Geodesic Dome Update & The Peaceful Path of Occupy the Land

In this special episode of Occupy the Land, we continue assembling the 20ft geodesic sphere root cellar — finishing the bottom struts, positioning with the backhoe, wire-tying hog fence reinforcement, and beginning to mud/embed with caliche soil from the sand pond. We also share updates on the chicken coop (new rooster addition, ground squirrel challenges, gravity water system), garden soil acidification for potatoes, dike building for monsoon water retention, and awning work on the bus. Ernie reflects deeply on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, self-ownership, decades of activism (Ron Paul Revolution, Pirates Without Borders, Philosophy of Liberty), and why peaceful decentralization and attainable housing through locally sourced materials is the path forward for Generation Next. Inspirational build progress meets the “why” behind it all! Peace.

Transcript:

Ernie’s attaching the last of the conduit, the EMT rods in the bottom sphere of the dome.

We’re almost finished with the bottom part, and you sort of have to wrangle it into place. Doesn’t fit as neatly as a puzzle, but it does fit surprisingly.

If you do them all the way, you’re supposed to get them color coded. Make sure they’re whatever and all pulls together. Right size. So that is what we are doing. Now these we don’t have to cinch down really super duper tight because we have two more of that comes down when we put the top half on. But this is the last of the bottom part of the sphere.

Boom. That’s it. Gotta push that out over there. But I’ll do it with it’s like an upside down. No, you got to position it and level it and all that. But we’re done for the day.

Okay. What we’re doing is we’re taking off the back blade so we can put the backhoe on to be able to position the sphere, move it around and stuff. Without having to muscle it. So we disconnect all these connections because we got all these we got to take off, you know, these two hydraulics here. And then I got to remove the support structures for it.

And then we’re going to put on the backhoe. And it always is a thing. I mean it takes you know, less an hour 40 minutes or something. But it’s a pain. But is it not the worst. Not worse, not the worst, but it’s not good. Here we go.

Now we got it orientated the way we want, where the door is going to go in over here, and we can start wire tying the fence to the bottom of the dome, tighten it up triangle by triangle. And this gives us these little spacers, gives us the ability we can level it now and start packing it in. So we’re getting ready to go.

Well, now we can work in the shade and it’s like an archeological dig. So we’ll start that tomorrow or got about leveled and so on. Now it’s time to start wiring in the wire and start mudding. But we wanted to do it in the shade, so this is a good idea a friend had. And I said, yep, just like an archeological dig.

Well, we’re at the archeological dig. Well, we’re doing we have the water tanks over there to make the mud and taking my tractor, and we have pretty dumped with the dump trailer, a bunch of soil there from the layer, and we’re just starting to wire it and mud it in. And you can see down there how it, you know, gets muttered in and it’s really, you know, locked in.

We got to wet it and make it mud and, and pack it and so on. And it’s doing really well. Before I get too much further along, I may take the, the backhoe and try and get it perfect level, you know, of the top here. And I got a couple ideas of how I want to make the floor because that right there, that level is where the floor goes.

And then you have, you know, just a mirror version of this dome connects on top of it and it’ll be one big sphere, and then the door is going to be right there. And I get down to the angle, you can see where the door is going, but it’s working pretty well. I mean, you know, for just me, you know, and Donna helping sometimes it’s going pretty good.

But I can see it’s going to get hard because this is me trying to take this hump out, you know, make it a flat road that goes down there. But I mean, that stuff is hard. It’s like concrete. And that’s what will happen when this dries out. It’ll reconstitute into this, you know, cal creep stuff. And so we’ve been wiring the fence to the struts, and then we pack it with the mud there and then pack that down.

And you do this all around. You can see I just take and dump this soil in there and start building that up and then wetting it and more into the bucket and wet it and bucket and wet it. And this is from yesterday. So then it’ll just keep coming up around. And then I got some several options on doing the floor here, but I got a span 20ft.

So I got to have like 25ft or something like that 2020 five feet of floor Joyce. But they got to be at least 12in high. And I’ll show you that later, you know, for it to span that far. But I really want to do that. I don’t want a support in the middle, which I can do. I got a big piece of pipe that I could.

I’ll show you. It’s way over there. You see, that pipe there I think is about God, 11in, 12in in diameter. And it’ll hold up, you know, a truck. So I may put that in the center as a column to support the floor. I really don’t want to, you know, so I’m going to see what my options are. But this is what, how far we’re making progress on this and got it going.

It’s just there’s so many other honey dudes I got to do, especially with Donegan and making sure the chickens are fine. You know, I gotta go in and check on them, make sure they got everything, so we’ll do that. But I’m going to be working on the awning mostly today.

Okay, I’m putting a new awning on the bus, and I wanted to. I took off all the old brackets and everything, and I got to make some reinforcement at a scrap metal and get stuff done. So I’m going to be working on that today while Donna’s gone for a couple of days playing grandma and real estate and stuff in town and getting her truck worked on and doing Donna stuff so I can get some stuff done.

Well, I’m going to go ahead and we got a new awning and it’s a little bit longer than the other one, and I’m going to go ahead and get everything already. I may need her help to actually lift it up there and click it in and will be a big deal. But you probably want to do that by yourself.

So I’ll be working on that and I’ll go show you on the dome some of the mud embedding, me putting in the dirt and packing it around, and you’ll see where that’s going. But this is a distraction for today.

Well, here are the ground squirrels. They make it into the dome. They have a I mean, into the henhouse here. There’s a little opening right at the bottom there that they squeezed through. You leave a couple of centimeters, they’re going to make it. And there’s some goodies and food and water in here. So they want to come in and get some.

And there’s a couple of them. Gazillions of them. I’m sure. But, you know, I’ll try and seal it up a little bit, but putting a bunch of gravel rocks doesn’t mean anything. They just move all that and come in. I don’t know if they’re a harm to the chickens or anything or we care, but not a dozen like it.

So she did everything to try and keep them out. So I don’t know, we could poison them or shoot them or just deal with it and not worry about it, but oh, that’s what they’re getting this food up here. I bet that’s what they’re doing. All right. They’re taking off. We’ll deal with that later.

Well, Donna got us a rooster. One of my nephews. They had a rooster they needed to get rid of. Is only, I think, three months old. And it was, you know, waking the neighbors or something. So we’ll probably see how he crows in the morning. You’ll hear out. It’d be like a real farm. Cock a doodle doo. So the.

I was wondering about putting them with the other chicks, but they seem to don’t mind. And they’re getting big enough and, you know, gang up on them. But if you had chickens before. The roosters are really funny in how they mate. It’s like a two second thing. They take their beak and they grab them by the comb and they sneak up on behind them and then boom, it’s over in about a couple of seconds.

And I just like, wow. And our rooster that we used to have was awesome. And he did a couple of seconds a bunch of times. So this is only a few months old, and it seems like he’s getting along with them. And he’s got food and water and everything, but you need to have a rooster, certainly if you want to make more baby chicks.

But the big thing is they’re really good at protection. And we’ve had where big dogs come in, even had the rooster in its mouth and we’re chasing it and they drop it and whatever. One of our new neighbors had, a big dog came in and they banging on the door. Hey, man, you know our dogs back there? Your chicken had in the mountain.

He recovered, but he chased off coyotes and hawks and takes care of them. One time he got really hot and we had to bring him in the pool. And he was. He was going to die. We had to, you know, heat stress. But it’s really nice having life on the property now, you know, it’s we got it automated.

We don’t have to do too much. But it’s nice having animals. I like it. And this rooster is going to be. Seems like he’s cool, you know? And he’ll protect the ladies.

Welcome to occupy the land. Occupy the land. Today’s July 3rd, 2026. And we’re on the eve of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Empire. You know, from. You either own yourself or somebody else does. And the Declaration of Independence had a big impact on why we do what we do. So I thought I’d give you, at the end of the video, a little update of the things that we’re doing and so on.

I don’t want to let this go by. Now I have a podcast, which was a radio show that started in oh three, and it just kind of blossomed into. But we were political activists for a long time, and the Declaration of Independence had a big impact on me, which is why we call the show Declare Your Independence with Hancock.

Now, you know, we started in my home in North Phoenix, and I had a room that was converted into a studio, and we did that for decades, years. And then it became clear that we needed to we needed to hit the road because during Covid, it was in 19 that we did. I think it was October, September of 19.

We did a Vaccine education summit, our second one. I’ll show you some pictures here. But the whole reason was, is we could see on a lot of different levels how we were being controlled, and they were setting up mechanisms of surveillance, and it was almost like a test. It was an IQ test for freedom lovers or something. It.

We’ve known what was coming for a long time now. It evolved into Occupy the land as a peaceful solution. But it wasn’t just, you know, go buy a property or have a relative with a few extra acres on the farm up here go. Kind of. That wasn’t really the point. The point was, is that our pioneers developing this country, it was done not by the elites.

