Liberty is Born from Your Physiological Reality of Power, Not Ideals or Votes

Paul Collier September 30, 2021

I wish I could smack this guy in the mouth and tell him to stop looking at the glittering prize. I am talking to the guy who made a meme 8 years ago attacking the DNC flagbearer of the time, the then-President Barack Hussein Obama. That guy was me.

If I could go back in time even further, to, say, 16-year old self, I’d tell 16-year old self to read scriptures, over and over and over and over, read histories, prehistories, world histories, over and over and over, read major world religions and their major texts, over and over and over and over. Read major world philosophies, even if mostly surveyed collections, over and over and over and over.

Tell them it will take 10-15 years to get to the point where you can begin to get close to the palimpsest of where you are and the real circumstance of your potential for existential fulfilment within the reality of power you found yourself born and ‘raised’ into.

I would never have even bothered with politics at all if I had done all this from the ages of 16 to 30.

Instead, I am 53 and still far away from achieving what I wish I had achieved in those years (and certainly could have if I had attached significant need to accomplishing the task).

I am maybe 3 or almost 4 years into working to get a disciplined understanding of these sources of understanding, and have maybe 5-8 more years ahead, God willing, to get to the point where I can synthesize these various sources of understanding. But I am already fundamentally altered by this experiment.

My ‘political’ orthodoxy is outside the frames of the major orthodoxies of current year.

Pragmatically, within the reality of power that I find myself born into, I am an Americanist (my term), one who holds to the fundamental necessity of a coercive enterprise governance system to have standards of limitations on the ‘right’ of power advantaged agents to impede the rights of others.

We Americans, we who were born such or became such, already ostensibly have such a model in our Constitution, specifically grounded in the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.

Within that parameter, a whole host of variable expressions of political governance can emerge, and a wide range of options on taxation, foreign policy, etc. can complete for consensually earned validation in an actual Democratic process intended to elect representatives in a Republican model of legislative, executive, and judicial governance.

The Bill of Rights Standards should be applied in the market, the state, and the social squares, with the totality of rights in conflict considered when coming to what should be rolling conclusions, not binding ones, in areas in which the issues are never going to be clear.

This position is pragmatic because it is not one that I ultimately believe is ‘necessary’ or ‘the only way’ for humans to experience something approaching an open opportunity for consensual exchange with their neighbors, the world that I presume would most afford me the best opportunity to approach living a life of my choosing.

Perhaps, for instance, we could create a more perfect Bill of Rights, with more perfect language that leaves less semantic loopholes for the powers that be to exploit. Perhaps.

But the Bill of Rights, I support, is a construct, an ideal, an assumed American privilege that is understood at deeply profound ‘unconscious’ levels of being for almost all Americans, regardless of born here or moved here, regardless of race or religion, regardless of economic status, regardless of sexual preference, that we have “RIGHTS” that the government cannot fundamentally violate, even if the majority of people want it to, even if it has all the power to do it with or without our consent.

Perhaps, if and when America re-stabilized, we can talk about tweaking our Constitution to more ‘perfectly’ assure the least of us is not coerced by the most of us to submit or be cut off from access to consensual value exchange with your neighbors (up to and including complete cessation of self altogether, death). Until then, what we have is what we have, as far as forming a resistance to the factions of today.

The broadest coalition in America today is sleeping, unaware of itself, I theorize, and that coalition is a Bill of Rights centered coalition, committed to settling ‘differences’ that exist between the grey space of competing rights in ways that allow for the continued consideration of such unsure issues. This coalition is Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, and more, and, I theorize, represents perhaps 70 percent of this country.

This coalition will never form around the DNC or the GOP, or even the Libertarians. It cannot form around a charismatic billionaire with money to burn. It has to emerge, I believe, from the grassroots up, as local parties with local names united only broadly with other Bill-of-Rights focused parties. At the local level, there is tremendous opportunity to change the circumstance of your neighbors just by enforcing the Bill of Rights standards in all aspects of living, within the parameters I described above.

This is, as I’ve said, a pragmatic position, but as close as I get to a political position. Ultimately, unless and until we experience the conditions that allow for the pragmatic necessity of consensual exchange, we will never be fundamentally consensual value exchange centered. Where the reality of power necessitates consensual exchange, that’s mostly where consensual exchange occurs.

