As Cubans take to the streets, waving American flags and chanting “Freedom!”, the chances of this becoming a real revolution against the Communist revolution are growing.
Confidential sources revealed to the Freedomist, “Cuban generals are leaving the island. Something’s going on, the protests are just the tip of the iceberg. Cubans are about to rise.” This source is in Cuba.
Then there’s this from Congressman Kevin McCarthy:
A Cuban uprising to oust the communist regime may be long overdue, but are the US and Latin America ready for the fallout?
Cuba’s government had locked down the internet and are controlling movement within Havana in what may be a desperate attempt to nip this in the bud. The protests began as a response to slow distribution of Covid-19 vaccines but have begun to demand freedom from the dictatorship.
Cubans are out en mass and now we get a possible scenario where the generals are leaving in haste. This may or may not be the end of the regime, but it will be the beginning of the end, we predict.
The protests occured in least 25 locations, people shouting “down with the dictatorship” and “freedom”, as police randomly arrested some protestors and grappled with others, failing to make an arrest. The wide-spread nature of the protests and the fact so many people are coming out is described by our source as “unsettling.”
Multiple posts on Twitter from many cities show large crowds in the thousands. But while there are protestors, the Cuban regime does also have its strong supporters, true believers, however mostly older people and party members who enjoy more benefits. Younger people, who have begun to see the greater world through the internet, are hungry for a better life and more opportunities, which a top-down, planned economy run by bureaucrats isn’t able to sustain.
While it is true, and cannot be dismissed, that the embargo of Cuba by the US has certainly curtailed economic growth, islanders may see the radical destabilizing policies of the regime, which seeks to export its authoritarianism abroad, as contributing to its pariah status. The Cuban economic morass cannot be mostly attributed to the effects of the embargo.
Not surprisingly, the UN, including 184 nations, called on the US to lift the embargo on the island nation and sided with the regime in blaming the embargo on the lack of response to Covid-19. But the citizenry aren’t having it and know where to lay the blame, something the rather totalitarian favoring UN cannot possibly grasp. If one ever needed proof most of the countries in this world side with dictatorships, this should be it.
The official UN news account did add this:
Meanwhile, Political Coordinator for the US Mission, Rodney Hunter, said during the vote that sanctions are “one set of tools in Washington’s broader effort toward Cuba to advance democracy, promote respect for human rights, and help the Cuban people exercise fundamental freedoms”.
He underscored that despite the blockade, the US recognizes “the challenges of the Cuban people” and therefore, the US was “a significant supplier of humanitarian goods to the Cuban people and one of Cuba’s principal trading partners”.
“Every year we authorize billions of dollars’ worth of exports to Cuba, including food and other agricultural commodities, medicines, medical devices, telecommunications equipment, other goods, and other items to support the Cuban people. Advancing democracy and human rights remain at the core of our policy efforts”, he said.
The US has not stifled the importation of medical supplies but the blockade is meant to stifle the economic flexing of a regime who, it is clear, would use that power to destabilize its neighbors. That being said, the blockade hasn’t worked and has mostly just made it hard on the people and easier for a corrupt regime to blame it on the regime’s own failed economic policies.
The only difference now is, many Cubans have had enough and are no longer willing to listen to the excuses which 184 countries at the behest of the corrupt UN are willing to swallow.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel blamed the U.S. for stoking the anger, according to the Washington Post.
“The order to fight has been given – into the street, revolutionaries!” he said in an address, according to the BBC.
So as Democrats demand “peaceful” behavior on the part of protestors, they have nothing to say about this invective by the regime.
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From old King George to Hitler and the Soviets, from the plantation slave holders to neonazis, and from overwrought religious fanatics and the new “woke” communists, Americans have always had to contend with authoritarianism abroad and even at home. This bent toward authoritarianism can be seen in little to major outbursts throughout our history: slavery, putting down the whiskey rebellion, the trail of tears, jim crow, and the list goes on to include the anti self-preservation acts in major cities and Democrat-run states in their war against the Second Amendment.
Authoritarianism is an instinct toward the forced submission of other people to your will against their own wishes and interests, even if you, the authoritarian, imagine you know what’s best for them. Whether the authoritarian is just lording it over others like some third world tinhorn junta or some idealistic do-gooder like the prohibitionists, the effect is the same: human agency and human dignity suffer and so does human rights and human flourishing.
Throughout our country’s history the threads of the authoritarian bent versus “freedomism” have played back and forth, here and there, each sometimes gaining the upper hand. The question of whether this “land of the free and home of the brave” will be truly free or lean backwards in societal evolution toward authoritarianism remains unresolved.
Freedomism is basically the belief that all humans are spiritually sovereign beings created in the image of God with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and wealth. Some of our core self-evident rights, if we believe in the inherent spiritual sovereignty of every individual, include self-preservation, self-determination, self-reliance, self-expression, and free participatory association. They require equitable and equal respect by ALL institutions (including government, business, and all others) for our human dignity, human agency, and the inviolate sanctity of our rights, persons, and property.
A world in which freedomism reigns supreme is a world of prosperity and happiness. A world where authoritarianism has even a little sway is a world where poverty grows, unhappiness spreads, and hate and discontent infect the populace.
