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[Dylan Ratigan @DylanRatigan]

I was walking through the halls of Congress with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden. We were talking about corruption when he pointed down the hallway toward a room and said, if you’re looking for the heart of government corruption, it’s right in there. He was pointing to the room where, as he described it to me, the tax favors were sold.

The tax code is the moral code, and every day it’s for sale to the highest bidder.

The legal expression of what a society wants more of and what it wants less of is for sale.

The law that determines what work gets done, where investment goes, and how people spend the finite hours of their lives is not decided by debate or morals, but by who can pay to get favorable rules.

A clean tax code would start by deciding what kinds of human activity a society wants more of – not who can pay the most to rig it.

Doctors, nurses, teachers, EMTs and other people whose work directly strengthens human life would pay almost nothing.

Creative work, athletics, hospitality, travel, food, art, scientific research and productive technology would be taxed lightly because they increase human health, knowledge, experience, creativity and connection.

Then taxes would rise as social value falls and social cost rises. Businesses built around phone, drug or gambling addiction and extraction would be at the top of the scale.

The rates and categories are what politicians would argue about as part of a continuing debate over what our society values.

Public tax debates begin with the wrong question: who has the money?

That is the wrong frame.

The first question is: What do we want to encourage or discourage for work and investment in our society?

The second is: What state is the money in?

Right now, we favor asset owners over active-income earners. We tax human effort heavily while allowing accumulated capital far greater freedom to compound. Ironically, that principle is antithetical to the premise of America itself: that anyone can change the circumstances of their life through creativity, intelligence and effort.

The second principle is simple: money generated by human work should be taxed last, while capital that has become large enough to compound on itself should be taxed first unless it is put back into productive use.

That is the key distinction.

Invest accumulated capital in hospitals, medicine, education, science, food, housing, infrastructure, art, sport, hospitality, travel or useful technology and the tax falls dramatically.

Let it sit in a self-compounding pool whose primary function is generating more capital, as it finances monopoly, extraction and social harm, and the tax rises.

The point is not redistribution.

The point is circulation.

Every tax is a moral choice.

The only serious question is whether the code reflects the kind of society we actually want to build.

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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Twenty five years ago today, a 62 year old man with cancer in his bones walked 2,687 people out of the South Tower, and then he went back inside.

Rick Rescorla was born in Hayle, Cornwall in 1939. British Parachute Regiment in Cyprus at 18. Colonial police in Northern Rhodesia. Then he came to America, enlisted in the US Army in 1963, and in November 1965 he went into the Ia Drang Valley as a platoon leader with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry.

Hal Moore called him the best platoon leader he ever saw. His men called him Hard Core. He sang to them in the dark, Wild Colonial Boy in an Australian accent, because he had worked out that men who are singing are not men who are panicking. That is Rescorla on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, bayonet fixed.

Thirty five years later he was head of security for Dean Witter, later Morgan Stanley, in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

In 1990 he brought in his old friend Dan Hill and the two of them walked the basement. He warned the Port Authority that the parking garage was wide open, that somebody could drive in a truck full of explosives, walk out and light it off. Nothing was done. Three years later the 1993 bomb went off about thirty feet from the spot he had flagged.

After that he told Morgan Stanley the towers were still a target and the next attack would come out of the sky. He wanted the firm to leave Manhattan. The lease ran to 2006, so they stayed. Twenty two floors of the South Tower, roughly 2,700 people.

So he drilled them. Every three months, everyone, no exceptions, down the stairwells two abreast while he stood there with a stopwatch. Traders pulling seven figures resented being marched down concrete stairs by a Cornishman with a clipboard. He kept doing it anyway.

8:46 a.m. The North Tower is hit. Port Authority comes over the South Tower loudspeakers and tells everyone the building is secure and to go back to their desks. Rescorla picks up a bullhorn and tells his people to get out.

He phones Dan Hill. "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate. They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people out of here."

9:03 a.m. The second plane hits the South Tower, floors 77 through 85. His people are already in the stairwells, moving exactly the way they had been drilled, and Rescorla is on the bullhorn singing to them. Cornish songs. A version of Men of Harlech he had rewritten for Cornwall. Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming, can't you see their spearpoints gleaming.

He called his wife Susan from the stairs. They had been married two and a half years, met jogging in New Jersey. He told her to stop crying, that he had to get these people out safely, and that if something happened to him he wanted her to know he had never been happier, that she made his life.

Someone told him to get out. He said, as soon as I make sure everyone else is out.

2,687 Morgan Stanley employees went home that day. Thirteen did not, and four of those were Rescorla and the men who stayed in the building with him: Wesley Mercer, Jorge Velazquez, Godwin Forde.

He was last seen on the 10th floor, walking up.

The South Tower fell at 9:59. They never found him.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

There's nothing else in the digital currency space like the cryptographic technique underlying #Zcash. It's a moonshot: risky, but certain to change everything if it succeeds. https://t.co/jLLotqLevB

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This image was sent to me from the field. These are messages US servicemen in the Persian Gulf have scribbled on the dust of an aircraft flap.

