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  1. Are You a Decision Ninja? The Atlas Society Asks Nuala WalshView the full article
  2. Super-attorney Robert Barnes is not amused. This is going to be one hell of a fight. Even many of the bad guys in the government are going to go against the government since their own money is tied up in Bitcoin. Michael
  3. Peter, If Trump were in office these past few years, there would be no war in Ukraine. And once he gets back in office, Ukraine will still exist. And yes, Ukraine and Russia will be shaking hands. That's the reality the war mongers who embezzle US funds do not like to talk about. They need to slaughter humans to make their money. Do you remember what Trump said when a reporter asked him a few weeks ago which side he was on with the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's retaliation? He said he wanted the killing to stop. That was his answer. (Even Jesus used to answer questions in that manner. Do you believe in a or b? And the answer would be a principle.) Making the killing stop is Trump's view about the Ukraine war, too. That is not the view of the Deep State nor the Predator Class--especially not the parasite and predator cronies in the Pentagon. They want more and more killing and more and more embezzlement. And they want to use American taxes and print money out of nothing and cause inflation to make it happen. And the dead who were killed needlessly? Hell, who worries about the dead, needless or otherwise? Just so long as the insiders get theirs. Michael
  4. This looks like a test case for the Predator Class governments and banks on what to do to gain power over Bitcoin. These charges were just now filed even though the taxable event was in 2014 and involved Bitcoin. However, there was no way to assess the value of Bitcoin in any formal manner back then. Also, the statute of limitations on the government charging for back taxes is 10 years. I read a comment in the thread that the government took this one down to the wire and just barely filed charges in time to stay within the limit. I don't think the government is going to give up on this, so this is something we need to keep our eye on. There is no way the government can confiscate someone's Bitcoin, but there is a possibility of the government confiscating a human being and throwing him or her in jail. There is some good news, though. By the government doing this case, it is showing what it is both capable of and not capable of. If you have a lot of Bitcoin, learn your exposure to tax laws. Then work around them. It's a pain in the butt, but I think this will become a necessary evil. You don't need to be legal, but you do need to be hidden for 10 years. And if you are legal (even if by a loophole) for 10 years, you are good with the government. I mean, the government will hate you, so you won't be good on that score, but the government will be constrained by its own rules. Until it changes the rules, of course. And when it goes broke, guess what it will do? Michael
  5. Re the student Gaza protests and takeovers of the universities. Back when there were sit-ins etc. against the Vietnam war, Ayn Rand had plenty to say. She ended up publishing a book of essays featuring it (The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, which was republished after her death under the title Return of the Primitive.) I want to compare the modern Gaza protests with back then, but there is so much dumbassery today, it's hard to make the comparison. For instance, check this out. The students who took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University didn't worry about basic survival supplies. Now they are asking the public for food and guarantees they can send people out for food. If I wanted to make this up, this scene would be a pretty good turning point in a comedy about dumbasses. And, after seeing that, I don't think Ayn Rand--if she were alive today--would bother writing about it like she did back in the 60s. At that level, who are those dumbasses going to threaten for real? What philosophical principles are they challenging? They all have plenty of money and can't even feed themselves. They forgot to plan for it while staging a pretend-violent takeover of a building. Michael
  6. I finally came across a reason for the continued billions going to Ukraine other than oceans of greed by the embezzling insiders in the Deep State and Military Industrial Complex. And that reason is? The people around Biden do not want him to face an election with the image of being a president who lost Ukraine. So even thought the Ukraine situation is lost, they want the image to be strong. And the Deep State, in addition to its own sleazy and toxic machinations, is catching a ride on this concern. Let me repeat that. The people around Biden do not want his image to be a president who lost Ukraine. Now I even understand why Mike Johnson voted as tie-breaker on this latest corrupt funding. Setting aside all the backroom corruption and war mongering, I believe Johnson has sincere patriotic beliefs. And one of them would be to not allow a US president (even the current impostor) to be seen by the world as losing a war, as losing Ukraine. In a misguided neocon kind of way, he thinks a false image is better than the truth because somehow this will be better for the USA, thus better for the world. Is this true? I can't know for sure, but there is some cognitive dissonance I have had about all this since forever, and that cognitive dissonance just went away. Nobody is talking about this image concern, but my cognitive dissonance that has been plaguing me did go away. Michael
  7. This caught me by surprise. I never, in a million years, thought this would happen. Oh.. and there's this. Try to audit that money... You will be laughed out of the room. The subtext from those laughing will be: That money is not to fight a war. What are you, stupid? Michael
  8. We need this in the US. In El Salvador, Presidente Bukele just warned his executive administration that they are all under investigation, both for previous acts and for the future. He said he is not a thief and he does not want to be surrounded by thieves. That is not the legacy he intends to leave. From what I've seen, he arrested a public works administrator who was getting kickbacks and that probably got him on this wavelength. But it's a great wavelength to be on since El Salvador is the first country in human history to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. When I see Bukele do things like this, I wish he could be Trump's VP or Trump's successor. Michael