Name an ill, such as racism and worker exploitation, child abuse or wealth inequities, social injustice or corruption, and a strict adherance to the spirit and heart of freedomism would substantially mitigate or solve that problem. But authoritarianism can never, ever, solve such problems. It isn’t organic or human in its foundation. It is akin to the introduction of one invasive species to solve the problem of another invasive species that becomes a far worse problem.
If you complain about “gun violence” and your instinct is to outlaw guns, then you are, to some degree, embracing authoritarianism. This knee-jerk response won’t solve the core problem of violence and criminality which results from a lack of respect for the rights, persons, and property of others. This disrespect for basic human dignity by the criminals and malefactors stems from the blatant disrespect meted out by our major institutions, including academia, the press, major corporations, and the government.
It has become fashionable to paint your authoritarianism in the colors of social justice and equity. The modern American “woke communist” isn’t like the Leninists or Maoists, per se, but more like the modern Chinese. They create a wicked partnership between woke communists in the corporate world and woke communists in the government. The supreme “woke communist” shot-callers don’t sound or look like the communists of old.
The evolution of communism from a strict state-ownership model to a partnership between Party loyalists in all institutions, including private and public, acting in ruthless disregard for basic human dignity, is alarming. It may have fooled too many people for too long who were looking for the classic neosoviet or maoist communist.
The basic essence of the communist model isn’t necessarily “state ownership of the means of production.” That’s so 19th and 20th century. The basic common thread is the use of authoritarianism to produce a society of managed outcomes. It requires the atomization of each individual so that they can be molded and shaped into a new type of human being. The modern equivalent of the “Soviet Man” is the “woke individual.” But, like the Soviet Man, the woke individual becomes a mere cog in a machine that uses bogeyman fears and utopian promises to keep everyone in line.
It’s all authoritarianism. While it is good to know the main new authoritarian threat that exists today, it is useful both to see the overall authoritarianism thread throughout human history and to be careful lest we also fall prey to the siren call.
Authoritarianism is essentially a lazy, quick-fix, silver bullet approach to problem solving at the level of society itself. Just cut the gordian knot by mandating that people become whatever you imagine in your theories they should become and, while some dissenters may be “necessarily” punished and harmed for the “common good”, the end justifies the means. The managed progressive evolution of society, in our manifestation of authoritarianism that seems to be a genderless and undifferentiated mass of atomized individuals without faith or family, demands that we punish those who hinder the advancement we have planned!
If your ideas aren’t such that people can adopt and use them for individual and mutual profit solely on the basis of freewill participation, then your ideas are total garbage. If your idea cannot flourish unless it shows intolerance towards all who don’t accept it or want to practice it, then, also, your idea is garbage.
Authoritarianism is tempting for three reasons: the submitter no longer bears personal responsibility for their actions or welfare, the imposer gains the wicked satisfaction of lording it over others, and the theorist satisfies themselves that they have magically solved the perceived societal problems with a simple solution.
Overbearing parents, machismo husbands, the karens and kens, and henpecking wives all have the spirit of authoritarianism bubbling up within their souls. Among the authoritarians and their followers there is no doubt this bent toward dominating others and disrespecting their basic human dignity is strong, and yet always “justified.”
The war between authoritarianism and freedomism is ancient and will never end. Even if we Freedomists gained the upper hand in America, the next generation would always be faced with some new manifestation of the authoritarian spirit. Some humans bend toward a wicked desire to control other humans and use all kinds of sophistry, including bogeyman fears and utopian promises, to justify their own inhumanity.
Today it is the woke communist that is our chief threat, a domestic foe to our freedom. The woke communist doesn’t just want state ownership of the means of production but a hybrid partnership of corporate and government power under the single control of the Party. Like all communists, they want a communalized society where the few lord over the many, but for their own good.
There are those within every institution, including the church world and the Republican Party, who collaborate with our modern woke communists. But the Party of Woke Communism today is the Democratic Party, even if most registered Democrats are, at worse, merely collaborators, but mostly just duped followers who know no better.
These woke communists go by many names, they seem to want to confuse everyone from seeing them as a whole. Their names include progressives, social justice warriors, social democrats, liberals (a misnomer to be sure), leftists, the new left, and on and on it goes. But all are cut from the same cloth: they want a communized society of undifferentiated and atomized individuals without faith or family led by a coterie of top-down authorities who know what is best for everybody.
We shouldn’t be fooled by their masks, their bogeyman fears, their utopian promises, or their dialectal approach whereby they hijack and use the very institutions (churches, the press, and corporations, as examples) their ideological forbears (Lenin and Mao) sought to destroy. Arrogance, hubris, and intolerance are the heart of the modern “cancel culture”, a new phrase for an old trick: demonize, marginalize, and criminalize your opponents but never debate them openly and honestly because your dark ideas are pure hell to anyone with half a brain who can see them for what they are.
