The road to compassion and freedom
Strike the Root
by Glen Allport
05/07/07
For decades now, thousands of people have worked to interest others in freedom and to help them understand what freedom is and why it is important. By now, we can no longer avoid the truth: this pro-freedom movement has failed. America is nearing a tipping point, where the formal institutions and rules designed to protect human rights no longer function effectively. History makes the danger of this situation very clear...
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/allport/allport17.html
The ethics of land and liberty
The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary
05/08/07
The ethics of liberty must include the ethics of land and rent. The possession of the materials from land is sufficient for market efficiency, since land rent is a surplus not needed to put land to its best use. The ethics of land and liberty are that a person is a complete self-owner and that one may possess natural resources but not their natural rent, which belongs to humanity in equal shares. The payment of rent can be accomplished with bottom-up multilevel governance. Title holders pay the land rental to their local community, which then sends part of it to the next higher level, and so on to the global level, and then the global association distributes the natural rent in equal per-person shares back down the governing tiers. Ethics, governance, and economics are thus interrelated and can be unified in one system...
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002750.html
America: The victim is not the guilty one
Liberty For All
by George Squyres
Thomas Jefferson proclaimed a foreign policy when our country was but a newbie, that was quite different from what we have today. His outlook was ‘Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.’ The latter part may seem isolationist, but the first part proclaims otherwise... (written 02/03; posted 05/04/07)
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=642
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Glen Allport
05/07/07
For decades now, thousands of people have worked to interest others in freedom and to help them understand what freedom is and why it is important. By now, we can no longer avoid the truth: this pro-freedom movement has failed. America is nearing a tipping point, where the formal institutions and rules designed to protect human rights no longer function effectively. History makes the danger of this situation very clear...
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/allport/allport17.html
The ethics of land and liberty
The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary
05/08/07
The ethics of liberty must include the ethics of land and rent. The possession of the materials from land is sufficient for market efficiency, since land rent is a surplus not needed to put land to its best use. The ethics of land and liberty are that a person is a complete self-owner and that one may possess natural resources but not their natural rent, which belongs to humanity in equal shares. The payment of rent can be accomplished with bottom-up multilevel governance. Title holders pay the land rental to their local community, which then sends part of it to the next higher level, and so on to the global level, and then the global association distributes the natural rent in equal per-person shares back down the governing tiers. Ethics, governance, and economics are thus interrelated and can be unified in one system...
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002750.html
America: The victim is not the guilty one
Liberty For All
by George Squyres
Thomas Jefferson proclaimed a foreign policy when our country was but a newbie, that was quite different from what we have today. His outlook was ‘Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.’ The latter part may seem isolationist, but the first part proclaims otherwise... (written 02/03; posted 05/04/07)
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=642
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 8. Mai, 15:33
