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The GOP’s Collaboration On The Global Tax On Freedom

Bill Collier July 9, 2021

Bill Collier- A so-called “global minimum tax” represents a 20th century paradigm; the wasteful shot-callers who cannot evolve past the industrial age are attempting to corral the world backwards into their own old top-down, centralized hierarchy of control. Basically, and to be blunt, it is an assault on freedom not warranted by any of the hobgoblin manufactured crises or any pretended benefit to anyone except for the extremely wealthy who don’t actually ever pay such taxes.

The Republicans, who love to soundbite for freedom and prosperity like Democrats love to soundbite for equity and justice, have no real principled response. They are quibbling over details rather than blasting this idea as insanity that is only meant to turn the clock back to the 20th century industrial age when a big boss with all the money and power lorded it over the cogs in their machine whose only real value was profit to the owners.

The “global minimum tax” (GMT) is an archaic proposal from another age that is best left behind. The massive super-state, centralized industrial economy, must be set aside once and for all to favor new forms and expressions of sovereignty and freedom between individuals in freewill participation. Decentralization, localization, jurisdictional competition, citizens as customers rather than subjects, private cities, and the general supremacy of faith, family, and community over politics are the ways of the future. This archaic response is meant to hinder the advancement of human flourishing because such advancements do not tend toward the benefit of the ruling class.

It is for this reason the Republicans, many who have also become corporate puppets, offer a lame response not worthy of any Party claiming the mantle of freedom and prosperity for all.

This is how their “objections” begin- “There has been consistent bipartisan, bicameral support in Congress for the OECD as the appropriate venue to address the digitalization of the economy, potentially including changes to longstanding global tax rules. However, the OECD project would be counterproductive if the Administration’s negotiating position concedes ground to foreign counterparties and harms the U.S. economy. “

How about, “The Global Minimum Tax is a power grab by the ruling class over working people that we will defy and defeat with every ounce of our being?”

This isn’t a response, this is collaboration.

They add, incredibly, and in betrayal of all their claims to be the party of freedom and prosperity:

The global minimum tax must be fair to American workers and companies – any special rates or exemptions offered to foreign competition must be available to Americans.
The global profit allocation formula, including any carve-outs and special inclusions, must not disproportionately affect Americans.
The targeting of American workers and companies by foreign governments must end immediately.

No, The right response is, “there must NEVER, ever, be ANY form of global tax or global minimum tax. This isn’t the 20th century, this isn’t the industrial age. This is the 21st century, the information and decentralization age.”

But, as we are of a wont to say, over and over, the Republicans are collaborationists, not opponents, to the global war on freedom Their soundbites are meaningless, their action belie their stated intentions.

The GMT won’t do anything more than potentially slow progress. The civilizational paradigm shift that is coming thanks to technology and global communications won’t be held back by such draconian chicanery. But in the mean time, this “throwback authoritarianism” to the 20th century will do real harm to millions of people before it finally collapses under its own weight.

The GOP isn’t an opposition party. They are collaborationists with the ruling class, hell-bent on lining their pockets and keeping the mere crumbs the Democrats throw to them. This response by Senator Crapo of Idaho and Republican Leader, Representative Kevin Brady of the 8th District in Texas, is a collaborationist love fest compared to what is necessary.

They didn’t oppose anything and everything connected to this global power grab and for that reason they are abject and miserable failures.

Biden Zero Carbon Plan Is A Poverty Producing Plan

Bill Collier July 8, 2021

President Biden’s zero carbon plan, which he plans to ramrod through using the legerdemain of “budget reconciliation”, is a plan that will dramatically raise energy costs for the poor and middle class and, because of its approach, increase poverty.

The plan is to make all US power “100% carbon free” by 2035, an ambitious plan that necessitates switching to much more expensive “alternative energy”, possibly among which natural gas with carbon capture (not commercially viable) and nuclear energy (vehemently opposed by his core base).

