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Similar to the deletion of records from the NED website, I have a feeling this is more about preventing us regular people from finding out about it than other governments.
They want to cover up their foreign policy tracks so we can’t point to the overwhelming evidence of evil shit they get up to and show people how there is no democracy when it comes to foreign policy, only Empire.
Not to mention the fact that the Pentagon lies about where the money is going anyway.
For decades, the DoD’s leaders and accountants have been perpetrating a gigantic, unconstitutional accounting fraud, deliberately cooking the books to mislead the Congress and drive the DoD’s budgets ever higher, regardless of military necessity. DoD has literally been making up numbers in its annual financial reports to Congress—representing trillions of dollars’ worth of seemingly nonexistent transactions—knowing that Congress would rely on those misleading reports when deciding how much money to give the DoD the following year
I’m about halfway through Stone Butch Blues :leslie-shining: , but I had to take a break from it because I was crying all the time and my family was getting frustrated with me.
A disadvantage of a strong dollar is “US firms find it harder to compete in foreign markets.”
Pretend I´m selling cell phones in the US for $100 each. Stacy from down the street buys one of my cell phones. Cool, I now have $100. Now Chen Weihua from China wants to buy one of my cell phones. He has to convert 10,000 (or whatever) yuan to $100 USD to buy one of my phones. Now suppose the value of the US dollar goes way up. For Stacy to buy one of my phones, $100 is just $100. But for Chen Weihua in China, my phone now costs 12,500 yuan instead of 10,000. He might think twice about buying a phone from me for that price.
An advantage of a weak dollar is “US firms find it easier to sell goods in foreign markets.”
Suppose the value of the US dollar goes down. Still $100 for Stacy down the street, but it´s only 7,500 yuan for Chen Weihua. Now more people in China can afford my phones, and my phones start selling like crazy over there. Great news for me.
“It is harder for US firms and investors to expand into foreign markets.”
Suppose I want to start my own cell phone factory in China. Now I have to convert USD to yuan to pay for labor. With $1000, I can pay 100 workers for a day. Dollar gets stronger, I can buy more yuan and pay 125 workers for a day with the same amount of money. Dollar gets weaker, I can only pay 75 workers for $1000.
Make sense?
Am I wrong to read this as ¨VA to deny abortion to pregnant veterans in most cases¨?
I Personally Wouldn’t Have Released John McCain
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There’s a strong possibility the Chinese premier could be in quarantine
Am I just stupid, or is Xi Jinping not the premier of the PRC?