I ultimately advocate for free associations to build their own communities, focused on creating opportunities for community sustainability and thriving that does not rely on exchanges with large-scale, coerce-governed structures, be it governments or corporations. There are a number of possible paths to get to the types of communities I am describing, but they all mostly involve

creating physical space where humans find self-serving thriving necessity to share with their neighbors while still occupying space that is secured in their holding,
developing and exploiting technologies that enable small scale production to produce large-scale quality and cost,
creating physical space that offers defensive advantage to the inhabitants,0
facilitating self-and-associative defensive training and tools access opportunities,
creating a unity standard of limitations of power (such as a bill of rights) that is consensually agreed to by all willing participants.

Within these parameters, there are a variety of community types that could experimentally be created, to rise and fall on the on-the-ground opportunities and impediments the standards lived out actually create.

I believe this is already happening, the building of communities to escape the new normal (or at least the threat of the new normal, which is still not yet a done deal).

Whether these communities will be built with my parameters in mind or not, well, I am pressing x to doubt, as the kids say, on that one. In magic bunny land, a place where I have all the resources I need to do whatever I want, I am already building a small town for about 2,000 people that live on an area of roughly 100 acres and inviting people to take part in my experiment, free of charge.

Outside of magic bunny land, if you’re not already thinking about the potential pragmatic usefulness of perhaps becoming a part of one of these groups (many of which already exist, and many more that are sure to emerge), you might already be behind the 8-ball, unless you truly are one of the few that will actually experience greater ‘freedom’ in the new normal, such as that would actually turn out to be.

History is littered with the rise and fall of Kings and Emperors, of Philosophies and Religions, all of which eventually serve the interest of the few over the many. Where Kings restrain their power is where they perceive the cost of exerting their power will be of little reward or too high a risk. Suddenly, Kings become Presidents and Constitutions are formed, where the reality of power is significantly enough diffused, at the physiological level, providing for self-defense and sustainability without need of reliance on the products and services offered by the few for the many.

America was born from her physiological reality, peopled remotely by necessarily self-sustaining people living in extended family structures that were connected profoundly, by necessity, to their neighbors. The Constitution is the realization by the few, the ones who created the moral cover that allowed them to not face the naked restriction on the power they actually held, of the limitations of their abilities to coercively press their will on the people throughout the counties of the 13 colonies.

Thank God for that.

Whatever the reason, we are the fortunate beneficiaries of the type of space this Constitution created, even still, and if we, as a people, across our divides, can claim our unearned but fortuitous heritage, our Bills of Rights as the ultimate authority in the land, then the tyrants of the left, the right, and the center will all be rendered impotent before the power of the true people of the land.

The true people of these lands are ALL Americans, black, white, red, yellow, gay, straight, transgendered, atheist, Muslim, Christian, Spaghetitarian, Dallas Cowboys fan, etc, etc, who hold the Bill of Rights standards as their rights and also the fundamental rights of others. We are legion and we cross all lines. We are America.

Even for those who are not legal citizens, if you come to appreciate and accept our Bill of Rights standards, you too can become an American, for America is ultimately an ideal that restrains power only so long as the people have the power to assume their authority when the state or the market seeks to violate these standards.

We are not a race or a gender, we are humans and humans alone, committed to the bills of rights of our neighbors as much as for ourselves, for if their rights fall, soon ours do as well.

It’s time for those who can to help those who will build these communities where the Bill of Rights makes good neighbors of Muslims and Christians, of Democrats and Republicans, and even people like me, who’d like to see the whole coercive governance model end altogether. This is the next step in our fight against tyranny, this and for those willing to engage in the political, to create local parties loosely affiliate with national Bill of Rights associations, aimed fundamentally at Bill of Rights auditing of the powers of the localities and creating remedies where violations are discovered.

The two would work well together in giving two very differently oriented types of folks to work against the tyranny we now find ourselves under, with further tyranny to come. Successful communities can help fund local parties and local parties can provide refugee pipelines to people who want to join in the community experiments already being built.

