#2020

A truly refreshing study on the labor politics in China's BRI project in Laos. Challenging the conventional focus on the debtor-creditor relations, Chen looks at the how the debt financing
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One imagines Sulzberger calling @NicholasGuyatt in the middle of the night to ask him to write something good about the 1619 Project. "You gotta help me out here." Including a
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Thread: To mark my 50th Birthday I decided, as I am in medical isolation, to create a special event. So for the month of April, or as long as the
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To my fellow cops, we might not be to blame but we all are responsible for this. We are all bound by oath to serve our neighbors. All of our
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The "could" in this headline really undermines how good this story is. It's thorough and unbiased. Sadly, the headline makes it sound like it is written by a SoCalGas lobbyist,
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This Forbes article suggests that countries with female leaders seem to do better in response to COVID-19. https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/I
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Former Belgian Health Minister Maggie De Block is trending on Twitter for having various face masks destroyed between 2015 and 2018 because storing them was expensive.https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2020/10/07/pano-de-grote-maskerade/ Complete
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1/My thoughts on the situation with Black people in China:Fuck the people that think it's okay to discriminate against blacks in China because some retard decided to bite a nurse.
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No caminho, o Fatumbi disse que eu teria respondidas algumas das perguntas que vinha fazendo, sobre» ingleses estarem mesmo do lado dos pretos. Pelo que percebi, o apoio não era
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My 8 year old son with Autism read his second ever book today and I am SO proud! Please leave him an encouraging comment! While I have your attention: My
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A few quick comments on the $TSLA accounting change. 1/n 2/n ASU 2020-06 relates to how companies account for convertible debt and its impact on diluted earnings per share. 3/n
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Daimler becomes the latest company to kill its hydrogen fuel cell car programme because the economics and poor efficiency will simply never make sense. #H2FC https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/daimler-ends-hydrogen-car-development-because-its-too-costly/
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There never seems to be a shortage of new businesses popping up these days having to do with opioid dependence and tapering. I am never surprised but I was surprised
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David Frum with his usual excellence, attention to detail & authority of substance has written a detailed account of @realDonaldTrump's complete failure as President, his willingness to sacrifice anyone who
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I’ve read three completely different bits of journalism today, pointing to the fact that the UK is completely busking it. Firstly, this FT article from this morning (remember this morning!
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The claim Aust "dumps" barley on China is wholly without merit under relevant WTO rules. If China applies duties to Aust barley, it will be a pure act of political
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