Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight (New York: Hill
and Wang, 2019), 235. “The leaking of the Pentagon Papers and the impeachment
charges against President Richard Nixon provoked a growing distrust among
Americans toward their own government. All of which helps explain an unlikely
legacy of Apollo: the persistent claim that the whole thing was a hoax.”
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“Letters to the Editor,” Beyond Reality (New York) #46, Nov./Dec. 1980, pp. 8-9. A woman
died from fright after dancing with the Devil in Granger, Washington, ca. 1979.
“Evidently he had changed from a normal man into one with hoofs and glowing red
eyes.” A variant of “The Devil in the Dancehall.”
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South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
14 December 2019
Chinese criminal gangs
spreading African swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs cheaply so they can
profit
Chinese criminals have been exploiting the country’s
African swine fever crisis by intentionally spreading the disease to force
farmers to sell their pigs for a low price before smuggling the meat and
selling it on as healthy stock, state media has reported. Sometimes the gangs
spread rumours about the virus, which is fatal to pigs, but in more extreme
cases they are using drones to drop infected items into farms, according to an
investigation by the magazine China
Comment, which is affiliated to state news agency Xinhua. […]
South China Morning Post
20 December 2019
China flight systems jammed by pig farm’s African swine fever defences
A Chinese pig farm’s
attempt to ward off drones – said to be spreading African swine fever – jammed
the navigation systems of a number of planes flying overhead. The farm, in
northeastern China, was ordered last month to turn in an unauthorised
anti-drone device installed to prevent criminal gangs dropping items infected
with the disease, according to online news portal Thepaper.cn. […]
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