Imagine a society of people who have no faith or family, who have no gender, and who are an undifferentiated mass whose only purpose is to live out their most basic animal desires and who feel no personal responsibility for their well-being or their actions. This is quite literally a species-ending hellscape being purposefully pushed by woke communists whose shot-callers (unbeknownst to most rank and file followers) simply want a monopoly on everything over everyone.
The good news is, it’s never going to get to that place. The bad news is, the journey of discovery, whereby a strong plurality of people truly resist and overcome this insanity, may get ugly for multiple generations.
But while we focus today on the threat of authoritarianism from “the left”, understand that authoritarianism takes many forms and, to some degree, as human beings with a sinful nature, it can arise within each of us. The religious zealot who thinks God needs help enforcing His laws, through the power of the state, is just as bad as the woke communist, but, let’s be real, those types truly have no institutional power to speak of in the broader society. At worse they may have outsized influence in backwater towns time has forgotten.
Regardless, the overarching war isn’t left and right per se, and it isn’t even just us against woke communist, that is just the primary battle of the moment as the new modern champion of authoritarianism is primarily the woke communist.
You may ask, “how can a billionaire robber baron be a woke communist?” The answer is simple: they believe their wealth and power allow them to have a hand in managing society for the common good. In short, they are full of themselves. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the quintessential woke communist front and, before their divorce, these two fancied themselves among the world’s most “woke” who, using their wealth and power, would usher in the next evolution of humanity and save the world from climate change.
The billionaire snob whose wealth and power is used to advance the woke communist way is no different than the well-fed, privileged party bigwigs who ran the Soviet Union. The methods change but the end is the same: society will be atomized and then communized and only the woke institutions controlled as a monopoly by the ruling class will have power.
We are in the atomization phase, using gender and new definitions of marriage and family to disconnect people from natural, organic bonds and make them individuals, all alone and powerless, a nameless cog within an undifferentiated mass.
The communization phase only follows the atomization phase. And it is precisely in this atomization phase that the fight is won or lost for the next few generations. If the atomization phase, and the destruction of faith and family, (which is a state of being wherein most children are raised by their own biological or adopted mother and father within the warm embrace of a strictly voluntary faith-based community) is left unchecked, the communization phase will be easy.
Real totalitarianism, which is the extreme and most violent form of authoritarianism, necessarily follows. But this can take years and will always be sincerely denied: indeed, the progenitors themselves may not even desire totalitarianism but they cannot see that this is the only possible outcome if their ideas prevail. For example, in 2021, President Biden may have been no authoritarian, or totalitarian, but he has been forced to bend the knee and at least give symbolic gifts to actually woke communists whose core ideas can only end in totalitarianism.
Unlike the woke communists, our vision of a society of spiritually sovereign equal human beings rooted in faith and family is strictly based on freewill participation. We do not need or want laws or coercion to compel people to live as we do. We believe that a free and pluralistic society of equals will tend to be a marketplace of ideas where the most fruitful ideas tend to attract the most people and resources.
If your definition of marriage and family or your faith (or absence of faith) differs but you agree that we have the inherent spiritual sovereignty and agency to form any bonds or freewill participatory associations we choose, then we can easily get along as friends and allies. A free and pluralistic society of equals can sustain many versions and definitions of faith and family and the marketplace of ideas will organically sort the best and worst ideas.
This begins to touch on our concept of “nationhood” as a spiritual union, purely based on freewill participatory association, of equals who have a shared spiritually-centered social, cultural, and economic value system and goals both for the individual’s profit and the common good of the whole. Even if your definition of nationhood differs, our desire isn’t to make you follow our concept of nationhood (as a spiritual construct) but to prevent others from stopping us from doing so.
Our vision isn’t political. Our chief political aim is the devolution of political, fiscal, cultural, monetary, economic and even magisterial authority back from the concentrated center and top of society to the individuals in their marriages, families, extended families, freewill participatory associations, faith or philosophy based communities, and their locales.
The process of devolution of centralized and top-down power and the deepest manifestation of freedom for individuals within the loving embrace of faith and family, is evolutionary as well. It is not all-political. In fact, its strongest foundation is the individual adopting this “ideology” (becoming a Freedomist) and embracing faith and family as their primary reality and the institutions to which they give their primary loyalty.
We begin with not merely confronting the atomization process as a means towards the communization of society but by intentionally rebuilding the very institutions under assault, faith and family in particular. It is not that we don’t want others to manifest faith and family as they believe it should be, this is never an authoritarian approach because that approach always undermines our entire vision for a free and pluralistic society of equals!
Our approach is to push back on all authoritarian responses by any entity that seems to use its wealth and power as a leverage to force or strongly manipulate people into doing what they think everyone should be doing. The question is not the legal rights of these “private” entities, it is a moral and ethical question of whether those with outsized economic or cultural power should abuse it in a way that violates the dignity and agency of other human beings.
Even though we do not sign on to political controls to weaken mega corporate powers who are trying to impose the woke communist way, this doesn’t mean we don’t seek to reduce their influence and control through other means, such as opting out and/or competition. We generally oppose political controls because they are not a good means and therefore cannot produce a good end.
As an example, Facebook was within its right to ban President Trump, but its ability to control a major portion of public discourse through its near monopoly power, in collusion with other platforms, is both unethical (but not illegal) and, more importantly, unwanted by us.
