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2020-01-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Nearly 40% of countries around the world will face civil unrest in 2020 with flashpoints predicted in 75 nations, study warns
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-17 05:03|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Politics aside, the numerics coupled with donor fatigue make further involvement unwise. Perhaps we can simply concentrate on our southern border and assisting with the occasional natural disaster.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-17 09:05||   2020-01-17 09:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Good intentions and donations have prolonged the third worlds problems. Time to cobble back a few European empires under the guise of the UN as the locals seem incapable of governing themselves.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-01-17 10:40||   2020-01-17 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Kidding, but only sort of.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-01-17 10:41||   2020-01-17 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 D'Oh! Someone has rediscovered a long term trend.
In the 80's the US Marines started increasingly studying MOUT or Warfare in Urban Terrain because: (1) Most of the world's population is on or near the sea coast, and (2) Surge in the populations across the Third World of young adult males faster than their local economies can generate new jobs. Europe "solved" their version of this problem during the years 1914 to 1918...
Posted by magpie 2020-01-17 10:55||   2020-01-17 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 “Night Stalkers” of 160th SOAR Conduct Training Flights in Downtown Los Angeles
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-17 11:01||   2020-01-17 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 The sky is falling, the oceans are going to swallow up over 30% of America, and we will be eating humans-soyalent green, by 2020. I guess Burger King got one almost right...
Posted by 49 Pan 2020-01-17 11:36||   2020-01-17 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 On top of all of that...
Pronhub sued by deaf man over adult video site's alleged lack of subtitles: report


Geez Skid, I've been able to hear color at the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level of 3/3 (native fluency) for many years. Hearing porn however, that really is remarkable.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-17 11:49||   2020-01-17 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Human Sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-01-17 13:39||   2020-01-17 13:39|| Front Page Top

#9 And it's all Trump's fault, right?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-17 14:09||   2020-01-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ It was caused by CO2 and Global Warming™ but Trump Made It Worse™ ...somehow...
Posted by magpie 2020-01-17 14:52||   2020-01-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Breaking news from any year in human existence.
Posted by charger 2020-01-17 16:29||   2020-01-17 16:29|| Front Page Top

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