Grant Smith returns to the show to discuss his upcoming conference “The Israel Lobby and American Policy” and the recent Al Jazeera documentary “The Lobby,” which he wrote about in a recent article for Antiwar.com “Will Al Jazeera Air The Lobby Before AIPAC Meets?” Smith also gives a detailed breakdown of the list of great speakers who will be presenting at the conference on March 2nd. You can buy your tickets to see Grant, Scott, and more through Eventbrite.

Grant F. Smith is the author of a number of books including “Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America” and “Divert!”. He is director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.

Discussed on the show:

“The Lobby” (Al Jazeera)

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

The Israel Lobby and American Policy Conference

“Will Al Jazeera Air The Lobby Before AIPAC Meets?” by Grant Smith (Antiwar.com)

Israel Project

“The Inside Story on Our UN Report Calling Israel an Apartheid State,” by Richard Falk (The Nation)

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Zen Cash, The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; LibertyStickers.com; TheBumperSticker.com; and ExpandDesigns.com/Scott.

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Big banks (aka the Banking Cartel) has been able to push us around for too long. With their close ties to the mafia, I mean the government, and their access to monopolized fiat money rails (SWIFT, etc)…we have had nearly no choice to build, store and transact our wealth in terms of money. Sure, we could use cash, but that’s really inconvenient and not congruent with our 21st century, digital world. Let’s face it, we’ve been pushed in to a corner for decades.

Since interest rates are so low, it means that banks may be better off (yield-wise) borrowing from the Central Banks rather than from their typical banking clients. This creates an inverse incentive for customer service and we, the historic loaners, are now seen as a compliance risk with additional complication. This means that banks become less and less willing to make small loans or accept “high risk” (ie low profit) clients as they once would.

My guest, Hayden Miyamoto, knows this all too well. His company www.Fundary.com has the motto “arming the world with global decentralized credit and investments”.

He currently lives in Mexico and tells us how the local people actually save, lend and borrow money. They live entirely outside of the legacy banking system which comes with its own set of risks and expenses. Often it requires insane % of capital to borrow for a loan and the interest rates can be >100%/year.

The problem, as Hayden describes, is liquidity. Now that blockchain tech has become more accepted and better understood, the benefits have started to shine. With the ability to accept peer-2-peer, micro loans from clients around the world, Hayden and his team can offer the Mexican people APR rates far below the current market rate.

The liberty movement is wide and varied in the marketplace of ideas, and everyday new leaders are coming up in order to bring freedom oriented solutions to the table. Virginia Congressional candidate Shion Fenty explains the issues effecting her district and what she can bring to the table in Congress with her experience as a businesswoman and advocate for her community.

Our national debt is $23 Trillion and now thanks to the republicans who say they are fiscal hawks, $1 Trillion deficits may become the norm. The first three years of the Obama presidency we had Trillion dollar deficits and that was insane! That’s party how the Tea party came about but the tea party is dead! No one in Washington is serious about spending cuts. Obama doubled the craziness of wild Bush spending and now will Trump double Obama’s madness? It’s looking like. Hold on to your hat folks.

Welcome To The Midside - The Peoplekind Edition by Liberty.me Studio

Occupational licensing, criminal justice reform and higher education reforms can change the game for Republicans on reaching millennials – BUT – they have to meet these voters where they are at.

Alex Muresianu wrote at GlennBeck.com about the way millennials think and how conservative talking points miss both the heart and the mind. He joins Stephen today to talk about how to change that and what issues to start with.

This is episode 228 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.

Today we have an absolutely amazing guest with us, Bitcoin Bella. She’s relatively new to Bitcoin, but she loves everything about it and wants to get involved in the community. So tonight she’ll join us for her Bitcoin podcast debut!

To be honest, we don’t know exactly where tonight’s show will end up. We’re just gonna ask the Bella why she likes Bitcoin, what she’s been up to lately, and whatever else we feel like.

And you can ask her anything you want too! Just drop your questions in the troll box and we’ll get to the good ones on the air.

With all the wild headlines and drama in the Bitcoin space these days, we need a chill episode. This is your chance to relax with the gang and chat with us about whatever.

Check the list below for some of the stuff we might cover and catch the livestream tonight at 9PM Eastern. See you soon!

Monday morning phone call, from Mar. 14, 2016, talking nonsense, obsessing over trivia, such as the possible connections between and real meanings of the expressions “money talks, bullshit walks” and “walk the walk, talk the talk”. And the problem with the expression “all he cares about is money.” And Jeff’s idea for an article. And Praeger University and Dennis Praeger. How Millennials can improve their self-esteem by working. I make fun of college students who have time to have a marijuana source (in the 80s). Facebook Live videos versus Google Hangouts. Tucker’s hot tub and whether he should put lavender into it, and if he got caught he could pretend it was already there, that some guy named “Big Jim” had done it, and if they didn’t believe him we could have a trial about it. Typical meandering, silly, rambling nonsense. This was one of our morning talks, and this time I tried to record it over my iphone using the “record call” option of the “Recorder” app.

Game of Thrones comes to Star Wars, Norway joins Portugal in decriminalizing all drugs, what are the Emperor’s plans for Ezra?, and we talk some Solo!

Tatooine Times

‘Game Of Thrones’ Duo Benioff & Weiss To Pilot New ‘Star Wars’ Movie Series

Rian Johnson Finally Addresses The Last Jedi’s Missing Knights Of Ren

More Star Wars Expanded Universe Characters May Soon Become Canon

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is The Best Reviewed Sci Fi Movie of 2017

Star Wars Rebels: What are the Emperor’s plans for Ezra?

The Holonet

Walsh proposes regulations for short-term rentals like Airbnb (courtesy Jay)

Tesla and GM self-drive cars involved in road collisions

A 7-year-old hit his teacher. Hours later he was taken from the school in handcuffs.

Norway’s Parliament Votes To Decriminalize All Drug Use

Galaxy’s Smallest Political Quiz

Character: Bossk

Bossk was a male Trandoshan bounty hunter and the son of Cradossk who was known for hunting Wookiees. During the Clone Wars, Bossk worked alongside fellow hunters Aurra Sing and Castasto mentor the orphaned Boba Fett. Their scheme to kill Fett’s hated enemy Mace Windu resulted in Fett and Bossk’s arrest. After a stint in prison, Bossk worked in Fett’s syndicate of bounty hunters, taking jobs for clients including Otua Blank and Asajj Ventress.

After the rise of the Empire, Bossk traveled to the Outer Rim planet of Lothal to collect a bounty on the Dug criminal Gronson Takkaro, who had jumped bail in the Ahakista system. During his Lothal trip, Bossk also joined forces with the Force-sensitive street urchin Ezra Bridger to stop the corrupt Imperial Security Bureau Lieutenant Jenkes. Following the Battle of Hoth, Bossk would be called upon by Darth Vader to find and capture the Millennium Falcon.

Resistance Review

A couple quick notes, Valentines saw the release of Poe Dameron #24, Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith 11, and Thrawn Part 1. It’s likely we’ll have 4 episodes of Star Wars Rebels before our next recording and Doctor Aphra #17 is out on the 21st.

“The Sith of Datawork” is a short story in the anthology From a Certain Point of View. The story was written by Ken Liu.

At Libertopia 2012, I participated in an hour-long IP panel with Charles Johnson, moderated by Butler Shaffer.

For my other presentation, and for more details, see KOL236 | Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP (Libertopia 2012).