We don’t care why the platforms do what they do. We suspect their owners are either outright woke communists or collaborators who think they can appease the woke communists, whose radical, loud, and violent demands they fear. The net effect is that the power of the platforms, like every other major US institution, has been harnessed mostly to the benefit of the woke communists, even if that is not their intention.
An authoritarian response to the alleged wokeness of the platforms may boomerang upon us like the “Patriot Act” which was crafted to fight America’s enemies but which is now used against Americans whose only “crime” is not being a woke communist, one of their followers and/or beneficiaries, or at least a collaborator.
Authoritarianism is the true and ancient foe to freedomism, but today it takes the primary form within America of woke communism. This, not climate change or alleged white supremacy, which may indeed be threats, is the number one existential threat to America and especially to freedom within America.
When or if we defeat the woke communists in our era, there will be other forms of authoritarianism we must guard against, and, no doubt, some new manifestation of communism, the communization of society, will rear its disgusting mug and call itself glorious and beautiful!
Bill Collier- I have achieved some level of “success” in life, namely, I work for myself at home making better than upper middle class income doing things that are my passion most of the time. There is great harmony between what pays me and what I genuinely enjoy doing.
I say this to make the point that what I am about to share isn’t theory. It isn’t pop psychology. These five secrets to what success I have experienced were learned, used, and refined over decades and have served me well.
Briefly, the five secrets are: make relationships the brass ring of your life, be willing to say yes to things you aren’t sure you can do, always hustle smartly not just through activity, make others profit off of you not just you from them, and learn to use charisma and charm effectively but never manipulate!
If you only do these things to gain profit or if you start doing them and expect immediate results, you will likely fail and be disappointed. These secrets to success are colored by an overarching understanding that success is about time, stamina, and chance.
Nothing guarantees success. You can do all the right things and success can elude you. Over time, if you persist, you will get more and more opportunities, each new opportunity being a new roll of the dice, a new opportunity, to get that good contract or promotion or what have you. But in doing this, you must also have stamina: the longer you can keep at it day after day, the greater the odds are you will remain standing when that opportunity arrives.
This approach basically acknowledges that time, stamina, and chance make it probable that the odds will even out and favor you eventually. You are the house in this case and the house almost always wins.
Of course there are other things too, not covered in this brief essay, related to finding the inner push of your life and aligning that in a realistic way with market demands while doing the necessary qualifying things so you can function in the arena of your choice. If your inner push is to be an electrician, you will need an education and licensing, for instance, but you will also want to live in an area where demand for you is good.
Finally, and this is also important, whatever you do, you should focus on a portable skill, something you can do that others will pay for and that you can do on your own for anyone, anywhere, who needs it. If your skill is operating a factory machine, that’s not portable, you can only do that there. Perhaps you should learn how to be a handyman and offer services to your neighbors on the side, as an example.
Now, back to the four secrets.
The first is to make relationships the brass ring in life. Cultivating and maintaining good and close relationships with multiple people is a powerful way to ensure many new opportunities and ideas always come your way. But it’s not about that: when things aren’t great materially, you will find satisfaction and happiness in your relationships.
To be a friend, the Bible teaches us, you must show yourself friendly. Learn whay friendship means and how to cultivate relationships, set healthy boundaries, give both reciprocally and unconditionally, and to show and accept philial and agape love.
I can say, in the course of any week, I hear and/or say “I love you” from multiple people who are like kin to me. This is, to me, the greatest measure of success in life, the true brass ring.
I don’t pursue relationships for any reason but that they are in and of themselves rewarding. But, at the same time, my network of close friends, which is over a dozen people, is also the primary reason why I consistently have new opportunities to sell my portable skills.
Again, be very careful! I did not start pursuing relationships as a means to an end, I genuinely value relationships. I try to keep them alive and enjoy them as something of intrinsic value. I have friends who constantly share opportunities with me but also many who work in totally different arenas who cannot provide me any opportunities, but that hasn’t meant those relationships aren’t valuable to me.
I am picky about who remains in my circle, I avoid anyone who tends to be negative, who tends to be transactional, and who doesn’t always have high ethics or show good intentions.
Be willing to say yes to things you aren’t sure you can do, but that align more of less with your core skills.
I was once asked if I could lobby for a specific cause. I knew the basic idea and it would require skills like charisma and speaking well along with political strategy. But I had never lobbier formally. So I said yes because I knew there were experts I did know and books I could read quickly.
I speed read books on the legal ins and outs, got a piece of software on public relations templates, talked to some experts I was referred to by a friend, and within a few days launched a successful lobbying effort.
Being willing to say yes to what you cannot do is predicated on being able to learn quickly, being able to connect to experts, and knowing that for most things anyone wants to pay you there are people who already provide such services. I don’t say yes to things I cannot immediately do if I don’t have these things, but some of my most lucrative moments have come from things I had to access learning materials, experts, and outside providers to do.
Always hustle smartly and not just through activity!
