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2024-09-09 06:06:51

Today we celebrate Arminius, the rebel.
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On the 9th of September in 9 AD, he led a coalition of Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg ForestTeutoburg Forest against three Roman legions.
It was David's fight against Goliath, and in just three or four days, Arminius and his men dealt the Romans such a blow that the empire was forced to give up its ambitions to rule the Germanic people.
Arminius was born around 18 BC into the Cherusci tribe.
The Cherusci were an early Germanic tribe inhabiting northwestern Germany during the first centuries BC and AD.
They are noted for their strong inclination towards peace, which, as described by Roman sources, sometimes led to their downfall.
This was viewed as self-deception in a region populated by more aggressive neighbors, resulting in the Cherusci being labeled as cowards by their adversaries, like the Chatti, who were more martial in nature.
Arminius' family was part of the tribal nobility.
At this time, it was common that the Roman empire held young nobles from conquered or allied territories hostage to serve as leverage against their home tribes.
Arminius was therefore sent to Rome to serve as a hostage during his youth.
He received a thorough education.
This was part of the empire's strategy to integrate and assimilate elites from conquered regions.
Arminius was granted Roman citizenship, a significant honor.
He was also given the equestrian rank, which was a social class just below the senatorial order, indicating his high status within the Roman system.
Upon reaching adulthood, Arminius received a thorough military training and became an officer in the auxiliary forces.
Auxiliaries were non-citizen troops from the provinces who served alongside Roman legions.
These units were often used for frontier defense and were crucial in Roman military strategy due to their local knowledge and combat skills.
Arminius's service likely included campaigns against other Germanic tribes or other threats to the Roman Empire's northern borders.
His role would have given him firsthand experience with Roman military tactics, organization, and discipline.
Around 7 AD, Arminius returned to Germania, serving under Publius Quinctilius Varus, the Roman governor of Germania.
His position allowed him to gain Varus's trust.
While serving Rome, Arminius secretly began to organize a coalition of Germanic tribes.
His skills in organizing and leading the Germanic tribes were remarkable.
They were often at odds with each other, but Arminius, who was a charismatic leader, managed to forge a coalition.
He had to handle the egos and ambitions of various tribal leaders, and his diplomatic skills were essential in maintaining unity among tribes like the Cherusci, Marsi, Chatti, and Bructeri.
His own background as a Cheruscan noble who had served in the Roman military gave him credibility both among his own people and with other tribes.
Arminus effectively communicated the common threat posed by Roman expansion, rallying the tribes under the banner of freedom from Roman rule.
This shared goal was crucial in overcoming tribal rivalries.
Organizing a large-scale attack on the Romans required foresight and patience.
Arminius spent time building alliances and planning the logistics, ensuring that the tribes could strike when the Romans were least prepared.
He chose the battlefield wisely.
The Romans typically fought in organized formations like the testudo (tortoise) or in legionary lines.
The dense forest and marshy terrain of the Teutoburg Forest negated the Roman advantages in open battle formations and heavy infantry.
Under the pretense of leading Varus to quell a local uprising, Arminius lured Varus and his three legions (Legio XVII, Legio XVIII, and Legio XIX) into the Teutoburg Forest.
The route was narrow, with dense woods and marshes.
The weather was awful, with rain and storms.
The Romans were totally unprepared for battle, when the attacks started around September 9.
The first assault came suddenly, with Germanic warriors attacking from all directions.
The combination of terrain and terrible weather conditions made it almost impossible for the them to maintain anything resembling their preferred formations.
Over the next few days, the Romans attempted to march through the forest, but they were continuously harassed by Germanic warriors.
The Germans used hit-and-run tactics, attacking, then retreating into the forest.
They attacked from cover, using javelins, arrows, and engaged in close combat when advantageous.
As the Romans tried to push through, they were funneled into even narrower paths where they were easier targets.
The Germans also blocked paths with felled trees.
The continuous attacks, combined with the depressing weather conditions, led to exhaustion and demoralization among the Romans.
Constant harassment and the inability of the Romans to form effective battle lines, wore down the Roman's morale.
On what is believed to be the third or fourth day, on the September 11 or 12, the Romans attempted to fortify a position, but they were overwhelmed.
Varus, seeing the inevitable defeat, took his own life.
Around 15,000 to 20,000 Roman legionaries were killed.
Additionally, there were significant losses among auxiliaries and camp followers, possibly bringing the total Roman and allied casualties to around 25,000 to 30,000.
It's generally believed that the Germanic losses only were in the range of a few thousand.
The legions' eagles, symbols of Roman military honor, were captured.
The defeat shocked Rome.
Emperor Augustus is said to have wandered around his palace, banging his head against the walls, crying "Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!"
The loss was not just military but also a significant blow to Roman morale and expansionist ambitions in Germania.
Rome abandoned its plans to conquer and directly administer the Germanic territories east of the Rhine.
The frontier was stabilized along the Rhine and Danube rivers, marking a significant shift in Roman imperial policy.
The victory boosted the morale and unity among various Germanic tribes.
Arminius's success in organizing the tribes wasn't just about military strategy; it was a blend of political acumen, cultural understanding, and personal charisma.
His ability to turn a collection of often-warring tribes into a cohesive force against a formidable enemy like Rome makes his achievement particularly noteworthy.
But it was Arminius' rebellion against a state that held him as hostage from he was a young boy and which tried to brainwash him and turn him against his own people, that should impress us the most.

2024-09-07 10:38:25

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😁

2024-09-07 06:21:31

The laws of economics dictate that
- what you tax, you get less of
- what you subsidize, you get more of
Experience and logics tell us that people get fewer children in urban areas than in the countryside.
Furthermore, families are the only institutions that produce children.
Do you agree with me so far?
Grok estimates that the EU's average fertility rate in 1960 was approximately 2.59 births per woman.
The EU’s average fertility rate is now 1.46
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This is a reduction of 77 per cent.
Grok estimates that the public sector's spending as a share of GDP for the five major EU economies between 1960 and 2022 likely has grown by at least 50% to 100%.
By other words, in this period we have seen a shift of economic wealth from the private sector to the public sector comparable to the average reduction in the birth rates.
My best guess is that it's here we find the main explanation.
Shifting of wealth from the private to the public sector is shifting of wealth from those who produce kids to institutions which produce bureaucracies.
What you tax (people), you get less of.
What you subsidize (public sector), you get more of.
And bureaucracies typically grow the most in urban areas, where people traditionally prefer to have fewer children than in the countryside.
In conclusion, less production of kids is a result of the growth of the public sector, which mainly consists of institutions in urban areas that produce bureaucracies instead of kids.
A socialist society is parasitic of nature, and the parasite in the end always runs out of hosts.

2024-09-04 06:29:37

I turn 52 today 🥳
As a gift to myself I want to share the following with you:
We are smack in the middle of a war of ideas, and I'll tell you why this is good.
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The battle is between us - the people - and the political class.
And winning requires that we constantly learn new, actionable ideas.
However, this isn't just an imperative.
Once we throw ourselves into the battle, we develop a passion for it.
You may have experienced it yourself:
Meeting new people and sharing and developing new ideas together with them is wonderful.
You discover that when positive, creative people get together, 1 + 1 is never 2.
When we meet, physically or digitally or we just read each others' writings, we often identify ideas that the other person didn't have before, enabling us to create new knowledge and more understanding together.
And sometimes, when you and I combine our ideas, we develop things that the world hasn't seen or heard before.
It might not be a gigantic innovation, and normally it's just a very, very small thing.
But it's our joint appreciation of the process itself that is so immensely rewarding.
Because we realize that 1 + 1 in the social and intellectual domain more often than not is 3, 10, 1000 a million or more.
Magical is the only way to describe this process, which is reserved to us alone, the humankind.
When this happens, you also realize that there isn't any limit to what we can achieve with more knowledge and understanding.
Immersing me in this form of social interaction gives me a constant dopamin rush.
I'm addicted.
Don't you ever force me into rehab.
Have a nice day ❤️

2024-09-03 05:28:12

GM!
I woke up at the age of 30, when I finally started reading non-fiction books of my own choice, instead of the books that the school and university obliged me to read.
When did you wake up and why?
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2024-09-01 16:57:20

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The idea that human beings by nature are wicked is the mother of all evil.
The first offspring you get from this concept is the idea that we need a state, because we are rabid beasts bound to kill each other if nobody gets a monopoly on the use of violence.
The next offspring is deception in the form of a monopoly on money production, in past times argued to be "necessary to promote trade," nowadays argued to be necessary because "we need some inflation to grease the wheels of the economy."
Once the monopoly in money production has been put into place, the state can create money out of nothing and thus be in a position where it always can win the competition for all sorts of scarce resources, including bread, brains and bullets.
People who disagree with me on this should read Hobbe's Leviathan and the writings of most of today's academics within the social sciences - then ask themselves who these court scribblers have inspired.
When the three aforementioned evil ideas
1. man is by nature wicked
2. someone must have a monopoly on use of violence
3. this someone must have a monopoly on production of money
are allowed to dictate the evolution of the social order, everything that happens to be positive for the citizenry is in view of the de facto rulers either just a necessity for staying in or increasing power or an unintended and unfortunate consequence.
Therefore, it's utterly foolish NOT to expect that it's a decently high probability that all politics, including elections, imply some level of "rigging," or should we say, neverending "stacking" of cards in favor of the political class and against the citizenry.
Everything else within the domain of political science, economics and sociology is in my opinion details of minimal importance.
In conclusion:
It's the idea that humankind by nature is wicked that we must cleans out of people's hearts and minds..
To achieve this we must come up with a superior idea.
And the only superior idea is that human beings are by nature kind, and that it's bad incentive structures put in place by someone posing as 'protectors' that make people act badly.

