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#planb

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@ferricoxide I am in a similar boat. Welcome to the club. I have lived and taught in Kenya, East Africa in the 80s. A chance meeting while sharing a part of my sandwich is a major reason for my #PlanB. I asked a black gentleman, "Where do you live?" expecting a Kenyan accent. An American accent pointed to the Nairobi Hilton. He was a retired postal worker from Mississippi. His pension allowed him to live in the Nairobi Hilton in Kenya. It gave me hope and started my planning.

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@ferricoxide It's always good to have thought through what you would do if. You may never use it. You may not know the trigger. I've had a #PlanB since the first time. I grew up in abject poverty--homeless living in the back of a Ford pickup and squatting in abandoned farm houses. I know what it is like not to have privilege. It's better to think and see rather to be willfully blind and ignore.

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ZDF :zdf:

Funkelnde Ketten und glitzernde Ringe haben oft einen hohen Preis, auch für Umwelt und Minenarbeiter. Wer mit gutem Gewissen Schmuck tragen will, setzt auf grünes Gold und faire Edelsteine.

#planB zeigt, warum neue Ideen für mehr Nachhaltigkeit Gold wert sind: zdf.de/video/dokus/plan-b-104/

ZDFNachhaltiger Schmuck: Grünes GoldSchmuck mit gutem Gewissen, das geht: Faires Gold ohne Kinderarbeit und sicherer Arbeitsbedinugungen im Bergbau, um Edelsteine zu gewinnen.
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Marcel Waldvogel

Wer mehr über #Lugano, #PlanB und #Tether wissen will: Letztes Jahr hat @toms in der @republik_magazin über die Eigenschaften der "Kryptowährung" #LVGA, die inzwischen dementierten Beziehungen von Lugano zu Bitcoin-Maximalisten (aber in Pressefotos dokumentiert) und die Verflechtungen nach El Salvador und Russland berichtet.

Lesenswert!
@woz
republik.ch/2024/01/16/luganos

Republik · Obskure Bitcoin-Connections in LuganoBy Thomas Schwendener
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Marcel Waldvogel

Lugano. Der Name erweckt Gedanken an sonnige, elegante Entspannung im Süden.

Doch Lugano hat auch eine Vergangenheit als Geldwäscheparadies. Früher™.

Heute ist Lugano seriös geworden. Und dochnlässt sie sich vom umstrittenen Stablecoin Tether aushalten und gibt ihm im Gegenzug Legitimität. Und gibt dem Tether-Chef auch eine Heimat. In dieser Heimat auch sein rein «privates» Büro …

Die @woz blickt hinter die Kulissen der Luganeser Piazza.
#Tether #Lugano #PlanB
woz.ch/2516/lugano-und-der-pla

www.woz.ch · Lugano und der «Plan B»: Geld für Gelati, Terror und DrogenLugano will Kryptohauptstadt Europas werden und setzt dabei auf eine Firma, deren digitale Währung weltweit zur Geldwäsche genutzt wird.
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Chuck Darwin

A U.S. delegate told a March 4 #WTO budget meeting that its payments to the 2024 and 2025 budgets were
👉on hold pending a review of contributions to international organisations
-- and that it would inform the WTO of the outcome at an unspecified date, two trade sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said.

A third trade source confirmed their account and said the WTO was coming up with a #PlanB in case of a prolonged funding pause, without elaborating.

The WTO has already been hobbled by a U.S. move in 2019 during Trump's first term to block new judge appointments to its top appeals court,
which left its key dispute settlement system only partially functional.

Washington had accused the WTO Appellate Body of judicial overreach in trade disputes.

The Geneva-based trade watchdog had an annual budget of 205 million Swiss francs ($232.06 million) in 2024.

The United States was due to contribute about 11% of that based on a fees system that is proportionate to its share of global trade, according to public WTO documents.

reuters.com/world/us-suspends-

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