@btcfts@TheGuySwann Bitcoin is both a monetary system and a defense system. It’s immutable ledger protects property rights of individuals and countries. The innovation that can be built upon this immutable, transparent, triple entry ledger system, will solve problems troubling us today for tomorrow
The Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) was given 10 Billion dollars in 2023.
To date they have built... Wait for it.... 1,432 houses. That works out to about $7 million per house.
Well done Senator @ajamesbragg for this excruciating lesson in government departments building things.
@MarkoMatvikov Yes well centralized control never works. Only free markets possibly can.
When the signal is not distorted, truth emerges and people get on with solving problems forever.
Strangely satisfied by freedom and agency.
Get the politicians out of the way!
Telling an entire generation they're victims is the fastest way to rob them of their dignity. You can be a victim of something without making victimhood your identity.
I despise victimhood with everything I've got, not because I don't recognize suffering, but because staying in that place makes you controllable.
And the people promoting it know that.
CO₂ does not control the climate. It never has. It is not the master dial of the Earth’s temperature, nor is it the architect of our modern anxieties.
Carbon dioxide doesn't cause excessive rainfall, droughts, or the collapse of coastal cliffs. Nor is it responsible for the fractures in human society—terrorism, urban violence, obesity or the drug crisis. These are the products of a human civilization that has survived its own annihilation by the narrowest of margins, persisting for 300,000 years largely through a stroke of cosmic luck.
Yet, for four decades, a relentless climate war has force-fed the world a diet of crisis and warming hysteria. It insists that CO₂ is the root of all evil—that it is our fault and it is the gas's fault. But the truth is indifferent: CO₂ doesn't care. It is not demonic. It is not pollution. It is the foundation of life on Earth.
Without it, Earth would be a silent, sterile rock, inhabited only by bacteria. It was CO₂ that empowered cyanobacteria to unlock the miracle of photosynthesis, slowly flooding the world with the 'waste product' we call oxygen. Before this, the oceans were dark with iron, the skies were not blue, and the world was effectively lifeless. We should be thankful for this gas of life, rather than inventing doomsday scenarios to vilify it.
If we look at the true scale of our planet, the single greatest factor affecting Earth’s geology is tectonic continental flow. This slow, majestic dance of crustal plates shapes our continents and redirects the great ocean currents. This is nature at work.
Today, CO₂ is a mere trace gas at 427 ppm (0.04%). While it is a mighty driver for biology, it is at some of its lowest levels in planetary history. During the Cambrian Period, concentrations were upwards of 4,000 to 8,000 ppm. If those massive levels did not trigger an 'irreversible environmental collapse', it is illogical to assume today’s trace amounts will.
Furthermore, water vapor remains the dominant greenhouse gas, reaching concentrations of 40,000 ppm (4%) in the tropics. It is responsible for the vast majority of the greenhouse effect, yet it is sidelined in favor of the carbon narrative.
History matters. For hundreds of millions of years, CO₂ has not been the deciding factor in global temperature. Homo sapiens evolved during the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which began 34 million years ago when Antarctica became entombed in ice. Our entire history has unfolded within the Quaternary glaciation, surviving 100,000-year cycles of icehouse conditions.
Almost every meaningful invention, every empire, and every leap in human progress occurred within the brief, warm window of the Holocene. We have never not lived in an ice age. We have survived global upheavals before, but we may not survive a self-imposed collapse into a new medieval dark age driven by ideological fear.
I found the best way to bankrupt the government.
It comes from a Russian quantum physicist.
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In 2004, a man named Vadim Zeland wrote a book titled, "Reality Transurfing."
In the book, he introduces a concept called “pendulums” that explains why fighting the government never works.
The government's operation is absurd.
-$39 trillion in debt
-Funding wars you never voted for
-Printing money whenever they want
-Endlessly taxing you in every direction
-Selling new bonds to pay off old bonds
-Politicians retiring as multimillionaires on $174,000 salaries
But here’s the thing…
Accountability won’t come from the system. That’s why Zeland’s concept of “pendulums” is so important.
A pendulum is anything that lives off your attention and emotion (energy-in-motion).
Religions, political movements, businesses, group chats, diet trends… these are all pendulums that feed on attention and energy.
If the world collectively withdrew its energy from Buddhism, Buddhism would dissolve.
If America collectively withdrew its energy from the Democratic or Republican party, it would dissolve.
It’s like food to a person. If you stop giving it food, it will die.
