It's natural to assume that the 'US dollar' is a United States thing, but I've some questions about this.  Technically the USD is controlled (aka, 'owned') by the Federal Reserve which is a private entity.  This entity was started with significant impulse from the Rothschild banking house who presumably took at least a large stake in it, and there seems little reason to believe that they ever liquidated their share over the last century.  An 'Audit the Fed' program could shed some light on this...which helps explain why it will never happen.

As for Israel, the same Rothschild banking house was key to setting up Israel, and a simple read of history makes it pretty clear that Israel was 'their baby.'  Going all the way back to WW-I the Balfour Declaration was addressed to Lord Rothschild and outlined the desire to have 'Palestine' be a 'homeland for the Jews.'  A fallout of WW-I was the fall of the Ottoman empire and thus freeing up of Palestine.  The fallout from WW-II saw the formation of the Jewish state of Israel.

Between the above two observations and the 'world reserve currency' status, I think it is fair to ponder whether the the USD is not as much an 'Israeli thing' as it is an 'American thing' at this point.

I, as an American, have no particular beef with the Persians.  On the other hand, those who have loyalties to the Jewish state of Israel cause what I perceive to be all kinds of grief in my country.  If Iran is operational in Syria it is by invite from the legitimate leader of Syria.  Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons and has a history of using the threat of nuclear attack to 'win wars' by the looks of things.  Iran has been on the receiving end of several decades of blatant threats by Israel.  The only logical defensive strategy when threatened by a nuclear armed belligerent is to disperse forces that they can pose a threat to the attacker even if one's country is turned into glass.

'We' in America current enjoy the benefits of the USD being world reserve.  Or do we?  The benefit is not felt very equally.  What good is it to be made rich and strong if the strength is going to be tapped to fight foreign wars which do most people no good at all, and especially if the country itself is running deficits and going into significant debt.  For my part, I'm feeling that it's about time to default and switch to a new monetary system.  More and more people are seeing the scam of using someone elses' debt-backed monetary system.  It's well documented on enough people's thumb drives so there is a pretty good chance that we'll avoid making the same mistake twice when a replacement is formed.  Even if we are not ideally ready in this respect, I'm willing to take a chance if we could possibly make the switch before being herded into WW-III.

From an individual perspective, I very much like to show my support with my wallet.  Since 2011, the promise of crypto-currencies has been, to me, that it becomes practical to do so.  I, as an individual, would like to be able to choose to support Persia and not support the Rothschild banking house and their minions.  I would like to be able to perform transactions with the benefit of whatever transaction fees I pay accruing to Iran.  Or at least to any entity who is giving me the best deal.

Crypto-currencies have always been primarily a political thing to me, and a hopeful replacement for guns and bombs.  If they don't come in time to avoid the next great engineered depopulation event, I can only hope that they are used to their potential in the rebuilding that comes after.

Maybe he 'hates our freedoms.'

On top of that, the police may be interested in other things besides 'protecting' a person.  It is the common case in many parts of the world, and can be expected to increase here in the U.S. as more and more police force funding comes from civil asset forfeiture.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp0p7b0Wf7o

Just about every gun-grabber I've heard is very much in favor of more guns for the paramilitaries rather than fewer.  This meshes with the hypothesis that the money behind the push for civilian gun grabbing is put up by people who are looking to a future where they use the police muscle to shake down non-aligned civilians who have something worth taking.  I would expect exactly such a scenario to occur when the U.S. defaults on our debt and the (bought and payed for) courts decide how settlement is to occur.

A fair number of people in Syria are Christian as well, and seem relatively well protected and happy to fight along side their Muslim countrymen for their country.  I've not gotten around to looking into the Koran much, but as I understand it Jesus was acknowledged and somewhat respected.

