April 2, 2026

Freedom Building

The (Provisonal) Freedomist Pledge of Common Unity

The (Provisonal) Freedomist Pledge of Common Unity

Bill Collier September 29, 2023 0

The purpose of the Freedomist Pledge of Common Unity is to define the standards and norms Freedomists will be guided by in relationship to one another, in relation to our common goals, and in relationship with fellow citizens in our country. Freedomists pledge before God to affirm, uphold, and be guided by these ideals and principles within the greater framework of a new Christian civilizational paradigm, albeit respecting and welcoming all freedom seekers regardless of their faith, church affiliation, confession, or creed.

Four Core Ideals

The four core ideals of our civilizational paradigm which guide and inform our work and way of life together include a Biblical interpretation and understanding but a modern and forward-looking application of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law, which form the initials UPDR from whence the name of our civilizational paradigm, UPDRism, or Upadarianism, is derived.

These four core ideals are a litmus test for freewill participatory relationships, associations, organizations, and institutions of all kinds which we would deem to be free, healthy, positive, and both mutually beneficial and profitable to all participants in an equitable, just, and fair manner.

Through a balanced application of all four core ideals, which necessarily means no understanding of any single ideal could be disharmononious with any of the other core ideals, we can develop relationships and associations at every scale that enhance both individual well-being and the common good of whole groups, communities, national peoples, and countries.

Core Principles

Our core principles include social vision, social ethic, social goals, and the freedom vision.

Our social vision is based on a balanced application of collaboration, sustainability, and consensus. Our social ethic is based on a balanced application of well-being, justice, and autonomy. Our social goals are based on a dedication to upholding human agency, dignity, and flourishing. Our freedom vision is based on a balanced application of virtue, liberty, and independency.

We also consider, in how we understand and practice these principles, their adherence to the four core ideals, with an understanding that how we use the four core ideals depends on the type and nature of relationships and associations involved.

Four Core Authorities

While no relationship, association, or structure of aby kind, fits solely or precisely in any of these four authorities, and while, even within these four authorities elements like the others may exist, such that the line between them is semi-permeable, in general we see all of human civilization being governed more or less by these four core authorities.

The four core authorities we define as Ecclsium, Ethnium, Oikosium, and Koinonium. Ecclesium is basically the faith community but can be defined as any community of people specifically limited to a faith or creed. Ethnium is the expression and manifestation of nationhood or ethnicity through some form of freewill participation among peers. Oikosium covers most familial connections and bonds and economic activities. Koinonium is covenant and contract law and generally also includes entities like political states, but also any formal contractual or covenant-based relationship.

The concept of the four authorities shows the kinds of authority and while many entities and associations may primarily fit into one of the authorities, most at least have secondary elements that we would describe as being of hre essence of the other authorities. All four core authorities are scalable from the individual to the world, and at different levels, they may look differently as well while still being of the same essence.

The Nine Governments

As with the authorities, a particular entity may have elements of the other nine governments, and smaller entities may merge them, but the concept of the nine governments generally applies to governance and administrative structures, whether formal or not, within a system of some kind that balances to become something like a merit-based system of self-determination and mutual governance that makes decisions, pools resources, manages resources, and is the representative agency of a group or community of people.

The nine governments include the Regium as the harmonizing body in overall charge, albeit because some of the people in the other governments are also part of this government.

The Magisterium is like unto a political state or city, e.g. “Caesar” or the magistrate, albeit within the sacred limits of kings and kingdoms, even if it isn’t an actual political state. Under the Magisterium is the Governate, which directly oversees the Civitas and the Agorate as autonomous governments under its supervision but not control.

The Ethnium is a sociocultural and socioreligious body that provides social, cultural, educational, benevolence, and socioreligious services and direction, as well as standards and norms. Under the Ethnium, which is more about higher sociocultural norms that define a national people group, is the Societas which oversees two autonomous governments, the Ecclsium, and the Comunis.

While no existing government or governing body over non-state entities which are fairly comprehensive in their sphere of services and issues they address literally uses the nine governments framework, one can discern in any government or govervance body aspects of these nine governments in principle. If one understands the nine governments and how any decision-making structures must conform to the purposes, stakeholders, investors/owners, and the such necessary for their function one can discern both if a government or govervance body is effective and even just.

The Harmony of the Whole

Once one understands the core ideals, core principles, four authorities, and nine governments by themselves and then in harmonious relationship to one another, one can both litmus test existing entities or envision and build new entities that serve the greater good of human civilization, that honor God and Creation, and that liberate and empower each individual. This idealistic vision for a perfect system and a perfect civilizational paradigm is not however itself perfect, because it is human, and, moreover, any expectation that it can be perfectly applied and fulfilled even in this imperfect understanding or that it is going to result in utopia in any way should be considered dangerous and false.

A deeper and more nuanced understanding and practice of these things will result in better outcomes at every scale and can be pursued individually and in freewill participatory relationships and associations regardless of the surrounding system. Through finding gaps for freedom even within authoritarian systems we can develop greater autonomy and liberty for more aspects of our lives, relationships, and associations which tend to weaken authoritarianism and make it more likely that freedom will spread to more and more people everywhere.

Understanding and utilizing these ideals, principles, authorities, and governments while adhering especially to liberty, within our freedom vision, as defined by the original spirit and intent behind the US Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, and then applying them to our lives, relationships, and associations inasmuch as we can is how we build freedom locally to globally.

We Pledge

We therefore pledge to God and to each other to pursue these things in our own relationships and associations with fellow Freedomists and in relation to other citizens and the world at large, by all legal and ethical means to protect the sanctity of our own and our loved one’s lives, property, wealth, liberty, and well-being against all hazards, foreign or domestic, official or unofficial, so help us God.

EMPOWERMENT 101: Building A Sense Of Community

EMPOWERMENT 101: Building A Sense Of Community

Bill Collier September 26, 2023 0

We propose that a most BASIC individual empowerment in our country MUST begin with an approach that restores the lost sense of community provided by faith, family, and mutual support, at least for those who desire freedom and who refuse to be limited, defined, or controlled by the present-day shot-callers in our civilization.

Most approaches to empowerment, which is you fulfilling your own God-given scroll of destiny and purpose and God’s best for your life, are either too esotoric and filled with buzzwords and catch-phrases or they lean on massive scale change through some form of collective activism. What they lack are both practical methods and attainable means. Citing some notion of getting in the flow of some energy or will of the universe is as useless to workaday people as wishing somehow to remake a city or country in your own image through collective action.

We aren’t arguing that none of these things are useful at all. They can be, and they can enhance and expand upon your own efforts to become empowered. But we are at “empowerment 101” here, not advanced empowerment where you want to dig deeper into your soul or where you want to help many other people find the same level of empowerment for themselves.

When I was in Mexico visiting friends who are like kin and saw how they approach life, and even how some live, mostly in close connection to an inner circle of people who have each other’s backs, I witnessed a lot of what I wrote about in terms of empowerment. Empowerment begins with an inner circle of people who care for each other as kin, as if the good of one is sought by all, and yet nobody’s individuality is subordinated to some weird collectivist hippy cult commune.

The end state of this stage for many may be something like I saw in Mexico, and which exists all over the world, basically a “family” estate which many members live in but which all resort to frequently for social and other purposes as the physical hub of their inner circle.

If we broaden the concept of family to include an innner circle of around 20-30 adult relatives and friends who are like family, with the nuclear family of a mom and dad with their children at the core, we begin to see what family can mean. Family is far more than a mom and dad with their children and dependents, and maybe an older parent who lives with them, but a collection of enough adult members so that most hazards and burdens can be handled internally and most needs can be meet, even if a few members are totally disabled or temporarily down and out.

