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    The first thing we must realize is that this society is exactly where it intended to be. The society reflects the ideals of the individuals within it. It is not an accident we find ourselves more and more in a world that extends rights and privileges to corporations and considers them as super-individuals, usurping the needs of actual flesh and blood citizens.

    Poverty and priviledge are bed buddies because that is what its citizens desire - it is not a mistake. Status and power require those without either. This should be obvious to anyone who can honestly reflect upon their own motivations.

    The world is not helpless in the face of authoritarianism - it welcomes it. Those few who manage to make it to the top over the backs of those less fortunate become the wielder of the sword of despotism. And no one wants to rock the boat of priviledge in case they somehow manage to claw their own way to the top. They wish and dream to be in a position to enjoy the prestige of wealth. And so they put up with the abuse of power and hope they get a shot at lording it over others with mansions, servants, nannies, private jets and other perks of the rich.

    Before we can advance to a stage where we might all enjoy the benefits of this society, we must change our overall beliefs and secret ambitions. We must stop pointing fingers at others, declaring they are the reason our society is heading towards decay. It is our deepest held fantasy of "success" as measured by wealth that propagates the inequities in the system we are all a part of. It is our fault, each of us are to blame. This society is not a game of monopoly, although the rich would have you believe it is.

    The worst part of this mistaken belief is that by adhering to its principles we also agree to injustice (a highly corrupt judicial system), oppresion (the police state gaurding the property of the rich), and crime (as those with no hope resort to stealing, murder and organized gangs). Put another way, we believe the murder of our loved ones, world wars (and other more restricted wars), terrorism and inequality are but a small price to pay for the chance to be on the list of privilege; to have a shot at becoming rich and lording it over others we are willing to perpetuate atrocities on the rank and file.

    This first principle is, therefore, only a transitional requirement to address the most fundamental flaw in the philosophy of our world. It will not be required further down the road when most will come to understand that peace and security comes with prosperity for all.


    All human beings are creations of One Source and thereby certain rights are bestowed upon them by virtue of birth alone. These rights shall be administered with the highest sense of honor and duty to ensure the equal, unbiased and fair treatment of all. To further ensure the granting of these rights it is declared that no individual, group, special interest lobby or any other sub-grouping, whether overt or covert, shall attain a proportion of any goods, property, chattel or contracts of any description greater than the sum of the individuals and their basic allotment would allow within those sub-groups until such time when all human beings have been allotted their basic needs according to the rights described herein.


    In another post I will address the notion of honor, duty, chivalry and responsibility in connection to the way we might advance beyond our primitive mindsets.
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    There is a word. It is a word that embodies almost exactly the mindset that settles upon someone in their time of service. Yes, it stems from a sense of higher purpose and responsibility and it is carried out with great conviction, seemingly in a state of profound knowing. It is that word that describes the quality of character that allows the recognition of the moment when one can and will intercede in exactly the perfect manner for the situation at hand. It is rather instinctual but it also contains a heavily weighted certainty of beneficence. It inspires the action of the chivalrous and the gallant, the hero. It is used a lot in fantasy novels of knights and dragons and wizards and their fearless deeds against impossible odds, and in many epic comic books. It is a word all would know but seldom use or hear in everyday conversation.

    Is it the word ‘noble’? Possessing outstanding qualities, says Webster. A ‘noble gas’ is defined as: rare gasses that exhibit great stability and extremely low reaction rates. But the ‘noble savage’: innate natural simplicity and virtue, uncorrupted..., implies that these outstanding qualities are inherent in the noble savage but rather rare amongst his modern descendants. Should this not worry us? Should we not pause to consider? Where has the simplicity and virtue so natural to the noble savage gone? It seems the word noble is not quite the word but it does imply the existence of this insubstantial quality that we in the modern world have misplaced, for it cannot ever be entirely lost.

    The noble savage says more about us than we of them. For if the savage is noble then civilization is pagan and complex while the natural is simple, innate and free.

