California Versus Amazon and the Warehouse Quota Bill

Paul Collier September 16, 2021

Now that Gavin Newsome has emerged from the recall vote stronger than ever, Amazon’s position to resist a shackle on its power could come in the form of California’s Warehouse Quota Bill, a bill that will require Amazon to track the daily activity of its workers to assure it was not overworking them, and to also document and assure regulated breaks and lunches and whatnot were faithfully honored.

How Amazon Would Be Affected by California’s Warehouse Quotas Bill

From www.wsj.com
2021-09-12 16:03:00

Excerpt:

California is taking aim at the grievances of some Amazon.com Inc. warehouse employees, who have complained about the pace at which the company requires them to sort packages, injuries and surveillance they face on the job.

If enacted, a new state law would require Amazon to disclose any quotas it applies to workers in the state, a step the bill’s supporters say would allow regulators to assess whether its employees have sufficient time for breaks, or if performance goals are affecting the health and safety of workers in other ways.

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Rebuilding The Social Fabric- A Upadarian Kinship Group

Bill Collier September 16, 2021

Totalitarianism, upheaval, and even the collapse of a whole civilization are the fruits of the lack of a strong social fabric that connects people on a purely freewill participatory basis. This social fabric connects people from the individual to a very large scale and provides a sanctuary against the centralized and top-down hierarchies of control, which always devolve to serfdom for the many for the benefit of the ruling class.

The social fabric of human civilization exists within such known structures as marriage and the family, but also within more ancient and weakened or even forgotten structures like the extended family, kinship groups of around 15 or so adults, and kinship communities of around 120 adults, all with some form of shared faith and ethnic/national identity. Rebuilding such social fabric is not about reform or using politics and laws, it is about both using our own models and blueprints and it is about imparting these ideas to others but mostly through a living witness and example they can see and interact with.

Eventually, networks of such kinship communities form the basis of larger distributed communities (we call them “Shires”) like unto free cities, cities of refuge, or spiritual city-states all based on spiritual as opposed to political sovereignty. In this manner we build the genesis structures both for a new qnd globally-distributed nation and a new civilization of many such nations even in the midst of the decline of old civilizations whose cultural and spiritual life has been politicized and corrupted.

We both propose our own model, the Upadarian Model based on our spiritual nation as a vanguard people of a new civilization, and the broader adaption of its more universal principles to other peoples and nations around the world, all based on Kingdom essentials, like the core of historic Christian doctrinal and ethical orthodoxy.

We begin with a Upadarian Kinship Group which you and others can unilaterally and autonomously build together using our blueprint qnd framework. Aside from the need to secure a very low cost “license” to use our brand and nomenclature, the development and management of your kinship group is controlled by you and can connect to the larger global Upadarian community through our website and eventually our platform.

A Upadarian kinship group is a more formal extended, but intentional, familial group of around 10-20 adults who treat one another like an extended family in terms of mutual support, mutual self-reliance, and a shared purpose. Imagine 20 other adults who live near you and who care for your well-being, success, and happiness as much as they care for their own and where you feel the same way.

A Kingship Group is like unto a small extended family, but it does not replace your own blood kin. In fact, many such groups may form mostly among people already related by blood, though blood relations are not the sole basis of a Kinship Group and every adult member is both a Christian and a peer of our spiritual nation. But, that being said, Kinship Groups do not replace your own blood relations to whom you have mutual obligations.

In an ideal world, using historical examples as our inspiration, kinship groups generally occupied the same property. But in the real world where people have leases and mortgages and cannot just up and relocate, or may not wish to, such groups may be “distributed”, as in people who live near each other connect and gather at some sort of common space or in each other’s houses. Either way, it is possible to reconstitute a modern version of the ancient kinship group whenever a group of people meet the criterion for such a group and choose to practice mutual self-reliance and support in pursuit of shared goals.

We propose that nationhood, as in a form of shared identity that can be shared with two people or more and that can scale upward to include millions without a neee for some centralized hierarchy of top-down control, or something like it, is an essential criteria. A kinship group requires a deep degree of shared beliefs, values, and convictions about daily life and practices, otherwise the only form of cohesiveness that is possible would be through some form of charismatic and/or authoritarian leader, which is most certainly not what anyone needs.

When the connections and bonds of unity are organic, that is, from the heart and strictly voluntary and open-ended (free to enter, free to leave), then the need or tolerance for top-down control is almost zero. It should be zero. The difference between a healthy kinship group where people’s individual destiny and happiness are served and a cultish environment where people’s individuality itself is subsumed may in fact be this organic cohesiveness.

Cultish behavior is considered by Upadarians to be one of the greatest threats to human dignity, happiness, and autonomy as God intends it. People lording it over others and forcing or manipulating them to conform for the good and benefit of the few is a gross sin against God and your fellow human beings.

Where something like nationhood as we define it, on strictly voluntary and spiritual grounds and through freewill participation and adoption of shared ideals and the such, is applied, we have organic cohesiveness that is open-ended and that enhances the individual’s quality of life. In theory other forms of organic cohesiveness may be created, but unless they embody shared social, cultural, economic, and even civic virtues and standards that guide the whole and reflect the actual beliefs, values, and convictions of the participants on a freewill participatory basis, then the opportunity for some form of top-down control to emerge is there.

Through our 17 Protocols, for instance, we can spell out what those things are on a very transparent manner and people can then decide, on a voluntary basis, whether or not these things reflect their own beliefs, values, and convictions. It’s not a matter of us saying “you need to change to relfect these Protocols”, it’s us saying “we are being totally transparent about the things that guide us and IF AND ONLY IF this REFLECTS your own beliefs, values, and convictions and FITS AND SERVES your own destiny and happiness, then perhaps these 17 Protocols are yours as well, perhaps you already are a peer of our spiritual nation.”

