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[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

This is my last post for a while. The world is heading into a dark place. Enjoy your holidays with your loved ones. I wish you a Merry Xmas and the best 2024 possible. I’m turning 50 this January. Never thought I would live this long and have 6 kids. May the force be with you 😘

[Roger Ver @rogerkver]

You didn’t step down.
You were forced to step down due threats of violence and extortion from strangers you’ve never even met.
You are a 1st generation crypto hero.
Keep your head up high!

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@Sargon_of_Akkad Both groups want the right to have sex with farm animals

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@joshuahitchiker @kippwatson @rogerkver @CoinDesk @Cointelegraph @bitcoinnews BCH hardforked because BTC was too expensive & slow to use for payments. Adoption stalled for years as BTC told everyone to HODL and wait 18 months (5+years) for LN. Bitcoin's best application is as decentralized p2p electronic cash, not as a financial instrument for bankers

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@joshuahitchiker @kippwatson @rogerkver @CoinDesk @Cointelegraph @bitcoinnews In 2015 the blocks because full, this led to the block wars. The community working BTC that actually wanted p2p cash now, future vaporware wasn't a solution, the blocks needed to be increased. This led to the block wars in 2017, with BCH forking with the priority being p2p cash

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@rogerkver Stand with people not States

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@kippwatson @rogerkver @CoinDesk @Cointelegraph @bitcoinnews Public adoption was killed when the scaling roadmap was diverted & Bitcoin no longer was useful as p2p cash. Blaming it on Ross is asanine

[Ross Ulbricht @RealRossU]

One year for each finger on both hands.

Today ends a full decade in prison.

I sometimes fear I'll spend the rest of my life behind concrete walls and locked doors. But I have no one else to blame. It's my poor choices that led me here.

All I can do now is pray for mercy.

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@HolmanTravel Is a Slave killing his master a NAP violation?

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@WalshFreedom @LPNational @angela4LNCChair You're pandering to like 6 people, What do you hope to gain by making such dishonest statements??

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

After @RobertKennedyJr attacked @rogerwaters I attempted to send him this memo through his campaign manager @Dennis_Kucinich:

Sir,
I hope this isn't too presumptuous of me, but I only mean to assist you in dealing with the issue of Israel-Palestine.

I think you are in desperate need of a good analogy here. Palestine is in no way an independent nation. They lost 56 years ago. They are essentially Indians on a reservation. Perhaps a better analogy is blacks in Apartheid South Africa or even Jim Crow Mississippi in the 1950s. Roughly half the population of the land under the control of the national government of Israel have no civil rights or liberties at all: No right to vote, no right to their own courts, total surveillance beyond Snowden's worst nightmare. The "Palestinian Authority" is trained and supported by the U.S. and Israel, not the people. They are trustees in a prison, not a sovereign state of any kind. The people are not just under martial law, but under foreign military occupation law which is far worse, and for longer than the Soviet Union occupied Eastern Europe.

When we talk about Israelis and Palestinians it sounds like we are already talking about the citizens of two neighboring nations. But this is not so. In the 1948 war, Israel made a secret deal with the king of Jordan that he would take sovereignty over the West Bank, to prevent the Palestinians from being able to make a state there, as recommended in the UN partition plan. Importantly, they also brutally cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. This is known as "the Nakba" or "catastrophe," leading to an 80/20 percent super-majority Jewish Israeli democracy under what we now call "pre-1967 borders." At least one could argue it led to a sustainable outcome.

Then -- through no fault of their own -- the Palestinians were caught in the middle when war broke out in 1967 between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. At this point, Israel occupied and effectively de facto annexed the entire West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and all the people there, along with the Gaza Strip and the millions of Palestinian refugees who live there as well.

Beginning in 1979 at Camp David, Israel promised to let the Palestinians have a sovereign state on the 22 percent of Palestine left after 1948: the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Arafat recognized Israel within 1967 borders in 1988. The Oslo Accords "peace process," which was supposed to implement this two-state reality, began in 1993.

But it was a sham. All the while, even though the Fourth Geneva Convention says that it is illegal for one nation to transfer their own civilian populations into land taken in war and UNSC Resolution 242 says that Israel must withdraw from the occupied territories, hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jewish colonists or "settlers" have moved to the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which they consider part of greater Israel and call "Judea and Sumeria." This has effectively made a sovereign state there impossible.
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The Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu, who used to play along with the narrative of an eventual two-state solution, in the last decade officially cancelled the illusion that he would ever let this occur. Netanyahu said in 2015 that: “I think that anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state today and evacuate lands is giving attack grounds to radical Islam against the state of Israel. Anyone who ignores this is sticking his head in the sand. The left does this time and time again. We are realistic and understand.” He was then asked specifically whether he meant that a Palestinian state would not be established if he were reelected prime minister. He answered, “Correct.” https://t.co/R4JfkepEEq