I have been involved in sales where activity became the benchmark of meeting goals. Smart people didn’t focus on the number of calls or door knocks, they looked for ways to automate the process, maybe through fliers or ads or holding events.
Ask yourself how you are making money and where. If your profession and the things you love doing aren’t needed in your town, consider moving. If you you are doing laborious tasks to make sales, what can you do to increase your exposure smartly so leads come to you?
It is somewhat of a myth that “hard work pays off.” Smart work done with gusto, diligence, and intensity pays off over time. Be excellent, be smart, and be efficient. Always ask others who know better what this means and how to do it and submit your work to criticism to make adjustments. Use accountability to others to motivate and inspire you.
Make others profit from you, and not just you them, and you will never absolutely lack for opportunities.
There are people every week calling me to help them with projects. Some simply use my services as a white label of their own, some get commissions for the referral, and most use my services to leverage their own knowing they can’t get the full deal without having what I provide.
I am generous with my time, I help people without getting paid and am transparent with how they can do things I do on their own. This is part of being relational. I did this because I care for my friends and want to help, and yet in the process I found that doing this demonstrated my skills and made that person more likely to engage my services or ask me to help them with a project.
People have profited from my work and my services immensely. And without this, I would not constantly have a chance that the phone rings and what seemed like a every unprofitable month becomes very profitable overnight. Be generous with others, make sure they profit from using your services or products, make sure you benefit them materially as much as possible.
This last one is harder to define. It is to learn and use your charisma and charm without being manipulative. If you are using charisma and charm to get someone to do things that benefit you and not themselves, then you are a creep and a user. Invest in others, always, even without a return, and never let them benefit you solely without rewarding them and considering their needs.
Charisma and charm are necessary ingredients to success. Research them, learn them, practice them. Not everyone has as much charisma and charm as others, but everyone has some and there is a range of improvement you can gain through skills training and practice.
Think of these things, charisma and charm, as skills. Learn what they are. Find people, books, or courses about how to exercise charisma and how to be charming, which is in part learning good manners and protocol for your area of expertise or profession and the community of people in your life.
These are five secrets to success.
Now some will say they just can’t do all of any of these. Some people are happy and content without a huge level of income and influence, they may never need to be doing these things. Others who want more influence and income should know that unless you can do all of these things, you cannot realistically expect to succeed.
Bill Collier- A so-called “global minimum tax” represents a 20th century paradigm; the wasteful shot-callers who cannot evolve past the industrial age are attempting to corral the world backwards into their own old top-down, centralized hierarchy of control. Basically, and to be blunt, it is an assault on freedom not warranted by any of the hobgoblin manufactured crises or any pretended benefit to anyone except for the extremely wealthy who don’t actually ever pay such taxes.
The Republicans, who love to soundbite for freedom and prosperity like Democrats love to soundbite for equity and justice, have no real principled response. They are quibbling over details rather than blasting this idea as insanity that is only meant to turn the clock back to the 20th century industrial age when a big boss with all the money and power lorded it over the cogs in their machine whose only real value was profit to the owners.
The “global minimum tax” (GMT) is an archaic proposal from another age that is best left behind. The massive super-state, centralized industrial economy, must be set aside once and for all to favor new forms and expressions of sovereignty and freedom between individuals in freewill participation. Decentralization, localization, jurisdictional competition, citizens as customers rather than subjects, private cities, and the general supremacy of faith, family, and community over politics are the ways of the future. This archaic response is meant to hinder the advancement of human flourishing because such advancements do not tend toward the benefit of the ruling class.
It is for this reason the Republicans, many who have also become corporate puppets, offer a lame response not worthy of any Party claiming the mantle of freedom and prosperity for all.
This is how their “objections” begin- “There has been consistent bipartisan, bicameral support in Congress for the OECD as the appropriate venue to address the digitalization of the economy, potentially including changes to longstanding global tax rules. However, the OECD project would be counterproductive if the Administration’s negotiating position concedes ground to foreign counterparties and harms the U.S. economy. “
How about, “The Global Minimum Tax is a power grab by the ruling class over working people that we will defy and defeat with every ounce of our being?”
This isn’t a response, this is collaboration.
They add, incredibly, and in betrayal of all their claims to be the party of freedom and prosperity:
The global minimum tax must be fair to American workers and companies – any special rates or exemptions offered to foreign competition must be available to Americans.
The global profit allocation formula, including any carve-outs and special inclusions, must not disproportionately affect Americans.
The targeting of American workers and companies by foreign governments must end immediately.
No, The right response is, “there must NEVER, ever, be ANY form of global tax or global minimum tax. This isn’t the 20th century, this isn’t the industrial age. This is the 21st century, the information and decentralization age.”
But, as we are of a wont to say, over and over, the Republicans are collaborationists, not opponents, to the global war on freedom Their soundbites are meaningless, their action belie their stated intentions.
The GMT won’t do anything more than potentially slow progress. The civilizational paradigm shift that is coming thanks to technology and global communications won’t be held back by such draconian chicanery. But in the mean time, this “throwback authoritarianism” to the 20th century will do real harm to millions of people before it finally collapses under its own weight.
