One of my favorite stories of the year has to be EU’s attempt to convert money into artillery shells. They allocated a bunch of money to this and thought that shells would magically appear. Instead they created a situation where there’s a limited supply of a commodity with a market flush with cash, and as anybody with even a modicum of economic understanding could’ve told them this resulted in prices going through the roof. So shells went from around 2k per shell to 8k per shell. 😂
I didn't expect the collapse of the empire to be so literal (www.usatoday.com)
Anarchism debunked (media.mas.to)
Houthis enforce embargo on ships heading to or leaving Israel (peoplesdispatch.org)
The UK Met Police have announced plans to use facial recognition tech to identify shoplifters – the new boogeyman to legitimize a explosion of biometric surveillance. (www.bbc.com)
China to test 1,000km/h ultra-high-speed-maglev train (traveltomorrow.com)
China Leads Growth of Global Industrial Robot Stock (lemmygrad.ml)
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US F-16 Crashes into Yellow Sea Off South Korea, Yonhap Says (www.bloomberg.com)
The U.S. Can Afford a Bigger Military. We Just Can’t Build It. (www.wsj.com)