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Trump was trying to force a deal with Israel playing as the tough guy, but he didn’t expect Iran to negotiate in kind with their own show of immense strength in response to the bullying.

Japan (1.13T) and then UK (750B)

https://economicsinsider.com/top-15-largest-us-treasury-holders/

A paywalled article about how to avoid persecution by the US police state is pretty on the nose.

Donald Quixote

This. I have a nice 4k 120hz ‘smart TV’ that is not connected to anything. I use it only as a display for PC with external speakers. I’m pretty sure you can even do firmware updates without connecting anything but USB drive. Even if you have to connect to get updates, you can just disconnect it afterwards.

Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7 last year, killing about 1,200 people, kidnapping about 250 more and spurring a war with Israel. The ensuing fighting left more than 42,000 Palestinians dead, according to health officials in the Hamas-run territory, who don’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.

The closing paragraph really gives the game away, but can’t expect any better from The Economist:

In the process, the West has been abandoning its commitment to a bottom-up, market-based approach to setting technical standards.

So in the process of being spooked by China, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, having some influence on standards, the West refers to letting the biggest pile of capital set standards for profit as a ‘bottom-up approach’.

“We are being forced to undermine a system that has been very effective and that we have profited from for a long time,” laments Mr Rühlig. In more ways than one, China is making the West play by its rules.

China now being more capable at playing the same game they been playing for decades is framed as a terrible injustice. They are crying that they used to be able to set standards that relied on privately owned intellectual property that generated easy profits for years or even decades.

The zionist prez that said being the strategic leader of this escalation is really something.

ctrl + f ‘hannibal’ : 0 results

I really believe this is one of the biggest blindspots of the Israeli public. They are still unable to even acknowledge how many people died on Oct 7th to the military response. This author has family in Be’eri, where the tanks shot houses that were filled with hostages. He has to know about the various documented instances of Hannibal Directive happening on Oct 7th. Just another one of the “it’s Hamas’ fault” denialism that he writes about in other cases, but cannot even mention. The latest genocide campaign really started when the commanders authorized the ‘killing zone’ along the Gaza fence area that included the rave festival grounds.

This denial is critical to keep the big lie of Oct 7th alive, to maintaining some thin veneer of victimhood over the top of continuing genocidal acts through out Palestine.

I use the adb method. Gets the job done with minimal fuss. I have a few cmds saved in a text file for copy, delete older than x days, etc.

Ya, just saw the headline about anti-tax protesters shot dead. Interesting context to say the least.

The article glosses over the real reason for this, which is that Argentina is on an inflation rocket ride due to the new libertarian leadership. Getting paid in currency that is being continually devalued on a daily basis is worse than just getting the beef. China is the world’s largest market for beef.

Shredding the last shred of plausibility of not being a genocidal state

Stephen Stanley, chief US economist at Santander Bank, said that any impact was likely to be small. “The biggest deflationary force in goods prices here of late has been used vehicles, which has nothing to do with China,” he said.

BYD, China’s biggest carmaker, recently announced price cuts of between 5 and 15 per cent for its electric vehicles in Germany, after Mercedes-Benz warned late last year that its profits were being hit by a “brutal” price war in electric vehicles.

Citigroup analysts said this month that falling prices in China could help to hasten moves by central banks in emerging markets to cut interest rates this year, particularly in countries that consume relatively large shares of Chinese goods.

“We as investors are only just starting to connect the dots” on how falling prices imported from China might play out across markets, said Luis Costa, global head of emerging markets sovereign debt strategy at Citigroup. “The question is the magnitude.”

Every technology that China invests in developing for themselves has ultimately improved access to that tech in the global south beyond anything the west has done. Solar and smart phones being the first two examples with high speed rail coming along too. This will likely follow a similar process. I’m excited to see where this leads.

Probably under the gfx card looking at the mobo product pics. The gfx card is covering it.

China is supporting Russia who are waging a war resulting in civilian casualties!

but the civilian casualty rate is like 10+ times worse in the war [actually a genocide] that the USA is directly supporting