The entire developed world tax apparatus that was built in the 20th century and extends into the 21st century depends on ubiquitous financial surveillance.

They are not going to give that up without a fight. I have been saying at a number of conferences and podcasts that privacy is the main battleground for the next decade.

Back in the 19th century and before, money was mostly private. There were plenty of dictators but there was no major method of surveilling all transactions. Therefore things like broad income taxes were untenable to enforce.

But in the 20th century as money increasingly moved around at the speed of light, people needed bank accounts to keep up. It wasn’t all forced on them; they chose it. And those bank accounts were centralized, surveillable, and ruggable.

This allowed authorities to switch to income taxes, which require ubiquitous financial surveillance to work. And ultimately it allowed them to switch to fiat currency altogether.

Now in the 21st century, Bitcoin and its various layers allow people to hold and move around money globally without permissioned banks. They can do so peer to peer, or they can do so with custodians and open layers, etc. Unlike the base layer of fiat, the base layer of bitcoin is permissionless.

But this represents a threat to the entire current system of taxation and financial control. If bitcoin and particularly various private methods on top of it were to be adopted at massive scale, the entire tax structure and other things would need to reshape themselves around that reality. And so they won’t make it easy; they will try to criminalize financial privacy as much as possible while the network is still pretty small.

The only solutions are to 1) make privacy tech so ubiquitous that it can’t be isolated and can spread organically in a distributed way and 2) to apply legal pressure when possible so that governments sort of have to operate within the bounds of their own law, like the 1st and 4th amendments.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cboYEHuXwbc&ab_channel=JackMallers


Yesss, in ice cold water as well.


Yup, the climate alarmism movement is just a badly constructed stage facade to sell the public a package of totalitarianism.

When CO2 and carbon are defined as a threat to the planet, regardless how irrational that is, any centrally planned restrictions of individual liberties can be justified on that made-up pretext.


Love Giacomo Zucco's commentary.😄 nostr:npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j

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#CO2 #Climate #Change #ClimateChange #ClimateAlarmism #GlobalWarming #NetZero #Agenda21 #Agenda2030 #Propaganda


Yup. For now I think it is best to grow Nostr by attracting people here with free speech and good content. We need a lot more users here in order to compete properly.


Everything is a tradeoff.
I have zero reach on Nostr by the way.


Had my Twitter account locked since the AI is incapable of comprehending neither text nor context.

I was discussing the problems of Enlightenment ideology where there is a common urge to proclaim that other people should destroy/kill their Ego or Self.

This then ties into a redistributionist ideology whose moral framework postulates that you shouldn't want to own property, because materialism is bad and letting go of your Self is the path to a paradise on Earth. Just give up your property to the State.

This is what happens when the Twitter character limit pressures users to use short words and phrases in order to fit their message into the limited space combined with a poorly designed AI that attempts to catch "hate" speech.

As for now, my stubborn side would rather appeal this lock rather than delete the comment. With the short character limit, my options on how to convey my message in a single tweet are severely limited.

[Edit] After 30 minutes my account was unlocked again.
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Had my Twitter account locked since the AI is incapable of comprehending neither text nor context.

I was discussing the problems of Enlightenment ideology where there is a common urge to proclaim that other people should destroy/kill their Ego or Self.

This then ties into a redistributionist ideology whose moral framework postulates that you shouldn't want to own property, because materialism is bad and letting go of your Self is the path to a paradise on Earth. Just give up your property to the State.

This is what happens when the Twitter character limit pressures users to use short words and phrases in order to fit their message into the limited space combined with a poorly designed AI that attempts to catch "hate" speech.

As for now, my stubborn side would rather appeal this lock rather than delete the comment. With the short character limit, my options on how to convey my message in a single tweet are severely limited.
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Oh, how low reddit has fallen. https://image.nostr.build/622df7890f8ef479e121d4a67102ac6ccfa014e3ec31564a59f077f203d71691.jpg


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#Meme #Memes #FreeMarket #Free #Market #Liberty #Voluntarism #Libertarian #Freedom #FreeAgency #PropertyRights #IndividualLiberties #Individual #Liberties #Philosophy #Bitcoin


Thanks! 🙏


Logo design that I finished some time ago.

https://image.nostr.build/e09df5180659cad347881f70ea76e0aae09f3d71f28369c4f2ad934532962650.jpg

Link to sketches and process:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RymVam

#Logo #Design #Art #NoAI


People who want to force you to fund their ideas & causes, only want to do so because they intend to do things with your money that you wouldn't want done.

Taxation is just the real world manifestation of the greed of people who consider themselves intellectuals.


We were here to witness the 4th #Bitcoin halving.


Read just the first chapter of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (free via Project Gutenberg etc) and tell me that he didn't have his finger precisely on the pulse — in the 1850s — of the root cause of the authoritarian war for majoritarian supremacy that we're witnessing today. Censorship, the compelled worship of an ever-shifting orthodoxy, the construction and desecration of idols before the temple of consensus— it's all the same thing, arising from the same source, and awaiting a similar solution. In times of trouble, we should look more to our history.

Read your Mill, brothers.


Looks like I was able to get this working again, sort of. It says I'm connected to 9-11 relays, but only shows that I have 100 followers (and even Jack only about 40, so it has to be a data gap), and very few notes on timelines (with obvious gaps even for hugely active accounts). Relay.damus.io never seems to pass me any data (0kb both up and down) to me, which j assume is due to my connection coming via Tor, but honestly I don't know. I'm connecting using Amethyst, if anybody sees this and has any ideas—what's the best, biggest relay for Tor users right now?

Secondly, and most importantly for anyone who sees this note, please make some noise to try and stop the passage of RISAA (the FISA 702 reauthorization) that's about to hit law as soon as this Friday. Please read about it and push it out on all of your socials, if you agree it's a problem. It's going to be hard to stop this thing, even with all hands.

Whoever sees this, thank you for hearing me. https://image.nostr.build/b5731965f417b631e9ea74c27ce4d5f9bb91f9e2a96fefb1547146266ab89fb5.jpg


"Can someone please explain the difference between the mafia and the government to me"

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#Government #Mafia #Liberty #Bitcoin #Meme


Testing out armor decor ideas for my Darth Bane 3D bust. The face is starting to feel like Bane as I see him, although it is too early to sculpt the skin micro details.

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For the armor decorations I first compose a 2D image with number of circles and spokes in grayscale. White represent elevation and black is hollow depth. Then I transform the 2D result into a 3D mesh that I can integrate into the sculpture.

https://image.nostr.build/d04758c9a35271081bec5fe45aa560050a6ee89e226a7a9c80f556bb061ad026.jpg

In Zbrush the best path for a high quality mesh result, in my experience, is transforming the 2D design into an IMM brush which I can later deform into fitting the target shape.

If I just use a 2D alpha with a DamStandard brush then I don't get the same height effect or mesh quality and I often end up with unwanted distortions in the mesh.
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#Zbrush #3D #Sculpture #Bust #Statue #DarthBane #Bane #StarWars #Starwars #Art #NoAI #Modeling #Character #Design #Scifi


Testing out armor decor ideas for my Darth Bane 3D bust. The face is starting to feel like Bane as I see him, although it is too early to sculpt the skin micro details.

https://image.nostr.build/1d38ec0e816f0d83813a32e59fa29247de7b42342ac0f3c08f79a6a8da381e02.jpg

For the armor decorations I first compose a 2D image with number of circles and spokes in grayscale. White represent elevation and black is hollow depth. Then I transform the 2D result into a 3D mesh that I can integrate into the sculpture.

https://image.nostr.build/d04758c9a35271081bec5fe45aa560050a6ee89e226a7a9c80f556bb061ad026.jpg

In Zbrush the best path for a high quality mesh result, in my experience, is transforming the 2D design into an IMM brush which I can later deform into fitting the target shape.

