#collapse dollar

[reality-detective]

I'll leave this 👆 here... You Decide 🤔

[the-golden-kingdom]

Man i love yaads totally real totally canon pet dungeon rabbit Mr. gilbert i love Mr Gilbert

Original mr gilbert post

[groanings-of-a-dying-empire]

The Final Nail In The Coffin In October ⚰️ 💵⚰️

The Rise Of BRICS🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦

[savage-rhi]

I didn't realize bee trafficking was a thing until I worked with kids. Them kids collected a whole ass tin can of live bees and were trading them like limited edition Pokemon cards. The next gen is gearing up for and ready for societal collapse.

[ericswiftie]

The Twitter collapse costing big pharma and Elon money over $8 is hilarious 🤣😹

[firel-makes-music]

Hoo, boy. This one. This one was originally intended for PokeRogue, but for a very, VERY different biome, and that kind of shines through if you know your Pokemon Lore well enough. For the uninitiated, this is directly inspired by Pokemon Platinum's 'Distortion World', but rendered in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky soundfont for the pleasure and horror of everyone's ears. This track wasn't actually intended for Space, though! In development, the Aether biome was proposed and, unfortunately, cancelled after I was already near-finished with the track. Thankfully a few places needed original music besides and it was either this or Abyss. And I have plans for Abyss, oho, don't you worry. As a result of this, though, it has some unique touches the original Distortion World track lacks. My first choice was the tubular bells- here, they actually hit the haunting chord of Pokemon Platinum's title screen. In case the reference didn't hit you with a mallet hard enough. I found the pizzicato string wonderfully fit the original hits in the original theme, but the most interesting choice by far was the addition of the strings. When I envisioned Aether, I pictured it as far more dramatic than the basic Distortion World. It was going to be a misty, purple region, likely accessed from either the Fairy Cavern (More on that later) or potentially from the Abyss. Aether itself was going to be a place to fit more ghost and psychic pokemon to get the bulk of them out of the single-biome traps they were in, and some key Legendaries (Giratina.) some time in the spotlight. Alas, not to be- there are other biomes to be made. So what, then, is this Space track now? Well, it's largely unchanged from its original form, outside of toning down the chimes a bit. Not really an aesthetic choice, they were just too loud. There's also a bit of an eerier segment that only crops up your first loop around- as you listen to it in repeat the distortion will never be heard a second time ingame. Naturally, that doesn't stand here, but, well, y'know. Artistic choices. Fairy Cave itself is subject to a lot of change very soon, along with a large number of biomes. Moving forward, I'm also probably not going to be naming these so brutally simplistically. The next track I will probably be discussing- unless there's some demand to retread Metropolis and Laboratory for here- will be 'PokeRogue OST- Fluorite (<XX> Cave)'.

[cubffections]

it is TEWW hot i'm soo tired im just happy to be in my bed . .

[lasseling]

Saudi Arabia Ends Longstanding US Petrodollar Deal

Saudi Arabia has decided not to renew its 50-year petrodollar agreement with the United States, prompting a significant shift in global financial markets.

[silvermoon424]

Thoughts and prayers :) :) :)

When do we finally start sending these sewer rats to the guillotine

EDIT: This goes deeper than I thought. The city of Davenport is hurrying to demolish the building even though there are still missing residents and they literally just found a still-living woman in the rubble who would have certainly been killed if the demolition went forward. There are currently protestors raising hell in Davenport about this.

This is disgusting and suspicious as hell. I'm seeing Davenport residents talk about how the politicians of their town are corrupt and are likely trying to cover this incident up while not caring if they end up killing people in the process (because, again according to residents, Davenport's infrastructure has been falling apart for many years).

[reality-detective]

Is WWIII about the international banking system? They are in retaliation of the deep state and guess who that is!? If you said, the United States which is the strong arm of the WEF and European Union, you would be correct even though it goes much deeper than that. I hope you're prepared. 🤔

[mumblelard]

in a world of funny changes or happy friday eve imaginary constructs

the power is back on and we're celebrating

[f1ghtsoftly]

The correct response to calls for black reparations by white working class Americans should be “hey, my ancestors were also exploited! we should get a little something too!” and not actually racist drivel but this is America and we loooove to destroy class consciousness by being as racist as possible.

[staydandy]

One Dollar Lawyer (2022) - 천원짜리 변호사 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : Cheon Ji Hun is a lawyer with unusual flair. His retainer is only 1,000 won despite being one of the most skilled lawyers around. He argues against the most expensive lawyers and their rich clients intent on flouting the law. (MDL) AKA : One Thousand Won Lawyer | 1000 Won Lawyer

Whumpee : Chun Ji Hoon played by Namkoong Min

Country : 🇰🇷 South Korea Genres : Comedy, Law

Notes : This is a Full Whump List • I don't know exactly what the reason was or if there was drama BTS, but I think this show was ended early, &/or had episodes cut. It does have a bit of an abrupt feel to it's final episodes. • Not my favorite Namkoong Min drama, but not completely awful. Definitely not whumpy though.