    What drives a person to lengths the average person would balk at and avoid? What strength of conviction would allow one to seemingly risk their own life, to pay no heed to their personal safety and to abandon ‘mere’ rational and ‘more’ reasonable alternatives? What makes one brave the most arduous task for the sake of some higher ideal, often beyond their ‘ken’?

    Webster defines it as: strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness. Mister Webster refers us to the word ‘wield’ to elaborate further: to deal successfully with, manage, control...to exert one’s authority by means of ---- valor.

    Valor in its highest and only true sense is righteousness. Valor is purposeful, responsible, firm, knowing, beneficent, chivalrous, gallant, heroic, fearless, noble, rare, stable, active, natural, simple, strong, virtuous, pure, brave - morphed into a comprehensive whole, emanating from an unseen realm, originated by a largely unknown source, and wielded by the valorous.

    Valor is to be wielded. To wield valor is to love and serve, not mindlessly adhering to rote and dogma but always with great reverence and heartfelt humility in peaceful action, in respectful harmony, in all creative expression.

    Valor can only be wielded with certainty, or else it be only bravery. It is the conviction of purpose that guides valor straight and true. And there is no greater purpose than to set humanity free. Not free to elect your next president, free; not free to choose your future vacation destination, free; not free to pick your favorite brand of breakfast cereal, free. Real freedom to create and then recreate who you are: Free to come and go, free to speak or not speak, free from tyranny, freedom to associate, freedom to respect all life, free from restriction of any kind, free to define life and free to live that life. Freedom to imagine and manifest must stem from an equally comprehensive quality that ennobles and uplifts thereby transcending the all too frequent tendency toward egoism and its attendant bouquet of grotesqueries and depravities.

    The double-edged sword of truth and the shield of valor are the companions of the noble of heart at their time of service. They are the weapons of the righteous. They are not creations of an individual mind but merely picked up and wielded in unique fashion for specific purpose. Truth and valor are all righteousness requires (almost, see below). The righteous just take up the cause. Often, the cause picks them. The cause of the righteous is always protected by the sword of truth and the shield of valor. Some serve for scant seconds, others for a lifetime, some but once and others many times. But none are ever without their companions while in service.

    What need for weapons and shields unless there is a perceived villain? And that villain must have a hero in the form of a corrected vision without the villain’s interference. There must be a transition to something better. And that something better has to be protected. This is justice. The question, “What form of justice ensures peace?” will be the topic of the next post. A sneak peak at that future post might suggest that:

    Justice is the armor of the valorous.
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    Truth, valor, justice....

    We are speaking of Honor, a forgotten element.

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    Honor, truly a forgotten element.

    What use is valor without justice. And what is justice without honor?
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    Part II


    It seems as though the ideas in this thread are perhaps a bit simplistic. This was intentional. It was meant to drive a discussion primarily about consensus. But the idea of consensus can easily be dismissed in this world of competition and victory. These are two concepts that would have died with the old order and as such are not compatible with the decrees in this article. Yet we must contend with how to get from here to there. For this purpose, there needs to be two things happen simultaneously.

    First, resources have to be freed for redistribution. But it must be resources not needed for survival or basic subsistence. The only way to accomplish this redistribution is to establish inalienable rights to every person on the planet - equal rights. This in itself requires a reordering of priorities worldwide and a revaluing of wealth to replace GDP (gross domestic product). It would naturally start a discourse that might take a long time to sort through, yet it is the only way forward. And that way forward must begin with a bill of rights already in place that rights the intrinsic wrongs in our society in theory. Then the practical aspects can be reverse-engineered to suit the new charter of rights.

    Second, in order to value correctly, a statement has to be made about the currency of wealth. If it were money, many would already be content and the world would be at peace. Obviously this is not what we observe around us. In fact, the correct currency is happiness because that is the measure of satisfaction for a sovereign. And we know what would make us happy in this world, so it might come as a surprise to learn that money does not confer happiness, freedom does.

    If we did not know it before, we are learning right now that we are not at all free in this world as it stands today.

    Once resources are freed and valuation corrected, the beginning of the transition can occur.

