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First, Free Your MIND

Bill Collier September 8, 2021

To free your mind from spiritual and then also social, cultural, and economic serfdom at the service of the ruling class, you must take aggressive control over the mental constructs you have accepted and allow your life to be defined by.

Mental constructs are how we define our reality in terms of the reasonable norms, acceptable behavior, and expected laws of cause and effect. If we look at an institution or organization and categorize it a certain way, the category that colors our mental construct tells us what to expect within and from that institution.

Words like nation, country, government, state, politics, church, marriage, family, kinship, community, and society, among others, conjure mental constructs which we usually inherit or become acculturated to by socializing agents, like our churches, media, or schools. If our mental construct of these things changes, so does our expectation and perception about how they should function and the type of things they should do.

If church in your mental construct conjures images of a church service, a member of the clergy, or a church building, then your entire range of possibilities, expectations, and acceptable behavior and norms will be limited and defined thereby. If your mental construct of church, as in ekklesia, is based on seeing the whole Body of Christ within an area as a spiritual city-state and the gathered assembly thereof as its ruling council, then your entire range of possibilities and etc for what church should be and do and how it should function will change.

Imagine seeing the church as a civic and sociocultural as well as socioeconomic body based on a foundation of personal and shared spiritual sovereignty. The religious functions of local congregations within the whole would not define the whole, for example.

We could go through many of these things and ask challenging questions about the accuracy or, more importantly, desirability and benefit of such mental constructs. If we resort to an intentionality about such matters, if we seriously question whether our mental constructs truly come from truth or what we are used to even if it isn’t true or useful, we may both see ways we have been controlled and ways to end that control.

To purposefully interrogate your mental constructs means you ask hard questions like:

1. What has been the historic view of this?

2. Have cultures expressed, or do they present express, different mental constructs about this and do they tend more to favor me than the ruling class?

3. What are the spiritual, logical, historical, and scientific foundations or known roots to my own mental construct about this?

4. What are the Biblical roots, if any, of this mental construct or does this contradict Biblical truth?

5. In studying all references to this entity or institution, like the state/magistrate, governments and kingdoms, family, and etc, do my mental constructs about these things harmonize with their treatment and description in the Bible?

As we approach these subjects (like “what constitutes a good magistrate in the Bible?”), we may find that the Biblical view and our accustomed view are at variance. We are then forced to decide the comfort of keeping to our old view, insensible to contradictions and the angst they cause, or we may choose to discard our old view and adopt the Biblical model and then let the chips fall where they will.

What we have discerned and bear our own witness to is that there is often little harmony between the historical and Biblical mental constructs about many vital institutions within human civilization and the way we have been acculturated to view them. If one truly wishes to emulate the more advanced and civilized mental constructs of most civilizational institutions and structures, like the family and marriage, one must be willing to discard, as inconvenient as it is, the old mental constructs.

Once the old and decrepit mental constructs we were spoon-fed by unthinking socializing agents (like teachers and even, sadly, clergy, and the press and entertainment industry) are discarded and new mental constructs rooted in truth, history, and the Bible, are embraced, a change in thinking and behavior is necessitated.

As an example, if your mental construct of the word “church” envisions the ruling assembly for a spiritual city-state of the Elect, which includes all Electors, as in all citizens of the Kingdom of God, then your expectations and even how you organize constituent bodies of people of that spiritual city-state (family, extended multi-family households, local congregations, and the such) will change significantly from the IRS-approved 501 c 3 church-as-religious-club perception of the church. The “new” mental construct is not like the old! The “new” mental construct is, however, both more ancient and more advanced than the “church as religious club” model.

Mental constructs control you mind and poison your soul when they are at variance with the Heavenly Blueprint for human civilization and all its constituent communities, institutions, and structures. One may individually be right with God and their salvation secure and yet find that their scope of action and fulfillment in this life was severely limited by faulty mental constructs that kept them in their designated place as a mere serf toiling for the benefit of the ruling class.

It is our sole moral and intellectual responsibility to not allow our mental constructs to be dictated by rote internalization through the powerful and corrupt socializing agents of this depraved sociocultural and socioeconomic order. We must understand and acknowledge that the present civilizational paradigm is a porridge of embedded assumptions and mental constructs that defy the Heavenly Blueprint for human civilization in every detail. Sadly, these negative and freedom-taking assumptions have also infected many establishment ruling class, clerical leaders as well as leading personalities and thinkers in the “church world.”