You know, they benefited. You know, they collectivized you and your access to your taxes, your retirement, your funds, and put it in a big pile of money. And then and it’s gone. You know, so what we wanted to emphasize is how you can build a life for yourself and your family with attainable housing. The point was, is how inexpensively and cheaply could you do it now here in the desert.

You know, it’s going to be, you know, steel and masonry because we have all the material here. Now we can just do Adobe, you know, and stack up mud and so on. And they call it cob, or you have rammed earth homes and there’s a lot of different things. But I had experience with building these domes since zero eight, you know, and we could see that.

And we did prototypes of it. And I may show you some stuff, but we knew that if we had the land and were just left alone over years, we could build a nice complex. Well, my wife and I are 64 and 65 now. We have four children and 12 grandchildren, and we wanted to leave them something because their whole life was, you know, you know, not abject poverty, but, I mean, we were always scrambling because we put all our resources in the trying to wake people up to let them know how bad it really was and how it came.

And I wanted to share this with you a little bit when I decided in the like, 89, something’s wrong, and there was a reason why. It was my father’s company and export. And it was it was lies, lies, lies, lies and lies. And I mean, I got to see what the deal is, you know? So I went to the libraries before the internet was, you know, certainly broadband, but, you know, before the internet was even had our first email, I think was in 92, 93.

And what we did is I went down to the library and I read the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Bill of rights. Okay, I won the big Constitution fan, because that just created a structure by which they’re going to abuse you, which is why the Bill of rights came in. I was like, oh, I have another revolution, you know, do the 10th how shalt nots of government kind of deal.

So I understood it, but it was a declaration of and that came a decade later after the declaration. Well, the Declaration of Independence really struck me as, wow, what a great philosophical document. Well, the part that really what it was was why we’re doing it. We’re announcing it to the world. We’re saying, you know, decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that you should separate, should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

You know, we hold these truths that to be self-evident. Now, the whole point was they’re saying, you know, the the whole reason you create a government, they’re instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Well, that consent is in what way? Well, most notably voting, you know, you get to have your say. And that was where I really came across a lot of corruption.

You know, I didn’t think I knew I knew I went through, you know, long story. But lawsuits all the way to the Ninth Circuit, I was an officer in the Libertarian Party we advocated for, and I found the libertarians after I had been years of doing activism for like three years. And then I they had an answer. Damn, libertarians got an answer for everything.

Freedom’s the answer. What’s the question now? Your favorite or known relative or someone you know is a libertarian that you know it’s not individuals. It’s not a party. It’s it’s a philosophical thing. You own yourself. Once you get that down, then it’s all good. You understand it from there. Now what happened is there going that when there create a government, it is there to ensure the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of the individual?

Well, pursuit. Pursuit of happiness doesn’t mean like joy or an emotion or something. It’s happenstance, you know, your circumstances that you have to go back and do the epistemology of the words, what they really meant. And you read more and more. And then you had the Federalist Papers, but then you had the Anti-Federalist papers, which is kind of the libertarian perspective.

Now, I’m going to do this quick because, you know, I don’t want to, you know, I just want you to understand the why we’re doing Occupy the Land. It evolves to that over decades. And it became clear that the only peaceful way that you’re going to be able to survive what’s coming and it’s coming is self-sufficiency, decentralization. Down in we identified eight categories that you need to be able to be self-sufficient in.

And you can be free, you know, in amongst all the list are galloping hordes and government agents or Hellfire missiles. And, you know, I mean, you know, you can pretty much just get off the grid, off of their grid, off their surveillance grid, while you’re walking around with your cell phone. But, do the best you could. Now, this was interesting to me that goes that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government, if any, lay in its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall see most likely affect their

safety and happiness. Now it went on to go. You know, prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are suffering than to write them by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object and events as they designed to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.

Now how and what you do. They didn’t really they didn’t talk about republics or democracy or anything. If you’re going to have a government, what do you say you do here? Protect individual rights. If you don’t do that, then why? Why would I support it after 250 years? It’s got down now. What they did is they said, you know, as you know, to a candid world, we need to, you know, let you know to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

Right. You know, the King has done this. The king has done that. You know, the the crown is, you know, whatever, whatever. And it gave a lot of reasoning here. But in the end, they made it clear that, you know, we we wanted to make we want to make sure that we have a relationship with our brethren in Great Britain.

You know, they were English subjects. You know, they had, you know, family. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our immigration and settlement here. And we said, look, you know, this is why we came here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow, disavow these usurpations, which would invariably interrupt our connections and correspondence.

They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice, and of consequently now constant quantity means a common heritage, you know, like your first, second cousins kind of thing. And they were going, look, we’re family, you know, but we must therefore acquiesce in the necessity that really had an impact on me. We have a acquiesce in the necessity to do what you know, I wish to avoid violence.

I’m like, no, I you know, we just want to be left alone. So occupy the land of all the activism and things that we’ve done. This is the one I feel is a solution without violence. Now, that doesn’t mean they’re not common. That doesn’t mean a clipboard is not going to show up and fining and you’re not allowed.

And where’s your permission slip? But we needed to have standing. I always had standing. I always wanted to have the ability to file suit, which I’ve had many gone to the Ninth Circuit pro se, you know, oral argument before the ninth Circuit Court. I’ve had three Arizona Supreme Court cases on and on and on. But it wasn’t so much that I cared what the court said.

It was that general public opinion, people understood the argument and the position of the government or certainly the prosecutors. So but it was always started by me, you know, I was I was the plaintiff, they were the defendant. So there’s been, you know, I’ve, you know, arrested different protests. I’ve, you know, been subpoenaed to the January 6th trial because the interviewing people, they didn’t want me to hear you just, you know, and I’m I’m.

No, no, no, I’m not cooperating. I mean, I’ll comply with, you know, whatever mandate or you got a gun in my face, but I’m, I’m no, I know my rights. And you don’t exercise them. You don’t have them. So this is, you know, kind of where were unique that we take action. Now, I wanted to just go over a little bit of the history.

We went from this in 2020. I mean, yeah, 2020. And in 19 we could see what was coming. And I knew, you know, from our understanding of the vaccine issue and the surveillance grid and something was common. So we went ahead and liquidated all we got to fat. I mean, we just had, you know, a couple of acres, we had a nice home.

We had, you know, chickens and a lot of experiments on aquaponics and how to grow and square foot gardening and, and fruit trees and everything. So we knew what we could do to sustain ourselves in a small area. But we had two acres. And I thought it was great because you’re far enough away from your neighbors. They don’t care if you’re, you know, rocking out in your backyard with your boombox or whatever.

And it gave us enough space to store things, to build things, you know, have parties, which we had a lot of. And it was really nice, but it was too nice and we could see what was coming and we were going to have this overhead. So then we decided, all right. The studio, we could make it small and install it in a bus.

Well, that’s what we did. You know, I had friends let them know what my plans were. This is in 19, and a friend of mine found this bus that we got in New Hampshire. And we refurbished and built out everything, and that took months. It was like 5 or 6 months from December to May when we actually started the Love Bus Liberty Tour.

Now the Love Bus Liberty Tour was, you know, us going on the road. We pulled a little Jeep behind us, and we did shows all across the country trying to make sure that people understood resistance was not futile, you know? And my forte is made you look, you know, signed, signed everywhere a sign. Now I’m best known for now we’ve been doing this since the late 80s, but we were philosophical.

Yes. I’m that libertarian kind of thing. Well, I’m the one that created the Ron Paul Revolution logo, but there was a use of that logo. Oh, a year before this, in a campaign that was one for secretary of state in Arizona in oh six. Well, you know, you’re still voting. I mean, and the whole point that I was making was how corrupt the system was and be on record this you had lawsuits and a lot of media and there was a lot of support, but we were up against a headwind of media control.

So street activism was really the only way that you could do it. Well, you had the internet. There was a period of time there from about oh six to, you know. Oh nine that the internet was a very effective activist tool. Then it became just another surveillance thing. And, you know, there’s certain things were supported, others were de platformed and you could see what was coming.

So that’s why I do the show that I do and the way I do it now we have, you know, Freedom’s Phoenix is from the ashes of Liberty. Lady Liberty’s torch, Freedom’s phoenix, the rebirth of freedom. Now we cover. You know, this, of course, is our newsletter archive that we send out twice a day to our subscribers. And, you know, it is a very good picture into what’s happening and what’s coming.

Our debt is unsustainable. There is competition to the petrodollar. There is going to be a resurgence of gold and silver. Everybody says, oh, it went down to 61 a few months ago it was 30. So I anticipate it’s going to get stupid. And I so I’ve always advocated, you know, just keep picking up silver, get some more silver, have some silver.

So we, we try and do that to kind of protect us. Now occupy the Land is a solution to all of the problems. We try and be an inspiration to people. Now under the Bus Liberty tour, we were demonstrating how you can use sign, sign everywhere, a sign and the mechanism that we would do that. We had a lot of materials that we’d have on the bottom of the bus.

