participant-3927, 1:08 PM, June 15
I wrote an article about Cyprus buffer zone a year ago. Today I will drive to the zone to look around.
participant-3927, 9:32 AM, June 16
participant-3927, 9:32 AM, June 16
participant-3927, 9:33 AM, June 16
I am here now. Note: the dashed line is the buffer zone, the part that has exit to the sea. A country in the zone could have its own import and export, allowing for free trade and immigration.
participant-3488, 5:44 AM, June 17
I emphasized previously that opportunities arise in conflicted regions. Here is a summary of the history of conflicts in Cyprus. Note that this territory has always been under contention since antiquity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_problem
participant-3488, 10:52 AM, June 19
I often hear arguments against my plan to create a new country, that such thing is impossible without bloodshed. But the historical example of the Velvet Revolution and the Velvet Divorce of Chechia and Slovakia is an example that it’s possible.
Memorial of the Velvet revolution in Bratislava (Námestie SNP), Slovakia: “‘Only those who struggle for their freedom are worthy of it.’ At this place in November 1989 we decided to take our responsibility for the future into our own hands. We decided to put an end to communism and to establish freedom and democracy.”
participant-3927, 10:56 AM, June 19
There was an opportunity to ask questions, and I asked how to prevent the region being shunned by the world, and particularly nearby states (e.g. Russia), for having free banking. I phrased as “how to prevent it to becoming a hole, used only for shell companies and washing money.”? His answer was to follow the example of Estonia.
participant-1522, 12:05 AM, June 20
What exactly has Estonia done
participant-3927, 6:01 AM, June 20
As far as I know, Estonia is now the go to offshore zone for many shell companies.
participant-4603, 8:46 AM, June 20
“Sunny places for shady people simply doesn’t work as well as it once did.” Palm tree-lined seaside corniche enclaves often raise more eyebrows than not. This is where Estonia definitely wins.
The trouble is, from my understanding, they do make you hire a costly local accountant, and it has become a lot more bureaucratic, and it’s not as easy to maintain an Estonia entity as it once was, but I think the major attraction is that company profits are not taxed until there is a distribution, and I believe at a rate of 20%.
participant-1522, 8:49 AM, June 20
Being an out of country tax haven is not the same thing as starting a country that is only on the gold standard. It’s still playing by the financial rules of the federal reserve
participant-3927, 8:52 AM, June 20
I think the TPI institute has funding, and it’s looking to hire experts. I’m going to try connect someone of high political caliber , perhaps an ex-politician , with the TPI. I think they all want to get paid, and will get involved for money.
participant-3927, 8:55 AM, June 20
The forum was in a small room with little audience, but it had a lot of high caliber people, including Anna Fotyga, past Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland. Why all these people showed up? Probably because they got paid .
participant-3927, 9:02 AM, June 20
Another person at the forum was retired General Pavel Macko (NATO).
participant-3488, 10:19 AM, June 20
Refined definiton of Anthemism:
Anthemism (or going anthem) is the abandonment of reforming statist countries and instead aiming to found a new sovereign state whose political system is laissez-faire capitalism consistent with Objectivism.
In the old definiton instead of “statist countries” it said “existing states”.
participant-3488, 3:30 PM, June 21
Updated the website design, and also improved the definition of Anthemism further:
Anthemism (or going anthem) is the abandonment of efforts to reform statist countries in favor of founding a new sovereign laissez-faire capitalist state consistent with Objectivism.
