Final collapse – ever closer

Posted on 2022-09-14 by TPOL Nathan

Many of us who are lovers of liberty and try to be students of both history and humanity have long understood that the breakup, destruction, or collapse of these united States as a single federation of (now) some Fifty States would be due to internal causes and NOT an external force.

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Theft explodes across the planet

Posted on 2022-09-13 by TPOL Nathan

Now, we here at TPOL understand that there is nothing new about theft – even government thieving on a massive scale. It’s been around as long as there were things to steal, and people with no moral compass.

And we also know that our readers understand stealing things is, in the bottom line, a violation of both the Golden Rule (as taught by Jesus) and the Zero-Aggression Principle. Even if the person doing the stealing is doing so to sustain their own lives or that of their children or others in need. (A moral distinction we understand some will reject.)

But the daily headlines and social media topics show that (a) thieving continues to be a growth industry, and (b) the rate of growth seems to be climbing, both in what is stolen and who is doing the stealing. Again, this has happened in other periods of man’s sordid history – the early 21st century is not alone. But we are living now, so it is reasonably important for us.

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Hopelessness, madness, tolerance, and homicide

Posted on 2022-09-12 by TPOL Nathan

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen another surge in killing of people – many so-called “mass murder.” Why? What factors cause these actions? It is not the availability of guns (or other weapons) or opportunity. There is something else.

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Empires’ collapse – some libertarian thoughts

Posted on 2022-09-10 by TPOL Nathan

The death of Elizabeth Windsor and her recent appointment of Liz as new prime minister prompted us to ask about Britain’s fate – something the media and the talking heads (political and media and celebrity) won’t. It triggered some further thoughts here at TPOL on the fate of empires in general.

Empires are viewed by many of us lovers of liberty with suspicion and hatred, for good reason. They have someone or some group as “supreme rulers” over multiple territories and people – often by conquest and always by force. Even if the submission is (at least initially) voluntary.

Empires and imperial ambitions are enemies of liberty and people. Or are they?

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Britain’s fate – what will it be?

Posted on 2022-09-09 by TPOL Nathan

The world has changed. Of course, it does that every day – indeed, every hour! But this week, the changes have been profound.

Especially for our British cousins. Two days after the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, replaced the disgraced Boris Johnson, the inevitable finally happened. Elizabeth Windsor-Mountbatten, age 96, died in her beloved Scottish home, with most of the family around her. Seventy years of her reign finally ended.

England, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, the Anglophile world, the entire planet, will never be the same. For good? For bad? Or a little of both. But it should make us pause and think.

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Mass killing – no gun required

Posted on 2022-09-06 by TPOL Nathan

As the United Kingdom has found out over the years, now the Dominion of Canada knows. It does not take a firearm to allow mass murderers to achieve their nightmare dreams of notoriety, revenge, and evil. This is again demonstrated in northern Saskatchewan, 150 miles or more north of the provincial capital of Regina and the headquarters of the once honored, respected, and honest organization, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

One or two monsters in human form, filled with evil and hatred, have killed ten people and wounded at least 15 more. (Indeed, the death toll may not yet be fully known, as the RCMP and Band (Tribal) Police continue to investigate. Supposedly the body of one of the two original suspects, an older brother of the one still at large, was found at one of the crime sites, later.)

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Looking back – Fall of the British Empire

Posted on 2022-09-05 by TPOL Nathan

In the rapid decline and collapse of the British Empire, the United Kingdom, and England itself in the 20th Century, one figure dominates the events of the era. That man is Winston Churchill.

His life covers both the height of peace, prosperity, empire, and yes, even liberty. And the actions and events that caused all of those to be lost. Of which the greatest loss was liberty.

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“Biden bucks” and liberty’s loss

Posted on 2022-09-01 by TPOL Nathan

Our beloved leader-in-chief, dear, dear Uncle Joe, has decided and announced he is forgiving $10,000 or $20,000 (I admit to being confused which) of student loan debt for each individual borrower. I guess it depends on the particular type of student loan involved – but all of the types of loans are unpaid loans. Nobody who either paid off their loans – or never had them – is getting anything from sweet ole Uncle Joe.

(The folks over at Paradigm (formerly Agora) call central bank digital currency “Biden bucks” but I think the term fits this give-away also.)

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Fake money

Posted on 2022-08-29 by TPOL Nathan

Not the stuff in the picture (courtesy the folks at Consilience LLC and Addison Wiggins) – that’s play money.

We aren’t going to talk about THIS stuff

No, we are talking about the product of the world’s (and history’s) biggest counterfeiter: the FedGov itself. Well, technically, the Federal Reserve.

Fake Money – the “real deal”

Indeed, the stuff is just as bogus as pretending that the Federal Reserve is really a private organization, and not part of the FedGov.

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Guns – the canary in the mine

Posted on 2022-08-27 by TPOL Nathan

If you are not familiar with Oleg Volk, visit some of his websites (see below) and enjoy his photography of people and weapons. And share his work with your family and friends who may be hoplophobes and hoploclasts but whom may be redeemable. Like this one:

Pogrom and cops

Guns – how politicians try to address them – are a good bellweather of the state of our society. But there are more ways people in general look at and deal with (and in) guns (and ammo) that are early warnings of disruptions in society.

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