Every socializing institution of the present civilizational paradigm, from churches and schools to the press and corporatations, has accepted the embedded mental constructs created by the ruling class to regiment society and bind most people to a state of dependency. Basically, unless we reject the embedded assumptions and mental constructs of the ruling class we will always be serfs in their service.

How we see these present-day structures and institutions of human civilization dictates the limits and possibilities that will either constrain us or liberate us. Is marriage simply a private contract between two consenting adults for mutual pleasure and benefit or is it a holy fractal emulating the relationship of Christ and the church and meant to perpetuate and grow both the human race and the Body of Christ through reproduction and childbearing?

We certainly believe that the latter is true, even infertile couples can nurture and support spiritual offspring, and at the same time we believe you must be free to choose your mental construct on things like marriage and the family according to your own beliefs and convictions.

As we explore institution after institution and structure after structure we may discern, “society needs a rewrite.” But rather than impose our ideas and concepts about such a rewrite, it is better, we propose, to focus more on our own personal choices and views and to intentionally connect and build anew with others whose mental constructs closely approximate our own.

Being deliberate about interrogating our own mental constructs about every structure and institution that governs our life is extremely liberating to the mind, soul, and spirit. Just leaving the mental prison of accepting embedded assumptions as truth without critical analysis can begin to improve our decisions and actions, relationships and associations, and inner quality of life.

Xi Xinping Thought is Like CRT But With More Coerv

Xi Xinping Thought is Like CRT But With More Coercive Power Behind It

Mark Clouse September 3, 2021

Opinion – Chairman Xi has been moving forward aggressively reshaping the socio-cultural reality reinforced with state lethality control, strict and broadly applied death governance power.

He has been working diligently to clip the wings of the nuveau-riche billionaires of China’s Silicon Valley. He ended, in 2017, the three-person council as the final word of the current Communist Policy and made it all about his edicts alone. He revised the Maoist custom of writing “Thoughts,” really dicatates to the society about what society indeed was and the general pentalties for violating what the society is as defined by these thoughts. Mao had his Mao Thoughts and now XI, in 2017, issued his own Xi Thoughts.

He adds to the thoughts as he sees fit. But, until now, the distribution of Xi Thoughts has not been especially forced on others. A whole generation has little knowledge as to what Xi Thoughts even are and what they might even mean. But now, all this has changed, as now Xi seeks to inject his particular version of society to the children, and to the adults, with companies now coming under scrutiny for violating the beliefs, the ethics, really, of Xi Thoughts.

One can see some parallels between the DNC pushing its particular remedy to solving injuustice and inequality, whatever you want to call it (as of the writing of this article, the going favorite label is ‘Critical race Theory,” but, as usual it’s more complicated than that, even though there is enough truth in that label to use that phrase from here going forward), and the CCP pushing Xi Thoughts to all ages through coercive means.

In the case of the DNC, the real power limits on their ability to move as nearly unopposed as Xi will be able to move is a shadow of what Xi is capable to do from the beginning of an idea to the execution of an idea.

He can do that in a nation-state that has 3 times the people within it that we Americans do. For good or for ill, Xi has the power to make the dream real at a a massive scale, and with great haste, far beyond what any human being has on this planet in the here and now. He is the apex of all apex existentials within our earthly frame.

And he is about to become, for the generation in primary education age, the very DNA they will either build a lifetime of options around, or a lifetime of overcoming. This is also what falls upon many of the children in America today, but Americans, at least for now, have the venue to dissent from the presupposutional ethos of the authorities that choose to inject such beliefs into our public schools.

How America comes out of this, or doesn’t, remains to be seen, but at least, for now, we still have options and the power to dissent.

