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💥 I am making a leap: To be head of comms at AI startup —
@RobinAI_UK
— still based in
#NYC
❤️journalism, but time to go have impact helping solve real world problems with
#AI
.
Robin AI's doing that for law: speeding up and simplifying law & giving
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Biden’s STILL talking to voters in the room of his Philadelphia town hall ... 57 minutes after Trump’s event ended
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My job is literally to monitor and compare global policy responses to coronavirus, and this is categorically untrue.
Countries that are doing it better include: Sth Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China (after the first month of lies and obfuscation), Austria and Australia
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THREAD: So where's the next big Coronavirus problem going to hit? Look out for:
1. India
2. Russia
3. Homeless and refugee communities
4. Germany
5. Iceland (i know it sound weird - but they have the highest known infection rate now, overtaking Italy). Reasoning follows ...
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NEW: Biden admin just announced $670mil in food aid, to deal with terrible effects of Russia invading Ukraine. USAID + U.S. Dept. Agriculture will take $282 million from a humanitarian trust to procure U.S. food commodities for Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Sth Sudan, Yemen.
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This is false. Testing rates for comparison:
Iceland: one in 33 people
South Korea: about 1 in 170 people (March 23 data)
Australia: about 1 in 200 (March 20 data)
United States: less than 1 in 1,000
#coronavirus
#COVID19
Just reported that the United States has done far more “testing” than any other nation, by far! In fact, over an eight day span, the United States now does more testing than what South Korea (which has been a very successful tester) does over an eight week span. Great job!
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Covid vaccination and death rate in Europe - in one devastating chart
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Why India's a problem: Only 500 people a day were being tested up to now - in a country of 1.3 billion with very uneven health infrastructure. Revised plans would test only 2 million. Social distancing v.v. hard to do in urban slums.
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@cd_hooks
everyone is eligible! just because you aren't first in the line, doesn't mean you're not in the line. the dumbest possible course of action is allowing a vaccine dose to go to waste.
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Meanwhile the British ambassador is at Kabul airport doing something useful: stamping visas for Afghans who supported allied nations these last 20 years, per UK diplomat
The French ambassador to Afghanistan has filmed himself leaving Kabul and tweeted it. Social media diplomacy. Surreal
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Why
#Russia
's a problem: They reported only 147 cases, despite land border and close trading links with China. Throw in Russia’s coronavirus disinformation campaigns, and a claim to have tested 116,000 people for 147 positives is 🧐
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THREAD. After tracking coronavirus responses for 7 weeks now, and since you asked for it: here’s my list of ”best in class” responses from around the world to the various facets of the problem.
#coronavirusoutbreak
#COVID19
.
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When a minister (Canada's
@cafreeland
) arrives 45 mins late to a 30min press conference, and then her team announces that only Canadian journalists are allowed to ask her questions 🤯
Maybe stay home in Canada if you only want to talk to Canadians
#g20rome
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Why Iceland's a problem: The tiny island nation of 360,000 now has the highest infection intensity in the world. 250 cases means 70 cases per 100,000 people.
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Why Germany's a problem: Merkel doesn't get worked up for nothing but just described this as Germany's biggest challenge since the Nazis. Germany has an exceptionally low death rate so far (0.002% vs 8.2% for Italy) and the case load jumped 24% yesterday. Only way is down.
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The homeless/refugee/slum problem: Hygiene and lack of health support. It's obvious and doesn't need much explanation here. Some refugee communities also highly mobile by necessity. Not clear when/where a dam wall breaks here, but when it does it will be messy.
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21/ Britain has a lesson to learn. What a global power can pass off “exceptionalism,” for a medium-sized country simply comes across as ingratitude. Full article on
@POLITICOEurope
:
#EUCO
#BrexitDeal
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Important to note, as always, that these numbers are known infections. Some countries look worse in relative terms because they have tested more. Others we can only guess at because they haven't tested or won't disclose. Treat this as a heads-up, not a scientfic bible 😇👍
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I don't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm thoroughly bored of Brexit. It's an embarrassing spectacle for the U.K.; most government MPs don't understand EU nor do they absorb what's said about them or to them. Every interview I give makes me feel like a kindergarten teacher
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@ratemyskyperoom
LOL -- After getting stuck in traffic I had to run into a friend's apartment to do it, and arrived at that backdrop with eight seconds to spare before the interview began. It was a freaking miracle it didn't happen in a stairwell 🧚♀️
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I didn’t wake up this morning thinking I’d being doing a long philosophical interview on democracy with Ai WeiWei and exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. Not going to lie, they’re interesting people.
