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As #landmines are in the news recently, a story about a rat who has uncovered more than 100 landmines and pieces of unexploded ordinance in #Cambodia. Unfortunately there are millions more in the country, a legacy of the #Vietnam war and other conflicts. A doctor I know used to live in the region- he told me innocent children are often the victims. But it's left to charities to clear up the mess
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ewxj

The rat, on a lead, sniffing around soil with a red DANGER sign in the background.
BBC NewsRonin the rat sets new landmine-sniffing recordRonin, a giant African pouched rat, is the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines in Cambodia.

"This kind of heavy-handed approach could undo years of careful work rebuilding U.S.-Vietnam trust after decades of war."

Giang via LinkedIn on #Vietnam and Trump’s #AI tariffs. 🐧

And now orange man acts as if the US may renegotiate, when destruction is the only goal, still riding the QAnon ... stefanlaser.net/2025/04/04/thi

stefanlaser.netStefan LaserThis kind of heavy-handed approach could undo years of …
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After delivering a potted #economic history of the country in which he bizarrely claimed that the #GreatDepression would have been avoided if high tariffs had been in place, #Trump announced that “reciprocal tariffs” would go into effect on April 9th, w/rates of 34% on goods imported from #China, 24% on #Japan, & 20% on the #EU. Some of the highest rates were reserved for export-led developing countries in #Asia: 46% on #Vietnam, 48% on #Laos, & 49% on #Cambodia.
#economy #recession #geopolitics

Tiny #Vietnam

Graciously hosts that orange shit gibbon’s offshore romantic get together with the infant king of North Korea,

And look what it got - 46% #tariffs slapped on it. The highest tariff rate of all.

Meanwhile, the rate of #Trump supporters amongst the immigrant Vietnamese population is astronomical.

The more you love him, the more he’ll fuck you.

This sound interesting. #ChrisHedges talks to Yasha Levine about how the internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance.

The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | #TheChrisHedgesReport

chrishedges.substack.com/p/the

The Chris Hedges Report · The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges ReportAv Chris Hedges

Some dude appears to have reverse engineered the formula Trump is using to determine each country’s tariffs:

> trade_deficit_of_country_X / imports_from_country_X

The trade deficit of a given country is just imports minus exports. Example:

* US Imports from Vietnam: $136.6 bn
* US exports to Vietnam: $13.1 bn
* US trade deficit w/Vietnam: $136.6 - $13.1 = $123.5 bn
* $123.5 / $136.6 = 90% tariffs

This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen, except for the fact that Taiwan's existence is acknowledged as a real country.
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