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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

Project Educate Deb #9 Operation Entebbe

This is a necessary counterpoint to the Educate Deb #8. I wish I could have found a better video as this one focus almost exclusively on the military aspects and ignores the experiences of the hostages, political problems, and the murder of many Africans in retaliation. This raids most visible effect on our current day as it forms part of the political mythos of one of the most prominent current politician in Israel (whose older brother died on this raid).