#News

1. "The Communist Party of China (CCP) is determined to transform the international order, to shape the world in its own image, without a shot being fired." - from book,
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Why is everyone so riled up about these arrests and threats against protesters. Of course you can protest. Just keep a few things in mind. If you follow these few
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Latest US GDP data shows biggest quarterly contraction since the war (annualised rate of 32.9%). In the week ending 18th July, seventeen million were collecting unemployment benefits. It is perhaps
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Just realized Claudell Washington passed away six months ago. #RIP Claudell Washington, a Rookie Baseball Sensation at 19, Dies at 65https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/sports/baseball/claudell-washington-dead.html "[Washington] did not
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One out of every 1,000 Americans has now died from COVID. Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19 via CDChttp://cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm The CDC data on weekly excess deaths makes it clear that people
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The pundit class narrative about $GME as the ordinary Joes notching a win against the Wall Street titans is completely wrong on multiple levels. I’m going to bed but may
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The most basic requirement of a functioning government is to know when it has been scandalized. The decline began when the internet-scandals and the TV-scandals diverged, because US legislators were
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A game on water features in Karachi. Guess this one!1/9 It is Lake Neglect-e-Karachi, an unapologetic sewage outfall on the city's most accessible public beach- "ghareebon ka sahil"- situated a
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1/14 West Belfast seems to be in a perpetual cycle of car violence. These problems have never been addressed structurally by fixing our streets and neighbourhoods instead money is squandered
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$TXTM This could be next to run! Huge potential! Still 0.0005.- MJ stock involved with medical cannabis- Proprietary live extraction tech- JV partnership with RSAMMD- Hinting at FDA approval- Claiming
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Economics has all the explanations and the solutions in education right now. From "learning loss" as long term GDP reduction to edtech as its cure, there is a certain style
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But fish is OK right? Wrong.Overfishing is destroying our oceans and fish farms are polluting our waters, too.https://theferret.scot/fish-farm-pesticide-pollution-rise-2019/ Fish farming is destructive wherever it is done.The better choice
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1/ A service like OnlyFans is potentially "nonrival" since we could all view content without anyone being excluded. But OnlyFans is offered on a membership basis which makes content "excludable."OnlyFans
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A fair process for deciding who gets early access to the Covid-19 vaccine is a moral test, and we're muddling through it. Of the states w/ their criteria online, most
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Small thread on household debt servicing capability-chart from CS where Chinese household debt service as % of disposable income has moved from 17% in Mar-14 to almost 35% now! A
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I get a huge amount of enjoyment from the arc of long-running local news stories. HT @Citiflyer for bringing this magic into my life
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