Crosspost from LinkedIn
The Anthem Liberty Foundation (ALF) is sponsoring the shooting of new footage for the “No Land Promised” documentary in the Cyprus Buffer Zone this October.
On October 26, ALF founder Boris Reitman, producer Marina Ratina and a camera operator will film on location, with a permit from the U.N. Peacekeeping Force. The footage will feature an abandoned airport inside the zone and is being shot in coproduction with a local Cyprus production company.
“No Land Promised” is a feature documentary about the future of statehood, conceived by Marina. Her earlier clips, including interviews with Patri Friedman and Maria Alekhina of the Russian anti-Putinist art collective “Pussy Riot,” are on https://nolandpromised.com
Marina describes the film as “a collection of modern time legends about people attempting to build a better way of living” and “a good old quest for freedom with interesting consequences.”
Our visit coincides with SlovoNovo (October 23–25, Limassol), a cultural platform that unites Russian-speaking creatives from across the globe and supports uncensored creativity, and we are pleased to take part. The project will be presented at the forum: Marina Ratina will introduce the film on October 23 at 1:45 PM local time, and we will join the day’s roundtables, beginning at 10:00 AM with “Society Without a State: The Emergence of New Institutions,” followed by “Society Without Borders: A Different Audience.”
Boris Reitman will also present ALF and its unique vision among other projects in search of independence, most of which are libertarian. ALF is emphatically NOT a libertarian project: its vision is a radical laissez-faire capitalist state founded on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. Its government is responsible for the army, police and law courts. The state operates without regulations and has open borders and free trade. Such a state depends on a significant part of the population accepting the morality of egoism and individualism, and rejecting altruism and collectivism.
Why Cyprus? We published a case study, “Emerging Regions: Cyprus Buffer Zone,” on a demarcated, internationally monitored region with access to the Mediterranean. In the footage we will cover:
(a) why capitalism is needed; (b) how a small third jurisdiction with open borders could act as a trade link between north and south; (c) why Anthemism differs from libertarian initiatives, i.e. Objectivism vs. libertarianism.
ALF is a purely educational organization. We take no position on political questions on the island; what happens in the Buffer Zone is for Cypriots to decide.
Read the article: https://anthemliberty.org/article/emerging-region-cyprus/
Another draft article concept, generated by Claude under my guidance, based on @participant-4603 compedium of micronations. Thesis:
“Micronations rarely last, and the usual explanation, that they are silly or underfunded, misses the cause. A state survives only if its neighbors have a reason to leave it alone, and a micronation that depends on a single neighbor’s tolerance can be ended by that neighbor whenever it chooses. Minerva was claimed by Tonga, Rose Island was demolished by Italy, Espiritu Santo was crushed by troops brought in from Papua New Guinea, and Hutt River was taxed out of existence. Even serious free zones such as Tangier and Freeport, which gave their hosts real trade and revenue, held only as long as the host’s interest did. The places that lasted for centuries, such as Cospaia, Neutral Moresnet and Åland, did so because no single claimant could absorb them without a rival objecting. The test for a new-country project is whether any one government can decide the project’s fate alone. For anyone pursuing a laissez-faire country, that points to contested regions with several claimants, none able to take the land and none willing to let a rival do so, and to settlements that leave each claimant better off than the alternative.”
The ideal outcome would be a trilateral agreement between Liberland, Zagreb and Belgrade. If Liberland could help resolve the Croatia–Serbia border impasse, this would mark a major breakthrough.
One possible solution would be a tripartite condominium over Gornja Siga, with the territory recognised as Liberland. It would be designated a demilitarised, neutral zone, with free civilian access for Croatian and Serbian citizens.
Other options may merit consideration, although I expect Liberland has already explored similar proposals. The principal obstacle is Croatia’s lack of incentive to negotiate, given its status as an EU and NATO member state.
David Sinclair: “Today [October 9] marks an important moment for epigenetic restoration. Life Biosciences announced the first human results from its Phase I trial of ER-100, an experimental epigenetic restoration therapy being tested in patients with glaucoma.
All three patients tolerated the treatment, and two showed improvements on a visual-field test. The study was small and designed to assess safety, so these results are only an early signal. Still, they offer a glimpse of an extraordinary possibility: that restoring the epigenome may one day help restore function in human disease by targeting aging itself.”