Xi Jinping Thought, for children

From www.economist.com
2021-09-02 14:48:27

Excerpt:

Sep 4th 2021

ASK MEMBERS of China’s elite—from senior officials to academics at leading universities, well-known commentators or bosses at big companies—to explain the beliefs of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and their replies are surprisingly unhelpful. Even simple questions elicit waffly answers. Take an ongoing campaign to clip the wings of some of China’s largest firms, notably technology giants. The authorities have variously accused such businesses of seeking excessive profits, harming national security with a cavalier approach to data, abusing workers, bullying smaller firms or exploiting young consumers with addictive video games and online fan clubs. Is Mr Xi revealing himself as an ideologue, bent on re-imposing Communist Party control over the economy at the expense of growth? Or is he more pragmatic than that: a nationalist strongman who is helping to make China stable at home and mighty abroad? There is chatter among the country’s grandees, but no consensus.

Given such confusion among grown-ups, this is a bold moment to issue a new series of textbooks to all students in Chinese schools, colleges and universities, with the aim of explaining Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, as Mr Xi’s political philosophy is formally known.

As the academic year began on September 1st, teachers and lecturers began distributing these books, tailored for each age-group, down to children as young as six. The use of stand-alone schoolbooks devoted to a serving leader marks a break with decades of caution. The last time that hundreds of millions of youngsters clutched books devoted to the wisdom of one man was under Mao Zedong, the object (and instigator) of a disastrous personality cult.

Books for the young are especially revealing, for they have to keep their messages simple. Primary schools have long taught the general rudiments of ideology. Via courses with names like “ethics and law”, children have studied…

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Nation-Building At Home Through A Spiritual Air Force

Bill Collier September 2, 2021

To nation-build at home, The Freedomist plans to create a country-wide “spiritual air force” of freedom building activists within every US Congressional District and County/Parish. This spiritual air force will be based around very local Freedomist Guard Flights of 10-20 activist freedom builders who conduct peaceful local activities to build freedom locally first and foremost.

As the US learns the lessons of foreign nation-building in a land that rejects the values upon which that effort is based, what about the situation at home where a majority of people at home lack trust in major institutions? Who will engage in and upon what basis will they engage in nation-building in America’s neighborhoods and communities?

Nation-building at home is all about building or restoring LOCAL institutions, including entities that influence government and other institutions or that have a public trust, and making them trustworthy in the sense they protect and honor the human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing of every person in that community, showing no favor or prejudice toward any, and with both the individual’s good and the common welfare in mind, always.

Too many efforts to nation-building at home are disjointed, narrow on focus, and not broadly backed by an organized polity of any kind. Often, projects we may call aimed at nation-building and freedom and prosperity building efforts, are hit or miss, reactionary, and short-lived in their scope and impact. People suddenly respond, rally, demand something, and are usually ignored, then the moment passes and the issue becomes another in a long line of frustrations until the next dramatic rally.

To nation-build at home would demand the deliberate gathering and organizing of a cohesive polity who are capable of influencing a strong plurality of voters and consumers who will take their cue from them and actually vote, petition, demonstrate, boycott, or buycott, en bloc. Building a strong polity of freedom loving people who can and will act as one with discipline and focus is a necessity that must presage the rallies, votes, and etc that are often launched by a few vocal people as a strong reaction to a controversy or offense.

It is argued that one needs a cause or issue to elicit the kind of response upon which to build a movement. It is certainly easier to use an issue and generate meetings, activities, and rallies. But it doesn’t last without a serious outlay of funding and professional leaders and organizers being paid. An army of all volunteers motivated by an issue of the moment is ineffective in the long-term.

The war we are fighting is a war against diverse ruling class factions, to the left and the right, who desire to own our possessions and suppress our God-given human dignity and human rights and to thereby deny our human flourishing. We must gather a country-wide digital army of freedom builders in every Congressional District and County until we have depth and breadth on an unprecedented scale.

The Freedomist List, for now, is gathering people interested in our content but we aim to find, gather, organize, and mobilize Freedomists in every US Congressional District and County until all these places have at least one active Flight of 10-20 freedom builders and on Club of 120 or so activists and we can mobilize over 100,000 Americans for any visible rally, event, or peaceful demonstration at any time or location.

If we do not focus on building both a volunteer and professional activist corps of freedom builders then we will always be at a disadvantage to our diverse opponents and those masses they have fooled into following and fighting for them. If we want to nation-build at home we must begin with building a virtual-to-local Freedomist corps of freedom-building activists who have a presence in most all or all Congressional Districts and Counties.

