( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Sign Up ©2025 NetHappenings News Email List
https://cyberplayground.org
©2025 Follow @CyberPlayGround
©1998-©2025 *Educational CyberPlayGround®
©2025 https://k12playground.com
©2025 https://RichAsHell.com
©1993-©2025 https://edu-cyberpg.com
HOW GOOD IS YOUR THINKING?
Restoring order to American democracy requires a new framing of the Constitution protecting the Freedom of Reality —our right to have facts & truth, unaltered, in order to make good judgments for ourselves and the country.
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy– they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby (1925)
GOOD NEWS:
THE MIDTERMS ARE GOING TO SAVE US
ALL THE RETHUGLICANS WILL GET VOTED OUT!!!
find your representative
These elections occur halfway between presidential elections and involve all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and
33 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate.
Republicans fear Trump’s trade war could lead to political wipeout
Rising prices and shrinking growth could offset other accomplishments by the GOP. Republican senators are pointing to the 1932 and 1982 elections as historical examples of when trade wars and resulting price inflation hurt their party at the ballot box, and they are worried that history could repeat itself.
The White Potus – SNL
>Trump’s policies amount to a return of protectionism, with the effective tariff on U.S. imports potentially rising to 22%, Morgan Stanley, $MS, has said. “In the short run, protectionism equals isolationism. Higher inflation, lower growth.”
> Trump says will do a tariff on imported pharmaceuticals in not too distant future.
> Trump has said: Stock market [got] very strong once they got used to tariffs
> Trump: “THE BEST DEFINITION OF INTELLIGENCE IS THE ABILITY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE.”
“They’re telling us they’ll rig the system to win, no matter how many Americans they silence.”
They are coming to throw millions of people off healthcare and shred social security. They’ve been saying it for years. Believe them.
CURRENTLY
> Baby boomers make up more than a third of all homeowners, and more than half don’t even have a mortgage, per FORTUNE.
> 1 In Every 22 NYers Is A Millionaire, Keeping NYC As The World’s Wealthiest City
Henley & Partners’ just released its 2025 World’s Wealthiest Cities Report, announcing NYC as the wealthiest city in the world, yet again!
> Janet Yellen has said the recent selloff in Treasuries signaled a worrying drop in confidence in American policymaking, rather than a dysfunctional event that warrants Fed intervention
> 37% of parents plan to stop providing financial support to their adult children within the next two years, and another 28% will freeze their aid in three to four years, per FORTUNE.
> NATO has acquired an AI-powered military system from Palantir, $PLTR, per FT.
MAJOR BREAKING:
This is bad.
> China just pulled the plug on rare earth mineral exports to the U.S.—critical ingredients behind our cars, chips, and jets.
This isn’t just trade war posturing. It’s a direct strike of our technological and defense backbone — and it’s Trump’s fault.
China just turned off the mineral tap and now we’re about to find out what a “Made in America” jet looks like without rare earths. Spoiler: it’s a glider.
But sure, let’s keep pretending Donnie’s trade strategy was 4D chess and not just a raccoon chewing on trade wires in the dark.
> China has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets to the US and around the world. China is drafting a new regulatory approach to the minerals to prevent them reaching American companies.
> Donald Trump has put himself in an unwinnable position in his tariff fight against China. He will lose, no question. The question is what horror will he do to distract from his loss and embarrassment? What will this dangerous psychopath do to cover his failure/embarrassment?
> Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits
In 2013 we discovered a number of administrators from India who secretly had conflicts of interests and were using Wikipedia for PR. Today, we reveal another.
> Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
REAL ID
Real ID to fly.
REAL ID to pay taxes
REAL ID TO vote
REAL ID associated to every significant action, like paying for things digitally or using Facebook.
REAL ID implements biometrics to prevent fraud.
REAL ID used to provide permissioned access to goods and services.
THIS IS GOOD
In a first, Taiwan charges Chinese ship captain with damaging undersea cables
Powering off your phone or laptop erases the key that unlocks its encryption, and so protects against unwanted searches, EFF’s Will Greenberg told @AP. “This is why a border agent can’t simply turn a device on to use a tool like Cellebrite.”
LIARS COURT
Trump’s medical report claims he weighs 224 pounds
Most of the Trump administration’s pageantry seems like a production of “Springtime for Hitler”.
> “I’m sorry @CherylHines , but you’re getting exactly what you deserve. And…we’re loving every minute of it! You marry an asshole and he works for an asshole. Go cry harder…”
> This is why Khashoggi was killed. He was writing an expose on Kushner giving US intel to MBS so he could kidnap, incarcerate, and torture his own relatives to secure the crown. photo
> The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.
FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY
The Federal Trade Commission’s massive monopoly case against Meta just started.
The trillion dollar question is whether the owner of Facebook violated the law by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp
The FTC prosecution of Meta will be a defining case that shows the world whether or not Trump will uphold the promise of going after Big Tech in a meaningful way, or whether corporate weaseling sways the administration to ultimately renege on meting out consequences to tech oligarchs.
BITCOIN
IF you are an immigrant from a repressive regime, running for your life, and your family couldn’t take any money when you left THEN Bitcoin fixes that, that is why bitcoin is for the world and will fix the world!!!
Markets are crazy volatile.
Tariffs are igniting an all-out trade war.
China’s getting cornered…..
If you’re not sure about stocks buy bitcoin.
If you’re not sure about bonds, buy bitcoin.
If you don’t trust the USA buy bitcoin.
If you trust the USA buy bitcoin.
When all your normal instruments of value storage and transfer are broken, Bitcoin starts to look pretty good.
4/14/25 from @ICOffenderII “#Bitcoin will hit $100K in 3 weeks”
We’ll just see about that!! That puts it around May 6th.
…….. Nobody knows the future, and nobody ever predicts anything about bitcoin correctly, so we’ll just see about @ICOffenderII, won’t we.
The People’s #Bank of #China – u/Metals_Investor
The People’s #Bank of #China suddenly announced that the digital RMB (Renminbi, Chinese Yuan) cross-border settlement system will be fully connected to the ten ASEAN countries and six Middle Eastern countries, which means that 38% of the world’s #trade volume will bypass the SWIFT system dominated by the US dollar and directly enter the “digital RMB moment”. This financial game, which The #Economist called the “Bretton Woods System 2.0 Outpost Battle”, is rewriting the underlying code of the global economy with blockchain technology.
While the #SWIFT system is still struggling with the 3-5 day delay in cross-border payments, the #digital #currency bridge developed by China has compressed the clearing speed to 7 seconds. In the first test between Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, a company paid a Middle Eastern supplier through digital RMB. The funds no longer went through six intermediary banks, but were received in real time through a distributed ledger, and the handling fee dropped by 98%. This “lightning payment” capability makes the traditional clearing system dominated by the US dollar instantly look clumsy.
What makes the West even more frightened is the technical moat of China’s digital currency. The blockchain technology used by the digital RMB not only makes transactions traceable, but also automatically enforces anti-money laundering rules. In the China-Indonesia “Two Countries, Two Parks” project, Industrial Bank used digital RMB to complete the first cross-border payment, which took only 8 seconds from order confirmation to funds arrival, 100 times more efficient than traditional methods. This technical advantage has enabled 23 central banks around the world to actively join the digital currency bridge test, among which Middle Eastern energy traders have reduced settlement costs by 75%.
The deep impact of this technological revolution lies in the reconstruction of financial sovereignty. When the United States tried to sanction Iran with SWIFT, China had already built a closed loop of RMB payments in Southeast Asia. Data shows that the cross-border RMB settlement volume of ASEAN countries exceeded 5.8 trillion yuan in 2024, an increase of 120% over 2021. Six countries including Malaysia and Singapore have included RMB in their foreign exchange reserves, and Thailand has completed the first oil settlement with digital RMB. This wave of “de-dollarization” made the Bank for International Settlements exclaim: “China is defining the rules of the game in the era of digital currency.”
But what really shocked the world was China’s strategic layout. Digital RMB is not only a payment tool, but also a technical carrier of the “Belt and Road” strategy. In projects such as the China-Laos Railway and the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, the digital RMB is deeply integrated with Beidou navigation and quantum communication to build a “Digital Silk Road”. When European car companies use digital RMB to settle freight through the Arctic route, China is using blockchain technology to increase trade efficiency by 400%. This virtual-real strategy makes the US dollar hegemony feel a systemic threat for the first time.
Today, 87% of countries in the world have completed the adaptation of the digital RMB system, and the scale of cross-border payments has exceeded 1.2 trillion US dollars. While the United States is still debating whether digital currency threatens the status of the #US #dollar, China has quietly built a digital payment network covering 200 countries. This silent financial revolution is not only about monetary sovereignty, but also determines who can control the lifeline of the future global economy!
This is very big news It means De-dollarisation in a big way. It can completely re-set the world.
▓▓▓—▓▓▓—▓▓▓—▓▓▓