It is not unusual for one of us to tell people that their choice to affiliate with our spiritual nation, by making a pledge between themselves and God alone to be guided and inspired by these 17 Protocols, is entirely their own and should only be made if they are ceertain this fits and serves God’s best for their lives. If we maintain this stance and Upadarian kinship groups and communities emerge around bodies of people autonomously pursuing the use of these Protocols to have and experience mutual self-reliance and support, then every Upadarian kinship group will be a launching pad for the dreams and visions of each individual participant.

As we must often say, Upadaria isn’t a church or denomination. As a spiritual nation, any person, anywhere in the world, can adopt this form of nationhood, call it an intentional spiritual nationality, without formally joining any organization or buying anything. There is no hierarchy of control deeming who can become a Upadarian nor how using the 17 Protocols best fits your life, your needs, your dreams, and your circumstances.

Likewise, while every Upadarian kinship group will use these 17 Protocols as a guide, just how they do this, in what order or priority, and in all the details and specifics, is up to that autonomous and self-governing body of people. While Upadarian structures, organizations, enterprises, and institutions can and must exist, no Upadarian, by virtue of having taken the Pledge, is obliged to subscribe to our join or otherwise be governed by any of them. If you choose to adopt this spiritual nationality in addition to your political citizenship or ancestral ethnicity/nationality, and layered within and subordinated to your identity as a follower of Yeshua and citizen of the Kingdom of God, that is totally and solely, to be abundantly and painfully clear, between you and God!

Upadarians are first and foremost Christians, followers of Yeshua and citizens of the Kingdom. That, and not Upadaria, is our core identity. Being a Upadarian is a diversity expression of nationhood as prescribed by God who ordained a multiplicity of diverse nations of people whose God is the Lord. Not all Believers are called to our diversity expression of nationhood in Christ.

So even as we propose and lay out frameworks specifically for Upadarian kinship groups, the broader principles apply to all, and at the heart of this must be some form of organic cohesiveness like unto those who, through adopting the 17 Protocols, have become peers of our spiritual nation on a strictly voluntary basis.

This is the most difficult concept for people in the West especially because they live such atomized, as in separated to the smallest scale, lives. They are individuals and at most nuclear families that are easily and lightly separated by a form of divorce that has no deeper mutual commitment than what satisfies each individual person’s lower order needs. Such an atomized life is easy prey to any cohesive group with more wealth and power in society, for which reason slaves were never allowed to develop their own nuclear families on a long-term basis (mates would be separated and sold out, for instance, and children were taken from parents). They certainly weren’t allowed to create extended family groups or cohabitations with them.

The idea of a grand scale form of voluntary kinship which includes both people related by blood who maintain the same connections and others who aren’t blood related but who you have a spiritual connection to is difficult to envision. We cannot say “here is a modern example that is exactly what we are talking about.”

Historic examples existed and students of history know that from hunter-gatherer bands to the first village-size settlements, for most of human history, most human beings were connected to, but did not lose their personal identity within, bands and villages of around 15-20 adults which were usually connected to larger community groups pf around 80-150 adults. What has been lost and is being suppressed is that we “modern” humans have not by any means lost our needs for these kinds of social, cultural, economic, and civic connections based on a shared form of identity, like nationhood. The number one reason why we are seeing corporations and governments run amuck and violate basic human rights with impunity is their deliberate suppression of the social fabric.

Hedonism and the destruction of the family and extended family through atomized libertinism are the hallmarks of a society headed toward some form of tyranny or collapse, or both. While we would not mandate who you loved or lived with or how you define marriage or family, it is our conviction and belief that a man and woman raising their own biological and/or adopted children in connection with a larger extended multi-family community of like-minded souls is the ideal and perfect fractal of human civilization.

It is not for you to agree or not. Our holding to the dream of creating our own scalable social fabric on this basis alone, to the exclusion of all other arrangements, is not a threat to your holding to other opinions and ideas in your own connections and relationships. We believe that in a sick society, politics and the corporate world tend to create, or impose is a better word, a top-down culture that atomizes individuals and that thwarts efforts to create a more positive and voluntary social fabric. In a healthy society politics and corporate policy serves culture, it doesn’t impose sociocultural norms throughout coercive or manipulative means from above.

The idea in Western Civilization that one can change culture to change politics is idealism. One must so change politics that it retreats from culture and thereby also prevents the emergence of monopoly corporations that also use their influence and economic power to punish those who don’t adhere to the corporate ideology. But it is also possible to find and create carve-outs from even this political-corporate regimentation of atomization of individuals into an amorphous blob. While one ought to engage whatever powers are engaging them, by all reasonable means at hand, the deliberate creation of these kinship groups and the restoration of the social fabric of human civilization on a unilateral and freewill basis could eventually become pervasive enough that politics and corporate policy will change.

To create a kinship group with people who have adopted the 17 Protocols of Upadaria as a guide for their shared identity, conduct and behavior toward each other, and goals and purpose, is to walk away from the atomized life of top-down control and opt for more individual liberty and self-sufficiency using this most successful model for human flourishing. It is a change on lifestyle, particularly who you spend time with, where you spend that time, and how you spend that time, and even how you use your wealth, property, talents, and resources.

Changing from the atomized collectivism of a centralized command culture that serves the ruling class to an organic cohesiveness in connection to a kinship group based on a shared spiritual nationality is a major shift for most people akin to moving to an entirely new and alien land with a different sociocultural framework than you have ever known. It is an ancient way of life that is readily adapted to modern needs and possibilities, but for most people it is as novel as an imagined culture on an alien planet.

Part of why we have “Experiences” that start on the basis of you being a “refugee” is that the understanding of this form of social fabric is outside most people’s previous experiences within Western Civilization. Reconstituting these ancient norms and connections in modern form will take some effort and it requires a careful balance to prevent abuse: forming a strong social fabric should in no way subordinate or bury your individuality or allow anyone to control your life. The opposite should be the case.