Ultimately, the solution is not, in my view, political, it is more physiological. Create the space that necessitates liberty, like America inadvertently was when the Bill of Rights was formed. Create the necessity for consensuality through the reality of physiological power rather than seeking political and ideological ‘solutions’ to ‘injustices’ that most everyone in current year is turning to for hope.

My current survey of human thought (philosophy, religion, etc) and interaction (history) has led me to the conclusion that liberty is not won with ideas, but rather ideas form to justify acceptance of a diminishment of power as a result of physiological reality.

All of everything we do within the structures fundamentally reliant on assets controlled by the few is intended to produce the capacity to be more lethal than our neighbors while providing a high standard of living for the few that control the many. The systems are designed to limit competition for the thrones.

The more we rely on their assets, the more controlling they will become. The less we rely on their assets, the more concepts like liberty will be allowed to gain mainstream access. Liberty as a public construct is a cope, and the copers are the ones with the most power who find it difficult to face the reality of their own limited power.

Where pop culture is pro liberty, the few recognize their limitations of power. Where pop culture rejects liberty, the few imagine they can now increase their power, limiting even more competition than before.

America is dependent on the very, very, very, very, few for assets that meet basic physiological needs. So long as that physiological reality exists, no amount of votes or protests will move the needle towards liberty and away from control.

Create opportunities for physiological self-and-associate sustainability and the powers that be will suddenly find liberty Jesus and regroup for their next attempt at consolidating power and eliminating competition once and for all. Fail to do so, and there is no stopping what tyrannies are sure to come that America has not seen since the Civil War.

Eight years ago, I pinned my hope on the GOP. Since then, I’ve learned the reality of power, and it lies in real physiological opportunities, not parties. It lies in local and individual sustainability and thriving, not dependence on the assets of the most powerful few, and it’s what we would do well to focus more and more of our own assets on developing, physiological realities of power for liberty to be necessary, even for the most powerful in the land.

Nano-Inks Could Write Your Next Smart Phone, Let’s Hope It’s Open-Sourced

Paul Collier September 28, 2021

A Tech Researcher named Parisa Pour Shahid Saeed Abadi has set the 3D Printing world on fire with a research paper that shows early development of 3D printing using polymer nanocomposites which can also serve as electric currents, opening up the door to potential near-future printing of whole electric devices which might someday include a smart phone.

We’re a long way from getting to that point, but this discovery could potentially be a significant step towards that reality. Whatever methodologies these reseachers utilized, whatever resources they required, open source researchers are most likely, or should be, doing the same to assure the discoveries of today don’t become the shackles of tomorrow in the hands of the monopolistic few corporations that have the capacity, at this moment, to develop such tech that might be one day used in homes, most likely as a subscription service on machines that the resident user doesn’t actually own.

Imagine a world where a small nation can fend off the mightiest nation’s missiles and planes with wave upon wave of drones delivered through 3D Nano-Ink Printing. Holding or taking land will require an army of 3D printers, so if you wish to remain free, you best hope 3D printers become an open source part of our life in the very near future.

3D Nano-Inks Push Industry Boundaries – Eurasia Review – Eurasia Review

From www.eurasiareview.com
2021-09-27 00:09:25

Excerpt:

….3D printing using plastic, metal or something else entirely isn’t new. What Tech researchers have done differently is use polymer nanocomposites (made of epoxy, carbon nanotubes and nano-clay) and a printing process that doesn’t sacrifice functionality. The junction of material type and morphology — size, shape, structure — in polymer nanocomposite inks is the ultimate in form meeting function.

The exploration of process, morphology and properties of polymeric inks is the subject of an article recently published in the journal Additive Manufacturing by Parisa Pour Shahid Saeed Abadi, an engineer who explores the interface of materials, mechanics and medicine, and graduate student Masoud Kasraie.

Abadi and Kasraie point out that before researchers can sprint off to the races using polymeric inks, they must first learn to walk. The first step is digging into the intersection of the macro scale (how our eyes see a material performing) and the nano scale (what we can’t see, but know is occurring).

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The conductivity of Abadi and Kasraie’s nanomaterial ink is an exceptionally handy trait that gives the printed epoxy the potential to double as electrical wiring — whether in a circuit board, an airplane’s wing or in 3D-printed actuators for guiding catheters in blood vessels. Another useful trait of the nanocomposite polymer ink is its strength.

