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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Who’s in charge, anyhow?

Posted on 2022-08-26 by TPOL Nathan

Although this is usually (for us here at TPOL) a rhetorical spiritual question, it doesn’t hurt to ask it regarding politics and liberty, now and then. Who is really running things?

The thought this time is triggered by a blogger who claims that, in effect, the FedGov has been reduced to a single branch: the Legislative. Congress is in control and the Executive and Judicial branches are but tools of Schumer and Pelosi. (Oh, probably Pelosi as the senior partner, regardless of Senators’ grandiose beliefs and huge egos.)

Is that true? Is Uncle Joe really dancing to Pelosi’s and Schumer’s tune? I have my doubts. I think it is a mutual benefit society, and Joe (or his lieutenants and handlers and puppet masters) have just as much say as those who are holding the strings of the Senators and Representatives. (Of both old parties and the so-called “independents” in that big ole building up on the hill.

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The “Faucet” – is he really going away?

Posted on 2022-08-23 by TPOL Nathan

On Monday, 22 AUG 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced he is resigning (“retiring”) effective 31 DEC 2022. (At least according to Tom Woods and NPR. CNN didn’t seem (as of 2300 hrs ET) fit to publish it.)

Various cheers could be heard over the internet. Of course (would you expect anything different?) the various bureaucrats and Uncle Joe are slobbering all over him, and NPR is clearly writing up the brief for the Pope to canonize him – maybe even before he dies. The “non-religious” types have already done much to deify him: would Augustus benefited as much as the Faucet?

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Why? The myth of white supremacy

Posted on 2022-08-22 by TPOL Nathan

Enemies of liberty are expert at creating myths. Like this one.

A larger and larger number of Americans and foreigners believe the constant media and government propaganda that the Fifty States are plagued by a massive evil “white supremacist” movement trying to restore (or increase) the supposed racist origins of the United States of America.

To the point that some people “do not understand” why the FedGov cannot crush this evil and suppress white supremism as a political and “revolutionary/reactionary” movement. After all, they say, isn’t the United States of America the most powerful nation in the world?

Sigh.

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