If I just use a 2D alpha with a DamStandard brush then I don't get the same height effect or mesh quality and I often end up with unwanted distortions in the mesh.
 https://image.nostr.build/c74ef204f1877a2f60847726af0a7e791bc6460133b837d8cb96419d9241e4c3.jpg

#Zbrush #3D #Sculpture #Bust #Statue #DarthBane #Bane #StarWars #Starwars #Art #NoAI #Modeling


Testing out armor decor ideas for my Darth Bane 3D bust. The face is starting to feel like Bane as I see him, although it is too early to sculpt the skin micro details.

https://image.nostr.build/1d38ec0e816f0d83813a32e59fa29247de7b42342ac0f3c08f79a6a8da381e02.jpg

For the armor decorations I first compose a 2D image with number of circles and spokes in grayscale. White represent elevation and black is hollow depth. Then I transform the 2D result into a 3D mesh that I can integrate into the sculpture.

https://image.nostr.build/d04758c9a35271081bec5fe45aa560050a6ee89e226a7a9c80f556bb061ad026.jpg

In Zbrush the best path for a high quality mesh result, in my experience, is transforming the 2D design into an IMM brush which I can later deform into fitting the target shape.

If I just use a 2D alpha with a DamStandard brush then I don't get the same height effect or mesh quality and I often end up with unwanted distortions in the mesh.

#Zbrush #3D #Sculpture #Bust #Statue #DarthBane #Bane #StarWars #Starwars #Art #NoAI #Modeling


"Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success."

~ Mark Skousen


“Ideally government should be a sort of caretaker, not of the people themselves, but of the conditions which will allow individuals, producers, traders, workers, entrepreneurs, savers, and consumers to pursue their own goals in peace. If government does that, and no more, the people will be able to provide for themselves much better than the government possibly could.”

— Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow (Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises) by Ludwig von Mises
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Yup.

Ossification was at first used as a deliberate mischaracterization of the "maintenance only" position. Since plebs like to turn around terms they adopted it.

Recently I have seen some people assuming that "ossification" means "do nothing". They seem to understand that it is not logically possible to not do at least minimal maintenance, and they still think that the hyperbolic term is used to mean "do nothing".

So one is tempted to assume that their underlying motivation is not a low ability to draw rational conclusions but perhaps part of a move to herd public perception toward certain changes.


Looks cool! I played some DCS in the past, it was/is decent flight sim you can play on the PC with joystick and rudder pedals. Below is an old video where I practised landing on a cruiser. Looong startup sequence.😄 If Bitcoin goes high enough I might consider taking a real heli license.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9A7CSpuefCY


Sorry to hear, sounds like a mess of central planning. Treaties that were negotiated before those now living were born. I look forward to hear more on the subject of native lands.


UPDATE: Patriot Act v2.0: US House Passes FISA 702 Surveillance Expansion 'Reform'

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a two-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA 702”), a controversial warrantless spying authority, and in an extremely narrow tie vote, rejected critical reforms to stop rampant abuse of the law.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/patriot-act-v2-0-us-house-votes-on-fisa-702-surveillance-expansion/


I would like to hear more about this subject, I am not informed enough to have a detailed opinion.


Ossification started as a mischaracterization of the position that only relevant maintenance should be done.

Later the term was embraced by plebs even though it was a false caricature - in a similar way that plebs embraced the caricature of some assumed toxicity.

It is impossible that someone could mean literal ossification so I never saw a big issue - the hyperbolic form of the term must be evident to anyone.


One of the most interesting music videos I remember seeing was "White Robe" by Tatu, from their album Waste Management, 2009. Back then in 2009 it stood out as a warning for a 1984 society where life is reduced to a compliance system.

Central to the video is this government sign:

"Detention Center
Department of CONTROL"

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A 1984 setting is established and the lyrics follow suit:

"Feeling ugly, looking pretty"

She is trapped in a system requiring her to obey immoral policies, but outwardly she looks great.

"Word is written, bond is broken
No big secret left unspoken"

Families and social contracts are broken and there is surveillance everywhere. Privacy and secrets have become impossible.

"Sun is painted in the corner
But it's never getting warmer"

The propaganda is displayed everywhere but its falseness is tangible; there is no improvement in spite of the constant assurances. The propaganda is made permanent as if it was painted in the corner of your eye.

"All the lies they keep on selling
But you never check the spelling"

A constant stream of lies and propaganda, yet few are questioning the statements.

"Flying bullets hit the targets
Wings and halos, five to seven"

The system is ejecting a swarm of projectiles in the form of propaganda and compliance regulations and the targets are hit with these bullets.

"Brain is useless, chair is rocking
Open doors for dead man walking"

In a society where you are censored and restrained from exercising your free agency, your brain becomes useless without any reach or impact.

Luckily, in 2009 we also had the emergence of Bitcoin, providing humanity with the tech to safeguard individual property rights and our freedoms that depend on them, to resist a dystopian outcome.

#Tatu #1984 #Totalitarianism #Liberty #FreeSpeech #Bitcoin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3bCJ-rqkMw


AML regulations:

The ability by some entity to invalidate your rightful property by assuming an imagined crime that there is no evidence for.

If the essence of communism is the abolition of property rights, in what way is AML then not evidence of communism.

#AML #KYC #Property #PropertyRights


AML regulations:

The ability by some entity to invalidate your rightful property by assuming an imagined crime that there is no evidence for.

If the essence of communism is the abolition of property, in what way is AML then not evidence of communism.

#AML #KYC #Property #PropertyRights


Yup. In a free market, funding has to be achieved via voluntary options.

Many people don't have the funds to pay for subscriptions so it would be delusional to expect that from them.


Absolutely. When people have a decent income then it makes sense to spend some of that on the tools they use. Those that have a tight budget will of course not be able to spend money on social media.


Anti Money Laundering laws are an attack on property rights.

TLDR: Unless AML regulations can be refuted and abolished, property rights cannot exist and we are back to legalized slavery.

Property rights rests on the bedrock of logic that John Locke formulated in 1690 with his publication Two Treatises of Government.

Locke's ideas were instrumental in the rejection and abolishment of human slavery. He postulated that every human is born free and is a sovereign person who owns themselves and the fruits of their labor.

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"Every man has a "property" in his own "person". This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labour" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his."

(Book II, Chapter 5.27, page 130)
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Following this reasoning, slavery becomes a violation of property rights: we can't own another human being since every person is born sovereign. We have no right to what another person earns with their labor. Only voluntary contracts that are mutually beneficial are valid arrangements.

The problem of AML regulations becomes obvious at this point.

First of all, AML reverses the burden of evidence and postulates guilt until proven innocence. Your money is assumed to be laundered - and thereby illegal - until proven otherwise.

This flips the whole Western conception of legal proceedings on its head; the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law.

Instead, AML assumes criminal activity as the standard, with no requirement of the government to spend resources to prove a committed crime in a court of law backed by evidence beyond all reasonable doubt.

Under AML, in order to abolish your property rights, the government only needs to raise the bar for what constitutes accepted evidence to prove the history of your earnings. This sets absolute surveillance as the standard.

If the government want to strip you of your property under AML, all that is needed is for the government to reject the history of your property as invalid or inconclusive.

In the case of a banking service that you used in the past, if it no longer exists, or if it no longer have your records, or if you are unable to gain access to those records, your property is confiscated under AML.