Even though he backed down on official annexation of the Jordan river valley, Netanyahu still vowed in 2020 that “Israel will retain security control on the entire area west of the Jordan River."
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So this is why B'Tselem, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International all finally came out in 2021–2022, after the 40-year illusion of "independence someday instead of freedom today" had finally crumbled, and officially declared that Israel was an "apartheid state."
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It should now finally be acceptable to frame the issue in these terms. When your father sided with Israel in the 1967 war and declared them "tough," while defeating three nation-states at once, that was a totally different situation, and back before all this transpired. Times have changed. Jordan and Egypt are friends with Israel. Israel bombs Syria almost weekly with impunity. They are not threatened from without, at all.

Jimmy Carter warned that if Israel did not let the Palestinians go, they would be stuck in this apartheid corner. So did former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak and former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

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Brand new in Foreign Affairs is: "Israel’s One-State Reality – It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution" By Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami
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So back to Jim Crow. If the whites of Mississippi had said, "We will not end segregation and our two-tiered 'rule of law,' but we will let northern Mississippi become an independent black nation instead someday instead," but then they never did that, that would be where we are with Israel-Palestine right now.

The Israelis argue as Jefferson once did, that they have the wolf by the ears and cannot safely let him go. But the Palestinians are not wolves, they are human men and women and children and the Israelis have no right to hold them in this bondage. The idea that "radical Islam" is gonna come git 'em if they do the right thing is just W. Bush-level nonsense. The Palestinians don't want the Israeli Jews dead and gone, they just want to have freedom too. It was their country first, within living memory, after all.

Imagine if someone said about South Africa in 1983 that, "DeClerk and the whites of South Africa have a right to exist. And they have the right to defend themselves. And the blacks, well they have the right to aspirations of having those rights." This simply will not do.

But here's the thing: You can still be completely and totally as pro-Israel as you want and still be good on this. I am not at all saying you must go around calling the situation "apartheid" all day and make people angry at you.

You can say that Israel is our ally and that we would never let any foreign nation get away with threatening their existence, how much you personally love them and all those things, however for the good of Israel, if they want to be a Jewish democracy: They have to let the West Bank go, meaning mass removal of Jewish settlers from the West Bank and real independence for a Palestinian state now, not someday. Otherwise, Israel should give equal rights and citizenship, 14th Amendment-style, to everyone born west of the Jordan River. The status quo is simply unjust.

Or even better: Since we believe in democracy and non-interventionism, we just won't fund Israel's military or side with them on this issue in the UN anymore. Like the Ukrainians using our weapons against Russia, we are implicated in this and it is not right, in fact even dangerous. Our support for the Israeli occupations in Palestine and Lebanon were major motivating factors in al Qaeda's war against the United States, including September 11th, after all. Bin Laden's first declaration of war from 1996:
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The lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and co-conspirator Ramzi bin al Shib joined al Qaeda in response to Shimon Perez's war in Lebanon: https://t.co/htULWOclaP

Find a way to stick up for the Palestinians. They absolutely need real independence or equal rights as Israeli citizens. Ignoring their side cannot be an option. There is a huge core of potential support for you that is just cringing right now because of this when they should be rallying to support you as a great alternative to the Clinton-Obama-Biden establishment types — the only one of them who's really one of us. The legend of the Kennedys is of men who would risk anything to stick up for what is right for the little guy.

There's a whole interesting story about how your father and uncle tried to make the Israel Lobby register as foreign agents and tried to force inspections of their Dimona plant to stop their nuclear weapons program. Just making the point that they were not 100 percent on board with whatever Israel wanted to do and might have mixed feelings about the current situation.
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Best,
Scott Horton

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[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@BullyEsq Bearish, he never understood Bitcoin just like his father

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@PeterRQuinones Drag Queen Anne Frank 💀💀💀

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@LegionOfSkanks @bigjayoakerson @luisjgomez @ComicDaveSmith @MartinShkerli @Shanemgillis @Dannyjokes @gasdigital Marty is right, Shane was acting like a Hollywood Lib

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@AbdulazizHattab @rtc_tommo You think Assad is behind this??? Stop smoking crack

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@kimberlycongdon Patrice died 40 yrs ago, quit hooking up with the elderly

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@luisjgomez 💀

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@brucefenton Now apply same logic to Bitcoin Forks

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@KimDotcom @elonmusk Trump would take any subsidies he could get! That being said 10 years ago the McDouble was $1 with 2 Cheese slices, now its $3 with 1 Cheese slice. Elon can pay for his own stuff

[Cody @AgoraExplora]

@icebagz_ @Simon_Goldberg I love Spirit, how often do you remember a flight years later? I recommend the MIA-BWI route, it's great