“In comparison with steel and aluminum, we see 80% weight reduction with epoxy composite with same strength,” Kasraie said.

Finally, in the medical field and aerospace and electronics industries, where defects and damage can spell big trouble, the nanocomposites serve a safety function.

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Farmers Are Dying Out as Our Dependence on Corporate Microwavables Grows

Freedomist Editor September 28, 2021

There is a price to be paid for time, and sometimes that price is paid in what we sacrifice for expediency when it comes to food. The ramifications of our preferential actions may not be readily appreciated until you consider what is happening to the people that grow and raise the building blocks of all these reductions of food prepping time that our processed foods offer us in current year (which happens to be 2021 as of the writing of this article).

As we get further and further away from the farmer and our mouth, the farmer’s value receeived for the work done has been steadily going down, with various farming markets seeing decreases in value between 16 and 38 percent. Across the world, wherever people settle into suburbs, wherever suburbs emerge, soon processed food follows, and the farmer’s value is reduced, and the steps between the grown and raised food and reaching your mouth multiply so that the food you eat today after heating it up in the microwave will have parts from perhaps multiple parts of the world shipping their raw food materials to be processed in one placed, packaged in another, and shippped in many others, until it reaches your door.

I’m of course being a bit tongue in cheek when I use suburbs as the proverbial canary in the coalmine of farming, it’s far more of a comple story than that, but there is some measure of truth to what I say.

The truth is, the time we give to convenience is rarely without cost. Is the loss of the local farmer, of being your own local farmer, a cost worth paying for the convenience of existing more and more on microwabable food way past our college days?

The reliance on large-scale, highly centralized structures to deliver us our daily bread has been exposed in this age of Covid, with numerous shortages having been reported, and still being reported, in various places at various times throughout the world. Our ability to grow through hydroponics, aquaponics, converting lawns to gardens, urban gardening, has never been more fecund with possibility to meet the unique circumstances of most humans in most places, from the inner city to the frozen tundras of Wisconsin, there is a way to create local, even household, sustainability in our neccessary food resources that will cost us less economically, but will ask of us our time, time we can make events, not work, that whole families and communities can participate in.

It’s only a matter of time that the frozen franks company requires you to scan your id to assure you’re not on any naughty lists that would prevent them from sellling to you, so grow your food now, and help others to do the same, and buy from local farms like so many of us are already doing, My family as well is shifting our purchases and preparing our land to grow having gone through two experimental seasons with, well, not great results, but great leasons learned. We are buying more meats and greens from local markets and farms, cooking more foods from scratch, attempting to eliminate the steps between the grown and raised and our mouths.

This isn’t a purist approach, we also still eat plenty of processed foods, though, hopefully, as we learn to grow more efficiently we can prepare our own ‘processed foods’ for convenient consumption, which is possible thanks to canning and freeze drying.

Save a farmer, eat a salad from a farmer’s market.

Farmers get smaller share of what we pay for food

From www.futurity.org
2021-09-27 14:11:51
Ida Eriksen-U. Copenhagen
Excerpt:

Farmers are getting less of what we pay for food, research from 61 countries around the world finds.

The new study in Nature Food examines how much of what consumers pay for food goes to farmers around the world, compared to the rest of the food value chain (FVC), which includes processing, packaging, transportation, and supermarket or restaurant sales beyond the farm gate.

The researchers estimate that up to 85% of the value of a food is created after a product leaves the farm.

“We can see that the farmer’s share of the food value chain in high- and middle-income countries on average has shrunk between 16 and 38% in the years between 2005 and 2015 as countries become wealthier,” explains Eva-Marie Meemken, an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen’s department of food and resource economics and a coauthor of the study…..

Today, farmers receive on average 27% of the total consumer price for a food product, which means that the largest part of the share goes to processes after the farmer has let go of the product.

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DC Effort to Make Coronavirus Tests Free Fails Spectactularly, Here’s How

Parker Davis September 28, 2021

Congress passed a law to cover the cost of coronavirus testing for Americans by saddling insurance companies with the responsibility of paying for the tests themselves. The cost of the test would be determined by the cash value of whatever the onlie cost of the tests were by the provider they were contracting to administer the tests. The result has been a 25 percent increase in the cost of coronavirus tests from last year to this year, 2021.

