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Just now, in the dark of night, an army blackhawk flew directly over my house after flying straight for 60 miles, then take a right turn overhead and head south.
I might consider that as a threat.
What if there were a country where all major media were owned privately by organized crime, and those same gangsters were able to fool everyone into a government that looks ideal (like a republic) and that their voice matters and their vote counts, but in reality the gangsters always take charge of collating and counting the ballots, and everyone elected were nothing more than powerless figureheads. Now these same gangsters became enormously rich and were able to finance wars, and eventually they got people so used to using paper money and that counterfeiting was so severely punished that everyone intrinsicly trusted this paper to be real, and people would sign promises to work decades to pay off loans based on this paper, and would accept it for their labor to pay the loans and to send a yearly tribute to the protection racket they think is their republic.
What, exactly, would such a country look like?
You’ve probably seen GreenpeaceUSA's Bitcoin report by now, and my response (if you haven't been blocked).
Here’s six things that every environmentalist, Bitcoin advocate, regulator, policymaker and media representative should know about GreenpeaceUSA.
I've had this information for over a year, but have held back on going public with it until now because there were initially signs that GreenpeaceUSA would be open to engaging with environmentalists within the Bitcoin community.
With them now blocking me from commenting on their tweets, all hope of that has now ended. So here's what I can tell you about GreenpeaceUSA, and their campaign that have not been aired publicly until now, and which may surprise you.
Firstly, some context: I’m a former volunteer environmental campaigner with Greenpeace. I once risked arrest to stand up for causes I believed in, including an anti-GMO campaign against McDonalds which was successful within 6 weeks, and hailed as an example of how creative direct action can yield fast results. One of the differences: we talked to McDonalds (something no one at GreenpeaceUSA is currently doing with the Bitcoin community).
I know a number of people in the environmental movement, and I would like to thank them for their honesty in whistleblowing on a thoroughly misguided campaign from GreenpeaceUSA from start to finish.
1. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign does NOT have the backing of Greenpeace International. In fact, other branches have asked questions of GreenpeaceUSA’s tactics, and even said that their campaign is damaging the Greenpeace brand, and has resulted in the loss of subscriptions.
2. Within GreenpeaceUSA, there are a growing number of voices of discontent. There is a growing division between some of the younger crypto-neutral or crypto-friendly millennial in their base, and the directorship of GreenpeaceUSA
3. As we know, GreenpeaceUSA did receive a $5Million donation from Ripple’s chair Chris Larsen to run an anti-Bitcoin campaign. What you probably do not know is that within Greenpeace, several staff have questioned whether this is ethical, or in the spirit of an organization that says it relies only on grassroots funding in its sign-up pledge.
4. Some members of EWG and SierraClub, particularly younger members, were not enamoured with their organization’s collusion with GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign. EWG has not engaged in anti-Bitcoin rhetoric since 6 April ‘23.
5. The head of GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign has stepped down and is no longer any part of GreenpeaceUSA. At the time of his stepping down he was reported by a source within GreenpeaceUSA to be questioning the wisdom of the campaign.
6. Within GreenpeaceUSA, we know from multiple inside sources that the Change the Code campaign has been widely acknowledged to have been “not particularly successful”. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign got off on the wrong foot right from the start, by antagonising environmentalists within the Bitcoin community, such as me. Here’s its half-time report (TL;DR, the worst performing environmental campaign I’ve ever witnessed). https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/greenpeace-environment-attacks-help-bitcoin… Now, the campaign is in more disarray than ever, resorting to tenuous ad hominem attacks against Satoshi Action, based on the discover that one of their supporters is a climate denier. True. Well, guess what: one of their supporters is also a plant-based, tree-hugging, climate-activist & meditation teacher: me. That’s the beauty of Bitcoin: it pulls people in from across the political spectrum: we are as diverse as society itself, and that’s what makes us strong. As I wrote recently, “when the ship you’re standing on is sinking: it doesn’t matter if you’re on the left of right side of it.”
I hoped GreenpeaceUSA would end their anti-Bitcoin campaign before their credibility and relevance to the new generation of millennials they are currently disenfranchising is completely severed.
But it seems at the moment they are more intent on doubling down on misinformation. Their leadership must change for them to ever have hope of becoming a true voice for the environment again.
Is being a climate denier a sin against Gaia, or is that just ad hominem?
now that i've been on the other side of that arrangement, I understand why employers offer 401k over IRAs. The underlying reason is that officers are able to set aside larger sums of pre tax or roth money into the company's 401k than any other tax deferred vehicle. When i say larger sums i mean a significant proportion of the company's profits, that might add up to as much as five times or more of what an employee is allowed to put away. In exchange for being able to do that as the owner or officer of the company, the employer is required to offer a retirement matching amount to his employees and this is considered a profit sharing program.
The structure of the retirement matching program is that the company is the custodian of the retirement funds, and most small companies are even medium companies will choose to hire that out to a third party who is responsible for managing and reporting that retirement program. This is why when you start with a new company after the probationary period, when you're allowed to join the retirement program, your asked to talk to the retirement administrator which is always someone at some kind of a financial management firm. It's because of the arrangement where the company is ultimately responsible for your retirement funds that that type of program as only allowed to use managed investments and that's where the entire mutual fund industry comes from, that is to service companies that want to offer 401k's but legally aren't allowed to make any investment recommendations directly to their employees. Reasons being that a corporation good qualify as something called a qualified investor and that means that the corporation if it were managing a retirement fund could theoretically dip into their retirement fund and invest their employees retirement money in two high risk investments particularly this that or not outside of arm's reach relationships. This modern arrangement of retirement options for the average employee is intended to reform the private company pension fund swindles that were happening in the sixties seventies and eighties.
It's dillinger's way of describing the gossip model. The idea is that you look in an npub's prefered publishing "outbox" for their posts (type 1) and you could "dead drop" to a relay their profile indicates where they prefer to rendevous to pick up their incoming DMs (i.e. "inbox")
I'm very impressed. Very very impressed. This documentary connects all the dots between international bankers, international mobsters, international nazis, secret societies and every US president of the past 100 years.
https://rumble.com/v2czv70-jfk-to-911-everything-is-a-rich-mans-trick-documentary.html
Gold will eventually settle to around 10000 sats per troy ounce, maybe lower.
If you could make jewelry out of bitcoin, women would like that too. Its all about displaying status, nothing to do with shiny metal rocks.
Lets see...
The senate has a bill before them giving cart blanche power over social media companies to the intelligence and justice departments
... AND....
The media is talking about a nutsoid proposal they are ALSO talking about in the senate for a 32 hour work week.
These fuckfaces do not work for the American people.
Bernie is out of his mind lol
What is happening now is what I call the rope-a-dope
Essentially its that your client will go directly to your follow's "preferred" relay to reduce load on big relays and make sure they aren't being censored due to centralization.