The destruction of extended family groups like this, again not all members are related by blood or marriage, is a necessary precursor to creating economic and other forms of disempowerment because it makes the individual or a married couple and their children easy prey to almost any eocnomic or other pressure. The net effect is that you can’t pursue your dream, your vision, or your self-interest effectively outside of the limits, which others, even slightly more wealthy and/or influential people, set for you. Your energy and the fruits of your labor are spent at least partially in feathering someone else’s nest who doesn’t care a bit for you. For some, little of your energy and the fruits of your labor benefit you or your dreams very much at all.

In my experience, I witnessed a family group centered on one large house with multiple rooms and apartments, a sprawling and lively space with almost a perfect balance of public, semi-private (inner circle only), and private spaces where everyone could come together and where one could just as easily find solitude. Not everyone was a resident, and some residents were renters who nonetheless enjoyed access to some semi-private spaces and who were treated more or less like kin. The people who were part of this extended household included family and friends who lived on site, family and friends who didn’t live on site, but who were there a lot, and renters who lived on site.

This “villa”, in the heart of a historic Mexican city dating back over 400 years, was the central hub for multiple nuclear families and unmarried adults, complete with rentals to the public and even a few small shops right off the main street. Inside, one felt it was another world, set apart from the surrounding city, but not isolated from its life, and indeed very much a positive part of the city life. I was amazed at how little the people there realized the novelty of what to some sounds like an experiment in clustered living but which for them had been part of life more or less since the 1600’s, so obviously it is a workable model.

Due to respect for privacy, and because I wasn’t visiting there to compile a report for public consumption, I won’t share pictures or details. Suffice it to say, because I have a history with this family dating back to the 1990s, I was more or less treated as a member while there and experienced their life as if I had always lived there. It is a place I am happy to say that if I ever needed a respite or chose to leave my own country, where I would be welcome and fit in. My own desire to master Spanish is driven substantially by a desire to spend more time down there.

I may have been a Gringo to the outside world, but to these people I was like a relative visiting from abroad and “coming home”, and that will always be something I deeply cherish. That their instinctive, unplanned model of community tracks so well with my own planned and envisioned model of community doesn’t surprise me because I studied family and community models across many cultures and civilizations from the most ancient to the most modern times and discerned in them a pattern which very much looks like this Mexican family’s estate, both the phyical space and the people/relationships within it.

The ability to form a close-knit inner circle of local people who, inasmuch as they can, approximate this ideal, even if their only hub is a single house and none cluster together on one piece of real estate, is essential to the kind of empowerment that one doesn’t have to be rich to attain and that is stronger than most of the external pressures that often rob you of your empowerment today.

In Mexico, this family already had a ready-made community of people, but they have welcomed others in, such as myself. Perhaps you and your family and friends have a ready-made community and don’t realize it, but as many families are dispersed and live in different states and as many of our friends may be online, and as few neighbors know each other, the idea of trying to form some sort of “intentional estate” with 20-30 other local adults is daunting. Despite this, however, it is the ultimate necessity, though by no means does it have to begin there and, if you use these ideas, you can enjoy real benefits well before that ideal is achieved.

Family can form around a number of things including blood and marriage, some experience unique to your group (like veterans), religious and/or philosophical convictions about life and its meaning, or something we refer to as a form of “intentional nationhood.” The concept behind intentional nationhood is that there are multiple connection points between individuals whose strength is such that when people act in unity it is more a natural effect of their shared identity and purpose and requires little or no directed management from some “authority.”

Unlike blood and marriage kinship, nationhood is something people have to understand and adopt willingly, from the heart, because it just FITS who and what they are, which also means that when they find others of the same nationhood, there is a strong instant connection to build rapport and engagement around. Loosely similar to this, the fact I know this family’s history, try to speak the language, eat the same food, have the same essential beliefs, and the such, all allowed me to form a sort of nationhood with them, even to the point I have been given an adoptive name I use with them. A part of me is Mexican, even though by blood I have no Mexican ancestry, though my wife certainly does.

I should note also that the vision for a new globally distributed form of nationhood people can adopt to connect with a worldwide community of like-minded fellow travelers would easily fit within the “shared nationhood” that this extended family group seems to follow, even if they don’t use the term. I anticipate for many extended family groups in Mexico, adopting this global nationhood as part of their own nationhood will probably be easier than for many Americans, but that it is essential that Americans learn to do this, or something like it, if we are to restore the social fabric in this country.

Forming a sense of community with others can begin with a semi-formal agreement as to a set of ideals and principles and/or goals but also a pledge of mutual support through something like what we call “the four questions of fellowship”, namely:

Does anyone know of a praiseworthy example of success that we could benefit from learning and applying to our lives and our fellowship together?

Does anyone have an example of a cautionary tale or of failure we would do well to take cognizance of in our lives and in our fellowship together?

Does anyone have a problem or need or situation they cannot handle and for which they cannot get help or advice which we might assist them with or advise them regarding?

Does anyone need an introduction to some person of influence, wealth, or power who can advance their career, business, or situation which perhaps we might help them with?

If you found 5-10 people to get together on a regular basis and break bread over these four questions, you would naturally, organically, and without much fuss or hassle begin the experience the benefits of a what will feel more and more like an extended family group than just a few friends. This simple direction added to your fellowship together will add many new dimensions and open up opportunities for mutual advancement and advantage that nobody can predict or outline as some “program.”

In addition to these questions, there is a need for a pledge, we use the term “Pledge of Common Unity”, which is more detailed and specific, but basically comes down to you pledge to follow the same standards and norms among each other AND to do all in your power and means to support and protect one another to the degree you feel their well-being, happiness, and success is also essential to your own well-being, happiness, and success.

We detail ideals and principles which form the basis of our shared standards and norms and how we will mutually support one another as well as some of our shared goals, for instance outreach to help the needy and support for refugees. What is important is to essentially create a charter that acts as a pledge that is specific enough to be meaningful without being overwrought with formality and non-essentials. A loose pledge has no meaning or value because it doesn’t translate to action, but a narrow and too detailed pledge can become, frankly, controlling and cultish in its effect.

Starting to build a sense of community is as simple as that. But finding people who will take the plunge may be more difficult. It’s probably the hardest first step to define your community, e.g. beliefs and purposes, then to somehow reach people who see that and say, “I like that, it fits me.”

If you have close-knit family and friends already, find what is common to them, define your community on that basis, and ask them to participate in your periodic gatherings, using a meal and the four questions, for mutual support and benefit. If most of my closer kin moved near me, we would easily have a sense of community and could work toward building a family estate because in terms of religion, lifestyle, and philosophy, the adoption of the global nationhood I am promoting actually fits them well.

But in many cases, this isn’t possible. You may not have a church home, which can be a place where you find fellow travelers willing to participate in such an adventure, but you may not. You may live in an area where you know a few other people who you would be willing or able to become so connected to. In these cases, starting an online club around your idea and advertising, perhaps through fliers or even online ads, to find like-minded people around you may be all you can do. This may cost less than or around a few hundred dollars over time, but as soon as you find 5 or so people the chances are one or more of them will know other people they can recommend to join your club.

If you stay tuned in this space, we will have examples of charters, including how to use or adapt our Pledge of Common Unity and/or our Pledge of Peers, to form your own independent, Freedomist, or what we call Upadarian (new word alert: the name for a specific global Christian community), Communities. We are offering affiliation within our larger Freedomist and/or Upadarian frameworks, but the concepts, methods, and practices for forming community with others can be adapted easily to your own thing as well.

