USA news on Youtube Sep 17 2018

Humans have come up with many strange ways to kill people, including an array of different

types of bombs.

Bombs such as the barrel bomb, which was just a big barrel full of nasty things that caused

so much damage they were deemed unethical.

There was the famous bouncing bomb, the British invention that bounced on water towards a

designated target.

When it hit the target it would then sink and blow up underwater.

Then people got smarter, and created bombs that had guidance systems, and after that

normal bombs were often called "dumb bombs."

But it was the USA that came up with, without a doubt, the weirdest bomb in the history

of mankind, and that's what we'll explore today, in this episode of the Infographics

Show, Bat Bombs – The craziest bomb in history.

We'll get right to the point and tell you what a bat bomb is.

If you are thinking the word 'bat' is used as a metaphor for something, you're

wrong.

Bat bombs used actual, living, breathing bats.

Those were Mexican free-tailed bats, which are super-abundant in North America.

These little rascals are said to be the fastest moving animal in the world when flying straight.

They can reach speeds of 99 mph (160 km/h).

The peregrine falcon is faster, however, but only when in a dive.

It can move at speeds of 242 mph (389 km/h).

Ok, back to bats.

The bat bomb was the idea of a Pennsylvania dentist called Lytle S. Adams.

He was friendly with then second lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Mr. Adams told her about his idea for a bat bomb, and her husband, Franklin, gave this

crazy idea the thumbs up.

The idea was to create a bomb that consisted of a large case with around 1,000 small compartments.

In each compartment a bat was placed, and attached to it was an explosive that was on

a timer.

The plan was that during World War Two, planes would fly over Japanese cities and release

the bomb.

It would drift down by parachute and then the compartments would open in the air.

The bats would fly out, heading to Japanese houses, factories, and warehouses, where they

would find a home and explode in 15 minutes.

As many buildings in Japan were made of wood, when the device went off, it was hoped that

all those bats would cause havoc, starting fires everywhere.

Bats are very strong and can carry more than they weigh, so that was good.

It was shown these little bats could carry a half-ounce bomb (18 grams), which could

cause sufficient damage.

The bats were also easy to catch with nets, as millions could be found in caves.

As they hibernated, they were what you might call low maintenance to look after.

To put them into hibernation, they would be placed in cooling trays.

As bats are creatures of the night, if they were released in the morning, the first thing

they would look for was a secluded place to hide; the Americans believed that would be

a house.

A dumb idea for a smart bomb?

It sounded crazy, but President Roosevelt believed in it, writing to the military big-wigs

about Adams' plan, that "This man is not a nut!"

One of the people that invented napalm was in on the project, telling the military that

those batty bombs could unleash up to 30 times the destruction of regular bombs.

The Marine Corps then took the program further, planning to get a million bats ready for what

one would suspect was a thousand loads.

The plan was to drop the casings from 5,000 feet from B-24 Bombers.

The parachutes would take the flying bat hotels to 1,000 feet and then they would be released.

They gave it the name Project X-Ray.

Tests had to be carried out first, of course.

In Project X-Ray documents, it's written that the tests were, "To determine the feasibility

of using bats to carry small incendiary bombs into enemy targets."

That's where things started to go wrong.

It was said that the hardest part of this plan was making the container open mid-flight.

That might be easy now, but it wasn't in the 1940s.

The Atlantic writes that one time, the case opened by accident during tests at Carlsbad

auxiliary airfield.

The bats flew everywhere, madness ensued, and a hangar and a general's car were set

on fire.

They did exactly what the army thought they'd do, flew off and found dark places to hide.

One report states, "Base personnel, kicked off their field by the project's secret

classification, watched in horror from behind locked gates as most of their facilities went

up in flames."

Another time, the bats were released and didn't come out of their hibernation sleep.

They just fell to the ground and died.

During all tests, it's said 6,000 bats were killed.

They tried 30 times to test the bat bomb, and spent around $2 million dollars on the

project, but it just didn't work out.

The military and government believed that money was better spent on another secret weapon:

The Manhattan Project for the development of the atomic bomb.

Some people said bat bombs would have worked if given more time to test them.

Adams wasn't happy about the project ending, later saying, "Think of thousands of fires

breaking out simultaneously over a circle of forty miles in diameter for every bomb

dropped.

Japan could have been devastated, yet with small loss of life."

It was a failure, as were exploding rats and Pigeon-Guided Missiles.

But the Americans went on to further develop weapons using animals.

