The Bull States and the United States

How many states are united states? 31 in Mexico, 50 in the US, 10 in Canada, 28 in Europe. All of them are states with limited sovereignty but with democratic governments. Some of the bull states are Russia, China, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India,  and Indonesia. They have elections of sorts for public offices but they are essentially dictatorships with armies and modern arms ready like bulls to fight any enemy bull state. So far we can say that united states have democratic governments and bull states do not. Some states in the European Union were once powerful bull states with dictators but since they united they cannot be anything but democratic states because of universal laws and because of pressure from other states in their union. We can also think of states not united politically but linguistically. Spanish-speaking, English-speaking, French-speaking states tend to be democratic and none of them are bull states. The states of the world  are evolving towards more and more union with one another because of the global economy but the tendency we see of bull states trying to unite with one another is a danger for the world’s united states. Bull states are generally not open to free market practices and unlimited foreign investment. Look at the union now being formed between Russia, Turkey, and Syria. It’s purpose is to make three dictators more secure and powerful rather than forming a political union limiting the sovereignty of central governments which would open up the three states to free economic activity and democracy. Of the united states of the world, the union of 50 American states faces a challenge to its identity with the election of Donald Trump. His central government of the union in Washington can either strengthen the democratic powers and freedoms of its own united states and also promote a union of democratic states worldwide or else pull back into itself and stomp its feet like an angry bull increasing the arms race as a reaction to big bull states like Russia, Iran and China.

Daniel McNeill

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Trump and Putin Facing Fate

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet soon face to face. Two men can decide the fate of America and Russia. But they don’t have to face fate head on. They can step back and do no more than a few new deals favorable to both. Fate long ago dictated that Russia can be managed only as a bull nation. There has never been any democratic central rule in Russia. The military threat of the United States is not the threat Putin fears the most. He has a tricky problem. He wants Trump to get rid of the economic sanctions that hurt the Russian economy but he does not want American corporations to gain anything near total penetration into his economy and move around Russia freely doing what they want and making a lot of money for themselves and Russians. That was how American corporations penetrated Western Europe 50 years ago and look at the results. They paid their European employees more money than they were earning working for Europeans, bought existing businesses (often using local capital), modernized them with new business practices, began an economic boom that has never stopped, and made Europeans so prosperous using new American technologies that democratic governments alone work. Trump most likely will not demand that Putin weaken his political power by bowing to the needs of multinational corporations for an open entrance into Russia especially when he can be sure that Putin will be ready and willing to satisfy quid pro guo a new American President’s own business needs. So with this scenario only petty deals will be made and the two powerful world leaders will feel secure managing both Russia and the United States as bull nations.

   Is it worth affirming that the United  States, Europe and Russia are great Christian enclaves and that, even if they contain millions of non-believers and non-Christians, they are joined already culturally? Is it worth noting that a real serious free democratic union between the three great powers would make wars between nations totally obsolete on our planet? Nations have no future in our postmodern world. They are dangerous. We don’t need them. We need instead peace and political union among states so we can start working together to prevent the destruction of our natural environment. Bull nations are obscene. Slick deals between their leaders stink.

   In 1962 an American president and a Russian leader made a deal that saved humanity from nuclear destruction. As a result both lost power back home in their bull nations. Khrushchev was isolated to retirement in a dacha and President Kennedy was assassinated. It takes guts to make deals that benefit humanity but they should be made. World leaders should all keep in mind the advice of the Roman historian Tacitus. Inter turbas et discordias pessimo cuique plurima vis, pax et quies bonis artibus indigent. “In times of angry mobs and civil dissention, extreme power finds its way into the hands of the worst men; in times of peace and tranquility men skilled in the art of goodness are necessary.”

