#Western

Sebastian Milbank 🥀

JSMilbank

Looking from abroad (and as a former resident) I really worry what is happening to the character of America - it really, really doesn't feel like a unified culture with

Marco Chitti

ChittiMarco

Today I'm talking construction costs. I did some breakdown of the costs for the soon-to-be-built first tramway line in Bologna. A recap:16.8 km511m€, including 26 32m-long vehiclesThe "gross costs" is

Fidato

tequieremos

How smartly ISI deceived the CIA director!!During the Soviet invasion back in 1984 when ISI and CIA were supporting the freedom fighters in Afghanistan, the then CIA director William Casey

Raj

T_1000__

THREAD : The Domino effect, Hinduism and its interactions with non-primary religions, it's decline and how to stop it.A long thread, please read till the end.Gandhi is both the cause

Donald Iain MacDonald

dimacdonald

Why is the grass 'gorm?' Here's another a very interesting image from John Murray's fantastic book 'Reading the Gaelic Landscape' - the traditional Gaelic colour spectrum! (although 'liath' is missing?)

Jan Fran

Jan__Fran

The thing about cricket in Australia is that it’s very white. I know, I know, I say that about everything (true but!) Just stick with me here. Cricket is verrrrrry

Jacob Wycoff

4cast4you

IT'S BEEN DRY (a thread, pt2): Over the weekend, I talked about the need for rain for the Boston area. They are in the middle of one the driest 40

Ingrid H. Kvangraven

ingridharvold

Does economics need to be ‘decolonised’?@cacrisalves and I explore this question in our recent @EconObservatory article, based on recent discussions at @FestivalofIdeas.A lil thread https://www.economicsobservatory.com/economicsfest-doe

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

ConnerHabib

1Brief thread on disease:There are, unfortunately, many spiritual people dedicated to saying germs & viruses don’t cause disease.While I agree that the Western medical model is reductive, I also think

Ideas Untrapped

IUntrapped

#IdeasThatMatter STATE CAPACITY starts here. The fundamental question, what is STATE CAPACITY."State capacity describes the ability of a state to collect taxes, enforce law and order, and provide public goods."

Zar

HusnKalashinkov

Sex education teaches you that your body is your own. No one can assault it or touch it without your permission. Though the prevention and protection from sexual assault is

John Q. Barrett

JohnQBarrett

Thread on film evidence at a gravely serious trial—1 of 8/ On November 29, 1945, U.S. prosecutors at the #Nuremberg trial played a one-hour motion picture report on Nazi concentration

Enrico Kremlin-affiliated :)

Russ_Warrior

Reminder: since the early 1980s the West has supported most of terrorist groups, starting from the Mujahideen in #Afghanistan that laid the ground for the creation of Al-Qaeda whose affiliated

Akriti Vasudeva

avasudeva_87

I’ve been thinking a lot about Prime Minister Modi’s speech yesterday. Is it realistic to expect any leader to publically accept an intrusion into his country’s territory? Seen through this

Joe Nierman (Parler: @JoeNierman)

NiermanJoe

Our news media has disintegrated. I am providing a breakdown of ongoing election law suits designed to correct the fraudulent results:I list caption (Court where pending)States potentially affectedLegal issue.Significance levelRT;

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Many people assume, "green", "renewable" energy sources (wind & solar specifically) will someday replace fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) as the only sources of energy powering the planet. This is

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