    There are many considerations at this point, each with equal importance.
    For instance there will be resistance by those who already have made this system work for themselves and they will feel cheated by the changes, after a lifetime of hard work and commitment. And rightly so.
    There will be laws that violate the new charter and will have to be removed - actually all laws will have to be revisited, especially the punitive part, since there are provisions in the charter to protect individuals from prosecution, fines, and incarceration.
    No one will have authority, and that can lead to chaos. It will be imperative to completely reorder education to focus on the new reality and to instill the new buzz words of the movement: truth, valor, justice, honor.

    With this basic understanding in place and the transition raring to go there will be one very big problem that can only be alleviated by a new designation, a new profession: The Facilitator.

    If the intention is to instill in each human being the dignity and status of sovereign, what means could be used to drive policies and implement strategies? If everyone is free, who runs the world?

    The Facilitators. Common folk with integrity and common sense combined with fortitude and perseverance guided by the four components of such souls: truth, valor, justice, and honor. But primarily, these folks will be those that love life and have compassion for the suffering of others.

    These facilitators will be bestowed with full authority over institutions and governments and will be able to implement policy changes in real time to help those in their charge attain sovereign status.

    Such power cannot be wielded for long so a time period will have to be set before a reassessment must be made for each facilitator. Or perhaps a rotation might be the better option where facilitators serve for a term and then retire.

    In any case, the facilitator has full power to accomplish any task set them. They can order institutions to follow their dictates and they can require government to act in support of any decision they might make. What they cannot do is violate any of the points in the bill of rights. This modifies their response parameters while allowing them wide leeway in modalities.

    It is difficult to follow the convolutions and ramifications of the impact of this new class. It promises remarkable possibilities but that would depend on the quality of the facilitator. Most likely it would take a bit of time for the facilitator role to find its legs. But like in every other discipline, the cream would quickly rise to the top and serve as example for the rest.

    The job qualifications of the facilitator are broad and cover every possible area of expertise. Certain types will be needed for various intractable situations, most likely taken from the ranks of those embroiled in the specific situation itself.

    The idea of the facilitator comes from a simple observation. That there is always someone with the answer to every problem, it is just a matter of finding that often unassuming individual. Unassuming individuals often have no agenda and no ambition to rise through the ranks of mediocrity, preferring instead to help how they can in their unassuming roles. We will give them power to be a positive change for the better in the world.

    And when the work nears completion, we will learn the final lesson of the transition: all sovereigns are facilitators, if they wish to remain free.


    This thread is open for comments and discussion. Thank you.
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    Current affairs allows for a good contrast to underline how not to implement the required changes in our society.

    The op listed ten articles of freedom. The articles sound communist in nature and perhaps they are. However, the articles are about freedom and happiness, with individualism as the cornerstone to its achievement.

    It is impossible to dictate freedom, as current events highlight. And The Great Reset, if anything, is merely another means for the elite to gain more power and more money from the people. That is the opposite of freedom.

    Let's just look at one article for clarity, shall we?

    Quote All human beings have the right to come and go anywhere and everywhere at any time without restriction, provided all other rights discussed herein are observed.
    This statement is intended to illustrate how a free people should never be restricted in their movements because such restrictions limit freedom and can be used to leverage power, control, or privilege.

    But if a peoples finds the need to emigrate en mass, that group is definitively not free to begin with.

    The purpose of this thread was always about the deeper meaning behind the articles. The op was intended to shock a discussion that could move from the obvious to the more subtle by debate and sound observation.

    Unfortunately, that discussion was derailed most likely because of the first two articles that sound exactly like a communist manifesto. Those two articles were always meant as the sounding board to that discussion that never happened.

    It could have lead to the uncovering of the fact that a utopia on earth, where the people are free to live their lives as they please, requires a reallocation of resources and a dismantling of certain institutions that act as gatekeepers in many resource fields.

    And from there it could have lead to deeper discussion. The articles were only meant as guidelines and there should be no emotional connection to them at all.

    We have been taught that the political structure spans from communism on the one hand to fascism on the other, with democracy, libertarians and anarchists somewhere in the middle. This is so obviously skewed that it can make no sense in any meaningful way and so it disrupts rational thought - as it was intended.

