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Operator-investor-advisor. Early FB intl BD. 100% skin in the game. Iron Lion Zion.
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I’ve been trying to make better sense of the AI news cycle: what’s actually changing, where the money is going, and what is still just a good story.
So I built Weekly Narrative Radar—a weekly note on the narratives I’m watching, the evidence behind them, and what would make me change my mind.
weeklynarrativeradar.com/
Ran out of @bot tokens. Upside: Launched 5 new businesses in the last 24 hours.
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If you want to understand modern antisemitism, you need to go back to Moscow in 1982.
This is the cover of Mahmoud Abbas’s thesis, later published as The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.
Abbas is not just another Palestinian politician. He is the President of the Palestinian Authority, Chairman of the PLO, and the man Western governments have treated for decades as a partner for peace.
Yet Abbas wrote his thesis in the Soviet Union, promoting Holocaust distortion and the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis.
But the story goes much further.
Documents from the Mitrokhin Archive identified Abbas as a KGB agent in Damascus in 1983, operating under the codename “Krotov,” meaning “Mole.” Think about what this means: The man who leads the PLO today was KGB agent.
For decades, the Soviet Union weaponized the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It supported Palestinian organizations and systematically repackaged antisemitism in the language of anti-Zionism, anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism.
Abbas emerged from this Soviet political environment and maintained close relations with Moscow. Russia continues to exploit the Palestinian issue to expand its influence, destabilize Western societies and undermine Western alliances.
And here is what I find extraordinary.
The West has allowed itself to be overwhelmed by a political narrative shaped by one of the most successful and enduring influence campaigns in modern history.
An entire generation has been taught to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through an ideological framework that was cultivated decades ago by Soviet propaganda.
Today, that framework has found powerful new allies in the Red-Green alliance between radical progressive movements and Islamist organizations.
The accusations have barely changed. Zionists are Nazis. Israel is responsible for the world’s suffering. Jews are portrayed as powerful conspirators controlling governments, media and wars.
What Soviet propaganda once spread through political organizations, universities and intelligence networks is now amplified by social media algorithms, influencers, university campuses and mass demonstrations across Western cities.
The technology has changed. The distribution has accelerated. But the ideological foundations remain remarkably familiar.
And the most disturbing part? Many Western institutions, politicians and intellectuals have embraced elements of this narrative without questioning where it came from or whose geopolitical interests it serves.
The Palestinian cause has become far more than a national movement. It has also been exploited as an instrument of ideological warfare against Israel, Jews and the democratic West.
Abbas’s 1982 thesis is not simply a disturbing historical document. It is a window into the ideological origins of a campaign whose influence we continue to witness today.
He who curse Israel…
BREAKING: Norway's 🇳🇴 wealth fund is losing billions after divesting from Israel.
The fund dumped Israeli companies over the past year for political reasons.
In that same year, Tel Aviv's main index rose 40%, more than double the S&P 500.
Now the fund reports a $30 billion loss in one quarter.
They let politics run their portfolio, and Norwegian pensioners are paying for it.
This woman used to be hailed by the SV tech elite. How times have changed. How low can one sink.
On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him."
Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file:
"If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him."
"So they're going to start investigating again. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list."
"He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it's coming for him. And real hard."
They're all just saying this stuff out loud now. There are no secrets about what they want to do.
Chaka Khan: Tiny Desk Concert is the best one ever! What a woman and what a band! youtu.be/Gse1LKXuV2M?si=dQ_z… via @YouTube
Its time to move all internet communications to Space
🚨 BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary Guards have reportedly threatened to attack seven undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz.
These cables help connect millions of people to the global internet. The Iranian regime isn't just threatening the Middle East. It's threatening the infrastructure the entire world depends on
The older I get, the less I trust people who are never wrong out loud. Everyone I respect has a short list of calls they blew and can tell you exactly why.
AI didn't make execution cheap. It made starting cheap. Everyone's running ten projects now. The edge is having the nerve to kill nine of them.
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Premise:
Incentives drive all human behavior.
The corollary:
How to destroy a country:
A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.
An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.
An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.
Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.
The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.
Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.
The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.
The state responding to protests by increasing social support.
The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.
Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.
Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.
Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.
Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.
Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.
The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.
A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.
The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.
The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.
A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.
The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.
Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.
Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.
The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.
Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.
And so on…