A Upadarian kinship group just using the 17 Protocols has the basic foundation upon which to build organic cohesiveness that is positive, beneficial, and empowering to each individual. Participants in such efforts will find that more and more of their lives are liberated from the top-down control of a corrupt political and corporate ruling class who lord it over an amorphous mass of atomized individuals.

Met Gala the Meme- How the DNC Pulled an RNC-Like Own Goal

Paul Collier September 15, 2021

I often see true idiots build big audiences representing a faction and becoming the face of the faction to the degredation of that faction.

The republicans do this all the time, and, given the DNC advantage in signalling a narrative in ‘established’ channels (media, newspapers, movies, etc), when they do it, the world knows about it so that it becomes significantly branded to it.

I see the same kind of thing happening for the DNC this time with the whole Met Gala, only this time, their own media unwittingly did the work of making this moment of complete idiocracy become a significant part of the brand for a significant portion of casuals in the American lands.

The timing of the event itself, during a “pandemic,” one the DNC hypes and derives political capital from and the RNC downplays and derives political capital from downplaying it. So the party that helped make the pandemic an acutely felt emergency in the lives of many helped also to contribute to the terrible idiocracy moment that is the Met Gala.

I think even the Left are shaking their heads and thinking……wait a second, it’s almost as if you WANT to sabotage your chances to pass ‘progressive’ legislation. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

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The New Dawn of A Nation of People Whose God is the Lord: A Proclamation

Bill Collier September 14, 2021

We are living in the new dawn of a Christian nation, or “Kingdom Nation”, whose purpose is to nurture the social fabric of civilization as God intends it (kinship), to reach and the nations as a witness and influence for Jesus (missions), and to provide sanctuary, aid, and advocacy for Christian and other refugees through creating physical safe havens as support hubs and even whole hub communities (refuge).

Can a nation come into existence without any political state or military power but only on the basis of spiritual sovereignty? Can such a nation be blessed and protected even though it takes a form more like an international Christian mutual benefit, missionary, and refugee society? Can a Christian nation be favored and secured by God even though the closest form of “statehood” is an intentional virtual commonwealth that connects people around the world and empowers them to autonomously build the genesis structures of that spiritual nation in their own neighborhoods and communities?

We are proclaiming a new Christian nation, as the vanguard people of a new civilization, and an international virtual commonwealth of freedom promoting the restoration of the social fabric of human civilization as ordained by God.

The social fabric of human civilization lives, in the Biblical worldview as adapted to our present era, in the form of things like individual spiritual sovereignty, marriage, the nuclear family, the extended family, an intentional kinship based on spiritual connections, the practices of clustered living based on spiritual kinship, kinship-based distributed communities, and physical spaces designed to nurture and promote these structures, including distributed cities and even major hubs like unto cities of refuge.

Unlike some worldly nations who depend on statehood and military means, our spiritual nation does not ever envision mandating our way of life through politics or laws on anyone: one must freely choose to adopt our way of life in connection to other peers they choose to associate with on a strictly freewill/voluntary basis.

Restoring and protecting the social fabric of a nation of people whose God is the Lord and a whole civilization whose very ideals are forged in Kingom essentials, is the mandate and purpose of what we call the “Upadaria” project. This is an intentional birthing of a new nation that isn’t a political state and that won’t be established or built using political or military force. Through a website, a book, and a virtual commonwealth platform, what we call “Upadaria” will become an international network of hundreds of thousands of clusters of people who adopt and use our 17 Protocols to autonomously build the genesis structures of a new Christian civilization in their own midst.

While a few will get this and be able to run with this, many will not embrace this opportunity to adopt a new form of spiritual nationhood, with all the blessings therefore, until they see the first physical structures, like a common facility or clustered living spaces. The pioneer builders of the genesis structures of this nation will be like those who were chosen by God to serve alongside Gideon, the Gideonites of Upadaria as we call them.

Many will come to our banner seeking refuge and safety, knowing that our nation is favored by God not because He is on our side but because we choose to be on His side for the advancement of human civilization.

The emergence of Upadaria as the vanguard spiritual nation of a new civilization is part of a larger paradigm shift from the age of kuriakos, or the church as a limited religious institution, to the age of the Kingdom, in which all the elements of the Kingdom are intentionally manifested among the elect. The birth and rise of Upadaria will play a role in manifesting the Kingdom of God among us and through us to reach the nations for Jesus Christ.

Because Upadaria, as the vanguard people of a new Christian civilization, is a Kingdom nation and not a worldly nation, it will be established through spiritual sovereignty as opposed to political sovereignty. It’s people (in their local chapter communities, missions and embassies common houses, and clustered living housing developments) will live all over the world among the nations as a witness and influence for the Lord.

Essentially, and legally, Upadaria will be manifested to most people through a privately owned and “for profit” virtual platform called The Virtual Commonwealth of Upadaria which emulates a free and pluralistic society of equals, and an international Christian mutual benefit, missionary, and refugee support society, with many Branch Societies and other structures all affiliated with both the virtual commonwealth and the international society. Upadarians are Christians who live all over the world and who have adopted and adapted our 17 Protocols to manifest the Kingdom of God among themselves in order to draw people to Christ.

This is a nation based on Kingdom essentials and sacred Biblical blueprints whose peers come from all lands and ancestries and who belong to every Christian denomination or church affiliation, we are not a church or denomination ourselves. A nation is substantively different than “the church”, even if its people are all citizens of the Kingdom and of the elect of the church.

It is our conviction, albeit not a doctrine, that the four core elements of the Kingdom, as we understand it, include what we call Ecclesium, Ethnium, Oikosium, and Koinonium or church, nation, family, and community.

