Politics should reflect culture and not the other way around, but in a dysfunctional society, politics dictates culture from a top-down position and often through some combination of manipulative, coerciolve, or outright authoritarian measures. To fix this in the long term requires a building of alternative sociocultural and socioeconomic structures that somehow become independent in a material way from the politicized structures, but in the short to mid term, merely abdicating the political arena is not a solution.
Today politics, that is ideological agendas, are guiding most American institutions, from monopoly corporate cartels like Silicon Valley to the so-called press and academia, and even much of the church establishment. Political policies, laws and regulations, are driving a societal devolution to libertine anarchy, the atomization of individuals, the breakdown of faith and family, and the increasingly monopoly power of one party and a few corporations.
The Supreme Court ruling on “gay marriage” did not in any sense flow from culture, but most people embraced it rather than defy it and the culture bowed to politics in a really gross manner that further erodes faith and family. Everyone who thought they could prop up marriage and family by purely cultural activities and that this would somehow prevent the state from using “gay marriage” to assault religious freedom and further atomize the individual within a hedonistic culture, was wrong.
The issue as to whether two adults can form any bond they wish and the issue as to whether other adults must recognize that bond are separate, but the Supreme Court enshrined a new definition of marriage, which has always been a sociocultural construct, which it is now “illegal” to even speak against. Politics intruded into the family and transformed marriage into a purely political institution dictated and regulated by the state. The goal was never for people to choose who they loved, it was to eliminate the sanctuary of the home and the sanctity of marriage which offer a ready-made bulwark against totalitarianism.
Our stance on marriage has always been that different sociocultural groups should be free to define marriage and family on their terms without state intervention, beyond enforcing any contracts made. On the other hand, no group or person should be forced or coerced in any way to accept or validate any form of marriage they feel morally opposed to. The goal of the Supreme Court was not to enshrine a right to self-determination in such matters, it was to shift the definition of marriage on ideological grounds and to positively force that definition on everyone. In short, the goal was to end marriage as a sociocultural construct outside political control.
So now we have culture literally being created through ideological litmus tests as to that which is allowed. Your sociocultural and socioeconomic reality and norms are coming through a combination of politically engaged monopoly corporations, who control the economy and discourse in a monopolistic manner, and by politicians and government bureaucrats, whose edicts replace the normal and organic process of consensus and freewill participation in sociocultural and socioeconomic structures outside the control of corporations or the state.
To simply say, as the late Andrew Brietbart once said, that “politics is downstream of culture” is wishful thinking. His emphasis on getting into various structures, like the media, entertainment, and academia, was generally sound, but the channels by which one might re-take these hijacked structures are limited and controlled by authoritarian ideologues.
Political and especially local civic engagement coupled with the intentional creation of alternative parallel sociocultural and socioeconomic structures that reflect our Judeo-Christian worldview and way of life are equally necessary to begin carving out new gaps for freedom where political control over culture is largely absent.
Here is just a look at how the MSM is covering the conviction of a Michigan man who took a plea deal where he had to admit being part of a plot to kidnap the Governor.
This is a case that, for a lot of reasons, we at the Freedomist have yet to break down, and information on the what’s what of the machinations going in in the courts from the filters, the media, and, for the most part, independent news blogs, whom overwhelmingly pitch the worst and best that conveniently affirms their factional will, so to speak.
What stands out for me is the lack of complete over-the-type vilification of the man, or any overt attempt to couple this man to the ‘far right’ or, even, to Donald Trump. This is worth taking note, though only if such a trend were to continue.
The last headline in this report brings the blood and bone reality of the plea this man made,
The defense says Garbin “will be particularly vulnerable to physical assault or even death in prison due to his cooperation in the case.” – michiganradio.org
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A man upset over state-ordered coronavirus restrictions was sentenced to just over six years in prison Wednesday for planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a significant break that reflected his quick decision to cooperate and help agents build cases against others.
Ty Garbin admitted his role in the alleged scheme weeks after his arrest last fall. He is among six men charged in federal court but the only one to plead guilty so far. It was a key victory for prosecutors as they try to prove an astonishing plot against the rest.
Garbin apologized to Whitmer, who was not in court, and her family.
“I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of stress and fear her family felt because of my actions. And for that I am truly sorry,” the 25-year-old aviation mechanic told the judge.
