Brian Gongol

Both better research and better distribution of the resulting seeds will get the money




Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, others all bulking up their weapons. The Monroe Doctrine, if we had sufficient goodwill throughout Latin America, would really seem to suggest that Latin American countries could skip much or even most spending on weapons and use that money for investment in their people instead.

Government orphanages have been "fences" in some deals

World Bank estimates a pandemic could erase 3% of global GDP -- that's like losing a full year of growth

But They're probably only going to get about half that figure

But in keeping with the inverse relationship between a nation's wealth and the death toll in any given natural disaster, only a handful of people were killed. Meanwhile, Hurricane Helene is now a Category 3.
