The United English-speaking States of the World 1

England united by military force Britain and Ireland and with a secure  base at home proceeded to conquer and rule one quarter of the globe. The sovereignty of England was the fatal flaw that ruined the continuation of the British Empire. England, the state of England, has not been a separate national state for over 400 years, but the sovereignty of England, of the English element in Britain, has been a power fiercely guarded by the English down to our time. The King or Queen are sovereign. They are the power behind Parliament. The power behind the royal sovereign has always been the English. The royalty combined with the English  equals the sovereignty of the English element in Britain over Britain. The British Empire was lost for a variety of reasons but the main reason was that sovereignty could not be transferred to its many conquered dominions. It remained always in London as though permanently closed and guarded in a castle completely isolated from the rest of the world’

   But one thing does remain from the British Empire: 70 English-speaking states scattered geographically from the north of Scotland to the south of Australia. The amazing thing about them is that none of them are completely sovereign. The 10 provinces of Canada are under the sovereign power of a parliament in Ottawa itself under a representative of the queen. The 50 states of America have constitutionally limited sovereignty as does the government in Washington. The governments of New Zealand and the 6 states of Australia are under the sovereignty of the crown in Britain. The three states of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, are not fully sovereign because they are also under a parliament exercising the sovereignty of the crown.The Republic of Ireland appears to be the only English-speaking state fully sovereign although it is subject to the European Union government in Brussels.

   We are now in a postnational period of history. If nationalism no longer works and the 70 English-speaking states are not fully sovereign nations because they were all once parts of the British Empire, why should they not be politically unified in a great global union of states all speaking the same language and all with common political and legal customs? One principle of such a union would be that they be united again by a central government, as they  once were during the British Empire. The other principle would be that they yield to a central government a few of their sovereign powers which they once yielded completely during the British Empire which kept total sovereignty for itself locked up tight in London.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com

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A Stumbling Federal Government

The terrible pains Trump is inflicting on immigrants fleeing poverty forces us because of the incompetent actions of the Federal Government to consider something also terrible. The Federal Government is not only incapable of governing Americans (which all of us know already in our heart of hearts), it is also losing the sense of being a world leader for the world’s good. The loss of this role means that our whole American political system is now in jeopardy. Why? Because from the Civil War until Trump the Federal Government worked well because it supported 50 American states and states throughout the world. Now it is beginning to lose control of itself and nothing could be more dangerous for the future of the world, and for America’s future, than a stumbling government in Washington that no longer knows where it is going.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com
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The New Italian and British Empires

Point 5 of the 29 points of the contract for the new government of Italy agreed to by its two leaders DiMaio and Salvini is a new radical step towards a revolutionary new role for all states. It sets up a “bank for investments” that finances “initiatives of public and strategic national interests” and supplies “credit for companies operating in developing Countries”. This is what China is already doing globally on a massive scale. The Chinese government itself is creating the capital and investing it globally through companies under its direct control. If China can do it, any state can do it. And if we read the trends correctly, every state now must do it. Why should Italy not use its banks and tax collections to create capital for profitable investments worldwide that benefit Italians? Why should not the American state I live in, Massachusetts, do the same? Up till now, the game of looking everywhere for profitable investments has been exclusively under the control of private individuals directing corporations. Point 5 looks like a game changer for Italy. Remember when Italy under Mussolini found it profitable to invade Ethiopia? That game is over. China has already invaded Ethiopia with investments using capital created by its government. Italy’s government can now do the same. It can fund enterprises run by Italians and send them off worldwide looking for profits for Italians. The only problem is that Italy or Massachusetts, as states in unions of states, do not have their own currency like China and their money supplies can not easily be increased to create new capital for investment. This means that neither Italy nor Massachusetts can be major players in the new game like China unless they are given the power by the central governments of their unions to freely create and invest new capital. This also means among other things that Britain, the UK, with its own currency and the freedom to act in its own interest by its brexit from the European Union may be the only honcho that can fight meaningfully with the Chinese for the new empires of the future created by state-supplied capital. The political leaders of the UK are in a position to create a new British Empire by providing their citizens with state-created capital to invest globally rather than as in the past by invading foreign states using gunships.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com

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How Richard Nixon Saved Communism

