#Foreign

In 1899, Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness, described events in the Congo as โ€œthe vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscienceโ€Little did he know.1/The
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(1/n) Thread on Indian multiplexIndian multiplexes have almost 2950 screens out of total 9600 screens but it earns more than half the total revenue of theatrical releases from these multiplexes!
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Below is a thread on the coin flip politics related to the final years of the Ottoman Empire. Thread is on Armenian, Kurdish, Turkish disputes.Many atrocities occured between 1912 to
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1. I would love to read a sympathetic (yet critical) essay that assessed a central claim made by Never Trumpers like @davidfrum--that conservatism today is an embarrassing bastardization of what
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Good morning! Today is Wednesday, August 12, 2020. There's been A LOT of news in the past 24 hours, so let's get started and look at the big headlines in
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Some thoughts on the Harperโ€™s Letter, a thread: In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the willingness of a raft of actors left, centre and right, both
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Folks, let me share some thoughts on the latest developments in Eastern Ladakh over the past few days.As always, writing this thread on the go, in the hope that it
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GMM PFAUDLERCMP Rs 3639#Thread #stock #LowfreeFloat1 week changed Perception from Market #Darling to #manipulationSnippet of SSGR Analysis!Presenting my Thought Process. @Atulsingh_Asan @AnyBodyCanFly @saketreddy @varinder_bansal @abhymurar
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#Thread Meet Michael Ratushnyy, head of the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council (UWCC). As you can imagine, with such a title, he gets around. Ratushnyy was first elected to the position
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Word of the day OminousSuggesting that something bad is going to happen in the future. Word of the day ApatheticShowing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.Her friend seemed so
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Singapore on friday confirmed two more imported cases of the #WuhanCoronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases to three. The third case, a 37-year-old man, was the son of the
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๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐‰๐จ๐›๐ฌ ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐–๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐„๐š๐ซ๐ง ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ƒ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽThis is for everyone at risk of loosing their jobs and need some form of income security in 2020Or anyone who
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This is the nature of tail risk. We should acknowledge uncertainty but focus first and foremost on the very real danger. Experts are gravely worried. We should act now not
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#TheTruthIs... a Twitter thread #TheTruthIs... an exercise in patience #TheTruthIs... not what we signed up for #TheTruthIs... no longer concerned with the facts #TheTruthIs... a constant stream of non-sequiturs #TheTruthIs...
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.LEFTIST NARRATIVE FAIL - ILLEGAL GIRL DIED of SEPSIS / NOT DEHYDRATIONFather Admits She "...Had NOT Been Able to Consume Water or Food for Days" -- i.e. NOT the Responsibility
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โ€˜What will you give to me โ€˜ she whispered โ€˜If I do all you ask ...โ€™He paused. Contemplating his response before lifting his head to gaze at her. โ€˜Everythingโ€™. He
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