The Ecclesium is the church universal and eternal, where we see “ecclesia” at the area level as the general government of the Kingdom, participated in by the Elect, over a distributed spiritual city-state of the Elect who are God’s embassy to the people in that area. The Ecclesium includes the local congregations, churches, and all Christian bodies as well as all followers of Yeshua.

The Ethnium which is both the universal commonwealth of the Elect as spiritual Israel and the many diverse nations whose God is the Lord. It has ever been God’s intention for a DIVERSITY EXPRESSION of Kingdom Nationhood to exist on this earth, in the form of many unique nations whose God is the Lord, as a witness to the nations.

The Oikosium is familial connections of spiritual kinship which manifest mostly in the form of marriage between a man and woman who raise their own children (including adopted children) in their own home and within the kinship connections of a multi-family extended household community that behaves as a larger extended family to meet all the basic needs of the whole.

The Koinonium is community through freewill participatory association based on intentional kinship and God’s standards of righteousness and justice. Koinonia basically refers to a form of scalable fellowship like unto kinship that amounts almost to an informal contract for mutual assurance and support between individuals and groups of people.

When most people think of church they think of buildings, clergy, and services but church is bigger than this (although it includes this) and, what is important here, the Kingdom itself has other elements of importance which are not contained within even the element of the church/ecclesia. Nationhood is a core element of the Kingdom meant to serve the broader world, not just its peers or Christians, so that, through its structures and spaces, people might find God if haply they seek Him.

See Acts 17:26-27

²⁶And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

²⁷That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

Familial connections (Oikosium) and kinship community (Koinonium) engage and are essential to both Ecclesium and Ethnium, but they are their own elements. The core ideals for these elements include Unity in diversity for Ecclesium, Popular sovereignty for Ethnium, Democratic equality for Oikosium, and Rule of law for Koinonium, although all four core ideals apply to these elements in their own way. These are the four core ideals of Christian civilization as we understand and practice them.

It is important to keep in mind: nationhood as we present and practice it does not equate to the church and isn’t a form of a church any more than your own family or business is a church. We are promoting nationhood as Biblical element of the Kingdom, we are not creating a church of any kind.

While to some, becoming part of Upadaria is like unto joining an intentional society with a fraternal/mutual benefit, missionary, and refugee support focus, adopting this spiritual nationality as an addition to your own nested identities (like your country, ancestry, denomination, and etc), doesn’t require you to join any formal organization. Upadaria is a spiritual nation and anyone in the world who loves God, has a passion to reach the nations, and feels led to adopt and use our 17 Protocols, can become a Upadarian and pursue these things autonomously, led by God alone.

When you choose to adopt this spiritual nationhood, by making the Upadarian identity and way of life part of who you are and what you do, because these things fit God’s scroll of destiny and purpose for your life, you come within a sacred border of protection and provision (pomerium) which extends only to nations whose God is the Lord. God’s unique blessings, provision, and protection for such nations comes only through such a form of nationhood.

To become a Upadarian, or a peer of our nation, is to choose a form of nationhood based on God’s blueprint for the nations, His righteous and just standards for all nations as the basis of human civilization. But like the Kingdom, our spiritual nation is not built on the same basis as the worldly nations which tend toward things like force and political power. A Upadarian can love their country and the land where they live and does not need or demand any form of political separation, their only demand is for basic human dignity and human rights so they can express and experience their own way of life with fellow Believers and fellow Peers and be a witness and influence for Yeshua to the world around them.

It’s time to embrace the new thing God is doing: raising up a new nation of people who live all over the world but who are all part of the same spiritual nation as a witness to the nations for the Lord.

Teamsters to Use Amazon Moral Code to Win Unionization

Mark Clouse September 13, 2021

It appears Amazon is getting a new enemy, and that name is Teamsters. Unions have been dwindling in America, and the power of Teamsters has decreased with it. Amazon has a workforce of over half a million in the US alone. Worldwide, Amazon is set to cross 1,2 million employees within the next 6 months if their additional hiring plans follow form.

That’s a lot of Union dues, and Teamsters is tasting that dollary due dough. And those numbers, hundreds of thousands of union members, that would add tremendous political capital to the teaamsters’ DC lobbyist offices. There’a lot at stake, and a small number of people will gain to the tune of tens of millions of personal dollars if the Teamsters can unionize Amazon.

The assault on the new institutions of the 2010s and now 20s is coming from Unions, and union activists, who will use the moral claims of these new institutions against them. Do you dare disadvantage the less fortunate and deny them their ability to negotiate with you on equal footing? If you’ve embraced the new morality code, the end racism and bigotry bit (that does little to end either using its preferred tactics of fear and intimidation to simply silence bad thoughts), if you’ve used your market monopolistic advantages to yeet the unorthodox from the market square altogether, well, the chickens have come home to roost and their name is Unions.

I say it couldn’t happen to a nicer group of new rich kids.

Amazon’s new union battle: Teamsters go local to snarl expansion

From www.reuters.com
2021-09-02 00:23:00

Excerpt:

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 1 (Reuters) – In June, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the nation’s largest and most influential unions, vowed to make organizing the Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) workforce a top priority.

Two months later, details of the Teamsters’ ground game are starting to take shape, Reuters has learned from interviews with local union leaders. While organizing workers is the ultimate aim, the short-term strategy is one of disruption.

Over the past year, the Teamsters have raised concerns about Amazon at local government meetings in at least 10 communities, leading to the scrapping of projects and the rejection of a tax break, as well as resolutions calling on the company to meet local labor standards, according to a Reuters tally.

From Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Oceanside, California, the Teamsters are popping up in city halls around the country, joining forces with community groups as they seek to persuade local officials to ask more of the tech giant or reject…

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Urban Black America Leaves Gov Schools for Homeschooling

Paul Collier September 13, 2021

This article by NBC news is covering a growing trend in mostly inner city schools of black parents choosing to homeschool their children. Though this is a trend that’s nationwide, seeing homeschooling rising among black communities, especially poor communities, is something worth taking note. The NBC article interviews some black parents who talk about why they choose to homeschool their children. They chose to focus on these families that all seem to echo some shared concern that the schools themselves are still fundamentally racist, in terns of the inequality of the resources provide to predominantly black schools and in terms of how the teachers themselves teach their black students.

As NBC news is not a trusted source for news due to its ties to the DNC, one would easiliy be dismissive of the claims of racism in our public schools by these parents, but, to me, it fits my understanding of the nature of the moral supremacist who crows the most. These folks more often than not end up being the worst offenders of the very moral constructs they are seeking to police with great militant viligance.

These parents are in the very bellies of the DNC beasts, where political competition is dead, and they can bilk the land of its goods while giving voice to the plea of the needy in their communities that they continually faily to address. Rather, from within their own centers of power, the disenfranchised zones of America, it is their party that has reigned with an iron fist for more than 70 years, perpetually perpetuating, it you will, the oppressions of the disenfranchised they build their moral power around.

Unfortunately, many of these same parents will most likely not recognize that the source of this perpetuation of racist oppression is the power in their own neighborhoods, for 70 plus years, that continued to allow these same neighborhoods to be perpetual sources for moral power, bought by the very real oppression people face that are born into these uncertain, unsecure, unhealthy, undeveloping war zones dotted with crusing guards from outside the community (the police) who seem just as sick of the people they allegedly serve as the people they serve are sick of them as well.

Still, for whatever reason these parents are removing their children from school, and whoever they blame for their very real pain and suffering, it is good when people take steps towards self-sustainability and determination and away from dependence on a large-scale system that will always only see you as a useful cog, an expendible pawn, or detritus fit for the flames.

Why more Black families are choosing to homeschool their children this fall

From www.nbcnews.com
2021-09-02 16:55:00

Excerpt:

As schools begin reopening across the country, in Chicago, Angela Valentine says her 12-year-old son, Dorian, will not be returning. Instead, he will be home-schooled.

“I just began to see some telltale signs that things weren’t working to our advantage,” she said. “And started to see some discrepancies, some inequities.”

Some of those discrepancies involved her son’s academics. Valentine said that as Dorian’s grades slipped last year, before the coronavirus pandemic closed classrooms, his school failed to give him adequate support and solutions for subjects in which he was weak. Her son was one of only a few Black boys in his class, and he said his social interactions changed over time. Other students suddenly stopped playing with him. He told her that he spends recess on the swings by himself.

“We later found out that he was called the N-word,” Valentine said.

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American School Boards, the Frontline of the War for the Heart of Our Land, Our Kids

Freedomist Editor September 13, 2021

The writers of Boingboing would have you believe that is a crime, a moral indecency that school board members are retiring rather than face the angry mobs upset at the new moral standards our schools seem to ba adopting, standards that fundamentally clash with American Bill of Rights standards, such as the notion that humans are presumed of equal standing in the discourse of daily value exchange and only lose that standing when their direct action leads you to conclude they are not conducting themselves according to the parameters of these standards themselves.

The shothand version of what I just declared is this, we are all to be judged by the content of our character, not the (insert physiological trait here). This new moral supremacism many schools across America are adopting holds to the underlying assumption that life should be deefined within the historical power advantages and disadvantages of certain biological-based groups, and that the scarce traits of physicality within this mass should be elevated and praised over the more prevailing traits.

The simple version is this; White Heterosexual Cis-Gendered Males and their Female enablers invented all kinds of beliefs and sciences and custums and social mores to assure their continued dominance over all others in the world. They invented evil itself, and if only we rid the world of the very concepts of such things as white and heterosexual and gender and male can we hope to create a world where decent people, real people can openly and freely live.

Having this belief is fine, but forcing it on children is another matter altogether, and paretns across the board understand sometimes explicitely and sometimes implicitely the crime currently occuring under our own Federal, State, County, and Local governments across these lands, the crime of emotional terrorism against all of our children stuck in the schools that choose to perform these crimes against our own children, using our tax dollars to pay for the act.

Parents understand if you teach children to hate their own skin, either because they were the all-powerful evil oppressor skin variety or because they were of the all-weak, desperately-in-need of sin-skin allies (the sin-skinners willing to lay down their great power advantage to let their weak-skinned allies struggle for relief from the sin-skinned scourge)., you will pyschologicaly cripple them. You will destroy their sense of agency and safety. You will create enemies in homes, dividing families, further destroying the health and well-being of the very children you allege to be serving.

This isn’t an anti-anti-racist movement, it’s an anti-child-abuse movement. There are very few people that seek to sugar coat in our schools’ history books the sins of this land, but our choice is NOT between ignoring our racist and bigoted past and giving our government schools permission to teach a one-sided demonizing history that destroys the very mental and physcial health of our kids. We can teach the truth of our sins, and the hopes of our promises, for our history is filled with BOTH, not one.

If school board members are resigning from fear, I say good, it’s always much better when the state fears the people than when the people fear the state, something I am sure the writers of boingboing are for.

School board members quitting to avoid threatening, hostile crowds

From boingboing.net
2021-08-31 12:09:26
Rob Beschizza
Excerpt:

School boards meetings are being turned into chaotic shouting matches dominated by angry, threatening right-wing mobs. So the members are quitting, reports the AP.

In Vail, Arizona, speakers at a recent meeting took turns blasting school board members over masks, vaccines and discussions of race in schools — even though the board had no plans to act on, or even discuss, any of those topics. “It’s my constitutional right to be as mean as I want to you guys,” one woman said.

At one meeting in Tennessee, men attending were caught on film threatening a doctor in the parking lot after he had advocated using face masks to limit the spread of Covid: “we will find you.”