Your government is a pendulum, but… there's a key point to understand.
The government feeds on your attention and your energy. But that is not its primary food source.
Its primary food source is fiat money. The money they print, control, and force you to use.
They have an unlimited supply of it. They can tax it however they want. They get to enforce the rules around it. Their money endlessly feeds them, by design.
That’s why you can vote whoever you want into office, but nothing will change — because the money hasn’t changed. Their primary source of fuel hasn’t changed.
The pendulum stays alive as long as their money stays alive.
That’s the key thing to understand. The money is the target.
If you actually want to end the government’s fraud, you have to stop using their money. You have to withdraw your energy from their system. You have to starve them.
You do that by starving the source of their food. If they can’t eat, they will die. If they don’t have their money, they will die.
If the government didn’t have an infinite source of money that they control at will, they could never rack up $39 trillion in debt. But because they *do* have an infinite source of money that they control at will, they have an endless source of food.
That’s the target.
It was never the politicians. It was always the money.
So how do you actually starve the pendulum?
Zeland gives us the answer — he calls it “extinguishing the pendulum.”
Every pendulum has a script it expects you to follow. The script is designed to provoke a reaction out of you, to get you to swing your energy toward the pendulum.
It wants to hook you like a fish.
For example, think of a hostile comment you receive online. That comment is a pendulum. It wants your energy.
When you defend yourself, think about a clever reply, escalate, hurl an insult back — you feed it.
The pendulum doesn’t care if you agree or disagree. It just wants your energy.
Complaining about the government only feeds the pendulum of the government. It’s exactly what the government wants. It wants you to bite. It wants to keep you in its frequency. It wants to keep you in its game.
So how do you actually win?
You don’t.
You leave the game.
Extinguishing the pendulum means breaking the script.
You break the script by offering an abnormal response.
When a pendulum tries to provoke you, you do something completely off-script, something that doesn’t fit the game it’s trying to play.
You shift to a different frequency and play a different game.
Suddenly, the pendulum has nothing to grab onto.
The best way to bankrupt the government is simple:
You stop using their money.
The government’s entire script is dependent on you using their money.
Their monetary system is designed to feed them energy.
When you work for their money, they tax it.
When you spend their money, they tax it.
When you hold their money, they quietly steal it through inflation.
Here’s the devastating part.
To function in modern life, you need money — and the fiat monetary system is designed as a monopoly.
They create legal tender laws which mandate the use of their money — and their money only — for taxes and debts.
If you don’t pay your taxes in their money, you get fined, your assets get seized, or you get sent to jail.
They coerce you into their pendulum under the threat of violence.
It’s the trap inside the trap. It’s not just that they feed on fiat money. It’s that they’ve made it illegal to not use fiat money.
For as long as fiat governments have existed, there was no true off-script move.
You could complain. You could vote. You could move countries, only to find another version of the same system awaiting you.
You were always left inside their monetary system. You were always hooked to their pendulum.
The only real exit was leaving the grid entirely. You would have to stop using money, close your bank accounts, and disengage from modern life altogether.
People’s yearning to live “off-grid” is simply a desire to escape the fiat pendulum.
But they made it inescapable.
Until 2009.
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Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin to be the off-script move.
The abnormal response.
The different game.
Bitcoin was designed to extinguish the pendulum of fiat.
Previously, it could never be done, because there was never a different frequency to shift to, other than going completely off-grid.
Bitcoin is, for the first time, the truly different frequency of money that you can shift to.
It doesn’t argue with fiat.
It doesn’t demand accountability.
It doesn’t run for office.
It doesn’t ask for permission.
It doesn’t try to reform the Fed, or audit gold, or pass legislation.
It doesn’t even acknowledge fiat as a worthy opponent.
It simply exists as a completely different frequency, governed by a completely different set of rules:
1. The protocol is neutral — it has no political ties.
2. The system is transparent — you can verify the rules for yourself.
3. The supply is fixed — it cannot be inflated.
4. The network is permissionless — you don't need permission from banks and governments to use it.
5. The protocol is decentralized — there is no central party manipulating the system.
6. The supply issuance is based on math — not what a group of elites thinks is best.
Every single one of those traits is the dead opposite of fiat.
Bitcoin swings the pendulum of money in the opposite direction — and that’s exactly what’s required to extinguish fiat.
No matter who you’ve voted for, the government hasn’t changed.
The system remains the same, because the money remains the same.