AML regulations abolish the right of the individual to own the fruits of their labor, by empowering a third party to determine if your property is valid, without any burden of evidence.

If the validity of your money can be rejected at any point by a third party, your property rights have been abolished, ipso facto.

Returning to John Locke:

".. for nobody can desire to have me in his absolute power unless it be to compel me by force to that which is against the right of my freedom -- i.e. make me a slave." (Book II, Chapter 3.18)

".. and hence it is that he who attempts to get another man under his power does thereby put himself into a state of war with him." (Book II, Chapter 3.17)

Since AML regulations require absolute surveillance and the individual is at the complete mercy of the third party that determines the validity of their money at any given time, the statements of Locke ring uncannily true.

Locking the fruits of a person's labor under someone else's full power and control, transforms the working individual into nothing more than a slave, chained the whims and conditions of the controller.

The situation under AML regulations is captured in this statement:

"I have altered the deal. Pray that I don't alter it any further"

Following Locke, we don't have to accept a dystopian future without individual rights and property rights, ruled by neo-feudalism.

This is why Bitcoin is a return to the ideas of John Locke.

On a Bitcoin standard there is no third party that validates your transactions. The money you have earned is yours without restriction. Your money cannot be invalidated. Your transactions cannot be stopped.

Under a Bitcoin standard, criminals will have to be found guilty in a court of law, based on evidence.

Bitcoin is a return to justice and property rights for all.

Further on John Locke:

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#Bitcoin #JohnLocke #Locke #AML #KYC #FreeMarkets #Voluntarism #PropertyRights #IndividualRights #Libertarianism #Libertarian #Liberty #AntiSlavery #Capitalism #FreeMarketCapitalism #Philosophy #Sovereignty #AynRand #Objectivism #Individualism


A few common traps I see online:

Bashing women
Bashing men
Bashing christians
Bashing atheists
Bashing generations
Bashing whole groups in general

None of the these group generalizations will have favorable outcomes and they will instead trigger an opposite pendulum swing as the blamed group feels inclined to mobilize a group-based defense, and the circular animosities are in full swing.


Here are 7 inconvenient facts of the so called "covid vaccines" that you probably didn't know about unless you were paying attention beyond the corporate and state sponsored media.

#1 the modified mrna and adenoviral vectored products employ cutting-edge gene therapy and gene delivery technologies and should be regulated as gene therapy products.

#2 These "leaky products" did not prevent infection, replication or spread of sars-cov-2. And indiscriminate mass administration of these products contributed to evolution of more antibody-resistant strains.

#3 In contrast to official HHS communications, these products distribute throughout the body after injection and are not localised to injection site and associated lymph nodes. This wide distribution contributes to product toxicity and risk.

#4 The viral "spike protein" which these products cause patients bodies to manufacture is a genetically engineered toxin.

#5 The lipid nanoparticle formulation used to deliver the modified mrna has intrinsic toxicity in humans.

#6 These products do not deliver natural messenger rna but rather a synthetic chemically modified form with extended stability which causes the body to produce "frame shifted" unnatural unintended proteins in addition to the spike protein.

#7 These products are contaminated with previously undisclosed short DNA fragments which are also delivered into tissues and cells of patients and which may damage patients genomes.

 https://video.nostr.build/d0710b69b6427f882eff16478913d6dd322df0e39279cb2094dd9863c01d43a4.mp4

 https://video.nostr.build/c79aa0356c4ad3ededca6969709953ac17b6221a8d35d13e269cb574175654af.mp4


Ossification started out as a propagandistic slur against those who want only regular maintenance and the response was to embrace the term ossification as a middle-finger. It doesn't mean actual ossification.


Cool piece.👍


Possible ancient Egyptian building techniques utilizing water.

The first video shows a compelling technique using a water basin that could have been utilized in the construction of sharply cut pyramid blocks in ancient Egypt.

The following videos show how a system of water dams and/or enclosed water channels could have been used to float heavy blocks into position.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?&v=dGH93mt81BA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVDaXtJDYw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekp_2u8P20w

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ggz8It0psYc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TJcp13hAO3U

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rxFXsoqbfrk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfWHtX-VYvE

#Egypt #Pyramid #Ancient #Construction #AncientEgypt


Possible ancient Egyptian building techniques utilizing water.

The first video shows a compelling technique using a water basin that could have been used in the construction of sharply cut pyramid blocks in ancient Egypt.

The following videos show how a system of water dams and/or enclosed water channels could have been used to float heavy blocks into position.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?&v=dGH93mt81BA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVDaXtJDYw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekp_2u8P20w

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ggz8It0psYc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TJcp13hAO3U

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rxFXsoqbfrk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfWHtX-VYvE

#Egypt #Pyramid #Ancient #Construction #AncientEgypt


This demonstrates that KYC and AML regulations are a threat to individual rights and security.


// Resolve

Your life's trajectory
A band of fire crossing the sky
Sketching its course
To an unseen future

All that is meaningful
Is necessary

We didn't realize our power
Until our resolve hardened
Into an uncompromising
Vortex of stars

#Poetry #Liberty
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I wouldn't be surprised if it is a conformity test.


#Meme #ClimateAlarmism #NetZero #Climate #GlobalWarming #CO2

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No, I haven't, sounds interesting. I'm all for decentralization and small competing jurisdictions.


🎯 Free markets benefit those most who don't discriminate. Even in niche markets it doesn't make sense to discriminate paying customers.


Yup.

Creating value for everyone > creating value for a niche group.


Good article.

Carbon credits, ESG scores and Net Zero inititatives are common features of the U.N. Agenda 21.

It started with the Club of Rome looking for an approach to justify global governance (supra-national regulations) and came to the conclusion that climate was a perfect pretext.

According to Club of Rome, the planet can sustain 1-2 billion people and possibly 8 billion "if we have a strong dictatorship". We passed 8 billion people in 2022-2023 depending on how we measure. According to their ideology, the planet can only sustain the current world population if we live under a dictatorship.

These ideas are reflected in the U.N. Agenda 21 + 2030. The only path for the U.N. to implement their 2030 goals, since most people will reject them, is via surveillance, digital ID, CBDC, social credit scores, censorship, property confiscation and border control.

Thankfully they can't control Bitcoin. Capital and entrepreneurs will move where there is more freedom and less totalitarianism, exercising liberty arbitrage.


hey nostr,

we're gearing up to launch Strike Europe, looking to do a little more testing.

anyone willing to help us test in the following countries?

- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Denmark
- Finland
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia

if you're in other countries and want to help with final testing, you can also ping me, but these markets have gotten the least testing so far. just wanna get some more eyes and hands on them

gonna keep this nostr only too, so just DM me here. appreciate yall


The Nigerian People vs. NYSC Decree No. 24 of 1973: An Austro-libertarian Review####

Every year, thousands of Nigerian youths who are below the age of thirty and who’ve completed their undergraduate studies—whether in Nigeria or abroad—are compelled by law to give up one year of their working time in active duty to the country under the auspices of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), an agency of the government.

It has now been fifty years since the establishment of the NYSC mandatory program under Decree No. 24 of May 22, 1973 by the then–military regime led by General Yakubu Gowon (retired). Among other stated social objectives of the NYSC as written in the decree is “to raise the moral tone of the Nigerian youths by giving them the opportunity to learn about higher ideals of national achievements, social and cultural improvements.” Whether these social objectives have been reached is a different matter. However, looking back on these past years, and upon subsequent review of this enactment from an Austrolibertarian perspective, one cannot help but question the net impact of this decree in the lives of Nigerians.