In conclusion, we posit the idea that if you seek empowerment to be able to follow your own path of destiny and purpose and to fulfill what you see as God’s best for your life, then “empowerment 101” for you should be to find and form your own inner circle who begin with shared standards and norms and at least the four questions of fellowship along with some sort of pledge for mutual support, assurance, and benefit that feels like kinship.

Toward A New Civilizational Paradigm

Toward A New Civilizational Paradigm

Bill Collier September 4, 2023 0

Creating a freedom-building movement through restoring the social fabric of a just and prosperous society is necessary and quite possible outside the corpostate system of institutional top-down down control of culture. It is also possible and morally essential to do this unilaterally, within our lives, relationships, and associations, without trying to change or control anyone who doesn’t actively and willingly want the kind of life we do.

In short, we propose that we must have our own independent and self-sufficient economic, financial, health care, education, food, energy, entertainment, news organizations, and other entities. These will be created within the framework of our overall freedom structures which we create in our hearts, in the way we treat and interact with others and in how we organize ourselves to creagea strong sense of community from the personal and local levels to a global scale.

To accomplish this, we propose a way to pursue liberation and independency, bounded by civic and moral virtues rooted in Christ but inclusive of all, which both works for the individual and scales to organized distributed communities and entire mass movements.

What we want to make clear is that personal empowerment requires some form of shared responsibility for our vision of a free and prosperous society and, more directly, each other’s safety, wellness, success, and happiness without becoming collectivist, cultish, or in any way authoritarian or xenophobic.

This further requires becoming intimately familiar with a civilizational paradigm that is not a product of the corpostate system, that totally exists outside of it, and the internalizing these ideals, principles, and practices to such an extent we live them ourselves and together with whoever wants to do the same. Hence, the subject of this article.

While we propose and think that the new civilizational paradigm will be a broader Freedomism based on the UPDR Ideals, and therefore will be called The Upadarian Civilization, the important thing here is the ideas and their attendant blueprints and frameworks for living together, not necessarily the name. We will, however, assume that these names suffice and will use them.

We begin basically with the proposition that knowing and internalizing a new civilizational paradigm in our own hearts and brains, body and soul, led by our spirit man, is in and of itself transfigurative. This means that if you become intimately familiar with this new civilization paradigm and embrace it warmly in your heart, it will change your actions, habits, relationships, and the very way you build community with others almost automatically.

We want to distinguish between the Upadarian civilizational paradigm, which is the root of Freedomism, along with the Actiun Baza (base of action) philosophy for a true reading of the reality of power, on one hand, and the historic Christian faith from whence it is derived, on the other hand.

The Christian faith addresses our eternal souls and inner peace and happiness, and we think it is essential as a foundation. Our civilizational paradigm addresses more practical needs and is not itself something all Christians must embrace. It is also not limited to only Christians: anyone can use and apply it and thereby become sort of sociocultural “citizens” of our unofficial international Commonwealth.

(A BRIEF ASIDE: Though we are searching for a better word, for now we refer to people as “citizens” of our Commonwealth not in a legal, official sense, but more by common affection for an identification with the ideals and principles which our unofficial Commonwealth, as a distributed global community, is based upon.

Hence, all who embrace these ideals are “citizens of the Upadarian Commonwealth” without needing to join anything or make it official. We distinguish between The Upadarian Commonwealth as the unofficial global community of all who embrace the new paradigm, the Virtual Commonwealth of Upadaria as the name for our platform, and The Crown Commonwealth of Upadaria as the planned international non-territorial Commonwealth that will interface with governments and other entities.

People will become citizens with a small c of the Upadarian Commonwealth, though a better name is sought, eCitizens of the platform as paid subscribers who back our efforts, and, eventually, as God prospers us, actual dual Citizens with our non-territorial Commonwealth and their own countries.)

When you envision civilization itself from this new, albeit ancient and sacred, paradigm’s perspective, you begin to see changes in your life and relationships and you WILL over time see a real increase in your total level of freedom and abundance.

Our paradigm is delivered in a unique way, through fictional stories and a “future history” that entertains as it informs, educates, and empowers. All of this came to me initially through a series of what I believe are supernatural encounters in which I was entrusted with these stories almost as if I had lived in the days when this new civilization was established, namely the year 2147, and came back to this time.

I “remembered” this life in the new civilization and impart its “history” to both warn people of the dangers that will come and to offer hope for how to either prevent the bad things or at least keep you and your own circle of trust and care safe and prosperous regardless of what is happening around you.

On the night of February 6, 1982, into the morning of the 7th, the 6th also being the day I was re-baptized at age 13, I was awoken to voices from hell, if seemed to me, calling my name and threatening me. My twin brother actually saw and heard parts of this, independently of me. I was immersed into a new REALITY of war, fighting human forces, which I could see were demonically controlled, who wanted to seize me and end our existence outside of their control.

While these demonic voices were haunting and scary, my instinct was to go and confront them and defeat them. As I did so, the physical space around me was altered, and troops defending and led by myself were fighting bad guys in a pitched battle right on my grandmother’s property where I lived with my father.

This experience opened the door, as suddenly I had the gift of discernment and when I shared Christ with others, speaking into their lives about things only known to God, they were quite interested in what I had to say. I was fully operating in the gifts of discernment, prophecy, word of wisdom, and other gifts. This set a pattern of confirmation for me whereby every time I was given something of significance to this vision I would experience some form of personal breakthrough and have favor to preach to others. Very often, a critical need was met for me or a family member, and someone would become converted to Jesus Christ.

Ultimately, not to labor the reader with details yet, I “saw”, or “remembered” an entire history of how this new civilization emerged here and there around the world and how a new Commonwealth was created as the guardian of the new civilization. This BEGAN, however, with the new dawn of a Christian national people, the Upadarians, who became the vanguard of that new civilization as well the architects of what would become its genesis structures.

I want to make this clear: for me, there was a sense of remembering the lifeways and sense of community within this new civilization and feeling homesick for it. This came with a desire to somehow FIND or get back to that by urging others to embrace this way of life and create a sense of community among themselves.

In 1987, I believe the Lord bade me through godly counsel to lay this down, with an understanding that only if God directed me to pick it back up should I consider doing so. During this season, which I did not know would end, I barely if at all spoke about Upadaria as a national people group or as the name of a new Christian civilization. In 1994, I had an encounter that showed me I needed to pick this back up, but to explore it and solidify it within me, and not to share it yet.

In 1997 I had an encounter at a Christian men’s meeting wherein it was both supernaturally confirmed to me that I must use the names and terms God gave me and that I no longer needed to hide this vision from anyone else.

In 2004, thanks to advice from my twin brother, I began to research the names God gave me only to discover they come from many languages, some ancient. I also learned that the names had meanings which could impart wisdom and tactics for launching the nation first and building a whole new international non-territorial Commonwealth around it. The work of sorting and defining these things in digestible parts is ongoing

While it is true my encounters and experiences became and will remain essential to the overall vision, others are beginning to find the veracity of this vision and their God-given role within it in their own ways. Thus, my experiences are part of this history. They are not the sole experiences that will, in time, also be essential to it.

One thing that was impressed upon me was to keep the names , the initial blueprints and frameworks, and to impart this vision as I received it. I later confirmed this was through some sort of immersive experience based on the fictional stories, and which later I could see was possible through the web in ways I couldn’t have foreseen back then.

