Friday, 11 January 2019

Noteworthy Reads 2 - January 2019



The Dystopian View - Is This the Year the World Falls Apart?

"The geopolitical environment is the most dangerous it's been in decades," warns Eurasia Group, political risk-adviser to the world's elites, and a voice of globalist ideology.
The Henley Passport Index

The index ranks passports in terms of how many countries holders can access without visas.  While interesting, the real gold is in the following report: Henley Passport and Global Mobility Report

There are gems like this:

The increasingly lengthy and uncertain processing time for H-1B visa petitions in the US stands in contrast to the measures that China, for example, is currently trying to implement. The country’s newly introduced China Talent (R) Visa program is characterized by the complete absence of application fees and is expected to allow applications submitted by talented foreign workers to be processed within a few working days.

China's legal system under scrutiny after court documents go missing

Missing legal documents, sabotaged security cameras, a Supreme Court judge's video testimony and a television celebrity's plea for justice have raised new concerns about the impartiality of China's legal system.

Soya Beans

US farmers are suffering and part of that suffering is due to Trump's war on trade:



https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2019/01/china-purchases-u-s-soybeans-and-u-s-china-trade-talks-conclude/?utm_source=farmdoc+daily+and+Farm+Policy+News+Updates&utm_campaign=d18d705af6-FPN_RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2caf2f9764-d18d705af6-175258397

Strongest opponents of GM foods know the least but think they know the most

The most extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least about science but believe they know the most, researchers have found.

“This is part and parcel of the psychology of extremism,” said Philip Fernbach, a researcher at the University of Colorado and co-author of the 2017 book The Knowledge Illusion. “To maintain these strong counter-scientific consensus views, you kind of have to have a lack of knowledge.”

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