It is then the purpose of this article to briefly show from the perspective of Austrian economic theory and libertarian law how the continuity of the mandatory service program sabotages the economic well-being of Nigerian citizens and occasions the violation of the property rights of Nigerians.

The Economic Implications of the NYSC Decree for Individual Nigerians

To quote Murray Rothbard in Man, Economy, and State: “The major function of praxeology—of economics—is to bring to the world the knowledge of these indirect, these hidden, consequences of different forms of human action.”

Austrian economic theory shows that coercive actions toward the unhampered market produce unintended consequences, which are the inevitable outcomes of the impairment of the market’s existing allocative efficiency—as well as its smooth social coordination—in the satisfaction of the most urgent wants of individuals. It also predicts that violent intervention, by means of the state apparatus, leads to contrary outcomes, which always prove unsatisfactory, even from the point of view of the initiators of such interventions.

As mandated by section 9 of the NYSC decree,

The Directorate [of NYSC] shall register each member of the service corps and shall deploy him for national service in the following undertakings and project, that is, in:
hospitals
road construction
farming
wafer schemes
surveying and mapping
social and economic services
teaching
food storage and eradication of pest
rehabilitation of destitute and the disabled
development of sports
all government departments and statutory corporations suitable for new graduates
development project of local councils
the private sector of the Nigerian economy
such other undertakings and projects as the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed forces may, by order, determine.
From the lens of Austrian theory, the Nigerian government’s protracted decree of mandatory one-year service by a proportion of the country’s educated, youthful labor force—in pursuit of social objectives other than those dictated by the market—diverts labor, qua a higher-order good, from those lines of production that aim at the satisfaction of the most urgent wants. In other words, the yearly intervention by the government in allocating a given proportion of the country’s labor force, without the guidance of the price system as a tool of economic decision-making, would inevitably result in a misallocation of labor as a productive and scarce resource. The virtue of the unhampered market lies in its capacity to allocate scarce resources the most efficiently, in accordance with the most urgent wants of consumers.

Individuals, in order to maximize utility, usually grade their wants according to an ordinal scale of importance and expect to employ available resources at their command in the most economically advantageous ways—that is, toward the satisfaction of their urgent wants. When productive resources are restricted in supply due to the coercive actions of the state or are diverted from those lines of production that furnish the lower-order goods that aid in the want of satisfaction, the utility maximization goals of individuals are impinged.

More so, the decree erects barriers to entry into the labor market by the population of educated Nigerian youths who do not currently hold the NYSC certificate usually issued at the end of the mandatory service. This tends to deprive these individuals of the opportunity to integrate themselves into the social division of labor. In regard to employment considerations, the decree states:

For the purposes of employment anywhere in the Federation and before employment, it shall be the duty of every prospective employer to demand and obtain from any person who claims to have obtained his first degree at the end of the academic year 1973–74 or, as the case may be, at the end of any subsequent academic year the following –
a copy of the Certificate of National Service of such person issued pursuant to section 11 of this Decree.
Furthermore, the maintenance of the NYSC program imposes fiscal burdens on the public treasury, which is itself maintained by taxes supplied by the Nigerian people. The government’s increased spending on the NYSC initiative has been decried amid the economic hardships faced by Nigerian taxpayers, together with the fact of the dwindling oil revenues that finance the program.

Legitimacy of the NYSC Decree of 1973 from the Perspective of Libertarian Theory

In reviewing the legality of the NYSC Decree from the point of view of natural law, from which the libertarian theory of property rights is derived and upon which the larger libertarian society is organized, we can categorically judge the legislation as a gross violation of the individual’s right to self-ownership. In compelling service to the nation through the state apparatus, the NYSC decree negates the right of the individual to freely choose where, when, and with whom to exchange his labor services.

While we may deem it moral to cultivate the spirit of patriotism in the youth, it is not the function of the law to enforce moral values. Using legal violence to enforce social and moral values necessarily violates the rights of individuals in society—especially the rights of those who may not currently share the patriotic sentiments of the lawmaker.

Clearly, liberty and compulsory service are incompatible and indeed diametrically opposed to each other. Compulsory service, regardless of the duration, is a form of slavery.

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I can recommend Rosa Koire's book "Behind the Green Mask - U.N. Agenda 21" from 2011.

Basically, the U.N. Agenda 21 is a comprehensive central planning plan for the 21st century that was signed by 179 nations in Rio De Janeiro in 1992.

Agenda 21 comes with milestones and the next milestone is Agenda 2030.

To summarize, it is a totalitarian hodge-podge of fascism/communism justified on false climate alarmism propaganda.


Here’s a link to my recent Mises Wire article on a mandatory youth service programme running since 1973 in Nigeria. Compelled service is clearly incompatible with liberty.  https://mises.org/mises-wire/nigerian-people-vs-nysc-decree-no-24-1973-austro-libertarian-review


Thank you, this demonstrates your attitude quite well. Further discussions will be a waste of time.


Right, but an introduction is not a debate, it is a hello world type of message.


That's a strange way to welcome a new person on Nostr, but to each their own.


Great to have you here on Nostr Michael. I look forward to reading your articles and  ideas.💜🧡


Hello! I am Michael, a 2024 Mises Institute apprentice from Nigeria. It all started with reading Ayn Rand as a young boy. Thereafter, a burning passion for the liberty philosophy took me down the long road to freedom, where I discovered the series of compelling literature on liberty and the free-market—including the works of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and the Austrian School of Economics. I believe that liberty is indivisible, most essential for self-actualisation, and that society can best attain prosperity under the institution of private property. I seek to spread the libertarian message across Africa and the rest of the world, realising that only political freedom can foster the economic prosperity that Africa and the world greatly seeks. Join me in making this a reality. Cheers! #introductions #introductions


Great, I can see your message now!


The sea ice extent in antarctica is not less than 43 years ago.

The false environmental scare business rooted in U.N. Agenda 21 (+ Agenda 2030) policy documents is the real threat to humanity as a species.

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Now let me see you correct your perceived trend in relation to urban heat island effects and solar variation.


Agreed. I take statements from influencers with a ton of grains of salt.

The more people babble about how tough they are, the less I trust them to be what they claim to be.


The global warming narrative headlines; every country is warming up faster than the rest of the world. 😄🤣

#Propaganda #GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateFascism #ClimateScam

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It seems that trans-humanity had their arms incapacitated in the process, restricting them in their free agency.


Art 4 Today
"Transhumanity" - forged welded steel, 2.5 meters high

#sculpture #nostrart  #artstr  #conceptart

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Awesome sculpture!


The Boys are Back in Town for sure.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5_xqb416S7o


Heh, I hadn't even checked the price today but you are correct.


The true nature of censorship.

#Censorship #FreeSpeech #Speech #Government #Authoritarianism #Truth #Bitcoin

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Probably nothing.

Just a 41% increase in the USD money supply (M2) between 2020 and 2022.

Bitcoin is the rational bet that it is likely preferable to opt out from clown world 🤡🌏 shenanigans.

#Bitcoin #Inflation #M2 #MoneySupply

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President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador demonstrating what genuine leadership looks like. 🔥🔥🔥

#ElSalvador #NayibBukele #Bukele #Visa #Passport #Bitcoin

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1776733270186545406

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Norges Bank, the Norwegian central bank, don't wan't to debate me and my book, Fraudcoin..

The economics students' union at Nord Universitetet (one of our universities) tried to organize a conference.

After repeated requests to NB they finally said NO to them.

This is not the first time something like this happens.

Following my book "Kvikkleire" (Quick clay, which one professor in geology has said should be mandatory reading for geology and geotechnical engineering students) ESRA Norway (European Safety and Reliability Association) tried to set up a conference with me and the stakeholders from the "expert" community, the regulator and others.