Our planned digital homeland is based on users experiencing life in the Crown Commonwealth of Upadaria in the future, though the name of the platform is “The Virtual Commonwealth of Upadaria”. It is being designed not merely to impart this vision but to help facilitate face-to-face local gatherings and community groups based on Upadaria. As they create local Round Table Groups, participants will even use their “Upo Identity” from the platform for real-world activities and collaboration toward actualizing the ideals, principles, practices, and goals imparted through the fictional future history.

Participants will create a Upo Identity (though this isn’t mandatory) within the platform that they use in any gatherings or activities with fellow Peers of our spiritual nation, citizens of our unofficial Commonwealth, or eCitizens of the virtual Commonwealth, keeping their outer identities in strict confidence. The idea of this Upo Identity is to discover, verbalize, and activate your true inner self, using that as the basis of your new identity, which works from within your outer identity and shows itself effortlessly, organically, and naturally ever more outwardly.

Some will still just prefer to learn by rote, and to retain their outer identity as their Upo Identity, but we suspect they will get more from this experience by letting their imagination and creativity flow. As you both learn the history and and the underlying concepts of this new civilization, and as you explore and create your Upo Identity to reflect who you see yourself as in God’s eyes, free from all limits, the changes occur without conscious effort.

A new civilizational paradigm is needed because the current one has become dead, uncreative, corrupt, and depraved and if you remain dependent upon systems based on this pradigm you will suffer loss and lack and make yourself easy prey to freedom takers and antichristian zealots, who will persecute you.

Consider how Hollywood’s “remakes” of classical and beloved stories or their treatment of beloved franchises has destroyed the original vision behind these things and replaced it with something that doesn’t even come close to the original and you will see how civilization itself is being re-made into something that is utterly useless and foul.

Just as Hollywood remade classics into pure garbage, the ruling class has remade society into pure garbage. They are feeding you poison that is killing your happiness and stealing your prosperity. Even if you are a Christian, if you unconsciously or consciously follow or are connected to the systems these people have designed, based on their warped altreality, you will short-circuit your own calling.

A new civilizational paradigm is needed. Though we provide our own ideas and vision, you can take whatever path you like, you can consciously choose your own way, so long as that way is founded upon the eternal and sacred precepts of the Kingdom of God.

The Corpostate Platforms Should Be Abandoned By Freedom-Minded People

The Corpostate Platforms Should Be Abandoned By Freedom-Minded People

Bill Collier February 9, 2023 0

FACEBOOK IS NOT THE PLATFORM FOR FREEDOM-MINDED HUMAN BEINGS!!

By Bill Collier Jr- More on why I MUST decrease and ultimately cease “civilian” use of Facebook, a poorly governed and moderated platform, run like a Neo-Soviet alt-gendered totalitarian dystopian insane asylum by unmanageable dumb bots!!!

(This is part of a 60-day phased drawdown of my “civilian” presence on Facebook.)

For more of my content, follow @freedomregent@freedomregent on Twitter now.

Here is a sample:
“An independent, self-sufficient financial, social, and healthcare structure based on manifesting the Kingdom of God among us (God’s laws) is essential to surviving the coming pre-planned upheavals that ‘justify’ totalitarianism. #upadaria #freedom #prosperity”

Facebook Was Built By and For Leftist Freedom Takers

Facebook, as moderated now (by leftist-programmed dumb bots) is insufficient to the task of promoting and providing for rational, civil, and equitable discourse that is fair, free, and inclusive.

A stated desire to stop hate speech, misinformation, harassment and bullying, and other activities and content deemed by leftists to somehow be a threat to their totalitarian version of Neo-Soviet “democracy” has led to coding into this very platform the seeds of its demise. Inefficiency and corruption are the heart of the problem when it comes to the Neo-Soviet top-down and authoritarian approach always favored by the godless perverts on the left!

Everyone Is Poorly Moderated On Facebook

Nobody, whether they post on politics from the right or left, or not at all, is safe from irrational account restrictions by mindless dumb AI programs (bots) that cannot comprehend basic human communications in their full context. Essentially, the problem began as a leftist attempt to control the public discourse to support their totalitarian aims, but the left, right, and center all suffer from a moderation regimen that can only be described as random, arbitrary, and unfair.

Facebook CANNOT Be A “Digital Commons” for The People

This platform cannot be a digital commons for any real debate on anything because at a root level of its very core essence it is driven every day by totalitarian perverts whose grasp of Creation itself is a fantastical illusion from hell and self-deception based on poorly written doctrines of devils.

Their own coding of the AI moderation program has led to a state where even those whose politics they like often get zapped and restricted for garbage reasons because the bot doesn’t understand language.

We MUST Stop DEPENDENCY Upon The Corpostate’s Platforms

We must seek a better future away from any connection to, much less dependence upon, platforms like this run by a corpostate ruling class who have no conscience and no humanity. That’s NOT easy and creating echo-chambers is not the solution, though specialized niche communities, like the Upadaria platform, can at least provide a digital sanctuary for people of a like-mind to gather and collaborate for mutual benefit!

The Process of Building Alternatives Is Hard, Long-term, and Fraught With False Starts and Trial and Error

The process of denuding these types of platforms of freedom minded people and creating both parallel niche communities (like Upadaria, a mostly social conservative and Judeo-Christian niche community, or Truth Social, a more or less Republican niche community) and more pluralistic platforms (think Gab or our own American Freedomist Network) as a true digital commons will be extremely difficult and it will be fraught with many false starts and failures. Trial and error will typify the response required.

Things LIKE The Upadaria Project Are The Future For Freedom

We propose that the future for MANY who desire true freedom and abundance without compromising their own Christian (or American, Jewish, Conservative, Freedomist, etc) values is UPADARIA. Upadaria is a global project that will result in autonomous local freedom networks connected to an international non-territorial Commonwealth.

We envision the creation of many dozens of outreach and refugee support hubs where freedom seekers, particularly eCitizens of our virtual commonwealth, Peers of our spiritual nation, and Christians (among others!), can find sanctuary and support. We envision autonomous local franchises of the platform, run by local chapters of our spiritual nation’s mutual benefit societies, will build their own physical spaces and clustered living habitations based on what we call the new civilizational paradigm, or “Upadarianism.”

Where To Find My Content As A Freedom Builder

More and more your own only place to find this content will be elsewhere, not on this abomination of a platform that is run as “efficiently”, and inhumanely, as the Soviet evonomy under Stalin.
Note: for those who ask, I still use the platform to reach people who are still here and draw them away to better choices but also to run ads for clients.

I am not deleting my Facebook account, I am phasing out my “civilian” and personal use and continuing my professional use only, over the next almost 60 days.

Some Important Notes

PS; while the “coders”, and their bosses especially, tend to be leftwing totalitarian perverts without any moral conscience whatsoever, their code has created a behemoth-like monster that is just as bad for the left as the right.

Inefficient and unprofessional moderation and governance in general are mostly the result of greed (not wanting to invest in people while profiting from them). A moderation team of 15k mostly underpaid temp workers is easier and cheapet to manage than the 100,000 or so well-paid community governance professionals with over 3 million voluntary user mods needed to run this correctly.

Let’s Talk Political and Economic Devolution

Let’s Talk Political and Economic Devolution

Bill Collier September 21, 2021 0

The “one big system” (OBS) and its one-size-fits-all approach is bad for society, bad for the economy, and bad for individual freedom. It also undermines the social fabric by atomizing individuals and replacing faith, family, and community with corporate monopolies, social media, and the state. It’s time we all, left and right, commit to preserving our Union and reaffirming our pluralistic and free society through a deliberate devolution of political and economic power.

