Re: Note - ISP Screwed Up - Can WRITE But Not SEE

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

You should wiki read 'the iron law of Oligarchy'

I think you mentioned this before.

The greatest political power we still have is defined by how we use our credit cards. Cf Elon Musk or Bill Gates

There is an overlap between financial power and political power, but they are
not the same.

The small pockets of liberty are, some parts of eastern europe (fiscal liberty), switzerland, monaco, andorra, the channel islands, liechtenstein. I think that's about it. Oh, if you dive below the first level of legal paragraphs you could add cyprus and malta to the list as well.

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I think it is all changing. The old 19th century empire building mentality of the EU and its minions, and Russia, is not supported by rather too many people who are rather too well informed via the internet.
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I think a more sane arrangement will be NATO style voluntary associations of smaller entities, into trade agreements, defence agreements, but not agreements that pass their sovereignty to a centralised anti-democratic bureaucracy.

Yes, this is a step in the right direction. Ultimately, it will be between
individuals and not organizations. As soon as you add organizations and
political parties to the mix, you are on a slippery slope to authoritarianism.