  9. Here we go. It's starting to happen for real. DON JR'S TRIGGERED: STEVE BANNON - A Look Inside the WarRoom (4/29/24) RUMBLE.COM Aired 4/29/24 Steve Bannon went on Don Jrs show and killed it. I know Steve talks to Trump Sr via phone and sometimes goes to Mar-a-Lago. But in terms of integration with the inside of Trump's world, Steve has mostly been on the outside looking in. Sure, he's been a major player in creating the MAGA movement from the ground up, but he hasn't been on the inside calling campaign shots and things like that. He's had second-level access up to now. This show is the first sign that he is coming back into the Trump fold as a first-level insider. And, as Don Jr said, this show is the first of many. All they talked about was campaign strategy during the show. Man, is this wonderful. Now we have to hope that Steve does not get tempted to put out a lot of books about himself and what a badass he is. The anti-Trumpers tempted him with this the first go-around and that caused some friction with Trump. Then Steve kinda shit on himself in promoting candidates Trump did not want to promote and a big one lost (Roy Moore in Alabama). I hope Steve has learned his lesson. He's a powerhouse and extreme force amplifier if he can keep his vanity in check. Michael
  10. I just watched the interview with Dugin. In my view, he's a crackpot with some deep insights. For instance, on the crackpot side, how on earth is individualism the enemy? LOL... Dugin was equating individualism with transgenderism and transhumanism. At least Tucker brought in the idea of the state versus individualism. Tucker said that is how Americans understand individualism. Individual freedom from state coercion. Dugin agreed, but said individualism is a kind of concept grows, as it did grow, and went from this first level to beyond its original meaning. But that is not what happened. Just like the word liberal was coopted by collectivists, individual rights are being coopted by fruitcakes and sponsored by crony corporatism. That's reality. Not some word. On the deep insight level, Dugin mentioned that modern films do not portray family and other traditional values as the future. The movies that deal with the future always portray something sinister. That's a hell of a thing to think about since this is happening right under our noses. He's right. It's time to start telling different stories in the culture. One thing is for sure. Nothing I saw in any way warrants the censorship Dugin is under in the West, nor the assassination of his daughter. I think he's been tagged the scapegoat for the Predator Class--especially the American Predator Class--to keep the war machine propaganda going. Michael
  11. Episode 99. Aleksandr Dugin. Tucker interviewed Aleksandr Dugin, the boogey man of the Endless War for Profit machine. Who knows in the West? Western media propaganda has turned into Western Pravda. And they say boogey man. Rather than be a parrot, let's hear what the man says. Then judge. Boogey men don't make wars. Real men do. The principle? Identify correctly in order to evaluate correctly. Michael
  12. The problem in Ukraine is not that Putin is a good guy or bad guy. (He's a bad guy.) It's that the US, which is supposed to be a good guy, is taking the role of an evil bad guy. If you judge by actions and not words, the US is acting more evil this round. Essentially, this is a fight between two bad guys. Only evil wins. I want the US out of that money-laundering-with-blood mess so I can believe the US is the good guy again. I hate it that the American crony elite class makes its money by killing off American youth and innocents abroad in wars without a point. Michael
  13. Scott Adams says Trump has a superpower. He manages to say what everyone is thinking, but no one is saying. He sure did with the following Truth post from today. QUOTE Israel will find, very sadly, that there are far fewer hostages than currently being thought. That’s why it’s hard for Hamas to make a deal - They are no longer able to produce the people, because many of them are gone. Hamas is incapable of holding Jewish people for a long period of time without killing them, and it will only get worse! ZERO leadership from Biden. October 7th WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IF I WERE PRESIDENT - NOT EVEN A SMALL CHANCE!!! DJT END QUOTE Hamas people cannot live in close personal proximity to Jews for long without trying to kill them. And when they control Jews, Hamas people outright kill those Jews. That's the core of the problem right there. Hatred works that way. As Chanel Dion says, do not unify with evil. Be divisive with it. Rand said it differently. I paraphrase. In any compromise with evil, only evil gains since the good has nothing to gain from evil. Michael
  14. Jordan Peterson and Ayn Rand and off The following video is a discussion Jordan Peterson has with Michael Malice about 4 months ago. The Ayn Rand part starts about 1:05:24 and, even thought they drifted at times, they kept coming back to Rand. I'm putting this in Ethics because that is the biggest focus of this video (despite the title), and frankly, the biggest focus of Jordan's work, far more than politics or even psychology (except when he is specifically teaching it). This discussion is a perfect example of how they go into Rand's ideas and relate them to other topics. I am very pleased Jordan kept asking Michael to correct him if he, perchance, was portraying Rand's ideas in a wrong way. At the very end, Jordan told Michael it looks like, after all is said and done, they agree. And he found that quite annoying. Here is a Rumble version in case the YouTube version goes down. Discussing Communism | Anarchist Michael Malice w' Jordan Peterson RUMBLE.COM 12.21.2023 Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in-person with author and podcaster, Michael Malice. They discuss his latest book, “The White Pill.” From this they explore the philosophy of Ayn Rand, anar I will add more things by Jordan on this thread as we go along. Sometimes he will be discussing Ayn Rand and others off in a different direction. I will include some comments by others on Jordan, too. Enjoy this one. It was a great discussion. Michael
  15. Remember those three young super-liberal dorks who decided to take a bicycle ride over in ISIS territory when ISIS was chopping off heads in public? The idiots did that so they could spread peace and love. And remember how ISIS killed them? The clip below reminded me of this. Conceptual referent time, folks. That's what it looks like when a bleeding heart liberal (probably woke at that) crashes up against radical idiots who hate her just for existing. Both of these kinds of humans should be doomed species, but they aren't. They are like cockroaches. No matter how many get squashed, and plenty do get squashed, more show up. Imagine living next to this kind of crap day in and day out like Israel has to. Michael