Devolution means local and county governments, private people, free associations, private enterprises, and free associations like churches and clubs are where most resources flow and the most important decisions impacting your life are made, with your active participation. Devolution does not require a Constitutional amendment because it is actually already built into our Union of free and sovereign, and separate, republics.

Everyone clamoring for the kind of world they want to live in should take a step back and realize that, for most people, there is far more that unites us than divides us but some of the things that divide us are really things you should have the most say in at the most local and accessible level. The problem is that the pols and corpos, politicians and corporate shot-callers, need and want badly for us to focus on this all-or-nothing conflict over issues private groups and every local to county level jurisdiction SHOULD have power over through a consensual democracy, as opposed to indirectly throughout corruptible “leaders.”

As with Canadians voting back in a deranged Caesarist, most people in the Western world deplore and run away from freedom. They are coddled, babied, and neutered specimens, mostly without a single moral conviction deeper and dearer than base carnal pleasures. Most of the citizenry are not only happy to vote away their humanity, dignity, and liberty, but they are more than willing to vote away yours as well.

This happens because the way we do politics is on emotional issues and soundbites. We don’t do them on the basis of substance, process, or meaty matters that everyone SHOULD care about. If we focus on process and the processes that work we can, we should, see that if people in their own local to county level could freely and actively decide the rules and norms of their society then we could see real change. We could see where things were good and bad. We could compare and not run massive social experiments on the whole population that, if they fail, could crater our entire country.

If you can’t stomach the idea the community in the next county won’t adopt your pet ideology and make it a law, well, you are literally a symptom of a dying civilization that seeks universal sameness without change. The aim of a springtime civilization is to constantly seek the ideals of a good society through experimentation and competition, hence the decentralized nature of every early civilization in its zenith of creativity and spiritual energy.

If your vision for society is driven by what some see as a woke cancel culture extremism, what you might sincerely see as social justice and forward societal evolution, but you cannot brook the idea not every private community of people or every locality might adopt, then your deeper ideology is just plain old nasty Caesarism. Likewise if your ideology is what some see as right-wing backwardness, what you may sincerely see as proudly maintaining the best traditions and values for an advanced civilization, and you cannot brook the notion not every private community of people or locality adopts your ideology, then you too are just a Caesarist.

Freedomists tend more toward the social conservative spectrum in that we feel that civic and moral virtue based on Judeo-Christian values is one of the three core elements of freedom, which include a balance of virtue, liberty, and independence. But our view of freedom is that it must be adopted through a combination of freewill participation by private persons and it must be adopted in each locality through some sort of consensual decision-making process that is inclusive and that also tends toward promoting a free and pluralistic society of equals.

And ideology based on OBS and a one-size-fits-all approach instead of mostly through freewill participation by private persons and through some form of consensual decision-making processes at the local level is perfectly and utterly useless. It is but a veneer for Caesarism. Caesarism is in point of fact an archaic and barbaric approach by a civilization that has lost its creativity and spiritual life-force, a dying civilization no more advanced than a band of barbaric savages.

The devolution of political and economic power from the federal and state governments as well as the near-monopoly mega corporations is a radical necessity if we as Americans want our civilization to become a new, springtime civilization with a whole bright future as opposed to being dragged into the cesspool of history by a dying and decadent civilization.

We do not live in a dictatorship, but the spirit and nature, as well as the long-term potential outcome of all this authoritarian conduct and political intolerance toward their opponents, cannot be thought to be anything less than a march toward the demise of freedom at the expense of human dignity and human flourishing. Undermining the freedom of some undermines the freedom of all and without freedom any notion of justice, equity, and basic human dignity is a sham.

The radical left in America today conduct constant authoritarian and reactionary disruptions of normal social life. They impose fantastical and experimental theories of alt-gendered social justice. They do all this at the expense of freewill and freedom of conscience and association. This is destroying the social fabric. This lays the groundwork for a right-wing reaction that will likely be even more authoritarian and popular, which is very dangerous to the cause of freedom.

It is too easy to see the left as the bad guys and assume the right are the good guys, or the other way, without being critical of their means and processes as to whether they are organic, natural, and emergent or whether they are imposed artificially, unnatural, and dictated from the top and center. No ends, whether social justice or social cohesion are the aims, justify the use of things like OBS and one-size-fits-all approaches, or Caesarism.

Devolution of political and economic power from the top and center to the people in their private lives, free associations, and local autonomous communities, is the only way to reclaim our entire civilization from the clutches of a depraved and corrupt ruling class who are dragging civilization into a cesspool.

How can we fight back?

We suggest the following steps:

1. Becoming truly informed by choosing the support a fair and honest people-centered free press operation, such as The Freedomist

2. Rebuilding the social fabric of our own lives through intentionally rekindling our friendships and marriage, our faith through active engagement in religious communities, our marriages and family, and deliberately rebuilding the structures of extended family and kinship communities

3. Finding personal gaps for freedom by learning laws and methods that grow you preparedness and material independency from the ruling class

4. Intentionally creating islands of freedom by means of things like mutual benefit societies, mutual benefit corporations, clustered living cohabitations, and virtual-to-local networks for larger scale mutual support

5. Transforming counties into freedom shires through creating a local free press, creating local freedom clubs for mutual support, creating a parallel town meeting system to hold officials accountable, gaining the majority support of voters through a Bill of Rights Pledge, and securing the creation of local ordinances in defense of the Bill of Rights

6. Working at the state and federal level to promote an agenda based on the devolution of economic and political power in favor of the people instead of monopoly corporations and the political class

7. Using a Constitutional convention if need be for restoring the sanctity of the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights to preserve our Union

These are the roadmarks we must reach on the path to creating a free and pluralistic society that is proof against the authoritarian overreach. This is a process and just as it took years to build the framework of authoritarianism, it will take time, intentionality, sacrifice, and hard work to roll back the advancing forces of totalitarianism in this land.

Calling Out Woke Communists and Weak GOP Leaders

Calling Out Woke Communists and Weak GOP Leaders

Bill Collier September 20, 2021 0
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Tom Klingenstein is a playwright, businessman, and academic whose true north has always been threefold: loving America, fighting for freedom, and upholding vital values and core institutions which are essential to an advanced civilization. His latest speech, found at tomklingenstein.com, is called “Winning The Cold Civil War” and is both a rallying call to those opossed to the totalitarianism stalking the halls of Congress and the White House and to GOP leadership who seem to not recognize the severity and intensity of the woke communist threat to our freedom.

Klingenstein states in the speech, “Winning a war requires two fundamental understandings. First, you must understand that you are, in fact, in a war. War time requires very different rhetoric, strategy and people than peace time. Trump is a wartime leader. Second, you must understand your enemy, what it wants and how it goes about getting what it wants. What our enemy wants is the destruction of the American way of life. It goes about it by trying to force everyone to say ‘America is systemically racist.’ If it can convince us of this falsehood, it will be well on its way to overturning the American way of life. Every time Joe Biden accuses America of being systemically racist, he is, though he doesn’t know it, calling for the overthrow of the American way of life.”

After detailing the true agenda of the woke communists and their tactics of delegitimizing America itself, Klingenstein focuses on the GOP’s role in fighting back, a role that Party has, in our estimation, abdicated.

“What should we do about all this? The essential thing, as I’ve tried to stress, is for Republicans to understand we are in a war and then act accordingly. War is not a time for too much civility, compromise, or for imputing good motives to the enemy. Our generals must fight as if the choice were between liberty and death. This is no time for sunshine patriots”, Klingenstein opined.

The effort to cancel America itself and replace it with woke communism, what we have called a new brand of communist totalitarianism that couples state and corporate power for authoritarian ends, has been barely acknowledged by the Republicans, who we often call a collaboration party for that reason.

