#Border Trade

[kazifatagar]

US$30 billion Trade Target Between Malaysia and Thailand

PM Anwar Ibrahim and the Thai prime minister will meet to discuss joint efforts in promoting economic growth along the shared border and to look into accelerating efforts to reach a bilateral trade target of US$30 billion (one trillion baht) by 2025. The focus will be on integrating development in the southernmost Thai provinces and Malaysian states. This meeting is expected to strengthen the…

[thesilicontribesman]

Traprain Law Late Roman Hacksilver, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

[a-silly-alterhuman]

long needed intro post!!!

sooo idk how to make one so ill try!! i am a trans masc/boyflux who is unlabeled and aceflux! if your close/a mutual i am ok with JOKE flirting please do not truly hit on me or signify anything 18+ or nsfw as i am a minor and do not feel comfortale with all that. if you a blog thats primarly nsfw or 18+ you can like and stuff but dont follow preferably! i am a therian, otherkin, funlink, and otherhearted (also a furry) my kintypes go as followed : theriotypes : deer, border collie, german shepherd wolfdog, deer, and pyroraptor!! heartypes : andro selkie, green rose chafer beetle otherkintypes : forest angel/stone angel funlinks : fluttershy and princess luna (both from mlp)

pronouns : he/they/it/xe (and rlly any xenos just nothin fem pref) im an age regressor and a suspected system (osdd-1b and self confirmed waiting on therapist.) i usually call myself a dog boy lol. i love interacting with my mutuals to!! im open to art trades for everyone (no 18+ or nsfw tho) just ask and we can do it! im pretty akward usually tho and have anxiety so its hard for me to keep a conversation! I am hellenic/pagan to! tell me/ask me if u want to know anything else! DNI : pedos, zoos, anti-recovery, pro-israel (i stand with palestine 101%), anti-xenogenders/xenopronouns/neopronouns, rcta, ddlg, ageplay, k!nk, endos (im kinda neutral on yall but i dont like yall), terfs, proship, ableist,transid, and the basics that i forgot!

(ALSO ENDO NEUTRALS YOU CAN STILL INTERACT I DONT MIND JUST PRO ENDOS OR ENDO SYSTEMS DNI!!)

(website is blinkie maker btw!!)

[madb0nes]

art trade with @purpledreambeebz

[noirandchocolate]

Itsy-bitsy headcanon before bed:

I’ve mentioned this in (very minor) passing before but in my lil’ AoC-verse, the Yiga Clan has been surreptitiously farming mighty bananas in Faron for centuries. I just think, that they have too many stockpiled (and in the other timeline, every member who pops up to kill Link has some) for their stores to come solely from theft and happenstance gathering.*

Anyway, they “farm” in a way that makes the groves look very natural, so nobody else would tend to notice they’re not just growing wild. Just as they’ve been looking after the apple trees on Satori Mountain as stated in my linked post up there. The thing is, that means the Clan can’t defend their crop too intensely, and they always lose some of it to passers-by. In the past, there have been some incidents where Hylians have thought they were farming bananas in the general area; these were dealt with by quickly grabbing as much of the crop as possible, laying natural-seeming traps, and putting illusions on the trees to make them look blighted until the Hylians gave up again for another while and moved their operations somewhere else in Faron.

Post-Calamity, Master Kohga made it known that it’d been his people tending a large amount of banana trees all this time and that they hoped to plant more and expand their operation. Princess Zelda, as one show of gratitude for his assistance (*cough saving her father’s life cough*) and to aid in her own push to legitimize Yiga participation in commerce, worked with Kohga to draw up formal documents to the effect that yes, that land and those trees/bananas belong to the Clan. Which Kohga privately thought was annoying political theater since why wouldn’t it be theirs, why should the Yiga have to make nice to ~earn~ a right to what their hard work had created, but…still, he saw it as a step in the right direction by the Princess, surely (since it seemed she was trying hard to make nice from her end, too <3).

