SILK ROAD BLUES: China’s Global Building Spree Runs Into Trouble in Pakistan. “To fund a 70-nation infrastructure initiative, Beijing has been extending loans in opaque deals often contingent on using Chinese contractors.”

via WSJ: Financed and built by Chinese state-run companies, the soon-to-be-finished overhead railway through Lahore is among the first projects in China’s $62 billion plan for Pakistan. Beijing hoped the $2 billion air-conditioned metro, sweeping past crumbling relics of Mughal …

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DNA collection all the rage

by bringsmemes ” Sound paranoid? Consider the case of Google. (One of the founders of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, is presently married to Sergei Brin, the founder of Google.) When it first launched, Google billed itself as a faithful servant of …

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MARKETS – We Are Going To See A Drop This Week

TRADE WAR: China devalues yuan after Trump threatens tariffs in HUGE threat to US https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/992344/trade-war-usa-china-donald-trump-tariffs-yuan-devalue-currency-manipulation and even greg mannarino says we are going to see a drop this week. and he has been right so far… Disclaimer: Consult your financial …

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The Senate Intelligence Committee is one of the most politically corrupt committees in congress.

This is a good read … https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/22/oh-my-this-is-either-a-sting-or-the-most-corrupt-u-s-dept-of-justice-in-history/#more-152065 An excerpt: The Senate Intelligence Committee is one of the most politically corrupt committees in congress. This is the committee where: •Dianne Feinstein was Vice-Chair in 2016, and her former staffer, Dan Jones, …

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