In his plea agreement, Garbin said the six men trained at his property near Luther, Michigan, constructing a “shoot house” to resemble Whitmer’s vacation home and “assaulting it…
One of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday.
25 year old Ty Garbin is the only federal defendant in the kidnapping case to plead guilty. He’s cooperating with the investigation, which is why prosecutors are asking the judge to only sentence Garbin to nine years in prison.
In the prosecution’s sentencing brief, they say Garbin “knew what he had done, knew it was wrong.”
Prosecutors say prior to taking part in the kidnapping plot, Garbin had been a law abiding, productive member of society.
Garbin’s defense attorney is asking for a sentence “well below the federal guidelines.”
Federal prosecutors recommended a nine-year prison sentence Wednesday for a man who said he worked on a wild plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
A Hartland Township man who admitted plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer deserves a break for providing an insider’s view of a kidnapping conspiracy that involved weapons of mass destruction, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Ty Garbin, 25, should be credited for recounting conversations and criminal acts that happened outside the presence of at least a dozen informants and undercover FBI agents and for confirming the kidnapping plot was real, not merely tough talk, prosecutors said.
“Third, he dispelled any suggestion that the conspirators were entrapped by government informants,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler wrote in a court filing Wednesday. “Months before any of them began suggesting it in pretrial motions, Garbin testified that (Barry) Croft and (Adam) Fox were the ringleaders of the plot, and that he and the other conspirators joined it willfully.”
Garbin pleaded guilty in January, securing the first conviction in a high-profile case involving violent…
For so many reasons, nation-states are waking up to the reality that so long as the filters of commerce, trade, and discourse, are run through those hired by international corpo-states with no direct accountability to the states they operate in, the fundamental ability to mold the citizens into their own image is out of their hands.
Google Inc and Facebook will redefine the human into its own global moral supremacist form, even if it works against your nation-states sovereign power and interest, even if it works against the interest of the most powerful families that represent the real power advantage in your lands.
South Korea appeared ready to drop a mega hammer on the Digital Empires with no loyalty to any one land when all of the sudden a pause was announced. What could be happening, perhaps, would be wild speculation on my part, but I suspect what’s going on is a little horse trading behind the scenes.
What the families want to know is this, can you create a world in our image that our citizens can’t break? And will you give us a fat cut of that sweet coin you’re getting, and also, and perhaps most of all, give us your date, please. For the love of all power and prestige, give us your data.
The families of power of this century, should we wary on this coercive path, will be the ones that hold server farms of micro-data on micro-actions of the things and the agents that could potentially be manipulated if you had their secret codes, the mathematical patterns of their being.
Let’s see if I’m right, as the days march on, and an announcement is made for a deal, or if the hammer falls. If it’s not South Korea, it will be someplace else, and even as we speak many nation-states are preparing to build or ban social media to re-establish their control of what might be within the frames that serve THEIR vehicles of power, not silicon valley, the valley of Empire Capitals, but not the only one like it in the world.
If passed, TechCrunch’s own Kate Park wrote, “Korea will be the first country to ban such global tech giants from imposing a billing system on in-app purchases.” Not surprisingly, Apple and Google are against this move.
President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party used its parliamentary supermajority to push out of committee a bill that would ban companies from forcing developers to use their online payment systems. The ruling party’s heft in the National Assembly suggests the Telecommunications Business Act is highly likely to pass Monday when the next full session takes place.
The legislation threatens to undercut a lucrative revenue stream for two of America’s largest companies, which between them control downloads and payments for the vast majority of smartphone apps. That dominance has drawn lawsuits from developers like Epic Games Inc. who accuse Apple and Google of charging unfairly high commissions and blocking competing services.
SEOUL — A South Korean parliamentary committee voted on Wednesday to recommend amending a law, a key step toward banning Google and Apple from forcibly charging software developers commissions on in-app purchases, the first such curb by a major economy.
Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google have faced global criticism because they require software developers using their app stores to use proprietary payment systems that charge commissions of up to 30 per cent.
In a statement on Tuesday, Apple said the bill “will put users who purchase digital goods from other sources at risk of fraud, undermine their privacy protections,” hurt user trust in App Store purchases and lead to fewer opportunities for South Korean developers.
South Korea is potentially on its way to tweaking its Telecommunications Business Act to stop Apple and Google from taking a cut of in-app purchases after a bill was approved by a committee of its National Assembly.