May Tom’s rousing and intelligent call to action be seen by millions and embraced by all. Watch the speech and share it far and wide.

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Freedom For The Very Few: Why Smallness Liberates Us From Leviathan

Freedom For The Very Few: Why Smallness Liberates Us From Leviathan

Bill Collier September 6, 2021 0
Leviathan always emerges and always demands total power over everything and everyone. Smallness may be the key to liberation from Leviathan’s control!

Imagine we were able to somehow get 100 million Americans to slow down for just an hour or so to fully hear our message of building freedom. We would explain why we need a foundation of four core ideals and of virtue, liberty, and independence. We would perhaps gain 100,000 or less, perhaps only 50,000, actual freedom-building activists who availed themselves of the legal means by which to find and exploit real “gaps for freedom.”

Gaps for freedom include anything, from a legal structure like a fraternal benefit society to a mutual benefit corporation, to physical spaces like your own house or a self-sustaining intentional community, that allows you to escape from the influence or control of others whose ideas and agenda you don’t support. Through gaps for freedom a parallel system can be created that meets all your most basic needs while affirming, not violating, your dearly held beliefs, values and convictions as well as traditions and customs.

The unpleasant truth is that there is a critical point where those who have found gaps for freedom and who can experience independence from anything or anyone that they don’t want to be influenced or controlled by cannot be large enough in number to be seen as a potential threat to the existing ruling class. It is in smallness that what emerges as the seed-bearing genesis communities of a new civilization survive and thrive in a latter-stage civilization beset by the malady common to all dying civilizations, Caesarism. Too rapid an emergence, unless it become so massive it becomes too big to tackle, of rhese genesis communities earns the attention and wrath of the ruling class. They don’t much fancy any plurality, let alone majority, of the population being weened from dependency!

And so freedom-building parallel structures become possible mostly in the stages where a very small percentage of the population avail themselves of these methods for liberation.

The ruling class are the small body of usually less than 1 in 10,000 people who effectively control the lives of everyone else through enterprises, institutions, and positions of status within every sphere of civilized life. In the latter stages of a dying civilization, the ruling class themselves are controlled for the most part and in most instances by the ruling core, which may be as few as a thousand or less of the most powerful people.

This entire ruling class falls prey to hedonism, narcissism, and authoritarianism to try to fill the growing spiritual void in their lives. They destroy everything they touch. Culture now becomes the product of politics and an extension of the ruling class in their craven lust for more and more sadistic power over others.

The end of a civilization can be a long drawn-out affair that takes decades or centuries and in some cases it’s hard to see where an old civilization ends and a new one begins. The Byzantines are an example of a new civilization emerging somewhat peacefully within the debris of the old civilization, while Western Civilization emerged, eventually, from the debris of the Roman/Greek and the Germanic civilizations.

During the Caesarism era, freedom is prey and authoritarians are the hunter, always looking to plug in any gaps for freedom that will liberate people from their influence or control. Independence of culture and of material self-reliance becomes suspect and treasonous in their eyes. Whereas once the US Government urged people to stock up on vast supplies in case of doomsday, today the “Department of Homeland Security”, a neocon agency of authoritarianism, practically “preppers” to be “suspected domestic terrorists.”

Being too loud or reaching large enough numbers in terms of the percentage of the population, puts you in the cross hairs of the ruling class. Even if your movement is totally a-political and non-violent, your numbers will attract suspicion and eventually prescription by the ruling class. If the Amish ever become a “thing” adopted by more than, say, 3 million Americans, the ruling class will end all their effective carve-outs by which they generally operate free from external controls today.

For this reason, the popularity of a given gap for freedom will result in the ruling class seeking its closure and then persecuting those who were using that opening. This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it is observed over and over again throughout history. Only when an opening becomes too popular or when the small minority using it become too wealthy and powerful does the ruling class move to close it.

The ruling class want to rule and are driven by an almost orgiastic pleasure derived from knowing and observing their control over others. We all become furniture, tools, fixtures, commodities, and beasts of burden all focusing our energy and the fruits of our labor on their satisfaction. There is no benefit to society or common good, these are just slogans and propaganda lies meant to cause mass hallucinations that all is well when, in truth, the fabric of civilization is being torn apart and ruined.

At a certain point even the smallest and unnoticed minorities who properly exploit gaps for freedom become too powerful too soon and cannot be put down. This period between having such outsized power and being a vulnerable minority that could be easily swatted aside is the most critical time for the emergence of a new civilization. One suspects many potential new civilization movements die before they can flourish, being too weak and yet gaining the unwanted attention of the ruling class.

It is important in the early stages that any freedom-building movement fully realize its vulnerability and focus far less on trying to “bully” the ruling class into retreat and far more on gathering/building a movement as a community and on using gaps for freedom to help liberate its adherents from the influence and control of the ruling class. This notion that we must have an election, a specific cause, or a controversy to rally people is short-sighted and shallow. In fact, people too easily drawn in are too easily drawn away.

People must be drawn to building their own freedom and your movement must have blueprints they can use to do so unilaterally and autonomously in their own lives, relationships, and communities. The call from our perspective is a call to help sow the seeds and build the genesis, parallel, structures of a freedom civilization in our very own hearts, live, relationships, associations, and neighborhoods.

This movement, or at least its practitioners, must necessarily be relatively small in relation to the population, until its use of these gaps for freedom makes it so substantive and influential that any effort to suppress it would become too burdensome.

Smallness becomes the secret formula for neutralizing Leviathan. What he can’t “see” he cannot stalk and kill!

The fact that even if we reached 100 million Americans fewer than 100,000 would fully embrace and actualize our proposed gaps for freedom is a blessing in disguise. It means the ruling class have no concern over such an insignificant movement and that our efforts can proceed in peace and safety. But if 100,000 Americans adopted our proposed gaps for freedom, namely by starting with a new and intentional form of shared nationality, they would become the basis of an egalitarian “leadership core” for a much larger movement that would emerge suddenly and become too large to suppress.

The adoption of our proposed gaps for freedom, one major one being the “exploit” of an intentional “ethnicity” based on a globally-distributed spiritual nation whose God is the Lord, will almost inevitably and necessarily only include a small percentage of people. It is as if an ark of cultural and economic autonomy from a dying civilization was being built but only so many people could fit. For those who adopt the new approach, starting with this quite novel concept of intentional ethnicity based on ideals and not ancestry or race, there is the promise that no human power can prevent God from protecting the people of any nation, even a globally-distributed spiritual nation, from all harm.

While our heart is to save as many people as we can, we know this facet of the historical cycle and we know that, until our movement reaches a certain stage, very few people will enjoy the benefits of using our gaps for freedom. It may be most people reading these veru words will want freedom but won’t use our proposed gaps for freedom and will eventually suffer the consequences of being tied to the corpse of Western Civilization in its decline.

We should note, those who are most earnest about saving Western Civilization in its core Judeo-Christian spiritual, moral, and rational foundations are in fact sowing the seeds of a new civilization. This new civilization will emerge through the translation of a Kingdom Civilization mandate from each civilization in the forward evolution of human civilization according to God’s blueprint and design.

This becomes freedom for the very few. It’s not this way because it isn’t offered or accessible to all, it’s not because the few restrict or keep out the many, and it’s definitely not about the relative wealth of the very few who may actually start mostly less well-off than most of society. It is this way because very few will both be willing and able to comprehend and embrace the message and only a few of these will make the disciplined choices and sacrifices necessary to actualize such ideas.