Just what this network does will be as diverse as one may imagine. They may enage in a boycott or buycott, they may conduct an awareness and education campaign with public events or parades, they may canvass for ballot initiatives, they may perform opposition research on the ground and/or virtually, they may lead local efforts to pass a Freedom Sanctuary Resolution or Ordnance in their municipality or county, and the list goes on.

The main concept here is sort of like a spiritual air force, organized like an air force but the only “weapons” are things like prayer, peaceful public events and outreach, information, legal actions, and the such. Still, however, the spirit and vibe should come off as a sort of spiritual air force and not some hodgepodge, indisciplined, “leaderless movement.”

We want to find, train, and fund leaders, organizers, and experts/professionals who will support the many millions of people we envision joining this “spiritual air force” to wage unrelenting spiritual and then information, economic, legal, and political warfare, albeit 100% peaceful and within the law, to defeat the freedom taking factions that rule this land right now. We aim for a total transfer of power from the top and center to the People in their families, free associations, local communities, and the states and away from the Federal power and monopoly corporate powers.

Subscribers to The Freedomist will be crowdfunding this effort.

Organizationally, we plan to find provisional leader candidates to help, on a voluntary basis, build the core infrastructure of this spiritual air force, consisting of chartered clubs and chartered Freedomist Guard Flights of around 10-20 activists.

The Flights are more active freedom builders who are committed to making a visible showing for freedom in their locale, including participation in parades, setting up booths at events, providing ushering and basic unarmed security for events like rallies, doing door to door canvassing, and assisting people with things like understanding gun laws, home safety and security, amd disaster and emergency preparedness.

The Clubs will also be activists and freedom seekers and will focus on creating a local mirror structure to hold all government and other entities with a public trust accountable to the Bill ofRights, gaining the signature of voters for the Freedom Sanctuary Resolution and to get them to take The Freedomist Pledge, and having a space for gatherings and social activities.

If we say the Freedomist Guard is the “military” branch of our movement, we don’t in any way mean anything beyond a spiritual warfare and the symbolism of a spiritual air force. We are not advocates for any kind of militia that isn’t regulated by local, state, or federal authorities and we are definitely strongly opposed to violence in any form or fashion. But we do believe that a “military theme” in our approach engenders the spirit of our efforts as a form of peaceful spiritual and information warfare in defense of freedom with justice for ALL Americans of every demographic grouping or identity in this land.

Through our spiritual air force, the Guard, and our parallel civic/social structures in the form of Clubs, the Freedomist aims to build a strong freedom movement built on Judeo-Christian values while respecting the human dignity and human rights of all fellow Americans and promoting universal human flourishing for them as well. Our cause is to build the Freedomist as a strong and well organized, if also decentralized, movement for freedom that serves all Americans without exception.

What this movement does, the battles it fights, such as so-called “critical race theory” or the lying corpostate press establishment, or specifically ballot initiatives and candidates it supports, will emerge both through leadership and through the People engaging in the decision-making process whereby these priorities are set.

But FIRST we must BUILD THE MOVEMENT!

Building the Freedomist Movement through The Freedomist, as crowdfunded by our subscribers, is the key to nation-building at home.

GETTR, the Safe Haven for Conservatives, Has a Heavy Ban Hammer

GETTR, the Safe Haven for Conservatives, Has Censored Roger Stone

Parker Davis September 1, 2021

It appears the so-called safe space for conservstives, specifically Trump conservatives, Gettr, is having a hard time managing its content creators. From the beginning, it was promised that Donald Trump would build a social media answer to all the baddies, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. That became a blog site that Trump sometimes posts stuff on. Later, we heard about Gettr. Initially, it was thought to literally be a Trump-led project, but, in fact, it had no real affiliation with Trump at all, it was just a social media platform that marketed itself as a free speech social media platform specifically friendly to Trump supporters, especiallly those that had recently been axed from one of the baddies, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

The recent Gabs by Roger Stone, another free-speech-promising platform, this one billed as an alternative to Twitter, suggest that the site is using its power as a gatekeeper not unsimilarly to how the baddies use their position of power advantage as gatekeepers of little accountability to the ones they serve.

