#COLLAPSE

2. Next the teacher says, “What might the things in this photograph tell us about this man?” - He smokes a pipe, he might be in the navy, he reads
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I just got the most stunning phone call. If you've been following my work on deaths in long-term care, you probably should read this. It's Saturday evening. I get a
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1/ Just a few numbers today:Property taxes on the Target store I believe was trashed totaled $584,000 this year. The company had paid half of those taxes so far this
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The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that *29%* of the economy is shut down. That's -29% growth - more than the Great Depression. If you saw this stat in
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When folk say (and I've heard it a few times now) 'I disagree with 99% of everything that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour stand for.' I wonder: - do they want
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"Israeli Delilah missile carrying 6 kiloton (6000 tons of TNT equivalent) nuclear missile (unretouched photo via VT Damascus) Tineye says this is a unique image and doesn’t appear anywhere on
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lemme tell you about relativistic space fireballs.yeah, you read that right.space fireballs, or flashes that release as much energy in SECONDS as the Sun releases in its entire 10 billion
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this is an excellent study based on swedish data.herd immunity is reached LONG before the predicted 1-(1/R0) threshold.in sweden, it looks to have been around 17%, not 60%.this is because
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India can beat the shit out of China is a week, if war ever breaks out. China has a very big weakness that no one talks aboutThread! #ChineseProductsInDustbin As you
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1 - The sad fact of the matter is there is a section of society that believe Tories are fair game for the disgraceful scenes we have seen outside Cummings
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Here is the ASEAN ‘Five Points of Consensus’. We will have to wait to see whether the Tatmadaw implements any of these broad commitments, and how ASEAN responds to any
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Goveller’s TravelsAugust 26th The diversions of the court of Lilliput described. My good behaviour had gained so far that I began to conceive hopes of getting my liberty and I
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Some quick reactions to the new lockdowns in Europe. 1. The degree of uncertainty is much higher than in the first wave. In the first wave, the (incorrect) belief was
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David Frost tells leaving the EU committee that he is a special advisor to the PM, with respnsibility for negotiating future relationship. Says policy set by PM and cabinet committee,
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If you're wondering why so many video game narratives seem oddly poignant right now - #Fallout76's new storyline about inoculating people against a virus, #Destiny2's narrative about impending urban disaster,
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Was the quarantine all for nothing? With Spain, France and Germany recording the highest number of Covid-19 cases since they emerged from lockdown, the danger that Europe blows its
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