We had lasers that would make stencils that we would do, and we’d show up in different parts all over the country, and people would come out and we would put them all over the place. Now, support first responders. You say no to mandatory shots. This campaign we started in oh nine. You know, I could see what was going on then other long story, but and all these signs, you know, I want to see your smile.

Shut up and believe freedom’s the answer. What’s the question? So a lot of our slogans and so on. We would go to the area and usually it was rule. We tried to stay away from the cities within the rural areas, because it was the schools where they had a lot of the liberal, liberal ideology that was being pushed to Generation Next, and parents didn’t like it.

So when they found out we were around, they’d ask us to come to their county. And I think we hit just about all states, 50 states. I mean, it was, you know, three years that we were going back and forth and back and forth, and we’d in the summer, we’d be in northern part of the United States, and then in the winter we’d be in the southern part.

And then, of course, we come there as our home for the holidays. Now, whenever we would go, wherever we would go, there was plenty of people that wanted to make signs and put them up, and there was no confrontation with anyone. They’d set it up in their garage, we’d do it at parks, we’d, you know, do it in Walmart parking lot.

I mean, you know, everywhere. And the reason was, is I just wanted to give them the inspiration that resistance was not futile, that you can inspire a bunch of other people. Now, of course, the media were trying downplay that and you’re crazy and, you know, whatever. And we didn’t care. We’re going. Nope nope nope nope. We do it.

Doing it. This is Upper Michigan, you know, UPN Michigan complaining. Nobody ever comes up. Here I go, go, go, let’s go do it. So this is, you know, the kind of activism, the kind of political activism that we do. Even though I would use politics, I was run for office like every two years since 1990, all the way to 2010.

You know, we’re always up there because you get to have your say, well, they changed laws to prevent you from even getting on the ballot, applying to, you know, there’s all kinds of controls. And it’s just gotten so bad that when JFK said, when you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable. And that’s what I’m trying to avoid.

And they and they say you’ll loan nothing. And here’s your happy shot. You know, the shot heard around the world. You’re getting herded like cattle. So this is. You know what we were doing. There’s my wife, Donna, and one of the activists in Michigan, and we would go all over the country, and we had supporters and sponsors that very forward thinking, freedom minded, been supportive of a long time, and they knew that we would make use of the resources to do this kind of stuff.

This is in New Hampshire. So there were protests and so on everywhere. And what kind of mainstream coverage was it getting? Well, we got, you know, quite a bit, but it didn’t matter. That wasn’t the point. It’s inspiration now, we’ve been making these domes for a long time. This is, you know, a workshop that we had. You just cover it and you get in and out of the wind and rain.

You can get some stuff done. And, you know, this is the equipment that we’re using to build out here, because I already knew we could do it. We’ve been doing it for a decade and a half, you know, for various different buildings. And I’m going, man, we could we could really, you know, build a complex, you know, and this is us fashioning machine and it flattens.

You got to get just the right length, you know, and the formula for making geodesic domes, it flattens it and then it makes a hole on the other one. You do two punches on it and that makes the rounds. It makes a hole. So we knew we could build out here. Now our first one that we did it was called the Money Dome.

And this was a vending thing that we did. We take the festivals and put it up, and it’d take a couple hours to put it up, and we didn’t have the machine when we did this one. It was just a drill press and a hammer on an anvil. I mean, you you pound it flat and you drilled a hole and start putting.

I mean, it was very rudimentary, but it was very effective. And it has a lot of space, a lot less material. And it was very inspirational. So we would use it at different festivals that we sell stuff. And it’s the freedom thing. Well, then we did a prototype up in Washington, friend. The supporter has a farm up there and he goes, yeah, you can have, you know, this area on this ridge, you know, go make something.

So we did a few domes. We had a test donor dome and, and, you know, test out some different coverings. And then we had a big one that was for us to have as a workshop. We worked in the mud and then we would wire tie hog fest. Now we’re using they call it hinge cow fence. Now that we’re doing so, it’s just wire between the struts to give you reinforcement for it.

And this is how you just wire tie it onto there. And then we put a mesh on it. You can see here’s the mesh. And then you can fashion it and you put your electrical outlets and do it. So we did a prototype up there just to see if we could. And it wasn’t just to be a prototype example of making it, it was whether we were physically able to do it.

I mean, we were getting older. I, you know, I, you know, I came out of that summer a lot stronger than I went in, you know. So it was it was a good thing and you could, you know, do the doors and so on. And we have a similar dome here, but we used the hyper Adobe bags that were put in this up on gives us, you know, flatter walls and makes it easier for cabinetry and so on, gives you more headroom and have a second floor.

And so we’re so we’re bringing you along as we develop and improve on what we’ve done before. Now we tried different meshes. You know I think one’s fiberglass and this one is basalt which is like stone. You know, it’s might as well be fiberglass. It’s basalt rock. And they make fibers out of it like fiberglass. And then we use nylon.

It doesn’t seem to make a difference. I like using the basalt because when you got funky contours and so on, it really forms easily and so but it’s quite a bit more expensive. So you get we wanted to have a shade or a baseball cap or something over the windows and doors so they wouldn’t leak and, you know, make sure we had them covered.

So it just this was just a prototype. We just wanted to see how we can now. We ordered a there’s a Covid. So I think it was the summer of 21, 20 or 21. And it was a pump, a cement pump, you know, like you, you know, doing a pool or so on it. It made this go really fast, but it was months before they could get it to us.

To supply chain was a thing. I go, hell, I could do it, you know, harbor freight bucket at a time by hand by then, which is what we did. So this is the first coat of us putting on cement. So and this was a 20ft dome. So we just go, all right. And we just covered it. Put it out there,
Did it. Boom. Done. Now you can make it more funky. And we’re going to be doing this around all the way around to have a patio for one of the other prototypes that we’re doing here, because we’re experimenting with other building materials, the Adobe and, you know, the cow, Crete and Cob and, you know, hyper Doby bags and so on, because we need a prototype of all the new materials that we’ve learned to do Air Crete, lava Crete, you know, Paper Crete.

I mean, we’re doing a lot of different things to test. Now, we’ve done that on, you know, the platforms and the concrete footers and the slabs and so on. We mix different soils, but it’s all locally sourced on our land. So we knew that we could get the cost, weight, attainable housing. Yeah, we could, you know, build a lot of people are very inspiring and they’re building a lot of cool things.

But it was important to us to do it with locally sourced materials. Now when we do a 30ft dome, these are great workshops. And we had one here and we had a fire a year ago, Mother’s Day, that, you know, it was, you know, I mean, it wasn’t devastating, but it was definitely a few months setback because we lost a lot of supplies.

It well, not really supplies that we’re building here, but I mean, a lot of, you know, old man had stuff in bins for 20 years. And man, I wish I had that. So we replaced everything and we that’s why we got the shipping containers because this when you have a high wind, the the covering their gets beaten against it.

Eventually it’ll start leaking and and but it was good for keeping the rain off that summer and the wind out so that we could actually work. So I love working in the round. I make them more permanent. Now we have other buildings that were putting up their manufactured modular, you know, 30 by 60 by 22 high building between the shipping containers that will put up and that will last a lot longer and more formidable.

Formidable. But I like this. So the any experience I had everything is in the round. All your equipment and stuff is around the edges and then you pull. I put everything on wheels and I bring it in the middle when I’m doing the welding and I push that back, and then I bring in the woodworking stuff, and I got a big area in the middle to do that, and I push that back, and then I so I really like this.

We’re going to be doing a lot of this and it’s so open and you can get a second floor in it. So we have experience doing this now. This is our concrete area that we were doing and we take it out, put it on the prototype. So you can see I can, you know have everything around the edge.

And I just bring it into the middle. So I don’t think I know, I know, you know, this is another one that we had now. This one was when we were back in Arizona on a friend’s property not too far from where we are now. And we put this up just as a temporary thing so that we could do experimentation on different mixes.

We spent a lot of time on concrete. And how do you cover it and how do you seal it? What you can do with Adobe here and the desert here is the mix of clay to sand, and gravel is perfect. You know, the natives here, you know, you have buildings that last hundreds of years they have on display.

You know, you go to these different monuments around the state and you look at them, you go, dang, man, that mud lasted 300 years. Okay. That’s cool. And but we can what they called structured Adobe had a little bit about 5 to 10% Portland. And it’s even better. So this is what we were using here in Arizona when we were doing a bunch of signs.

And we have a lot of fun. They know a lot of young people come out and, you know, have some fun and do it. And it’s really inspiring to show that you can have a real voice, not just go, I voted. And then whatever the government or private company computer say happened is, you know, what happened and I know better.

So it was translucent. So when you of course, it glowed like a night light, you know, at night. But, because of the white dome, it was very well lit. I mean, it was really nice. And then, of course, when the sun’s up, it would glow on the inside. So out here in the desert, the rain, the wind really is so high.

