By Matthew Hayward I am done playing nice. I have been far more understanding, empathic and reasonable with COVID fear pushers than most people I know that share my sentiments, probably more reasonable than was warranted. I have given many a pass based on the premise that people believe what they are doing is well-intended and noble. In fact, I still believe that to be true, but I am no longer willing to continue the same respect I have given in the past. It is truly time to start standing our ground before it's too late. Any businesses that gives preference to people who are vaccinated for COVID19 will be boycotted. That includes airlines and sporting events. Sometimes fighting for freedom isn't convenient. But giving in to the gradual erosions of liberty comes with far greater inconvenience. We must stop enabling this insanity, we must stop allowing the government to get away with intimidating and manipulating us into oppressing each other.  We must start pushing back and for...

If you want to get into crypto, here are five things to get started. If all you want to do is invest in Bitcoin,  skip to step 3 and then jump to my referrals to get started right away. Step 1 – Do Your Homework And Learn The Lingo (See additional Resources below) Step 2 – Don't listen to me, a podcast, or read an article and decide to buy some random cryptocurrency you think is going to be the next big thing. You need to do your homework before you invest. Believing someone talking up a project, a token, or an alt-coin without doing your own research is foolish. Never trust anyone pushing a project; often, they have some benefit from others buying in. Step 3 – Decide where you are going to keep your investment -  digital wallet (s) - an exchange - stake it... (I do all three, but personal ownership through a cold wallet is the safest.) Step 4 – Identify the token(s) you want and then learn how to buy them. The two most common places are exchange or a  decentralized ...

I woke up on Dec 17 2020 with a question. So I did what most people do when they want an answer, I asked Google. "Hey Google, is Coinbase a publicly-traded company?" I learned that it was not, but that in July they had made comments about possibly going public. I set a Google alert on my phone to notify me of any articles that included 'Coinbase.' That night while taking out the trash I got an alert, Coinbase announced they were submitting paperwork to the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) to have an initial public offering (IPO). I called the next day to start the process to refinance my house to lower my interest rate, lower my monthly payment, and pull out equity to invest in Coinbase, Bitcoin (BTC), and other cryptocurrencies. Few times have I been more confident that this was an investment opportunity I did not want to miss, this is a once-in-a-lifetime moment. Sadly there wasn't a lot I could do knowing they would be going public. I could not figure out how...

What if most people don't want to know the truth when it's uncomfortable or forces them to question their worldview? What if the average person is a follower, not a leader? What if most people value comfort and convenience more than truth and freedom? What if it is easy to control and manipulate people because of these facts? This is not a conspiracy, just science. The conspiracies are related to those who are exploiting human nature.  Just think about the stimulus checks everyone's getting right now, and the idea of universal income and then consider Maslow's hierarchy of needs. If they can keep everyone's lowest level basic needs met, people will tolerate and accept anything and never revolt.

By Matthew Hayward Bring on the vaccine passports, crackdown on the businesses both socially and with threats of legal infractions, keep chipping away at our rights; we clearly need a little more pressure before you push enough people far enough to stand up against this dystopian, Orwellian lunacy. I'm not proud to be an American, I am ashamed. We are pathetically spoiled, entitled people that hardly deserve the freedom and prosperity available to us. The level of cognitive dissonance or pure ignorance to not see the destruction of our way of life is incredible. Anyone who opens their eyes wide can easily see the manipulation of human behavior through government, corporate propaganda, and regulation of industry and commerce. We are being torn down and programmed through asymmetric social warfare. How far down the road of elusive bureaucracy will we go before people have had enough, before violence and division in our communities grow out of control? How long will those who are suff...

Bring on the vaccine passports, crackdown on the businesses both socially and with threats of legal infractions, keep chipping away at our rights; we clearly need a little more pressure before you push enough people far enough to stand up against this dystopian, Orwellian lunacy. P.S. Dogooders, do you feel lucky? Do you understand what the ramifications are if you go too far? Do you understand what happens when you undermine mental health and launch a full-on assault against our children and way of life? How far do you think you can go hiding behind bureaucracy before people have had enough and violence and division in our communities grow? There is no clear enemy, therefore the enemy is domestic, it is those who support policies of oppression. There will be no politician to go after, no notable person who is the cause, it will be one another's neighbor. This is the path we are heading down. We are only going further down the road of no return. The only hope I see is non-complianc...

While listening to Chris Hedges, author of Death of the Liberal Class, I could not help but agree that education in America is "vocational training for drones." As I read through the comment section, I came across a person talking about the innateness of human greed: The comments were from user: @bapyou and read as follows: ““"human beings are naturally selfish" There is no evidence that this is the case. Our capitalist economy teaches selfishness as a virtue -- the main component of the 3rd rate philosopher Ayn Rand, a woman whom every conservative nutcase on the planet worships as a goddess. In fact, there is far more evidence that the opposite is true. Human beings are not naturally selfish: capitalists wish we were, & so spend ungodly amounts of money convincing us that it is the case.” I agree that human beings are not entirely innately selfish. Once we have attained what we need to survive, the rest is dependent on our environment and intellectual and...