2024-09-01 05:52:39

Isn't it funny, that IDEAS is a resource that become more valuable the more you share them?
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2024-08-31 10:25:08

We have a part of the population called THE YOUTH who I suspect in the future will hate journalists, editors and politicians for what they did:
Stealing the kids' future.

2024-08-31 07:55:19

Action needed.
Watch this video about what and who is behind Brazil's criminalization of the X users (the US government and their NGO puppets, no surprise there.)
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1829630737911595453?t=qgbWuRJd6HZRBUIPbc0qbw&s=19
The globalist political "elite" blob seems desperate.
Therefore, make sure to promote Nostr on X, so that people have an information and communication escape hatch, for instance when the EU ramps up its efforts to stop Elon.

2024-08-30 09:55:46

A note on taxation.
Historically, how much were slaves allowed to keep of the fruits of their labour?
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News came yesterday of an analysis of the average tax burden in Norway, including tax on income, wealth, VAT and more.
Excluding a few other taxes that we must pay, the answer was 67%.
I figure, if you include all of the special taxes and the 19 months of military conscription (which effectively is almost 100% tax), the result should be closer to 80%.
I'll link to it in a comment (it's in Norwegian).
To get a feeling of how that compares to traditional slavery I asked Grok a question and the answer was illuminating:
My question:
Approximately how big a share of the fruits of their labour have masters let slaves keep throughout history. Give 10 examples, beginning with ancient egypt and ending with something from the united states in the 19th century
Grok's answer
"Determining the exact share of the fruits of labor that slaves retained throughout history is challenging due to the variability in slave systems, the nature of records, and the differences in what was considered "fruits of labor" across different cultures and eras. However, based on historical practices and the information available up to 2024, here are approximate insights into how much slaves might have retained from their labor, focusing on examples from Ancient Egypt through to the 19th century United States:
Ancient Egypt: While slaves existed in Ancient Egypt, the concept of "wages" or retained labor fruits was not as straightforward as in later societies. Slaves could be given land, food, or other forms of compensation, but this was more about sustenance than profit-sharing. Some slaves, especially those with skills or in high demand, might have been allowed to keep a small portion of their earnings or goods, but this was likely minimal, perhaps around 5-10% in modern terms if we were to quantify it.
Classical Greece (Athens): Skilled slaves, like those in the Laurion silver mines or domestic slaves, could earn money through their skills. Some were allowed to keep a portion of their earnings, which might have been around 10-20% of their labor's value, especially if they were involved in commerce or skilled crafts.
Roman Empire: Roman slaves could buy their freedom or were sometimes granted freedom with a portion of their earnings retained. This might equate to around 15-25% of their labor's value, especially for those in urban settings or skilled trades.
Medieval Europe: Serfs, while not slaves in the classical sense, were bound to the land. They might retain around 30-40% of their produce or labor value, but this was more about survival than profit.
Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid Caliphate): Slaves, particularly those with skills or administrative roles, could sometimes retain a portion of their earnings, possibly around 20-30%, especially if they were involved in trade or crafts.
Medieval Islamic World (Mamluks in Egypt): Mamluk slaves, who were military slaves, were not typical in that they could rise to significant power. While not directly applicable to economic fruits, their eventual control over resources might be seen as retaining a significant share, though not in the initial stages of their service.
Renaissance Italy (Venice): Slaves in Venice, often domestic or involved in maritime activities, might retain very little, perhaps 5-10% of their labor's value, as their primary function was service rather than production for profit.
Colonial Latin America: In places like Brazil or the Caribbean, slaves might have been allowed to cultivate their plots or engage in petty trade. This could mean retaining around 10-20% of their labor's value, though this was often more about survival than wealth accumulation.
British Caribbean: Slaves in sugar plantations had harsh conditions with little to no share in the fruits of their labor. However, some could engage in small-scale farming or trade on Sundays, potentially retaining around 5-10% of their labor's value.
19th Century United States: In the U.S., slaves might have been allowed to keep small gardens or engage in minor trade, but their share of the actual labor fruits was minimal, often less than 5%. However, some slaves, especially in urban areas or those with skills like blacksmithing, could earn money on the side, which might be considered as retaining up to 10-15% of their labor's value if we include such earnings.
These percentages are highly speculative and based on general historical practices rather than precise data. The concept of "retaining fruits of labor" varies widely by the type of slavery, the economic system of the time, and the specific roles slaves performed. Moreover, these figures do not account for the inherent exploitation and the fact that slaves were not legally entitled to their labor's value in most systems."
End note from me:
It's not much that separates an average Norwegian tax payer and a slave in terms of how much we are allowed to keep.
Arguing about the difference is IMO largely arguing about semantics.
You may counter that it's more precise to call us serfs.
Whatever floats your boat, I say.
But it still begs the question?
When do the riots start?

2024-08-28 15:22:34

Topic: Bitcoin price discovery
More and more #bitcoin is taken off exchanges, but nonetheless the crab market continues to keep poking bitcoiners in the eye.
I asked Grok:
"If we ignore bitcoin futures trading, is it possible that trading of "paper bitcoin" on crypto exchanges has such volume that it affects the bitcoin spot price?"
Grok's conclusive remarks were:
"The sentiment from posts on X and broader market analysis suggests that while spot ETFs and direct ownership of Bitcoin are significant, the derivatives market's volume and its impact on price cannot be understated. This indicates that even without considering futures, the trading volume of what might be colloquially termed "paper Bitcoin" on crypto exchanges could indeed affect the Bitcoin spot price through mechanisms like sentiment, arbitrage, and leveraged trading. However, the exact extent of this influence would require detailed market data analysis beyond what's typically available in public discussions or general insights from X posts."
Comments?
Excluding futures, can trading of "paper bitcoin" negatively affect bitcoin price discovery in theory or practice?

2024-08-27 16:35:49

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Had to look up what that means 😁
Yes, true, but that makes you a macker!
(Yes, I had to use AI to find a good slang word 😁)

2024-08-26 17:11:28

Short note on intellectual property (IP) policy:
Up until the 20th century, the U.S. government had lax enforcement of IP, particularly concerning foreign creators.
The legal framework allowed for the widespread piracy of foreign works, as the 1790 Copyright Act explicitly excluded protections for non-US authors.
This led to rampant appropriation of foreign designs and publications, with little consequence for infringers, as the government prioritized domestic interests over foreign IP rights.
Officials believed that strong IP protections would mainly benefit foreign creators, raising costs for domestic consumers and hindering local innovation.
The prevailing view was that the U.S. economy needed to develop its own capabilities through imitation before it could afford to protect foreign IP rights.
This perspective was influenced by a "frontier culture" that prioritized individualism and innovation over strict adherence to IP laws.
Calls for better protection from figures like Charles Dickens largely went unheeded, reflecting a broader culture of IP violation during this period.
The US changed its position dramatically in the 20th century, when itself became the strongest economic nation in the world.
While many developing nations, including India, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, resisted stringent IP standards, and argued IP favored developed countries at the expense developing countries, Uncle Sam, the former pirate protector, became the world's most aggressive enforcer of IP, pressuring developing countries with the use of trade sanctions.

2024-08-25 14:51:37

Is it possible that Elon's algos try to NPCize us on X?
Has he given in to political pressure?
I'm being heavily deamped at the moment, no doubt about it.
Nostr seems to be the future

2024-08-24 11:21:50

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🙏
No, haven't it's been on my list a long time now

2024-08-24 11:16:11

Are you in search of uplifting ideas?
Rutger Bregman’s *Humankind: A Hopeful History* is a fantastic starting point to escape the doom and gloom mindset.
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He argues that humans are inherently kind and cooperative, challenging the belief in our selfish nature.
Isn't that a breath of fresh air?
And you can trust him, because Bregman supports his claims with scientific evidence, philosophical insights, and compelling historical anecdotes.
He also critiques several famous psychological experiments, like the Milgram study, revealing design flaws that undermine their conclusions about human behavior.
He suggests that kindness is contagious, much like fear, and that expecting the best in others inspires positive actions.
Bregman emphasizes that our ability to learn from one another's kindness is vital for societal progress.
If he had integrated in his thesis an analysis of how different monetary systems shape our incentives, his arguments could have been even more powerful, and that's why we pick up on this when we continue our own journey of creating new books.
Anyway, I highly recommend ordering *Humankind* now, it will definitely give you a very positive boost!