The off-script move isn’t to vote with your ballot. That’s the script fiat wants you to follow.
The off-script move is to vote with your money.
The off-script move is to stop using their money and shift to a different game.
That’s how you stop feeding the government.
That’s how you starve the pendulum.
The best part?
Zeland notes that when you extinguish a pendulum, its energy doesn’t disappear.
It returns to you.
Every dollar you hold in fiat is energy you’ve been losing your whole life — to inflation, to taxes, to a government with trillions in debt.
When you shift to Bitcoin, all of that energy comes back to you.
What previously went to the government and all their closest friends now flows to you.
That difference in energy is the pendulum being extinguished in real-time.
It’s the power shifting from the top of the system to you.
You don’t have to protest.
You don’t have to wait for an election.
You don’t have to vote anybody into office.
You can stop feeding their system, right now.
Bitcoin exists, right now. The network is open. For anybody, at any time.
All you have to do is shift.
That’s how it ends.
Thomas Sowell is 95 years old.
Let that number sit with you.
Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention.
What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with.
While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another.
He doesn’t argue feelings.
He measures results.
He isn’t selling anything.
His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths:
“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
Sit with that, too.
Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it.
Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who.
Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations:
“I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.”
“Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.”
That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences.
The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn.
Sowell says it plain:
“The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.”
The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business.
Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle:
“Stay away from the race hustlers.”
“Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.”
That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before.
Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight:
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing.
Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions.
What are the incentives?
Who actually benefits from this policy?
What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later?
Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart.
The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television.
He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side.
Ninety-five years of telling the truth.
Thank you, Dr. Sowell.
Most people think they understand how money works, but THEY DON'T!
I learned about 90% of what I know about money AFTER I started learning about Bitcoin.
If you can't answer the following questions, you won't understand Bitcoin:
- Why do all fiat currencies fail?
- Why did the Roman Empire fall?
- What is the Nixon Shock?
- Why is the US Dollar the world reserve currency?
- What is the difference between credit and debt?
- How does inflation work?
- What's the difference between CPI inflation and monetary inflation?
- Why was gold used as money for THOUSANDS of years?
- How is new money issued?
- What are the functions and ideal characteristics of money?
- What is fractional reserve banking?
UAE’s🇦🇪 Mishal Kanoo: We DON’T RETALIATE against Iran because we don’t want the Iranian people to remember us as an ATTACKER!
@afshinrattansi: You can see from Iran’s point of view, and I think it’s widely accepted that the UAE hosting United States bases, even though the UAE, like Saudi Arabia, has said on no account can they be used for attacks on Iran…
Still creates a situation where hosting those bases makes GCC countries targets when the United States is involved in military operations.
@MishalKanoo: “If I accept that premise, and I do, then I should also extend the same logic to Azerbaijan, which has Israeli bases, and to Turkey, which has American bases. There was a hit on Azerbaijan, of course, and then they said it was a mistake. The same thing happened with Turkey — “sorry, it’s a mistake” — and that was a NATO country after all.
The reason why the IRGC is attacking our part of the world is because they perceive us to be an easy target — someone who is not going to retaliate. And we’re not going to retaliate, not because we can’t, but because there’s a difference between not wanting to retaliate and being unable to.
They know that if you attack Turkey, you are dealing with a proper army and a capable military. Turkey has been actively involved in conflicts and skirmishes in Syria, Iraq, and Azerbaijan. It’s a frightening prospect for them because of both capability and proximity — Turkey has the military strength to project force directly into Iran.
Azerbaijan is similar. It may not be viewed as a major military superpower, but there are approximately 15 million Azeris living in Iran. If Azerbaijan were to respond to an attack by moving in, Iran would face a significant internal and external challenge.
This is why, in the eyes of the IRGC, we are seen as the easier target — and why they keep hitting us.
The argument that this is simply because of American bases doesn’t fully hold. Yes, the bases are there — but what about American ships, frigates, and other assets? Why aren’t they being targeted in the same way? Why is it primarily our region, where there is little to no retaliatory trajectory from our side?
It’s because we know that, ultimately, they will remain our neighbours. We do not have an issue with the Iranian population, and we don’t want to create one for the future.
When the current rulers eventually move on and new leadership emerges, we don’t want to have a history where we were the aggressors.”
-One of the UAE’s🇦🇪 most prominent businessmen @MishalKanoo, Chairman of the @KanooGroup_UAE, and one of Gulf Business’s Top 100 Powerful Arabs 2025.