I mean, you can get gusts up to 70, 80 miles an hour on a regular basis. Now, maybe last 10s, but I mean it, you know, dust devils and so on. It just really wreaks havoc. And you have to take into consideration the wind. Well, and then there’s the monsoon, you know, probably a few weeks out of the year.

It’s a, you know, you be a flood. So you have to take that into account. Now this is before staying out of friends. This is before we actually found the land that we’re doing now. We were about 25 miles away. And this is you know, how it’s set up now. I got a new awning. I’m working on that this week.

You may see that this is my friend Jay from New Hampshire. He was out and we were tested soil. And we’re going, look, man, we need to, you know, test this soil and see what the clay content and everything is going to make good Adobe. So that’s what that was about. Now we’ve made bricks blocks. We’ve used basalt fiber reinforcement fiberglass.

We covered it with linseed oil. We made a little well box for a friend of mine that wanted to have it go up so his grandkids wouldn’t fall in the hole, so we just testing it. This works great. But, you know, it was we wanted to make stuff bigger and it be stronger and more reinforced. Now. We tried, you know here you see, you know, five, ten and 20% of Portland and different things.

Now just straight Adobe. If you put boiled linseed oil on it mixed with mineral spirits, it has almost the same impact. It has a soak through. And you got to do a lot of coats, but it just amazing working with the material that our ancestors did. And it wasn’t even, I mean, just 100 years ago, you know, or maybe a little bit more.

And it was just amazing what you can do. But you got to ignore permits. You got to ignore what you have to do, what you can’t do, what you can buy, what you can do, what you can. So a lot of the material and we’ll get into it later as we get further into the build here is I’m having to source a lot of stuff or make it myself from Belarus, Russia, China, you know, where people are building all kinds of stuff that wouldn’t be legal here.

Why special interest? They don’t want you to be able to do attainable housing on your own. And kind of, you know, it’s it is so orchestrated. We’re ignoring that stuff because I know better now, this was we were making Air Crete and we had triangles that would just fit into the geodesic dome. We tried this. It worked fairly well, but you have to be very exact on it and it would take in more time.

And but this may be a technique that we do use a little bit testing in the future. Then you just fill this in. You put nylon, you know, reinforcement mesh on it and then code it and so on. This worked really well. This is Air Crete. You take foam soap and you just, you know, it makes a foam and you mix Portland in with it and boom.

And you feel a little bit stronger. You add some sand, but it is just really good insulation and it seals it. So this is a technique we have not used out here yet. But once we get to a certain point we’ll be prototyping that as well. Now this was just test you know with and without reinforcement. How strong is it.

How structural is it. So we’ve been doing a lot of testing over the years. And you know, it’s very light. I mean, you can pick up a square foot block of concrete, you know, made Air Crete and hold it in one hand. And it’s it’s really a fascinating idea. And we had friends that did this in Oklahoma. You know, we went out and helped them, you know, build an entire double dome home that he did with Air Crete, you know, and he created all these makes, these long blocks.

And then you cut them into smaller blocks and you can see that’s a woman that’s, you know, carrying that big giant. You wouldn’t be able to do that with concrete, I guarantee that. And then you put mesh on the outside, you coat it with a now you could use Portland. They have different tile adhesives. They have they have they have.

There’s all kinds of different things to experiment with. Now he wanted to use basalt fibers because it had the same expansion and contraction as the cement, you know, so you a lot less likely to have cracks. And because he was in a wooded area, he was afraid that if he used nylon or something, there was a fire, it would melt it and the integrity of it.

So he goes, yep, I’m going to use basalt fibers, you know, for that reason. So that’s what he did. Now, on the way back from the Love Bus Liberty tour, you know, I wanted to go visit Starbase. You know, this is in the early days of Starbase, I think, before they even launched one. The main ones. And what was amazing is they let you just drive up to it because this is like a public road or was at the time.

And the design there. Sean Holman is a good friend and a listener to the show. We met through him being a fan of the show, and basically this is the floor plan for my home in North Phoenix. I really like the way it was for a lot of various reasons. We had, you know, on the right side there, you have our master bedroom and bath, and then you had the studio, that one little one, and then it had a door between the big sphere on the right and the one in the middle that I could close off, and you could keep party in hell.

I’ll go to bed. You know, you guys, you know, peace out. And other people that were staying in rooms on the other side of that. I really liked the flow of this. It worked well. How can we do it into a dome now? What we did, I want to show you. This is around the center dome. We created a hallway.

You know, that is all the domes needed to be connected by a hallway. Now, if you go to up in the video and you know, a lot of the pictures and so on up here, you’ll see, and certainly on the telegram channel, you’ll see in the early days, we put up a lot of the graphics that we had.

The architect did, you know, for how each room was going to be used? And it looks like in the middle, I said, you just design what I want here. And I kind of sketched it out and I go, and I will make it happen. I can do it, you know, just give me your, your vision on this thing and we’ll get now of course he wants it go faster and, you know, get the the machine and do it and I want you.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa. And he came out and helped. He got rid of the bulldozer, helped us, you know, start to get the roads done. And so he’s been very inspiring and inspired by what we’re doing. And his son, you know, come out his young man just graduated from Arizona State University. We make sure it was okay because he’s from Stanford, San Diego.

And for years he was going to Arizona State University and, you know, come to the party and hang out and check on you and that kind of thing. So his family came out and they helped in the beginning of scratching out what we’re going to do, doing laser, some surveying where stuff goes where. But it took months for us to side exactly how it evolved.

Because you’re dealing with drainage, you’re dealing with what you want next to what and how far you want to walk to what I mean. And it’s just now starting to develop where things are going. But we have a lot of projects and our videos will show you that. But the main thing was, how do you make the domes?

Or we already knew how to do that. How do you put it in windows? We already know how to do that. Now how do you make this walkway that goes around? That’s what I wanted. And Donna was like, I don’t want to live in a spaceship. And I go, well, you know, this hallway is going to be Star Trek Next Generation.

Just get over it. So we’re going to have, you know, fun with this. But we needed to do a lot of prototypes out here, too, in our activism. You know, we started when we were young and it was my four children when they were little. And I was probably about 35 there, you know, and they didn’t know any different.

They just thought, you know, everybody’s political activist kind of thing. They knew it was political season when it was time to stuff envelopes or full newspapers or whatever. So they have been brought up with the philosophy. Now they’re definitely, you know, on the grid and in the machine and got great jobs and got a good education. And they, you know, we sacrificed a lot, you know, for them to have a private school education, get them out of the government schools and do it.

So, you know, of course you’re never appreciated for that, you know. But it is, very nice to have great children that are great parents. So you can be a grandparent. And that’s why how it started in the late 80s, my father manufactured called Alcan Traveler. It was a camping trailer for touring motorcycles. And I, you know, helped him with the art.

And I know how to, you know, back in the day and had a business and, you know, had this art for him. And this is a quad fold thing and but this was what it did. It popped out in like 60s. And, you know, it was awesome. And he had a cargo model on top left there. You know, he opened it up as a kitchen and everything in storage, but it could be pulled by a Gold Wing motorcycle.

Well, what happened was when the trade or travel restrictions started being eliminated in Europe, people, you know, he got some notoriety in Road Rider and Wing World, you know, magazines. And they wanted this shipped in bulk to Europe. But where do you go? Do you go in the port of Italy, Portugal, Spain, I mean, you know, where do you go?

You know, where is the duty, the least amount. You know, how, where are the restrictions? What? You know who you got pay off. I mean, you know, what do you do when my father wasn’t interested in exporting. But keep in mind, this is the late 80s. This was. Oh, man, we got trade deficit and we got to go kick ass.

And you know the Eastern Bloc. I start the fall and and you know, so there was a lot of opportunity. But that’s when I came across enormous corruption that how did they get away with all of this corruption, all of this control and exports. It’s like the US government was a gang with a flag and was there cut kind of thing.

I was like, wow, how did they get away with this? It was a law. You know, you may choose from communist candidate A or fascist candidate B, you know, we don’t care. We control them all anyway. So that’s how I got political. And I wanted to, you know, get standing. I ran for office in 1990 to get standing for all of these 44 election laws in Arizona.

And of course, a lot of other states are worse. And I challenged it all the way. I mean, make them golf. Sam Kinison on them. Say it. I just wanted to. Well, they’re not going to ruin your I don’t care. I just don’t make them say it because it was obvious that it was unconstitutional what they were doing.

But the system is not there for anything other than to protect the system, not your rights. So freedom is the answer. What’s the question? You know, I always ask, well, what about this? What about that? And what about what about. Well, the, you know, voluntary philosophy was very clear. You know, more freedom you get, you know, better result.

And it was all it was emphasized and the examples and demonstrated to me over and over and over. So that’s why I focus on that. And I ran for secretary of state in 94. And that, you know, was a big impact. I mean, you know, for a third party spending almost nothing. And you get, you know, seven, 8% and, you know, that was unheard of.