Episodes on List : 4 Total Episodes : 12

*Spoilers below*

03 : [flashback] Cheon Ji Hun hit in the head with a board

09 : not whump: The blatant 4th wall break for the ad had me cackling

10 : Nightmare ... (@ 17:50 omg his laugh 😂)

12 : Captured.. shot, falls into the water … [flashback] escaping, collapsing, freezing from being in the cold water

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[vashti-lives]

someone please sit on me before i buy more purple yarn

[theculturedmarxist]

The West’s attempt to recruit large swaths of the global community to enlist for the sanctions war has decidedly failed, notes ‘The American Conservative’. Outside of the U.S., E.U., and a few close allies (i.e., economic dependents and military protectorates) such as Canada and Japan, practically no other countries have joined in, preempting any economic dogpile sought by the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy. Increasingly, transatlantic policy seems to be having the exact opposite effect.

As of June 9, Pakistan is the latest country to begin accepting large shipments of discounted crude oil from Russia, as much as 100,000 barrels a day. “This is the first ever Russian oil cargo to Pakistan and the beginning of a new relationship between Pakistan and Russian Federation [sic],” announced Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

In the present geopolitical landscape, such a move is perceived to be in direct defiance of Western efforts to obstruct Moscow’s revenues. The motive behind Islamabad’s shifted political and economic calculations is not difficult to decipher. Nor is it exceptional.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that Moscow is now sending out 8.1 million barrels of oil a day, the highest number going back to April 2020. In January 2023, almost half of those shipments were destined for China and India, which have respectively increased as a proportion of Russia’s oil exports from 21 percent to 29 percent and 1 percent to 20 percent since January 2022.

Chinese oil imports alone jumped in May to the third highest level ever recorded. Beijing also recently issued a crude oil import quota of a whopping 62.28 million tons of allotments. This makes the total import quota amount issued by Chinese leadership 20 percent higher than that of the same time last year. At the same time, Beijing’s natural gas purchases continue to push upward, increasing 3.3 percent year-on-year in Quarter 1, with a 10.3 percent year-on-year increase in April of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Just as important, if not more so, as the massive shifts in quantity and direction of the energy trade, however, are the size and scope of the joint initiatives—usually under the leadership of Moscow and Beijing — that continue to proliferate in opposition to Western-led international organizations.

The recent St. Petersburg International Economic Forum saw representatives of various economic groupings and cooperation organizations outside the Atlantic orbit meet to discuss greater interconnectivity, development collaboration, transportation corridors, as well as investment options for funding various cross border initiatives.

One of these groups is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which continues to focus on greater cooperation and integration with ASEAN nations. This year’s meeting included a notable presentation on the creation of a SCO investment bank to provide the capital necessary to facilitate such collaborative projects.

The BRICS organization featured prominently at the St. Petersburg forum as well. It also includes an important investment bank — the New Development Bank — that provides ready access to liquidity for its members, funds infrastructure projects, and facilitates increased industrial manufacturing. BRICS continues to grow in both clout and size.

A number of new countries applied for membership last year, including Iran and Argentina. 2023 has also seen membership bids from nineteen additional nations before an upcoming summit in Johannesburg this August. One of the most recent applications came from Egypt on June 14. Potential bids from important players in the energy market such as Venezuela (with direct support from Brazil’s President Lula) and the United Arab Emirates are also being discussed.

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan traveled directly to the St. Petersburg forum in order to meet with Putin on June 16, where the two discussed their desire to build a closer relationship between the countries.

Gulf neighbor — and traditional U.S. ally — Saudi Arabia has to some degree also hedged its geopolitical bets. After refusing Biden’s phone calls in March of 2022 and denying his request to increase oil production to help lower international prices, Riyadh’s friendship with Washington has somewhat soured as of late. (Saudi Arabia also joined the SCO in March 2023, and is a potential candidate for BRICS membership.) In another move that will likely meet with the displeasure of its Western allies, Saudi Arabia additionally decided to move forward with further production cuts of 1 million barrels per day beginning in July.

Consider that, as discussed earlier, China alone has increased its trade with Russia by about 40 percent, and is set to reach a record $200 billion this year. Perhaps most importantly though, more than 70 percent of that trade has been settled in either yuan or the ruble, with the Russian central bank currently holding 40 percent of its reserves in yuan.

Pakistan has reportedly also paid for its new shipments of Moscow’s crude with Chinese yuan. Earlier in 2022, Saudi Arabia suggested the possibility of denominating its oil transactions with Beijing in the currency.

The present geopolitical system with all of its accompanying features is only made possible by the dollar reigning supreme as the world’s reserve currency. Champions of the present order faithfully hold that this system will be maintained indefinitely, guaranteed on the back of U.S. military might and Western economic dominance.

But the international environment is beginning to shift, as much due to the burgeoning economic alliances outside the confines of Western-backed international agencies as because of the policy decisions of those latter agencies and their U.S. patron. No recent move has acted as a greater accelerant to this shift than Washington’s decision to freeze and then seize the foreign currency reserves of the Russian Federation at the outset of the Ukraine war.

The weaponization of financial reserves has increased distrust in the present system to new heights. The end of dollar dominance may not be nigh, but it is a much more likely possibility than many in the West care to admit.

Russia has demonstrated that having an economy based on commodities and heavy industrial production matters more in today’s international environment than a narrow set of economic indicators such as annual GDP growth or per capita income. Should dollar dominance ever come to an end, this fact will be made painfully clear.

The United States and other Western countries have adopted an increasingly ideological perspective regarding the future course of economic development. Leaders choose to accept only information that aligns with their dogmatic beliefs.

A failure to remove its ideological blinders and comprehend political and economic conditions as they objectively exist will spell disaster for the Western bloc.