    The spectrum we have been taught is skewed so as to circle around back to the start without added comprehension. Without clarity the best that can be accomplished is circular reasoning, that establishes its own veracity by referencing its own existence.

    This is why the articles seem to lean towards the left, in terms of the political spectrum. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.
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    Quote It could have lead to the uncovering of the fact that a utopia on earth, where the people are free to live their lives as they please, requires a reallocation of resources and a dismantling of certain institutions that act as gatekeepers in many resource fields.

    Recent events and another thread has prompted a return interest in Peace and how to attain it.

    The Green New Deal, Great Reset, Agenda 2030, Climate Change, are calling cards employed by various elite institutions and special interest groups such as the UN, WEF, Trilateral Commission, Davos Group, Bilderburg Group, and many others. They all agree on one thing: fundamental change is necessary.

    Such an orchestrated planet-wide upheaval of society has never before been attempted, at least not as far as our sanctioned official knowledge would allow.

    According to Wade Frazier, the trajectory of human society is primarily driven by available energy. The amount of energy reasonably accessible to each member of society is what drives change in what we would call a favourable direction. It impacts wealth, health, longevity, innovation, philanthropy, politics, social ethics, money, business, economic growth and many other areas of public and private concern.

    The most abundant and cheap form of energy in this society, by orders of magnitude, is fossil fuels.

    The plan of the global elites is to throttle global fossil fuel supplies in order to achieve parity with the cost of alternative, far less efficient, energy sources.

    Manufactured scarcity is the corporate solution to most of its problems and consequently the source of many of society's most intractable woes.

    By purposely dismantling the oil, gas, and coal sectors' transmission and logistical operations, the cost of every commodity is forced upwards. Yet it is not cost parity that enables alternative sources to compete with fossil fuels, it is availability that does.

    In any case, the obvious tried-and-true method of manufactured scarcity is about to be implemented on a global scale, in full knowledge of the consequences.

    Meanwhile, a manufactured media blitz has created an atmosphere of distrust and fear that has isolated, insulated, and divided society. This officially advocated unnatural bias is rooted in emotion and is fundamentally irrational. The resulting confusion and chaos is having a significant impact on our civil and social norms.

    From an energetic viewpoint there would seem to be a connection between the available energy being drastically curtailed and the warping attitude of the individual in terms of civility; It's hard to be civil on an empty stomach.

    The first step on the road to Peace is respect.
    It should be and absolutely is obvious that any empty stomach is anathema to that first step.
    Advocating hatred is also counter-productive.
    Censure, of any kind, does not help.

    Lying, colluding, planning, and executing global covert agendas without consent of the governed is tantamount to crimes against humanity and shows complete disrespect.

    The rule of law must prevail. That has always been the way. It cannot be otherwise. An understanding of sovereignty is crucial to that end.

    We are sovereign beings. It is from that fact alone that we derive our rights. It is from the fact that we are sovereign beings that we form alliances with other sovereigns in common bond, in solidarity. We form our bonds in agreement of our fundamental rights. In consensus we form sovereign territories and mark our borders. We defend our rights, we protect our rights, we acknowledge the right of all sovereigns to do likewise.

    How can there be respect without an understanding of our fundamental nature?
    These are the fundamentals of a new society.
    The sovereign being has fundamental and inalienable rights.
    Those rights are not negotiable, and never subject to change.
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    I know it sounds naive. I know it seems impossible to implement. I know there seems to be no way to make a peaceful transition to such a radical ideology. But the point is that something like this has to be ready to be presented to the people when the collapse occurs or we will just pick up the pieces and continue on from where we left off. And that would only lead us right back to another catastrophe in the future.
    "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell

    Everything on this planet is cyclical over the short, medium, and long-term. That is not to say that everything is black and white in contrast, either. There are plenty of grey areas that indeed are cyclical as well.

    When it comes to world problems, I think they are too enormous for each person. Even the leaders or representatives of people cannot get it right.