When the authorities and consultancies heard that I was invited, they became reluctant to attend.

In the span of half more than half a year, from November 2021 to May 2022, ESRA proposed four different dates.

I said yes to each of them.

But ESRA couldn't get the stakeholders to commit people to participate in the conference.

It's evident that many don't want the truth to come out about how "experts" justifies inflation of the

- money supply, and
- the supply of land that is safe to be developed.

Nice world you live in, don't you think?
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Absolutely. It all depends on the relationship you have with your contractor and how much time you have available. In some cases it makes sense to over-deliver and in others it doesn't.


Absolutely. It all depends on the relationship you have with your contractor and how much time you have available. In same cases it makes sense to over-deliver and in others it doesn't.


Agreed.

An exception is when you are working as a freelancer it sometimes pays off to over-deliver. A client may ask for a certain amount of content but may change their mind and want more when they are offered quality extras. If a product developer sees a chance to sell more products they are inclined to do so as far as their budget allows.


The main path to controlling governments is via U.N. policy documents. In 1992, 179 nations signed the U.N. Agenda 21.

There is little chance for capital alone to influence governments that are ideologically driven.


That is also a flow of power, but much slower than the reverse.

When a government is animated by policy documents and ideology (such as the U.N. Agenda 21 + Agenda 2030), the ideological momentum of government is regulating corporations via beliefs in a climate emergency and will not likely accept any counter influence to that ideology.


Right.

First of all, I wonder what the benefits of the old 'financial elites' were.

They became wealthy in a heavily rigged system of monetary monopoly and moneyprinting, were real estate was used as an investment vehicle injected with ever more inflationary money, pricing out younger generations and making it hard for young people to establish a family.

At least a high percentage of bitcoiners are adherents of individual liberties, free markets and property rights and vehemently oppose totalitarianism, communism and fascism.

On a bitcoin standard we can expect real estate to fall in price denominated in bitcoin, allowing families to build a home and raise children.

On a bitcoin standard, wealth is earned to a higher degree than before; no moneyprinting injecting the economy with false capital allocation.

Regarding distribution of resources, that comes down to free agency, knowledge and preferences. Bitcoin is the most fair monetary system we can possibly design. Equal playing rules for all with no special privileges. That is revolutionary. Certainly those who make a living out of theft and rigging markets will hate bitcoin.
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Right.

First of all, I wonder what the benefits of the old 'financial elites' were.

They became wealthy in a heavily rigged system of monetary monopoly and moneyprinting, were real estate was used as an investment vehivle injected with ever inflationary money, pricing out younger generations and making it hard for young people to establish a family.

At least a high percentage of bitcoiners are adherents of individual liberties, free markets and property rights and vehemently oppose totalitarianism, communism and fascism.

On a bitcoin standard we can expect real estate to fall in price denominated in bitcoin, allowing families to build a home and raise children.

On a bitcoin standard, wealth is earned to a higher degree than before; no moneyprinting injecting the economy with false capital allocation.

Regarding distribution of resources, that comes down to free agency, knowledge and preferences. Bitcoin is the most fair monetary system we can possibly design. Equal playing rules for all with no special privileges. That is revolutionary. Certainly those who make a living out of theft and rigging markets will hate bitcoin.
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Yes, although I would say that government control big corporations via regulations.

The big corporations remain big because they play ball with government ideology and policy. Otherwise they are strangled with an arsenal of regulations.

In most cases of surveillance and censorship, the surveillance pressure is exerted by government intelligence agencies upon corporations with the purpose of controlling public perception.

Most companies benefit from having happy, returning customers and goood PR. Surveillance and censorship makes a company less competitive versus a company without it - but only in an environment where government regulations are not discriminating or punishing the company that refuses to play ball with government directives.

All government power is based on public perception. That is why governments makes it a priority to always control the narrative, which requires government schools, regulating companies and social media.


Consise argument by Chris Freiman why equal distribution of resources is an impossible utopia.

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"Imagine that we’ve achieved an equal distribution of resources. Then a singer begins selling tickets to her events. Lots of people buy them. The singer is now a billionaire and the distribution is no longer equal. Is the new distribution unjust?" / Chris Freiman
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#FreeMarkets #Distribution #Redistribution #Equity #Capitalism #Justice #SocialJustice #Socialism
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In recognition of the practical state of affairs i would say that the most interesting debate is defining natural rights and how they illuminate the moral case for individual sovereignty. Jurisdictions are not going away anytime soon.


We will have property rights for all and genuine economic justice, whether communists want it or not.

#Bitcoin


Where do natural rights come from?
A few of my basic assumptions:

1. Natural rights are inherent.

Ethical principles must preceed governments since we need those principles to evaluate if a government is legitimate or not.

It is clear that a government cannot objectively measure its own legitimacy or determine when/if it has transformed into a totalitarian state.

2. We rely on our reasoning to determine which ethical principles are aligned with life, liberty and prosperity.

Our reasoning capacity can only function as an extension of our sovereign existence qua free men and women. Free individual agency is an embodiment of decentralization; sovereign decisionmaking.

3. Every person must be assumed to be born free and sovereign. If this was not the state of things, slavery would  reign and no rights would exist. Under such circumstances any form of government would be illegitimate.

Since every individual is born sovereign, each person own themselves, their minds, decisionmaking and the fruits of their labor.

John Locke (1690):

"Every man has a "property" in his own "person". This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labour" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his.

(Two Treatises of Government; book 2, chapter 5.27, page 130)

4. Since we own the fruits of our labor, we must be free to buy, own, transfer, sell and exchange our property as we see fit, hence free trade.

If you need the permission of a third party in regards to how you manage your property, your property rights have been abolished and need to be re-instated.

5. As we depend on communication to live, to invent solutions and improve our conditions, solve problems, error-correct and vocalize that which harms us or which may cause harm, we must have free speech in order to exist, prosper and to maintain individual sovereignty.

In conclusion, if any of these principles are undermined, the responsible government must be determined to be illegitimate.

#Liberty #Freedom #Minarchism #LimitedGovernment #HumanRights #NaturalRights #JohnLocke #Objectivism #AynRand


I can recommend this talk with Yaron Brook where he criticizes Yuval Harari from an Objectivist standpoint:

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WEF Chief Advisor Yuval Harari:
“Covid is critical because this is what convinces people to accept/legitimatize TOTAL bio-metric surveillance... Exactly the same technology can be used to determine what you THINK about the Government.”

https://m.primal.net/HqVf.mov


Bitcoin proves we don't need central planning and government for money.

No bailouts, no money printing, no socializing losses. Tough lessons, self-responsibility, and free market dynamics are all we need.

Open-source software does a better job than the Fed and our government 🤷♂

New Mailbag Monday just dropped.

https://m.primal.net/HqWy.mp4


Friday 🙂


Cool work!


Welcome Vahan!
Looking forward to see more of your work.


“Larry!
These fucking Bitcoiners, they got these really great spears and they're running up to charge the castle and they got torches and shit and they're going to burn the entire fucking place down!
Are you sure?
Absolutely. You got to study this thing. It's unbelievable.
He was right. And he was a hundred percent gold guy. And he dumped all his gold and he went all #Bitcoin .”

New episode with nostr:npub1d3f4m9dgvkdjxn26pqzsxn6lpfn78sxwllxyt8mp76q0a9zyyjlswhr4xv on my podcast, out very soon!

https://video.nostr.build/aeb0225881ebae2b62dd8972d670733d7bb8d180dd82c56e12b1f169956ea4a1.mp4


#Meme #Agenda21 #Agenda2030 #2030Agenda #Communism #Fascism #Totalitarian #UnitedNations #UN #WEF

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Sounds like a chat GPT response packed with non-logical platitudes. In fact, many of Mike Brocks longer posts reads like an un-thinking GPT output. Will have to mute this nonsense.


