Trump’s last chance to tango
Trump’s last chance to tango It takes two No1 As a thanks to my paid subscribers they received this article yesterday. After a day, it opens up for everybody else. In 1958 Mao Zedong found out who was stealing China’s grain. Sparrows. Each one ate about two kilos of grain a year, according to the Party. Multiply that by every sparrow in China and you’ve found why every granary sat empty in the country. source So China declared a war on sparrows . Everybody joined in. An estimated three million people banged pots, pans, drums and gongs for days in Beijing alone so the birds could never land. They flew until they dropped out of the sky. Nests were torn down, eggs smashed, the stragglers shot. Prussia had tried the same thing in the 1700s and got an outbreak of pests for its trouble. It’s always good to know your history… Roughly two billion dead sparrows later, the crop output dropped by about a fifth. Because what else do sparrows eat? Insects, in particular: locusts. Rice borers ...