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6/ Britain couldn’t even hire its own trade negotiator: the shortlist consisted of an Australian, a Canadian and a New Zealander. That is not the start of a joke. That is the joke.
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A tiny airport in North Dakota scored enough money under the federal stimulus law to cover its expenses for 50 years. JFK International: enough for three months of operations.
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American flag replaced with Trump flag. Quite a metaphor.
Several people got on to a scaffolding outside Senate, took it to second floor, which looked like the area where McConnell’s office is located, and started banging on windows
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3/ The promise of Brexit was that it would make Britain feel big again. “Britain is special,” the Brexiteers assured British voters, who cast their ballots accordingly. But Brexit has proven that for the first time in modern history, Britain is small.
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Swedish foreign minister: I 'cannot forgive' UK for Brexit
Margot Wallstrom called UK's approach to the issue "dangerous" & "badly handled," adding "they've made such a historical mistake and they've really created a problem for all of us"
#hanalys2019
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16/ Britain for decades demanded and won special deals from the EU as a member, and now it thinks it deserves another favor on the way out. How dare the Iittle Irish stand up for themselves and disagree: don’t they know who we are?
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@BigSascha
I’ve been reading a lot of “Europe is different” tweets in reaction to Minneapolis etc. Strikes me that most European countries make people of color invisible and refuse their voice. It’s a different type of violence, but it’s still violence.
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Important news from Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz: “nobody needs EU regulations, for example for the preparation of schnitzel and fries.”
Important news from POLITICO: there are no EU regulations on the preparation of schnitzel and fries
#Europawahl2019
#EP2019
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This Trump press conference calls for us all to turn our attention to how cute the by-standing President of Finland's dog is.
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12/ It is Britain’s unique ignorance that makes Britain so boring. Nothing tells the story better than the sad stop-start diplomacy of Theresa May. The prime minister is an appropriate leader for a shrinking Britain — vague, inconsistent and improvised
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9/ While many Brits have strong emotions about the EU, they rarely have a strong understanding. I feel like a kindergarten teacher nearly every time I speak on the issue
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Post-COVID lungs worse than the worst smokers' lungs, surgeon says - CBS News
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7/ Britain’s political and journalistic classes are simply unused to having to consider the opinions of others. It’s no wonder the rest of the country is clueless about what they’ve walked into.
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When you lose an election bet with
@europeangreens
and have to deliver 74 beers to Reinhard Butikofer
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10/ But while Britain’s media were the original misinformation machine about the EU, long before we had Macedonian troll factories and Russian bots. Other Britons don't deserve a free pass: millions consumed those fibs + spineless politicians avoided hassle of correcting them
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I guess the Catalonia debate will never calm down ... but why, oh why, do Spanish unionists think the way to solve this is to silence the other side, or lock them out, or jail them ...
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Here's another basic Brexit fact: There's nothing specific the EU could conceivably offer that would shift 230 British MP votes - because they voted against for so many different reasons. Last night's problem is essentially unsolvable from the EU end; it can only be solved in UK.
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This is violent assault — there’s no immiment threat, the officers are not hemmed in, the protestors aren’t damaging property. And I’m clearly not the only one capable of observing these obvious realities ... it’s all starting the make me think this week is generation-defining.
SHOCKING VIDEO: LAPD officers seen striking protesters with batons in Fairfax district confrontation
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4/ The false comforts of a nuclear submarines and a U.N. veto (and, ironically, EU membership) tricked Britain into thinking it knows how to negotiate with a much larger partner: it has no clue how to conduct diplomacy as the newly minted club-less middle power that it is.
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1) I’m amazed by the amount of Chinese Communist Party propaganda that has been absorbed, reflected and regurgitated around
@SpeakerPelosi
’s visit to
#Taiwan
. Here’s why …
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Defense acronym of the day
The threat environment is C.R.I.N.G.E: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea & Global Extremists
--
@RepAdamSmith
, Armed Services Committee chair
#POLITICODefense
summit
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2/ The rest of the world is left listening to Britain’s therapy session as they drone on about their ex-spouse, unable to see, admit or address their own flaws.
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"There is a unique chance for the denazification of Russia, I really want not to miss it." - Navalny's chief of staff
Появился уникальный шанс на денацификацию России, очень хочется его не упустить.