Daniel McNeill

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Empty and Selfish in Babylon

Andre Malraux of France said famously to General DeGaulle during the riots in Paris in 1968: “We once were developing from within Christianity. Now we’re developing from nothing.” Two other great religions, Judaism and the religion of Islam, along with Christianity, are now also adding nothing to our postmodern development. We are all of us on our own relying only on ourselves with nothing within us. We are like the ancient Jews, captives in Babylon, but we no longer sit beside waters dreaming of a lost Zion. We watch on television empty, and alone because of our emptiness, Aleppo destroyed and its streets empty of its murdered children. No old men will ever again pray at mosques in Aleppo and really believe they will soon pass, because of the emptiness they feel in their soul, to God’s world. Jerusalem is prosperous and safe because of high tech American weapons but it is solidly on the ground and no one there can honestly dream of a heavenly Jerusalem knowing in the heart the emptiness caused by dominating suffering neighbors. Americans are prosperous and optimistic because they long ago abandoned the roots of Christianity and decided that living on the surface of being rooted only in selfishness was the American way. Ralph Waldo Emerson taught them that selfishness was the true path to genuine superiority. He gave up his life as a consecrated minister and taught everyone to be self-reliant.. Saint Augustine believed the opposite. For him, self-reliance was not Christian. He put the whole meaning of Christianity in one sentence: Et hoc erat totum: nolle quod volebam et velle quod volebas. “And this was all: to not will what I wanted and to will what you (meaning God) wanted.” Emerson would have put the nolle where the velle was and put the velle where the nolle had been so it read: Et hoc erat totum: velle quod volebam et nolle quod volebas. “And this was all: to will what I wanted and not to will what you (God) wanted.” Emerson believed that there was no fall of man and no sin and that holiness could be reached by natural experience if it was genuinely individualistic. Self-reliance. We Americans are now totally self-reliant and totally empty. We sold our emptiness to the rest of the world repackaged as a happy fullness and the world bought it. Now the world is living with the emptiness behind the American sales pitch.

Daniel McNeill

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The Fight of States Against Economic Globalism

Christine Lagarde. the head of the International Monetary Fund, wrote recently that the global economy is improving and should be stronger in 2017. She notes however that there are losers in the international struggle for wealth because “technological progress and winner-take-all markets are widening income inequality within many countries, even as global incomes are converging. In major advanced economies over the past two decades, the top 10 percent of earners’ incomes increased by 40 percent, while incomes for those at the bottom grew only modestly.” She does not say that the global actions of multinational corporations are beyond the control of any one state government but it is implicit it her reasoning because she does say “that there are several steps countries can take to address inequality”. In other words, the free global money-making operations of multinational corporations are good for the rich but since they are beyond any government’s control, governments must individually do several things to help the situation anyway. States should “increase their direct support for lower-skill workers...affected by automation and outsourcing”. State governments “should increase their public investments in health care services, education and skills training”. States should provide “ lifelong education to prepare current and future generations for fast-changing technologies”. She also cites the need for “affordable child care, parental leave, access to health care,,,, workplace flexibility...tax reforms and legal minimum wages to support lower income earners...etc”. Madame Lagarde, a French national, is absolutely right. The states are the only defense possible against the negative influences of economic globalism. If only the states around the world had plenty of money there would be no problem! The foxes could break into any chicken coop they wished and there would always be someone there fighting to protect the chickens! It doesn’t work like that. She is right that the states should  provide welfare for their citizens bur states as they are now structured have too many obligations and responsibilities for their taxes besides providing welfare. They need to restructure themselves by joining politically with other states to get rid of most of their present governmental responsibilities. States need to help one another if they are to become lean and mean enough to fight successfully the greed and inhumanity of multinational corporations.

Daniel McNeill

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President Trump and a Possible New Global Alliance

  

In his inaugural address of January 20, 1961, President Kennedy said, “Now the trumpet summons us again...to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out ,a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?”  Will President Trump in his inaugural address on January 20 next month resist language that will tell the world that he intends to be no more than the leader of a big bully nation? Will his words commit him before the world to fight “tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself”? Will he sound like an American President for the world or just for himself? Will he dare to announce that he intends to form “a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind”? No leader of the great empires of the past, empires like the Roman, British and Russian empires, ever had a legal provision in a written constitution giving a readily available solid means to form “a grand and global alliance,North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind”. President Trump can merely announce in calm and measured words in his inaugural address that his Congress has the power in Article lV, Section 3. of the Constitution to admit new states to the American union of states and that he intends to encourage foreign states to apply for admission. That will surely sound the call for “a grand and global alliance” and make President Trump the second president after President Wilson to advocate for a real and lasting new global alliance of states.