The next shoe to drop will be the rise in insurance premiums as insurance companies pass on the cost of government’s promise to the very people the government was allegedly serving. To be fair, there will be a significant segment of society that will get access to this, as of right now, essential service for whom free access could be argued to be necessary, but we need not profoundly affect an essential market so signfiicantly with these simplistic solutions to short term problems to meet the needs of those who truly need it.

I won’t offer a solution in this moment, but there are many that don’t involve solutions that turn out to be no solution for the vast majority of people the government promised would get free testing, only to pay for it in the long run after all. That’s not actually a solution at all, is it? I can easily compete with ‘not a solution,’ and I bet many of our readers can as well.

Covid Rapid Test Prices: How a Law Allows Labs to Charge Any Price

From www.nytimes.com
2021-09-26 09:00:14

Excerpt:

At the drugstore, a rapid Covid test usually costs less than $20.

Across the country, over a dozen testing sites owned by the start-up company GS Labs regularly bill $380.

There’s a reason they can. When Congress tried to ensure that Americans wouldn’t have to pay for coronavirus testing, it required insurers to pay certain laboratories whatever “cash price” they listed online for the tests, with no limit on what that might be.

GS Labs’s high prices and growing presence — it has performed a half-million rapid tests since the pandemic’s start, and still runs thousands daily — show how the government’s longstanding reluctance to play a role in health prices has hampered its attempt to protect consumers. As a result, Americans could ultimately pay some of the cost of expensive coronavirus tests in the form of higher insurance premiums.

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Neural Networks Are Making You Who You Are, Here’s How to Fight it

Freedomist Editor September 28, 2021

The world around you is driven more and more by the spooky decisicions made by artificial neural networks executing various machine learning methods, including neural networks, networks of semi-independent ai programs solving particular problems and submitting data to a higher structure where the final decisions are made.

Neural networks, deep learning machines attempting to collectively mimic a human mind, or, rather, in scale, human minds, in the billions, at this point, are making more and more decisions that are becoming the very words an emotional expressions of human beings on network news networks and superhero movies.

Neural networks are honing their craft in parsing out bad data as efficienctly as possible, the words, ideas, people, that are not othodox according to the code embedded into the horde of machines playing at being human at being God.

This is the sci-fi reality we now find ourselves immirsed in, this is why I chose to feature a market report that projects continued major growth in the sale of neural networks to more and more nations, departments of nations, parties of nations, corporations, departments of corporations, helping to perfect the consumption of the desired diet and assuring no impurities pollute the pure meal promised by these same machines through the mouths of humans.

Neural networks are not a problem in and of themselves. The exclusivitty of these tools to those who are already in significant power advantage is more troubling. The creation of methods and machines that are controlled by strict Intellectual Property laws serves to the advantage of those already advantages, but this need not be the case.

Even as I write, there are tech nerds in garages and greenhouses and basments and bedrooms doing their own work to develop their own open source neural network machines, which offer people from the city to the most remote region access to the best minds in the world for council in how to meet a need. Neural networks that are not given authority to filter, but merely council, networks not focused on stopping thought but any number of potential non-coercive uses of such powerful, cognitive-enhancing tool enabling a person with an IQ of 100 to be able to deal favorably with a person of an IQ of 140, with the help of their ai buddy, in whatever manifestation this network of thought is to take in the near future to come.

That future, my friends, can be choked in the monopolies of the now who have the resources to develop these tools before grass roots independents can build their own (and that time is soon upon us) and free their knowledge in the open source world so that others can build their own local centers of intellectual super power.

This is the hope of the Freedomist, that open-source, small scale solutions to technological need and want can at least compete with what the corporate monopolies are offering and are soon to offer as well. Keep tech free, don’t bound Prometheus on the rock to have his liver torn out again.

From WGU.edu

What is a neural network?