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11/ Given we blame Greeks for blowing up their economy and hold accountable big-spending governments for saddling future generations with excessive debts. It’s time Brits reckoned with what they sowed through 45 years of shallow EU debate.
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17/ Today Britain wants things it already has (frictionless trade with the EU), without continuing to pay the price other EU members pay to have it (the legal, economic and political constraints that come with EU membership).
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15/ Britain’s political contortions are symptoms of an almost willful lack of understanding: The U.K. doesn’t know what it wants from the EU, and doesn’t really know what it wants from getting out.
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13/ May’s frequent mad dashes across Europe underline how the U.K. lost the negotiation before it had begun. She flies across the Continent with fanfare, but only driven by domestic pressures — not a desire to find common ground with those on the other side of the table.
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20/ And yet, cheered on by two ex-U.K. Brexit negotiators who barely bothered to show up in Brussels and negotiate, British politicians are lining up like whiny children to demand the remaining 27 EU countries make amendments to the Brexit deal.
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To put this in context, the Australian govt, which is responsible for dealing with these fires (not Red Cross!) will run a budget surplus in 2019/20. The govt is asking its citizens and random foreigners to personally pay to deal with a problem it helped create & exists to fix
Thank you so much to those who have already donated to help those Australians so devastated by the bushfires. Here is the link to the Red Cross Appeal - please donate if you can.
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I'm struck by the number of critics of my recent Brexit article who think the solution to my impertinence is for me to go back to where I came from (Australia). None explain WHY I'm wrong, it's just asserted alongside my deportation (Original article here)
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5/ Accustomed to issuing colonial diktats and chucking liberal bombs into the EU pond, knowing it would only ever be treated like a naughty child, the country has no idea about the give and take of real negotiations.
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Philadelphia: Biden gains 23,000 plus out of a batch of 27,000 or so
Biden now in the lead in
#Pennsylvania
by 5,587
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The U.S. President now cancels meetings with people who won’t sell countries to him
Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time....
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The most important thing to remember about the
#France
result in
#EUelections2019
: Marine Le Pen and National Rally went backwards. They will drop from 25% of vote to 23%, and failed to make anything of Yellow Jackets opportunity. That's a loss, whether she edged Macron on not
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14/ Meanwhile, EU negotiators have laboriously and quietly toured every capital, building up their united front before the talks started. Chief negotiator Michel Barnier could find himself locked in a thousand black cars, and it wouldn’t matter: He’d step out smiling every time
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8/ I wish I could say this was surprising (i guess the depth of the mess is), but I’ve spent my life in the shadow of Britain’s identity complex: as an Australian who worked for the U.K. government, the EU and now as a journalist covering Brexit. So, no real surprise
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Speecless. Australia’s fires have pumped out more carbon emissions than the 116 lowest-emitting nations did in all of 2019
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Spanish Foreign Minister says Sanchez government would not block an independent Scotland, that seceded constitutionally, from re-joining the EU. cc
@NicolaSturgeon
@KirstyS_Hughes
Video:
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19/ 28-way negotiations take time, and any sudden sharp policy change has the potential to disrupt the EU’s equilibrium. The deal on offer is the best London is going to get — simply because it is the best Brussels is going to be able to offer.
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TESTING - SOUTH KOREA: Because they’ve mass tested. This showed:
- Democracies can beat the virus
- How transmissible
#COVID19
is to and from young people with mild symptoms
- Importance of innovations like drive-thru testing.
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#COVID19
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ELDERLY SHOPPING HOURS - AUSTRALIA: Australian supermarkets, led by the Woolworths chain, have reserved 7-8am for elderly and disabled shoppers. That's to protect their health and ensure they aren’t the losers of any panic buying.
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US versus Europe in a time-lapse Covid graph - devastating
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The Dutch have basically acted like Covid didn't exist and arrogantly thought they knew better than everyone else. The lessons are:
- keep getting vaccinated,
- wear masks when it makes sense,
- don't copy the Dutch.
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It gets better - the spokesperson actively physically intervened to stop
@StuartKLau
and I from asking a quick Q as the presser wrapped, and ushered Freeland out of the room.
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18/ Balancing competing interests is difficult enough for individual countries. Look at U.S. Congress, the German federal system, or even the mighty French presidency trying to cope with the yellow vest street protest movement. Doing the same across 27 countries is much harder.
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I hadn't realized this: the Spanish deputy PM (now hospitalized) and PM's wife both participated in a 120,000 person International Womens Day March that authorities allowed to proceed March 8, despite mounting chaos in Italy
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.