MAGAs, Qanons and antivaxxers make it impossible to get anything done and make everyone afraid. So the school board members quit. Then conservatives can take over the school boards. QED.

It’s a scene that has played out at other school boards and…

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Authoritarianism Has Infected Our Society and It Must Be Defeated

Bill Collier September 13, 2021

Authoritarianism isn’t a strictly Democratic Party thing, it’s a malady afflicting almost all people with a high position, in government and corporations, whose first reaction to most problems is to force people and to delegitimize dissenters and opponents. The very rhetoric common to elections, in which the other side is painted in the grossest terms and with exaggerated caricatures, is an authoritarian tactic when you cannot win with ideas and/or your audience, the voters, lacks the mental discipline to be won by ideas rather than personalities and slick marketing.

Unfortunately none of us, including the Freedomist, is immune from this malady in our rhetoric and, while we must call out true authoritarianism and corruption in uncompromising language, our collective conscience as a country has been perverted into this authoritarian instinct toward the “others” outside our group. If our forefathers said something like that our form of government required a virtuous or moral people, surely civic virtues must be included in that “morality”, not just our own convictions about love, marriage, family, and decency.

Whether it was George Bush the second and his war on terror, along with his “Patriot Act”, or Biden’s vaccine mandates on all companies who have over 100 employees, the basic instict, left and right, is to use the hard power of authoritarianism rather than trust people as individual, families, free associations, free enterprises, trust communities, and local governments to make the best decisions for themselves. In an environment where everything outside state and federal government has the most power to choose and where these bodies of people and individuals choose what is best for them, the best and smartest ideas triumph over foolishness.

Devolution of corporate and political power from the few to the many is an essential element in any kind of freedom agenda. This must be coupled with caring for the places and people in our country who have been historically and presently left behind and denied equal and just access to the “American dream.” This is a vision of liberty with justice for all and prosperity through a combination of merit and equitable opportunities, regardless of race, ethnicity, income, status, sex, or anything else.

The desire to have a free and pluralistic society of equals where merit is matched with absolutely equal opportunity leads to an instinct that is averse to using the hard power of authoritarianism. Nothing, not even a pandemic that has less than a 1% chance of killing the afflicted, justifies authoritarianism, but for most politicians, every crises is an opportunity for self-aggrandizement or to do favor for cronies who helped them into power.

The Biden administration’s reliance on authoritarianism is becoming intolerable for those who disagree with his neocommunist ideology and his perverted hedonism. But for those who endured Trump’s ideology and who saw his ideas as undermining social justice and fomenting divisions, the same sort of angry opposition was the result. Trump’s rhetoric was hostile, crude, and lacked decorum and was almost always meant to engage in character assassination rather than engaging in ideas.

We are not losing our collective minds over Trump’s rhetoric and, while we reject such behavior in any leader, the truth was that President Trump did not materially assault our core freedoms as most Democrats do, but other Republicans, including Mitch McConnell and Kevin Brady, have no compunction with using authoritarianism. Both, for instance, support the ideas of taxing miles driven and installing a breathalyzer or something like it in every car, all gross violations of our human dignity and human rights.

The attitude from those on the right, which we as Freedomist have long been associated with whether we mean it or want it or not, is for those disadvantaged by our society to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps”, and to stop whining about racism or social and economic justice or historic wrongs like slavery, native genocide, or prejudice. When being black and living in certain cities is a guarantee of lack of equitable and fair opportunity and of societal prejudice, the right response is to rally around such people and demand restorative justice without violating anyone else’s rights in the process.

The wrong response is to demonize all white people or to use this as a justification for authoritarian measures, like “outlawing”, now via corporate monopolies, “hate speech”, and broadening the definition therof to include any idea not in harmony with the enforcer’s pet ideology. The wrong response is to deny this injustice and to hire mercenary occupier cops who treat the populace like the entire community is one vast slave plantation.

Authoritarianism as we define it is the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to corporate or governmental powers/decisions and policies at the expense of personal freedom and self-determination among voluntary bodies of people, usually coming from a lack of concern and respect for the wishes, concerns, needs, or opinions of others.

This definition of authoritarianism is accurate and useful as a plumbline to determine whether an official, corporattion, or any entity, including the so-called “press”, is acting out in an authoritarian manner. We find thereof that aspects of authoritarianism have pervaded our culture and our very discourse to such a degree that one hardly realizes that it is present on their side but readily sees it on the other side.

If your response to something is to want to make it mandatory, whether by corporate or government power, and to show a lack of concern or respect for others who may have different opinions and needs, then you are afflicted with this malady. You are also part of the problem. We are part of the problem!

Freedom is built on virtue, liberty, and independence. Included in virtue is social and economic justice that leaves nobody behind. Included in liberty is equitable opportunity to have a fair and even chance at life. Included in independence is the country-wide mutual assurance and restoration of people and communities who have been left behind so that they can become materially independent.

As Freedomists we want all the freedoms associated with the right in their rhetoric, things like free speech and self-determination, self-preservation and a free market. We think our friends on the left should also embrace these things because without them social and economic justice are just words used to make people angry and get votes without actually helping them.

But as Freedomists we also embrace the virtue of social and economic justice by which nobody is left behind. We embrace equitable opportunity and fairness so everyone has the same even chances based on their true merit of character and skills. We embrace mutual assurance to help people in crisis and restorative justice to lift up people and communities left behind until all can become materially independent.

We urge our friends on the right to see in these things not a leftwing plot to impose comminism, though actual necomm progressives are using rhetoric about these things to move us toward authoritarianism. We urge our friends on the right to realize that if we can address these issues and needs then our entire free and pluralistic society will flourish and freedom will prevail.