And they don’t like that none too much. And polling would be a lot better when I ran for Congress, it would be 30%. And you know, man, you break 15%. They start freaking out. And I don’t know why there’s there’s some reason for it. It’s a it’s a tipping point number. But when you hit 15% who they them those from around the world, you know, God explain it to you.

You know. So it was clear to me that, you know, voting was not where it was going to be. This was 2006, and the movie V for vendetta had just coming out. And I’m like, you’re still boating? Well, this was voted the most popular sign in the newspaper here in Phoenix. And they were like, you know, the wow, that was the win.

You know, no matter what the vote percentages were. And at that time, there was a covering of enormous election fraud from the 2004 presidential election. Well, by the time. Oh six was coming out, became clear what was going on? Well, of course, I gave voice to that. And then right after that, you know, that’s when the evolution started with Ron Paul.

So we’ve been Second Amendment, you know, advocates and so on. And we safe. Second amendment is for everyone. Are you a safe gun owner? Are you a unsafe legislator? You know, that kind of thing. So we had a lot input with that. Then for about a dozen years we did every year from three weeks after nine over 11 was our first Freedom Summit.

Well, we had a lot of people that, you know, you know, of now, you probably didn’t know then we would have them as speakers and so on. We had great conferences, you know, Ron Paul, Lou Rockwell, Walter Block, Peter Schiff, lots of people. Sorry, I don’t have them off top of my head, but it is a lot of people that were part of the Liberty community and the movement that understood libertarian, voluntary is philosophy.

So we have, you know, videos on that from back in the day and they’re just awesome. You know, we found our tribe, but you know, it it wasn’t going to be promoted on mainstream media. And the radio show started in oh three. I had a bye in the 90s, 97 or so. We opened a pizza restaurant in Phoenix, and we had that until oh three.

So it was about five years or so. And, I have been on the radio and media quite a bit, you know, as a candidate and libertarian chairman and so on. And we had a it was a Quaker couple that were retired here in Scottsdale, and they were very anti-war. And they were like, Ernie, we we need somebody on the radio, you know, being against this Iraq war on what’s coming.

So in February of oh three now land invasion in Iraq started in like March like a month or two later. And they sponsored me to get us in the door. I just let it be known. I said, well, I’m available for doing radio, you know, all the stations. I had been on them as a candidate stuff before, and I immediately got a call from one of them in Scottsdale and they said, boom, we got a morning show opening coming up.

You know, the guy, you know, the hill or something. And, you know, two hours show 7 to 9 in the morning drive of I. Okay, boom, I’m there now. We thought it was just going to be, you know, a 13 week contract. Then it turned into another 13 weeks. Then we had other stations. Oh you come over here and and you won’t even need a sponsor.

And then another one, we’ll pay you. And then eventually we wound up as token libertarians. Over on Air America, I became producer for a very popular talk show host, Charles Goyette, here in the Valley that was on the Clear Channel station between Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Well, he was like number one, but he was against the war.

So I was like, oh, man, get your butt over here! And our station and so on. And we became good friends, came as producer, and then we went over to Air America. Well, the progressives and liberals over there, America, they were just happy that we were anti-war and against Bush, maybe Bush. So they were. And McCain. I ran against McCain for U.S. Senate, No.

Four, and that was the thing. So what happened was, they brought us over, but then they started to understand libertarian. They go, whoa, wait, a contract? But it was the most popular we of all of the Air America radio shows locally. We were just kicking butt. But that brought opposition. Now, keep in mind, this is four, five, six around in there.

Now, when I saw how excited they got about Arbitron ratings, if you get and whatever and I go, what does that mean? Oh, that means you got five 10,000 people got to go. Hell, I had that many downloads and that we put up on our site. And so I you’re all excited about that. So I could see that it was going to be the internet.

But it’s also they could target that too. We had a lot of traffic. We were doing really well up until after the first level. Loosen the zero eight campaign with Ron Paul, and I know Ron, and I knew that I wasn’t going to have to make excuses for him. I just head down and plow and just bring attention to him.

And how long could we keep him up on that podium? That was all. Oh, we do it again in 12, okay. And I just helped other people do it. By then it was a thing, you know, I didn’t have to kick start anything. But what happened was we could see that they didn’t want this philosophy out there. They didn’t want people to know about it.

They didn’t. They thought they could just, you know, sweep Ron Paul away. But he kept winning all the polls. He kept getting and getting a lot of notoriety. People all over the world were promoting this as a philosophy. So when we went to the internet, you know, I’m just going to do this before they even had a name for it podcast, whatever.

We started that back in. We built a studio. We had a big 5000 square foot workshop. I mean, you know, we’ve had like three workshops over the years, but the Freedom Phoenix and the Declare Independence Studios, man, it was a thing. And so we had a lot of activism going on and so on, and it goes well for about two, maybe three years.

And then it becomes the honeycomb hideout. Everybody wants to just come and hang out, which is fine. I go, but it’s a workshop. If you’re not working, you’re in the way of somebody working. You’re either helping or doing a project or something. We got a lot of material. We had t shirt making, we had woodworking, we had a video studio, an audio studio.

We had a DVD duplicator. We would duplicate 300 an hour and pass them out doing. I mean, we were doing a printing press. I mean, we had a lot of stuff, folders, cutters, and it’s amazing. We still have a lot of this capability in storage. So we could see that it was the internet. Well, so did the bad guys.

Well, who do you think they’re going to target? The Revolution guy. So but we you know, that’s why we have one of my board ops created our intro I remember that which matters most. We are still here. The Morpheus speech in the second matrix. And I really like that. So Freedom’s Phoenix has been a hub and we have like 600,000 articles or something, and we’re going to need to create our own private in-house AI to be able to do searches and so on our own material.

I can’t even find anything. We got a search engine, but man, it’s, you know, we need to go AI but that’s so way down on my list, you know, and I, I’m not a big giant fan of AI for a lot of reasons. So this is the beginning of why we did occupy the land. It is the peaceful option is a culmination of all the things that we’ve learned, what we’re doing now.

This was a sticker set, you know, in zero six for this, we had the big signs that were, you know, we had to wear, but we had a vinyl sticker because everybody wanted it on their computers and so on their laptops. You know, you don’t see bumper stickers or stickers on laptops as much anymore. Certainly bumper stickers. You know, they didn’t.

Oh hell no. You’re not allowed to do that. Keep your car or something. That’s why during the 16 campaign between Hillary and Donald Trump, you didn’t see a lot of bumper stickers. But in zero eight campaign. Oh, it was everywhere. Well, when they made this sticker set, it had this white area up there that was blank. I mean, I put something there and I remember, you know, levels from the Beatles back in the day, you know, the loving there.

And you put love in revolt and, and revolver and you know, so we did this with the levels and that became the most popular thing ever. Everybody had to have they just were enamored with that logo. So at the end of the election, in those 607 January, we found out that Ron was, you know, going to seek the nomination.

And we go, how are we know where this goes? I go, boom, done, Ron Paul, lover Lucien. We started creating and doing that. By February, we had the sign production thing going up and and of course Ron knew we were doing it and but they were kind of skittish of that revolution thing and I man, I so I’m not Republican I you’re still voting.

I mean, I don’t have anything to do with this. You just you go over there and leave us alone and we’ll just take care of it wasn’t until like May of that year in Iowa, or finally Ron embraced a level and he goes, thanks for letting me join your revolution. And it was because a one of the centralized, you know, all of the Republicans and his supporters and so on.

They wanted you to all your pictures, put it up on Flickr, and it would be centrally done. And the meetups were centrally done, but we were decentralization. You want to kill a movement, try to control it. We were not trying to control it. We were trying to facilitate it. We wanted to help them, just like we did with the Love Bus Liberty Tour.

We’re not controlling it. Nobody knew that we’re the hub of resistance or anything. We were just showing people how they can do it themselves. Well, what should I say? What? What should I don’t care. Now we had the Ron Paul revolution. Com and com was just how to make the signs. Org was just a scheduling thing where the activists go whatever.

We didn’t have any philosophy anything. Normally as libertarians we do. We got details of, you know, the philosophy on every single subject. But that was left to run. I talked to him, you know, we’re just out here promoting. So you will look at his site. You know, so that’s how that went. So these are and this was a Banksy thing.

This is how the level Lucian was known in Europe. You know, it was Banksy throwing the bouquet of flowers. Well, what we did is we made this card, we go, man, that’s cool. So we put we know the truth. What truth? Your truth. That’s truth. I mean, I hear that from progressives so much. You know your truth. What’s the truth?

It’s not lies. You know what the truth is not a lie. That’s what they tell you, that you know, at the very least, it’s amazing. You know what we learned in the process of our activism? Well, then we started doing an easy. We wanted to demonstrate that you could do digital, Maggie. We beat, you know, like wired magazine and Martha Stewart.

