#Agreement

1/27This thread examines claims made in this BrexitCentral article by Kevin Dowd regarding an alleged quintupling of tariffs on oranges from South Africa imported into the EU.I'm not the first
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China establishes two districts to manage the South China Sea - a little thread to explain why this decision exposes the nonsense of China's territorial claimshttps://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1186004.shtml "Xisha District is set
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A lot of things aren't great right now, and the UN report makes clear what the math shows: the window to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C is rapidly
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This is a good interview on trade with the always-intelligent @ProfSteveKeen. The problem with global trade isn’t trade itself. It is persistent trade imbalances, and most proponents of free trade
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Can we at some point have a meaningful & substantive discussion about Big Pharma short circuiting the “clinical trial process” by lobbying the potus to push this magic cocktail at
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This is obviously a bad outcome for climate, especially given Japan's status as an advanced economy. But from my perspective, the developed world asking India/China to not use coal seems
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Following Akilah Hughe's sputtering disbelief that she could not get away with doing & saying whatever she wanted to/about Carl Benjamin makes sense only if you grew up in the
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So first time I posted this tweet chain... Twitter deleted it. Then found it on internet archives with way back machine. Had to retweet it. 2nd time they decided
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EU efforts to counter Russian disinformation risk becoming a source of disinformation themselves. Must read report on work of EU's East StratCom Task Force.https://reframingrussia.com/2020/04/06/covid-19-disinformation-two-short-reports-on-the-ru
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NEW: Insiders at companies rushing to make vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 have walked away with more than $1 billion after well timed stock sales.At Vaxart, the story is particularly
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1) I've not heard much analysis on the new Personal Information Protection Law draft in China. This is pretty major since it borrows from EU's GDPR (aka fines) and will
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Global temperature is now hotter than any time in the Holocene - the entire history of human civilization. #ClimateStrikeOnline #FightEveryCrisis #NetzstreikFürsKlima A version of this graph including future scenarios was
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Today is #EarthDay so we want to promote the importance of geoscience in meeting society's future challenges - be that the UN SDGs, Paris agreement to avoid dangerous levels
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In India, it's never about ideology. It is only about civilisation. And to put it on record this is why PM Modi faces a massive smear campaign from a powerful
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THREAD on the Bolton and Woodward books regarding Trump and North Korea. The big, completely predictable, takeaways:1. Trump had no idea what he was doing.Both confirm pretty much what anyone
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Something more at play here with the Sultan's absolute madness lately + haven't quite placed it yet and need more eyes on this @BenKTallmadge @CarrollQuigley1 @MadAddictSport @DawsonSField @SeekerOTL @1foreverseeking @jj_talking
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