The GOP isn’t an opposition party. They are collaborationists with the ruling class, hell-bent on lining their pockets and keeping the mere crumbs the Democrats throw to them. This response by Senator Crapo of Idaho and Republican Leader, Representative Kevin Brady of the 8th District in Texas, is a collaborationist love fest compared to what is necessary.
They didn’t oppose anything and everything connected to this global power grab and for that reason they are abject and miserable failures.
Tucker Carlson’s bout with the NSA, who he claims leaked his private emails, may give some pause to think they too may face such a powerful foe if they resist the march toward authoritarianism and oppression happening in this land. But while it may sound crazy to say the US Intelligence Community is at war with God, the Bible shows us that when we act outside of God’s boundaries, we make ourselves opponents of God, as it now appears the “intelligence community” has.
This is a spiritual perspective that seems to have been lost, even among Christians. When we step out of a narrow field of vision and see the arc of God’s timeline throughout history we get a better sense of the real nature of what is happening today as we witness the apparent abuse of power by our nation’s intelligence community without any consequences.
Too many Christians are afraid of speaking and acting with boldness, they are careful lest the all-powerful human agents of authoritarianism fix upon them and make it their mission to silence such words and deeds. The calculus of our earthly resources versus something like the all-powerful US Intelligence Community is easy: they have us beat unfairly and unsquarely. But we must be reminded that the weapons of our warfare are spiritual and, whatever God allows us to suffer for His Glory in this life, He will have the victory and so will we.
To be sure, we are not saying we, in this life at this time, may not endure hardships and suffer under tyrants. It has happened and is happening and can happen to us. The battle spans many lifetimes, it spans entire civilizations and the whole world. When we forget this we become too focused on the immediate vicinity in time and space and this gives us a false picture of hopelessness.
Authoritarianism is idolatry. When you deign to lord it over other human beings, removing their agency and disrespecting their dignity, you align yourself with the father of authoritarianism, the devil himself. Our conviction about how we are for our way of life without being against others doesn’t mean we aren’t certain our way of life fits the sacred blueprints for the universe, but it is proof we respect the agency and dignity of others and leave their choice between themselves and God alone.
In human terms we might be tempted to say the Democrats are the Party of the authoritarianism: their twisting and IMPOSITION of new sociocultural norms and their heavy-handed cancel culture intolerance are doing violence to the rights, persons, and property of their fellow citizens. But in spiritual terms, the Democrats are just people, they are just individuals who may sincerely believe they are doing good and justice and who, in their hubris, think anyone who cannot change to match their definition of justice is a bad person unworthy of being respected.
Democrats (and by this we mean the shot-callers, not anyone who happens to be registered or vote Democrat) have imagined a society of undifferentiated, non-gendered, atomized individuals who own nothing and slave away for neocomm corporate monopolies under the guidance and management of experts and woke leaders who know what is best for everyone. This isn’t humanity, this isn’t advanced civilization, this is inhumane and this is savage barbarism. But the roots of their vision come from the lie “ye shall not die (if you defy God’s laws) but ye shall be as gods.”
Regardless, the Democrats (the top shot-callers) and their now fully captured US Intelligence Community are hot on the tails of their opponents, who they don’t think even have a right to exist.
US media, also an arm of Democrats, whitewashes the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson and leaking his private emails as an operation against him. They are aligned with a politicized “intelligence community” that has become rife with civil rights violators who lord it over their fellow citizens, kissing up to their powerful masters in the Democratic Party and spitting down on the people, to borrow a turn of phrase from Tucker Carlson himself.
The root of this problem is moral and spiritual. These intelligence officials have lost their true north, an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of these United States of America. Their true north has shifted to advancing the parochial interests and increasing the power of the Democratic Party at all costs. Their “country” is the Party and only the Party, to hell with Americans, our Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights.
At this stage, it becomes such that merely affiliating with this so-called “intelligence community” puts you in the slop with the pigs and so covers you that you are indistinguishable from the pigs. This is not “a few bad apples” this is MOST “intelligence community” members are in gross and flagrant violation of the laws of this land, especially the Bill of Rights, and should not just lose their job, but possibly their citizenship (if that were possible).
The NSA allegedly collected information on Russian offcials who Tucker, a journalist, was contacting to get an interview with Putin, then allegedly unmasked him and tried to present a “conspiracy theory” that Tucker was in bed with the Russians. If true, this was a political power move conducted by and for Democrats to destroy a private US citizen for no greater reason than that he is an opponent of the Party.
The Democratic Party has become a mob-like structure, in a moral sense, and its hold over this land is beginning to feel a lot like a junta consolidating its power and lining up its opponents for some form of retribution. The “intelligence community” has been taken over by Democrats to inflict harm on the Party’s enemies. But we who are spiritual know this is a spiritual battle and these mere mortals are “set on their course by hell.”
We have news for the totalitarian shot-callers who run the Democratic Party, and for President Biden, their stooge: there is a law higher than them, an authority higher than the government, and a form of justice they cannot dodge. God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him and obey Him, and as the Democrats are at war with everything God calls good and as they love everything He hates, their time of imposition will not endure for long. Justice is coming, but not by man, certainly not from addled voters in manipulated elections or from the weak and wimpy GOP.