In the simplest terms, an artificial neural network (ANN) is an example of machine learning that takes information, and helps the computer generate an output based on their knowledge and examples. Machines utilize neural networks and algorithms to help them adapt and learn without having to be reprogrammed. Neural networks are mimics of the human brain, where each neuron or node is responsible for solving a small part of the problem. They pass on what they know and have learned to the other neurons in the network, until the interconnected nodes are able to solve the problem and give an output. Trial and error are a huge part of neural networks and are key in helping the nodes learn. Neural networks are different from computational statistical models because they can learn from new information—computational machine learning is also designed to make accurate predictions, while statistical models are designed to learn about the relationship between variables.

In simple terms, neural networks are fairly easy to understand because they function like the human brain. There is an information input, the information flows between interconnected neurons or nodes inside the network through deep hidden layers and uses algorithms to learn about them, and then the solution is put in an output neuron layer, giving the final prediction or determination.

10 States Now Challenge Social Media’s “Right” to Censor Speech

Paul Collier September 27, 2021

Republican States now numbering 10 in total are seeking redress from the courts to check the power of social media platforms to censor Americans for political reasons. This move is just one of many moves that have been made ever since Twitter censored Donald J Trump while he was President and banned him while he was still President as well. That was the canary in the coal mine for the political class, in general, around the world. But how have we gotten to this point and what is next to come?

Before Twitter decided to censor the tweets of an American President, nation-states around the world were beginning to question the soundness of allowing a public discourse digital platform to dominate your nation-state that is managed by individuals willing to use that platform to enforce their particular political, moral, and ethical beliefs, meaning citizens in nation-states around the world were having their thoughts regulated more by billionaires in silicon valley and Beijing than by their own state governments.

For the most part, though, Twitter began to cooperate with states, having in part initially built its reputation on being a source for revolutions with the #iranelection revolution of 2009. By 2016, Twitter was no longer the source for information sharing for any group at fundamental odds with the state authority of their land. Here in America, the authority is more from the corporation than the state, though its power is ultimarely derived from the state willing to protect its assets after it violates the bills of rights of its customers.

Twitter reflected the values of the ruling authorities.

But that changed when Twitter began to interfere in an election, choosing not only to target people who fell outside the orthodoxy of the state, but of a particular political party. Twitter became the moral authoritarian of the DNC, willing to even target an American President for censorship in an effort to protect the DNC from a political election loss. At the moment that the first tweet by an American President was censored, all the other wanna-be rulers of the world began to see Twitter not only as a cultural adversary, but now, a state political one. Twitter was, and still is, positioning itself to be the kingmaker throughout the world.

For all the small nation-states, especially, this moment must have seemed even more chilling. After all, if Twitter could censor the American President without consequence, what would protect them from being the victim of Twitter’s international political opinions. Twitter is de facto colonizing the world, through force, to become their Silicon Valley and Beijing (there’s plenty of overlap between these two, though some notable differences) cultures if they want to stay in power at all.

The effect is that many small nation-statees especially havee begun to move to rid itself of the need of Twitter by building state-sponsored digitial public discourse platforms of their own.

That was the international effect of Twitter’s possibly treasonous actions (using their market power to subvert an American election by censoring the government itself), but domesticallly, many governments at the local to state level also received this message as a chilling grab for political power by the billionaires of silicon vallley, who were attempting, and still are, to make themselves the kingmakers of political power in America, at all levels, after all, if they could censor the American President, they can censor anyone.

With that in mind, the states are making moves to use the levers of political power to check the power grab attempt by Twitter, to criminalize the censorship of Americans for political beliefs and for claiming to be stopping the spreading of ‘misinformation,’ a task no free people would ever wish to see centralizedd and definable by the very few, the billionaires of silicon valley, over the vast many.

What will follow will be more lawsuits by states, more legislation by states, aimed at curtailing social media powwer. The final decision will be made by the Supreme Court and that, perhaps, is 3 or 4 years away from culmination.

Worldwide, the relevence of all the current major social media platforms will only decrease as more and more nation-focused alternatives emerge, and the internet, in general, will begin to seprate itself from itself as nation-states ruled by their respective political classes move to control the vehicle of power that is digital public discourse.