You might recall the CIA's spying cat, called, "Acoustic Kitty."

That project cost $20 million in the 1960s, and was an absolute cat-astrophe (pun intended).

Mr. Adams, meanwhile, went on to do all sorts of things, including inventing a fried chicken

vending machine.

It seems that didn't work out, either.

The irony is that now it is the Japanese who are the masters of fast-food vending machines.

According to Japan's Vending Machine Manufacturers Association, there is one vending machine

for every 23 people in the country.

We found one that vends fried chicken

in Osaka.

So, think the bat bomb could have been a good idea?

What crazy ideas for military weapons do you have?

Let us know in the comments!

Also, be sure to check out our other video called MOAB - The Mother of All Bombs!

Thanks for watching, and, as always, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.

See you next time!

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Will Donald Trump's War KILL Dropshipping & Amazon?! (Why Chinese Products Are So Cheap) - Duration: 10:54.

Hey guys, so today we're going to be talking about something that is very, very important

for online sellers and small business, and that is the ongoing trade war between China

and the United States.

Trade wars aren't so bad.

Well, understandably not all Wholesale Ted subscribers are sure they agree.

I've recently received a lot of comments from sellers and viewers who were quite scared

about what's going on, and want to know if this will impact or kill their businesses.

You see, for those of you that don't know, there has been an ongoing trade war this year

between the USA and China.

So a trade where is where country A increases the tariffs on imports from country B, and

so in retaliation, country B increases the tariffs, IE the import taxes of country A's

items that they buy from them that are important to their country, and this back and forth

retaliation is a trade war.

And this is exactly what has been happening between China and the USA.

On June 15th, Donald Trump declared in a short statement that the United States would impose

a huge 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese imported goods, in response to unfair

trading practices.

A lot of online sellers were quite scared at this announcement, because a 25% tariff

would be more than enough to kill the profit margins for many online seller, and thus potentially

kill their businesses.

In addition, Trump also announced that if China retaliated with their own tariffs, that

the USA would impose 10% tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese imported goods.

Well, China did respond pretty much immediately, and they ended up imposing their own similar

tariffs on USA imported goods.

And thus China and the USA are now locked in an economic battle.

Most of my subscribers here at WholeSale Ted either own or are starting online businesses

and stores like drop shipping, and Amazon FBA, private labeling business that rely on

importing goods from China.

And so of course the question here is, what does this mean for you as an online seller?

Is Donald Trump's trade war going to kill your business?

Let's find out.

So let me ask you a question, why do you think it is cheaper for you to import your products

all the way from China into the United States, rather than just working with USA based manufacturers

and suppliers?

A lot of people think that the reason why is because China uses cheap slave labor.

Child labor included, to manufacture its goods.

And while it is true that there are still some factories in China that have very poor

working conditions, but in general the working conditions in China have massively improved.

You see, when most people think of Chinese factories, they think of the hellish conditions

that existed in the '90s.

Take the Pill River Delta region of China, it has a lot of factories that produce toys.

They even produce toys for some of the biggest brands in the world, including Disney.

Back in the '90s and early 2000s, every year, more than 40,000 workers from these toy factories

would break or even lose fingers on the production line and really nobody cared.

But since 2008, things have been drastically changing.

With the introduction of sweeping labor reforms that have been designed to protect the rights

of the workers.

As a result, the cost of labor in China have gone up a lot, yet it's still usually way

cheaper for online sellers like drop shippers, and Amazon private labelers to source their

products from China, even with the expensive shipping costs.

So how can that be?

Well it's not because they're cheating with rampant child labor.

An unfair leftover stereotype, perhaps the biggest reason is because of the belt road

initiative.

The belt road initiative is China's ongoing development strategy to create roads, train

tracks, and shipping ports to connect it to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

The silk road economic belt is a series of six land corridors that will contain roads

and train tracks to connect China to a slew of countries, all the way over to the UK.

And that's not all.

They also have the maritime silk road that they are building.

This is a series of shipping ports that will connect the South China Sea all the way to

Africa.

China officially announced this development strategy in 2013.

But the reality is that they've actually been massively investing in this trade network

and infrastructure since the 1980s.

In the '90s and the 2000s, China invested 9% of its GDP into infrastructure.

Whereas most western countries invested just two to 4%.

And some of the ways that they've been building this network have been pretty controversial

to say the least.

What China has done is it has offered large loans with a relatively few barriers to countries

that normally would be considered too risky to loan money to.

Like Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is a risky country to loan money to, because corruption level and political

instability are so high.

