Jemaah Islamiah terrorists were planning to infiltrate local motorbike gangs to create chaos to distract the police from the planned attacks on Chinese Indonesians.
"... China has had at least two distinguishing features ... that of historical memory largely determining its long-term goals, and the use of its cultural values to justify the expansion of its interests."
"A meta-analysis, considering the results of several studies together, of a total of 180 participants, by Jessie Hawkins and colleagues at The Franklin Institute of Wellness, 2018, showed that black elderberry is effective and safe for treating viral infections."
"Surely there should be a national celebration of this momentous event!"
"... inequality has been steadily increasing, while, as Branko Milanovic notes, the income of countries’ middle and lower-middle classes has stagnated ..."
"For many of those on the fence, the problem with Scottish independence is that the SNP's vision of independence is the only game in town."
"If the dam was filled over a five-year period, Egypt could lose 36% of its water supply and 50% of its farmland."
"China and Iran just inked a 25-year, game-changing strategic deal covering everything from oil sales, contract bids and massive upgrades to Iran’s anti-air capabilities as well as its domestic air force."
"... the state has also granted itself the power to authorise 90-day surveillance warrants, wiretaps and life imprisonment without parole."
"One could say this is a just cause. However, is it so when fellow Cambridge academic Priyamvada Gopal has not only avoided being reprimanded by her university but instead defended by it for her own racially sensitive comments?"
"... a good economy alone isn't enough if we simply spend more or otherwise reduce the amount of money the government collects."
"New York is ... often a blueprint for what the elites want to implement nationwide."
"Why are the nations in an uproar and the peoples devising a vain thing?"
"No one thinks all the problems the global financial crisis revealed have been healed."
"The Digital Economy will allow the Government to monitor and scrutinize every transaction, to freeze digital accounts, and to block “financial flows” to punish disobedience."
"... millions were forced to toil in the countryside. "Bad elements" and "New People"—intellectuals, government officials, Buddhists, shopkeepers, disfavored ethnicities—were either worked to death in rural collectives or executed outright."
“Under the Constitution, the Equal Protection Clause allows Idaho to recognize the physiological differences between the biological sexes in athletics,” Attorney General William Barr said. “Because of these differences, the Fairness Act’s limiting of certain athletic teams to biological females provides equal protection.”
"... unsocial sociability is a hypothesis that under circumstances that disrupt society through forces of antagonism, society reinforces itself to combat such pressures that threaten its existence."
Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau announced, "Allah instructed me to sell them … I will carry out his instructions … slavery is allowed in my religion and I shall capture people and make them slaves."
"If the state forbids what God commands, or commands what God forbids, civil disobedience is a Christian duty ..."
"It certainly seems to be right out of the Unconventional Warfare insurgency manual."
"... central banks around the world stunned pundits by purchasing roughly 650 tons of bullion in both 2018 and 2019."
Act Two could be right around the corner.
"Official statistics released last week reveal that abortions in England and Wales in 2019 were recorded at 207,384 among residents – the highest number ever since abortion was legalised in 1968."