Attorney General Paxton Joins 10-State Coalition to Regulate Big Tech Censorship

From texasborderbusiness.com
2021-09-21 15:21:20

Excerpt:

Attorney General Paxton led a 10-state coalition that filed an amicus brief in the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Florida’s law that regulates censorship on Big Tech platforms by requiring them to apply their content-moderation practices in a consistent manner and to provide disclosures to affected users. The brief explains why relevant provisions of Florida’s law are fully compatible with the First Amendment, which guarantees Americans’ right to freedom of speech, expression, and political beliefs.

“The regulation of big tech censorship will inevitably suppress the ideas and beliefs of millions of Americans,” said Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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EU Picks France Over America in Submarine Conflict

Mark Clouse September 27, 2021

After the United States essentially negated a multimillion dollar deal with France and Australia when it gifted Australia better submarines than the ones Australia was set to buy, the EU has take the side of France in the affair ,who remains a disgruntled broker.

The mere choice of taking a public side by the EU is news in and of itself, but choosing France over America while doing so is a pretty strong message that Europe no longer wishes to mostly reflect American foreign policy.

This most likely is the fruit of a perception from Europe that America no longer represents the fundamental economic power of the world anymore. With China, and even India, rising in economic signficance, opportunities for economic winfall are increasingly no more overwhelmingly American.

EU backs France in submarine dispute, asking: Is America back?

From www.reuters.com
2021-09-21 12:21:00

Excerpt:

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20 (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers expressed support and solidarity with France on Monday during a meeting in New York to discuss Australia’s scrapping of a $40 billion submarine order with Paris in favor of a U.S. and British deal.

Speaking after the closed-door meeting on the sidelines annual U.N. gathering of world leaders, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said “more cooperation, more coordination, less fragmentation” was needed to achieve a stable and peaceful Indo-Pacific region where China is the major rising power.

Australia said last week it would cancel an order for conventional submarines from France and instead build at least eight nuclear-powered submarines with U.S. and British technology after striking a security partnership with those countries under the name AUKUS. read more

“Certainly, we were caught by surprise by this announcement,” Borrell said.

The decision enraged France and earlier on Monday in New York French Foreign…

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US Air Force Secretary Warns China Could Gain Nuke Advantage over U.S.

Paul Collier September 27, 2021

While America consumes itself from within on the assumption that evil was inventeed by America and America was invented by white males (or something to that effect), her opponents are continuing to work on ways to reduce America’s power abroad and at home. China is the most powerful of these opponents, and is the one that US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendell was focusing on when speaking to reporters about China’s continued accelerated expansion of their nuclear aresenall.

Kendall said, “If they continue down the path that they seem to be on—to substantially increase their ICBM force—they will have a de facto first-strike capability.

For the people in the back that might not understand, he’s saying China might soon have a nuclear advantage over America that could allow it to strike before we we could respond. For the people leading the suicidal charge from within America, the DNC and its ‘allies,’ that means our lives are all at risk of significant reduction of the quality of life if China ever gets to a position of power dominance over the United States. If you think we white Americans invented evil, as many of you do, especially in the DNC coalition of American self-haters, wait til you get a load of the super boss that could replace America, China.

If you’re really against fascism, DNC coalition, then stop destroying America from within at the benefit of the biggest fascistic threat in the world today, China. So long as you continue to destroy American power while ignoring Chinese power, no American should consider you an American at all, or, even, a safe neighbor to live next to, for if the Chinese ever did land on our shores (something they hardly need do given how many Americans work for them already), your neighbor would consider you more of a threat to them than any Chinese soldier that would ever find themselves stationed here.

Whatever America is, whatever sins we have committed, what the state of Xi represents, has representeed, in the 20th and 21st centuries is considerably more human dignity and diversity denying than anything America has ever committed on any scale throughout any part of her history, and the DNC wants you to believe that no one has ever been evil before white men invented America or will be after we rid the world of this white supremecist demon. If you believe them, you’re not fighting fascists, you’re enabling them.

Air Force Secretary Warns of China’s Burgeoning Nuclear Arsenal, Reveals B-21 Detail

From www.defenseone.com
2021-09-21 01:20:00

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China could be heading for a first-strike nuclear capability, the U.S. Air Force secretary said Monday, urging the United States to accelerate its own weapons development to keep pace with Beijing.

“If they continue down the path that they seem to be on—to substantially increase their ICBM force—they will have a de facto first-strike capability,” Frank Kendall told reporters at the Air Force Association’s annual conference outside Washington, D.C.

