Category: Politics
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What About My Rights?
It is arguable that instead of making citizens safer, freer, and/or happier the concept of ‘rights’ has often achieved the opposite.
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Scandal, Subversion, and Break-down in Law and Order in store for the United States?
Deception and confusion will be the order of the day and it is quite possible this will also manifest in break-down of law and order.
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What to Expect from the US Elections 2020?
Either way, the transits in play today suggest that there will be confusion – maybe even subterfuge – and it might all end up in the courts.
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The Morality of Self-Interest
And oh, by the way, freedom cuts both ways – as Rousseau said several centuries ago, one can be ‘forced’ to be ‘free’ – and worse, one can be forced to obey ‘morally’ justified laws that he or she doesn’t like in order to protect the ‘freedom’ of others.
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Will President Trump Survive Covid-19?
For Trump, it doesn’t look great and now the question is how will each and every one of us handle it.
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What is Politics?
Interesting question, what is politics – don’t you think? Apparently there are many possible definitions but the one with which I particularly resonate is all about POWER! I’m thinking back to Orwell’s Animal Farm and the abuse of power through totalitarian propaganda because propaganda is how anyone stays in power (i.e. nation-state, head of household, corporate). In…
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Life, Liberty, and the Avoidance of Tyranny
Plato also teaches that bloated with desire to do whatever we wish – whenever we wish, (i.e. the American obsession with unlimited free speech and unmitigated gun control), the citizens of democracy will at last become so sensitive we no longer can endure ‘the yoke of laws’.
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What’s Ahead for June 2020?
Because this eclipse (where the shadow of the earth blots out the light of the Moon) occurs on the Sagittarius/Gemini axis, we can expect a shadow of some sort to fall across our beliefs and knowledge.
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What might we expect this weekend?
Put disruption together with leadership figures and messages as well as crisis, fear, and uncertainty and at least we know what to expect. The next step is to figure out how to identify the silver lining inherent in the cloud and make the best use of it for everyone involved with some tips from experts…
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What we might expect in this next calendar quarter:
Summary: In the UK, the next three months will be difficult – very difficult to be brutally honest – consider this akin to a death and rebirth. However, the good new is that there’s ample evidence in this chart that the people of this nation (albeit perhaps not including the current government) have the resolve,…