#Global

I’m taking a slightly different approach....https://twitter.com/nolongerbennett/status/1252613584691093505 The metric that matters most to ME is the percentage of reported CLOSED cases that are fatalities, because that’s the ONE metric on which
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Thread with my latest for @climate @BloombergNEF: on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a reflection on solar, nuclear power, experience curves, and better than "too cheap to meter" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/the-ene
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D4: DENY, DEGRADE, DISRUPT, DECEIVE => D5 IS DESTROY"The company that funded all of this misinformation - that same company had also paid $100 million to all those people we
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Message to fellow climate scientists & #ClimateTwitter: After seeing many variations on theme "Are we going to reach a catastrophe in 12 years?”, I think it could be more helpful
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"XRP the Global standard - You dont have to believe it, but its still true" - @BakkupBradleyThis is not financial advise. This is for entertainment only. ECB/TIPS/DLT/CRYPTO: TAS/TIPS: ECB/BOJ/ILP SBI/RIPPLE/R3/XRP
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Suddenly, everything changed... here is some thinking from my last GMI (Global Macro Investor) report: I think we have now clearly started the transition from Hope phase to Insolvency phase
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While I #Taiwan, I agree that it's an open question whether it's in the US's interest to defend this place from invasion. But whatever the answer, I still think
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Is automation stealing manufacturing jobs?My paper, together with Christian Parschau, on the impact of automation on employment / job displacement has just been published in Geoforum.You can read and download
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Part 2: Why the UN and its affiliated programs are suddenly rebranding.What's id2020, worldPOP, and ACT!2030?Part one gives an outline of the history of the UN and its 30 year
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1/6 Blogging thread and in my experience this is how you should be doing a blog: (inspired by a comment on Facebook today that some PR people have been getting
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A thread on the much hyped Kerala model economy using excerpts from Kerala Migration survey 2018 report from the State Govt's Center for Development Studies (CDS) prepared every 3 years
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rating racism stuff my classmates have sent me/said to me: a thread -got sent to me by 4 accounts immediately after an online arguement arguement-"you have an accent in
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Common is just a #DnD handwave that lets everyone communicate, like Star Trek’s universal translator.But I want a campaign about how Common is maintained, from the Académie Française-like academics who
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Many Muslims are now thinking about war with France, and wondering about the role of nuclear weapons. Any nuclear strike against Muslims would be a huge blessing on the ummah.
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-You Gotta See This-Thanks @JulieMacCallum2 amd @99freemind for postingRecognize this dude?1) Thread 2)Meet Tedros Adhanom Head of the World Health Organization or the WHODid you wonder why @POTUS used Tedros
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I stopped using “blackness is diverse” when I realized how much it’s used to reify racist 1 drop rule rhetoric. Globally, blackness is indeed diverse but still quintessentially AFRICAN or
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