The bill was put to a vote on Wednesday by the country’s legislation and judiciary committee, but it still has to go through a final vote in parliament, pencilled in for Monday.
If it does pass, the tweak to the Act will mean that companies with dominant market positions – like Apple and Google – will not be allowed to require software developers on their platforms to choose their respective app store’s payment systems for users to download paid-for apps or make in-app purchases.
The move comes after Google clarified to Korean devs in September last year that they would be required to “use the Google Play payment system when offering in-app purchases of digital goods and pay a certain…
Facebook, Netflix and Google have all received reprimands or fines, and an order to make corrective action, from South Korea’s government data protection watchdog, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC).
The PIPC announced a privacy audit last year and has revealed that three companies – Facebook, Netflix and Google – were in violations of laws and had insufficient privacy protection.
Facebook alone was ordered to pay 6.46 billion won (US$5.5m) for creating and storing facial recognition templates of 200,000 local users without proper consent between April 2018 and September 2019.
Another 26 million won (US$22,000) penalty was issued for illegally collecting social security numbers, not issuing notifications regarding personal information management changes, and other missteps.
This is a headlines report on the continued crisis in Myanmar, following the February 21 coup by the military that has launched the nation into civil war. The junta is attempting to transition to a legitimate permanent status as the reality of govoernment in Myanmar, a reality that kills any semblance of a democratic-republican form of government. Myanmar would be a military government going forward, with the military not promising to even consider elections for at least two more years.
The question is, has the Junta won the hearts and minds of enough people to help them coercive the few who are not won over? By the headlines you will see in this report, I think it might be fair to say signs point to no on that front. Myanmar is of particular interest to me because of its testing of a theory that the technological is on the side of the small scale. Where ideational conviction meats physiological reality, will a people who reject fundamentally the authority imposed on them be able to resist the advantage of death force that near-monpolistic powers can exert against their ‘citizens?’
Myanmar is a key bellweather for the reality of power of tech. Does it still favor centralized large-scale systems, or can large-scale systems no longer prevent small-scale systems from, in a sense, offer a better product, be it less restricted governance that offers reasonable security and pluralistic equality or a neighborhood factory that prints you an open-sourced video console that plays open source video games for a quarter of the cost of the large-scale systems but with the same, if not more, quality.
That’s quite a leap from Myanmar to Video Gaming, and I don’t mean to undermine the tragedy befallen in Myanmar and the real cost of life and quality of living so many in that nation are suffering today. But the connections are relevant, as I see them, and speak to the signficance of this moment in human history unfolding in Myanmar. You have a highly developed people, where even the lower middle class has access to high quality, low-cost tech, and many people in that country who know already how to create self-sustainability, from defense to farming are emerging and leading even as we speak.
They have the theoretical physiological means to overcome the Junta. They have the social constructs that make it easy for them to sustain the moral undergirding such defiant social acts require. They are used to not being under so much control. They have the means to convert material to self-sustaining use being a highly technologically-developed country. Thus, they are the perfect storm for a people who dissent from being controlled by a centralized authority that commands large-scale advantages over what might resist them.
Myanmar’s army chief said on Monday that he is considering changing the country’s electoral system from the existing majoritarian model and toward a form of Proportional Representation (PR).
Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the country’s elected civilian administration in a coup on February 1, made the remarks during a meeting in Naypyitaw with members of his military council, according to state-run media.
In accordance with the country’s military-drafted 2008 Constitution, Myanmar currently uses First Past the Post (FPTP), a system in which the candidate who receives the most votes is the winner of the parliamentary seat in question.
Min Aung Hlaing said that the PR system would be “all-inclusive” and allow for constituents’ voices to be better represented.
“It is necessary to consider the Proportional Representation—PR—system with all participants. It is necessary to amend the way representatives are elected and the election system….
But she was kind-hearted, he says, and became upset when the first protester to die, a young woman called Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing, was fatally shot in the capital Nyapyitaw a week after the coup. Her death was widely mourned and triggered further anger against authorities.
With the February 1 coup, the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military, sought to turn back the clock on the country’s nascent democratization. They opened Pandora’s box instead. Between the nationwide protest movement paralyzing the economy and the entrenched insurgencies, challenges mount against the military.
