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** FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2020
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In the eleventh and twelfth centuries famine [in England] is recorded every fourteen years, on an average, and the people suffered twenty years of famine in two hundred years. In the thirteenth century the list exhibits the same proportion of famine; the addition of high prices made the proportion greater. Upon the whole, scarcities decreased during the three following centuries; but the average from 1201 to 1600 is the same, namely, seven famines and ten years of famine in a century.

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August 14, 2020
Targeting Cubans for Death to Win Florida ([link removed])
Desperate for an electoral win in Florida in November, President Trump is targeting the Cuban people with even more impoverishment, maybe even death. He just announced that he is strengthening the 60-year-old economic embargo ...
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The Trump Administration’s Economic War on the World ([link removed])
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October Surprise ([link removed])
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“Black Guns Matter”: The Racist History Of Gun Control ([link removed])
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