Sony Kapoor
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I have this playing in an endless loop. So should you ...
Evangelist Kenneth Copeland with Andre Antunes on guitar
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A composite photo of the position and phases of the moon over 28 days, each photo taken at the same exact location each day.
Photo: Giorgia Hofer Photography
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For the first time in my memory
@TheEconomist
cover comes without a strap line ... No words needed
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Painful, but True ... Things cops have "mistaken" for guns in the hands of innocents they shot vs. what they think is a Taser ...
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The
#GeorgeFloydMurder
is the latest in a long history of
#racist
atrocities visited on Black people & minorities in the US & elsewhere.
If u are in some position of authority, power, privilege & have a public platform you need to speak up and be counted. A v personal
#thread
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Their Prime Minister on Bike vs. My Prime Minister on Bike
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#MustRead
... The single best piece of advice I have ever heard anyone give in life... and I don't say that lightly ... from US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts at a commencement speech for his son!
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In 1665
#Plague
temporarily shut down the University of Cambridge. Newton and other scholars returned home.
While
#homeworking
,
#Newton
discovered
#Gravity
.
What will you do?
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#Norway
´s
#ClimateShame
and the impossibility of getting a good and just
#COP26
outcome ... a brief
#thread
Accounting for exported emissions,
#Norway
has fourth highest per capita emissions in the world after Kuwait, Brunei and Qatar.
Much higher than Russia, USA, China, UK!
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9 of the poorest 10 areas in Northern Europe r in the
#UK
while central London is the richest… Shame on us Britain!
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I am beyond gutted by the
#NotreDameCathedralFire
but the fact that pledges for it’s restoration in less than 24 hours far outweigh the amounts we manage to mobilise for many
#humanitarian
disasters where thousands have lost their lives must make us pause for thought!
The billionaire families behind Gucci and Louis Vuitton have pledged 300 million euros to rebuild Notre Dame
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Nasty humour from
#FAZ
... If this is
#Voldemort
, I support
#Voldemort
! How low can u sink?
http://t.co/UUNsKE3fzs
http://t.co/LBS4vXPokk
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This will go down as history as one of the best advertisements ...
@SouthwestAir
response to
@UnitedAirways
#classic
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When all else fails, at least we still have humour - Britons
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Meet Adrian the butcher who in one stroke of genius demolishes the myth of green energy. And yes, he voted 4
#Brexit
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This from my friend the Oxford Philosopher
#DavidRodin
explains everything that was wrong with the
#EURef
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In this deluge of bad news on the
#coronavirus
pandemic and the economic
#meltdown
...
A piece of personal good news. A little ray of sunshine, Irya, just came into our lives in
#Norway
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Say hello to my Amara, born on
#Baisakhi
, the auspicious festival marking the Indian solar new year. A silver lining to help us move on from under the dark cloud of grief from the loss of both mom and dad. They live on in us, and have sent us a new bundle of joy ♥️
#CircleOfLife
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Few have seen Chancellor
#Merkel
as emotional as this
"I really am sorry, from the bottom of my heart. But if the price we pay is 590 deaths a day then this in unacceptable."
She begs Germans to follow
#Covid19
restrictions to save lives in the run up to
#Christmas
via
@dwnews
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Forget
@JoeBiden
Forget
@BarackObama
even
Here is
@KamalaHarris
She is cooler, she is younger, she is probably more competent and My God, SHE CAN DANCE ...
Oh, and she will likely be America's first FEMALE PRESIDENT
#Election2020
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Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing the Vice President Elect of the United States
@KamalaHarris
A Cool, Competent, Charismatic, sometimes Charming Communicator and She ... can .... groove
Forget
@JoeBiden
Forget
@BarackObama
even
Here is
@KamalaHarris
She is cooler, she is younger, she is probably more competent and My God, SHE CAN DANCE ...
Oh, and she will likely be America's first FEMALE PRESIDENT
#Election2020
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Amazing Sculpture by
#francesbrunocatarano
... Symbolizing the void left when one is forced to emigrate....
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Having dealt personally with both
#Schauble
&
#Varoufakis
- if anyone’s a bully, its
#Schauble
Nasty Op-Ed from
@welt
http://t.co/DHjRoH47Ec
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Hey
#Bibi
, "you do not speak for American Jews" & "No, Americans don't want a war with
#Iran
" full page Ad in
@NYT
http://t.co/mlrwvwTr4r
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As someone who has just lost both my parents within five months of each other I can’t endorse this perspective enough!
If both or any of your parents are alive, you are lucky 🍀. Make sure you spend quality time with them, and tell them you love them because time will run out!