Roger Stone is complaining about the free speech platform, Gettr, silencing him, censoring him, because, he alleges, he said something bad about the Gettr founder, Jason Miller, as well as Steve Bannon. Given what Trump has said about Bannon in the past (he essentially called him an amateur, he threw Bannon under the bus hard), one is doubtful that even Trump would have that much of a problem with anyone talking smack about Bannon. This appears to be about protecting a certain faction’s particular useful narrative, and that faction might just be a Bannon faction. Regardless of what Jason Miller represents, making factional gatekeeping decisions makes you one of the baddies, sir.

Of course, all of this suppses Stone is being totally truthful and transparent in what he relates as his version for why Gettr has censored him. The story itself though is telling in that one member of a larger faction, the Trump faction, seems willing to cast into doubt the legitimate credentials of Gettr as a bastion for conservative safe-spacism. This would not be done lightly, even by Stone, so that leads me to believe there was some degree of real throttling of this man’s voice on Gettr because he broke a factional narrative, this one being, at the very leas,t the Jason Miller faction, which might just be Jason Miller alone, given factional power, so to speak, by share weight of his controlling of the filter on the Gettr platform.

Gettr, to me, is yet another example of a good idea for a group of people, say, a faction, to get behind, the idea of building a people-reaching free speech platform to counter the controlling social media platforms we now have, and a few people with deep pockets or relationships with networks of people with deep pockets, slap together some stuff to co-opt the idea and turn it into a quick money maker and/or prestige builder that ends up being an unprofessional cringe fest that implodes within a couple or so years (if not sooner) leaving everyone highly discouraged at ever trying the actually good idea ever again.

Let’s hope Gettr doesn’t discourage others for finding way to build such social media platforms, but don’t let’s make them just safe spaces for conservatives, make them actually as extremely free speech as human to human contact on a digital platform can be.

Trumpist Gettr Social Network Continues To Speed Run Content Moderation Learning Curve: Bans, Then Unbans, Roger Stone

From www.techdirt.com
2021-08-26 16:45:00

Excerpt:

Remember Gettr? That’s the Trumpist social network run by former Trump spokesperson (and vexatious lawsuit filer) Jason Miller that promised to be supportive of “free speech.” As we point out what happens with every new social network that jumps into the space with promises to “support free speech!” and “not censor!” before long they will begin to realize content moderation is required to keep your site running — and soon they discover that content moderation will involve difficult choices. And, sometimes, it involves making mistakes.

Of course, whenever Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or whoever else note that they made a “mistake” with a content moderation decision and reverse it, there are always some people who insist it couldn’t possibly be a mistake and must be [insert conspiratorial reason here]. So I find it hilarious that on Wednesday, Gettr got to experience all this as well. First, Trump buddy and admitted “dirty trickster” Roger Stone went on Gab — another such social network — to whine about how he was “censored” by Gettr, claiming it was because he had made what he believed were disparaging remarks about Miller (and Steve Bannon).

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Texas Now Prevents Local Governments From Closing Churches

Freedomist Editor August 31, 2021

Texas churches can not be forced to close doors under new law

From myparistexas.com
2021-08-30 19:51:31

Excerpt:

Even during a worldwide pandemic, the government is unable to force religious outlets from closing its doors in the state of Texas.

“A government agency or public official may not issue an order that closes or has the effect of closing places of worship in the state or in a geographic area of the state,” according to a bill which was enacted into law immediately after being signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Abbott signed the bill about a year after shutting down the state of Texas in which churches and places of worship were deemed nonessential, forcing them to close. Faith leaders took to lawsuits against Abbott’s orders and called for houses of worship to be designated as essential.

“The unprecedented closure of churches, mosques, and synagogues in 2020 negatively impacted many who were struggling with isolation and stress during the pandemic,” Texas House Republican Caucus said in a statement after the first version of the bill passed the House in April. “These closures were ultimately overturned and are unconstitutional as they infringe on 1st Amendment rights.”

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China Wants US Out of Its Data, and Algorithms to Be Socialist in Value

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021

China is looking to reign in its new oligarchs, its tech giants, who, in the span of about a decade ended up with vast empires that dwarved the sizes of some of the biggest government departments in the Chinese Communist Party state.

In the process, its also looking to make sure no American Big Techers get their data mining noses in their proverbial business by setting standards that are targeted at preventing non-government agents, be they foreign or domestic, from collecting data of any substance about their chattel, that is, citizens.