Attacking freedom, which comes from God, to make your merely human political Party a god to the people is very foolish. Your Party, Democrats, has made itself a vehicle for totalitarianism and oppression in a land given not to you, but to free people who love God. The God of these people, even if they be few and your army of addled followers be many, sees all and will recompense the wicked.
But, to paraphrase the Prophet Daniel, “God is able to deliver his servants from the fire but know this, regardless of whether God chooses to deliver His servants from this fire, we will not bend or bow.”
Today’s “intelligence community” are the modern Midianites, a scourge on the land seeking to end all opposition against the totalitarian Democratic Party. We are not afraid of them, as God is our covering and protection! They may spy and play games or whatever, but God’s Armies of Heaven number in the TRILLIONS of warring angels. They cannot do anything to us that God doesn’t allow.
Victory does not belong to the wicked, though they may have space to repent or fulfill their evil, and though their seeming triumph for a time may be a trial of faith to the faithful. Victory belongs to God and to anyone who is with Him, as opposed to those who imagine He is on their side. Whether God’s victory comes in our life or not or in the Return of Christ or a new cycle of civilization as new nations whose God is the Lord are raised up, victory will come.
The US Intelligence Community has aligned ifself 100% with lawbreakers, oppression, and authoritarianism and for this they have, almost all of them, become enemies of truth who are fighting against God Himself. If these immoral malefactors think all their high tech wizardry will help them win and impose the unnatural, godless, and authoritarian agenda of the Democratic Party on this land, they had better wise up.
Aside from pointing it out, reporting it, and confronting it with words, this is not our fight. The battle belongs to the Lord. We do not need to fear man. Period. Don’t do it. Don’t bend or bow or change what God has given you to say or do because you are afraid the NSA might spy on you and use that to hurt you.
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President Biden’s zero carbon plan, which he plans to ramrod through using the legerdemain of “budget reconciliation”, is a plan that will dramatically raise energy costs for the poor and middle class and, because of its approach, increase poverty.
The plan is to make all US power “100% carbon free” by 2035, an ambitious plan that necessitates switching to much more expensive “alternative energy”, possibly among which natural gas with carbon capture (not commercially viable) and nuclear energy (vehemently opposed by his core base).
The effect would be threefold: discarding power plants that took hundreds of billions of dollars to use, building new power plants that will be exponentially more expensive and will face “environmental impact” reviews and delays, and the actual cost of the energy, which will be exponentially higher for consumers.
Once again a politician, chasing a histrionic bogeyman (“climate change spells doom!”), offers a massive, disruptive, top-down solution that is expensive and authoritarian. The top-down approach means, instead of promoting individual and local energy independence through house-portable and house-affordable solutions, the Biden team, egged on by utopian extremists, is focusing on a typical OBS (“one big system”) approach that will continue to keep people dependent on massive structures over which they have no influence.
The “house portable and house affordable” solution requires changing local ordinances to promote alternative building methods that are massively more energy efficient, investing heavily in solar and wind technologies for home use and providing the blueprints free to the public, and providing real incentives to individuals to adopt an individual and local energy independence approach.
The truth is, those who claim to care about the dangers of climate change and/or pollution, both legitimate concerns, are refusing to adopt an approach that truly empowers individuals. Instead, not wanting a good crisis to go to waste, they opt for an OBS approach that perpetuates dependency and concentrates yet more wealth and power in their hands.
The level of poverty will rise not because of seeking alternative energy solutions but because the top-down OBS approach is expensive, inefficient, and disempowering to individuals and the marketplace.
History is a process that takes centuries to cycle through the phases of life for a civilization that is allowed to run its natural course. The last days of one civilization are often accompanied by the new dawn of other national peoples and whole civilizations, which emerge from within or from outside that old civilization even as it is in its final stages.
Basically we propose and foresee that a new dawn is here for a new spiritual nation as the vanguard of a new civilization
Pictured above, the banner for a new “spiritual nation” that is the vanguard people of this new civilization, a nation that transcends race, ancestry, and even geography and that welcomes people of every kindred and race on the basis of Christian love.
Our concern is Western Civilization. While some count Western Civilization as going all the way back to Greece, and others to right after the Roman Empire ended in the West, we tend to count it as beginning in the 700’s as the older Germanic tribal civilization, which had invaded the Western Roman Empire, was finally falling before the paradigms that would become Western Civilization.
This is the cycle of history. Just as today we foresee a new dawn, so too was it in the Roman Empire by the 300’s. In the West, after a period of darkness and chaos, the new civilization took root as Western Civilization.
In reality, Western Civilization, while it’s progenitors, among whom Charlemagne, fancied themselves direct heirs of Rome, was a hybridization of the Germanic and Classical Civilizations that produced something fundamentally different than them.
We have a civilization that is over 1200 years old, it is long in the tooth as it were. And that civilization, like every other, has an expiration date and is going into its final phases with a senility and crankiness that is not at all surprising. All the symptoms of civilizational decline are there: moral depravity, disavowal of family, low birth rates, authoritarianism, corruption, and all the rest.