    So I choose to have personal peace. I choose to pick my battles more carefully. I choose to be a contributor, if even in a very small way.

    There is a slogan from decades ago; 'think global, act local'. I think this is sound advice. If your own house is in order, that indeed is a contribution. Recognizing what one can do and achieve is crucial to the whole. I cannot be consumed with anxiety by others who are learning to get their own house in order, but I can recognize the ones who are actually trying.
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    To 'get one's house in order', depends on many variables and a whole lot of decision making. Those decisions will be based on the comprehensiveness of the data available. If the picture is big enough, the solution of 'think global, act local' looses its pertinence since the mechanism of everyday life, the rules we must all abide by and fall under, is entrenched and intractable. It is kind of like the native Americans maintaining that to win against the alien intruders it was merely necessary to wait them out and stay out of their way in the meantime. To 'just go about your own thing' is what has gotten us into this predicament, and it is what has always been the reason we suffer so.

    To be sovereign requires constant vigilance.
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    To 'get one's house in order', depends on many variables and a whole lot of decision making. Those decisions will be based on the comprehensiveness of the data available.
    If one cannot get their house in order; how do you expect them to have any effect on world problems? Demonstrating peacefulness in the home and in your neighbourhood is certainly progress. Chaos in the home is not conducive to growth beyond the home. [america is riddled with chaos in the home.] If the many variables and decision-making are too much; this person has no business to be interested in world problems. I would also indicate that this person would be a hindrance in the larger scheme.

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    If the picture is big enough, the solution of 'think global, act local' looses its pertinence since the mechanism of everyday life, the rules we must all abide by and fall under, is entrenched and intractable. It is kind of like the native Americans maintaining that to win against the alien intruders it was merely necessary to wait them out and stay out of their way in the meantime.
    I'm not advocating not to fight when it is time to fight. The native Americans had no chance. [See the Trail of Tears.] In some respects americans in general have no chance, even though they might have the numbers and that is because you cannot reach a consensus in due course the majority of the time. Getting people to agree is half the battle. If you cannot do that, the other half of the battle is pointless and will fail [which it does repeatedly]. The division in america is not as simple as only left v. right.

    Regarding the fight: I visited Washington D.C. for a few weeks before I ended up leaving america. There are few restrooms available to the public [I drove around in a panic a couple of times]. Many gas stations do not have one, and if they do it may be broken. When a million people descend on D.C. for a protest, there is little to no facilities and I think this is by design. The people will have to leave at some point or it is going to get very uncomfortable. So my point is to get together and fight presents problems [some basic] that people are not willing to contend with in person. Even though a million is a lot, it is not enough in the scheme of 27o million adults.

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    To 'just go about your own thing' is what has gotten us into this predicament, and it is what has always been the reason we suffer so.
    Convince the masses of the criteria by which to agree and plan in advance to take the action. [Iceland 2oo9, its been done quite nicely.] You will never get enough people to agree on the facts and deploy the required actions [mostly speaking from an american perspective but much of the turmoil in the world is still disorganized].

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    To be sovereign requires constant vigilance.
    No one can be individually completely sovereign without an explanation of how to circumvent the law in the area in which they live, and provide for its legal and physical defence. The police won't listen to this person, the court will not listen to this person and the person stands no chance against a militarized police force or the military [but this really is a separate topic].

    World peace really begins with a peaceful home. Millions of peaceful homes have their due effect on the global scheme. But you cannot show me millions of peaceful homes; mostly because of low EQ prevailing - even in america of all places.
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    America is the only place on earth with a government almost amenable to a sovereign. But instead of freedom, the more attainable goal of liberty was chosen as its model.

    Liberty is about as good as it can get in this world at the present time.

    Liberty is freedom, with certain restrictions.


    Peace comes about in the presence of justice. This world is not at peace because it has no justice. The prejudicial treatment that passes as justice in today's world merely proves that there is rampant systemic corruption in most, if not all, of our institutions. Until this insidious systemic corruption is uncovered and brought into the public domain for serious consideration there can be no peace.