So where do the Yiga farm their bananas? Largely all along the stepped cliffs of Ubota Point, with a smaller reserve crop (looking even more wild and natural) on the higher areas around Bronas Forest and Kamah Plateau.** Post-Calamity, the Clan has been able to start building an open and permanent base of operations on the Point, as they’ll begin to sell and ship some of their crops to places besides their home in Karusa Valley (Urbosa and the Gerudo are among their first big customers, hehe). The Yiga’s once-small Faron Team has been bulked up considerably now that they don’t have to hide. Things are just getting underway with this, but it feels like a good start to their business relationship with Hyrule. Yay! :D

Okay goodnight everybody! <3 <3

*There’s turn-in quests in AoC where the Clan wants to buy up every mighty banana in Hyrule. This is to sustain them while they understandably are shorter-handed and all-hands-on-deck with the Calamity (thanks Astor) and haven’t been as able to tend their crops, which they haven’t been up front with Hyrule about anyway ofc.

**As I’ve also said before, I headcanon that locations on the BotW/TotK map are bigger in “real life” for lack of a better descriptor. So Faron in general is big enough for the Clan and Hylians to be farming bananas and other things too. But incidentally, Ubota Point’s environs are the area in BotW where you can find the most mighty bananas, just growing everywhere! …and personally I’ve also been attacked by a bunch (ha! I have made a banana pun!) of Yiga in Faron both before and even more after that timeline’s Kohga fell in a hole, so….

[yudrein-aile]

I’d like to thank rofan manhwa and my history lectures for single handed oh fueling the plot of analepsis

[probablyasocialecologist]

Today, growing demands by labor unions to keep jobs out of the hands of “foreign” workers as a purported defense against neoliberal globalization should concern us. The demand for increased enforcement against migrant workers reproduces the logic of scarcity upon which austerity depends, maintains the international division of labor upon which capitalism relies, and aligns with far-right racism. The perceived loss of national and economic sovereignty, as argued by both the far right and many labor organizations, is blamed on migrant workers, thus rendering their protection of the working class as racially and nationally inscribed. As Lauren Berlant notes, the “implicit whiteness and maleness of the original American citizen is thus itself protected by national identity.” Instead, we should assert that migrant workers don’t suppress wages; bosses and borders do. Labor movements must align with migrant worker organizations demanding an end to a system of indentureship that establishes highly racialized, gendered, and nationalist labor pools and regimes of citizenship. We need full immigration status and labor protections for all workers.

Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

[gatalentan]

can someone on the bird app ask those fanvid girlies with the encyclopaedic knowledge of law's filmography if theres any other examples of this stupid move (apart from on abbott + im not counting the ladies bc it wasnt this same vibe ykwim?) because i just saw an extra clip from the "spilling the tea!!!" sheryl + lisa interview where she does it at sheryl and i want to collect them like pokemon cards

[vampmilf]

hi i just saw ur post where u tagged tht they had licorice ice cream in norway & i wanna say licorice was all over iceland too so idk wtf is goin on w the nordic countries

no fr its insane. and i do like licorice but there is a line you simply shouldnt cross, you know. and the nordics crossed it.

[rubiatinctorum]

:/ turns out i haven't bothered to learn anything for piano in THREE YEARS oh no................

[gothdaddyissues]

Rolling up to the Canada/USA border crossing the day of my Ritual...

Border Guard: Are you bringing anything across with you today?

Me: Yes. Concrete evidence of my mental illness:

See you at the Pine Knob ritual August 14th!

[jangillman]

Check it out

[pebblegalaxy]

The Inflation Reduction Act: A Green Facade Masking Protectionism and Global Inequality

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law by President Biden on August 16, 2022, has been lauded by its proponents as a monumental step in addressing economic and environmental issues in the United States. But let’s peel back the polished rhetoric, and what do we find? A web of contradictions, protectionism disguised as progress, and a policy framework that, despite its lofty…

[creativemedianews]

Canada's rail stoppage threatens US supply lines

Canada's rail stoppage threatens US supply lines #Canada #CN #CPKC #freightmovement #labordispute #raillockout

[shrikeseams]

While I’m thinking about Iathrim-Dwarvish cultural exchange, let me present an AU:

Instead of a physical altercation over the nauglamir-silmaril, the dwarves just... withdraw all of their services from Doriath. Conclusively. Doriath is now under dwarven boycott until they return stolen cultural artifacts and re-negotiate labor prices.

Do the Iathrim know how maintain Menegroth on their own? I doubt it! A handful might have the skills, but I doubt there are enough of them to maintain the whole city. See also: jewelry manufacture, access to metals, and (with Nargothrond gone) access to... any trade at all.