The effect would be threefold: discarding power plants that took hundreds of billions of dollars to use, building new power plants that will be exponentially more expensive and will face “environmental impact” reviews and delays, and the actual cost of the energy, which will be exponentially higher for consumers.

Once again a politician, chasing a histrionic bogeyman (“climate change spells doom!”), offers a massive, disruptive, top-down solution that is expensive and authoritarian. The top-down approach means, instead of promoting individual and local energy independence through house-portable and house-affordable solutions, the Biden team, egged on by utopian extremists, is focusing on a typical OBS (“one big system”) approach that will continue to keep people dependent on massive structures over which they have no influence.

The “house portable and house affordable” solution requires changing local ordinances to promote alternative building methods that are massively more energy efficient, investing heavily in solar and wind technologies for home use and providing the blueprints free to the public, and providing real incentives to individuals to adopt an individual and local energy independence approach.

The truth is, those who claim to care about the dangers of climate change and/or pollution, both legitimate concerns, are refusing to adopt an approach that truly empowers individuals. Instead, not wanting a good crisis to go to waste, they opt for an OBS approach that perpetuates dependency and concentrates yet more wealth and power in their hands.

The level of poverty will rise not because of seeking alternative energy solutions but because the top-down OBS approach is expensive, inefficient, and disempowering to individuals and the marketplace.

Israel: Pfizer’s Vaccine NOT 95% Effective

Bill Collier July 8, 2021

Stating the the effectiveness of Pfizer’s vaccine in preventing a Covid-19 infection fell from 95% to 64%, Israel’s Ministry of Health also said it was 93% effective at preventing serious illness or hospitalization, in a Tweet in July 5, 2021.

The “delta variant” is spreading in Israel which, despite 57.3% of the population being fullt vsccinated, Israel is seeing a spike in cases, an average of 372 per day as of July 7th, but nothing near the average of over 6,000 per day in January of 2021. However, vaccinated people are still getting sick with the delta variant and while hospitalizations are not jumping, there is some sense the promised immunity has not materialized.

Still, while there has been an uptic in cases, there has yet to be a corresponding uptic in deaths, with one death on July 5th.

Who Killed Haiti’s President?

Bill Collier July 8, 2021

Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moise, was killed on July 7th by a cammando of foreign mercenaries who portrayed themselves as US DEA agents prior to storming his home. The question is, why was he killed and by whom?

Moise was alleged to have ties to Haiti’s criminal gangs whose violence has been plaguing the nation’s populace. The fact the mercenary force claimed to be DEA agents, and were captured on video yelling “stand down, stand down” in an American accent, may be itself a statement as to the motive of the actual shot-caller who ordered the hit.

Another possibility is that one of the gangs had a beef for the President and thus ordered s hit.

Prime Minister Claud Joseph has now assumed the authority to succeed the President and while direct accusations of his complicity have not surfaced, anyonen investigating this assassination is likely to consider this possibility.

According to AP, in a report on Yahoo News, Jospeh said, “We need every single one to move the country forward.” Referencing enemies of the president, Joseph called the President ‘’a man of courage” who had opposed ‘’some oligarchs in the country, and we believe those things are not without consequences.”

At one point the commandos held three Haitian police hostage in a house they were occupying but they later surrendered. Four commandos were killed and two were captured. But running gun battles with the commandos continued as the acting successor claimed Haitian police would hunt them all down and kill or capture them.

There had been a series of protests, some violent, against his rule, which was becoming more authoritarian, and his inept handling of the economy and the security situation. His death, while shocking, has not been universally mourned inside Haiti.

He has been ruling by decree after failing to hold elections and an upcoming national election in September was the cause of tensions and violence within the country as of late.

During the attack his wife, Martine, was wounded seriously and is now in Miami, Florida, where she is in stable but critical condition. No doubt her survival was not planned by the assassins.

The attack was condemned by the opposition even as the acting successor declared a state of siege but also promised upcoming elections would still occur as planned.

Meanwhile the interim Prime Minister who claims power, was actually replaced the day prior by Joseph, who appointed Ariel Henry. Henry had not yet been sworn in to office and claims to be the Prime Minister while Jospeh, the replaced interim Prime Minister, claims that as the newly appointed Henry hadn’t taken office, he is not the Prime Minister.