The Talmud is a much more important document than the Koran from the perspective of an American by virtue of the fact that Talmudics have vastly more sway over our government than the Islamics.  That document has some amazing things to say about Jesus, Mary, goyim in general and our relationship to Jews, ethnic cleansing, etc, etc.  It sheds a great deal of light on the basis of a lot of the evils we see all around us.

[Transplanted from a recently locked thread:]  Parse carefully what the likes of Gen. Mattis will say.

"I have personally reviewed the intelligence, and there is no doubt the Syrian regime is responsible for the decision to attack and for the attack itself."

I agree with Mattis 100%.  The Assad regime, by winning the war fair and square and beating the shit out of the so-called 'ISIS', is responsible for the West+Israel having their operators in Syria doing this false-flag and/or hoax.  Mattis said nothing more and nothing less here.

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I'll (as a former U.S. soldier) add while I'm here that I was just watching a vid of the Syrian army after a victory in Eastern Qalamoun.  Their morale seemed very high, and morale is very important to combat effectiveness.  War is always hell, but being on the right side from an ethical perspective would be a big boost to morale.  The U.S. has not known that feeling for half a century or more.  I hope for no more wars, but if that fails, I hope that we can at least fight and die for a just cause.

My hat is off to the Syrian people, their armed forces, and their commander-in-chief.  Sometimes by chance a nation gets the right guy at the right time, and it seems to me that that is the case with Syria in the early part of the 21st century.  As an American I wish you-all the best and encourage you to keep up the good fight.  Russia deserves a lot of credit as well for their sacrifices on the right side of history.  I wish I had the confidence in my fellow countrymen that I have in you people of Syria.  We all know what your future holds for you if you fail.

Parse carefully what the likes of Gen. Mattis will say.

"I have personally reviewed the intelligence, and there is no doubt the Syrian regime is responsible for the decision to attack and for the attack itself."

I agree with Mattis 100%.  The Assad regime, by winning the war fair and square and beating the shit out of the so-called 'ISIS', is responsible for the West+Israel having their operators in Syria doing this false-flag and/or hoax.  Mattis said nothing more and nothing less here.

On the contrary, I would say that one of the problems with religion is that it has no clear way to measure the 'spirit, soul and faith' relative to what is possible in publicly known science at this point.  'Science' can pick a face out of the human mind...sort of.  The religious flocks are VERY prone to follow leaders like Hagee, Robertson, Baker.  (Not to pick on Christians, but it is the culture I know the most about.)

If you think about it, what we pretty much know about the state of technology today, and what the technocrats are promising (with a good deal of hype) in the future with their AI and their 'singularity' and what-not is on par with what at least the Abrahamic religions consider to be true.  That is, and all-seeing entity who you cannot hide from, which will judge a person based on their past actions, and an infinite after-life.

As a 'pure Atheist' (and a systems analyst) I'm currently at least playing with the idea, if not favoring it, that it would make sense to employ the modern 'god-lite' technologies on anyone who wishes to be in an elected leadership position.  Probably voluntarily would work fine.  Basically, if someone wanted to run for a political office, they could take a sophisticated test to find out such things as whether they are more loyal to a greater Israel than they are to the constitution of the United States.  If they don't want to take the test, fine, but they would be at a disadvantage to those who would willingly do so.

I see (first hand) what you mean, but it is still the case to me that the artifacts I see in reality, while far from clear, are at least as well explained by standard phenomenon (mostly the wiring of the human mind) than by more esoteric ideas generally associated with religion or spirituality.

I was an atheist who was influenced by the crypto religious crowd not all that long ago, and I did my share of dogging on the people who I was conditioned to, and in accordance with standard documented procedures.  I remain an atheist insofar as I don't 'resort' to the esoteric in order to try to understand the world, but one who's eyes are a bit more open these days.  Not as much of a sucker.

I'd say that the generally understood and observable concept of 'athiests hating religion' is to simplistic.  There are groups of people who are generally labeled as 'athiestic' but who are probably not very much so at all.  Among the priorities of this group is to get 'the masses' to abandon their competition's flock and, eventually, to join their own.  This is what we see mostly today.