China has woken up to the reality that data is the new power that leads to all other power and right now, their own newly billionaired tech princes and princesses have more access to data about these citizens than the government itself does. Well, that’s about to change, and what happens in China will be noticed by all, with nation-states that have similar levels of control over their citizens doing similar things to protect themselves from being usurped in real power in their own lands by tech moguls.

The plans will be approved by Xi or they won’t happen at all. There is no debate. Xi will decide specifically what the new social media landscape is for his country.

The data restrictions include assuring the algorithms do not violate the principles of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Just like America, which has its own monopolistically imposed commitment to assuring algorthms reflect a specifical morality over all other moralities, even if the one morality violates the liberties of the other moralities that might not agree with it., China means to keep dissenting values out of the public square, for the safety and welfare of the whole.

China ‘plans to ban’ US IPOs for data-heavy tech firms, and proposes algorithm controls – business live | Business

From www.theguardian.com
2021-08-27 12:55:49

Excerpt:

China’s tech bosses are among its wealthiest citizens, and they are very much in Xi’s sights. The boss of social and gaming giant Tencent, Pony Ma, is estimated by Forbes to be worth $43bn (£31bn). His peer Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, is not far behind at $41bn.

With money have come power at home and influence abroad, both of which pose a threat to the Communist party, analysts say. China’s technologies increasingly shape the western world, from Alibaba in global trade, linking western buyers with exporters of goods made in China, to TikTok in popular culture, to online gaming, where Tencent has an interest in some of the most successful European developers.

“The recent regulatory crackdowns also send a chilling message to enterprising Chinese business people, whose contributions to the economy are far bigger than many state-owned firms,” said Dexter Roberts, senior fellow at Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

“Chinese economists…

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China ‘plans to ban’ US IPOs for data-heavy tech firms, and proposes algorithm controls – business live | Business

From www.theguardian.com
2021-08-27 12:55:49

Excerpt:

The Cyberspace Administration of China has issued a swathe of draft proposals to more rightly regulate how companies use algorithms.

The proposed guidelines say they must comply with laws and regulations, respect social ethics and ethics, abide by business ethics and professional ethics, and follow principles of (among others) fairness, openness and transparency.

The wide-ranging regulations would bar companies from using algorithms to hit consumers with higher prices based on their known preferences and trading habits, or influence online public opinion, or excessively manipulate search results in a way that harms competition.

Practices which violate public order, or encourage addiction or “high consumption” would also be curbed…….

China’s tech bosses are among its wealthiest citizens, and they are very much in Xi’s sights. The boss of social and gaming giant Tencent, Pony Ma, is estimated by Forbes to be worth $43bn (£31bn). His peer Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, is not far behind at $41bn.

With money have come power at home and influence abroad, both of which pose a threat to the Communist party, analysts say. China’s technologies increasingly shape the western world, from Alibaba in global trade, linking western buyers with exporters of goods made in China, to TikTok in popular culture, to online gaming, where Tencent has an interest in some of the most successful European developers.

“The recent regulatory crackdowns also send a chilling message to enterprising Chinese business people, whose contributions to the economy are far bigger than many state-owned firms,” said Dexter Roberts, senior fellow at Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

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Electric Vehicles Might Be in Short Supply Thanks to Chip Shortage

Freedomist Editor August 27, 2021

Chip Shortage Could Slow Electric Vehicle Rollouts

From www.scientificamerican.com
2021-08-25 18:00:00
Corbin Hiar, E&E News
Excerpt:

An automotive chip shortage has led to production cuts around the globe, just as many carmakers are gearing up to expand their fleets of electric vehicles.

The shortage is a result of pandemic-related constraints on supply chains and other factors. And it could prolong the world’s sluggish transition to electric vehicles if chips remain scarce in the coming months, experts say.

“If we’ve got an ongoing chip shortage for an extended period of time, that means those [electric] vehicles can’t get built, and they can’t get sold, and we continue to have more older vehicles staying on the road longer,” said Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst at the market research firm Guidehouse Insights. “So that’s definitely a problem.”

That would delay the decarbonization of the emissions-intensive transportation sector, an effort most scientists believe is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

The transportation sector accounted for 29 percent of the roughly 6.6 billion metric tons of…

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Growing Vaccines and Medicines and Eating Them Raw – Molecular Farming

Freedomist Editor August 25, 2021

There is a new type of farming called Molecular Farming that attempts to create edible medicine in grown plants. The plants are genetically altered to create medical byproducts that do not, theoretically, alter the taste, texture, or appearance of the plant.