@anneapplebaum
is on the money (no pun) in this article on Crooked Brexit. Yet she,
@carolecadwalla
et al will have continued difficulty raising the alarm. Overturning referendum is a democratic powder keg, and exposing dirty money in UK an economic one
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Now we’re in flat-out lie territory - no-one removed “under god” from pledge of allegiance at DNC. No-one proposes to get rid of second amendment.
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We’re not “less than 50 days away from an election” - we’re IN an election. Voting has already started.
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LOL, the Dutch ARE the storm
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You can expect Former Secretary of State John Kerry, to be be a popular choice among global
#climateaction
circles as Biden's "Special Presidential Envoy for Climate"
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One of the hills I am willing to die on: You do not "win" a parliamentary election unless 50% of members support you to form a government
Re: Dutch election -- 35 of 150 seats is not a "win" - it is finishing first, well short of majority
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1) Estonians have some of the clearest thinking about
#Russia
, here's what their foreign minister
@UrmasReinsalu
just told me:
“Putin wants us to be frightened. The most important thing is to communicate by doing. We need to ramp up weapons aid to Ukraine immediately."
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@politeracy
I find this puzzling. Partly because I had the opposite reaction today - Manhattan (which is not a synonym for NYC) is much more alive than 2-3 months - and because you imply you abandoned your neighborhood for a country home. If true, that hardly helped the scene you described
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The important point here is that Kyiv may be quickly encircled or infiltrated -- but that's very different from it falling. Because Russian troops will face this everywhere they attempt to move
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THREAD: Boris Johnson has a problem named Joe Biden: Democrats are ☑️ on UK climate leadership and ☑️ on UK defense spending increase, but in no mood to prioritize the relatively small trade deal Johnson wants to agree in Biden’s first 100 days. 1/
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#MSNBC
just cut away from Trump - almost immediately - to go back to Arizona secretary of state interview.
Makes sense: Trump opened with outright falsehoods. Nothing to gain by listening or tweeting it live, but big risks of amplifying dangerous statements
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Exit poll intrigue: Biden won under $100k households by large margins; Trump won over $100k households by 11 points.
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Nigel Farage, whose salary is paid by the EU, asks "How can the BBC be fair about Brexit when it takes money from the EU?" via
@Telegraph
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5) Not even a treaty was enough to save Hong Kong from Beijing’s reach. The lesson is that fundamental rights do not protect themselves — and their loss is frequently accelerated by absorbing and regurgitating autocratic narratives, not by visits.
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GE now has a wind turbine so powerful that just one of them can power 12,000 homes.
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Irish PM Leo Varadkar brought his boyfriend to meet US VP Mike Pence
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Why is every tech company addicted to spying on us, yet Google can't figure out after 11 years of me living in Belgium and continually choosing and using English Google, that I have no interest in being auto-delivered Dutch Google?
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Errrr, they can hold out, and plan to. There are roughly 30 million Ukrainians of fighting age vs. 200,000 Russian troops. There are, so far, roughly 15 Russians casualties for every Ukrainian casualty. The people of Kyiv defied German encirclement for 7 weeks in 1941 ...
If Ukraine fights back it will be devastating and the outcome won’t be any different. They can’t fight Russia on this, no one can. Best to let it go for now and use democracy in the future. Don’t kill yourselves. Seriously.
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Congratulations
#Brussels
! You’ve created the world’s most complicated street-by-street based mask mandate.
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TRANSPARENCY - SINGAPORE: Combined with readiness (quarantine processes/facilities in place since SARS + H1NI). Add great use of tech () and top healthcare system and you have all the elements for managing risk and avoiding panic.
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This MP is a terrible symbol of the
#Brexit
debate. He appears not to even know about the Lend Lease program: the one where U.S. lent the U.K. $31 billion ($340 billion today). That’s before the Marshall Plan, of which the U.K. was the BIGGEST recipient (about 25% of all funds)
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Louis Vuitton to 'temporarily' close its 124 stores in Russia ... the really shocking thing is t'they have this many stores in a country as poor as Russia. That scale for luxury is possible only because of the massive siphoning of wealth by govt+oligarchs
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@FerminPASCUAL
The Mexican president is engaging in political malpractice. There is no justifiable reason.
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4) Giving into Beijing’s histrionics, and equivocating on fundamental rights, is a losing game. Eight years of equivocating on Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity contributed to Russia’s 2022 invasion.
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