2024-08-22 20:07:18

Bitcoiners, check this out:
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***
INT stands for "introvert," "intuitive," and "thinking."
Only 5.4% of the general population belong to these two types, but they make up over half of bitcoiners.
Architects, strategists, and inventors with an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
SFJ stands for "sensing," "feeling," and "judging."
These two types make up 25% of the general population, and almost none of them are bitcoiners.
They are helpful, self-sacrificing protectors with great care.
Probably a bit of pseudoscience, but fun nonetheless.
***
(Machine translation of Lektor Thaulow's post below, h/t to you, hope you join us here on Nostr soon)
#Bitcoin

2024-08-21 19:51:41

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Thx for the feedback (I mean it)

2024-08-20 17:08:48

Do you know Niccolo Machiavelli?
You've probably heard about his book "The Prince."
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But you likely didn't read it.
Because you were discusted by the idea of him writing a manual for tyrants, am I not correct?
That's at least why I didn't read it.
Today I learned that there is "strong evidence" indicating that Niccolo wrote it to get his old job back.
Well, that makes exactly zero sense to me.
When the Medicis reclaimed their power in 1512 he had been a long-time civil servant of the City of Florence.
The Medicis suspected him of conspiracy, imprisoned and tortured him, before they sent him into exile.
In Il Principe he wrote a value-free description of how a wise prince rules his people.
It was based on first-hand observations of the rulers of Florence and other states as well as on indepth inspection of historical accounts.
IMO the book puts at full display the way rulers treat us underlings, for everyone to see.
Niccolo initially dedicated the book to Giuliano de' Medici, Lorenzo's uncle.
After Giuliano's death in 1516, he rededicated it to Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici.
He supposedly wrote "The Prince" as a "token of devotion" to the Medici family.
Niccolo made efforts to have the Medici family see and read "The Prince," but there's no clear evidence that they did so during his lifetime.
If he did this to receive employment at the House of Medicis he must have been a complete moron.
But his writings don't indicate that he was.
Far from it.
If the Medicis did read Il Principe they probably hated him even more than they had done before.
Because publishing it could have been a disaster for them.
The book first became available five years after Niccolo passed away.
I gave AI two tasks today, to tell me about his teaching of using 1) deception and 2) religion as political instruments.
Below you can read the answers.
After you have read them you may ask yourself if Machiavelli's recipes makes sense when you try to wrap your head around today's politics in your beloved representative democracies.
Enjoy!
1) Give me a brief summary about what Machiavelli says about why and how a ruler should deceive his people.
AI says:
Machiavelli argues that a ruler should be willing to deceive his people when necessary to maintain power and achieve his goals.
He believes it is better for a prince to be feared than loved, as fear is more reliable.
Machiavelli advises rulers to cultivate an appearance of virtue and morality, while being prepared to act against those virtues when required.
He states that "people are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that anyone who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived".
According to Machiavelli, rulers should use deception strategically to:
• Maintain their authority and power
• Manipulate public perception
• Outmaneuver rivals and enemies
• Achieve political objectives
However, he cautions that a ruler must be careful not to be hated, as this could lead to rebellion.
The key is to use deception judiciously while maintaining an outward appearance of virtue and strength
2) Give me a brief summary about what Machiavelli says about why and how a ruler should use religion in his politics.
AI says:
Machiavelli viewed religion primarily as a practical tool for rulers to maintain power and control over their subjects.
Here's a brief summary of his key points:
• Religion as a unifying force: Machiavelli believed religion could be used to unite people and garner support for the ruler.
• Maintaining stability: Religious traditions provide a sense of predictability and control, helping to keep society stable.
• Controlling the populace: By respecting and protecting religious practices, rulers can instill fear of disobedience and promise rewards in the afterlife for compliance.
• Appearance of piety: Machiavelli advised rulers to appear religious and virtuous outwardly, even if they weren't genuinely devout.
• Legitimizing authority: Religion could be used to make a ruler's actions seem divinely sanctioned, even if they were harsh or unjust.
• Spectacle and ritual: Religious ceremonies and displays could be used to reinforce the ruler's power and intimidate potential dissenters.
• Instilling virtues: Machiavelli saw religion as a means to cultivate desirable qualities in citizens.
In essence, Machiavelli advocated for a pragmatic approach to religion in politics, viewing it as a powerful tool for maintaining authority rather than a moral imperative.
If you want to join my quest for answers, feel free to hit the like, share and follow buttons.

2024-08-20 05:21:48

For those who want to dive deep into the beef vs. vegetable land-use discussion.
"I concluded that this pissing contest between beef (or any meat, milk, egg, and fibre) production and “vegan food” production is nonsense, irrelevant, and a huge waste of time.
And perhaps, it’s the “vegan food” production that is causing the greatest amount of damage this world has ever seen."
https://praisetheruminant.com/ruminations/the-beef-vs-vegetable-land-use-argument-breaking-down-the-numbers

2024-08-17 17:55:44

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I'm all ears

2024-08-17 16:31:00

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Well put.
What can reignite the people's interest in ideas?

2024-08-17 16:19:35

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It's a battle of ideas, and people seem to have forgot what ideas are and how valuable the best ideas are.

2024-08-17 15:41:38

The Europen political class
is
losing
Ukraine
US backing
the climate scare
their covid 19 narrative
wreckless immigration policy
takes it out on their peoples with sick censorships and cruelty
And the people of Europe?
Most watch passively.
Some complain a bit.
Free rider thinking.
Slave mentality.
Cowardism.
No honour.
Lazy.
Ugh.
0.
Time to wake up the lions.

2024-08-15 19:10:24

It's impossible for me to comprehend how people who read Marxist litterature end up being Marxists.

2024-08-15 17:06:38

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2024-08-15 10:49:06

Most underrated book
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2024-08-13 15:39:50

Question:
What's the main reason why people don't revolt against their rulers more often?
Wrong answer:
The people don't understand their situation or the odds, or lack other important information
Correcr answer:
The free rider problem. Freedom fighters see that they take all the risks, while most people just piggyback on them.
What are you?
A freedom fighter?
Or a free rider?

2024-08-13 13:25:35

The best vaccine
against understanding
Bitcoin
is going
all in on a
Shitcoin

2024-08-13 08:24:58

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Give it to me

2024-08-13 04:58:08

What do IP and monetary monopoly have in common?

2024-08-13 04:55:18

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Great post, thx.

2024-08-12 07:23:55

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If AI came before Bitcoin it could all have gone to hell in a handbasket

2024-08-11 19:24:00

Is the Game of Reality worse than the Matrix?

2024-08-11 13:36:54

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Fear and greed

2024-08-11 07:57:38

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2024-08-02 08:26:05

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And Trump/Kennedy understanding better the Bitcoin / dollar relationship

2024-08-02 08:24:46

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Yes, having lost the Ukraine war

2024-08-02 07:03:57

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I don't think the US wants wars that it has to finance itself

2024-08-02 06:45:14

US debt has come a major break on further aggession:
- US economics sanction war
- US financed military war
may trigger USD hyperinflation, which is a much too chaotic situation for the ruling elite, I don't think they will risk it.
Their option is to make other countries fight military and economic wars, as this will push capital and talent towards the US, especilly if the US embraces #Bitcoin while other nation's leaders continue to hate Bitcoin.
That's the play, dear friends.
The US is still the most important tool in the tool box that the super wealthy have.
"Conspiracy theorist!" you shout?
Well, if so, explain to me how the heck one per cent of the population ended up owning half of the world's wealth, and how the American one-percenters increased their wealth by 40% in just two years, 2020-2022, while the rest were slayed economically during and immediately after?
Not an accident, that's my view.
Planned?
Unsure.
More likely a natural outcome of modern history's worshiping of the God known as centralization.

2024-07-25 13:42:32

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Crisis would cause less demand, lower price

2024-07-25 09:32:27

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They look at the big picture. Reducing demand reduces price increases reduces price spikes reduces signal to people that they should buy more

2024-07-24 12:22:31

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Many options. Force someone to sell (Germany), financial market crash, war, virus, emergency measures, cause fair and uncertainty, gaslighting

2024-07-20 21:14:14

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Great, thx!