Regardless, the US government is clearly backing Jospeh and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called him, assuring him of US assistance.

Biden’s Actions Betray The Right Things He Says About America

Bill Collier July 7, 2021

For the most part, excepting the bit about us being a democracy, what Joe Biden said about how we define being American is essentially true. Here are his words:

“I’ve often said that America is the only nation in the world founded on an idea,” Biden said. “Every other nation in the world is founded on the basis of either that — geography or ethnicity or religion. You can define every — almost everyone else based on those characteristics, but you can’t define America. I defy you to tell me what constitutes an American. You can’t do it. We’re an incredibly diverse democracy.”

“But there is one thing that does define us a country: We were founded on an idea that, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [and women] are created equal…endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty, [and] the pursuit of Happiness,’” he added. “It sounds corny to Americans, as we learn this in grade school and high school. We’ve never fully lived up to it, but we’ve never, ever, ever walked away from it. Every generation opens that aperture a little bit wider.”

Basically, he is saying America isn’t based on geography, race, or religion. While our highest idea, that everyone is created with certain inalienable rights, among which life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, hasn’t been lived up to completely, we have never walked away from it. And, as he said, every generation opens that aperture a little bit wider.

President Biden is right.

His base of supporters, however, don’t see it that way. Critical race theory, which is based on totalitarian disregard for human dignity and human rights, is actually a deliberate walking away from this central idea. Radical, violent, irrational, and intolerant to the maximum, Biden’s rioting mobs which helped him into office after some serious electoral chicanery, are diametrically opposed to America’s great idea!

So how can President Biden rely on a base of supporters who don’t actually embrace this, like NPR who essentially denounced the Declaration of Independence as being “deeply flawed”? How can President Biden push CRT so hard when its central idea is quite literally totalitarianism?

(The chief aim of “critical theory”, of which CRT is a subset, like “Marxist Racism”, is the justification of totalitarianism.)

America as a union of commonwealths, small republics, and national peoples can become a diverse, pluralistic, free society of equals in terms of opportunity and treatment under the law where this great central idea reigns. But the growing authoritarian response, especially, but not exclusively, from the left and Democrats in this land to every real, histrionic, or outright fake (bogeyman) problem is moving us backwards significantly for the first time in our history.

If President Biden or others want to insinuate or claim that an American “nation” exists whose only idea is this, even though this is, broadly speaking, a great idea, then they don’t understand how national identity creates and enables a form of organic cohesiveness. This organic cohesiveness allows vast numbers of people to act in their own individual self-interest while serving a greater good and shared purpose without the need to rely on a top-down system of control.

Nationhood without strong shared beliefs (especially religious), values, and convictions just isn’t a thing. But in a country with a dwindling ‘Christian” majority, most of whom do not hold consistently to historic Christian orthodoxy, making being a Christian a condition of being an American is intolerance and untenable.

America is a country, not a nation. And that’s OK. If the great idea of this country is something like freedom based on virtue, liberty, and independence, then this is a good thing as well. It is the basis of a true “empire of liberty” that acts as a homeland and protector to multiple nations of people within.

I’m an American because I love this country, I embrace its big idea for freedom with liberty and justice for all, I reject bigotry, racism, and intolerance, and I respect the original spirit and intent of our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights as the highest ethical and moral law of this land.

America isn’t a nation and it isn’t a nationality! Therefore, any persons or national peoples within our borders who start with respecting this big idea would fit in with and enhance this country.

There was a time when the American nation was almost exclusively Christian in character and beliefs, but never was it based solely or mostly on ancestry. Times changed and America has lost a national character based on Judeo-Christian beliefs and values to become this diverse union where citizenship and adoption of our great idea was all that made you an American.

Whether for good or ill, America is a country without a distinct national identity in the sense of the classical, ancient concept of nationhood. We are a country, not a nation, but a country whose core identity is supposed to be freedom with liberty and justice for all.

