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.@fitzhunter i personally have no issue with removing the nuclear ban, & gave testimony to that effect at 2 recent inquiries.correcting your nonsense:1. this "latest generation" doesn't yet exist, &
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EXC: The chair of the UK's vaccine task force showed “official sensitive” government documents to a $200-a-head event for elite US venture capitalists last weekKate Bingham, a Boris Johnson appointee,
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The latest craze: ‘The vaccine hasn’t been shown to prevent transmission’. There are MANY detailed threads on this, but there are some principles which make it nigh-on-impossible for this not
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Thread: I’ve been reflecting on this nonsense that @cafreeland isn’t qualified to be finance minister and I have a few thoughts:The initial assumption - that Canada’s finance department needs a
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By popular demand (thanks @goodhouses) a thread on #natsecurity review of #FDI, #CFIUS, its expansion under Trump, and what we are likely to see from CFIUS during the #Biden administration:
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Let me try to summarise this. Who loses because of these farm laws?1. Those who source their income from the mandis - middlemen, contractors and the political backing behind that
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A long thread: Ever since my coffee-drinking-armchair-self became a bit active on twitter yesterday, many people have messaged me to better understand why I'm so opposed to high-rises for the
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Two recent papers based on CPHS data of @_CMIE by Rosa Abraham at @azimpremjiuniv and Maurizio Bussolo of @WorldBank throw light on employment trajectory and consumption trends during the pandemic
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COVID Update July 9: Donald Trump is insisting schools open or he’s threatening withhold federal money.Forgive me if I’m not convinced of his commitment to kids. 1/ Being pro-child should
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So the thing about this new strain being detected in the US in a few states: that means it's all over the fucking place. We do not have the monitoring
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This “expert” who provides PH guidance to Brookline schools decries the evid against in-person ed as “complicated” and yet comfortably rests his decisive opinion on a handful of studies w/
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1/ Given that $BTC is over $20K today, and $BITW is over $130 and that I've tweeted about both in recent weeks, I want to remind anyone who cares how
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Thread: In @Trent_Horn's book "Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?", he urges the logic (defending Capitalism's abuses) that tolerating sweatshops is acceptable because it prevents what would be worse alternatives
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THREAD: So, this piece by @kbstevens (who I respect a lot!) is... off-base. I think it's worth going through a few key points to show why.https://ifstudies.org/blog/three-problems-with-president-bidens-child-care-rescue-plan First, Stev
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Threat: my thoughts on abortion. I can't believe this is an argument we even need to have in 2020, but here we go. An unborn baby being "alive" depends on
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1/ Now that countries are doing mass testing, we can see what happens when lockdowns are introduced. In France, for example, lockdown started on 30 Oct and cases peaked 8
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