The process began in 1986 as an idea that was later turned into a real process, but one with very limited, and costly applications. Now, the technoque might soon pave the way for consumable medicines and vaccines to be grown in plants as needed. Plants might soon be grown to create a wide range of medicnes and vaccines that are not innate to them, but can be created by altering dna and using synthetic biology to graft characterists from multiple sources onto one host.

We have spoken before aboutt the near-future possibility of hospitals having farm towers that are dedicated to growing plants that can be used to create medicines. Molecular Farming might be the technique that might make that dream a reality soon at a local hospital near you.

The one impediment to the rapid development of this technique will be Intellectual Property Laws that will restrict the ability of individuals to make their own biomanufacturing centers, as is usually the case when we are talking about a number of emerging technologies. Open source molecular farming must be developed by Freedom-minded people if we are to hope to see the potential self and associative sustainability that these techniques can create.

Molecular Farming Means the Next Vaccine Could Be Edible and Grown in a Plant

From singularityhub.com

Excerpt:

….molecular farming, a vision to have plants synthesize medications and vaccines. Using genetic engineering and synthetic biology, scientists can introduce brand new biochemical pathways into plant cells—or even whole plants—essentially turning them into single-use bioreactors.

The whole idea has a retro-futuristic science fiction vibe. First conceived of in 1986, molecular farming got its boost three decades later, when the FDA approved the first—and only—plant-derived therapeutic protein for humans to treat Gaucher disease, a genetic disorder that prevents people from breaking down fats.

But to Drs. Hugues Fausther-Bovendo and Gary Kobinger at Université Laval, Quebec and Galveston National Laboratory, Texas, respectively, we’re just getting started. In a new perspective article published last week in Science, the duo argues that plants have long been an overlooked resource for biomanufacturing.

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Thanks to American Judges, Foreign Powers Could Sue Gun Manufactuers Out of Business

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC -The anti-American unconstitutional decision of rogue DNC judges to allow humans to sue gun manufacturers when others use their guns to kill others has made it clear that our own court system and government is willing to do anything it can to disarm us so it can control us as completely as we see happening to our north in disarmend Canada and acrossthe pond in the disarmed UK.

These Anti-american CCP cousins have unleashed a pandora’s box of fear and hate aimed at destroying our ability to purchses guns by destroying our manufactuers, since they can’t seem to get enough political capital to push through the types of anti-American, CCP-enabling gun control bills these wanna-be-dictators are seeking to pass.

Mexico has already taken advantage of this criminal decision by rogue CCP-allied judges to attack the sovereignty of the American people themselves, using the precedent set by these outlaw judges to sue American gun manufactuers for violence in their lands. This leaves not only gun manufacturers in America open to legal liabilty should Mexico find a CCP judge instead of an American one, but it also leaves all of our weapons manufactuers vulnerable to foreign lawsuits that could not only destroy the American gun industry, but maybe even our defense industry as well.

To the CCP-inspired DNC, such destruction is just another “necessary” evil in the fight against humanity and freedom and the fight for distopian complete control of all of its citzens and the death of the American bill-of-right-limited Democratic Republic.

Does US Immunity for Gun Manufacturers Apply Extraterritorially?

From www.justsecurity.org
2021-08-19 13:02:18

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Earlier this month, Mexico sued six U.S. gun manufacturers, one foreign manufacturer, and a Boston-area wholesaler in federal court in Massachusetts. According to the complaint, the defendants design, market, and sell guns in ways they know will arm Mexican drug cartels. Although Mexico has strict gun laws and prohibits the importation of guns without a permit, it is estimated that more than half a million guns flow from the United States into Mexico each year. During the first five months of 2020, statistics show that nearly half the guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico were made by the defendant manufacturers. Most of Mexico’s claims are tort claims, including negligence, public nuisance, and defective design, but Mexico also alleges that the defendants have been unjustly enriched and have violated unfair business practices statutes in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

In 2005, Congress acted to immunize gun manufacturers and dealers from liability based on the criminal use…

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Key Insights On The Collapse of Afghanistan

Bill Collier August 16, 2021

From WION out of India, the collapse of the US-backed government in Kabul is invoking images of the fall of Saigon as panicked locals realize the retreat of the US means the new masters of their country will seek their vengeance. The sheer terror and chaos are a culmination of 20 years of bad policy that cannot solely be laid at the feet of either Trump or Biden, of Democrats or Republicans. It has been a massive bipartisan failure at the gross expense of tens of thousands people, including American troops whose lives were forever changed by their deployment there.

