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China flight systems jammed by pig farm’s African swine fever defences

“40 percent of FDI globally comes from just seven countries, which collectively account for 3 percent of the world economy.”

The US and China have a trade deal, but only Washington has what it wants

“Despite tighter gun regulations than the U.S., in the poorer neighborhoods of many Brazilian cities, armed gangs and police trade fire with high-caliber assault rifles, machine guns, pistols, and sometimes even grenades and rocket launchers. Rio averages 24 shootouts per day. Large hours-long gun battles often don’t even make the headlines. Yet the shootouts leave a mark: piles of dead bodies.”

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Why Is the World’s Cash Disappearing? Banks Are Asking, But No One Seems to Know

Is China Planning To Incite A “People’s War” To Dominate The South China Sea?

Trail Cam Captures Opossum Pulling Ticks Off A Deer’s Face

An Iowa man who burned a church LGBTQ flag in June was sentenced to 16 years in prison Wednesday.

Top German Spies Unload on Merkel’s Kowtowing to Putin

Project Educate Deb #9 Operation Entebbe

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This is a necessary counterpoint to the Educate Deb #8. I wish I could have found a better video as this one focus almost exclusively on the military aspects and ignores the experiences of the hostages, political problems, and the murder of many Africans in retaliation. This raids most visible effect on our current day as it forms part of the political mythos of one of the most prominent current politician in Israel (whose older brother died on this raid).

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Most Interesting Thing I Read Today: Choreographing the Dance of the Vampires

Saddest Thing I Read Today: “Christians are targeted because they are one of the poorest communities in Muslim-majority Pakistan. The trafficking rings are made up of Chinese and Pakistani middlemen and include Christian ministers, mostly from small evangelical churches, who get bribes to urge their flock to sell their daughters.”

The Most Educational Thing I Read Today: The Chinese Builders Behind Africa’s Construction Boom