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> > A Courts-Martial
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> > 1) Sale of 600 prime acres of failed farming. 2)Sale of Folded school
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The stain of a high-water mark.
> It'll be slow death by a thousand cuts.
>Most people saw it coming decades ago but the plane was kept in the air by
>credulous wealthy donors. Now the machinery meets the geology and we have
>what's known as "Controlled Flight into Terrain". That's aviation terminology
>for flying a perfectly serviceable aircraft into the side of a mountain due to
>pilot error.
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>In this case,
the underlying idea is perfectly good, and there's a viable business teaching a
good mediation technique to the general public.
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But there's not a viable business in sucking money from wealthy donors so that
a bunch of nut jobs in crowns who think they rule the world can spend it on
vanity projects. The danger is that the good part of the business will go down
the toilet with the bad parts.
> It'll be interesting to watch the slow stages. My guess is that they'll sell
> of every last building and parcel of land before they'll take off their
> crowns and admit they've made TM a laughing stock.
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> At this point in the game the few remaining ones are still holding onto the
> idea that the cosmic cavalry will turn up at the last minute to save the day,
> i.e. use the last drop of money in the organization to pay for a "phase
> transition". The next stage will be the growing realization that it's not
> going to happen, and they've left it too late to change course. The obvious
> candidate for the next round of land auctions is the "university" in Kansas.
> Because that'll be a much bigger loss of face than selling off surplus bits
> in Fairfield then when it finally happens (and it must do) we'll know that
> the magnitude of the tragedy is finally dawning on people and there might
> even be a chance to get them to listen to reason and common sense. Though not
> if Bevan has any say in the matter.
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> Oh well they can't say they weren't warned.
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