Analyses so far have considered the likelihood of Tatmadaw defeat in the context of a unitedfront of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs). However, an underexamined element of the Myanmar crisis is how individual EAOs can exploit the chaos to inflict asymmetrical damage on the Tatmadaw. Nowhere is this more apparent than the military successes that the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has achieved under the coup, and the KIA’s potential to…
Myanmar’s security forces have killed more than 1,000 civilians since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi from power six months ago, according to an advocacy group.
The country has been in turmoil since 1 February, when the armed forces seized power in a lightning coup, triggering dissent as protesters demanded a return to democracy.
Security forces responded with bloody crackdowns, using live rounds against civilians. But anti-junta mobs – some of whom have formed self-defence groups – are still taking to the streets daily in flash marches.
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – an activist group that verifies the deaths and mass arrests under the regime – said the number of people killed by security forces reached 1,006 on Wednesday.
“As long as the military is in power they will continue to kill youths, professionals like doctors and teachers, men, women and children,” said Ko Bo Gyi, AAPP’s joint secretary.
On August 3, Myanmar’s UN representative received an alarming tip-off from one of his New York-based countrymen, who has been acting as a volunteer bodyguard: there was a plot against his life.
“I received information that someone was being paid to injure or kill me,” Kyaw Moe Tun, who denounced his country’s junta after it carried out a coup in February, told the Financial Times in a video interview.
The 52-year-old diplomat alerted the US mission to the UN and the FBI. Within three days, US authorities had arrested Phyo Hein Htut and Ye Hein Zaw, two Myanmar citizens and charged them with conspiracy to attack a foreign official.
The FBI claim the men were working with two unnamed co-conspirators, one in Thailand and one in the US, to hire and pay hitmen to attack Kyaw Moe Tun to force him to resign. The assassins were to “finish him off” if he resisted.
According to Phyo Hein Htut’s indictment, the Thailand-based co-conspirator, an arms dealer,…
Aug 21 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government has arrested two more local journalists, army-owned television reported on Saturday, the latest among dozens of detentions in a sweeping crackdown on the media since a Feb. 1 coup.
Sithu Aung Myint, a columnist for news site Frontier Myanmar and commentator with Voice of America radio, and Htet Htet Khine, a freelance producer for BBC Media Action, were arrested on Aug. 15, Myawaddy TV reported.
Sithu Aung Myint was charged with sedition and spreading false information that Myawaddy said was critical of the junta and had urged people to join strikes and back outlawed opposition groups.
Htet Htet Khine was accused of harbouring Sithu Aung Myint, a criminal suspect, and working for and supporting a shadow National Unity Government.
BBC Media Action said in a statement it was concerned about…
Noise from the nearby pagoda roused Aung and his family before dawn on April 9. Peering out his window, he saw dozens of soldiers shouting and cursing as they streamed onto trucks, rifles slung across their chests. It was barely 4 a.m.
The engines of dozens of vehicles revved to a start and took off, with soldiers following on foot. Suddenly, Aung’s power cut out, plunging his neighborhood in the city of Bago into darkness. Aung tried to check Facebook and WhatsApp, hoping others would know what was going on, but mobile Internet was down, too.
He hurried his wife and two young sons into a small bedroom where they huddled together, determined not to be seen or heard. The sound of gunshots pierced the silence. The family emerged briefly some 14 hours later, peeking out their windows when they heard the rowdy chatter and din of the engines return.
The soldiers were back. With them were dozens of limp, bloodied bodies, piled up on the flatbed trucks.
Van Thawng Thawng’s phone buzzed as a series of notifications lit up the screen.
“Has anyone spoken to Ezekiel?” someone was asking in the Chin Student Union Facebook group, an organisation representing students from Myanmar’s northwestern Chin state. But no one had heard from the 20-year-old union leader.
A week later, on April 14, a friend called Van Thawng Thawng to tell him that Ezekiel’s body had been found.
They believed he had been beaten to death by security forces. Van Thawng Thawng was devastated.
“I just feel really stressed and angry, especially towards the military. Because Ezekiel is not the only one,” said Van Thawng Thawng, a former Chin student who serves as the general secretary of the same union. “One of my classmates was detained and another was killed trying to save his sister at a protest, and my mom, uncle and grandmother have all died in the last few months.”