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Sad, rude and true ... As someone who has lived in
#Norway
,
#Sweden
,
#Denmark
,
#Netherlands
and
#Germany
, I am afraid I can testify to the anecdotal accuracy of this based on my own experience and that of peers!
Time to civilise the North of Europe folks? Southern Hospitality
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What does being "Against the Anti-Fascists" make you?
This is splashed across the
#Trump2020
campaign site!
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“Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
http://t.co/kiyaa84ovL
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#COVID
#Homeworking
via
@ScottAdamsSays
“I have eliminated all optional
#hygine
habits”
“My co-workers are a fading memory”
“I am losing my language skills”
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Without exaggeration, this is probably the most important column you will ever read!
#ClimateCrisis
#India
feels like it's on fire. Heatwaves r at the point where temperatures & humidity could cause a vast number of deaths.
@rpollard
&
@davidfickling
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Probably my favourite photo of this year...
#Afghan
women learning martial arts in the snow
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Dutch cartoonist
@RLOppenheimer
on the
@Charlie_Hebdo_
terrorist attack
#JesuisCharlie
http://t.co/DYlmzfmCTK
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"
#Brexit
has become like someone who booked a trip to
#Dignitas
who were told they were dying but now have been told the diagnoses was wrong. But they are going to go ahead with
#euthanasia
anyway cause they already decided... My take on
@robertshrimsley
's reader comment in
@FT
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#Tweeps
from all over the world. May I ask you to
#pray
4 my mum Burma, send her energy, anything that helps🙏 🙏 🙏
She is on a
#ventilator
in a critical condition! One minute I was singing her favourite lullaby here & the next I had to rush her to the
#ICU
! We can’t lose her
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Dear tweeps, many of you are friends. Some are colleagues and some still strangers. May I please ask for all of you to please pray for my dad to recover fast and come out of the ICU healthy and and in good spirits! He is one of only three
#KapoorBoys
and we don’t want to lose him
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I have shared
#MyStoryOfDiscrimination
in the hope others who have been at the receiving end
#racism
#sexim
#ageism
& other discrimination will share theirs and those who are against this will join forces in fighting the barbaric practices that have no place in the 21st century
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And just like that, Irya takes her first steps here... 10 months old ❤️
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#Brilliant
#infographic
on everything you wanted to know about the
@IPCC_CH
#IPCC
and its brilliant multidimensional multifaceted work on
#ClimateChange
by
@KA_Nicholas
#BookMarkThis
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Understanding the
#Russia
#sanctions
debate in brief!
Financial and Economic Sanctions against
#Iran
cutting it off from global finance and trade rank 9/10
#Russian
sanctions only 5/10 for now.
A lot of room to tighten the noose, of which cutting off
#SWIFT
is only one part
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Two thoughts. If "they" could do this to someone as powerful & privileged as me, imagine what Somali Asylum seekers in Europe or Palestinians in Israel or Poor Black men in America have to go through on a daily basis? I could not even begin to claim to represent their experiences
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#Norway
has the fourth highest per capita emissions in the world after Kuwait, Brunei and Qatar once exported emissions are accounted for!
Much higher than Russia, USA, China, UK!
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#StatisticOfTheDay
More children are killed by guns every year in the US than police officers or US troops are killed in the line of duty -
@JoeNBC
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The first challenge was renting an apartment. This proved to be impossible, as a brown man in Oslo. I had money, I was a strategy adviser to the government, I had a British passport ... but I was brown. Sad to say, a blonde Norwegian friend of mine and I pretended to be a couple
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Even if
@JoeBiden
wins, Americans will still need an answer to the following question
After 4 years of incompetence, thuggery, tantrums, misogyny, racism, cruelty and lying, why isn’t
@realDonaldTrump
losing 100/0 90/10 80/20 or at least 70/30
What would it have taken 4 that?
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This is absolutely brilliant -
@Sweden
's response to
#Israel
's criticism of Sweden's recognition of
#Palestine
..
http://t.co/FVmEua9VQw
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I think this someone on my timeline who wrote this about the
#ChapelHillShooting
has half a point, what do you think?
http://t.co/ZowcmePINV
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After
#Varoufakis
's resignation,
#Dijsselbloem
should resign. An equally polarising candidate who let personality come in the way of a deal!
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Probably the funniest letter to the editor I have ever seen :-) via
@LettersDesk
http://t.co/sKyVIzdJcV
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3 confessions from
#ClimateActivists
&
#ClimateEconomists
seeking to tackle the
#ClimateCrisis
We were wrong
-2 promise apple pie & motherhood sans costs
-2 repeat solar PV cheapest form of power sans caveats
-2 dismiss any trade-off between climate & development
#Thread
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