Karl Marx dumped his bastard on Engels and kept writing the workers’ manifesto. When the housekeeper got pregnant in 1851 he refused to claim the boy, so Engels took the paternity hit while Marx stayed in London drafting class theory. After that, Engels spent three decades running a Manchester cotton mill, the exact kind of factory Marx called the engine of exploitation, to cover Marx’s rent, debts, and the funerals of 3 of his 6 children who died young. Before he ever finished Capital, he had already refused regular work for decades, never set foot in a factory himself, and relied on government reports plus Engels’s observations. In private letters, he ranked people by race and called a rival a “Jewish nigger”. He died with only volume one published. The unfinished notes became the doctrine later politicians still run on.

"The war will cost 155 billion euros next year. And we need at least 70 billion euros more from you..." –Zelensky today at the European Commission

Let’s correct this ignorant take on white and black crime along with poverty and crime. It’s more about culture, decision making and values than it is about income..

Watch how institutional power is not merely normalized, but openly celebrated in Bitcoin's social layer. Wealth, status, access, and proximity to power are elevated, while Bitcoin's founding principles, including sovereignty and the separation of money and state, are ridiculed. The values of the fiat system Bitcoin was created to challenge are being repackaged as Bitcoin's path to success. On November 5, Mars Spits Bars takes this worldview to BTC Inc's Bitcoin Amsterdam, on a Whale Pass-only panel titled: “BIG BITCOIN: IN CONTROL?” The CAPTURE articles documents the institutional relationships and mechanisms of influence. Bitcoin's social layer is the final line of defense against complete institutional capture. But if that very social layer is being conditioned to celebrate institutional power, ridicule principled opposition, and attack those exposing its concentration, who exactly is left to resist it?

ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics. @ElissaSlotkin

That particular moment when Victoria Nuland, in 2016, was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup. She spelled it all out without shame: 🔴US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries. 🔴American-trained cops patrolling 18 cities. 🔴The US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet. 🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military. Let's cut all the crap,this wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid. "Unprovoked" 😂😂😂😂

This is arguably the worst thing a father could do to his daughter. Poor kid doesn't even know how to respond.

"Your Liquid BTC is still frozen, but here's a free bag with Andy's picture on it"

Zelenskys thugs try to kill a man escaping Ukraine by smashing him in the head with an oar and drowning him. He was swimming the Dnester river that separates Moldova and Ukraine. These are the savages Europeans are paying. This is "European Freedom"

Violent leftists being violent leftists.

if this is accurate, it seems the violent revolutionaries are acting like violent revolutionaries. and they are targeting the democrats first. tried to tell them…

Gavin Newsom: "Elon Musk is one of the great disappointments...he's ceding the EV space to China...he's put the brakes on his own innovation" What did we do to deserve such a ridiculous buffoon for governor? Truly the dumbest mimbo alive.

Remember how the North Texas Antifa terror cell was federally convicted earlier this year and sentenced collectively to hundreds of years in prison over the ICE shooting? As I reported then, their woes are not over. The Texas state charges in Johnson County remain. Antifa militant Lynette Sharp, who took a federal plea deal months ago, is now the first to be convicted in a state plea deal. The anti-Christian radical pleaded guilty on Oct. 15 to charges of engaging in organized criminal activity, smuggling of persons (she helped ringleader Benjamin Song escape the shooting), and hindering the prosecution of terrorism. She was sentenced to nine years in prison—to be served concurrently with her federal prison sentence. See my reporting on the Antifa terror cell. At least four of the members are trans, including the leader. ngocomment.com/p/andy-ngo-li…

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Bitcoin Blake2B Coinbase Maturity Extensions

KYC is an attack on humanity. When you KYC your customers, you ensure that their personal information will eventually end up on the dark web and could be used in wrench attacks. There's obviously no way to use a hard fork to stop an exchange for asking for your information. Just boycott 'em and use non-KYC exchanges. Again, the main point of non-KYC is to protect your family, not to evade taxes

