom outside the platforms and the dominant socioeconomic structures. Indeed, even if the GOP wins this approach must be epxlored and built, because the GOP is no Freedomist party!

The problem for Freedomists is that we have no champion. Neither Trump nor his GOP are effective and consistent champions of true freedom founded on virtue, liberty, and independence. In moral character and behavior, in ethical conduct, and in consistent devotion to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, Trump and the GOP are at best inconsistent, “sometimes champions.”

We can name all the faults, flaws, and hypocrisy of Trump and the GOP, but as to the Democrats, we have a Party who places no other gods before itself than the corpostate ruling class, all its “woke” propaganda notwithstanding!

The Need For New Money Solutions

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The Need For New Money Solutions

Bill Collier October 21, 2020

Saving, investing, spending, and earning money depends on a monetary and financial structure that is in part archaic and in part increasingly politicized. Transactions can and do disappear and some financial services providers are now cutting customers off based on their personal politics.

Both the creakiness of the financial infrastructure and the growing political bias of providers portend problems, especially for those whose personal politics don’t align with those of the ruling clase who control these institutions.

The development of new money structures to transfer wealth between parties efficiently and without regards to the ideology of the participants is a critical necessity and a great opportunity for profit. This is the democratization of finance, whereby power and control shift away from essentially 20th century industrial structures controlled by the very few, to an open-source ecosystem with a plethora of diverse providers who must cater to the public, sans bias, or die.

This isn’t just about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, this is about apps and new financial and trade technology that can reside on your handheld device. This is also about local efforts, such as local currencies and neighborhood credit unions tapping into this new architecture and simplifying the entire process. For instance, when the customer is custodian of their data, fraud and abuse are minimized AND regulations are dramatically decreased, thus reducing costs and increasing simplicity and smoothness.

The Democratization of financial services and technology that put the power in your hands and take it away from governments and mega corporations is not only essential but inevitable. Even if “outlawed”, this decentralization cannot be stopped.

Sustainability, NOT Global Warming

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Sustainability, NOT Global Warming

W R Collier Jr October 5, 2020

Bill Collier- In an article on the 8th of February, Christopher Booker of the UK Telegraph lambasted “global warming” and “climate change” science, joining a growing chorus of critics who accuse scientists of skewing data to prove their theory. Indeed, the fault line for the “global warming” debate is ideological and political, not “scientific.”

Critics of the global warming theorists point out that their solutions often lean heavily toward a top-down global “collectivist” approach. Some use the word “Socialist” to describe the global warming theorists. Even efforts by non-collectivists to produce a free market approach to effect reductions in “carbon emissions” have been rejected- evidently, critics point out, global warming can only be dealt with by resorting to some form of global collectivism that is managed by a small group of ‘experts.’

This begs the question as to what is or isn’t collectivism and whether critics are “red baiting”, but the fact the argument has come down to the alleged ideology of the proponents of the global warming theory seems to reveal that the “science” has taken a back seat to ideology, on both sides. Only time will tell if accusations against the “science” behind the global warming theory are true and founded.

For years, efforts to clean our air and produce what is called “sustainability” have been based on “global warming.” We were told that “in order to prevent global warming, we must reduce pollutants and we must focus on sustainability.” Sustainability is a move towards locally renewable or recyclable raw materials and alternative energy all of which have a “light footprint” on the environment.

Partially as a result of this fear compelling people to seek such solutions, these sustainable solutions, including alternative energy, have come down in costs. More and more advances are coming along making wind, solar, and other forms of sustainable energy solutions affordable to average people. Alternative building techniques, which city codes are still catching up to, such as cobb and straw bale construction, can so reduce building costs as to make adding on wind and solar power generation to each home quite within reach of average people.

Sustainability and clean air are tied almost inextricably to “global warming” and if, whether it is fair or not to do so, the whole theory of global warming is rejected by most people, then it may also be that concerns of clean air and efforts to create more self-sustaining communities will suffer the same fate. The picture of large plumes of soot-smoke pouring into the sky from factories and coal fired power plants will no longer concern people who believe that this has not impact on “climate change.”

One city has become the poster child for a move away from fossil fuels and toward sustainability- Peking. Here is a city which has days of such heavy pollution that people are forbidden to go outside, and rare is the day when the “fog” lifts enough for you to actually clearly see the city skyline. Perhaps all that smog will not do one thing to tick the global temperature up, but one can certainly argue that this smog is not good for the people, the plants, or the animals of Peking.