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇
It's only a matter of time before International Trade is settled in A global neutral reserve currency.
Some are shocked Iran is asking for Bitcoin, but a bit of historical context adds some colour.
At Bretton Woods in 1944, Britain proposed the Bancor - a neutral, supranational reserve currency not controlled by any single nation, designed to balance global trade without giving one country an unfair advantage.
The Americans rejected it. The dollar won and for a while that was fine because the dollar was backed by Gold.
That all came to an end in 1971 when Nixon's temporary suspension of the dollar's convertibility into gold became permanent.
What remained was a reserve currency backed by nothing but American political will and military might.
That arrangement has been slowly dying ever since.
Every round of quantitative easing and weaponisation of the SWIFT system via sanctions has accelerated the search for an alternative.
Countries are now asking themselves why should they trade their resources for a currency another country can print and freeze at will?
A multipolar world needs a neutral, borderless, apolitical reserve asset that no government can weaponise. This is why Iran wants Bitcoin.
In 1944 they called it the Bancor.
Today we call it Bitcoin.
@EliNagar@Braiins He spoke with so much authority on topics he obviously knows nothing about. His bias towards systems of violence and coercive control shone through in this interview. An awful example of ignorance and should be ignored.
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realizing there was no income tax in the united states for the first 137 years of its existence.
let that sink in.
the country was built, industrialized, and became the most powerful nation on earth without taking a single dollar from your paycheck
then in 1913 the federal reserve act was secretly signed on jekyll island during christmas while most of congress was home with their families.
and just like that a private central bank owned by foreign interests took control of america’s money supply
the country was built on patriotism and productivity.
but its future was stolen through usury by rothschild bankers who turned every american citizen into a debt slave from birth
you work from january to april just to pay the government.
money that gets sent overseas, funds wars you didn’t ask for, and lines the pockets of people who don’t care if you live or die
137 years with no income tax and the country thrived.
but sure tell me again how the system is working
How I used to get taxed to death in Australia, before I left forever.🇦🇺
💰Me: Earn $500,000.
👮Gov: We'll take 48.5% of that, $242,500 thanks.
🏡Me: Buy my family a $1M home.
👮Government: Open your wallet, we want:
🥊$40,000 stamp duty on day 1.
🥊1% land tax, or $10,000 every year.
🥊10% GST for new homes, another $100,000
🥊Sell for $2M? 48% cap gain, You owe us $480,000.
🚗Me: Buy a nice $90,000 family car.
👮Gov: "33% Luxury car tax," another $29,000 thanks
🥩Me: Take my family to dinner.
👮Gov: Don't forget your 10% GST on ALL purchases.
🚴♂️Me: Buy a $1,000 bike online
👮Gov: 5% import taxes, ON TOP of the 10% GST.
👴Me: Dodge bullets for 50 years to retire with $2M.
👮Gov: We have a few ways to prevent that...
1 - 15% contribution tax.
Every year you want to put $25,000 into your retirement account, we take $4,000 immediately.
2 - Owh, your assets in your retirement account pay you a dividend... that'll be another 15% tax thanks.
You find 10% dividend growth, well, another $30,000 per year is due because that's "income," technically...
3 - You're going to love our new plan.
Imagine your assets don't receive income from dividends, but they simply rise in value, you don't owe any taxes right?
I mean, you didn't sell anything?
Well, that's not modern or progressive enough, we want 30% of the "unrealized paper gains," you're generating.
So, if you get a 20% return this year, you owe us $120,000, even if you don't sell a thing! Kinda neat right?
👶Me: Fine, tax me to death, but please let my kids have some crumbs.
👮Gov: AHHHHHH, we claim to not have "inheritance taxes," BUT your kids still pay taxes when they sell those assets.
✈️Me: Inflations 10%, these taxes are nuts, I'm leaving.
👮Gov: Slow down a moment, you owe us another 47% tax on all of the assets you're taking with you, even if you don't sell them.
🇦🇺I left Australia in 2022 on one of the first flights out of the country after the borders reopened.
It was the toughest decision of my life.
But, it was by far the best decision of my life.
🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺🇦🇺Western countries are all on the same path, and we saw how this ended in Russia, China, Venezuela and Cuba in the last 100 years. 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇨🇺🇻🇪
If you're on the fence about leaving, and doubting whether things could really get "that much worse."
These were 2 of the books that helped me make the decision:
Atlas Shrugged
The Sovereign Individual.