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Sniper Drones Coming Soon!

2024-12-05 Rich Wright Slider, World News Leave a comment

Here’s a story from NPR: The quadcopter is what many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip call a small sniper drone

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Greetings From Cyberspace

2022-03-02 elrichiboy Slider, Support El Chuqueño, World News Leave a comment

Lately El Chuqueño has been attacked by Russian bots. Lots of bots. Maybe it’s because last week in the comments

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Vice News – This Is What Winning Looks Like

2021-08-16 elrichiboy Slider, World News One comment

Here’s a Vice News video from 2013 that deals with the current political crisis in Afghanistan. Do you reckon the

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Saturday Matinee: Putin’s Palace

2021-01-30 elrichiboy Corruption, Saturday Documentary, World News Leave a comment
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Battle for the Claw

2018-02-01 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico, World News Leave a comment

No, that’s not the new logo of the El Paso High School PTA. That’s the logo of the Gente Nueva

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The Last Days of Jason Rabedeaux from ESPN

2017-12-28 elrichiboy Media, Slider, sports, World News 4 comments

Here’s a story about former UTEP basketball coach Jason Rabedeaux’s career and final days coaching the Saigon Heat. JASON RABEDEAUX

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Reuters on El Paso and NAFTA

2017-11-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, World News 2 comments

Here’s a report from Reuters on the effect that NAFTA had on El Paso, and the likely effect discontinuing NAFTA

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What If Guns Aren’t the Problem?

2017-10-07 elrichiboy National Policy, World News 7 comments

What if our recent spate of mass violence is just a symptom of our country’s bigger issues? Like putting people

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Dirty John in the L.A. Times

2017-10-07 elrichiboy Media, World News Leave a comment

Here’s a nice piece of lurid journalism from the Los Angeles Times, a six part series called Dirty John: Their

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Across the Fence

2017-08-16 GC Adams Politics, World News 2 comments

Watch this video on YouTube While visiting the Fort Hancock Port of Entry I discover that the border fence that

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A Bar On Both Sides of the Border?

2017-08-09 elrichiboy Mexico, World News 2 comments

Maybe it’s just a PR stunt. From Mexico News Daily: They haven’t any permits yet but a Scottish brewery that

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Duh.

2017-07-09 elrichiboy National Policy, Slider, World News 3 comments

Here’s the latest awareness from Homeland Security, via KVIA: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Friday that he told

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Mexico’s Pot Initiative

2017-06-23 elrichiboy Mexico, World News Leave a comment

Did you read that Mexico has made medical marijuana legal? Here it is in the Washington Post: Mexican President Enrique

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Mezcal, the Next Big Thing

2017-06-16 elrichiboy World News One comment

French liquor giant Pernod Ricard is buying an interest in a mezcal importer, according to this story in Forbes. In

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