With the advent of 3D printing, getting a house built quickly and on the cheap is increasingly possible. ICON, a 3D printer manufacturer, built a 350-square-foot home in 48 hours at a cost of $10,000 with a printer running at only quarter speed. Once the printer is fully functional an 800-square-foot home could be built for less than $4,000. While housing for the poor has always been an economic and social challenge, the new technology offers an alternative to the high maintenance wood frame home with plastic siding and an asphalt shingle roof that has dominated the US homebuilding industry since the 1940s.

France’s Gilets Jaunes

The “yellow vests” have caused more disturbances in Paris than any protests since the 1848 revolution. The movement was sparked by a 33 US cent carbon fuel tax added onto $6 per gallon diesel price that was alleged to finance France’s fight against climate change. The French, financially desperate, inundated by migrants, and chilled by an extra cold winter, had had enough. The protesters demolished the majority of country’s 3,200 speed cameras and asked the population to withdraw as much money as possible from banks. The “Rodney King” type of police brutality against the French protesters went largely unreported by the European controlled media.

Sudan On The Way Down

General Wesley Clark announced that he was told by a Pentagon insider in October 2001 that “we [US government] are going to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.” While it’s taken over 17 years and the order has been shuffled around a bit, Sudan has finally gotten its turn. In December 2018 protests against risingbread prices turned into demands for the ouster of Sudan’s dictator Omar al-Bashir who has held power for 30years.Forty people have been killed. Sudan ceded its southern territory, containing rich oil fields, to an independent South Sudan in 2011 leaving the country with limited resources. After Sudan, just Lebanon and Iran remain on the list.

Britain’s Almost Exit

It took Czechoslovakia six months to dissolve in 1992. Yet curiously it is taking Britain, an independent country with its own currency, three years to leave the European Union. On June 23rd, 2016 a referendum about Brexit, the term coined to describe Britain’s Exit from the European Union, passed with 51.9% of votes for withdrawal. While Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are doing just fine without the European Union, many agents of influence raise panic that life on the isles will come to a standstill. The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.

Belgium’s Deadly Trend

2,309 people were euthanized in Belgiumin 2017.Since the legalization of euthanasia in 2002, the practice is trending upward at a rate of 14% per year, now surpassing the number of deaths in car accidents. Euthanasia by injection with life-ending barbiturates is not limited to cancer suffering adults and the very old. Handicapped children aged nine with a braintumor, aged 11 with cystic fibrosis and aged 17with muscular dystrophy were recently euthanatized. The children asked to be put to death in writing, and a child psychologist conducted psychological evaluations. The mercy killings took place with parental consent. In Belgium sometime organs are harvested after euthanasia leaving yet more room for abuse. A member of the Federal Commission for Euthanasia Control and Evaluation resigned after being accused of euthanizing a patient suffering from dementia. While it appears that native Belgians are finding it increasingly deadly to live in Belgium, immigrants continue to flock to the country and now represent 25% of the population.

India’s No Tourist Island

American missionary John Allen Chau, 26,was killed visiting North Sentinel Island, one of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. Local fishermen took Chau to the island and reported seeing him being shot by arrows and buried on the beach. The 50 to 400 Sentinelese that inhabit the island have a reputation for being unwelcoming to visitors. In 1867, a merchant passenger ship wrecked on the island reef and 106 passengers spent days fending off attacks from the Sentinelese. Other vessels have since gotten in trouble on the reefand, while their crews have typically been evacuated, the Sentinelese have been known to scavenge the wrecks for iron and supplies.

The 1991 Gulf War has been the most chemical war in history. Approximately 250,000 US veterans suffer from the multiple debilitating symptoms, from chronic fatigue to terminal tumors. 25,000 have died prematurely and US government doesn’t know why. A likely culprit is the 290 tons of depleted US uranium munitions used in M1 tanks and A-10 aircraft that have contaminated air, water and soil across much of southern Iraq. From normal rates before the war Iraq now has rate of deformities in babies is 14 times higher than after Hiroshima nuclear bombing. The cocktail of fast acting “anthrax” vaccines not tested by FDA forcibly injected into American troops didn’t help. Saddam Hussain was given anthrax by US to counter Iran advantage in 1980s war against Iran..