2024-07-20 20:52:21

Monetary policy and its effect on distribution of wealth and power.
If you want to understand the policy of inflation, which only can result from someone having a monopoly on production of money, you must understand compound interest, both negative and positive compound interest.
Below I give you an example that makes you realize in no time how pronounced the effect is for the ruling class that understands and enjoys the monopoly vs. the rest of the society, us mere subjects, who are largely ignorant to the effect of the policy, but who pay the price for it.
Here we go:
Imagine that we have a nation called Clownesia, and that Mr. Pennywise has succeeded in becoming the nation's tyrannical ruler.
He has monopolized the production of money and declared the following:
1. Everyone must accept Clown Dollars (CDs) as payment (legal tender)
2. All taxes must be paid with CD
3. The total stock of CD shall increase at an average rate of 7% per year
4. Only Pennywise is allowed to own gold
5. Pennywise has the right to be the first user of the newly issued money
Rule No. 1 and 2 are in effect in almost all nation states today.
Rule No. 3 is the same as a typical rate of expansion of the stock of money in a western country today, for instance in Norway and USA in the 20 year period 2002-2022.
Rule No. 4 is the same as Executive Order 6102, signed on April 5, 1933, by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which forbid private ownership of gold.
Rule No. 5 is different from traditional monetary policy, where our governments in their wisdom have let private banks have the privilege of being the producers and first users of money.
In practical terms the difference is small, because banks and governments have probably been bedmates since long before the governments awarded them this profitable monopoly.
Now let's say that Pennywise today shares the title "richest man in Clownesia" with one of his subjects, let's call him Blow Jiden.
Both of them own a fortune estimated at 1 trillion CD, which coincidentally equals the total money supply today in Clownesia.
Pennywise hates Jiden, especially because the latter earned much of his fortune when he was president of Clownesia (before Pennywise came to power) due to selling top secret information to foreign governments.
Jiden unfortunately for him now suffers from dementia, and has forgotten how inflation works.
As a consequence, he has parked all of his wealth in a checking account that yields zero interest.
Pennywise, who's only shortcoming is being extremely evil and who doesn't at all suffer from cognitive issues, keeps all of his wealth, as well as the proceeds he gets from issuing more CD, in solid gold.
(He has read economic history, and knows that gold for thousands of years has kept a stable value.)
Now, here comes the question I want you to ponder:
How fast will Pennywise's wealth outpace Jiden's wealth?
I gave you a hint when I previously mentioned that you must understand the effect of compound interest if you want to understand the effect of monetary policy.
At the rate of 7% increase of the money supply, Pennywise doubles the money supply in about 10 years.
Thererefore he also doubles his wealth.
(You can google "The Rule of 72" if you want to check my math.
This rule is an easy way to calculate how long it's going to take for your money to double.)
As you understand, Pennywise enjoys the benefit of POSITIVE compound interest.
But what about poor demented Jiden?
He sees his wealth being cut by 50% in this 10 year timeframe.
The reason is that the doubling of the money supply cuts the value of each CD he owns in half.
(Again, you can use The Rule of 72 if you want to check my calculation.)
This is the same effect that you get when you double the amount of water you mix into your lemonade.
Jiden's wealth loses value due the effect of NEGATIVE compound interest.
However, my precise question was:
"How fast will Pennywise's wealth outpace Jiden's wealth?"
And the answer, since over the course of 10 years the former doubles his wealth while the latter's wealth is cut in half, the pace is 4:1 in 10 years.
After 20 years, Pennywise's wealth is 8 times Jiden's wealth.
And after 30 years, it's 16 times larger, after 40 years the ratio is 32, and so forth.
I have resorted to simplification to drive home my point.
For instance, few people people have all of their money in zero interest checking accounts.
But I have also left out the effect inflation has on people's tax burdens.
As one example, when people pay capital gains tax, they don't get any deduction of stock price appreciation caused by expansion of the money supply (meaning - we pay tax on inflation) which amplifies the rulers' benefit from the monetary monopoly.
To conclude:
This example demonstrates why the parasitical class is hellbent on keeping you in the dark about the potency of the monetary policy.
No other ordinary policy instruments come close to ensuring rapid centralization of wealth and power.
Therefore, I think you should support abolishing the current monetary monopoly.
You would also be well advised to learn more about the historical role of gold, as well as familiarizing yourself with #Bitcoin.
Thank you for reading.
If you enjoyed this thread, please hit the like, share and follow buttons and join me in the fight against abuse of political power.
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2024-07-18 22:55:07

It feels like 1989.
What happens when people find out that our wall isn't made by concrete, as it only exists in our heads? https://image.nostr.build/a48cb5e7cbc912d00d12b0a04874484c9d96238c136ff0f4b50b2a05ab8fec21.jpg

2024-07-12 15:58:58

In war and peace, the biggest price the political elite can win, is the right to produce money that people must use.
Once it has been achieved, they will deceive, intimidate, maim and kill to keep their precious privilege.
#RebelUp
#Bitcoin

2024-07-05 15:59:40

The Covid-19 sin bin:
I'm deeply sorry that I didn't wholeheartedly support the small minority who were brave enough to protest the authorities' handling of Covid-19.
I let the rebels down.
I'm particularly ashamed, because as a lawyer, when I got my diploma, like all other Norwegian lawyers, I solemny had to promise I would go out and promote justice and prevent injustice.
I failed this duty miserably.
When we today see the very serious consequences of the authorities' abuse of power, with disproportionate and arbitrary lockdowns and distance regulations, in many cases mandatory vaccinations and various other harmful interventions in our freedom of movement and privacy, I just want to say that I now understand how much I'm to blame because I didn't protest openly and loudly.
Many of those who objected against the policies are bruised and battered and still have challenges in their lives due to the lack of support from their peers and the way they were treated by the rest of society.
I'll do everything to ensure that I don't make the same mistake in the future.
I'm writing this because today's postmodern society is affected by a virus that is very dangerous indeed - the fear of losing face and looking weak if one admits mistakes.
If we're to move forward in this process and succeed in forcing the authorities to put all the cards on the table, I think we must start with ourselves and acknowledge our own mistakes.
Therefore, feel free to write your own apology in the comments below, like and share, and then perhaps we can hope that many others do the same.
Thank you for your contribution.
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2024-07-02 10:18:39

Truth is the brightest light - keep fighting!

2024-06-30 10:38:41

Does Nostr have something equivalent of spaces?

2024-06-30 03:43:21

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Explain to me why you think I can trust this database pls

2024-06-29 20:44:45

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Sure?

2024-06-29 20:00:06

🚨
50 % excess mortality in age group 1-39 in Norway, as reported today by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.
https://www.nrk.no/buskerud/flere-unge-dode-av-sykdom_-forskere-slar-alarm-1.16926584

2024-06-23 19:39:32

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2024-06-23 07:50:09

My journey in understanding monetary policy:
In the beginning my focus was on the abuse of the monetary system by inflating the money supply that caught my attention. It drew my gaze to the Cantillon effect, which I probably spent too much time on mansplaining to others.
Second, it was the abuse by deflating the money supply that stole my focus, especially the incredibly harmful parity policy of several European governments in the 1920s, and the way the banking elite of the UK and the US exploited this in a highly elaborate scheme carried out by Benjamin Strong and Montagu Norman.
Third, I realized how many ways a monetary monopoly enabled channelization of newly created money to various favoured players. It really enables both targeted amd full-scale corruption of society.
The fourth step was understanding the significance of someone being in a position to profit from creating money that the rest of us must work for. When you look deeply into this simple fact, you really see that the Cantillon effect is of secondary importance.
And finally, fifth, after having understood better the motives for the killing of Jesus (see attached post,) I realized it was the monopolization of the monetary system itself that was the most important thing to focus the most on, because it opens up so many opportunities for the ruler to control people's behavior and extract wealth from them.
Looking back, it feels like I have been wrestling with an onion, but I see more clearly now, that the main focus has to be on the simple question of monetary monopoly vs. monetary freedom, something which luckily is reflected in all of my books on money.
If we in the public debate can focus on this core subject, monetary monopoly vs. monetary freedom, instead of just talking about the symptoms, such as for instance price increases, I believe it will be easier to win over more people in our fight against the political elite.
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2024-06-19 11:31:59

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Yes, that's the phobia. Never done it. Live presentations is something I've done a ton of. Recording and posting a video of myself has been something I felt very uncomfortable about

2024-06-19 10:09:42

Yesterday I decided to kill another phobia. For long I've had plans to share short videos of me saying something wise or funny or stupid or boring, whatever comes to my mind. But I haven't had the courage, until now. This one 👇 is my first, and it's about #Bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/4d75e1627d1a52341a84337c3f5c6537744fd3ffe285a129783ec423bc469772.mp4 . Which phobia do you plan to kill today?

2024-06-17 18:16:17

This is huge 🔥🔥🔥
Deichman is Norway's largest and oldest public library, and now they have published a review of our book UNBAR, where they say:
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We recommend UNBAR
This book is a nightmare for those who print your money.
Authentic, engaging and unique book about monetary policy, the threats of globalization and the problems with monetary monopoly.
The idealism is not only refreshing, but also necessary: because you've probably never seen someone expose one of our most basic systems so naked.
The synthesis is so fundamental that you are left gaping on behalf of your own civilization. https://image.nostr.build/0cb940e8f52991ad8bc336015a2068286fb96a7fbb9c1c02e77e376440ec79a4.jpg

2024-05-20 13:42:29

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I haven't seen this type of request before, where can I read the proposal before I decide if I want to accept it?