A precipitous rush away from fossil fuels towards sustainable energy is economically harmful, it is argued, and with some serious questions emerging about the science behind global warming, it may be tempting to drop the whole move toward sustainability altogether. The current EPA rules regarding coal-fired power plants are driven almost totally by global warming fears, for instance. While it may be argued that the EPA is moving too far, too fast, and all in the name of something fewer and fewer people believe is a real threat, the truth is that there are other good reasons to consider pushing forward, even if at a more reasonable and far less disruptive pace, with sustainable energy solutions.

Sustainable local energy is energy from locally renewable raw materials which local people, at the household level, are mostly in ownership control over. It means that the community, down to the individual homes and businesses, owns and controls its own energy resources and that the use of those resources has little to no negative impact on their air, water, or natural environment in general. Far from being only about global warming, it is about empowerment and it is about clean air, water, and an overall pristine natural environment being left to future generations.

Such solutions, however, are not proposed by many global warming theorists. Often their solutions focus on “one big system”, or “OBS”. OBS looks like this: a giant solar and/or wind farm owned and controlled by a corporation or government that distributes power through a nationally interconnected “smart grid” that charges consumers, you and I, high costs for energy. This is already happening and anyone who pays electricity bills knows all about this.

Sustainable local energy focuses on empowering individuals to become individually “energy independent”, at least in their household, by freeing them to use better and less expensive building techniques to shift the cost of building a home from the building to its energy and waste removal infrastructure.

Sustainable local energy is empowerment. It puts more wealth, more resources, and more control in the hands of the individual and removes much of the “middle man” fat of governments and corporations which currently control our energy.

As the debate over global warming devolves into politics and ideology, if people genuinely reject this theory, then it is possible they will reject and be suspicious of anything associated with it, including efforts to pursue cleaner air and sustainability in general, which are rewarding and beneficial even if global warming were conclusively proven to be a total myth. The danger here is that we will continue, as individuals and communities, to rely on OBS, whether OBS is sustainable or not sustainable, and we, as individuals, are thus rendered “dependent” on OBS rather than ourselves and our neighbors.

An Endless Election Food Fight

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An Endless Election Food Fight

Bill Collier September 29, 2020

Time was, election season lasted around 6 months before each vote. Then things settled down and normalcy returned. The heated rhetoric slacked off, at least for most people other than the political junkies. We remember those days with fondness.

Now, we have an endless election food fight and even those who prefer their politics in light doses once every 18 months, at most, find it hard to avoid the partisan talk fest. Every hour of every day every issue and breaking news items is presented with the hysterical voice of one proclaiming an incoming disaster of Biblical proportions. Indeed, calling politicians themselves the antichrist is favorite sport for some partisan hacks.

This endless “controversy” and rancor may eventually prevent us from seeing when a real disaster creeps up on us or it may cover up the real crisis of the hour as we angrily debate the fake crises being shovel-fed to our wide-open mouths. We eat it all up like it is the true national pastime.

Is it really necessary and inevitable to have an endless election food fight and can we at any point escape the partisan rancor?

The answer lies within. We can choose to tune it out and not let ourselves be forever drawn into the latest, almost always passing, contrived controversy. We can decide to focus on elections within a few months of each vote, weighing the Party platforms and the candidates based on something more solid than anonymous sources and endless sound-bites.

What does your Party stand for compared to your own true north, comapred to your own beliefs, values,and convictions? By the way, if you don’t know what those are and cannot articulate them, understand that you are easily played by any emotional manipulation anyone wants to use against you. And the airwaves are filled with that! Know your own beliefs, values, and convictions, know why you hold them, know what they mean, from your heart, and be able to articulate them from your heart in your own words.

Too often we see people simply regurgitating sound-bites and narratives fed to them from the outside, all the while proudly boasting that they are “independent” or above the fray. They cannot articulate their own beliefs in their own words or why those beliefs are valid or useful to anyone.

I can tell you that I stand for freedom based on the virtue of our core ideals, on liberty based on the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, and on independence through self-reliance, a free market meritocracy, and and mutuality. I can tell you what those things mean and why I cherish them. I can compare Party Platforms and candidates with those things and give you my take on which of these things supports what I believe. I know this and do not listen to anything outside of what a Party and a Candidate will do or has done in power.