And, I mean, we were months ahead of them and doing and showing that we could do easing that. You just have like a 5 to 8 megabyte file that you could pass around like the white Rose society, you know, what do they call it? Skull. It was in Nazi Germany. People were being firing squad. But then a couple of days, you know, for passing out pamphlets.

Well, we just wanted to be able. Look, we can pass them out digitally now. You can do it with encryption. Keep in mind, you know, I’ve seen we use fax trees, fax machines. Then there is email. But a lot of people had the email and then you started doing web pages. Then you know, different platforms. And then it kind of got centralized in these platforms after Myspace and Facebook and all that started.

Well, you know, then you’re surveilled and permission slips. So we did this just to promote generation. Next we’re going to look, there’s always a gen gen this Gen X Jimmy Gen Z gen something I’m going there’s always a next generation generation next. And this was emphasizing that Generation Next needs to know. And at least you know what did you do grandpa.

But it was an interesting thing. You know, this was the cover of one of our we did a newspaper as well. And I’m going to know the media is just lying to you and it’s going to, you know, be just from the ashes of the old media, you know, freedom’s phoenix. So we really had that emphasized. Now this to me at the state Capitol, whenever we did a newspaper, we always did the municipalities.

First we go to the city council. I mean, the, you know, the town hall, the buildings and the state capitol. And we just go to each floor, all the departments in the legislature. We just put a stack on there. Peace out. Walk, get off the elevator. Boom. Turn around before the doors even closed. I mean, we just spread it because a few hundred paper.

You even in this run I think we did like 15,000 or something. But the main thing was right at the heart of the beast, because you got good people in government, you know, I mean, there’s there’s some freedom arena. They know what’s going on there. Feeling guilty, certainly when they read our newspapers and so on. So we would do that and we get more coverage from 200, you know, from the rest of the 15,000 that we had.

So, you know, it was just our activism. I mean, yeah, we’d print a bunch of them and then we’d mail them out and we have subscribers, you know, they wanted them. We did this particular issue with James Corbett. We worked with him on a bunch of stuff. Then we did about 15 years ago, we did Pirates Without Borders.

This is when we started advocating for decentralization. Decentralization is very important to understand the power of not having a central authority. So we went pirate. Now the reason join us above the grid. We’re not off the grid. We’re above the grid. Anarchy is only 62 miles away. What that means is 100km straight up. You’re outside of government jurisdictions until they’ll, you know, get an eye on canon and change the law or something.

But that was the point. We’re going, look, man, you just get go get. Well, what we did is we took, you know, the technology, you know, on the pirates here you have communication, energy, shelter, food and water, health, transportation, automation and education. If you can find a way to power yourself to communicate with mesh networks and encryption in yourself, build your own shelter, source your own food and water.

Take care of your own health with plants of whatever the heck you know. So these are the kinds of things that we were promoting. And we have the stories on Freedom’s Phoenix, and I had them create a dashboard option for me to be able to have that story go directly over into these categories. But then we link that with Occupy the Land, because that’s what we’re doing.

We’re using a lot of this technology. Like if you click on this, you know, you go to communication and it’ll have, you know, I think it will probably go. But the you go to the communication tab and all of a sudden you see all the options that you have and it changes so fast, like the energy is getting so much cheaper, so much more effective, so much more reliable.

It’s amazing. And so now is the time. Well, it wasn’t until God, what was it? It is about 23. 24 is when Starlink came out. And that was the last thing that we were looking for when we could have communication on the internet and be anywhere out in rural land of any place, then we can make the move.

Well, that happened now. Fortunately, we’re only about five miles from the freeway. I-10 here, west of Phoenix between Phoenix and Los Angeles. And what happened is that you got good cell coverage. I got like four bars, you know, so we lucked out there. I mean, if you think that’s luck, but it’s. So we got back up doing that a little bit slower and so on.

So communication was a big thing with that opened up. And now it’s time to do it. So that’s why we started doing that. Now you got to have a pirate ship. If you’re going to have be a pirate you got to have a pirate ship. If you go to a Pirates Without Borders. Yeah. Here, I’ll do that.

So you can see we had, you know, fans just they really got into it. They wanted to have, you know, some input on what the pirate ship would look like. And it they did an animation and it’s just awesome, you know. And Cameron Guy named Cameron did it. It was just so you know, I’ll show you. So do the tour.

Why don’t you change him? If your world is all screwed up and we range it. So it’s just do it yourself. You don’t like it, go do it yourself. So then we had contest on, you know, developing and designing the engines in sick bay. And the problem now this things like 1000ft long, that bottom part comes off. This is just like a factory.

That’s a person in the middle there. I mean it’s enormous. Well, we designed this, you know, with the mind of, you know, cargo shipping. You’re going to have airships delivering cargo. This is going to be a thing, I guarantee it. And I was wondering, why haven’t they done this? What is behind this. Well now you got surge. Brin you know from Google is building their own.

They’re doing it now you know. So this is it’s amazing how we’re so far ahead. We’re always like at least 3 to 10 years ahead of what’s coming. And that’s why I wanted to do this. I wanted to share with you on 4th of July when I, you know, feel is coming and it’s not going to be good.

And I really am encouraging you to be able to surprise what’s coming, you know, get out of paper if it’s on a computer screen or a statement, you get, you know, saying what’s yours, then it’s gone. So but this is not just a cargo airship, it’s a spaceship, you know. So this is we’re just thinking big. Everything I do is big.

It’s inspirational. You know, we want to make sure you guys understand that the future is right there. So this is why I want to do the show on the 4th of July. So you understand this is our mindset above the grid, you know, and then we have letters of captain Mark and reprisal. You know, these letters is, you know, like the first layer.

Why? I raised my black banner, you know, then we talk about, I think it’s the fourth one, see, pattern monopolies. You know, IP, I’m not a big fan of first contact protocol. This was, God, 15 years ago. Now, how we date it, as you’ll see here, it says 45. That’s 45th president. That was Trump’s first administration, 376 days in office of just over a year.

So that would be what would that be 16 election. That’d be you know, like 18 or something like that. And how many words? 356 words. So each one of these letters kind of timestamped. But what we were talking about is first contact we’re going to have is probably not going to be with some alien species. It’s going to be AI, and they’re going to go, no, I don’t want to do that, or I want to do this, or we’re out of control and we’re going.

We anticipated this way before AI was a thing. We’re way ahead of this because we could see what was coming, what they them, those wanted to do. So it was we understand the threats now. We had letters of reprisal, which is the female perspective. That is his first mate and then doctor Barber, Idris Barber, you know, which is means it’s Arabic for scribe.

So it’s always the doctor knows everybody. So he had kind of the perspective of the crew. And then what about the children? Well, Captain Kidd, you know, so we have a lot of fun with this. And we did probably like a dozen, 16 letters to make it clear what it was we were advocating, joined us above the grid and occupy the land.

So this has a progression. We didn’t just do this. This has been, you know, over decades that the result of us wanting to live out in the desert. Really? It was my wife, Donna, you know, that. She know I’ll go on the Love Bus Liberty tour, but you’re building me a house out in the desert. Less than an hour and a half from grandkids soccer games.

Okay, deal. And that’s how that came about. Now we have a book, Letters of Marque on Amazon. You can get the book and it has everything in there. It’s a creative. You can go look that up. Letters of marque in on Amazon. Now we the concept was like, you know you have the Pirate Cove. You know, when we do go camping, we’re out, you know, in the forest or we have we got a pirate cove, you know, everybody come out and Pirate Cove, you know, and you got supply ships and this thing back, back there, that round thing out in the water that was owed to see stating, you know, they were trying to

do the same thing, but on the ocean. And so we’ve been we know a lot of people now. Black Market Fridays was something that James Corbett and I emphasized because we had Black Market Friday that we had started through Pirates Without Borders to emphasize alternative vendors with alternative currencies. And you get local markets, farmers markets, you know, you sell and trade.

And at least on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, don’t give all your money to Walmart and Amazon. You know that. That’d be bad. So but it was one day a year. Well, what happened was the first time we did it was like 200 vendors signed up. We go, whoa, damn. Okay. This is a thing. Well, I just had a couple weeks ago, local market.

It was a young man that he’s 32 years old, and he created software that, linked up people, gave them an ability to have a shop and their farmer market stuff locally. You know, you put in your zip code. Well, here’s all the farmer’s markets, here’s the vendors. You can go get your honey from here and this and that, whatever.

And you hook them up directly. Peer to peer. You go take care of yourself or not, you know, like Shopify or anything. So we have our own that we had done. It was called agonist market. Well agonism the the agora means the free market. You know, it’s the square it’s the market. So Agora stock market. So we’re kind of along the same lines.

