#Global

Global warming is warming the oceans. This reduces the frequency of tropical cyclones yet increases their frequency. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones affect subtropical regions the most. South Asia, Japan, Caribbean,
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Good morning everyone!I was waiting for @Joshua4Congress to wake up bc I wanted to give him a chance to speak for himself, but clearly everyone's got some pretty wild ideas
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Some curiosities in the Scottish government’s approach to education, international comparisons...and picking fights with teachers...(1/13) Withdrawal from international comparisonsScotGov has withdrawn from two international education su
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CONTENT WARNING: EXTREMELY RACIST LANGUAGEIn case anyone has any doubts of the racism still faced by members of the Black community in 2020, I invite you to read this email
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While the optionality gained by not ratifying the UNCLOS lends the US substantive maneuverability in any effort to exert global maritime dominance, the recent events appear far less “provocative” than
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EXCLUSIVE FROM NIGER DELTA AGAIN“After it was learnt that Barr. Alabh George Turnah was arrested by the EFCC, youth gathered themselves and stormed the EFCC office to protest, describing Turnah's
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Love them or loathe them, face coverings have been used to protect us from all sorts of harmful material in the air for a very long time. [Thread] #facecoverings #facemask
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no, i am not guilt tripping. these are just my observations we did better in terms of digital - we only went out of the charts this week (& for
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THREAD: #Covid19 exposes grave political miscalculations behind decades of western geo-strategic relations with China. We sleepwalked into a supply-side over-dependency, believing China would embrace democratic norms. We’ve been played. China
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If you’re interested in geopolitical+tech risks, read @inafried @axios on #Taiwan https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-6801338c-9668-467e-b983-d74d182b5535.html?chunk=0&utm_campaign=axios_app#story0 Time to update/revisit my
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In answer to the questions stan groups are asking us today, we have no idea. What we do know is you all made history yesterday & you have a target
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"It's like watching the decline of the Roman Empire" - Canada"It reminds me of Belarus" - Belarus"We used to look to the US for inspiration. Sadly that is not the
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Our geocoding API is built on OpenStreetMap, a global crowdsourced project. Sometimes people ask us how we keep up with everything happing across the OSM world.A thread 2/ It's
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Why did the Crude Oil Price crash...Consumer Spending/demand is down...Atiku threw in a solutionStockpile and reduce supply (uhmm)Problem Global production of crude is 80,622,000 barrels per day.Nigeria is struggling to
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I've look at Babylon Health before. https://twitter.com/PrivacyMatters/status/1067760162369404929?s=20 So, I saw, I saw this 'Babylon launches COVID-19 Care Assistant for the Coronavirus pandemic' and thought .. oooohhhh and then oh
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THREAD: In The Times today: How Mudalal Khouri and his network helped the Syrian war effort (£) - thanks @RichardJSpencer.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/syrian-in-moscow-helped-assad-build-chemical-arsenal-0lm829hvtThread below e
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