Is Joe Biden’s son a criminal and did Trump cheat on his taxes? It’s not that these things don’t matter at all, it’s that we cannot know for sure and these things are distractions. The actual things these two men have done in power matter to me: one tends much more toward what I belief in and the other seems hell-bent to go completely against these things I hold dear.

If you let this be about accusations and character when these things won’t matter if someone in power abuses your beliefs and values, then you are off the mark. You are easily misled and manipulated. You have no independence and you cannot think for yourself.

The endless election food fight is something you can watch from afar and not get involved with or it is an unnecessary drama that can suck you in and add stress to your life, which reduces your life span.

What is your true north and what do you believe in? Spend more time figuring that out and less time chasing headlines that, within 72 hours most of the time, will have lost all credibility.

The endless election food fight seems custom-designed by the politicians to keep you in reaction mode, to conceal their magic tricks and slight of hand, all meant to fool you into focusing away from the real heart of every issue. Center yourself on who you are, on what you really believe, on your own interests, and on what you think the truth is. If you do this, you will find more peace and calm in the fake storms and passing fads, you will know who you are voting for and why and nobody will be able to move you with emotional claptrap or fool you with smoke and mirrors.

Food Freedom Through New Victory Gardens

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Food Freedom Through New Victory Gardens

Bill Collier September 26, 2020

Creating local Victory Garden Clubs is a practical way to increase your freedom and prosperity, especially what we call “food freedom.” Food freedom is basically the ability to meet your nutrition needs primarily through resources you own, co-own, or that are located in your local vicinity. Food freedom meand you don’t have to rely on powers or resources outside of your own reach or control.

People talk about freedom in some abstract, like your rights to protest, or your religious freedom, and some really focus on freedom to love whomever you want on whatever grounds you choose. Such freedoms may or may not bring positivity to your life and may never bring progress to humanity.

Freedomists are all about a kind of freedom that is positive, has virtue, is purely voluntary, and is immediately practical. We look for ways to be more materially autonomous from anyone or anything that doesn’t respect or nurture our values and way of life, whatever those things are for each of us.

The Victory Garden plan is something you and your neighbors can do to move away from food dependence toward food freedom. It is a concrete plan for taking direct control over a major part of your life-necessities that liberates you from external influences and control. People who enjoy food freedom are lesss susceptible to economic and supply-chain disruptions, they have access to healthier nutrition, and they are more connected to positive people who so value freedom in a practical way.

A local Victory Garden Club is somewhat like a community garden. See this picture of individual plots in a typical community garden:

But unlike a community garden, a Victory Garden Club isn’t restricted to one piece of land, even if it has some sort of common land like that pictured. Also, unlike a community garden, a Victory Garden Club doesn’t require everyone to have a green thumb.

The four elements of such a club inlcude the people who manage and administrate the club, landholders who set aside space for the club to plant things, green thumbs who oversee activities and ensure success, and general members who contribute time and/or money to the effort. All participants receive “food shares” from all food produced based on their level of participation.

The club assigns shares to each type of participant and also sets some aside for sale to cover monetary costs and for the poor and needy. Each club would figure this out and adjust their formula for assigning shares are things proceeded.

A word of caution is needed here.

We do not recommend broadly inclusive clubs that are open to anyone in the the locale. We do recommend broad cooperation of all local clubs based on the broadest goals of lcoal food independence and sustainability. But each club must have sociocultural cohesiveness, in other words its members should share the same beliefs, values, and convictions.

Clubs designed around shared relgious or sociocultural grounds should not be based on race or ancestry for two reasons: first, sociocultural similarities transcend mere biological differences in genetics and skin color and, second, fostering anything that elevates race and blood above freewill association tends toward breeding intolerance and conflict. We do not envision a “this-race only” basis for any Victory Garden Club that claims to be freedom-centered.

What we envision is in each locale networks of Victory Garden Clubs, each having sociocultural cohesion, forming a local Victory Garden Society to foster food freedom for all individuals and food independence and sustainability for the general community.

Food freedom is a positive step toward real freedom that is practical and beneficial to all people. It removes you from someone else’s sphere of influence and control, it protects you from external crises, and it saves you money.

