How Venezuela's oil industry collapsed
China exploits Australia’s lax laws to sign up researchers for secretive program
"An investigation by The Australian has revealed dozens of leading scientists at major universities across the country have been recruited to a Chinese government program called the Thousand Talents Plan, which FBI director Christopher Wray describes as economic espionage and a national security threat."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/china-exploits-australias-lax-laws-to-sign-up-researchers-for-secret-program/news-story/35a48fe48919f0cc2cd269a3bc2fd91d
Iran’s nuclear agency says blast at Natanz facility was result of sabotage
"An Iranian official said on Sunday that the mysterious blast at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility last month was the “result of sabotage.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-nuclear-agency-says-blast-at-natanz-facility-was-result-of-sabotage
21 August Report
Tennessee gov signs bill upping penalties on some protests
"Most notably, the new law now states that those who illegally camp on state property would now face a Class E felony, punishable by up to six years in prison, rather than a misdemeanor. Felony convictions in Tennessee result in the revocation of an individual’s right to vote.
https://apnews.com/f465062c6eb6ab38c8df99b40f687fe4
Top Universities Take Millions From China Front Group
"Dozens of universities, including Columbia and Stanford, are hosting the Chinese government-funded Confucius Institute despite increasing scrutiny from the federal government."
https://freebeacon.com/campus/top-universities-take-millions-from-china-front-group
As Chicago crime skyrockets, tyrant Lori Lightfoot has police block press from filming on public streets
The Constitution guarantees that a free press will not be hampered through unlawful measures by government. This is a crucial aspect of liberty that our founding fathers clearly understood and that patriots today recognize as unmistakably relevant for modern America. In Chicago, the Constitution has essentially been subverted as freedom of the press has been wiped away by mayoral decree.
Journalism’s Gates keepers
By Tim Schwab
August 21, 2020
…"I recently examined nearly twenty thousand charitable grants the Gates Foundation had made through the end of June and found more than $250 million going toward journalism. Recipients included news operations like the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, and the Center for Investigative Reporting; charitable organizations affiliated with news outlets, like BBC Media Action and the New York Times’ Neediest Cases Fund; media companies such as Participant, whose documentary Waiting for “Superman” supports Gates’s agenda on charter schools; journalistic organizations such as the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Press Foundation, and the International Center for Journalists; and a variety of other groups creating news content or working on journalism, such as the Leo Burnett Company, an ad agency that Gates commissioned to create a “news site” to promote the success of aid groups. In some cases, recipients say they distributed part of the funding as subgrants to other journalistic organizations—which makes it difficult to see the full picture of Gates’s funding into the fourth estate."
https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
Male plasma contains higher levels of antibodies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53137573