These situations come and go. I've seen many of these in my life. All are different, at least that's what the MSM wants us to believe. Same same but different as they say here where I live. 😉
1) Me too 2) I 100% agree 3) Some time ago SimpleX was often a topic here on Nostr and recommended as very privacy oriented. That's actually all I can say about it. I don't use it because I wouldn't know with whom. 🤷♂️
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"China's Position on Some Issues Concerning China-US Economic and Trade Relations."
english.scio.gov.cn http://english.scio.gov.cn/m/whitepapers/2025-04/09/content_117814362.html
"Can Congress give the power to tax to the president? In a word: NO."
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/04/10/tariffs-and-the-constitution-2/
That's the thing isn't it? I propose this to my chat partners which are mostly family members and a few close friends and they say "we all have WhatsApp, let's stay with that" and that's it. Nobody seems to be willing to look and learn about something new. 🙄
Oh, I'm an Arch fan. I ran it successfully for over two years on an older laptop I had a few years ago. Could resolve all occurring problems by spending uncountable numbers of hours in the Arch wiki and forums. Maybe I'm a little bit of a tinkerer 😁. Today I run a out-of-the-box solution.
Let's say I'm not that much of a tinkerer.
Welcome, fren 🫂 Thanks for the #zap
Maybe you like to try BunsenLabs Linux, too, a fork of CrunchBang
Heard of that one but never put my hands on it. On the list to check out you go. 📝👌
The good old Puppy Linux 😊. Always reliable and helped me sometimes out of some trouble. At the moment I take a dive into the whole MX Linux USB stick version. Thanks anyway for your reply.
GM.
Chapter 13 of Broken Money is called "Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown".
It focuses on the US trade deficit and why it arises structurally. In short, since the USD is the global reserve currency (for reserve assets, international contracts, FX trading pairs, and cross-border funding), there is tremendous automatic demand for USD in the world compared to other fiat currencies.
To supply the world with that ever-growing need for USD to service all sorts of needs, the United States runs structural trade deficits with the rest of the world. That's how the USD spills out to the rest of the world for them to use. And the mechanism for that is that the overvalued USD boosts Americans' import power, reduces Americans' low-margin export competiveness, and basically forces open that trade deficit.
That trade deficit is the cost of maintaining the benefits USD system as currently structured. The fatal flaw is that those who bear the cost (e.g. industrialists in the Rust Belt) are not the same as those to gain the benefits (e.g. Wall Street and Washington DC folks). And those costs and benefits accumulate over decades, resulting in rising populism and pushback, which is now front and center.
The challenge that the administration faces is that they have identified a real problem, but are tackling the surface issues rather than the underlying structural issues.
Anyway, I uploaded that chapter 13 on my website for free reading:
https://www.lynalden.com/wp-content/uploads/broken-money-chapter-13.pdf
But isn't that trade deficit anyway just fictional? Only the trade in manufactured goods or raw materials are taken into account and it doen't include the whole service economy, from which the US exports a lot. Or am I mistaken here?
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RUSSIA’S PLAN TO BECOME A BANANA REPUBLIC
At the Kremlin, necessity is measured in response to public discontent and then to lobbying by interest groups, or vice versa.
https://johnhelmer.net/russias-plan-to-become-a-banana-republic/
"...Russian legislative body approved the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran..."
https://sonar21.com/iran-prepping-for-negotiatons-with-the-us-russia-and-china-have-irans-back/
"Netanyahu is ready to sacrifice everything for his survival, and we are closer to a civil war than people realize"
Never heard about freedombox. Checking freedombox.org right now.