In communist Czechoslovakia, dissidents envisioned a "parallel polis": independent institutions that could exist peacefully beyond the control of the state. Today, we're building a parallel polis with Zcash.

BREAKING: The EU just announced the European alternative to the iPhone Confirmed facts and features: 1/ Assembled in Czechoslovakia, every component sourced within the EU 2/ 11 years in development, €14 billion of taxpayer money 3/ Camera blurs every face automatically (GDPR compliance is not optional) 4/ Will not work outside of the EU borders 5/ Group chats limited to 8 people (above that requires data controller) 6/ Charging only permitted between 2am-5am to protect the grid 7/ Battery lasts 4 hours (but you can replace it yourself) I cannot imagine how Apple must feel now

The Czech Republic has officially criminalized the promotion of communist movements that suppress human rights, placing them on the same legal footing as Nazi movements. The amendment, signed by President Petr Pavel, explicitly targets anyone who establishes, supports or promotes Nazi, communist or other movements seeking to suppress fundamental freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, religious, national or class hatred. Offenders face prison sentences ranging from one to five years, with additional provisions addressing the distribution of extremist propaganda and symbols. The legislation follows decades of debate over the country's communist past. Czechoslovakia endured more than four decades of communist one-party rule, beginning in 1948 and ending with the peaceful Velvet Revolution in 1989. Supporters, including historians from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, argued that communist totalitarianism should be treated as seriously as Nazism under criminal law.

🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 The IDF pulled a NAZI MACHINE GUN with the swastika still stamped on it out of a Hezbollah compound... -Fox News Digital was given rare access to the Tzrifin base in central Israel, where rockets, drones, sniper rifles, mortars and anti tank launchers taken from Hezbollah and Hamas are stored -Among them is a German MG-34 from World War II, stamped with an eagle carrying a swastika, along with a second Nazi era weapon, the MP 44 -Lieutenant Colonel Idan Sharon-Kettler, who commands the Captured Equipment Evacuation Unit, said the Nazi gun served as propaganda or morale for the fighters -The collection spans Iran, Russia, China, Austria, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and workshops inside Lebanon and Gaza -Israeli troops found HUNDREDS of Iranian mortars in Lebanon and dozens of Iranian made cannons in southern villages, many of them positioned to fire out of house windows -Also seized were newer Russian AK-103 and AK-104 rifles, Austrian Steyr HS .50 caliber sniper rifles, and an Iranian built copy of the Steyr -Egyptian made Halawa motorcycles captured in Israel were used to take hostages on October 7 -Uniforms manufactured in Syria, China and Lebanon were recovered alongside helmets, anti shrapnel vests and medical kits -The next round of talks on disarming Hezbollah is set for early September in Rome, with a State Department official saying they feel good about the trajectory East Germany sold Syria about 4,500 StG 44s in 1964, Czechoslovakia unloaded thousands more Nazi surplus rifles, and when those depots split open during Syria's civil war roughly 5,000 of the things spilled into the region's arms market. So whose morale was the gun really supposed to lift? Everything we know about where it turned up comes from the IDF, the propaganda explanation came from an officer on a guided press tour, for goodness sakes. A swastika in a Hezbollah bunker lands a little too on the nose for the story being told around it. Just saying... Source: Fox News / Writer: Daniel

"Most important of all of these gigantic reversals of the truth, in the realm of strategy, has been the cruel pretense, all over the world and to the American people, that the United States was the one great enemy of Communism. The fact has been exactly the opposite. Since early in 1945 the most powerful single force in promoting Communism everywhere, and in turning one nation after another over to Communist tyranny - as in Czecho-Slovakia and China and Cuba and the Congo - has been the help of the United States Government to that end. The record to support this statement is absolutely dear to anybody who will give it objective study." – Robert Welch

Elon Musk obtained a private pilot’s license in 2002. He personally flew several aircraft in the early-to-mid 2000s, including: • A Piper Meridian single-engine turboprop • A Cessna Citation CJ2 • Most notably, an Aero L-39 Albatros (a Czechoslovak military jet trainer) He described the L-39 as “probably the most fun plane I’ve ever flown.” He logged around 600 flight hours before stopping around 2008 because of work.