#Poverty

#shortthoughts In current arguments I don't believe we always distinguish sufficiently between the effects of lockdown & the effects of the pandemic. It's also easier to 'blame' the lockdown because
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When you see white, middle-class, ethnically Swedish Swedes speak in the abstract about how “it’s working,” this is one reason they can afford to be dispassionate and declare victory. The
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Today is World Menstrual Hygiene day and the theme for this year is "It's Time to Take Action". The 5 rose stages of a woman's life are Birth, MENSTRUATION, Motherhood,
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Oxymorons aside, using tens of billions of our tax dollars to create a "Utopia" where, according to one of the planners, "The main thing is that people like other people
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Last week, I published a thread on what Africa's position ought to be in the rising tension between China and the West. I attempted to lay out arguments against why
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1. So the Reuters report leaves a lot out. Rouhani's statement sought to reassure the public that the country would have enough FX to afford medical supplies and foodstuffs and
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How do you guilt trip a country into underachievement in order to maintain your own monopoly on technological, scientific and strategic domain? I present to you the PoHu Trap ©Thread.
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Today I’ve been looking at ‘The Poplar Rates Rebellion Mural’ by Mark Francis (1990) telling the story of George Lansbury, Labour Councillor and former Mayor of Poplar, who in 1921
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The charitable interpretation of this word salad is that the Queen's Speech isn't the place where government actually sets out priorities/tradeoffs or measurable success criteria - that's for the promised
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Some tips for noobs:- Cloud mining is a scam- The people giving away free advice are almost always better than people with paid rooms- Anyone whos taken money to shill
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We welcome the increase in the ‘National Living Wage’, the guaranteed £250 rise for public sector workers on less than the median wage, the £3bn for DWP to help people
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As the Court Finally Steps in on the plight of Migrant Workers, cant help wondering why this didnt come 2 months sooner. In this thread some people I urge you
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(Thread) The most imp lesson we can draw from the #COVID_19 crisis is the need to address our broken public health systems. Wherever public health system was robust like Germany,
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#WhyImNotVotingForJoe I am a millennial, Joe said he has no empathy for my generation. Joe’s Bankruptcy greatly harmed my generation with student loan we will not die with. I entered
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What the North brings to the Nigerian table re Mass Killings, Insurgency, Child Marriage, Leprosy, VVF, out of School Children etcBut its priority is the personal lives of people; how
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Today I learned more about coloniality and the harm we perpetuate by describing matters in “post-Enlightenment” terms. Such a term is a form of [European] violence. I wonder if we
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