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Bible Lobbyist: We Can’t Print Bibles in America Anymore

Where Did Americans Move in 2019?

“For one thing, it’s an enormous amount of money, more than the final cost of bailing out the auto industry during the financial crisis of 2008. The auto industry bailout was fiercely debated in Congress. Yet the USDA created this new program out of thin air; it decided that an old law authorizing a USDA program called the Commodity Credit Corp. already gave it the authority to spend this money.”

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In this headline, “Found” is carrying a lot of weight that I am not sure it can support. Nonetheless, It is interesting in light of other indications for an infectious basis for at least some cases of Alzheimers. Tuberculosis Vaccine Found To Inadvertently Counter Alzheimer’s Disease

Capital New Delhi broke record for coldest December day in 119 years on Monday, compounding miseries of the homeless. This at the same time that Australia is burning up in part due to record heat.

IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax

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I am so old I remember when people calling them coydogs were roundly mocked for being uneducated bumpkins not up on the latest science. Coywolves are Taking Over Eastern North America

Not in the news nearly as much as it ought to be. France, not Britain, is the real angry and divided nation

Having already sold his and his wife’s kidneys to settle his debt, Ali feels he has run out of options.”In a few years, when my son is old enough, I may have to sell one of his kidneys as well,” he said.

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China flight systems jammed by pig farm’s African swine fever defences

“40 percent of FDI globally comes from just seven countries, which collectively account for 3 percent of the world economy.”

The US and China have a trade deal, but only Washington has what it wants

“Despite tighter gun regulations than the U.S., in the poorer neighborhoods of many Brazilian cities, armed gangs and police trade fire with high-caliber assault rifles, machine guns, pistols, and sometimes even grenades and rocket launchers. Rio averages 24 shootouts per day. Large hours-long gun battles often don’t even make the headlines. Yet the shootouts leave a mark: piles of dead bodies.”

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Why Is the World’s Cash Disappearing? Banks Are Asking, But No One Seems to Know

Is China Planning To Incite A “People’s War” To Dominate The South China Sea?

Trail Cam Captures Opossum Pulling Ticks Off A Deer’s Face

An Iowa man who burned a church LGBTQ flag in June was sentenced to 16 years in prison Wednesday.

Top German Spies Unload on Merkel’s Kowtowing to Putin

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Strange Story Of The Day: At least three patients died on Wednesday after hundreds of lawyers besieged a cardiac hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, for hours — attacking doctors, guards and other staff and setting several vehicles ablaze, officials said.The origins of the clash are not entirely clear, but it seems to stem from a scuffle last month between doctors and a lawyer that was captured on surveillance video. Since then, lawyers have been demanding some kind of action against the doctors, and on Wednesday that culminated in the brutal attack.Reuters reported, “lawyers were particularly angry about the doctors disseminating a mobile phone video on social media showing the beating” of a lawyer by doctors after he refused to wait in line.

Surprising No One: The memo notes that the move terminating emerging managers, who are often minority-owned or women-owned enterprises, “could receive media or legislative attention.”The $380 billion pension system, the largest in the US, has faced criticism going back more than a decade by some legislators for not having enough diverse money managers on its roster.In response, CalPERS launched new initiatives to hire a more diverse base of managers, including hosting diversity conferences with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS).However, the Frost memo indicates that emerging managers, which also included some newer managers who were not women or minorities, underperformed their benchmark on an even greater basis than the traditional equity managers.

Or What?: In a rare public order issued Tuesday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court condemned the FBI for the errors and omissions in its application to surveil Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page and gave the bureau until January 10th to propose reforms to prevent future abuses.