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Obama Tells It Like It Was

In one of his last press conferences December 16, President Obama was very candid about his worries international and national. He seemed to tell it like it is but analyzing what he said, it was more like he was telling it like it was and will never be again. He told President-elect Trump: “ Before having a lot of interactions with foreign governments….he should want his team to be fully briefed on what’s gone on in the past and where the potential pitfalls may be.” For 8 years Obama played the worldwide game just as America played it since it took over world leadership from the British in the 1950s. It penetrated states worldwide and strengthened them internally to be as capitalistic and democratic as possible. This is clearly not necessary anymore. Multinational investments in South America and North America are secure. Japan and China and South Korea dominate Asia and secure it all the way to Iran. Russia is ruled by state-controlled capitalism guided by a dictator. Europe and the English-speaking world are secure and developed. The main place for America to act like “what’s gone on in the past” is Africa but its natural resources have been exploited for centuries and its economic prospects for the future are poor.”What’s gone on in the past” cannot go on in the future because there is no longer any objective need for the American foreign policy of the past. Meanwhile in America, President Obama said, “Everything is under suspicion, and everybody is corrupt, and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all our institutions are, you know, full of malevolent actors.” Since the 1950s, America has been putting the world’s house in order. The American economy is booming. It’s time now for America to put its own house in order and let the rest of the world worry only about what Donald Trump has in mind for it.

Daniel McNeill

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Two Scenarios For the US, One Doomsday

The doomsday scenario is that the US do nothing new at all. In 1945, with most of the world devastated by war, the US owned within its borders 50 percent of the world’s wealth. After 71 years of policing the world and interfering in states globally, it owns, combining its 50 states and the holdings worldwide of its multinational corporations, 50 percent of the world’s wealth. The Republican leaders in Congress say about global warming that they don’t understand the science. The doomsday scenario is that the US let’s the world go to hell which it keeps hot by continuing to pollute it with fossil fuels. If 20 years from now 12 million people in Bangladesh must migrate and find new lands and new food supplies because of rising sea levels, that’s their business. In the US in 20 years all the Starbucks cafes will still be warm and cozy and the US will still be safely isolated from the rest of the world. Congressmen will still not understand the science of global warming.

   The other scenario is that the US acts now to save itself and humanity’s planet. Brave and intelligent leaders in Washington say, hey, it may be good for humanity and profitable for our multinational corporations to save the world. We have worldwide superior military, financial, political and diplomatic powers. Let’s use them intelligently. Let’s tell every state in the world that we are open to their becoming new American states and we are willing to help them financially and otherwise to make the transition, What good would that do? Well if we had, say, 50 new states located around the globe, our multinational corporations as well as those of others would no longer need to corrupt local leaders and hurt democratic practices to establish themselves in states since they would now have US financial and legal systems. We here in Washington could become a world government not just de facto but de jure. We could use our large and rich bureaucracies to do the enormous but feasible work of implementing real strategies to save the natural resources of our planet from destruction. Congressmen may still not understand the old science proving that global warming exists or the new science necessary to fight and destroy it. But they at least understand that the American Constitution gives them the right in Article lV. Section 3. to admit new states.

Daniel McNeill
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Putin's Antiglobalism and Trump Looking For Global Deals

President Putin of Russia is being called regularly by the American media and politicians a “thug”. American businessmen and diplomats deal every day all over the world with dictators of diabolical persuasions who could be similarly labeled but of course they are not since money and favors passing between devilish persons must not be blocked by mere words. So something big must be up between Putin and the Americans using the power behind the scenes. It looks like president-elect Trump is a problem too. Trump is a globalist like all billionaires and he wants globally whatever his new power can get him. He is stacking the jobs in his administration that deal top-down with vast amounts of money with wealthy successful with-it financial people. It looks like he is a danger because he may be setting such men in important financial jobs so he can be free behind the scenes to look for deals. It is absolutely certain he will make deals. Big global deals. But Putin is an antiglobalist. Russia under him has advanced economically at a fast rate. Russians have succeeded in adapting all available technologies to speed up the prosperity of their economy despite the sanctions imposed on them. The overall possibilities for the expansive and rapid development of Russian economic potential are enormous but only if Putin opens up Russia, as did China, to unlimited foreign investment. For now, Putin has based his power on Russian nationalistic pride which is deep and genuine. The entrance into Russia of foreign corporations with endless supplies of capital and advanced technologies would enrich Russians but radically change their perspective. They would become more global in outlook, freer and less nationalistic. The present Russian business corporations supplying cash to Putin and his supporters would be in danger of being purchased by foreigners and restructured to make money competing globally. This is where Trump might be a danger, Suppose instead of trying to globalize and restructure Russian businesses, he supports Putin's antiglobalism and just makes deals here and there in Russia for himself? Something is up. We’ll see what happens. Russia has enormous economic potential and one way or another it will change. We can hope it will be done peacefully but it certainly does not promote peace calling President Putin a “thug”.