In the West, the highest priority religion of offense to these people actually is Christianity.  This is both because this is the biggest threat, and also because the crypto religions are generally influenced by Talmudic thought when one traces back down through the tree.  Jesus had some choice words for some of the Talmudic leadership back in his day, and there are still some raw grudges 2000 years later.

I'm getting the sense that the world is 'an exam' to a great many people, and the 'right answer' is what they've been instructed as proper and/or virtuous.  If the exact wording matches that of some lesson plan, that is fine and one passes.  If not, the lessons are so simplistic that it could by accident match exactly what others getting a passing grade produce.

The recent (and recently locked iirc) thread 'should you hit a woman' thread is an outstanding example of such a thread.

Seeing how something (I suspect modern universal curriculum) impacts the world in which we live is interesting and valuable, but I won't disagree that it can detracted from other goals of bitcointalk.org.  I would not argue one way or another that the laborious and unseemly task of censorship is or is not appropriate here.  Just happy that it is someone elses' problem/solution.  And wish you guys luck.

With the latest Syria bombing Jones finally had enough of Trump and went off.  Jones is an actor and a good one, but I happened to see his tirade live and studied parts of it which were captured and there are some indications that it is at least in part for real.

The 'transmission' which I just got done listening to contains some indications that Jones has expanded his research into some critical areas.  If he's been doing this for the last number of months I'd not have noticed because I've watched very little.  I did notice a couple of new faces who seem OK (though I did also see Kumia bumming around and I think the guy is a rat.)

Anyway, some of Jone's work of the last 48 hours is sufficient to give me and excuse to buy some more of his toothpaste.  Since I like the stuff I've been tempted to buy some anyway but refused as long as he's been being a Trump apologist and Zionist shill douche-bag.

Here's my take on world politics today...which may be just prior to 'the great depopulation'(tm) if the new-age Lucifarian creeps get their way:

The fact that so far Putin has not been goaded into WW-III yet makes him the most respected major world leader in my book.  That said, he's influenced heavily the Chabad-Lubavitch in his country in much the same way as the Trump fam is here.  Russia is also famous for political stagecraft which they employ on their people at least as effectively as our leaders do here.  Putin is not to be trusted.

My respect for Bashar al-Assad has been growing for a decade or so and is now at a very high level.  I didn't figure he had a chance against the odds 10 or 15 or whatever years ago when his dad died.  My theory is that if you can find a person who doesn't want to be the leader, keep ahold of him/her as long as possible.  Assad has held together a diverse country of Sunni, Shia, and Christian people in the face of some of the most devious and well funded opposition probably in the history of civilization.  I'd be delighted to have a candidate for POTUS who was 1/10 the guy he is.  I suspect that because I was not the only person to under-estimate the guy he has had a chance to get as far as he has.

As readers of this thread know, I was so desperate to not have Hillary as POTUS that I actually donated money to the Trump campaign.  Mistake.  They spam me daily for more money and show no signs of letting up.  Here, in an open forum, is my response to them:

The other day I got a message from 'Eric' saying that 'Laura told him' that she had not heard from me. or something absurd like that.  I only donated a few hundred bucks so I'm not exactly a Sheldon Adleson here.  Clearly these crypto-Jews buy into the idea that we goyim are as stupid as a rock.  They should review the 'Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion' because one of the many brilliancies in that document is that we goy are actually not that far behind God's Chosen in the native intellect department and can be a threat to their plans.  Clearly those medical/industrial scum who pump statin drugs (which literally eat the cholesterol matrix of the brain) have studies the Protocols and taken the lessons to heart.

Trump = fucking sell-out crypto-Jew asshole.  The main difference is that we got an extra year vs. Clinton who would have had us totally immersed militarily in the greater Israel project a year earlier.  Thankfully Trump sold us out before they got our guns, and I doubt that Hillary would have made that mistake.

