Well written! I always like to add that we didn't just have political federalism, part and parcel with that we had federalism in the economic and scientific/engineering spheres as well. And the results were powerfully positive.
Its a shame the world's only contemporary example of an advanced place that has a lot of federalism, China, may be leaping towards centralization (they've already gone a good amount of the way there over the past five years). Between roughly the early 1980s up until recent years, with its politically and economically decentralized system and democratic governance structures built around its broadly representative local parties who wielded control of local governments that had *real* power, China, despite not having the vote and some other key things, in some of the most key ways darkly ironically resembled the USA's Old Republic more than contemporary America does. However Xi and the special interest groups around him at the national center are trying to hyper centralize and dedemocratize, the recent 3rd Plenum declares the intent to eliminate any policy variabilities that have the effect of generating partial local trade protectionism and partial local capital inhibitors. But that variability and the democracy it enables has been the great enabler of China's success! I hope they fail.
the third plenum's (some directly but its more so the broader groups communication around it) justifications for economic and political centralization bear such a striking resemblance to what American were told in the 1970s/1980s that much of it is essentially one for one
Excellent. Thanks for digging into this in such detail. Definitely worth the long read. Waiting to learn more and get your synthesis (if you call it that) of the variables of federalism….
One note:
"The Articles of Confederation (1781) established a federal structure with a very weak central authority and had proven too weak, so it seemed, to deal effectively with foreign affairs and internal disruptions.”
I see ‘foreign affairs’ here primarily referring to relations / wars with Native peoples… and ‘internal disruptions’ similarly referring to the continuing resistance of Native peoples after their forcible ‘inclusion’….
In universal community trust, we have private family trusts that are beneficiaries of a sovereign community trust/anarcho nation. The umbrella protection over both is UCT and the natural law jurisdiction created by the treaty of UCT. The sovereign community trust is the administrative, organisational body of the community.
UCT espouses self determination under natural law.
This looks extremely interesting. I did quite a bit of looking over the website and saw the mention of multiple SCTs of micro-nations in the UK and North America. Can you tell me if there any such that are actual land based communites within what is called the U.S.?
I'm also curious what the meaning of "indigenous peoples" is in the UCT Treaty and whether UCT has looked into forming treaties with First Peoples, say in North America or elsewhere.
Finally, there is a mention of creating a UCT currency. The only thing I could find on this was an article that hasn't been updated since 2021 about blockchain currency. Is this currently in use?
Thanks Calvin. Curious if you can direct me to what is referred to in one of the UCT Substack articles as "considerable scientific evidence that Earth’s climate is, in fact, naturally entering a cooling phase"
I'm already somewhat familiar with the information in the latter link, but I still have questions. I don't see a clear 525 year cycle, and I think cometary, asteroid and volcanic activity also play a large role. For example, heavy volcanic activity in the 13th century is associated with the beginning of climate downturn that would last until the Maunder Minimum (1700s). If warming lasted until 2007 as claimed, that would make about 750 years since the peak of the Medieval Warm Period. Climate cycles do not appear regular or exclusively moderated by solar activity.
I'd be glad for your critique or comments on these posts:
Well written! I always like to add that we didn't just have political federalism, part and parcel with that we had federalism in the economic and scientific/engineering spheres as well. And the results were powerfully positive.
Its a shame the world's only contemporary example of an advanced place that has a lot of federalism, China, may be leaping towards centralization (they've already gone a good amount of the way there over the past five years). Between roughly the early 1980s up until recent years, with its politically and economically decentralized system and democratic governance structures built around its broadly representative local parties who wielded control of local governments that had *real* power, China, despite not having the vote and some other key things, in some of the most key ways darkly ironically resembled the USA's Old Republic more than contemporary America does. However Xi and the special interest groups around him at the national center are trying to hyper centralize and dedemocratize, the recent 3rd Plenum declares the intent to eliminate any policy variabilities that have the effect of generating partial local trade protectionism and partial local capital inhibitors. But that variability and the democracy it enables has been the great enabler of China's success! I hope they fail.
Thank you. I had not really thought of China in this light.
same here
the third plenum's (some directly but its more so the broader groups communication around it) justifications for economic and political centralization bear such a striking resemblance to what American were told in the 1970s/1980s that much of it is essentially one for one
Excellent. Thanks for digging into this in such detail. Definitely worth the long read. Waiting to learn more and get your synthesis (if you call it that) of the variables of federalism….
One note:
"The Articles of Confederation (1781) established a federal structure with a very weak central authority and had proven too weak, so it seemed, to deal effectively with foreign affairs and internal disruptions.”
I see ‘foreign affairs’ here primarily referring to relations / wars with Native peoples… and ‘internal disruptions’ similarly referring to the continuing resistance of Native peoples after their forcible ‘inclusion’….
In universal community trust, we have private family trusts that are beneficiaries of a sovereign community trust/anarcho nation. The umbrella protection over both is UCT and the natural law jurisdiction created by the treaty of UCT. The sovereign community trust is the administrative, organisational body of the community.
UCT espouses self determination under natural law.
https://www.universal-community-trust.org/uct-treaty-full/
This is great!
This looks extremely interesting. I did quite a bit of looking over the website and saw the mention of multiple SCTs of micro-nations in the UK and North America. Can you tell me if there any such that are actual land based communites within what is called the U.S.?
I'm also curious what the meaning of "indigenous peoples" is in the UCT Treaty and whether UCT has looked into forming treaties with First Peoples, say in North America or elsewhere.
Finally, there is a mention of creating a UCT currency. The only thing I could find on this was an article that hasn't been updated since 2021 about blockchain currency. Is this currently in use?
You can find much more info here https://universalcommunitytrust.substack.com/
Thanks Calvin. Curious if you can direct me to what is referred to in one of the UCT Substack articles as "considerable scientific evidence that Earth’s climate is, in fact, naturally entering a cooling phase"
No probs. Check this out. https://www.thebernician.net/the-myth-of-global-warming-the-truth-about-climate-change/
And this https://electroverse.co/grand-solar-minimum-the-future-looks-cold/
I'm already somewhat familiar with the information in the latter link, but I still have questions. I don't see a clear 525 year cycle, and I think cometary, asteroid and volcanic activity also play a large role. For example, heavy volcanic activity in the 13th century is associated with the beginning of climate downturn that would last until the Maunder Minimum (1700s). If warming lasted until 2007 as claimed, that would make about 750 years since the peak of the Medieval Warm Period. Climate cycles do not appear regular or exclusively moderated by solar activity.
I'd be glad for your critique or comments on these posts:
https://totheroot.substack.com/p/comets-volcanoes-earthquakes-and-8ff?r=1cz07o
https://totheroot.substack.com/p/are-we-still-recovering-from-the?r=1cz07o
Hey. There are no actual living communities yet but there will be. Yes, there are SCT's in the US.
Indigenous peoples means the people of the earth.
UCT currency will be up and running hopefully by the end of the year
There is much more info here https://yummy.doctor/video-list/know-thyself-take-charge-of-your-mortgage-amandha-vollmer-adv-with-michael-obernicia/
And here (an hour in) https://www.youtube.com/live/RC-29HBLJvQ?feature=shared
Those are potent interviews!
Is there anything more you can tell me about UCT currency? Do you think it will meet BIBO currency standards of a stable, passive currency?
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/currency-money-systems-2