While Van Thawng Thawng’s mom passed away from a long battle with cancer, he…
The regional organisation, ASEAN, comprising Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and Myanmar, promotes economic, political, and security cooperation among members.TheASEAN charterincludes democracy, good governance, and human rights, which theoretically opposes the values of the military regime.However, ASEAN also prizes their characteristic policy of non-interference into domestic politics.
The bloc is not monolithic, and so is often divided on issues, especially regarding internal issues of member states.Therefore, while well situated in the eyes of foreign nations, their structure and competencies limit their capacity to intervene directly.They may only take action if decisions are unanimous; even a view held by a majority grouping is not actionable.However, a solution is imperative as prolonged violence may spillover and thus, ASEAN’s reputation for maintaining regional peace and security.
As society turns to authoritarianism and a cancel culture waging war in Christianity, we must make hard choices. We must choose between liberation and modern serfdom. As most people choose serfdom, even if by default, we have an opportunity to go a different route.
If you don’t decide to pursue as much material independency as possible from the controlling structures of the ruling class then you and your children and their children will be serfs in their dystopian imperium!
Material independency requires maximum collaboration and intimate association between people who are led and guided by an organic cohesiveness as opposed to top-down hierarchical systems of command and control. We cannot defy and be liberated from such systems if we build another version of them!
Do you really want to become a serf? Do you want your rights to live a lifestyle in harmony with millenia of Christian moral and doctrinal orthodoxy to be denied by a cabal of depraved rulers who think they can erase history and change human nature itself to fit their alt genedered, hedonistic, atomized, and collectivist top-down social structures?
It is one thing for these Nimrodian tyrants, who imagine they can tear God Himself down from heaven, to desire such a perverted and abysmally decadent life for themselves! No, they go further, they demand we, who know better, applaud their barbarism and, eventually, participate as the only way to prove our “wokeness”, which is a euphemism for being brainwash and dehumanized.
If you think you can simply not comfirm and opt out, YOU ARE WRONG.
You can’t.
You can’t replace an entire sociocultural and socioeconomic structure or your material dependency thereto with “nothing” but your own individual whims and wishes. You cannot do this alone! It is ONLY through the unilateral intentional, and disciplined creation of alternative structures at scale that we can obtain material independency from the ruling class.
This is what we propose the value and purpose of spiritual nationhood is. It is a spiritual construct in which millions of people individually choose to adopt a shared identity defined in terms of spiritually sound ideals, principles, practices, and mandates for individual living and for living in community with others. This is not about race or politics, such a form of nationhood is able to be adopted by any human being who learns of it and chooses to adopt it as their own by making its ideals and etc a guide in how they act and interact with others.
Through the individual, freewill adoption of our unique and novel form of spiritual nationhood anyone can begin a hero’s journey of liberation and as they then connect to others who also count themselves peers of this spiritual nation their opportunity for maximum collaboration, collaboration and mutual self-reliance is great. Using our blueprints and frameworks within the guidance of our clearly defined 17 Protocols, individuals can connect and build their own alternative structures that can also organically emerge and evolve into scaled-up alternative structures for material independency.
While Upadaria is not the sole path to liberation from being dominated by our corrupt ruling class, for Christians in America especially, it may be the only ready-made alternative that presents itself as something one may tap into and utilize immediately. Thousands of hours over almost 40 years spent with the most experienced and proven experts in many fields, along with decades of experience in many fields and many years of intense Bible study have resulted in a comprehensive presentation of just how a new spiritual nation will become the vanguard people of a new civilization.
For those who embrace and adopt the Upadarian nationality, as part of a Christian nation of people who live all over the world and whose founders come from many diverse ancestries, the future is defined as freedom with justice, righteousness, peace, and prosperity for all. Our efforts to create the vanguard nation of a new civilization predicated on Kingdom ideals are entirely based on freewill participation and envision absolutely no coercion of any kind: we do not demand society conform to us, we only demand society cease asking us to conform to it!
The birth of Upadaria as a spiritual nation has already begun. More and more people are coming forward to adopt this nationality and become the pioneer founders of both a new nation and a new civilization that will emerge regardless of what the ruling class over the present moribund civilizations does. They cannot stop this vision.
People are drawn to participate in our vision as they encounter our 17 Protocols and our ideals and etc they find themselves agreeing, because all this is Biblical and timely, and they find themselves wishing the fictional world we present to impart this vision, could be actualized in spirit, even if it isn’t literally reproduced in exact detail.