For instance, white shaming isn’t restorative justice. Restorative justice is when a disadvantaged person and their community are given a hand and assistance to become prosperous and to take back their power in a way that matches their needs, wishes, and beliefs. The end goal of restorative justice is for every person and every community to have the same platform and opportunity to prosper and succeed and to always enjoy the same human dignity and human rights which leads to human flourishing as everyone else.

We must both purge ourselves of authoritarian thinking and we must discern, expose, confront, and overcome authoritarianism wherever and however we can, and that without partisan favor or prejudice.

Building Globally-distributed islands of freedom

Bill Collier September 12, 2021

Imagine an international network of hubs and communities where God’s standards of righteousness and justice prevail and therefore everyone within these spaces enjoys freedom and prosperity regardless of what is happening in the society around them.

Freedom is not a wish, it is something we build, preserve, and protect regardless of how anyone else feels and regardless of the majority “opinion” or vote: it is an absolute standard of human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing, based on virtue, liberty, and independence, that nobody, not a dictatorship nor a democratic majority, has any legitimate authority to violate.

Let’s be perfectly and abundantly clear to the point of repetition if need be: we own freedom, as we have defined it, and nobody, no organization or institution, by any means has any legitimate authority to try to prevent us from being free people, from serving and worshipping our God in peace, or from living and proclaiming our own Biblical way of life.

Eschatology does not matter, we own this freedom forever, whether here before the so-called “tribulation”, or during it if we are still around, and certainly after it. Our rights and duties to preserve freedom for ourselves and our progeny are not suspended at any time, even if they are violated through coercion or force.

What we call a “Upo Hub Community” may look like a small village with space set aside for peers of our nation, fellow Christians, other groups who want to cluster together, refugees, and the public. A global network may eventually include thousands of these Upo Hub Communities all over the world in many countries, most all of them built autonomously by local Upadarian Branch Societies and/or their local chapters. Through broadcasting the core Gideon’s call, building model hubs and hub communities, and providing blueprints and frameworks, many groups of people all over the world can autonomously fulfill this vision for themselves.

To build hubs and communities that are islands of freedom we have come to the realization and firm conviction that a high degree of what is called “organic cohesiveness” is needed. Organic cohesiveness comes when some form of a shared identity based on things like shared ideals and standards, shared goals, and a shared way of life, comes from the heart and soul of each person, voluntarily, and allows them all to flow and act as one without very much top-down hierarchical command and control structures.

We have further concluded, after studying forms of organic cohesiveness in the Bible, that some form of nationhood, as in nations of people whose God is the Lord, is both ideal and prescribed by God for human civilization to have such cohesiveness without the need to resort to governance systems that violate our God-given freedom.

Broader “Kingdom alliances” between different, unique, Christian nations and between diverse familial and kinship groups at the local level, all under the banner of our universal shared nationhood, are necessary and will emerge. But these will flow from the emergence of intentional forms of nationhood by which bodies of people can act with very tight unanimity that comes organically from shared ideals, principles, practices, and shared goals, standards, and norms. This is, as we say, “our breakthrough idea.”

There are blessings and provisions which flow to us from God ONLY through His blueprints being followed. God has given us a blueprint for nationhood as a spiritual construct instead of a mere political construct defined by statehood and instead of something rooted in race or blood ancestry. Nations of people whose God is the Lord are uniquely blessed and provided for in a special way and are ordained by God to exist. They are not defined in God’s Word by statehood or by race or blood ancestry.

Even Israel was allowed, some say encouraged, to induct people into their tribes and nation who weren’t of the blood ancestry. And we all know Israel existed as a stateless nation well before the creation of the first commonwealth and then the Kingdom and long after these states disappeared.

Our specific vision for a stateless nation founded on Kingdom essentials and spiritual sovereignty in Christ is itself also a model other bodies of Christians will use and adapt as they see fit to either form new forms of nationhood or to revive and restore or convert whole nations of people through the penetration of the Gospel of the Jesus Christ into all aspects of their society and among all their people.

This concept of intentional nationhood as the foundation for an organic cohesiveness that makes close cooperation possible without resorting to the authoritarian systems being used in many countries and lands is essential to how we intend to build hubs and communities for freedom.

It is a novel concept and innovation, even if we see and claim it has ancient roots in the Bible, that many will tend to struggle to comprehend. Only after the Gideonites, people who answer a Gideon’s call to build the genesis structures of this globally-distributed spiritual nation, have established physical spaces and enterprises based on this form of nationhood will people have an easy time grasping and buying into this vision.

We must therefore insist that to proceed to build these islands of freedom we will need a form of nationhood that people can adopt because they feel called and led to embrace the shared ideals, principles, practices, and mandates of our spiritual nation. We propose that we cannot build things like an intentional extended kinship community or a distributed free city as well as physical hubs and whole hub communities without this shared nationhood animating the core builders and administrators of these structures.

A spiritual nation whose God is the Lord can serve and reach other nations, it can serve the whole Body of Christ, and it can serve the public and whatever lands and countries its members dwell in. The hubs and hub communities as well as kinship communities, distributed cities, and even whole physical cities or “homelands” hosted by various countries, can serve peers of our nation, fellow Christians, and the public and form a pluralistic and free society as an oasis of freedom in an otherwise unfree world.

The legal structures and devices used to allow for these distributed free cities, local kinship communities, hubs, hub communities, and privately owned and managed free cities hosted by different countries will vary from country to country. Many will require multiple interdependent structures and organizations, some being groups of people and some being private individuals or enterprises.

Things like mutual benefit corporations, housing covenants, land trusts, fraternal benefit societies, clubs, corporations, non-profit organizations, and the such will all be utilized to find a legal structure that de facto allows for the operation of these hubs and etc to freely exist as an island of freedom. The ability of the people who are the core of these islands for freedom to cooperate closely in economic and civic matters and to provide their own social, cultural, and other needs and services will be strongly facilitated by their shared nationhood, as in an adopted spiritual nationality.