While for the most part President Biden said the right things, his reliance on a radical base who defy those things and his policies that undermine those things make his words as hollow as those who may have signed the Declaration of Independence while owning slaves.

NEA Solidifies Public “Education” As Blatant Authoritarianism

Bill Collier July 6, 2021

Doubling down on the Marxist-based totalitarianism of “critical theory”, in this case “critical race theory” (also known as “white people are morally inferior and so is freedom” theory), the NEA wants all children indoctrinated with Marxism. This radical totalitarian front group enjoys the support of most public teachers and therefore represents the true nature of what is being done in these government-run radicalization centers called schools.

Cis white boys will be mercilessly bullied by teachers to accept their moral inferiority and do penance by voting Democrat when they get old enough and, also, by fully participating in the whole rainbow of sexual activity.

Critical race theory is race-based Marxism that aims at cultural genocide of so-called “whiteness”, teaches children they are either demonic offspring of oppressors or oppressed little angels who can do no wrong and who the white kids owe something to. The “solution” to the “problems” is, of course, totalitarianism.

The National Education Association represents 3 million public teachers, most of whom embrace the radical authoritarianism of this front group. The teaching profession has devolved into a “revolutionary” position from which to brainwash future voters to support America’s authoritarians, the Democratic Party.

Critical race theory, like the whole rainbow fascism agenda, is basically also child abuse. For the “oppressed” it renders them powerless victim and for the “oppressor”, well, their only path to some limited form of rehabilitation is to renounce themselves and enthusiastically vote Democrat to prove their evolution.

(There is no “white genocide”, the real aim is to demonize “whiteness”, associate freedom values with whiteness, then banish freedom for all, white or other, in the name of “racial justice”, but for the purpose of creating an authoritarian state.)

The National Education Association is euphemism for the National Enforcers of Authoritarianism, which is all this un-American, anti-freedom organization has devolved into. Most public teachers either love and embrace this totalitarianism and will it upon children or they go along for fear of losing their jobs.

This Marxist front group also went on in its recent Representative Assembly to attack heterosexuality and even capitalism, both of which it wants to banish from schools as much as Democrats want them outlawed.

There’s no telling what will happen if, in 10 years, little Johnny dares to say he only likes girls and doesn’t want to watch the naked drag show at the school assembly.

Letting your children attend schools run by NEA thugs is opening them up to serious psychological damage.

Taliban Resurgent As US Leaves

Bill Collier July 6, 2021

After the deaths of over 100,000 people, costing the US over $2 trillion, America’s two decade “war on terror” has resolved little and achieved virtually nothing. Fighting for the freedom of people who refuse to fight for themselves has never been a fruitful proposition.

In Afghanistan, the US has never enjoyed popular support for its “nation-building” mission and the Afghan people seem more desirous of Islamic extremist rule than anything approaching freedom. Contrary to the claims of politicians, freedom isn’t sought universally.

As the US has exited the scene, the Afghanistan government is crumbling and the Taliban are marching in, seizing the very weapons meant to fight against them. Regardless of peace talks, it is probable the Taliban will be back in Kabul, back in charge, in a matters of weeks or months. The reset to the previous status-quo may even see a rebirth of Afghanistan as the nexus and safe-haven for Islamic terrorism.

Pictured above, Kabul, target of the Taliban

But aside from the effort to punish Al Qaeda for the attack on 911, the last almost 20 years fighting a “war on terror” have caused some 15,000 US deaths (military and contractors), over 50,000 were injured, but tens of thousands more suffer psychological trauma, such as PTSD, from the failed conflicts. The damage to American prestige and our economy had been immense.

Another casualty has been civil liberty, thanks to The Patriot Act, by which illegal spying Americans and serious undermining of our values for freedom has occurred. Presently, as the failure of a “war on terror” is being whitewashed, the full power of apparatus erected to fight that war is being turned on Americans at home by a Biden administration who deems anyone who is woke to their authoritarianism as a potential domestic terrorist.