    But in the meantime we can discuss the responsibilities of a sovereign being so that when the time comes we will be ready to defend our God given rights with the vim and vigor they deserve.
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    There is another way to look at the difference between liberty and freedom. It is also the reason why there cannot be sovereign beings so long as there are sovereign countries.

    The politics in any country rides a line somewhere between the collective good and an individual's rights. This is the political spectrum, that ranges from communist to anarchist. The part of the spectrum that ranges from fascism to collectivism deals with the distribution of power between corporate and government control. So as one can see, the spectrum does not range from communism on the left to fascism on the right as we have been told. Communism and fascism always come as a pair, as corporations and governments vie for ultimate control. They lie on the same side of the spectrum. Their opposite is a form of government never before tried but the best we have as reference is something like the USA, a republic.

    The Webster's dictionary has this definition of a republic:
    - a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them
    - a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch
    - a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity

    This is about as lax a definition as can be had. And there is a reason for that. The reason is that all forms of government impose a limit on freedom, therefore they are all practicing the same form of governance - dictatorship, a form of tyranny.

    Some of these dictatorships in this world are time limited, others are not. But all are tyrannical at their core.

    A republic has a special characteristic that makes it less tyrannical: the constitution and the bill of rights. Both are necessary elements of a government for the people - and not for the governing body or national business interests. The constitution outlines the sacrosanct areas of human activity that cannot be curtailed by governmental legislation or laws. The bill of rights outlines the god-given rights of all its citizens.

    Yet with all its lofty ideals liberty is still anathema to freedom.

    The ideal of liberty allows the state to form as the only sovereign, protected by arms and the threat of violence against any who would disagree. No person is free, but they do have inalienable rights. But those rights, even though acknowledged, are bestowed by the state, by dint of its claim of sovereignty.

    Only a sovereign can bestow rights, no matter how lofty the ideal, no matter how pure the intent.

    A sovereign claims rights, a libertarian has rights given them.

    And so it is, in this world of semi-civilized beings only marginally beyond the label of barbarian.

    The human condition is not refined enough to hold the obvious in mind. Instead, the human condition is still in survival mode for most. Their daily concerns are subsistence level, so their minds are filled with worry and fear.

    This is not the mindset of a sovereign. But it does work well to perpetuate the sovereign status of the collective state.
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    This second part of the discussion about the constitution for World Peace is about specific examples illustrating how the articles have been violated and where the adoption of those rights would have led to different outcomes.

    Even though the op states it is a constitution, it is more correctly called a bill of rights - The Sovereign Being Bill of Rights, or SoBBoR. The constitution would be derived from discussions about how to implement and protect the ten articles of SoBBoR.

    Minus some pertinent but minor amendments, this World Peace document can be equated to the laws of Nature itself. In fact, it should be extended to include all life on Earth. There would have to be one small caveat added to protect all life: the sovereign beings of the planet must swear to the stewardship of all life on the planet. This is because only a sentient being can be sovereign and only a sovereign can bestow rights by extension of their own.



    The first article is being violated in so many ways as the orchestrated dismantling of the 'free world' continues. Notice how certain groups are being allocated massive sums of money and resources well beyond what their collective allotment would allow. This is the most egregious afront of all because it disproportionately violates the rights of the least and the most vulnerable amongst us - the ones that cannot stand up for themselves, in many cases for many different reasons. It is a tragedy.

    At the end of the second article there is a caveat that states: 'All the above shall be provided as best the human production capacity will allow'. The intention here is to highlight that production capacity must produce a surplus of those items, goods, and services that the sovereign (eventually, may desire, but at first) needs. This is the industry of a sovereign state: to supply and service the sovereign.
    In the 'free world' today we see the exact opposite to this philosophy as supply chains are intentionally breaking down and oil production is brought to a screeching halt exasperating an already tettering economy.

    Notice also that after the first two transitional articles #1 and #2, the very next article, #3, outlines the right to the access of information without impediment. Open access to information, via free speech, and to all debate on all topics without any restriction is vital to a sovereign because that is what they must base their decisions on, by themselves, free of entrainment.
    It is the only way consensus can be achieved.