Russia

After US government has spent two years spinning a conspiracy theory that Russia was behind leaking Hillary Clinton emails that Russia has came with a conspiracy theory of its own. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, said that Russia is looking into flying a lunar probe to “verify whether they’ve been there [on the moon] or not.”57% of Russians believe NASA faked not only the six manned moon landings and take offs, but astronauts driving 37 kilometers on the moon surface in a lunar lover, escaping the Van Allen radiation belt, avoiding lunar meteor showers. To celebrate the feet Americans are accused of giving out fake “moon rocks” afterwards. All that took place within seven years after President Kennedy’s announced that Americans will go to the moon.

Greece

IsraAID, an Israeli organization funded by Israel’s Department of Foreign Affairs, American Jewish Committee and the B’nai B’rith International is making sure as many African and Middle East migrants make it to Europe as it is possible. Since 2016 IsraAID has been in Greece, Serbia, Croatia to help monitor and basically herd the refugees onto UNHCR coaches and camps and then onto European countries. Some Turkey based AID organizations have covered the $1,500 boat crossing fee the Turkish smugglers collect from migrants. Since 2009 54% refugees in Austria and 53% in Holland are approved for asylum while Israel approved 0.48%. In April Israel made, then suspended, a deal with UN for the 16,000 of its 40,000 stateless refugees to be resettled to Europe and Canada.

Burma

The Rohinga Hindus have been massacred by Rihinga… Muslims. While Burma has become a casus belli for the UN, Amnesty International has confirmed the killing by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) of over a hundred Hindus near the town of Maungdaw and Kha Maung Seik. Many Hindu Rohingas that find themselves in refugee camps of 480,000 people in Bangladesh have been forced to convert to Islam. Rohinga are peoples who migrated from Bangladesh to Burma in XIX and XX centuries during the British rule.

Syria

For the past 17 years the American government insisted it was Al-Qaeda that conducted the 9/11 attacks and now it insists that Al-Qaeda should be protect in its Syrian controlled territory of Idlib. “Idlib provice is the largest al-Qaeda safe-have since 9/11, tied to directly to Ayman al Zawahiri,” said Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy. Yet President Trump had urged Syria to refrain from “recklessly” attacking Idlib and reestablish control over its territory. Al-Qaeda has been terrorizing people of Idlib since 2011 and US government insists it’s important that it continue to do so. “Why is this happening? How are they getting there? They are not paratroopers,” said McGurk.

New Zealand

Passengers arriving in New Zealand are already digitally strip searched: they are required to forfeit the password to smart phones and laptops so that the officials check in on their suspicious conversations and files: personal photos, medical records, emails, text messages. Those visitors who refuse face prosecution, device confiscation and fines of $3,000. For now the officials cannot access the files kept on passengers cloud storage. The searches in 2017 were still voluntary, and the New Zealand customs officials conducted 537 such searches.

America’s baby boomers are filing for bankruptcy at alarmingly increasing rates. Three times more people over 65 were forced into bankruptcy in 2016 than in 1991. In 2016 3.6 people per 1,000 filed for bankruptcy in the 65 to 74 age bracket. Their average debt was only $17,000, but they had few options to get out of their financial situation. These baby boomers are in distress with declining income, rising healthcare costs, and mounting debt.

Slovenia

After the first solar powered aircraft circumnavigated the globe in 2016, several electric airplane manufacturers began production. One of the biggest in this small but growing and disruptive industry is Pipistrel, a Slovenian airplane manufacturer that in 2011 launched Taurus G4, the first electric four-seat aircraft. These electric aircraft are cheaper to construct, cheaper to operate, and the chassis is subjected to less vibrations and noise. With battery energy density rising by as much as 8 percent per year, the batteries hold increasing amount of energy per kilo. Pipistrel’s Alpha Electro two-seater costs $130,000 and can fly for about an hour.

Bhutan

In 1971 Bhutan dropped Gross National Product as the principal way to measure the county’s progress and embraced GNH – Gross National Happiness, an index that measures the spiritual, social, physical and environmental comfort of its citizens. The UN got in the game of defining happiness and is issuing its own list of happy countries based on GDP, life expectancy and social support. This year’s top rank went to Finland and Bhutan came in at 97th place. Bhutan, a homogenous Himalayan kingdom with strong culture has been quite content loosing the GDP race since it was adopted as a standard in 1944. While 70% of Bhutanese live without electricity and quarter of the population makes it on $1.25 a day, people seem quite content with life there and haven’t pleaded for asylum in Europe.