As the Taliban marches toward Kabul in US vehicles, they are bound to make ISIS look trifling and soon enough some US politicians looking to burnish their street cred will begin banging the drums of “nation building” again in Afghanistan.

Freedomist Fires NPR, Demands They Disassociate From Declaration of Independence

Bill Collier July 6, 2021

(Satitre)- While many were stunned by publicly-funded NPR’s woke cancel culture renouncement of the Declaration of Independence, the Freedomist was “thisclose” to issuing our own demands to fire NPR from ever associating with the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Publisher Bill Collier said of this firing, “Every July 4th the NPR host would read the Declaration of Independence on air and every year it was just grating on us to know these people were not the sort who should be allowed to read such an ennobling document whose sentiments they stand against so strongly.”

The reading was always done in such a tone that one could clearly tell it was never meant and just never jibed with the true ideology that animates the people who run NPR: a blatant hatred for their fellow humankind on the basis of a woke cancel culture authoritarianism.

Collier addded that, “this year it was our intention to finally put an end to this blatant hypocrisy, the idea of them reading out this document just seemed like dishonorable to the original spirit and intent, a spirit and intent that transcends the writers themselves.”

Also, the Freedomist wishes it to be known that, while NPR quit their association with such principles as inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and are openly embracing their woke cancel culture authoritarianism, it remains true they were fired. As Publisher Bill Collier stated, “They knew our official announcement was eminent and the paperwork was already sealed, they announced they quit before we could make their firing official, but, in the end, they were fired.”

As to life, they are for killing the unborn right up to the moment of birth and, paradoxically, preserving the lives of the worst murderers, whose henious deeds don’t match those of the unborn child who might be an inconvenience to its mother, which, evidently, is a crime worse than murder.

As to liberty, this one always draws a guffaw from the NPR crowd whose version of “liberty” is akin to “freedom through slavery”, or something like that.

Finally, as it relates to happiness, these people are too angry at ghosts and bogeyman to ever be happy and, what is more, they want everyone else to also be miserable with them.

NPR were also fired from associating with the Bill of Rights whose sentiments are as far removed from their woke cancel culture authoritarianism as heaven is from hell.

Their lame “justifications” for quitting, when they were fired, further reveal the vapidness of their intellect and the depravity of their moral character. The truth is, authoritarianism has no place being associated with the founding principles of freedom which built this country and which we still strive ever more perfectly to actualize.

The fact some woke authoritarians cannot see this and wish to deconstruct our past in order to destroy our future, and the fact public money supports these people, is another matter altogether. But for now we are at least relieved some woke authoritarian loon won’t be pretending their totalitarian ideology is in any way connected to our Declaration of Independence by reading from it in some simpy little tone.

We end with these two words: defund NPR.

Is China’s Lying Down Movement Predictive Of Future Unrest?

Bill Collier July 5, 2021

China’s lying down movement is quietly resisting the new Chicom rat-race mandates, but could it become something serious?

China demands productivity while the top 1% in China earn what the lower 50% earn and the authoritarian dictate of long hours without real pay is simply breaking the younger workers.

The “lying down campaign” is all about exiting the rate race. The truth is, no matter how hard you work, the cost of housing is so high, you will not be able to afford a decent place to live. While TFO Global paints this as a political movement, it may not be that simple.

Today’s workers almost all come from one-child families thanks to China’s unforgiving totalitarian “one-child” policy. They are used to pretty much having their own way, being spoiled, and not being asked to make sacrifices. They usually had two sets of grandparents and a mother and father doting on them.

But just as China needs to grow its own consumer economy and increase productivity as its population becomes older, with every one person now being responsible for two retirees, the cost of raising a family and buying a home have also risen dramatically, artificially. China now has a three-child policy and is pushing young people to reproduce as a patriotic duty, but these young people simply have no stomach for it.

Hence the lying down campaign. The idea is that just working real hard and getting married to have three children, all very expensive, is too much of a sacrifice and is materially impossible. Chinese housing prices in its cities is well in excess of the earnings of its workers, by a factor of 10-20 times in most cases. So lying down, putting the breaks on the mad rush to meet unrealistic quotas and exiting the rate race, is the only logical step.

