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.”

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

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

It is well known that China is rapidly aging

The Avalanche of Cocaine Hitting Europe

Hoag’s Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)

Truth. The Great American Eye-Exam Scam

I am not sure such a small study tells you much anything useful but it sure is interesting anyway. Gut bacteria partly determine whether exercise improves the health of men with pre-diabetes. Another take on the same study. Gut microbes may predict whether exercising will prevent diabetes

One thing you would never know from reading this is that access to healthcare has never been shown to have much effect on life span except for perhaps towards the end of life. But that is still the first thing they think of when they see young people dying. Our workforce is dying faster than any other wealthy country, study shows

I don’t think fries are really the thing to worry about. America braces for possible french fry shortage after poor potato harvest