    It is no wonder at all then, that the first three articles of the rights of a sovereign are under attack like never before.
    Even without any rights actually having been proclaimed or claimed, the struggle over these vital necessities continues every day.
    That is because those rights are fundamental whether they are used for the good of the state or for the good of the sovereign individual.

    The commonsense rights of 'equal worth' and 'equal share' and 'equal access' are intrinsic values for any sovereign claim.
    Whether those rights are upheld or withdrawn depends on which claim of sovereignty is accepted as valid.

    It is truly solely up to the individual, whether they want to be classed as citizen or sovereign.
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    Based on the republican form of government, where all men have endowed rights (which include liberty and absolute ownership), it might be helpful to point out that liberty is not what you think.

    WHICH LIBERTY?
    According to American law, liberty has four types: natural, personal, civil and political. In general:
    ● Natural = absolute freedom (on one's own property or unclaimed land)
    ● Personal = right of locomotion (freedom to travel on public roads and waterways)
    ● Civil = permission from government (licenses, permits)
    ● Political = participation in government (voting, holding office)
    The former two are endowed rights, the latter two are government privileges.

    LIBERTY. 1. Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature.
    2. Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political.
    - - - Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 1856 ed.
    ...
    NATURAL LIBERTY - The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature. The right which nature gives to all mankind of disposing of their persons and property after the manner in which they judge most consistent with their happiness, on condition of their acting within the limits of the law of nature, and so as not to interfere in the equal exercise of the same rights by other men. 1 Blackstone's Commentaries, 123,
    - - - Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth edition, p. 919.

    PERSONAL SECURITY: The legal and uninterrupted enjoyment by a man of his life, his body, his health and his reputation. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 202.

    PERSONAL LIBERTY - The right or power of locomotion; of changing situation, or moving one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. 1 Bl. Comm. 125.
    - - - Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed., p. 919

    TRAVEL - Within the meaning of a constitutional right to travel, means migration with intent to settle and abide.
    - - - Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed., p.1500

    "PERSONAL LIBERTY, or the Right to enjoyment of life and liberty, is one of the fundamental or natural Rights, which has been protected by its inclusion as a guarantee in the various constitutions, which is not derived from, or dependent on, the U.S. Constitution, which may not be submitted to a vote and may not depend on the outcome of an election. It is one of the most sacred and valuable Rights, as sacred as the Right to private property...and is regarded as inalienable."
    - - - 16 Corpus Juris Secundum, Constitutional Law, Sect.202, p.987.

    RIGHT TO LIFE : The right to life is a moral principle based on the belief that a human being has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another human being.

    "PRIVATE PROPERTY - As protected from being taken for public uses, is such property as belongs absolutely to an individual, and of which he has the exclusive right of disposition. Property of a specific, fixed and tangible nature, capable of being in possession and transmitted to another, such as houses, lands, and chattels."
    - - - Black's Law dictionary, sixth ed., p.1217.

    "OWNERSHIP - ... Ownership of property is either absolute or qualified. The ownership of property is absolute when a single person has the absolute dominion over it... The ownership is qualified when it is shared with one or more persons, when the time of enjoyment is deferred or limited, or when the use is restricted. "
    - - -Black's Law dictionary, sixth ed., p. 1106

    All men (in America) are born equal (before the law - none higher - thus at the highest status at law - sovereign), with Creator endowed rights that governments were instituted to secure. Among those rights are life, liberty (natural and personal), absolute ownership of private property, inherent powers, privileges and immunities.

    Absent consent, American governments can only secure rights : adjudicate disputes, prosecute criminals, defend against all enemies, foreign or domestic.

    Everything else is derived from consent of the governed.
    - - - -
    SUMMATION
    Pursuant to the Declaration of Independence, all government instituted under its authority to secure the endowed rights of the people, have two jobs:
    1) Secure Creator endowed rights, and
    2) Govern those who consent.
    Caveat - Consent waives job #1.
    This is due to the citizen's pledge, spelled out in the Declaration, wherein the founders pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor (obedience) to the governments instituted to secure endowed rights of the sovereign people.

