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Category: D. Global Events
Spain’s 911
Coverage of actual bombing in Madrid on YouTube. This real event is featured in Chapter 3 of my novel, Noble Phoenix.
Facts on U.S. Trade
How important is trade to the U.S.? What are the facts? To eliminate the confusion over facts and “fake news”, these statistics come directly from the CIA World Factbook. This is a free, unclassified document published by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. It gives this information about U.S. Trade: Imports $2.352 trillion (2017 est.) – #1 importing country in the world -China 21.1%, Mexico 13.4%, Canada 12.7%, Japan 6%, Germany 5.2% (2016) -agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, …
Thanksgiving T-Rex
Will your Thanksgiving table feature a modern relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex? The answer may surprise you. Birds are dinosaurs: Lumen Learning shows the modern classification of Amniotes (vertebrates having an egg with an “amniote”.) In the lower right corner are Aves (all living birds), directly below two groups of dinosaurs. Some biologists declare that birds are dinosaurs, others insist they evolved from dinosaurs. The difference in views is merely semantic. Birds are dinosaurs. Birds are cousins of T-Rex. Wikipedia posted this diagram of the evolution of dinosaurs. Birds are in the upper left, adjacent to the meat-eating dinosaurs containing Tyrannosaurus …
China’s Great Wall of Sand
What’s the big deal in the South China Sea? China’s claim to the South China Sea overlaps with claims from other countries in the region. It also could limit the movement of $5.3 trillion of goods per year. To strengthen their claim, they have been building a Great Wall of Sand. Who claims territorial rights? Business Insider published a map that shows the area claimed by China (inside the red dashed line) and the overlapping claims from neighboring countries: But why is this important? Another Business Insider article shows the amount of LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) that passes through the sea: If …
2004 – 3/11 was Spain’s 9/11
Actual event featured in Noble Phoenix www.pryorpatch.com
Neo-Nazi Event Turned Violent – Prague 1998
Prague’s massive Global Street Party action (1998)