I know several former Soviet dissidents, such as Edward Lozansky, who moved to the United States, where he worked with former American presidents. Lozansky asked me if I could produce some recorded online lectures on geoeconomics. I asked my university here in Norway, but they were opposed to the idea because it could cause a lot of problems. I told Lozansky that I could not contribute, as recording online lectures for an American-Russian university established to improve relations between Russia and the West would give Norwegian journalists too much ammunition for smears and to threaten the reputation of my university. What is the purpose of articles like this? What exactly have they managed to catch me out on? This is a continuation of six years of intimidation since I returned to Norway. Always go after the person, never the argument. Make life as difficult as possible for your opponent, and do it publicly, so that everyone stays in line. My great crime is arguing that Russia considers NATO expansion an existential threat, something that should be entirely uncontroversial given the extensive documentation supporting this position. Why do I believe it is important to acknowledge this? Russia will use force to push NATO back, and for Ukraine, this means that without a diplomatic solution that takes Russian security concerns into account, Russia will seize strategically important territory and destroy the remaining infrastructure so that Ukraine cannot be used by NATO as a front line. If I am right, NATO's policies will lead to the destruction of Ukraine and potentially to a nuclear war between NATO and Russia. It is not easy to determine whether I am right, because debate in Norway has been criminalized by labelling dissenting voices as “Russian propaganda.” Unfortunately, arguments and evidence no longer matter in Norway today, where we are only allowed to discuss the supposed evil intentions of those who disagree with us. The freedom of academic discourse must be restricted because all dissent is dismissed as an attempt to “legitimize” the enemy. In the past, we had journalists who discussed the security concerns of the opposing side. Today, we have journalists who investigate those who discuss the security concerns of the opposing side. How can we improve our own security in Norway when we are not even allowed to discuss the security concerns of Russia, China, Iran, and other countries of that kind? When acceptable debate is reduced to a narrative of a struggle between good and evil, weapons become the path to peace, while diplomacy and mutual understanding are portrayed as weakness and betrayal. The punishment for academic dissent in Norway is endless personal attacks and derogatory name-calling. Journalists and NGOs affiliated with the state repeatedly contact my employer. Every time I am invited to give a talk, the event is cancelled. Journalists only email me to demand that I respond to accusations without providing any serious justification for them. Journalists investigating me in search of something they can use against me recently gained access to my university records. The only thing they had to use against me was that I had asked about producing some online lectures for Lozansky on political economy. Other recent articles about me have focused on my request to reduce my position at the university to 80% after journalists complained about my outside activities, as well as fake news claiming that I congratulated Putin on the election victory. I do not believe it is a coincidence that "An Enemy of the People" was written by one of our own, Henrik Ibsen. Outside Norway, there are academic debates in which opposing arguments are presented without vicious personal attacks. Outside Norway, there is political opposition in which every member of parliament is not required to support arms shipments to a war and boycott diplomacy. Outside Norway, there are diplomats who believe in diplomacy and journalists who believe in journalism. My advice to young Norwegian academics in security studies or political economy who argue for positions that are not supported by the political and media bubble is this: Get out of the country.

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life. At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday." He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy. Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system. He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting. He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way." The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

Ukraine has run out of missiles for the US-made Patriot air defense system, leaving it more vulnerable to Russian ballistic missile attacks, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. cnn.it/4hZMgSZ

An IRS agent showed up at Matt Taibbi’s house the day he testified to Congress about government censorship. His tax cases had already been closed. Investigators later confirmed the returns were marked “no change” by the IRS. Before the Twitter Files, Taibbi spent two decades at Rolling Stone attacking Goldman Sachs as a “vampire squid” and covering the 2008 bailouts. After Elon gave him the internal files in 2022 and he reported that the FBI and DHS had submitted hundreds of requests to suppress accounts, the same institutions and journalists who once praised his Wall Street work turned on him. Mehdi Hasan called the files a propaganda exercise. Others dismissed him as a right wing stooge. The government he spent years criticizing from the left used its tools on him once he started documenting what it actually did.