Daniel McNeill

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Two Out-of-control Worldwide Phenomena

Donald Trump is now the leading politician in a gigantic blob of well-paid bureaucrats and elected representatives in charge of hundreds of departments, agencies and commissions financed with an enormous supply of thousands of billions of dollars. His government has a large military and a great supply of hydrogen bombs, but the really frightening thing about Washington and its worldwide activities is that it was not set up as a central government directly responsible to and under the control of one specific people in one state. Even as far back as 1790 when the American Constitution was ratified by 13 states, Washington was designed with the characteristics of an international government. The fifty American states collectively send representatives to Washington and exercise a degree of control but no one American or foreign state controls it. Washington roams the world using its power to control states for what it conceives its interests which are certainly not exclusively national. What makes its power awesome is that at this point in world history the economies of most states are both national and global and the world must rely on Washington’s power for worldwide economic security. Washington's power is largely uncontrolled and at the same time indispensable for world prosperity.

   The second worldwide phenomenon that escapes control is the new extraordinary reach of international businesses and corporations. First, corporations in the colonial period went global to steal primary resources in foreign territories. Then colonial territories became states and their resources were bought cheaply with prices set by the most powerful states. In the next stage of globalism after the Second World War, corporations began transferring their activities globally but mainly to rich and developed states. The present form of economic globalism is new. It is no longer a question of corporations seeking only advantages like cheaper wages in foreign countries. The world now has so many developed countries that corporations can now achieve economies of scale and larger profits by penetrating and establishing themselves in many states with the goal to eventually be in all of them. And amazingly many of these global corporations are providing not industrial development but services.

   No one state anywhere can escape at least partial control by both Washington and international corporations. New ways of doing business are operating everywhere worldwide and before our eyes in our states. Our states must form new political structures to help their citizens deal with two worldwide phenomena now far removed from state control.

Daniel McNeill

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The American Revolution Can Happen Anywhere

    In 1790, 13 independent states in North America accepted a Constitution that limited their sovereignty. The document made a provision in Article IV Section 3 to admit new states and the Federal Congress admitted 37 new states over 170 years up to the state of Hawaii in 1959. A people composed of no one race and of no one religion was free forever to live and work and worship and vote in any state out of 50 simply by freely choosing to reside in one.

    The freedom to go anywhere to any state at will across any border produces a groundlessness in the soul. Americans are nationless. A Man Without a Country, published in 1863 by Edward Everett Hale, was a popular tale about an American man condemned by a court to live out his life on ships at sea without any knowledge of happenings in the United States. Great American writers like Poe and Thoreau sought what was substantial only within themselves. No nation outside of themselves attracted their hearts and minds because none existed.

   But now the world is becoming American. Nation-states  are either collapsing because of civil wars or wobbling towards disintegration because of corruption and gross mismanagement caused by unworkable political systems chained to outdated, top-down nationalistic central.governments. Peoples worldwide are becoming groundless like Americans and their states can not become stable, free and prosperous unless they take upon themselves new and more advanced political structures. Nation-states should petition the Congress in Washington to be admitted as new American states and escape as Americans did in 1790 the slavery inflicted on commerce and people by national borders. The American revolution of 1790 can also happen right now in any state worldwide.

Daniel McNeill

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American Liberals Are Lincoln Centrists

Americans who were once for “states rights” have morphed into brute nationalists. Their man is in the White House and they want him to prove to the world that the US is nothing more than a nation by building a wall on the Mexican border and expelling 3 million illegal immigrants. Liberals must now become passionate about demanding “states rights” because a nationalistic Federal Government would be a drastic perversion of our union’s history. American liberals can be characterized as “Lincoln centrists”. The only government they focus on is the one in Washington and they have something like a holy fear of ever mentioning in their talk and writings that the Constitution grants the Washington government limited sovereignty and does not set it up as a state. There are 51 governments in the US and 50 of them actually are governments of states but for liberals the one that is not is alone august and sacred. Before for a liberal it was a moral and political gaffe to refer to America as a union of states even though on every bill of our money our society is called The United States of America, not just America. Liberals will be forced now to recognize at last that they live in a union of states if the strongest legal defense they possess against an extreme right-wing government in Washington is “states rights”.