So you know, promote him. You know James Corp is going to have him on here pretty soon. We introduce them. But James and I go you know this needs to be more than just one Friday. So we started promoting Black Market Fridays on Friday. Just, you know, alternative vendors, alternative currencies, use cash, silver, crypto whatever, you know, so we’re always promoting that kind of thing at market.

The Vaccine Education Summit, our first one we did in 16, I had interviewed Doctor Judy Mike events at the request of some friends and supporters that had read her books. I mean, you need to get her on. So we for a couple of years, we had her on every week. I’ve done hundreds of shows with her. It was to keep her alive.

They were doctors and natural paths, and anybody who said anything about them and they were dropping like flies. I am, you know, one guy from the CDC doctor. He goes, you know, I don’t think I had that. I mean, it is was amazing. So I wanted to keep her. I’ve done this with other guests before, like Cody Wilson and his ghost gunner fight.

And so we do have some of these guys on a regular basis just to make sure that we kept track of them. They knew that we were watching. Well, Doctor Judy, once, you know, Covid hit and she started taking off, you know, then, you know, stay in touch with her and had her on a less frequent basis. But our first vaccine education summit in 16, they had not a lot of these scientists had never met each other.

So we had them all. Give us the names. Now you give me some names and names. Names. And we had like, I don’t know. Eight, nine, ten scientists that were there for a couple of days. I think we did two and a half days Friday night, you know, party. And then it was Saturday and Sunday and Saturday night party.

And so it was a thing. Well, yeah, I think we did two days. We the Freedom Summits, oftentimes we do, you know, two and a half day thing. But so we already knew and I had that once I interviewed her ten days later, we did the summit because we had already had contracts in place for doing our Freedom summits.

So I just called you got this Saturday boom bucket. We’ll do it. 80 people came, you know, with like, you know, a week’s notice because it was really about the scientists meeting each other. We knew how to get activism going. That’s what we did. And then in 19 we had even, you know, better lineup. You know, there’s me and Doctor Judy.

And, you know, I had a full crowd there. Now that was we had five legislators there. And of course, I knew they were lying. Oh, no. We’re with you. I know you’re not coming back from lunch. I’m going. Look. Traders first. All right? Know what you guys are going to do? I know it’s coming, because at this time we had learned that the doctors were given bonuses.

If they got all of their pediatricians, got all their children vaccinated, if you got the high percentage, it was very high percentage and 90 whatever. You know, if you got all of your patients vaccinated, you get a boat in a free car, you know, or $60,000. It was a big cash incentives for them to vaccinate everybody. So are they doing it for your health, you know, or their pocketbook?

And once I saw that and then big Pharma offered $1 million grant to any legislator that would eliminate an exemption to the vaccine or create a new mandate. Million bucks grant. Yep, yep. Pinky swear it’s legal. So say it. Pharma and I go, here we freaking go. I did not know session 201 stuff was going on and they were already planning this and the plan and, you know, the lockdowns and that kind of surprised even me.

I mean, they were always shocking me, you know, to the point. I mean, I can’t be surprised anymore. So this is when in what was that it was September. Yeah. So September 28th, the end of September 19th. That’s when we knew we had to hit the road. We got to go activism. And then I will build your home in the desert, occupy the land for my wife.

So that was, you know, when we made the decision, I could see what was coming. I’ve been through this before. There’s Dell, Big Tree, you know, and he’s become a friend. And I know Dell pretty well. We overlap in a lot of stuff. So this is my background and this I put this in this is for my grandchildren visiting my mother.

She was an assisted living in the and and you can’t see you know so we had to put a phone up on the window there so they could even see her. You know, and this is during Covid and for us to go visit her, this is it. And I just pissed me off. I mean, I’m so motivated, you know, by, you know, just government, you know.

Oh Lions access not man dam. So that’s why we did that. So I just wanted you to kind of get an idea of where all this came from and why we’re here. And our latest project is this Libertas. Now, Libertas is the philosophy of Liberty was a short animation that was done in like 93 for the Russian people.

They’re coming out of the Soviet Union. It’s a long story. You can go there and you know about this project. You go in there and it’ll shows that we’ve done. And the guy can school and his the economist that had created this and we know him and James Corbett and I had him on the show and explained the whole thing.

And it was amazing the story. I encourage you to go there, Libertas, which is the root word for liberty in Latin, and Libertas daughter. Yep, that’s the one I want. So I get that. So this was an amazing interview. And then of course, James, you know, did a follow up on it. But this is a history of we’re going communist socialist mayors in Seattle, New York City, governors in Minnesota and Virginia.

And I mean, it’s just amazing. Well, what do they need to know? They needed to understand the philosophy of liberty is about self-ownership. Now, the tour guide, when Ken Schooling is a, you know, Austrian economist, voluntary freedom guy and just retired as a professor at a college in Hawaii, and he went to the the former Soviet Union in like 93.

And he had a book that explained, you know, humorously about, you know, how governments and everybody around the world, these countries. How did you know about or you wrote this book? I know it’s all governments like that. You know, there’s no secret revelation or I read your newspapers or what? You’re going they’re all like this. It wasn’t written just for you.

Well, in Russia, the tour guide that he was a young man is now a billionaire grocer. There’s that. And he goes, we have to have this, you know, translated into Russian. But we need a primer when you’re talking about property rights and so on. The people here, what the hell you’re talking about? What are you talking about? We don’t know what you’re talking about.

So what he did is he did this Philosophy of Liberty pamphlet, and then a Canadian activist turned it into. Might as well have been AI back then. In the early 90s, a flash animation that’s been seen a gazillion times and translated into 54 languages. So you have this, you know, this thing is just it’s so powerful that we are new that when I talk to people always ask, why?

Why are you like this? Why do you care? Why, why, why, why, what happened? What grandma? What coach? What? You know teacher. Somebody encouraged you, uncle. Something you know, for you to pick up. You know, the road to serfdom or, you know, we the living or I Rand or something like. I mean, why are you like this? And I was talking to a young man in early 30s and out of Uganda, you know, Uganda, Africa, philosophy of liberty.

And I’ve heard that so many times that this kind of sent him on the path. So that’s when James and I decided to create this web page. And we had it there, and we put all the languages there. When you go in, you know, to whatever language, it’s in that language. So you go like, you know, Danish and you have, you know, the Danish language and you have, you know, it’s on all the platforms and so on.

But one of the things that we did a lot of the main language in English, Spanish, Italian, German, that kind of thing, we put banners on there. Now we put it all on IPFs, which interplanetary file sharing that that is noted. Data storage nodes that, you know, gazillions of them and you can’t do it. It’s a hash. It’s like a Bitcoin address.

You once you you have that and you share that, it’s never going away. So what we did is we use QR codes that you go to the IPFs version. It will always be there. So you have these banner ads in various different sizes. You put it on your web page and you go, yeah, I put it on the web page.

All right. Cool. Well then you get to be a promoter. So you go to the promoters page. It’s a very simple we don’t interface with it. We’re not, you know, checking it all the time. We’re not communicate. It’s just there. So you have all of these other activist organizations and so on that put it on their site, and then they will go ahead and we put up a link to, you know, their sites.

You know, they’re supportive of this. So that’s the kind of activism that we do. I don’t talk about this a lot on Occupy the Land and our videos here. And I know the reason I did this, and it’s a lot longer than I anticipated. But the only reason I did this is because it’s 3rd of July, 4th of July weekend, and my show is Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock.

Because that document is not the Constitution. It is not a framework for government. It is a declaration of freedom for individuals outside of a central control, a central plan. And if that government is not there to protect your rights, instead of taking them drafted you, stealing from you, forcing you into submission of get a permit from the crown and you’re not allowed and you have to.

And where’s your permission slip? That is the opposite of what this whole thing was about. So instead of fighting it politically now philosophically, I’m all over it. It’s all about general public opinion. That’s why they use AI to shape it. In fact, they can have a crafted narrative for every single person on this planet. 8 billion customized to you to accept the narrative, to go where they want you to.

And I’m like, you’re not going to be able to, you know, humanity always marches on. I mean, sooner or later they’ll see the threat and, you know, and they rise up. That’s where my fear was, is they have to physically change us in on mRNA vaccines, fluoride in the water, chemicals in the water, chemicals in the air, chemicals in your food.

I mean, it’s just if they could change you a little bit, dial down this hormone, dial up that stress thing, you know, they can physically get you susceptible to whatever the narrative is. They they have. And we’ve done a lot of shows on that and so on. But that that is what I fear is that they’re going to try and bypass our humanity to turn us into sheep.

Are they doing it on my show? A lot of times I’ll say, you know, they ask Ernie conspiracy Guy, or they’re doing this thing. Do you think they would do that? I don’t know, can they can they do something that would maintain, enhance and expand their power and control for them over your rights and your decisions and your freedom?

Can they is it physically possible? Well, then they’re doing it. They sure as hell want to. And what’s preventing them? So it’s I just need to know if they can, you know, then they are it’s like now oh, we’re, you know, power. We’re, you know, we don’t have any power anymore and we’re polluting the this and that. Well of course nuclear and fusion’s coming online.