Shared identity that has Christ as its head and that is based on clearly defined commonly held ideals and etc is essential to this work. We theorize that no freedom-building movement aimed at creating islands of freedom will succeed deeply, on a large scale, and on a long-term basis if this organic cohesiveness is not animating at least its core builders and leaders.

The mere fact God prescribes nationhood in the Bible both now and for eternity tells us how important nationhood is even though the modern religious establishment seems to have zero interest in or understanding of this.

Are there other forms and means of creating this organic cohesiveness? Certainly. But few or any can offer a scalable form of organic cohesiveness that had the closeness and warmth of a familial connection that comes from the heart. Nationhood is to us as essential to building these islands of freedom all over the world as is an understanding of what freedom is and a commitment to a pluralism that invites and serves the greater world to partake of that freedom.

Through adopting a shared form of nationality based on clearly defined ideals and etc large bodies of people with minimal governance structures (some are needed, as Moses himself learned in appointing captains of tens, hundreds, and thousands) can build incredible things that scale up, have great depth, and last for many generations.

An extended kinship community is the restoration and adaptation of the ancient multi-family household and local village made up of a few of these “extended households.”

A hub is a clustered living space with common facilities that serves both residents and non-resident members who live nearby.

A hub community is a larger contiguous community with multiple areas set asifr for diverse groups of people in a more pluralistic arrangement, even if the core builders and managers are from a single spiritual nation.

A distributed free city is an area-wide network of hubs, hub communities, and common facilities distributed here and there throughout an area and within its various locales and communities but that is in fact a self-sustaining and mutually self-reliant community within the larger area. It is as if one took a city in area and distributed its parts within all the communities and cities within an area: it may have small plots in many separate places but it is a unitary city in the eyes of its participants.

A free private city is an entire city hosted by a country that grants it a charter as a special zone wherein its social, cultural, civic, and economic life are governed by its own rules autonomously of the host country’s laws, but with its charter.

Our global network of all these things as well as their legal structures, including an international society, NGOs, and Branch Societies for every country, will be called a virtual commonwealth and will enable cohesive collaboration and mutual support between all these entities which are a part of it.

Where hubs begin is through friendships, new kinship connections made intentionally, and the local gathering of people who have been led to be part of a spiritual nation by adopting its ideals and etc as their own way of life. First the website and then the platform as well as a large book, using a fictional future history to impart its vision, will make it easier for people to connect, gather, collaborate, and build together with a more directed and disciplined focus.

As the message and vision of this spiritual nation and of nationhood in general spreads, people will organically form connections and gather, and then collaborate and cluster, until these islands of freedom naturally emerge all over the world. What is more, as we, the people participating in our specific virtual commonwealth and our spiritual nation, advance, others will “copy” and adapt these ideas until even more such islands of freedom emerge.

The Global Coronareich Empire Must Be Defied

Bill Collier September 11, 2021

We face a greater threat to our rights, persons, and property from the alleged counter-measures to the Chicom Pandemic (Covid-19) than from the virus itself. The totalitarianism being justified in the name of “safety” will not go away and will lead to many lost lives and a dramatic loss of quality of life and freedom. The same authorities who FUNDED the “gain of function research” that turned a bat virus into a deadly and mutating virus are using the chaos they created as a justification for the totalitarian dreams they have long harbored.

The Coronareich must be defied. Totalitarianism cannot thrive in an environment of active resistance. Not defying the Coronareich regimen is basically admitting that you deserve the chains being wrapped around you. Just say no. Risk all, many WILL suffer and be deprived of life, liberty, and wealth but the fight is for the future and if we step up now then our progeny won’t grow up on a Coronareich Dictatorship.

Today in America, the Democratic Party is the leading proponent of this totalitarianism, but we must be on guard and not assume the Republicans are the polar opposite or the freedom alternative. The Republicans are led by unscrupulous collaborators who imagine on their fetid minds that the totalitarianism being pursued by Democrats won’t be used against them personally.

Is it nutty and outlandish or fringe to use terms like the coronareich or the corpostate and the totalitarianism of the Democratic Party to describe what is actually happening now? Anyone who cannot or will not see this as factual is ignorant and foolish and their lack of an energetic defense of freedom is a betrayal both to America’s founders and our collective progeny.

We need to create a massive freedom movement that can mobilize millions of people at any time for things like protests, counter-protests, protection of people from Democratic paid rioters, boycotts buycotts, and more. We need to create a virtual to local activist corps with chapters in every US Congressional District and every County or Parish.

Just as the “war on terror” resulted in the totalitarian “Patriot Act”, led by Republicans, and that war suffered ignominious defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, so too the Coronareich won’t stop the pandemic but will only result in more totalitarian INTOLERABLE ACTS. The goal is your serfdom, the suppressing of your human dignity and human rights and the denial of your human flourishing through the plundering of the fruits of your labors.

The end game of the coronareich is for every country to be a totalitarian state of some kind and for the world at large to be run as a satrapy of the global corporate ruling class. Understand that the very, very rich and the ruling class in corporate and government circles are actively engaged in a now collaborative effort to end freedom and introduce modern serfdom to most all human beings. Remember, six corporations control 90% of all US news and media and most all trade and commerce is controlled through the services and platforms of less than a dozen mega corporations whose leaders are all totalitarian loons.

The time for open communication and collaboration using the internet controlled by the ruling class is running out. The time when this internet will ALLOW anything like this to be said openly is drawing to a close.

The Coronareich has zero, nothing, nada, to do with health or safety or defeating a virus funded by Fauci and mishandled by the CCP. It is 100% about total control and domination over your life and plundering the fruits of your labor so billionaire thugs like Bezos can spend billions to go into space.

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