2024-05-20 06:50:22

People will desparately look for guidance, and in the end all of them will discover the incredible strength of the social layer of #Bitcoin  

2024-05-07 12:59:52

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Nothing is lost, man up, and stop spreading that kind of BS. We have given away our countries to a political class, but the fight isn't over, it's time to take it back.

2024-05-06 18:43:57

Upping my game
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2024-04-27 14:36:12

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Probably Athens were first, som 2400 yrs ago. And lot's of stuff goin on now, I hope the resistance grows quickly

2024-04-09 10:13:10

The monetary system is the most powerful and beautiful social network that humankind has witnessed.

2024-04-07 21:36:30

Not copper. Red.
I believe that Bitcoiners have a special relationship with the concept we refer to as "truth."
I'm not saying that we are more honest than others.
But we appreciate more than most others being able to verify the correctness of something.
For instance, we like the fact that everyone can verify the software code as well as each and every transaction.
Nothing is hidden.
Everything is in the open.
We value that we don't have to trust someone who says that "Everything is A-OK."
It's possible for everyone to check things out, without having to ask anyone for permission.
I have had the same fascination with the concept of truth as long as I can remember.
Like my father, I have also always been curious about how things work.
He had an amazing talent for understanding technologies.
My grandmother once told me a wonderful story from when he was a kid.
I think he was 12-13 years old.
He sat by the kitchen table and picked apart a mechanical sleep alarm clock, while he carefully studied how the pieces functioned together.
After he had taken it all apart, he patiently reassembled it.
It must have been very satisfactory for him to wind it up and hear the ticking.
The final test was the alarm bell.
"Ring ring ring!"
It worked perfectly.
My father had verified the truth about how the alarm clock worked.
In the 1980s he became a computer engineer.
I remember him sitting for hours in front of his PC, and how he used to fill up all empty spaces in the basement and his home office with all kinds of computer hardware.
He passed away much too early due to cancer in 2011.
Although I didn't inherit my father's understanding of technology, I got the same passion for diving deep into things, into the very core, and for understanding how things worked.
Social subjects and books have been two of my main interests, which is something I have from my mother.
She has always questioned things, and I'm exactly the same.
I discovered at a very young age how important it is to accept the truth.
I went to kindergarten from I was about two or thee years old.
When I was four, I was moved out of the unit with the small kids and to the unit with the big kids.
Some of the older kids started bullying me.
They shouted:
“Rune has red hair, Rune has red hair.”
The people who worked there were unable to help me.
So, I found myself in a hopeless, prison-like situation.
I complained to my mother, and told her that I wouldn’t go there anymore.
She tried to comfort me, and said:
“It isn’t true what those kids say. You don't have red hair, it's copper brown, and it's beautiful."
The only problem was, this couldn't solve a damn thing with the bullying.
And of course, it didn't.
The day after, I went to the kindergarten as usual, and the bullies pushed on.
It's quite possible that I tried to yell back at them:
"It's not red, it's copper brown!"
If I did, it probably just made things worse, because it would be a confirmation to them that their bullying had the intended effect on me.
However, something must have clicked inside me that day.
When I came home, I met my mother in the entrance.
I ripped the beanie off my head, and shouted angrily to her:
“No, mama, look at this! It’s true - my hair is red - just see for yourself!"
When I came back to the kindergarten the next day, I had accepted my faith.
They had blond, brown or black hair.
My hair was red.
These were facts, nothing more.
They noticed that I suddenly was OK with it.
And then they lost all interest in bullying me.
Accepting the truth had made me impervious to their insults.
My mother told me this story many times, when I was a child, and also after I became a grown-up man.
She says she's convinced that it was a life-changing experience for me, and that it would shape my personality.
Looking back, I think I realized that ignoring the truth comes at a significant cost.
And just as important, I think the episode taught me that embracing the truth could set me free.
Today, it makes me sad to think back on the fact that my father and I often disagreed on many things.
We had very different ideas about the relationship between individuals and the state.
What started as civil conversations, too often ended in quarrels.
It felt like our opposing opinions on politics drove a wedge between us.
If he had lived today, he probably would have developed a fascination for how Bitcoin works.
He wouldn't have trusted Bitcoin, just because others said it's immutable.
I'm confident he would have picked apart every little piece of the technology, in an attempt to verify Bitcoin's promise.
Just like I try to do with the socio-economic aspects of it.
If my father had been alive today, I suspect Bitcoin would have brought us closer together.
He could have explained the technology for me, and I could have explained Bitcoin's socio-economic functions to him.
Possibly, he would have realized that I had been right when I challenged many of the things that the powers at be want us to believe.
It's just guessing, of course.
But it makes sense, because it seems to me that Bitcoin attracts truthseekers like a magnet.
And at the same time, Bitcoin forces us to search for the truth together, instead of quarrelling about the correctness of something that others have fed us with.
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If you liked this piece, it would be great if you gave it a boost 🧡
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2024-04-06 22:11:51

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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2024-04-06 21:07:21

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I wasn't writing about Bitcoin this time :-)

2024-04-06 13:41:27

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Simple as that 😅

2024-04-06 13:25:45

What happens when 10% of the people understand money?

2024-04-06 06:46:31

Peter St Onge is a massive force of good
https://rumble.com/v4nf6bu-layoffs-in-mainstream-media.html

2024-04-05 19:34:25

Fraudulent
Institution-controlled
All-out
Treasonous
money
There you have it: Fiat money

2024-04-05 14:10:59

With the logics of the big block proponents, the land registry should support registration of cinema ticket purchases.

2024-04-03 18:23:23

Analysis:
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What could be a winning strategy for Washington?
When the US debt spirals out of control, it puts the USD's status as reserve currency at risk.
This begs the question - what's the best strategy forward for Washington, whether we're talking about the super wealthy, the leaders of the political class, the deep state, or the whole shebang?
I'll take a stab at this question below.
But first, let's look at some milestones for the USD as a reserve currency:
1945: The USD seals its reserve currency status when US airplanes bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1973: Nixon saves the status with the petrodollar deal with Saudi Arabia
1991: Washington breeds new life into the status by letting Russia crumble in hyperinflation at the same time as the US makes a "we will buy your cheap consumer goods if you buy our treasuries and stay away from Russia" deal with China.
And here is the situation today:
- the public debt has spiralled out of control,
- the proxy war with Russia in Ukraine is a lost case,
- China hates the US and the US hates China,
- Russia and China are in love with each other, and
- the next likely reserve currency - #Bitcoin - isn't controlled by a nation that the US can bomb to pieces.
So what is the dominant strategy for Washington in this type of situation?
My take:
Convince other countries to have a tight monetary policy, increase taxes, move further with the climate policy and fight against #Bitcoin   , while in parallell make sure that the US does more or less the exact opposite.
You see, this strategy comes from an old playbook:
In the 1920's the Federal Reserve was greatly helped by Bank of England when they tricked a number of other European central banks into adopting the "parity policy," which was all about rapidly shrinking the money supply. At the same time, the US and the UK continued to print money so that the rich could make bargains at the fire sale in the European countries that crashed their economies in a deflationary nightmare.
If you're in doubt about the potency of deploying something similar today - just take a quick glance at the leaders of the European political class. Then you ask yourself if you think they have the combination of IQ, leadership and care for their people that they need in order to withstand the pressure, gaslighting and bribes from the people in Washington.
To sum up:
The dominant strategy for Washington today isn't to start another war, but to convince other central banks and other governments, especially in Europe, to do really, really stupid things.