Richard Nixon won a seat in Congress in 1948 by denouncing the communist threat in California where there were very few communists. His hatred of communism came across to us as sincere even though we all knew that America was so diverse with so many governments that communism would never succeed here. As President during the last years of the Vietnam War, history gave him a chance to kill communists. His massive bombing of Cambodia killed a lot of them. Then in 1972 he spied a chance to kill a whole communist system. He visited China and opened it up to capitalism and free enterprise. Massive cheap Chinese labor and industrial technologies imported or stolen from developed economies was the knife needed to lop off the head of the red menace. We are now almost 50 years into Nixon’s anti communist foreign policy in China and a capitalistic tool invented in America is now being used successfully by the communist Chinese government to buy up corporations globally. Tricky Dick Nixon gave China along with free enterprise the trick America used to produce gigantic economic growth: keep increasing the country's money supply even though the new capital created is not based on some prior real collateral value.. The trick worked. America advanced titanically by using money created freely based on nothing to finance production that justified the free expansion of the money supply by producing real wealth by real industrial output. Every foreign nation received the American capital-raising trick as a working part of free-enterprise capitalism by relating the value of its currency to the dollar. Everyone could create all the money they wished as long as they were willing to take the consequences if they used it badly. While China created a money supply only for its local national business enterprises who cared how they created it or who controlled the use of the new supplies of capital?  Corporations develop in advanced economies with new money based on nothing but that’s okay. That’s how the trick works. That’s how capitalism frees businessmen to be creative and along with their economic freedom political freedoms are supposed to follow. So let’s ask a simple question: how does a Chinese businessman, Mr. X, buy a technologically-advanced German manufacturing business for say 55 million euros? Has Mr. X climbed his way up the free enterprise competitive ladder so successfully that he has 55 million (speaking figuratively) in his pockets? Well, the story of how Mr. X got such deep pockets is long and complicated but the answer is true and short, no. His pockets are full because behind him is a chain of financial organizations and interconnected agencies that are difficult to pin down exactly but do in fact go back at some point directly to the dictatorial communist government that tricky Dick majestically adorned with capitalism and free enterprise. It’s still capitalism but free enterprise is out the window because the playing field is no longer level if corporations must compete without government aid to acquire fresh capital while a powerful central Chinese communist government can effortlessly create all the capital it needs and ship it all over the globe where there are enormous opportunities for any organization with a lot of capital to create a lot more by buying up technologically-advanced local corporations.State capitalism on a grand scale was first tried in Germany under Hitler. It showed the world that capitalism works fine when a central government creates most of the capital and distributes it to its carefully selected subordinates. Political freedom is out the window in China along with President Nixon’s naive belief that free enterprise was enough to defeat a tyrannical communist political system.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com

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A Penitential Pilgrimage For Washington Politicians

We Americans are the only people who ever created instead of one state a union of 50 states. 50 states! Think of it! Fifty! 5 0! 50! We created a politically united society that is a revolutionary economic developmental system. The only reason the system has not gone on roaring towards the future with money coming out our ears is our chickenshit politicians in Washington. They do little with the trillions we send them to support economic development for us Americans. Their laziness, stupidity, cowardice and greed is rooted in the 19th-century idea that only free-enterprise capitalism should be the American way of doing business. This means in practice that the trillions in federal tax money that flows into their hands must not be used to invest in business enterprises. They need to go on a pilgrimage to a holy site as penance for this sinful outdated blasphemy against reality. Let them all get on a ship in Los Angeles and cruise down (at our expense of course) the Pacific to the entrance to the Panama Canal, The canal belongs to us but they (our friends in Washington) decided to own it and run it in a foreign state and give the government of the state an annual share of the profits. Washington maintains foreign states throughout the globe with its billions in aid, its military and its diplomats (and CIA, spies, global technologies etc.etc.) following the spartan rule that 50 states is enough. No more American states! Why create more states for the American union that would give new opportunities to all Americans if instead you can create here and there globally well-run-American-controlled-and-or-influenced states like Panama? And at the same time why not let this foreign policy help out one of our buddy states like China? Well, the holy site for our Washington guys and gals on their penitential cruise (big cabins and 3 lavish meals a day to make it not too penitential) is on the shore just a mile or so inside the Panama Canal (our canal). Our Chinese buddies made a deal with the Panamanian political bigwigs to lease enough land long-term for a monumental gigantic operation for unloading their container cargo ships with several huge cranes rising majestically high into the sky costing many many millions of dollars. And they’re no cheap chickens our pals the Chinese: a $1billion project to build a new deepwater port and another container terminal near the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal has begun. There’s development for you! No fooling around! Invest massively in any state anywhere in the world that our lazy cowardly Washington dudes have made secure politically and economically using our money, our military, our diplomats, our Cia etc.etc.. But would our Washingtonians simply enjoy the cruise and not feel penitential when they view the massive Chinese site already up on the Pacific end of the canal which obviously has nothing to do with free enterprise and is clearly the result of state-run capitalism exploiting the Washington-dominated free-enterprise worldwide capitalistic system? Could they possibly believe that some Chinese individual fought his way up the economic ladder and then urged on by the doctrine of free enterprise ( it worked in the 19th century but doesn’t work now for the general good without some government support) invested the millions he earned by individual effort far across the ocean in Panama? Le doute est permis. When I passed this gigantic Chinese site on our canal, I thought, wow, if only someone in our union of states, the greatest most fabulous wealth-creating economic non-state development system ever created on the globe by humanity in the whole history of the world, wow, if only other Americans could see with their eyes what our pals the Chinese are doing globally to benefit their people, they might, who knows?, begin pestering Washington to get our fantastic state-developing system ( between 1790 and 1959 Congress admitted 37 new states) rolling again by admitting new states. Although, of course, 50 is already a lot of states.The Russians once had 15 and did nothing to develop them. The Europeans have 28 and take in new states whenever they feel like it but they don’t develop them either. Wow did we once take in and develop states! Westering, to move to a new state for more opportunities was once the dream of every true American! Washington killed the dream by not admitting any new states since Hawaii in 1959! Hm. Even just a few new foreign states admitted to our union would mean using again but now  worldwide the greatest most fabulous wealth-creating economic non-state development system ever created on the globe by humanity in the whole history of the world. Hm.

