Globalism or Nationalism?

Nationalism is often portrayed  as being narrow-minded and inward looking while Globalism is seen as broad-minded and outward looking, but is this right?

John Lennon seemed to think so when he asked us to imagine a world without separate countries. Then again, he was probably unaware of how big and powerful multi-national corporations were to become. Many are more powerful and have more influence than democratically elected governments, so powerful in fact that they can get away without paying their taxes for years. He must also have been quite ignorant of history.

Throughout history globalists have tried to unite the world. Fantastic! At least until we realise that what they really want is to unite the world under their leadership. Hitler's ambition was to unite Europe and ultimately the world, under his control. EU leaders have a similar ambition today.

The Roman Empire was an attempt to unify the known world, under Roman control of course.

Alfred the Great wanted to unite all the Kingdoms of England (the name the Saxons used for the territory they had recently conquered from the British) under his control.

Alexander the Great wanted to unite the known world of his day under his control.

And Napoleon Bonaparte was another despotic globalist psychopath with the same age old ambition.

Now its the turn of the totalitarian E.U. aided by George Soros.

When will we ever learn to see through the globalist propaganda? We can be sure that if ever we do end up with a world government it will not be a democracy, rather it will be rich globalist elites, from the world of business or politics, lording it over the rest of us.

Back in the 1970s and 80s Greens and Liberals  understood that decentralisation, short, local supply lines and self-sufficiency were the way to a sustainable future. Then, somehow, both the green and liberal movements became infiltrated by globalists and our dream was dashed.

Well I used to be a proud green and a proud liberal, back in the days when those labels still meant sustainability, tolerance, free speech and freedom. How did we loose our way?

Now I am proud to be a Liberal Nationalist.

We Liberal  Nationalists want to live in a free and independent country and, by extension, we want every other country in the world to be free and independent too.

We want a world filled with free and independent nations, all different, all special and all cooperating together willingly.

We respect other people's national boundaries and we demand that they respect ours.

We respect other countries' cultures and we demand that they respect ours.

Foreigners are welcome to live among us provided they adapt to our way of life and do not expect us to change to suit them.

We don't invade other people's countries, that's globalists.

Globalism, with its one size fits all solutions, doesn't work.

Nationalists are the true greens because we want decentralisation, short, local supply lines and self-sufficiency.

Nationalists are the true liberals because we want freedom of speech, the freedom to debate on all subjects and the freedom for everyone to do their own thing without having to worry about 'offending' intolerant idiots.

We want freedom of religious belief for everyone, and freedom of religious practice with the limits set by law (no human or animal sacrifice, no FGM, no persecution of apostates).

We want equality for everyone regardless of race, religion or gender and we understand that equality includes taking equal responsibility for the consequences of our actions.

We want national governments to make their countries' laws, laws which suit their citizens' needs. We must never permit foreign laws or foreign courts to operate in our country , whether the European Court of Justice or Sharia courts.

Nationalism, freedom, individuality, equality and respect pave the road to a better future, not dull, suffocating globalism.

Liberal Nationalists want more co-operation, but co-operation between free, independent nations.

The European Union is failing because it tried to take away the independence of member states. Indeed, calling them 'states' rather than 'nations' should have warned us of their federal ambitions.

It will soon be time to establish the European Network of Free and Independent Nations ( ENFIN ).

No political union, just free trade, friendship and cooperation.

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Free Speech

My father had his leg shot to pieces during WW2 fighting the Nazis. He used to tell my brother and me that he had been fighting for freedom of speech. He told us that freedom of speech is the main difference between a free country and a totalitarian one.

As with fascists everywhere, Hitler abhorred free speech. He believed in a strong government lording it over a weak population disenfranchised by having no freedom of speech and no right to debate all subjects openly, where dissidents are imprisoned, and where censorship restricts their access to information.

Who would ever have thought that would happen in Britain? Who would have thought British citizens would land in prison for expressing an option on social media? Who would have thought that in Britain there would arise groups of people who we are not allowed to criticise? Yet we now have all these nightmare conditions, right here in once free Britain. My father must be turning over in his grave.

Free speech was the most important right we had. We must get it back. We must ditch all censorship and so-called 'political correctness'.

Indeed Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers".

Students need to be exposed to the fullest range of different opinions and they should be taught how to evaluate those opinions for themselves. They should be taught how to think, not what to think.

Yet most of our educational institutions have now been infiltrated by fascist globalists. They no longer offer our young people an unbiased education. Students are even encouraged to no-platform any speaker who might challenge their indoctrination.

We need more tolerance but tolerance absolutely IS NOT walking around on eggshells afraid of offending intolerant idiots. Tolerant people are not easily offended.

Before you can shine your light into the darkness you need to know where the darkness is. How can pointing that out to folk possibly be 'hate speech'?

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The System is Broken

The system is broken. Everything about it is broken. The very basis of our society and of our economy is broken. The trouble is that its all been broken for so long that everyone thinks its normal.

I do wonder what a visitor from another​ planet would make of us. I know what I make of us and its not polite.

Now I'm certainly not claiming to be from another planet (despite what some of you might think) but I can see a better way forward.

Perhaps you will share my vision, or maybe not, that's your choice and I respect it.

If only we all treated each-other better, were excellent to each-other, there would be no poverty or homelessness.

If we saw someone worse off than ourselves we would give them a little of what we had.  We wouldn't need to give them very much because everyone in the area would be giving them something.  They would be back on their feet in no time.

But it doesn't happen like that. Why?

I believe there are two reasons. The first is that there are selfish, greedy people in the world, sure there are, but most of us are good, decent folk.

But the good, decent people, many of them, most of the time, ignore the poverty and suffering of others too. There must be a second cause. What is it?

I believe that it is fear. We live in a world of fear, mostly fear of poverty and debt. We fear we may loose our job or our business, that we will no longer be able to service our credit card debt or our mortgage.

Some people aren't just scared of what might happen. They also harbour deep resentments about the things that have already happened, to themselves or to their ancestors. Is it any wonder that some of these people behave badly?

If we were not living in fear ourselves we would be much quicker to help others.

The irony of this paradigm, of our culture of fear, is that if we did all help one and other, we would be confident others would help us too and there would be no more fear. And being free of fear we would be free to be more generous and to help each-other more.

So the remedy to the problem lies in our own hands. Each and every one of us can start today to help others more.

The rich globalist elites thrive on our fear. They use it to sell us goods we don't need,  shipped from the other side of the planet, paid for on credit we can't afford .

They use fear to make us vote at election time for dishonest politicians who are more a part of the problem than of the solution.

They use fear to keep us as debt slaves, working for fifty years at jobs we often hate to pay for the right to live on our own planet.

There really is a sucker born every minute and those suckers are us, every one of us.

We are born into a game we did not devise where the rules are stacked against us and in favour of the globalist elites. We have no way to win this game. We can never win this game. Our only way out is to stop playing this game and devise a fairer one.

The currency of the game is money. Stop using money and the game is over. The banks will collapse and the rich globalist elites who own them will be reduced to ordinary citizens, just like you and me.  The nightmare game will be over.

We don't need money or barter. Both are born out of a meanness based in fear. Both are just ways of keeping score so we know who is winning and who is losing. But what if we no longer cared about winning?

We would be free to devise a new game based on freely giving and freely recieving, on helping each-other, on freedom and independence and on love and co-operation. A true utopia.

If you would like to explore these ideas further I invite you to download my new book - Spread The Love and Change Your World.

The PDF version is free. A Kindle version is also available.

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