However, at some point, the ruling class will either seek to close the gaps for freedom while suppressing those who used them or they will try to prevent more people to avail themselves of this while leaving the minority who did alone. What this means is that from the time we begin to build our gaps for freedom the clock begins a countdown wherein, eventually, in the natural process, only those few who have already availed themselves of this gap for freedom will be allowed to keep using it.

Many who refuse to countenance something as unusual and unorthodox as nationhood will, sadly, find that eventually this option will be unavailable to them even if they now want to embrace it. Once the “ark”, in our case a new form of nationhood with the genesis structures of a new civilization, is full, the door will close UNTIL the deluge of catastrophic and collapse destroys the old structures and deposed the ruling class. Those who today are free to learn about and adopt our nationhood and build its genesis structures in their lives, relationships, and neighborhoods, will find a time is coming where they won’t be free to do so.

This principle applies broadly as no doubt people other than us also have different gaps for freedom they are building and theirs too will eventually be “closed” by the ruling class to new people seeking those same gaps for freedom. The point is that, whatever gaps for freedom you find now that mostly agree with you, you should avail yourself of them before the option is closed to you because it MUST be. Being picky because it’s not your idea or because it might require some compromises or ceding of total individualism could see you outside the ark when the deluge comes.

People who are focused first on their own things and who cannot surrender an ounce of ownership or control, people who are too infected with the unhealthy, atomized individualism that makes everyone at once an island and yet a cog in a mega machine, will push back against things like shared ownership and corporation that doesn’t give them ownership and control. There is balance.

A true gap for freedom doesn’t require you to lose more personal autonomy than you already have, in fact it increases your own personal autonomy. A true gap for freedom merely shifts some of the areas of your life that depend on the ruling class to a community of people who choose freely to participate in, while releasing more areas to your total individual control than you enjoy now.

If someone buys shares in a mutual benefit corporation equivalent to “onwing” a house, they my not own their individual house directly, but, through their mutual benefit corporation, they have far more control over its use, who their neighbors are, and what values will govern their use of the land and common facilities. In this case, what looks like a retreat from directly owning to indirectly owning the building where you live, becomes a gap for freedom by which you actually gain more real control over the land and environment where you live.

Gaps for freedom is not always convenient and what makes sense from a regulatory and legal perspective is rarely ever how regulations and laws are written. The goal is control, not the common good or safety or anything claimed. The fair housing laws may seem directed at preventing discrimination in housing but they codify the atomization of the individual into bite-sized individual residences alone and destroy the ability of kinship groups from clustering together, as is natural and necessary if you want to nurture family and community as alternatives to the coercion of the state.

Finding a gap for freedom that works around this WITHOUT promoting discrimination in housing is essential if, like us, you see the revival of extended kinship groups clustered together as in days of old as an essential alternative to state coercion and corporate control. The combination of a land trust, mutual benefit housing, fraternal benefit societies, clubs, real estate investment funds, property management corporations, and other legal structures is necessary to get to a place where a private but open, free, and diverse community development can both nurture these kinds of extended kinship groups and yet also provide fair housing without discrimination to the public.

This is just an exmaple. For every area where you want more control your choices are usually things you can do as a lone individual and things that require the freewill participation of others in some form. And for all these you will have to both be creative in finding viable gaps for freedom, such as legal structures, and be ever mindful that your time in which to exploit that gap for freedom may be limited.

To return to our theme: relatively few people will avail themselves of such gaps for freedom because they are seemingly unorthodox and not “convenient” to people whose lives are based on dependency. The fact of this smallness is, however, the greatest stealth protection of those using such gaps for freedom. Smallness is our best and only defense against a ravenous Leviathan.

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

Mark Clouse August 30, 2021 0

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

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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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Breaking the Eternal Power of Words

Breaking the Eternal Power of Words

Freedomist Editor August 12, 2021 0
The factitious power of words….
The factitious is the percieved crafted, human-made (though nature produces facticiousness in and of itself as well).
The factitious is the illusion of certain knowing, high craft of material or thought that creates a magical barrier between the roots of its craft and your capacity to see these roots.
Without the perception of the cogs behind the veneer, the veneer becomes an eternality that takes us out of our own path of knowing outside the frames of what the world around us coercively works to have us believe. to presuppose without even being aware of the fundamental existentially defining decisions about the nature of self and material that have been made by the frames of potential being we were born into.
These frames of being are overwhelmingly the result of strategic coercive action targeting certain key demographics of thought and physicality, with the goal of preserving and/or extending the base of power for select individuals competing with the resources that hundreds of millions of humans can provide to the victors.
Throughout history, these frames have been built to harvest from tens, then thousands, then hundred thousands, then millions. At this point, we are building frames that are intended to capture billions in similar potential ranges of action with particular limitations on the potential for direct apex existential pursuit (the pursuit of being the is, was, and always will be of perceived peak existentiality as perceived by an audience of non-selves.
Overwhelmingly, it is the words that reflect the reality of power, not just in what is said but in what is not allowed to be said.
Breaking the factictious mezmerization still is a goal of mine, but to do it withoutb breaking the utility of shared semantic frames.
Paul Gordon Collier
Elections And The Other Party Are Rarely The Answer

Elections And The Other Party Are Rarely The Answer

Bill Collier August 12, 2021 0

If conservatives crave freedom and order with a nod to traditional moral norms, liberals crave justice and equality with a nod to future progress and societal evolution. But whenever either side wins an election victory and their party gains power, the promises that motivated their vote fail to materialize.

Beyond lip service and using those promises as a blanket to cover other things, the politicos dance to the tune played by the uber rich ruling class. We can see now how the Democrats in claiming to be champions of things like justice, equality, and societal progress are mostly just delivering more government control and more crony kickbacks to their corporate masters. When in 2016 the shoe was on the other foot, Republicans delivered more government control and crony kickbacks to their corporate masters while soundbiting all about freedom and order and preserving our traditiona and values.

What we call “upadarianism” is no synthesis of conservative and liberal ideologies as such, but it does seek to address and advance many of the aspirational desires and valid concerns associated with these two main camps. On one hand conservatives may deny the lack of justice and equality some demographics suffer in this country. On the other hand liberals tend to be all too willing to sacrifice freedom for all in order to rectify the injustice suffered by some. Conservatives sometimes recoil at the ideas of progress and societal evolution and see change itself as bad while liberals seem to regard everything from the past as inherently suspect and even execrable in a really irrational manner.

The upadarian ideology, if we have to even use the word “ideology”, is really an ideational framework of ideals, principles, and practices which lead to good governance and a positive and forward-looking lifestyle. It is not rooted in or confined by the ideological straitjackets of left or right. The goal is to apply both God’s standards of righteousness in the form of freewill participation between people who consent thereto and God’s standards of justice to ensure a pluralistic, free, equitable, and prosperous society that nurtures every person without favor or prejudice.

If we desire anything for civilization it is to ensure a free and pluralistic society of equals who enjoy freedom and who may all prosper in peace and happiness through their own individual choices in terms of their own actions and the forms of freewill participation they desire to engage in.

What marks upadarianism as unique in many regards is that most of its “program” is entirely voluntary and can be carried out through freewill participatory associations of some kind and yet government, which includes the magisterial authority, is not necessarily seen as a “necessary evil” but a potential positive good. We challenge and deny the notion the 17th century concept of nation-state defines what the magisterial authority could be, but we see the magisterial authority as essentially good and beneficial when it is governed by the right ideals.

Upadarianism is based on a Judeo-Christian understanding and balanced, holistic application of the four core ideals of what we consider the next advancement in the form of a new civilization. These ideals include Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. They form the initials UPDR, hence “UPaDaRianism.”