Germany

To recuperate from the stress and tedium of living in Germany, the government is paying for refugees to take paid vacations back home: Iraq, Syria, Libya, Bangladesh, wherever. While the refugees supposedly “felt unsafe in their own counties” they feel safe to go back there on a jet airline courtesy of German taxpayers for a three week vacations. There have been close to 2 million asylum seekers in Germany since 2012. And the country has a foreign population of 10 million.

Israel

Israel received its fifth nuclear cruise missile armed Dolphin-class submarine, ‘Rahav’, courtesy of Germany. Israeli nuclear armed subs have operated in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean and in 2013 launched cruise ship missiles again the Syrian port of Latakia. West Germany and France have funded the Israeli nuclear defense program since the 1960s. Israel has 300-400 nuclear warheads and, like India, Pakistan, and South Sudan never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The US has given $234 billion to Israel despite a 1961 US ban of aid to countries engaged in clandestine nuclear programs.

The US has begun to implement a sort-off rent-a-passport system. “If you have seriously delinquent tax debt (…) The State Department generally will not issue a passport,” reads a statement on the IRS.gov website. At least 362,000 names have been selected for passport denial and revoking for having a government debt over $50,000. In communist countries in 1940-1990 and in Cuba today citizens have to ask permission to receive a travel passport and have to return it to authorities when they return. Perhaps, if your passport was taken away so easily, maybe it wasn’t yours to begin with.

Mexico

Ibogane anti-addiction clinics are popping all over Mexico. Thousands of Americans dependant on Heroin, Cocaine and alcohol have freed themselves from their addiction after a 36 hour iboga root withdrawal session supervised by medical staff. There is no withdrawal symptoms with Ibogane and success rate is reportedly as high as 80%. Europeans came across the root bark of iboga tree being used in initiation ceremonies among some West African tribes in late XIX century. While CIA studied affects of ibogane in 1950, the Iboga plant is illegal, and alongside Heroin and Marijuana considered schedule I drug in USA.

Brazil

Mesoamerican reef that Roatan is a part of is no longer considered the second largest barrier reef in the world, it is now tied for second place. Scientists have discovered a brand new, 1,000 kilometer long reef – the Amazon coral reef. It stretches from French Guiana to Brazil’s Maranhão State and covers 9,500 square kilometers. The discovery of the reef at the mouth of the Amazon corrects a wrongly assumed theory that great rivers create gaps in reef systems. The reef follows the edge of South American continental shelf and is estimated to contain 60 species of sponges and 73 species of fish.

Sweden

Increasingly Swedes are choosing to have microchips inserted into their bodies. Apparently carrying cash, or even cards is inconvenient and a micro chip the size of a grain of rice can save you seconds to wirelessly unlock doors, access your computer or make credit payments from just four centimeters away. So far the 3,000 Swedes got “biohacked” and are not concerned about the risk of data theft, continuous live tracking of where they are and what they do.

Pakistan

China has built a world class shipping port in Pakistan’s Gwadar, the largest deep sea port in the world. Increasingly goods and supplies to and from western China are now shipped via Gwadar and placed on the paved road network avoiding the time end expense of travel to ports like Shanghai or Hong Kong. Gwadar port is part of the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. China has paved 806 kilometers of Pakistan’s treacherous Karakorum highway connecting the it’s Tibetan plateau with the Arabian Sea. The two countries are also linked with 820 kilometer underground Fiber Optic Cable.

Mali

The UN world army has been at war in Mali since 2012 and the prospects of perpetual war are looking good. 17,000 foreign and 6,000 Mali forces and dozens have been holding the line against the 1,200–3,000 strong Islamic State of the Greater Sahara [ISGS]. Military servicemen from China, Slovenia, USA, Cambodia, Nepal, Ireland, France and a dozen of other willing countries have sent their soldiers to fight and fly fighter jet missions in continually unsuccessful mission to defeat the ISGS and there is no end in sight. In contrast, in Syria and Iraq, the 40,000 strong Islamic State has been all but defeated by the by conscripted Iraqi and Syrian forces. The Mali war has so far displaced 400,000 many of whom are already in Europe.