Orwellian enough?
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#Bitcoin is a threat to totalitarianism and communism, so be wary of politicians that say Bitcoin is a threat to “democracy.”


You are assuming that's all a person does.
I think you need some rest to clear your mind.


I disagree.
It's a balance.

1. Truth and reality will win.

2. Many sacrifices will be made to get there.

3. We are in a fight. Yet writing about fighting is not the same as fighting. People determine how they can best fight based on their situation.

All of these are true at the same time.
We don't have to follow a checklist to include all of them all the time.


I disagree.
It's a balance.

1. Truth and reality will win.

2. Many sacrifices will be made to get there.

3. We are in a fight. Yet writing about fighting is not the same as fighting. People determine how they can best fight based in their situation.

All of these are true at the same time.
We don't have to follow a checklist to include all of them all the time.


Yaron Brook hits the nail on the head while critiquing Yuval Harari, from a talk a few years ago.

The bureaucratic leaders believe in fabricating narratives that have no incentive nor requirement to align with reality, based on some limited, echo-chamber assumption of the 'greater good'.

Since they don't believe in truth and logic, their only solution is forcing everyone onboard a top-down narrative that they have crafted, regardless of its faults, problems and harms that can be objectively predicted and observed. Without listening to critique or paying attention to consequences.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u7xiNRNi-QE

#Objectivism #AynRand #YaronBrook #Liberty #Individualism #Woke #Wokeness #WEF #Yuval #Harari #YuvalHarari #Agenda21 #Agenda2030 #Bitcoin


You’ve probably seen GreenpeaceUSA's Bitcoin report by now, and my response (if you haven't been blocked).

Here’s six things that every environmentalist, Bitcoin advocate, regulator, policymaker and media representative should know about GreenpeaceUSA.

I've had this information for over a year, but have held back on going public with it until now because there were initially signs that GreenpeaceUSA would be open to engaging with environmentalists within the Bitcoin community.

With them now blocking me from commenting on their tweets, all hope of that has now ended. So here's what I can tell you about GreenpeaceUSA, and their campaign that have not been aired publicly until now, and which may surprise you.

Firstly, some context: I’m a former volunteer environmental campaigner with Greenpeace. I once risked arrest to stand up for causes I believed in, including an anti-GMO campaign against McDonalds which was successful within 6 weeks, and hailed as an example of how creative direct action can yield fast results. One of the differences: we talked to McDonalds (something no one at GreenpeaceUSA is currently doing with the Bitcoin community).

I know a number of people in the environmental movement, and I would like to thank them for their honesty in whistleblowing on a thoroughly misguided campaign from GreenpeaceUSA from start to finish.

1. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign does NOT have the backing of Greenpeace International. In fact, other branches have asked questions of GreenpeaceUSA’s tactics, and even said that their campaign is damaging the Greenpeace brand, and has resulted in the loss of subscriptions.

2. Within GreenpeaceUSA, there are a growing number of voices of discontent. There is a growing division between some of the younger crypto-neutral or crypto-friendly millennial in their base, and the directorship of GreenpeaceUSA

3. As we know, GreenpeaceUSA did receive a $5Million donation from Ripple’s chair Chris Larsen to run an anti-Bitcoin campaign. What you probably do not know is that within Greenpeace, several staff have questioned whether this is ethical, or in the spirit of an organization that says it relies only on grassroots funding in its sign-up pledge.

4. Some members of EWG and SierraClub, particularly younger members, were not enamoured with their organization’s collusion with GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign. EWG has not engaged in anti-Bitcoin rhetoric since 6 April ‘23.

5. The head of GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign has stepped down and is no longer any part of GreenpeaceUSA. At the time of his stepping down he was reported by a source within GreenpeaceUSA to be questioning the wisdom of the campaign.

6. Within GreenpeaceUSA, we know from multiple inside sources that the Change the Code campaign has been widely acknowledged to have been “not particularly successful”. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign got off on the wrong foot right from the start, by antagonising environmentalists within the Bitcoin community, such as me. Here’s its half-time report (TL;DR, the worst performing environmental campaign I’ve ever witnessed). https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/greenpeace-environment-attacks-help-bitcoin… Now, the campaign is in more disarray than ever, resorting to tenuous ad hominem attacks against Satoshi Action, based on the discover that one of their supporters is a climate denier. True. Well, guess what: one of their supporters is also a plant-based, tree-hugging, climate-activist & meditation teacher: me. That’s the beauty of Bitcoin: it pulls people in from across the political spectrum: we are as diverse as society itself, and that’s what makes us strong. As I wrote recently, “when the ship you’re standing on is sinking: it doesn’t matter if you’re on the left of right side of it.”

I hoped GreenpeaceUSA would end their anti-Bitcoin campaign before their credibility and relevance to the new generation of millennials they are currently disenfranchising is completely severed.

But it seems at the moment they are more intent on doubling down on misinformation. Their leadership must change for them to ever have hope of becoming a true voice for the environment again.


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Urban heat islands can explain why the temperatures have risen slightly in the US over the past century. As urbanization has increased, urban heat islands have gained in impact.

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"The term “urban heat island” refers to the fact that cities tend to get much warmer than their surrounding rural landscapes, particularly during the summer. This temperature difference occurs when cities’ unshaded roads and buildings gain heat during the day and radiate that heat into the surrounding air. As a result, highly developed urban areas can experience mid-afternoon temperatures that are 15°F to 20°F warmer than surrounding, vegetated areas."
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https://www.heat.gov/pages/urban-heat-islands


Average monthly surface temperatures 1940 - 2024.

Slightly more mild winters at the tail end of an ice age is what the alarmists refer to as a global climate armageddon.

#Climate #ClimateAlarmism #GlobalWarming #Propaganda #Agenda21 #Agenda2030

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#Quote #LysanderSpooner #Lysander #Spooner #Property #Rights #PropertyRights #Individual #Liberty #IndividualLiberty #Philosophy #JohnLocke #Lockean #Bitcoin

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#Quote #LysanderSpooner #Lysander #Spooner #Property #Rights #PropertyRights #Individual #Liberty #IndividualLiberty #Philosophy #JohnLocke #Lockean

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"If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it;

for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists."

/ Lysander Spooner

(Credit: Stephen Ituruka)

#Quote #LysanderSpooner #Lysander #Spooner #PropertyRights #Property #Rights #Liberty #Freedom #IndividualRights #IndividualLiberty #Individualism #SelfDefence #AynRand #Objectivism #JohnLocke #Bitcoin #Libertarian #Libertarianism


"If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it;

for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists."

/ Lysander Spooner

(Credit: Stephen Ituruka)

#Quote #LysanderSpooner #Lysander #Spooner #PropertyRights #Property #Rights #Liberty #Freedom #IndividualRights #Individual#Liberty #Individualism #SelfDefence #AynRand #Objectivism #JohnLocke #Bitcoin #Libertarian #Libertarianism


The Epoch Times have consistently been correct while the critics of them have been consistently incorrect.

Peddle your propaganda in the regular government propaganda outlets where it is nornally peddled.


Whoa... this is kind of a big deal... the FDA lost against doctors

“FDA loses its war on ivermectin and agrees to remove all social media posts and consumer directives regarding ivermectin and COVID, including its most popular tweet in FDA history,” Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, one of the doctors, said in a statement. “This landmark case sets an important precedent in limiting FDA overreach into the doctor-patient relationship.”