Daniel McNeill

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World Unity 42

     Everyone believes that democracy is the best form of government and that everyone should live in a democratic state. But the terrible disruptions of civil peace going on all over the globe demand more than democratic governments with democratic leaders. We need holy democratic leaders, saintly leaders, men who will not take any action with the power voted to them by their fellow citizens unless it is good, honest, pure, moral and in the best interest of all. Down with all leaders who are merely pragmatic! We need leaders who really believe that every human being has universal rights that must be supported and respected and that humanity possesses a divine purpose for living on earth. It is an illusion to believe that because the bourgeoisie took control of states in the 19th century and used governments exclusively to make laws to support their selfish economic goals that humanity is condemned forever to suffer dominated by greedy and selfish leaders who never consult the grace to do good that God put in their soul. Peoples in the past created communities inspired by their sense of the divine. Ancient Egypt was a divine empire. Ancient philosophers believed the business of governing was a divine vocation. Moses's laws tried to make moral goodness the basis of his community. Saint Augustine in his great book, The City Of God, the Civitas Dei, claims that in world history two states exist side by side, the civitas dei and the civitas terrena, the heavenly city of God composed of the good and the earthly city composed of the unredeemed. Nation-states in our time do have nasty, difficult, practical problems to deal with but that should never be an excuse for leaders acting corruptly and immorally. A government like our government in Washington with its trillions of dollars in revenue and its freedom as a central government from the day-to-day tasks of state governments should never act selfishly and immorally. Washington should become in our 21st century a central world international government of a worldwide union of states with saintly leaders gathered from all over our globe promoting with their great power Saint Augustine’s civitas dei.
Daniel McNeill

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World Unity 41

    In Hegel’s great work, The Philosophy Of History, the German philosopher not only claims that world history has a divine purpose but also that the divine development going on is perfectly rational. Absolute Spirit expresses itself throughout history in a variety of forms. The universal aim of spirit at work in history is human freedom. The oriental world knew only the freedom of one man, as for example the pharaoh in Egypt. The Greek and Roman world knew only the freedom of some men, since slavery was instituted. The Protestant Germanic states of Hegel’s time, the early nineteenth century, finally realize the freedom of all. “The essential being,” Hegel wrote, “is the union of the subjective with the rational will: it is the moral whole, the state, which is that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom.” Since Hegel’s time, states in Europe providing a form for the realization of their citizens’ freedom have also been forced tragically to provide armies as a vehicle for their citizens to kill citizens from foreign states in grand battles and two world wars. The history of Europe after Hegel showed clearly that if Absolute Spirit was going to produce human freedom it would have to take some form other than the European nation-state. Hegel  looked beyond the political realities of his time to America. He suggested that the full burden of history’s march towards humanity’s freedom could not be born by Europe alone. “America is therefore the land of the future,” he wrote in The Philosophy Of History, “where in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the world’s history will reveal itself.” American political experience agrees completely with Hegel’s notion that only the state can be the form where freedom can and should be exercised. But American experience also proves that the freedom of all individuals can not be exercised fully in a state that possesses full national sovereignty. A fully sovereign state always puts full power and full freedom in the hands of a minority of its citizens. Such power can be reduced and spread around throughout a population to free all citizens only if the political power of a state is not absolute. A state can be “the moral whole” and “that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom” without being a fully sovereign state if it can become a member state of a just union of states with a central government  with the legal power clearly stated in a Constitution to force states to support freedom for all their citizens. The American Federal Government has already lightened history’s burden by assuming some of the sovereign power of 50 states but it has not lessened their sovereign power to govern themselves democratically and provide for their citizens a moral whole where they can live freely.
Daniel McNeill 

The Theater of the Impossible, The End of All Beginnings, The United States of the World, books by Daniel McNeill, are for sale at: amazon.com/author/graceisall