Author and entrepreneur Rick Culleton discusses the school of hard knocks, turning things around, becoming a successful businessman and entrepreneur, setting up shop in Latin America, where he sees the economy headed, and how to cultivate happiness.
I laughed when you both mentioned the "two different kinds of people" regarding travelling. I see so many tiktoks, instagram posts, youtube videos, et cetera, in which the people travelling to some foreign location go shopping. At H&M. Or some other store that is plentiful in the USA. Eating at Chipotle in Sofia, Bulgaria. Or even if they eat at a non-chain restaurant, they order pizza or a hamburger. *sigh*
I did stick my head into a McDonald's in London once, because I wanted to see the menu. They had Blackberry pie instead of apple pie and of course tea rather than coffee. But now with the internet, you don't even have to do that - the menu to any worldwide McDonald's is likely available with a couple of keystrokes.
On one of my trips to Hawaii, there was a breakfast buffet that catered to both American and Japanese tourists. I followed a pretty Japanese girl through the buffet line and chose everything that she chose. It was certainly not an American breakfast but I liked all of it. To this day I'm not sure what I ate. Bring on the camel! :)
My book just came out. It might be something you'd be interested in.
WORLD ON MUTE: How Workplace Speech Committees are Destroying our Nations, and Eliminating our Civil Liberties Kindle Edition
by LISA MIRON (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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There are two ways generally that humans have been governed: the first involves force and violence while the next involves dialogue. Governments which are set up on the basis of controlling speech must be lumped into the first heap. My book describes an end run on our rights to freedom of expression through a parallel power structure that is assembling trans-nationally in our work-place speech committees. It's not just a new form of governance; it is a form of global governance and it is crushing our civil liberties.
It’s my thesis that since 2020 (at least), professional bodies have morphed from acting as “upholders of standards” to manipulators of society. I argue in this book that, through statecraft, professional organizations are subverting the protections normally afforded to citizens by nation states.
I also argue in these pages that this serious matter is not haphazard. Instead, the organizations that regulate various professions (e.g., doctors, lawyers, etc.) are systematically replacing traditional forms of governance with new systems that are completely undemocratic. This includes such bodies as courts and even the functioning of entire national governments. Under the radar, countries are being replaced wholesale with what we might call transnational globalist institutions. Professional bodies are becoming instruments via which transnational governance systems will account for human affairs.
What is being assembled is a new power structure that is potent enough to eliminate the basis by which we believe we are governed. Up until recently nearly all of us would agree the representative government and our constitutional rights are the basis of most OECD governments and “governance.” This is no longer the case. A rogue power has arisen within our states through the speech committees in our workplace and professional bodies. This worrisome new power is fully described in this book.
That was great.
Always nice to hear some positivity!
I laughed when you both mentioned the "two different kinds of people" regarding travelling. I see so many tiktoks, instagram posts, youtube videos, et cetera, in which the people travelling to some foreign location go shopping. At H&M. Or some other store that is plentiful in the USA. Eating at Chipotle in Sofia, Bulgaria. Or even if they eat at a non-chain restaurant, they order pizza or a hamburger. *sigh*
I did stick my head into a McDonald's in London once, because I wanted to see the menu. They had Blackberry pie instead of apple pie and of course tea rather than coffee. But now with the internet, you don't even have to do that - the menu to any worldwide McDonald's is likely available with a couple of keystrokes.
On one of my trips to Hawaii, there was a breakfast buffet that catered to both American and Japanese tourists. I followed a pretty Japanese girl through the buffet line and chose everything that she chose. It was certainly not an American breakfast but I liked all of it. To this day I'm not sure what I ate. Bring on the camel! :)
My book just came out. It might be something you'd be interested in.
WORLD ON MUTE: How Workplace Speech Committees are Destroying our Nations, and Eliminating our Civil Liberties Kindle Edition
by LISA MIRON (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
See all formats and editions
There are two ways generally that humans have been governed: the first involves force and violence while the next involves dialogue. Governments which are set up on the basis of controlling speech must be lumped into the first heap. My book describes an end run on our rights to freedom of expression through a parallel power structure that is assembling trans-nationally in our work-place speech committees. It's not just a new form of governance; it is a form of global governance and it is crushing our civil liberties.
It’s my thesis that since 2020 (at least), professional bodies have morphed from acting as “upholders of standards” to manipulators of society. I argue in this book that, through statecraft, professional organizations are subverting the protections normally afforded to citizens by nation states.
I also argue in these pages that this serious matter is not haphazard. Instead, the organizations that regulate various professions (e.g., doctors, lawyers, etc.) are systematically replacing traditional forms of governance with new systems that are completely undemocratic. This includes such bodies as courts and even the functioning of entire national governments. Under the radar, countries are being replaced wholesale with what we might call transnational globalist institutions. Professional bodies are becoming instruments via which transnational governance systems will account for human affairs.
What is being assembled is a new power structure that is potent enough to eliminate the basis by which we believe we are governed. Up until recently nearly all of us would agree the representative government and our constitutional rights are the basis of most OECD governments and “governance.” This is no longer the case. A rogue power has arisen within our states through the speech committees in our workplace and professional bodies. This worrisome new power is fully described in this book.
Lisa Miron