“We are extremely pleased with the outcome of the settlement as it is a victory for every doctor and patient in the United States,” added Dr. Paul Marik, chief scientific officer of the FLCCC Alliance and another plaintiff. “The FDA interfered in the practice of medicine with their irresponsible language and posts about ivermectin. We will never know how many lives were affected because patients were denied access to a lifesaving treatment because their doctor was ‘just following the FDA.’”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/fda-settles-ivermectin-case-agrees-to-remove-controversial-stop-it-post-5612010


Imagine still thinking any of this was the result of honest mistakes.

A virus was created with US tax dollars in a joint effort with the Chinese govt, it was released to steal the US election & provide cover for China to violently crush Hong Kong fueled uprisings. Trillions of dollars were created & funneled to special interests & corporate cronies, small business competitors were shut down, people were forced out of work, millions were killed by remdesivir & hospitals were paid for every execution, & decades of chronic illness were inflicted on people in order to increase dependence & the amount of wealth that pharma corps can extract going forward.

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MIT climate scientist (and former IPCC lead author) Dr. Richard Lindzen on climate hysteria: "It's clear it's now a cult, completely divorced from science."

Links to watch full length film below >>
https://m.primal.net/HnuC.mov


Censorship is the ultimate weapon against truth these days.
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#Bitcoin is for future generations - generations that had once been enslaved with fiat debts not of their own, and before they were even born.


We'll see.

Certain jurisdictions may experience decades or centuries of oppression, or maybe that can be avoided. Other jurisdictions may see unprecedented prosperity. The future is unwritten, what matters is which direction we are aiming for. Capital will have an impact and bitcoin wealth will be the most impactful capital.


1. More funding of art and music.

2. More funding of testable science, because proof-of-work matters. Prototypes for QI (Quantised Inertia) will likely be funded by bitcoiners. Great implications if QI works.

3. Non-brutalist architecture.

4. Resources for distance education.

5. The wealthiest people will support free markets, individual rights, property rights and individual liberties.

I can't stress how positively transforming this would be for humanity.


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Governments merely want to eliminate competitors to the CBDC's that are necessary for social credit score systems.

AML regulations are the epitome of communism -- abolishment of private property.


to be clear, they dont care about money laundering. they do it all the time. they dont want you to have access to non-custodial wallets because they want to be able to take your money whenever they want to. they are not working for you.


If you aren't free to decide what is best for yourself & your loved ones in an emergency then you simply aren't free.


Bitcoiner take:

It seems that the proponents arguing that the universe is a bad place would at least need to demonstrate a better alternative as a measuring stick so that the announced improvement can be verified.


Whatever we write, a program code can copy and rephrase.

Over time it will be hard to differentiate unless we can probe a person with questions that require novel reasoning. And interestingly, many real humans will also fail such a test.


EU wants to ban #zaps

Fuck them. I will zap anybody that interacts with this note.

Who is going to stop us?

https://m.primal.net/HnEE.jpg


At the root, AML + KYC regulations are attacks on property rights.

They attack Bitcoin because it is a better alternative for the world than their planned digital Euro (CBDC) slave money.

All the EU is doing is hammering their message deeper to entrepreneurs - to leave the EU and spend their capital in a less authoritarian jurisdiction.

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AML is about abolishing property rights.

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For lesser problems I would say gradual familiarity and meditation. After examination, to let it drift away when you have gathered the insights you needed.

Some things however will always provoke a churning stomach.


Great content Efrat.
You add needed value to Nostr.


Check out this article about more KYC bullshit in the US by Stripe + Substack.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/stripe-substack-demand-financial


🎬"Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth", Debunks Global Warming & Net Zero Narratives

This new, must-see documentary exposes the hypocrisy of climate alarmists narrative and reveals how this trillion-dollar industry fueled by greed and fear has manipulated scientists and the public.

Watch here: https://efrat.substack.com/p/climate-the-movie-the-cold-truth?sd=pf


A Polish 19th century building in Warsaw was recently restored to its pre-war condition.

This perfectly illustrates the value of good architecture. Suddenly the facade exudes space and elegance. The prior flatness was reminiscent of a prison wall.

Credit: Stefan Tompson

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#Architecture #Art #Brutalism #Aesthetics #Poland


A Polish 19th century building in Warsaw was revently restored to its pre-war condition.

This perfectly illustrates the value of good architecture. Suddenly the facade exudes space and elegance. The prior flatness was reminiscent of a prison wall.

Credit: Stefan Tompson

https://image.nostr.build/5785aa78c87a79adce77e6b4ce544ddfca0afcdefc5b8d587dc54c4963f29515.jpg

#Architecture #Art #Brutalism #Aesthetics #Poland


I had at least one lucid dream a long time ago and the trigger for me was logic. What happened in the dream was not plausible and I became aware that it was a dream because of that and as a result I could control the dream until I woke up. Dreams for me are not as vivid as life, there is no direct rendering but rather I see an imperfect visual. I favor using my imagination when I am awake and let my brain take a rest from consciousness while I sleep and dream, allowing it to do its thing without my conscious interference.


You only ever hear the left talking about dog whistles because it is primarily people on the left who say things they don't actually mean. Socialists like to hide references to destructive & parasitic ideas in flowery language so that they will gain both the support of the uninformed & the support of those who already understand the references. But then they project that same sort of dishonesty & deception onto their opponents & claim that rightwing dog whistles are everywhere. Which as far as I can tell is largely untrue, but it persists because it helps them to innoculate their supporters against hearing anything that the opposition has to say.

There are people on the right with awareness that leftists have this paranoia about the language used and they will troll them by coming up with meaningless slogans specifically to elicit hysterical reactions. "It's okay to be white" & rumors about the OK hand symbol were consciously created to this end.

Some small subsection of people who identify themselves as "libertarians," the subset that is far too caught up in seeking approval from the rest of the political system, has tried to use halfway deceptive leftist tactics to trick some of the left into supporting libertarian ideas, but these are never the things attacked by the left. And the reality of the matter is that it really only works in one direction. The effort required to understand & apply the sort of ideas needed to solve problems is always greater than the effort required to create the problems, so you really can't trick people into supporting anything but destruction.

But everyone who believes a politician or political party is going to save them, no matter which side of the isle, is caught up in the same religious cult where the govt is their god or their imaginary paternal figure. It's not even all that unusual to hear people on either side refer to govt as a needed parent. It seems odd to me that grown ass adults would openly admit to such an infantile way of thinking.


Enjoying both birds.🤟


Sounds like a good plan.
Insight is where magic starts.


BRILLIANTLY PUT.

"WHAT'S THE MESSAGE OF WORKING IN A CUBE IN A ROOM WITH A SYNTHETIC DROP CEILING AND DRY WALL ON THE WALLS IN FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AHEAD OF YOU AND NO PRIVACY AT ALL? WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?"

https://cdn.satellite.earth/81b8b068d36b1e68b928e6ac5ff0df65dd994a92c7830e39530951acf123d568.mp4


--- Ayn Rand vs DEI ---
Article by Nikos Sotirakopoulos.

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"Every culture war issue is, at root, a philosophical issue. Failure to treat it as such ensures defeat;
now, or in the not-so-distant future.

Case study: DEI.
How mainstream philosophy sees DEI,
and why an objectivist lens is the alternative:

Metaphysics
DEI says: Out there are are groups, tribes, collectives; pools from which individuals/avatars-of-their-identity will be chosen.
Objectivist view: only individuals exist, think & act.
Such individuals can form teams and cooperate,
but every act is an act of an individual.
Application contra DEI: any work is the work of individuals, not of ‘representatives of groups’.