    In short, no citizen has any endowed rights to life, liberty, nor property, since mandatory civic duties abrogate them.
    The first generation of citizens were not pleased, and insisted on some guarantees which became the Bill of Rights. But in reality, it was a limitation on the government regarding privileges, that remained since all inherent rights were surrendered / waived.
    Thus it is perfectly legal for government to order a citizen to train, fight, and die on command (militia duty), take a portion of his property (ad valorem taxes on qualified ownership of real estate), require his obedience to rules and regulations, and so on.


    This may explain why the world's greatest propaganda ministry has erased any knowledge about the republican form of government, and replaced it with vile corruption like the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That declaration is anathema to the Creator endowed rights of the republican form.

    UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights only recognizes GOVERNMENT ENFORCED RIGHTS ("civil" rights) and imposes SOCIALISM (slavery and theft by government). And it does not recognize that individuals are sovereign over government, but can only be subject citizens of their sovereign governments.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univer...f_Human_Rights


    https://www.un.org/en/about-us/unive...f-human-rights


    The UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS is an Attack upon Sovereigns, Eradication of Endowed Rights, Abolition of Absolute Ownership of PRIVATE PROPERTY, Expropriation of Property and Imposition of Compulsory Labor for the Benefit of Others. Conversion of the privilege of Political liberty into an enforced “right.”
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    Thanks Ozmirage.

    I'll have more to say about your post another time.

    But for now:
    Quote Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political.
    Freedom is not divided.
    Liberty makes a mockery of a sovereign but that is not the point. In a world where freedom is unattainable, liberty is the only stand-in capable of at least paying lip service to freedom. And with but a few restrictions and slight of hand...replaces freedom.

    Freedom stems from a state of mind. Liberty stems from the barrel of a gun.

    And like always, the problem is one of justice...
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    Posted here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1583666

    Quote Yet maybe sentience is a shared condition.
    Like a thought.

    Maybe the thought of peace is only the beginning.
    Maybe peace needs to be shared.

    Maybe to share peace requires a dialog. The conditions for peace, the nature of peace, the results of peace must first be discussed.

    And maybe peace needs to be taught by example to illustrate its effects.


    Thought, word, deed.


    Maybe you need these aligned to actually be sentient...
    And maybe sentience does not come to the individual but to the collective.


    Maybe peace must be shared in thought, in word, and in deed before sentience can arise.
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    I am choosing this thread for this video... Yesterday I checked some work by Abby again and I found this video.. she did it a while ago... Excellent Abby! She is a courageous woman.. educated.. brilliant.. articulate.. fearless and principled!
    I love and respect her for decades...

    For centuries of suffering... I think it is time.. to end heartache and hatred....
    Peace is the one and only option for the people... Enough means Enough.. suffering must end.. there are everywhere these moments we are living in....

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    The original goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), according to its first Secretary General, was "to keep the Soviets out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
    Today, the Soviet Union is gone, the United States is dominant, and Germany is de-industrializing. Has NATO achieved its goals? If so, why does it still exist? And why did Fidel Castro call it “the most perfidious instrument of repression known to mankind”?

    How to Stop WORLD WAR III with Abby Martin



    For Episode 6 of “The International,” a world-spanning video series brought to you by Jacobin and the @ProgIntl, journalist Abby Martin examines NATO’s global footprint and explains why this “defensive alliance” might end up causing World War III.

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    Quote Posted by bojancan (here)
    The original goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), according to its first Secretary General, was "to keep the Soviets out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
    Today, the Soviet Union is gone, the United States is dominant, and Germany is de-industrializing. Has NATO achieved its goals?

    It has never not achieved this.

    Germany has been stagnant since 1936.

    You have to juggle some map re-draws to figure it out, but, the number of Germans living in a given area has not increased. Population growth is almost entirely been accountable by migrants.

    It is in a kind of zero-sum game where they essentially trade German cars for Japanese ones.

    American occupation has stunted it.

    I would agree NATO is a tremendous obstacle to peace and should have been disbanded with the Iron Curtain.

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