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The Plight of the Yazidi People ~ A Veteran's Story from Project Unpack ~ Jakub Tolar at TEDx Fargo

Ezzat Alhaidar moved his family from Iraq to Moorhead just a month before his Yazidi people were targeted and massacred by ISIS, including his many relatives back home. Hundreds of thousands of Yazidi people still in Iraq are struggling to survive in mountain retreats. ~~~ A veteran’s story from Project Unpack. Chris Deery served in Iraq. He tells how a PTSD diagnosis helped shape his career. ~~~ We share Dr. Jakub Tolar’s address at last summer’s TEDx event in Fargo as he discusses new technologies to address epidermolysis bullosa. ~~~ Oil and gas, wind and solar – hardly hot topics in this election season. But the outcome of the race for the White House could have wide repercussions in the energy world. Inside Energy’s Amy Sisk examines what’s at stake for fossil fuel states.

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