Epistemology
DEI says: individuals bring with them their ‘diverse experience/knowledge’.
Objectivist view: human beings know via reason; thinking is a solo act of independent judgment.
Application contra DEI: when you hire, you hire an individual mind. You don’t hire ‘diverse experience’.

Morality
DEI says: Your goal in life is promoting ‘the common good’.
Objectivist view: my goal is my happiness and living my best life.
I don’t sacrifice to others, and don’t want others to sacrifice to me.
Application contra DEI: my work, and my business, exists to serve my goals and values.
Division of labour/cooperation means I deal with other people; such dealings can exist only in a voluntary win-win context - aka the ‘trader principle’.

The case study of justice
DEI says: equity. ‘…to each one according to his needs’.
Objectivist view: reward individuals according to if/what they contribute to your stated goal.
Application contra DEI: reward people to the extent they contribute to your stated goal, as mutually agreed.

Politics/economics
DEI says: a business serves a ‘social goal’.
Private property is ‘entrusted’ to the owner, on the condition he pursues x social goals.
So your business is not really yours.
And the goal of your business is chosen by others: the ‘stakeholders’.
You, businessman, are a social activist for causes designated to you ('social justice', climate change etc), whether you agree with them or not.
Objectivist view: I have a right to pursue my own happiness,
and property rights means I can deal with my own labour/property as I fit.
The goal of my business is to serve my own purposes.
I cooperate with those who choose to cooperate with me, and whose interests/values align with mine.
Application contra DEI: I work for my profit and the profit of my shareholders/partners.
I’m not a social activist (unless I chose so, and for the causes I value).
No one’s ‘stakes’ gives them a say on my business, unless it somehow directly impacts them (e.g. I’m dumping waste on their fields).

That’s the only way to fight DEI.
Challenging its philosophical core.

'Any disagreement that does not challenge fundamentals serves only to reinforce them' (Ayn Rand)"

Source: https://twitter.com/Nikos_17/status/1770084670769705395

#AynRand #Objectivism #Dei #DEI #Woke #Wokeism #Philosophy #FreeMarket #Freemarket #Capitalism #Free #Market #Liberty #Voluntarism #NikosSotirakopoulos #Sotirakopoulos


--- Ayn Rand vs DEI ---
Article by Nikos Sotirakopoulos.

https://image.nostr.build/bb4f545041588bf67426a999da1b4c85522e5a32ab5b04183da658f7b4b800b6.jpg

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"Every culture war issue is, at root, a philosophical issue. Failure to treat it as such ensures defeat;
now, or in the not-so-distant future.

Case study: DEI.
How mainstream philosophy sees DEI,
and why an objectivist lens is the alternative:

Metaphysics
DEI says: Out there are are groups, tribes, collectives; pools from which individuals/avatars-of-their-identity will be chosen.
Objectivist view: only individuals exist, think & act.
Such individuals can form teams and cooperate,
but every act is an act of an individual.
Application contra DEI: any work is the work of individuals, not of ‘representatives of groups’.

Epistemology
DEI says: individuals bring with them their ‘diverse experience/knowledge’.
Objectivist view: human beings know via reason; thinking is a solo act of independent judgment.
Application contra DEI: when you hire, you hire an individual mind. You don’t hire ‘diverse experience’.

Morality
DEI says: Your goal in life is promoting ‘the common good’.
Objectivist view: my goal is my happiness and living my best life.
I don’t sacrifice to others, and don’t want others to sacrifice to me.
Application contra DEI: my work, and my business, exists to serve my goals and values.
Division of labour/cooperation means I deal with other people; such dealings can exist only in a voluntary win-win context - aka the ‘trader principle’.

The case study of justice
DEI says: equity. ‘…to each one according to his needs’.
Objectivist view: reward individuals according to if/what they contribute to your stated goal.
Application contra DEI: reward people to the extent they contribute to your stated goal, as mutually agreed.

Politics/economics
DEI says: a business serves a ‘social goal’.
Private property is ‘entrusted’ to the owner, on the condition he pursues x social goals.
So your business is not really yours.
And the goal of your business is chosen by others: the ‘stakeholders’.
You, businessman, are a social activist for causes designated to you ('social justice', climate change etc), whether you agree with them or not.
Objectivist view: I have a right to pursue my own happiness,
and property rights means I can deal with my own labour/property as I fit.
The goal of my business is to serve my own purposes.
I cooperate with those who choose to cooperate with me, and whose interests/values align with mine.
Application contra DEI: I work for my profit and the profit of my shareholders/partners.
I’m not a social activist (unless I chose so, and for the causes I value).
No one’s ‘stakes’ gives them a say on my business, unless it somehow directly impacts them (e.g. I’m dumping waste on their fields).

That’s the only way to fight DEI.
Challenging its philosophical core.

'Any disagreement that does not challenge fundamentals serves only to reinforce them' (Ayn Rand)"

Source: https://twitter.com/Nikos_17/status/1770084670769705395

#AynRand #Objectivism #Dei #DEI #Woke #Wokeism #Philosophy #FreeMarket #Freemarket #Capitalism #Free #Market #Liberty #Voluntarism


Yes, but we can still have meaningful interactions in many situations. If we cut out the nonsense we can enjoy many environments.🙃


Use as many channels of information as you like. Liberty needs to be heard everywhere.


How to safeguard one's time.😄

#Bitcoin

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How to safeguars one's time.😄

#Bitcoin

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So it begins. The U.N. Agenda 2030 and its 2030 deadline looms darkly over the West. Less than 6 years and ticking down.

The 1984 society has to be rejected.

If that fails, the only chance for liberty is bitcoiners building up competing civilizations founded on Bitcoin and property rights that can offer a safe haven for those who seek liberty.


So it begins. The U.N. Agenda 2030 and its 2030 deadline looms darkly over the West. Less than 6 years and ticking down.

The 1984 has to be rejected.

If that fails, the only chance for liberty is bitcoiners building up competing civilizations founded on Bitcoin and property rights that can offer a safe haven for those who seek liberty.


Western Australia is offering cash incentives of $250 to sign up for Digital ID.

Here we go!

https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/cash-for-digital-id

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Perhaps there is an additional possibility:

If users are shown two identical posts, they might favor responding to the last one, or the one which already have received most responses. The latter option would be a reinforcing engagement.


I see both 'hello world' posts and I'm using Amethyst.


I see both 'hello world posts' and I'm using Amethyst.


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

—Hemingway


😄😂

Credit - @TatsuyaIshida9

#Memes #Woke #Wokeness #Saruman #Rainbow #LOTR #LordOfTheRings

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😄😂

#Memes #Woke #Wokeness #Saruman #Rainbow #LOTR #LordOfTheRings

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Agreed. An account as an umbrella term can cover pretty much anything where you have a persistent identity. It is a more familiar term to most people; switching between accounts vs switching between public keys.


Agreed. An account as an umbrella term can cover much anything where you have a persistent identity. It is a more familiar term to most people; switching between accounts vs switching between public keys.


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#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 835,277 🤙💜


We should call inflation what it really is: fiat failure.

5% inflation?

Thats 5% fiat failure.


I don’t trust, I verify.

During Covid - I didn’t trust. I verified.
Because of what I found out, I suspended my trust in many things I believed were ‘truth’, till I verified.

It meant I had to admit I was wrong or manipulated.

It was a lesson in humbleness.

I then found the perfect money. One that doesn’t require me to trust. Just verify.

#Bitcoin


Congrats!


Great writeup, thanks for sharing.