2024-04-01 16:05:49

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2024-04-01 14:45:26

Why I hate 1991
A story about two doctrines, the US neocon hegemony and the Norwegian battery, and a tough personal awakening.
32 long years
On Monday 24 July 2023, 32 years after the Soviet Union broke up, the whole thing about what has happened on the geopolitical scene and with my beloved Norway, begins to make sense to me. And therefore, I wrote this note, as a preliminary conclusion.
The braindead conscript
I was 19 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed. At the time I was serving my obligatory year as a conscript in the army in Skjold, up north in a region called Inner Troms.
When the news about the chaos in the Baltic countries broke out, the Norwegian defence system was put on high alert, and I remember that permissions to visit our families were withdrawn.
I wish I knew more about the world of politics back then. I wish that the 12 years of public schooling had taught me about the three pillars of politics:
. Monetary policy
- Security policy
- Energy policy
I had been one of the best in our class all the way. But in hindsight I hadn't learned anything about how society and politics really works. In this sense I was a braindead boy, a pawn and a conscript freezing my ass off somewhere deep in the Norwegian woods.
And of course, I understood zero of what was going on around me, except that we knew that we might have to defend ourselves against some crazy soldiers from Soviet Union.
The awakening
My awakening to what was going on at that time comes after having:
- written a book about inflation last year,
- been part of the public debate on monetary policy in the last few months, and
- reflected upon a recent interview with Jeffrey Sachs on The Duran Podcast.
The interview was the final piece in the puzzle. Sachs talked about how he had been part of a team that tried to facilitate cooperation between Russia and some of the East bloc states. He had thought that saving them from a hyperinflation scenario was everybody’s immediate concern. Something which turned out not to be correct, and which he at that time didn’t understand why.
The hosts, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris, who both are experts on geopolitical issues, were perplexed. This was the first time they had heard about it.
And so, it was for me. But, finally after all these years, I now begin to get a glimpse of what was going on in the world at that time, why it happened, and what it caused.
When I understood this today, I first became excited. Then I felt anger. And I also felt sorry about the boy from 1991, who had been kept so solidly in the dark.
But after having written this piece, I’ve managed to calm down, and to start looking forward again.
Let’s now have a look at what was going on back in those days.
The Americans’ dilemma in 1991
Sometime in the late 1980s/early 1990s, it likely dawned upon the US government and its major constituents that the real question was:
“How can we assure that we get the financial benefits of printing of US dollars in a rapidly changing world with a collapsing Soviet Union?”
The situation involved great risks and even bigger opportunities.
One of the risks was the possibility of monetary deflation in the US.
The Fed and the government had allowed cheap credit to be used as a remedy to the stock market crash in 1987. By doing this, they kept the housing market alive, and the financial markets could then also move forward with the help of some of Fed governor Alan Greenspan uppers and steroids now and then.
In this situation, both debtors and creditors risked huge financial problems if things got out of hand internationally and many new countries begun to demand more and more USD.
If the domestic US economy became drained of USD, that meant monetary deflation and a spike in real interest rates domestically. This could cause havoc to an economy built on cheap credit and dollar hegemony.
How could the Fed and Wall Street be able to print enough USD in such a situation, without creating unmanageable bubbles in the markets, nationally and globally?
Another risk was that if the global reserve currency couldn’t meet the increasing demand for a functioning means of exchange, Russia would look for alternatives.
One alternative for them could be to default on the public debt and reintroduce gold as money.
Another more potent alternative could be to join the European countries, who were planning to create a common European currency, which later became the euro. The combination of the combined energy resources of Russia and Norway, a large common market and a common currency could easily become problematic for the US government.
In both scenarios, the USD could lose its reserve currency status.
If that happened, the US government would also lose its military supremacy as well as its No. 1 export commodity – the dollar.
The neocon solution
Today the following US policy measures, which were carved out by the neocons, and which begun in 1991, stand out:
- Saving Poland and other key East Bloc countries from hyperinflation by guaranteeing for their public debt, combined with bringing them into the EU and NATO fold.
- Turning down Jeffrey Sachs' plan to stabilize the Russian ruble with the same measures as were used to save the economy in Poland, thereby causing hyperinflation in Russia and many years of political instability inside the former superpower in the east.
- Convincing China to speed up economic reforms with the help of dollar loans from US investors and buying up US treasuries, in exchange for producing cheap goods that could be imported by the US, paid in USD.
- Relaxing house lending standards in the US, at the same time as obliging publicly funded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lend handsomely to the poor, thereby creating a vehicle that made it possible to funnel newly created USD into the national and global economy.
All of this happened extremely quickly – in 1991 to 1992.
These measures created a financial policy framework for the US that made it possible for them to manage the monitory policy in a relatively controlled manner.
At least in the short term…
Happy
The neocon’s policy could please all the major stakeholders, thereby creating some sort of an equilibrium, domestically, as well as internationally:
- Wall Street, who has possessed the most power at least since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1914, would benefit handsomely.
- The US government would keep its position as rulers of the world.
- The military -industrial complex would profit greatly if things got out of hand and brute force had to be used.
- The EU could prepare onboarding of many new member states with the likely blessing of the US
- China’s political elite could show the Chinese and the rest of the world how quicly and successfully they could lift its country out of poverty and become a real international contender.
Everybody would be happy.
That is – except for Russia.
Short-term success, long-term turmoil
Although these measures could be seen as successful in the short term, they caused a high number of unintended consequences in the longer term.
We all know about the many wars and the financial instability we've had globally in the 32 years since 1991.
However, I will in the following turn your attention to Norway and have a look at the role that my country got to play when the shit started to hit the fan during the financial crisis in 2008.
The legacy of Jens Stoltenberg
Smack in the midst of the Great Financial Crisis, the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his government launched the idea in March 2008 that "Norway can become Europe's battery".
The concept was that Norwegian wind and hydro power could solve the coal- and nuclear dependent Europe’s need for access to safe, climate friendly, and renewable energy.
This year also marked the beginning of 15 years of more or less systematic debasement of our currency, the Norwegian krone (NOK). It has since then lost roughly 50% of its value against the USD and 25% against the EUR. The last year the NOK has become a veritable shitcoin.
As we shall see the "battery for Europe" doctrine has also been put into place in the exact same timeframe.
In 2013 the government made the decision to build two new high-capacity power cables, one to the UK and one to Germany. This was a large and costly project that would take many years to complete.
In 2014 Stoltenberg switched roles and became Secretary General of NATO. This was the same year as the coupe in Ukraine, when the neocons in the US government started their big push for Ukraine membership in NATO.
Recent Norwegian energy policy
The power cables to Germany and the UK were put into operation in 2020/2021. In exchange of export of electricity to the Germans and Brits, we immediately imported their electricity prices, which were significantly higher.
As a result, electricity prices spiked at once in the southern and middle part of Norway, causing an uproar among the voters.
Our country has been built on cheap energy, but the cables marked an end to this era. People and companies had to adjust to a reality with sky high electricity prices compared to what we used to have, and many small and medium businesses have folded as a direct result of the cables.
This sudden electricity tax, which it became in reality, has been complimented with an insane use of subsidies from the Norwegian government to various renewable energy projects in the form of land and ocean wind farms, battery projects and much more.
Foreign large corporations have been the main recipients of the subsidies, which are financed over electricity bills to Norwegian consumers and corporations, as well as in the form of taxation.
Devaluation and energy export
The relationship between the Norwegian monetary policy and our energy policy is straight forward: Devaluation of the NOK makes it cheaper for European countries to buy energy exported from Norway.
The political motive for the battery doctrine
It might be that you believe that this is something that Norway has done as some part of a European project. Our current PM, Jonas Gahr Støre, who IMO best can be described as a climate fanatic and Europe romantic, might hope so. If you instead “torture” Jens Stoltenberg for answers, you would probably come closer to the truth.
The last few decades Germany has become increasingly skeptical to US foreign policies. Germany saw the possibility of becoming more independent from the US, by making closer ties to Russia. Gas pipes were built from Russia to Germany, and they made long term contracts for supply of gas.
The only problem was that the Germans were stupid enough to shut down the country’s own nuclear plants, making them even more dependent on gas supplies from Russia. It’s beyond any doubt that this caused panic and outrage among the neocons in the US government.
Washington, not Oslo
Norway has been a vassal state under the US since the end of WWII, and it’s highly likely that both ideas, the currency devaluation as well as the battery doctrine, came directly out of Washington. The Norwegian citizens were supposed to be the ones who would have to pay the price for keeping European countries from trading with Russia, and thereby prolong American hegemony.
In this way the Norwegian taxpayers and our hydropower dams became financial batteries in the US government’s fight for protection of the status of the USD as the global reserve currency.
We can create our own future
As what seems to be a proxy war between the US and Russia in Ukraine slowly seems to come to an embarrassing conclusion for Biden, Nuland, Blinken and the other neocons, the Norwegian citizens continue to pay a high price. Electricity bills still put companies out of business, and cause hardship to the people. And the madness related to battery and ocean wind projects seem to have no limit.
In this situation I cannot but help myself from hating 1991. For me it will forever stand as a symbol of my ignorance and a public education system that had created a brainwashed kid who knew nothing about what was going on around him.
On the other hand, I cannot let this hate burn me up from inside. It’s no use. I’m wasting my energy. Instead, I must focus on the future. The question I have to ask is the following:
“How can I make sure that today’s kids don’t end up in the same situation as I was in?”
Because I am firmly of the opinion that we can shape our own future. The neocons’ hegemony is probably about to end, and with that the, we – the Norwegian people – suddenly have options:
Should we just shut our mouths and glue ourselves to the mast of a sinking ship?
Or do we want to start discussing our future openly, and try to find out what the best way forward for Norway is?
I know for sure what the brainwashed conscript from 1991 wants. He’s done with being kept in the dark. And he wants the public debate to begin as fast as possible.
How about yourself?
Is it true that ignorance is bliss when we are talking about your kids’ future?
Do you want them to be the next to stand in the cold somewhere up north on the border to Russia, or as soldiers being dispatched to a faraway country, not knowing anything about why they are going?
I think not.
We cannot leave this discussion to the experts and the politicians. It’s far too important for that. If they get the opportunity, they probably won’t think twice about continuing to use you and your offspring as their batteries.
Choose wisely.