Through Upadaria one does not subordinate their own calling and passions or individualism and spiritual sovereignty to anyone else, not even to our shared vision. The reason many embrace Upadaria is because they see it as a vehicle and means of enhancing their life and facilitating their own dreams and ambitions.
The need for a national identity and purpose one may organically and freely share with others is a fundamental, if neglected, human need that is essential to civilization and that is the foundation for things like family and community in general. The perversion of this need, its elevation above our identity in Yeshua, and it being conflated with political citizenship and/or race has produced a form of nationalism that tends toward denying basic human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing.
Upadarians are “Ecclesians”, Christians who faithfully follow Jesus and count themselves part of the whole Body of Christ as joint-heirs with Christ in His Kingdom and local citizens of the spiritual city-state that is the Ecclesia. We come from many lands, so-called “races”, ancestries, and political states and while not all Christians are Upadarians, all Upadarians by spiritual nationality are followers of Yeshua first and foremost.
We are intentionally creating the genesis structures of a new nation of people who are the vanguard nation of a new civilization predicated itself on Kingdom ideals. We don’t need permission to do this nor do we want society around us to conform to this, we just demand to be left to worship and serve our God in peace.
Elon Musk has been recorded basically describing a future in which artificial intelligence replaces humanity, for him any form of consciousness existing is fine even if humanity itself disappears. The path to this “progress” is authoritarianism, using things like universal basic income to keep those who have lost jobs to robots happy. He dreams of replacing carbon based like with artificial silicone based intelligence.
The time to jump off the train men like Musk are guiding is right now, but the path isn’t simple and direct.
Creating parallel, alternative structures that engender material independency from the present ruling class is an essential. Using the organic cohesiveness that shared nationhood, as a spiritual and not a racial or political construct, is going to be vital to making these alternative structures viable and robust without becoming as authoritarian as those they are meant to help people escape from.
Musk’s stance here is essentially authoritarianism, including “universal basic income”, which is basically a system of abject dependency that can only end with you as a human being becoming a mere cost to the ruling class who don’t need your labor but use basic income to keep you from rioting or something. Population control and genocide are the logical extensions of this.
The vision we call “Upadaria” foresaw this world emergence of authoritarianism as a cooperation between monopoly corporations and political power holders, the ruling class. This vision also foresees the solution, which is the intentional creation of alternative structures that engender material independency from the systems used by the ruling class to control people and turn them into modern serfs.
The worldview of Western Civilization in its genesis and foundations may be solid and good, because it is largely a Judeo-Christian worldview rooted in ancient truth and open to great advancement through logic and science. But in order to preserve the essence of the core ideational framework of Western Civilization one must think of constructing the genesis structures of a new civilization. We cannot save the West. This and other extant moribund civilizations will collapse into a totalitarian morass and we cannot change this.
The only way to escape the starkly authoritarian vision men like Musk envision and embrace, because they stand to gain thereby, is to begin now building our own alternative structures that stand outside the influence and control of men like Elon Musk, a man who represents the zeitgeist of a dying civilization. But, we further propose, without the organic cohesiveness of shared nationhood, and an intentional shared nationhood at that, we will struggle to create truly decentralized structures that prevent the emergence of authoritarianism for generations to come.
Through the vision of Upadaria and its frameworks and blueprints we have the tools and ideas needed to promote and nurture the development of these alternative structures for human flourishing. Such a comprehensive and internally cohesive ideational framework coupled with a strong shared identity anyone can adopt is what is needed BEFORE alternative structures can be created.
For many, as they become acquainted with the vision of Upadaria, the choice will be between being reduced to a useless person on basic income, dominated by a ruling class who use AI and robots to produce fantastical wealth for them, and being free and self-sustaining in a way that nurtures your dignity, respects your rights, and engenders your flourishing.
An explosion has caiused multiple fatalities and injuries at the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. Among the fatalities are children and US Servicemembers. The attack happened just outside the gate of the airport.
Here is what the meainstream media is saying right now:
Two suicide bombers struck a packed crowd outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 12 American service members and scores of Afghan civilians, officials said.
In the final days of its 20-year presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. military sustained one of the highest single-day American tolls of the war.
“Today is a hard day,” said Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., head of the United States Central Command. And he warned that the danger was not over.
“We have other active threats against the airfield,” General McKenzie told reporters at a news conference in Washington.