This is not necessarily a political movement. Nobody is screaming “down with communism!” But the potential for this movement to become political, and dangerous, is not lost on the Communist dictatorship, which is actively shunning the lying down campaign as barbaric, unpatriotic, and criminal. Que the calls for rounding up the ringleaders.

These younger workers, all one-child policy victims who never had to learn to get along with other siblings or to hear a word of discipline from their parents and grandparents (who often lived with them), simply don’t feel any need for or see any benefit in working harder, much less having three children!

It’s hard to predict that this will be China’s undoing. The range of possibilities is large, the government is likely to find new ways to push conformity, to dramatically increase the birthrate and present productivity, and to even use robotics and automation, to assist. Moreover, the potential for forced euthanasia targeting infirm people and efforts to force older people to do some kind of work are also not off the table.

But this could become political, the countermeasures could not only fail but backfire, and what is now just a rebellion against a rat-race mentality could become rage against the entire system. A heavy-handed response could actually engender something deeper and more dangerous than people not wanting to work so hard or have so many children.

Canada’s Native Children Problem: A Symptom of the Ongoing Abuse Of Human Rights

Bill Collier July 5, 2021

Bill Collier- Canada has a long and ongoing history of the government dictating sociocultural norms at the end of a gun barrel. Today Canada is grappling with a horrendous “discovery” that doesn’t surprise anyone in the Native community: potentially thousands (over 1000 so far) of unmarked graves of Native children who died while in residential schools meant to brutally obliterate their culture, language, and way of life.

The Bible say of the Disciples that people will oppress them and think they are doing a service to God (see John 16:12), thus revealing the depths of evil and hypocrisy human beings are capable of. And with the cultural genocide waged by Canada from 1874 until 1996, tearing children from their parents and assaulting their Native culture at its core, this was the case. The oppression and abuse were done in the name of Christ, who most certainly did not author such evil.

What happened was children of Native parents were forcefully taken from their homes and placed into residential shcools where they could not speak their language, were forced to convert to “Christianity”, and were treated generally very harshly, especially if they showed any of their Native culture like language, religion, or dress.

Invariably, and perhaps owing to harsh conditions, some children died. They were then buried, never sent home, and often in unmarked graves or in graves where markers were later removed.

This wasn’t the government alone. The state did force these chidlren into these schools, but the schools were run mostly by Catholic and Anglican churches, with 70% being Catholic. Thus, the institutions affiliated with Christ, and in His Name, actively conducted this cultural genocide in a brutal manner. This let to many premature deaths and the traumatic experiences scarred generations of Native children.

Those who would oppress others need only the slightest pretense. The pretense here was an alleged need to assimilate Native children into the broader Canadian society. The people doing this may have convinced themselves they were helping these kids and, worse, doing a service to God.

As Canadians grapple with this brutal history, the question remains, has the spirit of oppression in the very name of things like God, or Christ, or Justice, or whatever, been exorcized from the heart of the country? With tables turned, it is now Christians in Canada who face “forced assimilation” through the “human rights commission” that forces acceptance of practices condemned in the Bible.

The same churches that went along with the religious persecution of non-Christians are now being oppressed and having what they say over the pulpit dictated by the government. That they may garner little sympathy for their fate is owing to their own history of being an instrument of oppression.

Canada has no “Bill of Rights”, and whether it is locking up Native children or Christian pastors, all in the name of forced assimilation to what sociocultural milieu the state favors, the long tradition seems to be a gross disrespect for human rights and human dignity.

The use of Christ as a banner of oppression is certainly baneful to the Native peoples of Canada and it is morally repugnant to any true follower of Christ, first because of the victims and also because it is a abominable taking of the Lord’s Name in vain.

Canada must search its very soul and ask why whatever its government decides the sociocultural norm must be always becomes something one either submits to or is brutalized for refusing to conform thereto.