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Freedom Is Beyond Politics

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Freedom Is Beyond Politics

Bill Collier September 25, 2020

By Bill Collier- The words “freedom” and politics seem interwined. If I speak to someone about freedom they may say, “I don’t want to talk about politics.” But is this really the proper response?

Freedom, when we break it down, includes “free” and “dom”, the domain of the free or the dominion of the free. A Freedomist is one who believes the free should basically be in dominion. Once you see this, it becomes easy to spot every bad idea by unfree people who promise results at the expense of your free dominion.

What is politics? In short, and broadly speaking, politics is rooted in the old Polis, it is the public life or public sector. And since just past the stone age human civilization has always tended toward some concept and practice of the public life, we might assume it is somewhat useful to human welfare and progress. This is debatable by some, but what it true is that some aspects of our lives with human civilization have for thousands of years involved some form of public life.

What is public life?

In terms of ownership, if we think of it from that perspective, it includes things that are not owned by any single private person. But in the past, under monarchy, a lot of what we consider public now was considered the monarch’s private property. In reality, the monarch’s private property tended to mostly serve a public good, their parks and roads were often used by the general population but maintained at royal expense.

In terms of power, if we consider public life we tend to see that control over resources and rules goes to some form of government system or structure, be be royal or democratic. The individual and their private associations or enterprises doesn’t have much say or power in comparison, at least not in those spaces considered public.

Now, let’s return to the domain or dominion of the free. What is in that space?

What is in that space is everything that is owned and ruled solely on the basis of some form of private ownership or shared ownership in total freewill association. Unlike the public space, which you cannot easily choose or control, the free domain is totally up to you whether or not to enter and how to rule it.

The idea that freedom is interwined with politics is, to me, absurd. It misses the point. Freedom is everything that isn’t public life and too much public life creates an imbalance and tends toward a loss of freedom and a corresponding loss of humanity. While it may be argued some public life is essential to human prosperity and progress, the truth is that private life was the primary life known to humanity until after the stone age.

Basically, the free domain is essential to our humanity and public life may have value but we seem to be able to survive without it or with very little of it. When the free domain shrinks too much we lose our humanity and dignity, we stop moving forward, and we even lose our wealth and prosperity.

The petty and surface arguments of those who imagine a world where public life is supreme and private life is severely limited are smoke and mirrors. They conceal the true issue and cover up the true flaws behind their nature: the nature of all these collectivist policies and programs is to reduce the free domain of private life to a shadow of what it needs to be.

Freedom isn’t political. It is depolitization of as much of our lives as possible. When you either vote for or refuse to vote against public life supremacists, you ensure that more and more of what you thought was and should be private and controlled by you will become public and controlled by others.

Looking at the photo below, we see protestors are often riled up by the press and financial backers to essentially demand less freedom and more utopian promises. These seductive promises are like a drug that initially gives you euphoria and then becomes a life-controlling and costly addiction.

To march toward freedom is less about politics, though it does include the need to engage the public powers, and is more about building your own robust private life and private free associations with people of like convictions and values. Freedom is a process of seizing your own agency as a spiritually sovereign human being created in the image of your Creator!

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Face Mask Shaming

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Face Mask Shaming

Bill Collier May 28, 2020

Bill Collier Jr., Publisher- I don’t wear a mask to show that I care, I wear one because I have a cough and I do care.

People who shame others to wear a mask deserve to be shunned!

THE TRUTH is that, unless you are in a heavy breakout area, the chances of an unmasked person who is not actively sick getting YOU sick are almost NIL. There is growing evidence, look it up, that people who are sick but don’t have symptoms have a .01% (1 in 10,000) chance of getting you sick. The virus isn’t active enough or at such a volume that it is contagious. People can debate this, the science isn’t settled.

Nonetheless, I think that masking the world, and all the breathing problems that entails, instead of just actually sick people with symptoms, is a form of mass abuse.

To allegedly “save just one person” millions of people with breathing issues are either being masked and put at risk or shunned and shamed to such a degree that it is either causing mental problems or keeping them from getting their necessities!!!

This is especially true if you decide to keep a distance from them. The risk versus burden is unbalanced here: the burden demanded isn’t warranted by the actual risk.

And the “if it only saves one life” trite is sophomoric dribble! That argument can justify almost anything and remove any need for proof or accountability. It’s a garbage argument and if you use it, I’m leaning more and more toward shunning you as you seek to unjustly shun others.