The bombs were set off near a crowd of families at the airport gates who were desperately hoping…
Marine Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., chief of U.S. Central Command, said that after an explosion at the airport’s Abbey Gate, where Americans were searching potential Afghan evacuees, gunmen opened fire. Another blast later occurred at a hotel outside the airport. He attributed the attack to the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility, and indicated that U.S. military action in response is possible.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. The attacks killed at least 60 Afghans and 12 U.S. troops, Afghan and U.S. officials said.
The U.S. general overseeing the evacuation vowed the United States would “go after” the perpetrators of the bombings, and warned that more such attacks are expected. U.S. President Joe Biden later echoed those sentiments in an address to the nation in which he spoke directly to those responsible for the attack.
“We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Biden said.
Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command said the attacks would not stop the United States from evacuating Americans and others, and flights out were continuing. He said there was a large amount of security at the airport, and…
The U.S. State Department issued a dire warning late Wednesday urging any Americans near certain parts of the Kabul airport to “leave immediately.” Hamid Karzai Airport remains the only viable means of egress for the majority of Americans in Afghanistan, but the State Department tweeted, “#Afghanistan: Due to threats outside the Kabul airport, US citizens should avoid traveling to the airport and avoid airport gates unless you receive instructions to do so. Those at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately.” Australia and the United Kingdom issued similar warnings to citizens. The airport has been center stage for the American military’s withdrawal from the country and the subsequent evacuation of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens and Afghans who worked with the U.S.
The Pentagon says “a number of U.S. service members were killed” or wounded.
“We can confirm that a number of U.S. service members were killed in today’s complex attack at Kabul airport,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement on this morning’s attack. “A number of others are being treated for wounds. We also know that a number of Afghans fell victim to this heinous attack.
An explosion outside Kabul airport on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including children, and wounded many Taliban guards, a Taliban official told Reuters.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said a second explosion went off outside the airport in the Afghan capital, adding that at least 13 were killed and 15 injured.
What we know so far
Two explosions went off outside the Kabul airport.
At least 13 people have been killed and more than 15 injured.
US officials say one of the explosions appears to be a suicide bomb.
A United States official said US service members were among the wounded, adding he was citing an initial report and cautioning that it could change. He said there were casualties but did not know how many or of what nationality.
Kabul’s Emergency Hospital said in a tweet that it has received more than 30 patients so far while six others were already dead on arrival.
Thousands of people have been gathering outside the airport in recent days….
Two explosions, suspected to be suicide bomb attacks, killed at least 13 people including children outside Kabul airport, a Taliban official said.
This number of fatalities was also reported by the Russia’s Foreign Ministry.
Scores of people have also been injured in the attacks at the airport’s Abbey Gate and the nearby Baron hotel.
It comes after the UK and US had warned of a “highly lethal” terror attack and urged people to stay away from the airport for their own safety as thousands are desperately attempting to flee after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed there have been at least two explosions. He said on Twitter: “We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US & civilian casualties.
“We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate. We will…
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said there had been “no reported UK military or UK government casualties”, but the US Pentagon press secretary, John Kirby, confirmed a “number” of US military personnel were killed
The Taliban said at least 11 people had been killed in the blasts, although there has been no confirmation of this.
Mr Johnson called the attacks – reported to be carried out by suicide bombers – “barbaric” and “despicable”.
But he said the operation to evacuate people would continue “according to the timetable we have got”.
A former Royal Marine who was near to the explosions close to Kabul airport has said his vehicle was targeted by a gunman.
A number of people are feared to have been killed in at least two explosions outside the airport after warnings that a terror attack could be launched.
Paul ‘Pen’ Farthing, who founded the Nowzad shelter, is aiming to get 200 dogs and cats out alongside his staff.
Mr Farthing, who was outside the airport in a car, said: “We’re fine.”
But he added that “everything is chaos here at the moment”.
A Russian transport helicopter was looted at the Kabul airport during the chaotic scramble to flee Taliban militants following the group’s sudden takeover of Afghanistan, the aircraft’s operator UTair confirmed to The Moscow Times on Wednesday.
Unidentified individuals boarded the Mil Mi-8MTV helicopter on Aug. 17, two days after Kabul fell to the Taliban and the Afghan government fled the country, said Natalya Melekhova, a spokesperson for Russia’s third-largest airline UTair.