2024-04-01 06:53:18

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Fair points, you might be right. Info about the coin, the mint, herod, the debt business, deposit service, the profits and possibly some other details I didn't deduce from the gospels, but found them in various articles on the Internet.
But I find it noteworthy and strange that Pilate's and the high priests' economic motives aren't at all reflected in the gospels. It's subjects like blasphemi, Judas' betrayel, and the people freeing Barabas instead of Jesus that comes across as important.
I can't say for sure that someone has messed with the texts, but considering that the result is favorable for the political class and the fact that it's so normal that "winners write the history books" I wouldn't at all be surprised, especially considering how important this specific story is for politics, religion and culture.

2024-03-31 22:58:55

Nostr readers zapped about USD 50 to me for this post about the history's most famous crime. This was more than what X paid me for a whole month of content contribution. 50K viewed it on X. I posted it on Facebook too, the engagement was OK, but significantly lower than on X. Nostr wins hands down.
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2024-03-31 06:03:05

The iron law of Bitcoin:
In the long run, the more the price of bitcoin appreciates, the more decentralized Bitcoin must become, and vice versa.
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2024-03-30 14:24:07

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Have you looked into the history of monetary freedom in Ireland? It might be enormously important.

2024-03-30 14:04:25

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Thx, I'm not very experienced with nostr. Is it easy to add images in between text in the long form?

2024-03-29 22:24:25

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Yes, the story portrays both the high priests and Pilate as cowardly and false. But for me, it's everything that the gospels didn't mention that pisses me off.

2024-03-29 18:58:26

Follow-up on my piece 👇 on the killing of Jesus:
The biblical texts referring to Jesus lashing the money changers, overthrowing their tables and driving them out of the temple court in Jerusalem a few days before he was arrested and killed, don't mention at all that the temple was much more than a religious building.
The texts don't mention that the temple also was the largest and most powerful bank in the region.
Neither do they mention that Pontius Pilate most certainly taxed the profits that the high priests made from deposits, loans and money changing.
Therefore, the story about Jesus chasing away the money changers lacks important context.
Directly after his arrest, the high priests held a meeting where they interrogated Jesus, before they led him to Pilate.
The high priests took Jesus to Pilate and asked him to execute the rebel.
According to the gospel of Luke, they said to Pilate:
"He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.”
It seems likely that "taxes to Caesar" referred to taxes on the temple's banking business, which were paid by the high priests to Pilate on behalf of the Roman empire, and which Jesus directly or indirectly had objected against when he created the ruckus in the temple yard.
However, when Pilate went on to examine Jesus, he didn't mention the subject of taxes at all.
The scriptures also make it seem like Pilate was reluctant to the proposed execution of Jesus.
All of this seems very odd to me.
I suspect that it throughout history has been a great deal of politically motivated editing of these texts.
I believe that the motive for this censorship has been to steer clear of the fact that political control over religion, especially when it comes to the the monotheistic religions of Judaism and Christianity, goes hand in hand with political control of the monetary system.
It's an unholy marriage that stretches a long way back in time, long before Jesus lived.
He demonstrated against this sinful arrangement and was punished accordingly.
And instead of focusing on the evil profiteering of the state and the high priests, today's narrative seems to me to focus a whole lot on Judas the betrayer, who became a useful fall guy.
It's disgusting.
I have no other word for it.
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2024-03-29 03:01:03

The monetary system is the most beautiful and powerful social network that humankind has ever witnessed.
The reason is that it helps us to satisfy our deep desire as humans to interact and cooperate both with people who we love and with those who are foreign to us.

2024-03-29 01:58:20

I've come to the conclusion that the fact that the government has ensured that schools aren't teaching the kids about monetary policy while they also gaslight us about the causes and effects of inflation might be the greatest crime ever committed against the humanity, and here's why:
The monetary system is the most beautiful and powerful social network that humankind has ever witnessed.
Monopolization of the monetary system is on the other hand the most destructive weapon that humankind has ever witnessed. It sets up a wall between us, and it acts as a tax on our deep desire as humans to interact and cooperate both with people who we love and with those who are foreign to us. It's the most evil and anti-human social construct that has ever existed, designed squarely to enrich and empower the political elite.
That's it - feel free to chime in!

2024-03-28 15:08:01

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2024-03-28 14:28:05

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I believe the thread above might become one of the most important summaries that I have put together about events in the history of monetary policy.
Some of the wording is a cut and paste from many, many sources that I browsed before writing it.
I therefore take no credit for the wording.
I just puzzled the pieces together, and made sure that it was readable, factual and to the point.
Having reflected over the post afterwards, I feel I have to add that the story about the last days' of Jesus from Nazareth demonstrates to the full extent how evil monetary policy is.
I'll explain:
Pontius Pilate probably wanted to have everything related to money as close as possible to the temple in Jerusalem:
- the mint where he produced the coins
- the money lending
- the exchange of money
- the trading with money, goods and services
- the taxing of the pilgrims
As other rulers, he wanted to monopolize and centralize everything related to money and to do it to the highest degree possibly.
This enabled him to extract wealth at all levels which involved exchange between people who didn't know each other or who needed a medium of exchange in order to interact or to follow their people's religious traditions.
Furthermore, it maded it possible for Pontius Pilate to amass wealth and power at the lowest cost possibly - as it would have been a lot more costly for him to maintain an apparatus that travelled all places where people were in order to steal the fruits of their labor.
As you see - monpolization of money and centralization of everything goes hand in hand.
The story also strengthens my perception of the monetary system as being the most valuable and powerful social network that we have seen in history.
As a specie, we have a deep desire for interacting with people that we don't know, and perhaps especially so when we gather in large religious feasts.
Money developed as a means to make it possible to a much higher degree to cooperate with strangers.
Monetary policy, on the other hand, puts up a virtual wall between strangers.
Monetary policy is at its core a tax on our desire to interact with people we don't know, and a tax on visiting places.
It's a policy that aims at making it possible for the ruling class to amass their wealth and power to the greatest extent, and at the cost of the rest of the people, who for the most part just want to be social and friendly with each other.
Finally, this story makes it even clearer to me that monetary freedom is the only ethical system that we can have in relation to our need to use a general medium of exchange when we interact with each other.
Again - thanks for your interest in following my reflections on this important political subject.
(I mentioned the algorithms above, but I guess we don't have this yet here on Nostr, do we? Cut and paste between different platforms isn't always easy :-))

2024-03-28 14:13:05

30 silver coins for Judas
In this thread I'll try to give you some perspectives on the political context of Judas' betrayal of Jesus.
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2024-03-27 11:47:09

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100%
And actually - it's not only about separating money from the state. Bitcoin helps us to separate money from the control of man. Which is what monetary freedom did prior to Bitcoin - as long as people fought for it. When we stopped fighting, fiat hell was brought upon us. It had more to do with this understanding and the morals than it had to do with the monetary technologies themselves.

2024-03-27 07:52:08

This video 👇 is a must see and an important reminder about what's at stake for all of us.
A couple of days ago I wrote about the need to fight for #Bitcoin   .
Stacking sats just isn't enough.
We have a moral obligation to fight for the right to use bitcoin.
Investing in freedom money is good, but it's first of all an investment, not fighting.
I got a lot of flak for voicing my opinion on this, but I stand firm.
This fight - for the right to use the money we like best - is closely connected to our obligation to fight for freedom of speech, and against all forms of oppressive use of state power.
It's an obligation.
Not an option.
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2024-03-25 09:45:07

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2024-03-13 06:14:49

How our central bank presents money creation
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2024-01-30 19:56:56

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Hope you like it! Which one did you order?