But independent nuclear-policy experts noted that even China’s decades-old ICBMs could be “a first-strike weapon,” and challenged Air Force officials to produce evidence that Beijing actually intends to change its “no first use” policy.

In his second major speech since becoming Air Force secretary two months ago, Kendall called out various Chinese weapons developments as reason for concern.

“You’re gonna get tired of hearing me talk about China and the pacing threat that we face,” he said at a press conference a few…

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Iceland State Schools to Teach Kids Science is the Only Truth

Paul Collier September 27, 2021

Iceland has essentiallly just outlawed religion in its country, without expressly making it illegal to be a holder of some form of deistic assumptions regarding the nature of creation, of being. By a vote of 60-3, Iceland’s legislative body has just passed a law that makes it mandatory for kids’ schools to teach them that science and religion are not compatible, and to be religious is to be fundamentally unsicentific, not rational, and thus not fit for human society, though that last part is the assumption people will most likely form from such an indoctrination of a child’s mind by the state using coercion as the means of pressing their beliefs on others.

So Iceland will become, over the next 2 decades, a laboratory of state atheism for the world to behold. We will watch a nation descend into madness itself as it strips the land and the people of their fundamentally spiritual natures and creates a science fascism that will be far more consuming of free thought and humanity in general than ever the worst of the theologically based tyrannies ever could, or even ever dared.

Watch as the birth rates plummet and the crime rates rise. Watch as the progressive dream for America reflects its ugly nature in the to-be brutalized lives of the Icelanders over the next 20 years, if this brutal experiment even lasts that long.

Iceland is now a nation of keen interest to we here at the Freedomist as we witness the theories of the fascist atheist become real in the lives of human beings now coerced to submit to the cycle of violence that such systems inevitably produce. But who knows, perhaps Iceland will surprise us and show that fascistic atheism can create happiness and prosperity for all, whether they want it or not.

Iceland To Teach Science And Religion Are Incompatible

From www.patheos.com
2021-09-21 14:21:43

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Reykjavik, Iceland – The government of this small North Atlantic country is instructing all kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers to teach that science and religion are inherently incompatible. Students will be instructed that even though a person has religious beliefs and engage in scientific work, that very same person is either doing science and/or religion incorrectly.

The Icelandic legislature recently passed The Science Protection Act (TSPA). The bill passed with a 60-3 vote, and Prime Minister Andrew Karnard signed it into law shortly thereafter.

“This is a great day for our country,” Prime Minister Kanard said. “We will protect future generations from the insidious nature of non-reality-based beliefs.”

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The Left Are Being Played Fools By The Authoritarian Right

Bill Collier September 27, 2021

Leftists who are willing to use authoritarianism, beware! The ruling class playing you and pushing your buttons to make you feel so hateful toward all non-leftists aren’t actually on your side. You are just a battering ram meant to clear the decks and pave the way for totalitarianism. When this is acheived, all your alt-gendered rainbow wokism and social justice hyperbole will be tossed and you will find the new Caesar you ushered in is actually quite right-wing.

Caesar knows that all this unnatural behavior and the destruction of the birth rate caused when most young people in their prime are identifying as some form of alt-gendered experimental, theoretical, fantasy of human sexuality and gender will eventually lead to a collapse even they cannot escape the consequences of.

Basically, the ruling class are right-wing authoritarians using your wokism and cancel culture authoritarianism to distrupt society and pave the way for Caesar. You are focused on things that are non-essential to the survival of a civilization and even if you temporarily acheive your goals, you will find that Caesar will toss you like garbage into the dumpster fire that is the history of a dying civilization.

You can choose, and you should choose, your own sociocultural norms and reality in free association with fellow travelers. In a free and pluralistic society, you don’t need anyone’s approval to live as you choose, but neither are you owed their approval.

Your own desire to be free and to not be treated as “less than” is admirable and we support it. But your insistence that we be canceled because we find your choices to be unhealthy, which only means we won’t make them or applaud them, is immoral because it is authoritarian. What is more, you are setting up an authoritarian framework that, once built, will betray you even though you and your cancel culture screeching made it possible.