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Weird Nationalistic Sentiments

The shroud of nationalism now wrapped over America since the victory of Donald Trump is weird. Protrumpists feel nationalistic power hating non-whites and antitrumpists feel nationalistic power championing with shouts and protests the freedom to live with any identity and any skin color any way at all. One of the big cries on the left is the demand that the government in Washington not have control of what a woman does with her body. Those on the right demand that their multicolored nation ruled by Washington belong only to white bodies.The greedy group in Congress plotting to gobble up  public wealth from federal taxes by passing laws with little or nothing to do with genuine national goals is weird also since whatever it does is accepted by all as the legal and normal action of a nation. Woe to all Americans who believe because we created Washington that it belongs to us! Woe to any of us who believe Washington bureaucrats and politicians are our champions exercising  national power for us! We created Washington with limited sovereign powers that if exercised justly would make our union of states more perfect. But history and men acting dishonorably and imperfectly assigned to Washington more powers than the Constitution intended and so here we are all of us, politicians, bureaucrats, trumpists, antitrumpists forced to have weird nationalistic fantasies and to pretend that the weird and selfish acts in Washington are normal. What is the bottom line, what is the real truth? It is that Washington can never purify itself and act normally unless it uses its gigantic power exclusively for the good of all humanity. That of course would include us Americans and make us normal too.

Daniel McNeill

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America Cannot Hide in a Nationalistic Castle

Donald Trump  does not know in any detail what he wants to do as president. People with power will make proposals to him and he will consider them. Every proposal, even one exclusively for America, will also be global simply because of the great size of the American economy. He will have total military and diplomatic power but Congress, not the  president, has the Commerce Power. It will always back up however any president by voting for bills that produce prosperity globally. Neither the president nor the congress have any choice but to operate for the world. If the world goes down, America goes down with it.

  What a contrast there is between governments in Washington and London! London, once responsible for 25% of the people on earth, has pulled up its bridges and isolated itself behind a moat in a nationalistic castle. Every decision it takes will be for the benefit only of the UK. Its central bank can carefully regulate the money supply and the value of the pound to the advantage of the UK without regard to the state of the world. The Washington government borrows so much money daily worldwide to help pay for its global operations that the amount if revealed would shock Americans who send tax money to Washington to pay interest to its foreign lenders. The American economy itself is already a garden of infinite delights for entrepreneurs who have easy access to huge amounts of capital and an enormous labor supply of workers forced to work at low wages. A general rule for any US president is to let America alone and concentrate on the world. It is not so much that the world offers tremendous opportunities for the huge supply of American capital. It is rather that the oversupply of capital has nowhere else to go except globally and thus America and the world can progress smoothly only together. They have no choice any longer but to be together. Americanism and Globalism are now permanently linked. America can never hide like the UK safe behind a moat in a nationalistic castle.

Daniel McNeill

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Real Financial Freedom For Former Colonies

Colonialism has always been about who owns the capital. The colonizer owned it all. The colony owned no capital and, more important, had no means to produce it. The central bank in the colonizer’s state produced money and capital. Capital was transferred to the colony and had the same power and efficacy there as in the home country. The former colonies as new independent states were forced by international financial practices to set the value of their currencies in direct relationship to what it was worth in pounds or francs or other monies of developed countries. Their power to create  their own capital was severely restricted.     

   The central government established in America in 1790 by the American Constitution  was not a fully sovereign government like those in European states who became the masters of colonies. Washington had no central bank with the power to create the money supply for its union of 13 states. It was not a state and it had no power to rule its 13 states as colonies. It acquired new territories for its union of states not by ruling them as subservient colonies but by accepting them as new states of its union.The banks of the newly admitted states became automatically part of an established interstate banking system with the right just like the older states to create new money for their businesses in the same currency, the dollar, which already existed. This was a completely new and revolutionary way to develop new territories. Independent states today can best obtain the power to create their own capital by applying to the Congress in Washington to become new states of the American union. Only by becoming an integral part of a highly developed banking system and an integral part of a well developed economy in a union of states can they create as freely as possible their own capital.

Daniel McNeill

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