So if you loan money to them, you're probably not going to get it back.

But China doesn't mind this, in fact they welcome it, because what it lets them do is

use that debt to further their belt road initiative.

As a result of not being able to pay back the debt that they had racked up to China,

which was over $8 billion, the Sri Lankan government made a deal with China.

They would give them a 70% stake, and a 99 year lease of their shipping port, Hambantota,

which had been built of course with the money that they had initially borrowed from China.

Not only has it made it cheaper and easier for China to export its goods around the world,

it's also made it cheaper and easier for China to import key raw materials, like oil and

iron ore.

They then take those raw materials, and turn them into goods, and export them back out

again.

Sri Lanka gets a new port, and China kind of gets one as well.

Other people view this quite differently though, and have called it the China debt trap.

This channel is politically neutral, I don't talk about my political opinions on it, however

as this is quite a controversial topic, the comments section is free game.

So feel free to sound off on your opinion in it.

But not matter what your opinion is on China's plan, it has undeniably had a massive impact

on their position in the world when it comes to manufacturing and trade.

Even though the United States is not connected to this economic silk road, this massive infrastructure

network has dramatically lowered the cost of producing goods.

Which is why we all import items from China.

If China's huge trade network sounds incredibly intimidating, as in so intimidating that the

idea of trying to compete against them seems insane, you would be right.

And the United States government would agree with you, in fact Donald Trump would agree

with you, and this is why most online sellers don't have to be worried about this ongoing

trade war.

You go to a mall, you go to K Mart, you go to Wal Mart, you go to Target, what do you

see?

Chinese goods, Chinese goods everywhere.

China has built the common goods empire, they are the undisputed king when it comes to producing

common, every day goods, like this little vegetable slicer, or this avocado slicer.

In fact if you look at the top products that the USA imported from China, you'll quickly

see that yes, the top categories include common, every day goods that average people buy, like

electronics and clothing.

And of course it's these types of items like kitchenware, clothing, and little electronics

that most online sellers like Amazon, FBA private labelers, and drop shippers resell.

Well you know what?

Donald Trump does not want to be competing with China over these types of items, he doesn't

want American factories to be producing their own avocado slicers, no.

What he and the American government are interested in doing is competing with China when it comes

to high tech goods.

You see China may have built the common goods empire, you go to a mall and you struggle

to find anything that they haven't produced.

But in high tech fields like robotics, aerospace, automobiles, and especially in pharmaceutical

products, they are dominated by other countries, including the United States.

But China has announced that they want to change that, with their 2025 plan, which outlines

their strategy for moving in and taking a slice of these industries for themselves.

And this is what the United States is warring with China about.

This is what Donald Trump's tariffs are all about.

They're not about the small types of items that most online sellers sell.

In fact, remember at the start of the video, where I talked about how the United States

has implemented a 25% tariff on over $50 billion worth of Chinese imports?

Well, let's take a look at the products that did get slapped with a tariff.

If you don't recognize half of what's on this list, then you would be well forgiven.

That's because the vast majority of products on here are either raw materials, or industrial

goods that are used in those high tech industries.

These types of items that most people are importing and selling on Amazon FBA warehouses,

these are not on the list at all.

The same goes for all express items.

Donald Trump could care less that you're importing and selling a self stir mug from China, and

besides, for import packages to be eligible for tariffs, their value needs to exceed $800.

So as most drop shippers are importing packages that are worth less than $50, there is really

no concern for drop shippers at all.

But what about those $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that Trump threatened to target

in retaliation?

Will we be impacted by that?

The answer is that it's extremely unlikely that you would be.

I've gone through the 200 page document outlining all the products that would be targeted.

The vast, vast majority of products on this list are either related to high tech fields,

raw materials, or food, and food is another controversial area for the USA and China when

it comes to trade.

Now there were actually a few common good items that were on the list that might impact

a hand full of sellers, but as expected, the vast, vast, vast majority of common goods

were not targeted.

With this video, I didn't just want to come out and be like, oh hey look, most of the

items that we're selling aren't on the tariff list.

Don't worry about it.

No, with this video, what I really wanted to do was I wanted to explain the situation

so that if the trade war escalates between China and the USA, you don't need to worry

because you know that your types of goods are not being targeted.

Because it's not common goods like this that are being targeted, Donald Trump does not

want America to start making their own avocado slicers.

He is more than happy for America to keep importing them.

Thanks for watching, here at Wholesale Ted, we're not afraid to tackle the real issues

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