Having one's body chemistry and biological development manipulated can assist in making a 'choice'.  A modest read of history shows that the leadership class has been ga-ga about the potential for a century or more.  Perhaps much more.

Agree from personal experience, but what can happen is that porn viewers (probably 80-90 percent of the sub-50 population in the 'developed world') are acclimated to the idea that gay/trans/whatever sexual behavior is highly prevalent.  I suspect that it probably is not.  At least not within historic populations.  Populations who have been exposed to non-lethal chemical warfare (e.g., bisphenol-A in plastics) and a variety of targeted propaganda campaigns (e.g, the material produced by sadistic pedophile 'scientist' Alfred Kinsey) may be in a situation where the 'natural' rate of unusual sexual behavior is now more the norm.  The U.S. and a number of 'Western Democracies' are probably in this category.

To be an effective soldier one needs to become a psychopath because it necessitates killing people who you don't even know and have done nothing to you.  What the U.S. calls 'TRADOC' ('Training and Indoctrination') has the job of converting fairly ordinary people into psychos in the cases where they were not already.  Yes, I've 'been there, done that.'  I knew very few people in the U.S. military who believed much of the 'freedom' bullshit, though we were conditioned to parrot such things.  It was mostly a crutch to help with the pain of being a psycho, potential psycho, or having a psycho family member I suspect.  At least here in 'the land of the free.'

The 'normal' human mind is wired for just this kind of psychopathy because the populations who had it through history had an evolutionary advantage.  They grew while the 'abnormal' populations with to many 'peacniks' shrunk at the former's hand.  As I explore the methods of 'leadership', I'm more and more of the mind that leadership is the art of modulating and controlling natural psychopathy within the target population.  So-called 'brainwashing' is one of the tools for doing so.

I left the Bay Area half a decade ago, and went to an area where there is not even any cell phone coverage.  Over that time my 'mind has changed' in a lot of ways, and I think for the better.  Part of it was that I have some incentive and more time to do in-depth research, but there may be more to it.  I don't rule out the possibility that there are some environmental factors which could be influencing how people think about certain key subjects, and if so, electromagnetic radiation seem to be the most likely way to achieve such things.  Research along these lines has been going on for half a century or more and is fairly well documented.

Another thing of note.  While I spend most of my time in an electromagnetically 'quite' area where I live, I do go shopping every week or two.  At a certain area of a certain large grocery store, I suddenly notice that I'm feeling 'whoozy' for lack of a better word.  I don't think it is completely an invention of my mind because normally I notice the effect then remember feeling that way before.  My hypothesis is that there is something environmental going on and since I am normally not exposed to it, I've become sensitive enough to be consciously impacted by it.  I would point out that this phenomenon was fairly repeatable for a few years but over the last year I really have not noticed it.

The 'onerous' nature of corp/gov crypt-currency regulatory and tax treatment sounds to me like one of those "it's not a bug, it's a feature." things.  

Surely it would be obvious that the government and the international bankers who own the government are not going to bend over backward to 'foster the technology' and blah, blah, blah.  They are almost certainly going to set all kinds of mousetraps...albeit with enough secret escape buttons to get their own asses out of trouble since a great deal of crypto activity is that class themselves playing around with it for fun and profit.

For my part, I'm fairly happy to have things be nebulous.  As best I and my CPA can figure I owe long term capital gains tax when I have long term capital gains.  Pretty simple actually.  Since I never have though Bitcoin suitable for buying trinkets I've never used it for such duty, and a welcome side effect is that this simplifies my taxes.  Now, if it turns out that LTCG was not appropriate, I'll file a claim against the IRS and probably never pay taxes again...in the unlikely event that I could win in court that is, and the banker class seems to own the courts as totally as they do our politicians.

Absent 'revenge', a person who is willing to exploit another person when the opportunity arises wins nearly every time.  The result is that exploitative behavior is a better strategy and thus will become endemic in society.