"Be a good guy and do what Israel tells you to"

"Operation Epstein Fury"

"Peace deal #64 incoming... ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND"

I have no frame of reference, I can't compare it to the sentiments of US soldiers in previous conflicts. But I suspect these are new sentiments, or at least a new willingness to express them this openly and directly.

But as one serviceman told me: "What people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one, is this operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely."

Read that last part again: No morale. Deployed to undesirable locations INDEFINITELY.

My own conclusion: When a war has no morale behind it, winning means that you simply end it. There is no other "winning" in such an unjust war.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.

Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie declared:

“I came here to make sure our Republic doesn’t die by unanimous consent in an empty chamber.”

History will remember him for it.

But Washington is no longer salvageable.

The Republic has fallen to foreign influence and corporate power.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If legislators always vote with the President, we have a king.

If legislators always vote with the prevailing wind, we have mob rule.

If legislators always vote with the Constitution, we have a Republic.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This Iranian LEGO song must go viral in USA and around the globe!

"WE LOVE AMERICANS — BUT NOT THEIR LEADERS 🇮🇷❤️🇺🇸"

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

9-month-old baby with Down syndrome says his first word ever.

"This season has been hard and a bit isolating at times BUT it's so much more bright than the internet or doctors lead us to believe," the boy's mother said.

"God doesn't waste a single step and he's building something new, I'm learning to rest in that and I'm SO grateful to have Hank as our proof. He is working and blessing us in unique ways."

An estimated 67% - 85% of pregnancies in the United States with a Down syndrome diagnosis are aborted.

While most people with Down syndrome experience cognitive delays, they go on to live fulfilling, productive, and happy lives.

May God bless this child.

Video: aestheticartist_angelina / ig.

[Patriarch Prime, PhD ☦️ 🇺🇸 @KalebAtlanta]

☦️ Thread: The Holy Fire of Jerusalem

A thread detailing numerous historical accounts of the miracle of the Holy Fire, the unique irreplicable traits of the Holy Fire, and the Holy Fire proving the truth of the Orthodox Faith.

[Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Lemelson @Lemelson]

𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗭𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗗: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝗷𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 | 𝗘𝗽 𝟰𝟭

A war is being waged—not just overseas, but for the soul of America.

Fr. Emmanuel exposes the sinister theology of Christian Zionism. He shows how Zionism has infiltrated U.S. foreign policy, fueled wars in the Middle East, and deceived millions of believers.

In this episode, uncover:

- How dispensationalism twists Scripture.
- The dark alliance between Christian Zionism and politics.
- Why Iran, Israel, and WW3 may be the fruits of such heresy.
- The Orthodox Truth that confronts the lie.

Featuring verified history, real prophecies, and a warning for the future…

⏱ Timestamps:

00:00 – Did War Begin with a Bible Footnote?
02:20 – Christian Zionism: Heresy in Patriotic Drag
03:12 – What Is Zionism and Why It Matters
05:07 – The Scofield Bible and the Zionist Agenda
07:03 – From JFK to $310 Billion: Politics Meets Prophecy
09:14 – Christian Zionism: A Theology of Escalation
10:55 – The Orthodox Response: Christ, Not the State
13:54 – Saints, Elders, and the Truth Few Want to Hear

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Tucker Carlson last night, on commanders telling troops this war is for Jesus:

"There are a million Christians in Iran. So if you were doing this for Jesus, presumably you would go out of your way not to hurt his followers in the country you're attacking. Did the U.S. government make any attempt to spare the Christians? Of course we're not."

Nagasaki. The largest Christian community in Japan, annihilated by a Christian nation.

Iraq. Home to one of the oldest Christian communities on Earth, destroyed by a U.S. invasion sold as a moral crusade. The Christian population went from 1.5 million to under 200,000.

Now Iran, one million Christians being bombed by men whose commanders tell them it's God's will.

Tucker said it plainly: "Christians have a way of dying disproportionately in these wars. Which tells you something about their real motive."

The motive was never Jesus. It never is.

[Murray 🇺🇸 @Rothbard1776]

The last time I checked:

