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Feb 27, 2024 · For Blood Money, Schweizer and his team of forensic investigators spent more than two years scouring a trove of restricted Chinese military documents, data-mining a mountain of American financial records, and tracking US political leaders’ investments and family businesses. Schweizer unloads bombshell after bombshell, exposing the Chinese ...
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blood money: [noun] money obtained at the cost of another's life.
Blood money is, colloquially, the reward for bringing a criminal to justice. A common meaning in other contexts is the money-penalty paid by a murderer to the kinsfolk of the victim. These fines completely protect the offender (or the kinsfolk thereof) from the vengeance of the injured family. The system was common among Germanic peoples as ...
blood money, compensation paid by an offender (usually a murderer) or his kin group to the kin group of the victim. In many societies blood money functions to prevent the continuation of hostilities in the form of a feud ( q.v. ). Some customs allow the injured party the choice of punishing the murder by blood vengeance or by blood money.
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Feb 27, 2024 · For Blood Money, Schweizer and his team of forensic investigators spent more than two years scouring a trove of restricted Chinese military documents, data-mining a mountain of American financial ...
Mar 11, 2023 · Blood Money reads in many ways like a dystopian novel detailing the aftermath of widespread economic collapse. McLaughlin initially embarked on a quest to learn more about the people from whom her medicine derived. The end result was the discovery of an extremely ill economic system with literal vampiric tendencies that fuels itself off of the ...
Mar 3, 2024 · Review 1: The New York Times. Peter Schweizer’s Blood Money is a searing indictment of the dangerous liaisons between power and profit, and the devastating impact on American lives. Through his rigorous research and compelling storytelling, Schweizer unveils a chilling reality where moral compasses are discarded in favor of financial gain.