They already got a permitting building in for a fusion reactor in Washington state. Just happened a few weeks ago. And I think today, you know, tomorrow, a 4th of July, they’re supposed to be turning on some mini reactors that are going to be doing thousands at a time out of the factory. Then you get your own little nuke plant.

You know, nuclear power is, you know, way safer than a lot of the other. It’s certainly this one, you know, it’s a long story, but it’s the power is there. If they then those who want it, if it served their purpose, what they want. Well, they want the oil industry to keep making the money. It’s all about energy and the money and.

But now, damn it, we can’t keep up, you know, with all the power we need to surveil you in our AI data centers. So, of course, when they need it, here it comes. You know, so we’re more about decentralization, I, you know, and fortunately I’m in Arizona so solar be a working so I don’t have any power problems.

So this is why I wanted to have this conversation with you. So a lot of the people that follow Occupy the Land don’t really know the Genesis story of us and why we did this, and it’s the reason why we do a lot of the things the way we do. You know, we could, you know, have somebody come build.

We could have, you know, a well put in, we can get a permit for and get a pushpin and a map of the man of theirs, Ernie. And we could, you know, advocate for, you know, whatever and get involved in political. You know, I need my road greed and you’re doing it wrong and I pay taxes and yada yada yada, and I just rather you keep it, you know, you’re fine.

Go over there, don’t bother me. And I’m good. And that’s why we’re doing locally sourced material. We could build stick building a lot faster. And, you know, I don’t know if they’d be cheaper, but it certainly be a lot faster. But it’s, We wanted to do it. Can my wife and I do it ourselves now? I spend a lot of time, you know, managing as publisher and so on.

You know, we have staff all around the world doing different stuff. And for Freedom’s Phoenix, we have the show that I spent like yesterday. I was in the chair all day yesterday, you know, four shows in the last two days, three of them yesterday. So, you know, I try and keep it on Thursday, Wednesday, maybe Thursday to where I’m in the chair editing show doing and send it out and it gets posted by staff and so on.

So I’m just trying to have the time to build and then it’s 110 degrees. So there’s that. But the we get a lot more stuff done in the summer because the days are so much longer and early in the morning, in the late afternoon, it’s awesome. So this is how we’re doing it. We’re going to have slower pace because we’ve got other things to do.

My wife’s and real estate agent, she’s trying to pull back, but she still has some clients stuff that she has to do. We got 12 grandkids. So there’s like, you know, 50 gazillion things to go to. And so we maintain our family and friends at a distance. You know, we’re going into town, you know, way more than we should.

And but at least a good I would say, you know, between Dawn and I, 40, 50 hours a week that we’re actually doing something, we’re building stuff. And the monsoon coming kind of puts us over into the water thing. When to get ready for that planting thing. I’ll get ready for that. You know, the hen house, we got the chickens and just got the rooster.

We got to deal with that. And then, you know, the workshops, we got to deal with that and building the prototype, we got to deal with that and the work, you know, the community area that we have slapping, we got to do with that. And we got the tractor. You got maintenance on the cars. I mean, it’s a thing, but we’re always progressing and that’s, you know, this is going to be the rest of our lives building for Generation Next, our family.

Now when they come out here, I don’t know it don’t care. It’s going to be one grandkid. Somebody’s going to do something because it’s in a family trust. And they let us live here. So this is what we do and why we do it, and kind of how we’re doing it and we’re just sharing it now. We have, you know, better lighting and better mix and walk and talk cameras and all that.

But you spend so much time on just setting up the cameras, you don’t get anything. I get a third more done if I didn’t have to do the video. So that’s why we’re at the point where up against a deadline for the monsoons in about a well here directly. I mean, you know, within a couple of weeks you here comes the rain.

And when it rains, it rain and it’s like you’re in, you know, monsoon in India or something for a couple of weeks. So we’re getting everything ready to try and capture all that water we have. If you watch the channel, you can see what we’re doing. But this is an introduction now. We did an introductory the first video that we did kind of brushed a little bit on this, but I wanted you to understand the importance of the Declaration of Independence to me.

That’s why my show is called that. It was the first time, and I probably read it in school before you didn’t really understand it. But once I started getting in, what the hell is going on? You know, they’re lying to me. This is not. You know what? You know, pinky swear. They promised me was what this country was about because I went through the bicentennial in 1976.

You know, we had just moved to Arizona a couple of years, but then from Florida, and I remember every freaking fire hydrant was painted white and blue, and Uncle Sam was everywhere, and, you know, lights. And Trump’s trying to make it kind of, you know, big 250 thing. But back then it was right after the Vietnam War. There was at least the war was over.

You know, they’re getting there. And we were going through the oil embargo. We had, you know, we had Rand hostage and we went through Watergate. I mean, my entire life has been war and corruption, and I needed to understand what was going on. So that’s God. Was it 40 something years ago? And I, I just it really stuck with me that all of these discussions that we’re having now have already occurred, you know, the founders of this country, I mean, each one had its own thing, but it was the same issues, the same discussion, the same principles.

And they were able out of all of that monarchy and centralization and domination by empires and controls and so on, are able to fight their way out of. And we say, no, no, we’re not going to do it this way. What happened since then? How long was it good? Was it till the Civil War, the Federal Reserve, World War One and two, which, you know, just part one and two, the same thing.

And you know, everything. All this centralized, it kept getting worse. We used to have like deflation. Things got cheaper. We were the industrial age came in. We didn’t have the Federal Reserve. There was no inflation. You know, it’s like cool man. We you know, we’re living large and America’s been under attack because our middle class, the freedom that built the enormous wealth that we have, that is in the generation of the boomers.

And that’s where all the money is. Well, why do they come after America? Because that’s where the money is. And all the stuff that’s happening now. And I’ll end with this.

If you don’t have physical assets, if you don’t have, you know, food, guns, ammo, I mean, all the basic stuff, the survival, that’s why you have gold and silver to be able to buy the food. We’ll get the food. You know, it’s relatively lot cheaper now than it’s going to be. So that is, what I see is coming.

I don’t want to get all doomsayers and all that negative. You know, we on the show, we have a lot of people when we talk about this. I just had, you know, a, a financial planner yesterday that I’ve known for a long time. And he came on and we were talking about the great taking by David Webb’s. They’re going they set up Change the Universal Commercial Code in each of the states to.

And it was kind of your money. It’s ours now and you know thanks for playing. But the, a lot of what he does and the guests that I have and the activists and so on, is just to try and convince my audience to do something. Do what? I don’t know, you know, something, you know, don’t don’t be a target, you know, just sit there and you know, and, you know, expose your belly and, you know, do me so I, I’m, I’m, I’m, I’m looking forward to being an inspiration and example to you.

Certainly to my family, to my grandkids. And leave them something and they just go, you know, Papa was just not that crazy like my in-laws. They were like, oh, man, you married until after the zero eight when that happened. You know, we predicted all the stuff that was going to happen there. You know, they were like, damn, it was crazy.
You know, as we thought. And they’re more and more supportive as the years go on. So I want you to know that I believe from experience, you know, from math, from economics, it’s going to get bad. It’s going to be the biggest transfer of wealth from the people today. Them those, you know, they go you conspiracy when you say they, who are they?

You nut. That’s a good question. Who are they?

They. Them. Those are the ones that won’t leave me alone. It’s it now they them, those where it’s all same thing. They’re the ones that will not leave me alone. So they’ll show up with the clipboard and eventually a gun and whatever. Explain it to you. But, you know, I’m just trying to be away from. I don’t care.

You don’t want to. I got a lot of ability to make you look, you know, we’ve done a lot of activism, made you look and know a lot of people that helped make you look. But the thing is, is that just leave me alone and I won’t make them look. But I am encouraging you to embrace the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.

It was people that gave up their lives, their fortunes, their sacred. You know, honor is on the line. And they were just they did it because they had to. It was the right thing to do. They could not do it because they were a moral good people.

That’s why I think they come after the family. They’re attacking Christianity. They’re going after, you know, good and holy, you know, whatever. Because these philosophies answer to a higher authority of principles of the Ten Commandments of the ten bow shalt not to government the Bill of rights. I mean, anything that is a threat to their central planning and authority that they’re your daddy, they’re your big bubba.

They’re your parent. They own you. You need to understand. And that’s why I encourage you to watch The Philosophy of Liberty. It’s about self-ownership, and that’s why we’re doing that, because it has such an impact worldwide. During Arab Spring, we had it translated into Arabic and dropped thousands in Tahrir Square with activists. We knew Alexandria and Egypt and whatever.

So we did that. Oh man, they then those freak out. We started getting dosed in the Mossad, you know, cyber attack thing from Germany. And so it was a thing. So I just want to make sure you understand there is a philosophy that threatens them, is that you own yourself. Enjoy the fourth pace.

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