2024-01-30 18:48:05

Now that UNBAR has been released both in Norwegian and English, I would like to say a big thanks to all of you who took your time time to review the #Fraudcoinbook.
🙏
I counted today, and more than 300 have rated it!
And the average score?
🫣
A whopping 4.8 of 5 😚
We cross our fingers and hope for the same response to our new book.
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2023-12-24 15:43:19

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2023-12-23 19:24:57

Gracjan has helped us with proofreading of the Polish translation, so hopefully its in the bookstores soon.
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2023-12-08 12:38:31

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Thx, that was insightful, spiritual and beautiful

2023-12-03 14:42:50

Kids who learn to
- master digital security
- acquire, take care of and use #bitcoin   
- use AI
- defend themselves physically
- speak multiple languages
and get multiple passports, will become some of the freest and most prosperous people that have lived on planet earth.
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2023-12-03 12:23:37

Why did Javier Milei campaign on a platform that included a vision of reinstating monetary freedom in Argentina?
The answer is that it's because he is a student of the Austrian School of Economics who also understand his country's history.
Monetary freedom, sometimes referred to as having a system with competing currencies, is properly defined as the right for the people to use the money they like best.
Few are aware that the Argentine people enjoyed monetary freedom from the revolution in 1816 until the government adopted the gold standard in 1881.
The number of people who knew that this made Argentina one of the most prosperous countries in the world, is even smaller.
But Milei, luckily for us, is one of them. Being an economist of the Austrian School, enables him to understand the significance of the monetary system.
Between 1783 and 1857 the people of the United States also enjoyed the right to use the money that they liked best.
Monetary freedom transformed Argentina and the US into powerful magnets.
The two countries attracted capital and talent from all over Europe.
It happened so quickly that it's almost impossible for us to grasp it today.
The economic growth Argentina and the US achieved was unprecedented.
It was almost magical.
Immigration to Argentina and the US was huge:
“In the peak period of the world’s oversee migration, 1821-1932, six countries absorbed 90 per cent of the total, and among these six, Argentina ranked second in the number of immigrants, with a total of 6,405,000. The only other Latin American country on the list is Brazil, with 4,431,000. The United States, of course, came first with about 5 times as many as Argentina.”
North America practically drained my country, Norway, of people.
Only a few thousand Norwegians emmigrated to Argentina, which first of all recei an inflow of people mainly from Spain and Italy.
But why did people flee from Europe?
One reason was that the rulers in Europe clinged on to their national monopolies in money creation.
They loved their money printers, just like Gollum loved his precious ring.
The governments shared the privelege of money creation with powerful banks, because it made the system more effective for them.
The European rulers let the banks organize themselves as cartels who could create money out of nothingness when they issued loans.
Each country had a central bank that coordinated how rapidly the banks could create new money.
It had been like this since the Swedish nobility creates the world's first central bank in 1669.
Today almost all countries in the world have the same system as the European nations have had for centuries.
While the rulers and the banks could create money out of nothingness, the people had to work to get the money, or take out loans, to pay taxes to the rulers, and to stay alive.
Over time these monopolies in money creation ensured centralization of wealth and power.
It also made it near impossible for the citizens in the working and middle class "to climb the social ladder."
The banks and governments used their monopolies to extract enormous wealth from their people, something which also enabled them to wage endless wars against the neighboring countries.
Furthermore, flooding the economy with money created out of thin air was like pouring sand in the machinery of the economy.
It hampered capital formation, just like it does today.
And it corrupted the society, and again, just like it does today.
In contrast, the monetary freedom in Argentina and the US enabled a high level of capital formation, broad distrubution of wealth and much less centralization of political power.
You see, the monetary system is society's cornerstone.
Monetary freedom builds civilization and attracts economic resources.
Monopolies in money creation, on the other hand, destroy civilization and consume economic resources.
It's a shame that they don't teach us this when we go to school.
I think we have a right to know, especially since the governments force us through education and dictate what we must learn.
Not telling the people about this is in my opinion a terrible form of gaslighting, whether its intentional or not.
Milei has enligthened the world about the evils of modern monetary policies.
He has also said that he wants to reintroduce monetary freedom, and let the private sector take responsibility for money production, as it has done in the past.
But now Milei has become president.
And while others fear for his security, I fear more for his ability to resist the temptation to control the production of money.
Because, you see; man's lust for securing himselves the exclusive control of a money printer is terribly strong.
To Milei I would like to say the following:
You have enlightened millions around the world about the importance of the monetary system.
This is a priceless gift that I will never forget that you gave us.
But now it's time to take action, Milei.
You must destroy the central bank of Argentina once and for all, just like you promised.
And you must be careful not to let a monopoly in money creation enter into your office via the back door.
And finally:
The fastest way of reinstating monetary freedom in Argentina is probably to abolish the capital gains tax on #Bitcoin   .
Good luck!
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2023-11-25 11:27:08

Norway, trust, freedom and CBDC
This note is a call to action.
I write it in English to make it easy for people abroad to understand what's going on here, and because the Norwegian social democracy often is referred to as an example that other countries should try to copy.
I suggest that they shouldn't belive this narrative.
Norwegian politicians repeatedly tell us that we have a trust-based society.
It isn't true.
Their interest don't align with the people.
They most likely never did.
Our politicians have always known this.
They know that if they shall succeed in being part of the ruling class, they must bribe, coerce and deceive the people.
Coercion is expensive.
Bribes are costly too.
Therefore they rely heavily on deception.
By repeatedly referring to Norway as a trust-based society, they try to appeal to our conciousness.
They want us to feel shame if we think or talk about not trusting them.
Many Norwegians feel this shame.
They shouldn't.
Instead, they should try to learn where we come from, by studying our history.
If they do, they most likely will stop being ashamed for not trusting the politicians.
On the contrary, many will take great pride in not trusting any ruler at all.
Norwegians have relied heavily on voluntary cooperation with each other.
But trust in politicians has until recently not been one of our prospensities.
In my region, Trøndelag, we originally didn't trust rulers at all.
In the Viking Age we didn't want to have kings ruling us.
Therefore we punished them harder than anyone else, typically by killing them, if they tried to place themselves above the law.
Not trusting the kings was a fundamental requirement for our ancestors if they wanted to preserve their freedom and prosperity.
Fulfilling their obligations as manifested in the law, to punish the kings ruthlessly, was of equal importance.
They knew it by heart.
Is was as true for them as the natural laws.
They knew that ignoring the truth would punish them immediately.
Unfortunately this was exactly what happened when our social structure broke down in 1050 AD.
Over time fighting for our freedom was replaced with flight from oppression.
People feared standing up for their rights.
So our ancestors instead fled the country.
For instance, the level of emmigration that occured after we got our own constitution and a semi-independence in 1814 was nothing but gargantuan.
In 1814 we had a population of about 900.000 people.
Between 1836 and 1915 an estimated 750.000 people relocated to North-America.
It's an insanely huge number.
Norway is an enormously rich country in terms of natural resources.
Still people left in droves.
It tells us everything we need to know about how little the Norwegian people trusted and appreciated the politicians.
The level of trust was probably zero.
The ones who didn't leave managed to keep some check on the politicians for a long time.
Again, numbers are informative.
In 1900 the public sector only spent an amount of money equivalent to 6% of GDP.
The reason was probably that any attempt of increasing the burdens of the common people would increase the level of emmigration.
The ruling class risked being left with nobody to slave for them if they raised taxes.
So the people paid almost no taxes at all.
Instead, the ruling class used inflation to extract wealth from the people.
When World War I broke out in 1914, the gold standard had become a trap that enabled the elite to rob workers, landowners and farmers
By increasing the money supply 300%, and then suddenly reducing it in similar magnitude, all in a short timespan of 14 years, the ruling class robbed ordinary Norwegians for most of what they owned.
Now the wealthy elite and their cynical companions - the politicians - had carte blanche.
The table was set.
The feast could finally begin.
Party time for the rich and the State.
Serfdom for the rest.
Recent events show us that not adhering to the obligation to protect our freedom has been a one-way ticket to serfdom:
- the public sector today spends almost 2/3 of onshore GDP
- in 2020 and 2021 our government locked down our nation and forced us to take vaccines, although the risk for having a serious reaction to the coronavirus was insignificant while the risk related to taking these vaccines were much greater than other vaccines
- the government forces a broad range of costly burdens on us related to its climate change policy, although the effectiveness of these measures are dubious, to say the least.
Today our super-cynical politicians warn us about the dangers and immorality of owning #Bitcoin      , while they at the same time present Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) as a safe alternative.
The truth is that our politicians and the special interests that support them have painted themselves into a corner.
They try to deceive us into adopting CBDC because it makes it much cheaper for them to coerce us afterwards.
The monetary system is the most powerful social network that has ever existed.
And with CBDC our hubris-infected leaders will have the most powerful political tool that has ever been available to them.
With CBDC they can surveil, block and steer our every move.
I consider CBDC to be a bigger threat to our species than the nuclear bomb.
On the other hand, I don't find it likely that many countries will be able to adopt CBDCs.
I think the project will faceplant in most countries, because people will fight tools and nails against it, as they have done in Nigeria.
However, in those countries were people are lazy and don't feel any obligation to fight for their freedom, their rulers are definetely going to use of this terrible weapon.
And their people will immediately suffer.
Immediately.
It's a 100 % certainty.
Because the politicians who get to control this terrible weapon cannot resist the temptation to make every possible use of it to increase their power.
The CBDC will be like the ring in Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings.
It will spellbound them, and produce terrible outcomes for themselves and their people.
To sum up:
Norway is not at all a trust-based country.
We don't have any alternative other than to fight for our freedom.
If we allow the ruling elite to implement CBDCs, we will experience hell on earth.
And then our only option will be to flee to another country.
I prefer staying.
And I prefer fighting.
You see, I have a deep respect for the values and the understanding that my ancestors had, especially that they knew that ignoring the truth is incredibly costly.
It's in my genes.
This is my country.
A ruling class isn't welcome here.
It never was.
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2023-11-17 21:06:35

Letsfakemflation
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