Western Civilization is simply old and decrepit but refuses to go away quietly and gracefully. It’s attempts to bring in new energy take a form of refusing anything from the past and resorting to social experiments and untested novel theories that can only be instituted by force.
This seems bad. But it’s not all bad, if you focus on the other thing that happens when an old civilization is dying: the seeds of a new civilization usually begun to take root. And this is an exciting time! The new civilization almost always RESTORES the very ancient truths and virtues that the old civilization is trying to bury.
For those who imagine they are going to restore Western Civilization, the truth is, even if they persist in this attempted restoration, they are really sowing the seeds of a new civilization.
When we disconnect our loyalties from the facile and symbolic and reconnect them to the substance of ancient truth and sacred blueprints, we determine that we are living in the age of a new dawn, not the era of decline and ruin. However, this is only true if we transfer our energy from trying to revive a dying civilization to building a new civilization based on a revival of ancient and and sacred truth.
When Classical Civilization fell in the whole Roman Empire there was the West and the East. The East transitioned peacefully, relative to the West, to a new civilization, called the Byzantine, which lasted around 1000 years before being artificially snuffed out by the Islamic hordes. But the Western Empire saw no such transition. It simply collapsed and entered a sort of inter-regnum dominated by a fractious and also dying Germanic civilization for some 300 plus years.
In America and Europe, cradles of Western Civilization, the path forward looks like two choices: collapse into chaos and a new dark ages or transition to the new civilization peacefully.
The new civilization in our estimation is greater than the sum of its parts but its parts are the Hebrew, Classical, Germanic, and Western Civilizations, albeit instead of being located solely in “the West”, it will be located, here and there, all over the world. Using the core ideals of the preceding four civilizations, which are Unity in diversity (Western), Popular sovereignty (Germanic), Democratic equality (Classical), and Rule of law (Hebrew), we call this the UPaDaRian (Upadarian) Civilization.
In essence the new civilization is destined to revive the core ideals of the previous four and to do so in a balanced and harmonious manner that is rooted in the ancient and sacred and yet entirely and uniquely modern in its approach and application.
We live in two separate possibilities, the era of decline leading to a new dark age or the era of a new dawn leading to a revival of ancient and sacred truths and a human flourishing such as has never been seen before.
Stating the the effectiveness of Pfizer’s vaccine in preventing a Covid-19 infection fell from 95% to 64%, Israel’s Ministry of Health also said it was 93% effective at preventing serious illness or hospitalization, in a Tweet in July 5, 2021.
The “delta variant” is spreading in Israel which, despite 57.3% of the population being fullt vsccinated, Israel is seeing a spike in cases, an average of 372 per day as of July 7th, but nothing near the average of over 6,000 per day in January of 2021. However, vaccinated people are still getting sick with the delta variant and while hospitalizations are not jumping, there is some sense the promised immunity has not materialized.
Still, while there has been an uptic in cases, there has yet to be a corresponding uptic in deaths, with one death on July 5th.
Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moise, was killed on July 7th by a cammando of foreign mercenaries who portrayed themselves as US DEA agents prior to storming his home. The question is, why was he killed and by whom?
Moise was alleged to have ties to Haiti’s criminal gangs whose violence has been plaguing the nation’s populace. The fact the mercenary force claimed to be DEA agents, and were captured on video yelling “stand down, stand down” in an American accent, may be itself a statement as to the motive of the actual shot-caller who ordered the hit.
Another possibility is that one of the gangs had a beef for the President and thus ordered s hit.
Prime Minister Claud Joseph has now assumed the authority to succeed the President and while direct accusations of his complicity have not surfaced, anyonen investigating this assassination is likely to consider this possibility.
According to AP, in a report on Yahoo News, Jospeh said, “We need every single one to move the country forward.” Referencing enemies of the president, Joseph called the President ‘’a man of courage” who had opposed ‘’some oligarchs in the country, and we believe those things are not without consequences.”
At one point the commandos held three Haitian police hostage in a house they were occupying but they later surrendered. Four commandos were killed and two were captured. But running gun battles with the commandos continued as the acting successor claimed Haitian police would hunt them all down and kill or capture them.
There had been a series of protests, some violent, against his rule, which was becoming more authoritarian, and his inept handling of the economy and the security situation. His death, while shocking, has not been universally mourned inside Haiti.
He has been ruling by decree after failing to hold elections and an upcoming national election in September was the cause of tensions and violence within the country as of late.
During the attack his wife, Martine, was wounded seriously and is now in Miami, Florida, where she is in stable but critical condition. No doubt her survival was not planned by the assassins.
The attack was condemned by the opposition even as the acting successor declared a state of siege but also promised upcoming elections would still occur as planned.
Meanwhile the interim Prime Minister who claims power, was actually replaced the day prior by Joseph, who appointed Ariel Henry. Henry had not yet been sworn in to office and claims to be the Prime Minister while Jospeh, the replaced interim Prime Minister, claims that as the newly appointed Henry hadn’t taken office, he is not the Prime Minister.
Regardless, the US government is clearly backing Jospeh and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called him, assuring him of US assistance.
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