Jonathan Friedland

The Residential Real Estate Business Needs Digital Disruption – Washington Post 2019

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:33:53 +0000

The MLS Monopoly over the Real Estate Market is Ripping off Consumers and Should be Broken

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Should the US Provide Aid to Savimbi’s Rebels ? – New York Times 1985

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:32:28 +0000

A Point-Counter Point Argument with Sen. Jack Kemp About US Aid to Angola’s UNITA Rebels

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Troubled at Home, Asian Loggers Set Their Sights on the Amazon

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:30:37 +0000

Malaysian and South Korean loggers pile into Guyana having stripped much of Southeast Asia and the Pacific bare of hardwoods

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Environmentalists Extend Their Reach Across Latin America

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:29:26 +0000

Chileans take the lead in civic action against environmental destruction, but other Latin Americans are hot on their heels

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Oil Companies Strive to Turn A New Leaf To Save the Rainforest

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:28:25 +0000

Shell tries not to make the same mistakes as Mobil in taking on Peru’s gigantic Camisea natural gas field

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Rivals Expand for Global Fishers, as Fleets Grow and Hauls Wane

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:27:07 +0000

Near Antarctica, overfishing of the Chilean Sea Bass shows just how humans have depleted the oceans.

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A Dancer Who Extracts Beauty From Ugliness – Far Eastern Economic Review

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:25:49 +0000

A Profile of Akaji Maro, Founder of Notorious Japanese Butoh Troupe Dairakudakan

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Argentine Governor with a Notorious Past is Returned to Office

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:21:02 +0000

The People of Tucuman Elected a Military Torturer Because they Were Sick of Corruption

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Argentine’s Goal: Turn Soccer into a Money Machine

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:14:12 +0000

Mauricio Macri Takes his First Step Towards the Presidency by Reviving a Troubled Boca Juniors

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Seeds of Discontent in the Fields Of Argentina Vex Plantation Boss

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:13:13 +0000

How Seaboard Corp’s bid to make a modern agribusiness of an old sugarcane plantation ran into a mix of historical distrust and present-day guerrilla tactics

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Grenada, A Slow Start, a Chancy Future – New York Times – 1984

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:12:14 +0000

The Reagan Administration, Having Invaded, Tried to Make Capitalism Work. It Didn’t

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Argentina is a Land of Many Faces, Fixed By Plastic Surgeons – WSJ

swapit — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:10:58 +0000

In Buenos Aires, people wear their new noses proudly, sometimes with bandages

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