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Fully agreed. I'm a designer, urbanist, building ecologies of architecture. I have changed my goals and trajectory to now explore how I can help X-Musk build future cities. Ecology is a biological life-support system unique to Earth so far as we know. I'm betting there is value in bringing it with us on our multi-planetary journey.

More to come about the Hanseatic League! Very interesting part of history.

Nice! The Hanseatic league influences my thinking in many ways. Some years ago, I met a Lübeck bürgermeister, also sitting President of the 'New Hanseatic League' - a bold attempt to revive the league inside the current State system. Well-intentioned, but missing the key: sovereignty beyond the Nationstate. The Hanza had a unique urban perspective - small trade-driven enclaves in port cities that were respected as "outside" the rule of local law (regional kings, city-states, etc) - bound and protected only by the principle of the alliance. I was hooked after discovering how young and untested Nations actually are. We are taught that Nations are natural, universal, real things. We blur lines between modern Nations and historical countries, as if the two are self-similar. That the Nation simply a tool to keep out evil, anarchy and chaos. Except the Hanza were vastly more stable as a decentralized non-territorial alliance for 500yrs. Nations, by contrast, have only been tested for 200yrs, and already been responsible for two visible world wars, several invisible ones, the GFC and approaching fiat collapse, and a global (federal) reserve system that eats all sovereignty. However: There is no reason to think Nations aren't just a bubble. And tension is mounting. Can we rebuild decentralised alliances again post-Nationstate?

The Hanseatic League solved commercial disputes for 400 years without a single government court, police force, or regulatory agency—and they did it better than any modern state system. From 1159 to 1669, German merchants spanning from London to Novgorod created the most sophisticated private arbitration network in history. When a Hamburg trader accused a Lübeck merchant of breach of contract, they didn't petition some distant king or wait months for bureaucratic tribunals. They brought their dispute before merchant courts staffed by actual businessmen who understood trade, contracts, and reputation. These arbitrators rendered decisions within days, not years. The enforcement mechanism? Pure market discipline. The League maintained detailed records of every merchant's behavior and shared this information across all member cities. Cross a Hanseatic trader in Bergen, and you'd find yourself blacklisted from Riga to Bruges within weeks. No bailiffs, no jackbooted enforcers, no violence—just the inexorable power of reputation and voluntary association. And it worked spectacularly. The League dominated Northern European commerce for half a millennium precisely because merchants trusted their dispute resolution more than royal courts. But here's what modern lawyers and judges will never tell you: the Hanseatic system resolved disputes faster, cheaper, and more accurately than contemporary government courts. Why? Because the arbitrators actually understood commerce and faced real consequences for bad decisions. Screw up a ruling as a Hanseatic arbitrator, and merchants would stop using your services. Screw up as a federal judge today, and you get lifetime tenure. The League died when centralized nation-states crushed private governance with military force, not because their system failed. Every blockchain arbitration platform and private dispute resolution service today merely rediscovers what German merchants perfected 800 years ago.

My world view is simple. Free people build better countries than governments do. I believe in low taxes, small government, personal responsibility, property rights, freedom of speech, freedom of enterprise, and the right of people to build a better life for themselves and their families. I believe hard work should be rewarded. Success should be respected. Merit should matter. Ownership matters. Families matter. Strong communities matter. I do not believe the government creates wealth. It can only tax it, regulate it, waste it, or get out of the way and let productive people build. I believe the best society is one where a normal hardworking person can earn a living, buy a home, raise children, save money, and move forward with dignity. Less bureaucracy. Less dependence. Less theft through tax. More freedom. More building. More ownership. More accountability. That is my politics. That is my economics. That is my moral view. A free, responsible, property owning society will beat a dependent, overgoverned one every time.

All I see when I come across this stuff is a woke ideology protecting itself from those that may dare to ask questions or challenge its leftist dogma. It’s weak and pathetic.

What people think MMT(Modern Monetary Theory) is: - "Free money" without consequences - Smart economists who found a cheat code - Modern breakthrough in monetary theory What MMT actually is: - Repackaged chartalism from the 1900s - Government printing press with academic lipstick - The same inflationary destruction that bankrupted Weimar Germany in 1923 MMT advocates tell you deficits don't matter because government creates money. But Venezuela's government created bolívars too (and look how that ended). You can't print wealth into existence—you only steal it from savers through currency debasement. The math stays brutal: every dollar they conjure dilutes yours.

A left wing politician calling a business or individual “greedy” is one of the strangest things in modern politics. The government already takes close to half of what many productive citizens earn once you combine income tax, GST, fuel taxes, rates, and countless other levies. They then spend that money however they see fit. But if someone builds a company, creates jobs, takes risk with their own capital, and keeps the profits they earned… suddenly that person is called greedy. Think about the logic. The individual earns the money. The government takes a large portion of it by force. And the individual is the greedy one. There is nothing greedy about wanting to keep the rewards of your own work. The truly dangerous idea is believing the state has a moral claim to everything you produce. Free people building businesses is what creates wealth in the first place. Without them there would be nothing for governments to tax. Calling the creators of wealth greedy while consuming their output is not moral clarity. It is economic illiteracy.

The Opera House in Budapest Hungary

Do you remember this ,Ontario? Before the Liberals pushed invaders into rural communities destroying our way of life

One of India’s most eminent cardiologist’s, referencing Pfizer’s former Chief Toxicologist alludes to the fact that the Covid mRNA jabs may be behind a surge in cancer. Thank you for speaking out Deepak 🙏

This is insane. The BBC just dropped a propaganda film where an English extremist is sniping a child on an illegal migrant dinghy. 1. There are NO children on the boats 2. There has NEVER been an attack on an illegal migrant, they attack English children

There you have it. Democrats won’t fund DHS/TSA until it’s clear ICE agents won’t show up at polling places to stop illegal aliens from voting. They might as well announce they’re cheating with a bullhorn.

What is the importance of an armed militia? Our country was founded on the backbone of a populace armed with a profound sense of independence and muskets. 250 years ago Britain's Gen. Gage sat in Boston, isolated and not fully aware of the "hornets" outside his island of British rule. He thought he would send a message to the strong willed, independent colonists. He sent 700 regular British troops to march to Concord and seize the militia's weapons and powder. Enroute, one shot in Lexington commons led to a volley. The British devastated the colonist with that volley. This probably looked easy to the disciplined British troops used to using parade formation and ranks. They had no fucking clue what was about to happen. The future Americans poured out of the woods, crossed fields and the North Bridge. These weren't hardened, disciplined troops trained in field manuevers and parade formations. They were tough sons of bitches who knew how to shoot. And they were all armed. They hid behind trees. In houses. Behind stone walls. They basically formed a continuous circle of angry colonists that moved with the ragged, frightened British troops. The only thing that probably saved those British soldiers was 1,000 reinforcements. Even then they had to keep retreating until they reached Boston and the protection of the British brigades and the navy. Never underestimate the power of an armed populace seeking freedom from oppression. "Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace." Thomas Paine from "Common Sense" 1776

Dear restaurant owners: We all hate the QR code menus. Stop. -everyone

Alberta has the 3rd largest reserves of oil in the world. Not Canada.

The Spanish conservative leader asks the Hungarian people to not allow themselves to be puppets to the elitists in Brussels

For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out. Here's how it went: 1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14. 2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0. 3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5. It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops. Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID. I know you guys knew that already... lol

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