#1980s

Mario Draghi, soon to become Italy's PM, has been hailed as the nonpartisan technocrat Italy needs to gets its house in order. But who is Draghi and is his brand
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1/ Along with painful massacres, pogroms and ethnic cleansings/forced displacements, Azerbaijanis and Armenians also share largely forgotten history of interethnic cooperation throughout Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, peacefully exchanging Qizi
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"Tired of reality? Escape into the world of role-playing games." In particular one whose corporate history is a wild mix of battle, quests and the fickleness of fortune.Today in pulp...
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The NDS already has a framework for making trades across mission areas and timelines that Gens Brown & Berger describe here. What's needed is for leadership to fill that framework
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Read my report for the @thegwpfcom on the UK Climate Assembly, which was an obvious and deeply flawed attempt to circumvent democracy.https://twitter.com/thegwpfcom/status/1355116451619889152 The Climate Assembly was convened by six parliam
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As promised, a piece summarizing some aspects of my dissertation research kindly published by @IraqiThoughts ... with a thread below on some additional details, elaborating and grounding the piece:https://1001iraqithoughts.com/2020/06/24/th
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1/ I was asked to present some information regarding the facts of vandalism and destruction of the cultural heritage of Azerbaijan in Armenia and Karabakh, so here is a thread:
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As I said last night, digesting the reporting from @DonnerKay + @middleton380 about how the plan to build a Confederate shrine at @OleMissRebels came together is gonna take a long
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My CSU colleague emeritus Stuart Hurlbert (SDSU) is a highly cited 20th century ecologist, primarily because of his paper on pseudoreplication (cited over 8000 times!) He's also a Minutemen supporter,
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THREAD: Woke prudes are as bad as Mary WhitehouseLibby PurvesThe TimesLong ago, when the present censorious generation were in nappies, for three decades Mrs Mary Whitehouse campaigned to “Clean Up
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What is K-spicy? Or, when pseudohistory meets food and digital history.Meet cheongyang peppers (pictured), which are ubiquitous in South Korean supermarkets these days along with put ("fresh") and oi ("cucumber")
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It is claustrophobic: the sound of your own breathing mixes with the fear of asphyxiation.It is impersonal: only the eyes peering through the sockets betray any humanity.It is totemic: the
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The entertainment industry and the occult - "Dear God, I wonder can you save me? Illuminati want my mind soul and my body - secret society, trying to keep an
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It's Black History Month and today, I want to talk about Black historical things. Here's a thread of some pieces that I've written exploring some interesting corners of Black music
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Today, @thedailybeast published "The Justice Department Finally—Finally!—Takes on Google and the Danger of Monopolies," my op-ed on tech antitrust and its connection to the digital rights movement.https://www.thedailybeast.com
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While you're all hanging out at your computers clicking "refresh" for election news: a few thoughts on this recent response to @AaronFriedberg in @ForeignAffairs:https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1320456512616255488 Th
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