Without getting too deep in their meaning, these ideals resonate with the inner harmony of a civilizational framework that nurtures and values every person and encourages the development and exercise of their spiritual sovereignty as individuals so that each can find and follow God’s best for their lives without artificial limits.

Unlike “ideologies”, upadarianism, sometimes spelled UPDRism, has its starting point and primary focus on individuals and freewill participatory associations of free people pursuing and actualizing its ideals, principles, and practices unilaterally and voluntarily. Upadarianism isn’t about shaping the broader society to suit our beliefs, values, and convictions. It is about shaping a legal and civil ecosystem that simply allows people who desire to use this lifestyle and governance self-disciplinary philosophy and way of life to its maximum effect without undue external interference or artificial limits.

The inner harmony between left and right appears as we get to the root of the rank and file person’s true motivations and realize both want things that are actually positive overall for society. Where these desires become a trap and an excuse to enhance the ruling class at everyone else’s expense is when they become slogans without meaning and justification for vilification and for making government more powerful at the expense of both freedom and justice.

The common thread of corruption of the more pure and noble ideas of left and right is that they depend on electoral victories and a return to power of the other party, the one not in power but who will allegedly save them from the party on power. Even for those who tactically vote against a party to forestall the agenda of the party in power, there is a sense emerging among a very few that this isn’t really forestalling the limitations on freedom nor advancing justice and equity.

Few liberals or conservatives are willing to find common ground on the basis of freedom with mutual respect for human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing as something all sides can uphold. The divide between them is perpetuated and advanced substantially through partisanship to an absurd degree wherein whatever gives electoral advantages to their party is good and anything that might hurt their chances is bad. The good of the party becomes synonymous in a subtle but insidious way with their alleged ideals and aspirations.

While we tend to think Republicans generally support less overt ways to deny or limit freedom, and we beleive freedom is essential to everything else, we also tend to think Democrats at least give some lip service to issues of injustice and inequity and are more open to societal advances that should not necessarily be limited by tradition when those traditions are no relevant or useful.

The problem regarding Democrats today is that they have become the party of imposition and intolerance toward others. Having captured most institutions in this land, they flex their power and, like bad Calvanists, assume the universe favors them simply because they have the power and wealth their opponents lack. Far beyond simply wanting justice and equity, Democrats are moving into some sort of authoritarian-imposed “new humanity” that tears up all tradition and burns down old institutions such as faith and family out of a preternatural aversion to everything from the past.

Many liberals who simply want justice and equality for all persons have been seduced into believing that the path toward authoritarianism and imposing new norms that burn down all the ancient institutions and values is the only path to progress. Arrogance, hubris, hatred, and increasing violence are the new norms on the left, their ideas about justice and equity having become a disingenuous pretext for raw ambitions aimed at monopoly power forever.

We can and do cite the violent and irrational anger on the right, so notoriously on display when the Capitol was stormed by a mob seeking literary to overthrow the government, but this has yet to become a systematic as the violence from the left. Moreover, while most on the right tend to condemn violence and while every institution seeks to shun and shame rightwing violence, this isn’t true for the left. The violence of the left is nurtured by top Democrats and every institution in this land supports it, or at least justifies it, openly.

All this leads people who desire freedom, who may not fit the mold of a conservative, thinking any vote against a Democrat is a good thing because, today, Democrats have become totalitarian, anti-freedom, and violent in their approach to re-creating society as an alt-gendered, atomized, and undifferentiated mass of cogs in their Party machine.

Republicans have betrayed their claims to be for freedom and they continue to treat the poor and disadvantaged as if societal and structural bias is not at all to blame.

Anyone who both loves freedom and desires justice will find Democrats violently opposed to freedom in its real activation but giving lip service to justice and Republicans betraying freedom and most vehemently, if not yet violently in the main, opposed to justice and equity as they blame the victims for their plight.

We do not ask government to implement our program of peaceful and non-violent, unilateral “revolution within”, by which we desire to build among ourselves a sociocultural and socioeconomic alternative structure that allows us to live free and experience equitable justice without favor or prejudice.

We are not relying on “government” and party victories to implement our program, it is something average people must be able to freely pursue and to inhibit this pursuit is itself a tort against society itself, a crime against humanity.

We are not finding things people want or that are trending and then using this to capture and audience. Honestly, that has its place in marketing and persuasion. But it has no place in this effort. We are focusing on a sacred blueprint for human civilization which one may follow through freewill participation and which cannot be imposed by humans over other humans.

Our agenda is NOT to reshape this society according to our best understanding of God’s sacred blueprints but, rather, to be free to explore and actualize those blueprints unilaterally and on a purely freewill basis.

For instance, rather than imposing our will or trying to get other national peoples to be like us, we are working to unilaterally build the genesis structures of a new civilization and its vanguard people, the Upadarian spiritual nation, without seeking to change anything or anyone that doesn’t desire to participate in our freedom-building, nation-building, and civilization-building efforts. Quite simply, to SHOW the world what a nation whose God is the Lord looks like and how its participants act toward one another and the world at large, we are unilaterally creating that new nation on a spiritual as opposed to a political basis.

Likewise, our agenda and program doesn’t follow trends or fads or even things people feel they need or want. Our focus is on discovering and then actualizing a sacred and eternal blueprint which we have a right to implement among ourselves and which no human being or earthly authority has any jurisdiction over.

If we love one another and do not lie, steal, murder, or commit adultery, for instance, there is not law against us in God’s eyes. And if it be not unlawful before God it cannot justly be proscribed by human beings without our informed consent and through freewill participation alone.

For too many on the right and left this isn’t good enough. Not only must they be able to live out and express their beliefs, values, and convictions but the rest of society must bow to these things and participate wholeheartedly to affirm their fragile egos and uplift their choices as if those choices are the only right or just choices one can make. Everything is so “connected”, or “intersectional”, as they say, that your own choices and your own free associations with others must also conform to the “orthodoxy” of the hour or somehow it hurts everyone else who doesn’t like your choices.

(There IS a certain intersectionality often overlooked, a sort of multidimensional and multifaceted matrix of causality and effect that does make many aspects of life at every level interdependent of everything else. But these meshed and highly centralized ecosystems are not necessarily natural and much of the interdependence is forced and contrived. The inherent shared right of private bodies of peopme to unilaterally create autonomous sociocultural and socioeconomic ecosystems that are connected to a broader pluralistic framework should never be questioned by any advanced civilization and yet this is precisely what many who abuse the term “intersectional” are guilty of.)

The answer is unilateral actions by free people as individuals and as freewill participatory associations of people who work toward a common goal. The tendency to wait for the next election in the cause of either freedom or justice only gives more power to politicians who harness those good intentions for their own self-aggrandizement, all while limiting freedom and perpetrating more injustice. Political or civic activism is not off the table, but it cannot remain or become the primary thing, it must be directed mostly at protecting our rights to unilaterally pursue our freedom and justice program through freewill participation and by winning support in a purely consensual manner.

If your vision for society requires more than protecting your rights to pursue this vision through freewill participation alone then your core ideology is actually totalitarian in its spirit. If others must be made to conform and participate in your norms, in their private life and associations, then your ideas are perfectly and utterly useless to humanity.

The war to win freedom so we can pursue things like justice and equity to unilaterally build our own civilizational ecosystem among ourselves that is positive and beneficial to all and that doesn’t require any forced participation, will take many forms and require a multiplicity of tactics in many arenas at many levels. There is no magic elixir to cure us of the ills of an authoritarianism that is infecting every institution in this land.

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