🇮🇷 Iran hasn’t stolen any of my freedoms.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t run up $38 trillion in national debt and destroy our standard of living.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass the Patriot Act to spy on Americans.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass the income tax.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t establish the IRS.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t hand over full control of US monetary policy to a private banking cartel with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t force the NIH to fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan China.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t lock down American cities, businesses and schools.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass experimental and deadly mRNA “vaccine” mandates.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t print $7 trillion during the COVID Plandemic and destroy the American economy.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t hosting drag queen story hour in our elementary schools and libraries.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t promoting destructive life altering transgender surgeries and medications to children.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t flooding American airwaves with pharmaceutical products.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t trying to block out the sun or spraying harmful chemicals all over our skies.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t spraying all our crops with cancer causing pesticides.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t give glyphosate manufacturers immunity from poisoning Americans.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t accuse a Supreme Court Justice nominee of being a gang rapist.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t spend $8 trillion invading Iraq and Afghanistan, only to hand the latter back to The Taliban after the government collapsed in 3 days following 20 years of occupation.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t steal the 2020 election.
🇮🇷 Iran didn���t open America’s borders and flood the country with 40 million illegal immigrants.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t to start a race war by spreading hate-crime hoaxes all over our cable news and social media networks.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t hiding the Epstein documents and failing to prosecute corrupt billionaires, politicians and royal family members.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t forcing Americans to pass hate-speech laws and tear down the 1st amendment.
🇮🇷 Iran has never attacked us on American soil.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t authorize Operation Fast & Furious to allow weapons to be illegally purchased and taken back to Mexico, only to be used to kill US border patrol agents.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t overthrow Gaddafi and destroy the country of Libya where they now have modern day slave markets.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t hide the contents of Anthony Weiner’s laptop with over 340,000 emails from Hillary Clinton, including a files labeled “Crimes Against Children”.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t use America’s intelligence agencies, FISA court, media organizations or political class to frame Trump for treason.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t draw up plans to assassinate Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes in the Middle East.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t exile Edward Snowden for revealing the widespread illegal surveillance being conducted on American citizens.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t assassinate JFK, RFK or Charlie Kirk.

The US government did all of those things on behalf of subversive domestic and foreign influence.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

3 in 4 American didn't want a war with Iran. But Netanyahu did. So bombs away. We're simply not a sovereign country. Occupied.

[Cobie @cobie]

When ppl claim this I always wonder how they think it happens, or have unrealistic expectations on how much $1bn actually is.

I joined crypto with $200. If I held my initial bitcoin since then and never traded, I would have ~$300k.

If, instead, from that moment I sold the top and bought the bottom of every crypto cycle on Bitcoin, and never paid any taxes, I would have ~$6m USD.

If I put my entire net worth into the Ethereum ICO and never touched it, today I would have ~$150m pre-tax.

While it was definitely possible to have made >$1bn with the opportunities in the market, these versions of reality would also require me to make no mistakes, and have no need to spend $ in real life, or take excessive risk via leverage.

In reality, I grew up in a working class family. I didn’t have a trust fund and I had to pay off my student loan myself. I had a job at Tescos while at high school. After university, I needed to pay rent and fund cost of living and eventually buy a place to live.

I worked at startups for relatively little $ salary, and while a couple have done okay, they still are illiquid and worth nothing until some exit.

Perhaps if I erase a couple of dumb mistakes and drawdowns, or if I had a lil more grind, then my answer would be different today. But it is easy to say this with perfect hindsight vision. It’s easy to see where you could have optimised better, and decisions you made look dumb when the past makes things so obvious.

The truth is I have always optimised for enjoying my life and not going to 0. I never felt like I had a safety net, so it was never possible for me to do anything in any other way. I would probably have less money if I had tried to add more risk or chased $ harder, because being all-in with your entire livelihood is a mental battle and I feel I only win that battle when the stakes are lower.

In writing this, maybe I do understand why CT folks believe this, because modern CT sees crypto as a late-stage lottery ticket farm, where the optimal strategy is to 5x leverage up your portfolio in a hope of catching a good 20% move and then leaving. Or, literally going all-in on the next coin they heard Ansem is buying. So perhaps to them, looking back at the charts, of course that’s what successful folks did.

In reality, I use leverage close to never (and typically to reduce risk rather than add risk — have used it to add risk maybe 3 times in the last 5 years, and maybe 15 times ever). I never go all-in on anything, have only ever done that on BTC and ETH before in the last decade. When I buy other things, I limit risk to tiny amounts, because I treat it as a 0 until proven otherwise (so, always <1% liquid portfolio). Liquid portfolio is also a smaller % of overall portfolio to future-proof against my own fuckups.

Obviously I made a lot of money, I have been here 12 years! CT doesn’t want to hear about “getting rich in a decade” though. I am happy with where I am and have never really cared or optimised for maximising $ earnings, but instead having a nice life that lets me enjoy the game we play together.

[CryptoHODL @Ransomedrobert]

@MW4Liberty I did not know you were orthodox as well. Very cool, brother. Saving this and thanks for sharing.

[Sublevados 🇲🇽 @Sublevados_]

Momento muy emotivo: llegó la delegación de la Iglesia Ortodoxa de San Porfirio a la ciudad de Gaza para reunirse con el Cardenal Pizzaballa, Patriarca Católico de Jerusalén.

Los sionistas están logrando lo imposible: reunificar a las dos más grandes tradiciones cristianas. ✝️☦️

[CryptoHODL @Ransomedrobert]

@Gman1776NC @TimKennedyMMA Lmao! Okay bot. Best wishes.

[CryptoHODL @Ransomedrobert]

Neither. Constitutionalist. Evil thrives when good men do evil things. Our decades of actions overseas caused millions of innocents slaughtered/displaced (many of them Christians). Can’t say good men should do something against evil yet be silent on an actual genocide happening in the same region.