Category Archives: Governance

To Avoid The Abyss

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

We have come to the edge of a moral abyss. The abyss is telling us — “Stop.  Do not go this way.  Turn and go another way.” A simple message.  Easy to obey.  But there may be other forces in … Continue reading →

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When It Reigns It Poors

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Corporate-owned financial institutions pull off the most massive theft of the Common Wealth in American history and the corporate-owned media wring their hands about the “economic downturn”. We are told it’s time for “austerity measures” and “shared sacrifice” — all … Continue reading →

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Pseudo-Choice

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Choices at one level of freedom depend on enabling or prerequisite choices being available at more basic levels of freedom. A situation of Pseudo-Choice is created when you offer people a choice at a high level of freedom without ensuring … Continue reading →

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The Place Where Three Wars Meet

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

One of the interesting things about the curse of our nation’s interesting times is the chance we have to observe how that triple threat — the War on Democracy, the War on Education, and the War on Science — work … Continue reading →

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How Did It Come To This?

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

What brought us to this pass is the simple fact that too many people who take the most good from operating in a civilized, democratic, educated society have chosen not to pay for the goods they receive. These people harbor … Continue reading →

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Details, Details, Details

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

The difference between the devil and the divinity may lie in the details, but it’s not unusual for the devil to decoy us with detail after detail, when the unexamined premiss is the screen behind which the real deil lies. … Continue reading →

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The Prime Movers of Disaster Capitalism

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

☠ Obscenely Rich Corporations (ORCs) ⇒ Corporate Owned Governments (COGs) ⇒ Mercantile Engineered Social Starvation (MESS) ⇒ Corporate Owned Biosphere Wasting Earth’s Bounty (COBWEB)

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If the People are to Rule then the People must become Wise

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Our Enlightenment Forerunners had the insight to see the critical flaw in all historical failures at democratic government, to wit, or not — If the People are to Rule then the People must become Wise. The consequence is that equally … Continue reading →

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