Let’s look past the partisan spin and blame game DC is so famous for and debunk some common partisan narratives.

Biden Isn’t The Author Of This Disaster

President Biden certainly didn’t do anything to mitigate the debacle that has been the “war on terror” during his 8 years as Vice President. But the genesis of the collapse of the US-backed government in Kabul begins in 2001. The knee-jerk response to the Al Qaeda attack, which saw the US focus on “nation-building” and embrace the myth “better to fight the bad guys overseas than at home.”

We didn’t fight the bad guys, we engaged in nation-building. When US and Northern Alliance troops were closing in Al Qaeda, the US suddenly STOPPED the attack and Bin Laden got away. Ideally, had this attack been pushed to its conclusion, the bad guys are gone, the war is over. Sure, the US could back the Northern Alliance as it did the Mujahideen, but we went for an invasion to save people who weren’t trying to save themselves.

Instead of snuffing the real bad guys out, the US let them go, perhaps due to incompetence, perhaps for other geopolitical reasons. The nation-building idea was always bad and once the US entered the land and began its han-fisted approach to Afghani politics, the stage was set for what happened, albeit after much loss of mostly civilian lives.

Donald Trump’s Withdrawal Agreement Was Bad

Donald Trump wanted out and he was willing to make nice with the Taliban, on the grounds they promised, on paper, to foreswear the use of terrorism or hosting terrorism. It was not expected this would be observed, but if it wasn’t, well, we have plenty of bombs for that. Whatever one thinks of Trump, he knew when to hold and when to fold, and it was time to fold. But his plan involved militarily supporting a withdrawal and leaving in May, not August. His plan wasn’t followed the US arbitrarily reneged on the deal.

It’s true it may seem Trump was naive about the Taliban and that they weren’t going to follow the deal. But Trump’s calculus was to stop the bleeding and cut losses but to make sure the withdrawal of US personnel and collaborative Afghanis was orderly and on time.

A better deal wasn’t to be had and none of the critics have proposed better alternatives that would have worked.

The US Is On Retreat and Only Taliban Backers Like China and Pakistan Benefit

One alternative view is that the seemingly precipitous withdrawal is an abject defeat. But the geopolitical calculus is possible mote subtle. The US is aligning against China and its position on Afghanistan leaves it vulnerable to Russia, Pakistan, and the “Stans” and constrains their hand against China. In essence, China, allied to Pakistan, and Russia, patron of the Stans, could hold US forces hostage.

China may indeed be falling for a clever trap in which they become embroiled in the morasse of Afghani trial politics. The Taliban may be making nice with Beijing now but it’s ability to keep its word is nil. The love betweem Islamists and Communists is notoriously low, which is the nicest thing one may say about the Communists.

Biden Blew It By Changing The Date of Withdrawal

It is true Biden abandoned the original agreement and plan, thus making the blaming of Trump laughable as the plan executed was not Trump’s plan. The negotiations with the Taliban were nixed and so was the withdrawal date, which did in fact violate the agreement.

While this was used as a pretext by the Taliban to present this change as an affront to Afghanistan itself, it is flimsy logic to say this alone ruined the plan. Biden needed, or wanted, more time to effect withdrawal and vastly over-estimated the potential of Afghan forces. The major deviation was dismissing the Taliban, but one can hardly argue against viewings these people as brutal savages as opposed to making nice with them.

The Taliban don’t keep agreements. Biden knew this and ditched the idiotic pretext, but it may have led to a miscalculation of many things, such as the strength of the enemy and of allies. Merely changing the date of withdrawal may have fed Taliban propaganda, but that’s about it.

What’s The Conclusion?

The collapse of the US-backed government in Afghanistan was essentially ensured when US and Allied forces tried to defend people who didn’t want to fight for themselves and tried nation-building in a land that basically rejected the values upon which that effort was based.