https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/07/17/heres-what-the-damage-inside-the-bonhomme-richard-looks-like/

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16152/modern-slavery

There are an estimated 136,000 people living in modern slavery just in Britain. Slavery in the UK takes the form of forced labor, and domestic and sexual exploitation. Albanians and Vietnamese are among the groups that constitute the majority of slaves. — Global Slavery Index, 2018.

There are currently an estimated 9.2 million black slaves in Africa. Slavery, according to the index, includes forced labor, forced sexual exploitation and forced marriage. — Global Slavery Index, 2018.

"According to the U.N.'s International Labor Organization (ILO), there are more than three times as many people in forced servitude today as were captured and sold during the 350-year span of the transatlantic slave trade", Time Magazine March 14, 2019.

Modern slavery earns criminal networks an estimated $150 billion a year, just slightly less than drug smuggling and weapons trafficking.

"G-20 countries import some $354 billion worth of products at risk of being produced by modern slavery every year". — Global Slavery Index, 2018.

In parts of the African continent, especially in the Sahel, slavery is still ingrained in traditional culture, even though, officially, slavery has been outlawed. In countries such as Mali and Mauritania, so-called descent-based slavery or "caste-based" slavery in which slavery is passed down from generation to generation, so that slaves are born into their predicament is still practiced by some.

In 2013, it was estimated that around 250,000 people were living in slave-like conditions in Mali, where slavery is not illegal.

https://www.brecorder.com/news/40006114/explosion-hits-iran-power-plant

TEHRAN: An explosion hit a power plant in the central Iranian province of Isfahan on Sunday, state news agency IRNA reported, saying it was over faulty equipment and caused no casualties.

A "worn out transformer… at Isfahan's Islamabad thermal power plant exploded at around 5:00 am today," the managing director of Isfahan's electricity company Said Mohseni told the agency.

The facility returned to normal working conditions after about two hours and Isfahan's power supply was uninterrupted, he added.

The incident is the latest in a string of fires and explosions at military and civilian sites across Iran in recent weeks.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/19/portland-police-declare-riot-as-anti-cop-protesters-torch-union-building/

Portland police declared the riot at around 10:50 p.m. after demonstrators barricaded the North Portland offices of the Portland Police Association, which reps the city’s cops, The Oregonian reported.

Despite an order to disperse, vigilantes proceeded to break into the building and set fires.

“People have broken into the Portland Police Association office and lit the building on fire,” the Portland Police Bureau said on Twitter at 10:51.

Cops extinguished the fires and “restored order in the neighborhood,” the agency said in an update posted at 11:43.

Saturday marked Portland’s 52nd straight night of anti-cop protests, which began in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Did Iran just take a knee

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-court-halts-execution-protesters-dont-execute

Iranian court halts execution of three imprisoned protesters

The three men were accused of vandalism and arson during last year's protests; lawyers say they were forced into confessing

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/07/19/execution-of-iran-dissidents-stopped-after-trump-joins-twitter-protest/

Iran’s Supreme Court upheld their death sentences as recently as Tuesday, triggering an enormous international outcry and the creation of a #StopExecutionsInIran social media hashtag that accumulated millions of posts, including a contribution from President Donald Trump.