“They opened a container with airborne rescue equipment, which contained tools and unopened food supplies. The inner lining was also damaged. Our engineering staff put things back in order on board and performed the work necessary to guarantee safe departure,” Melekhova said.
She added that the helicopter and all UTair personnel were moved to a secure location on Aug. 22.
The Russian Telegram channel Baza had reported earlier Wednesday that…
The DNC-led American military has declared its intentions to switch the bulk of its efforts in Afghanistan to troop withdrawal rather than rescue of allies and American citizens in the last few days before the Taliban-imposed August 31st deadline occurs. The move is being met with cries of indignation from the many Americans who have ties to American citizens and allies still trapped in Taliban hell.
The move makes it clear to those still trapped in Afghanistan that if they want to get out, American soldiers might no longer be there to help them.
Whatever the DNC-led American military says, it is doubtful that many more Americans or allies will be evacuated over the last few days barring a massive overrun of the airport by desperate humans hoping to avoid being murdered, raped, or enslaved by the Taliban, the poster children for Islamo-fascism.
The US troops will be prioritised in the evacuation from Kabul while evacuations will continue for people from the area.
The roughly 5 400 troops at the airport will be brought to zero by 31 August.
More than 10 000 people were at Kabul airport waiting to be evacuated.
The US military will continue evacuating people from Kabul airport until a 31 August deadline if needed, but will prioritise the removal of US troops and military equipment on the last couple of days, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
There are about 5 400 troops at the airport, a number that President Joe Biden says is set to go down to zero by the end of the month, depending on cooperation from the Taliban.
The US deadline on reporting on the origins of the Covid-19 virus breakout that turned into a worldwide pandemic is almost here, and insiders are reporting that the Biden adminsitration is about to declare that the virus did, in fact, come from China, and, specifically, a leak in the Wuhan Lab.
If the Biden administration does follow through with this, or, more accurately, if the leaked reports are true, then this telegraphs the DNC’s attempts to limit the power that China currently has over them, as their de facto ally and inspirtation, but ultimately competitor for hegemony over the world. The DNC-CCP relationship is complicated, and while they still yet need one another, they also ultimately will have to compete with one another for control of the neo-fascistic-socialist model that China perfected and the DNC wants to emulate here in America.
The Biden administration will only follow through with this if they perceive they no longer need the CCP as much as they once did, specifically the Chinese market to fund their anti-American activities on our shores. If they release an equivocating report, it telegraphs that their need for that anti-american funding from a Chinese market is still very much needed.
Time is running out on speculation and soon we will see just where the DNC stands in its assessment of its power compared to that of the CCP, its frenemy.
President Biden’s 90-day deadline for an intelligence report into the origins of COVID-19 is fast approaching. But the American desire for a U.S.-led investigation is not shared by China – a country that continues to push the world, including CBS News’ Ramy Inocencio, to look outside of Wuhan for answers.
We have said it before and we’lll say it again, the top two threats to state power are anonymity in value exchange and self-sufficiency among its citizens. Anonymous cryptocurrencies offer opportunites for both such threats to state power, but the second part of that potential to undermine state power is based on the first part, anonymous value exchange.
The EU is fully aware of this and, using scapegoating to justify tyranny once again, is using the narrative that the state must know every value transaction in its lands else mobsters and terrorists can exchange wealth without being found out by the state. Certainly this is true, ‘criminals’ will benefit from anonymous exchange of value but, perhaps, the self-sufficiency among the vast majority of non-criminals will lead to a neutralization of the potential ways in which these same criminals can attack the non-criminals.
The creation of absolute state monitoring of value exchange, however, only creates more opportunities for the same ‘criminals’ to hurt non-criminals by making people dependent on centralized systems that are far easier to disrupt than non-centralized systems are.
The EU is now prepared to make sure that all cryptocurrency exchanges are traceable, starting with the still biggest one, Bitcoin.
Cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance, Coinbase and Kraken could be forced to collect the details of people sending and receiving crypto under new rules proposed by the European Commission.
The EU’s executive branch announced the potential change on Tuesday as part of a package of reforms aimed at tackling financial crime within the bloc.
“The aim of this package is to improve the detection of suspicious transactions and activities, and to close loopholes used by criminals to launder illicit proceeds or finance terrorist activities through the financial system,” the Commission said in a statement.
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