15 years ago, if you did the responsible thing & bought $10,000 of 'risk-free' long-term Treasuries, you'd have $11,072 today. If instead you spent $9,995 on drugs & $5 on bitcoin, you'd have $42,778 today.

I'm ALWAYS for blocking aid to universities for any reason but it's very difficult not to notice that the GOP couldn't be bothered to do this when universities were declaring that white people are evil Or when they discriminated against white people in admissions Or when they were holding kangaroo courts to destory the lives of men accused of sexual misconduct Or when they were they pushing communism on the student body Or when they were holding anti-American protests Or when they were burning American flags Or when they were promoting BLM Or when they were pushing COVID vax mandates Or when they were chanting about the need to destroy western civilization Or when they were attacking Christianity Or when they were teaching that men can become women The only thing that the GOP House seems to agree on is that Americans who are not loyal to a foreign power need to be punished So it may not be true that American politics is entirely controlled by Israel, but you can see why any rational human being who has not been totally brainwashed by Fox News and Newsmax may suspect that to be the case

The Roots of Conflict: Property Rights and the Zionist Movement For a long time, people have moved from place to place, and there’s no valid basis for claiming land based on ancient history. No one can say, “I’m a Hun, and 2,000 years ago, the Huns lived in Germany, so all Germans should leave.” This idea—that you can identify with a group from the past and use that to overrule current property rights—is ridiculous and wouldn’t be accepted anywhere. Civilisation depends on property rights. Respecting individual property rights is the foundation of peace, progress, and prosperity. Without them, we descend into chaos. This is the main point of my book Principles of Economics. It’s a case for civilisation, starting from first principles. Imagine people stranded on an island—they’d need to respect each other’s property to survive and build a society. The same applies to all human progress. To the extent that we honour property rights, we build civilisation. To the extent that we violate them, we regress into violence and destruction. Now let’s look at Palestine. In the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, there was a system of property rights in Palestine. While not perfect, it included private ownership of land. Jewish immigrants and the Zionist movement respected that system and bought land under it, recognizing the legitimacy of the existing property titles. But the idea that they could claim the land because their ancestors lived there 2,000 years ago makes no sense. Even if you wanted to argue this point—which I don’t—it’s further complicated by modern genetics. DNA studies show that Palestinians are more closely related to the ancient Jewish population of the region than many European Jews who immigrated during the Zionist movement. Even David Ben-Gurion admitted this. He said that the Palestinian peasantry (the fellahin) are the descendants of the ancient Jews who lived there. When Arabs arrived in Palestine around 700 AD, they didn’t displace the local population. Instead, they replaced the Byzantine rulers while the local people remained. Over time, most of the population converted to Islam. Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, the Muslim Caliph at the time, famously entered Jerusalem and assured the local population—Christians and Jews—that their lives and property would be protected. His approach was not to displace people but to coexist. He even declined to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, to ensure it remained a Christian place of worship. A mosque was later built next to the church, symbolizing peaceful coexistence. So, modern Palestinians are primarily descended from the region’s original inhabitants, along with some Arab, European, and African ancestry. But none of this matters for property rights. Property is individual, not collective, and it certainly isn’t tied to DNA. Before 1948, there was a functioning property system in Palestine. The real conflict began when the Zionist movement started violating those property rights in the 1940s, and it escalated with the establishment of Israel. Israel didn’t just expel Palestinians or deny them the right to return to their homes—it also destroyed the free market in land. Today, almost all land in Israel is government-owned, and Palestinian refugees, like my wife’s family, cannot buy back their property, no matter how much money they have. But if they converted to Judaism, they could get land at subsidised prices. This is not a legitimate property system—it’s a discriminatory one. I made this point in my debate with Walter Block, an Austrian economist and libertarian. Walter argues for privatising everything—oceans, outer space, you name it—but when it comes to Palestine, he supports the Israeli government owning 90% of the land. That’s completely inconsistent with libertarian principles, and I believe it was the strongest argument in our debate. Saifedean Ammous

🚨Israeli soldiers who GANG RAPED a Palestinian hostage on camera are suing for a $6,000,000 compensation from the Israeli gov after the Israeli army dropped all charges against them (despite a mountain of evidence)!

Israeli Defense Minister Katz is openly stating they want to ethnically cleanse all 2 million Palestinians from Gaza The only thing stopping them is the US might get mad Can we please stop pretending Israel has ever had any other intention?

@TheAtlasSociety Hilarious to hear this coming from a bloodthirsty animal who supported Israel savagely mass murdering Palestinians and expelling them because she deemed all Arabs savages. Rothbard destroyed this disgusting stupid evil witch's bloodlust

@TheAtlasSociety Hilarious to hear this coming from a bloodthirsty animal who supported Israel savagely mass murdering Palestinians and expelling them because she deemed all Arabs savages. Rothbard destroyed this disgusting stupid evil witch's bloodlust

At the Oxford Union debate, I argued that Israel seeks a peace that erases Palestine, while Palestinians seek a peace of true religious coexistence. "Do you know why [Israelis] can point to Jewish heritage in Palestine? It is because Muslims preserved it. They were not like the Israelis today who are trying to erase Palestinian heritage"

The destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank is not a matter of rogue settlers in isolated incidents. It is a coordinated operation legitimized by Israeli law & protected by Israeli soldiers. This will not end until we stop sending aid & weapons used to kill civilians.

A people who are unmoved when missiles purchased with their labor, and launched in their name, for reasons that are barely articulated, kill 150 little girls, are already so spiritually degraded that they have very little left that is still worth defending. When their responses range between “yeah, but” and “whatever,” nihilism has already set in bone deep.

We’ve been driven out of our bases, including the US Navy’s 5th Fleet HQ, and retired 4-stars are on TV saying we’ll never return. Our entire strategic position in the region, built up over decades, has been destroyed. The Islamic Republic is intact, and Iran retains the ability to replenish critical munitions from hardened sites that have proven to be beyond our reach. Ben is not an analyst. His job, the reason he was given a platform and a paycheck, is to help manage the narrative to make sure we stay in the war. That’s it. Think of how well it’s worked so far: Our highest officials admit we only attacked Iran because Israel was about to do so, and yet Israel withdrew months ago and we’re still fighting their war for them. Ben’s role is to say whatever he has to say to keep it that way. The long-term effects on the United States are not his problem, he has a backup plan.

Printing money doesn't create resources; it just redistributes them, and someone always pays the price later. Find the full lecture at The Bitcoin Standard Podcast (ep 324) on your preferred podcast platform, or on YouTube.

🇵🇸 Israeli forces have abducted Dr. Nizar Kayed, the 70-year-old deputy mayor of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who identified Kayed as a friend. Kayed has spoken out against Israel’s planned land seizures around the town’s archaeological site, warning that Palestinians were being stripped of water resources, roads, and antiquities. “It is part of settlement expansion,” he told Reuters in June.

I talk to @BenWestgate_ and @BtCPavao about how to store bitcoin safely with Bitcoin Core on an old laptop, generating and backing up keys, the problems with BIP39 seed phrases, when multisig makes sense, custodians, and why gambling and lending destroy stacks.

I talk to @BenWestgate_ and @BtCPavao about how to store bitcoin safely with Bitcoin Core on an old laptop, generating and backing up keys, the problems with BIP39 seed phrases, when multisig makes sense, custodians, and why gambling and lending destroy stacks.