#Policy

Let’s talk about Scorched-Earth Policy in relation to protests: per Wikipedia: “A Scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy.
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1/ As much as some think Trump got taken for a ride by Kim Jong Un, Kim must also think he got taken for a ride by Trump since March
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Oh hey, the Alberta Government did one of those 4:52 p.m. news releases.They're cancelling 11 recently issued coal leases.That might sound significant but the affected areas are very small additions
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Donald Macdonald, Donald Cameron, Robert Henderson, Kenneth Henderson, and Peter Sinclair. Heads of the families cleared from Backlass in Caithness to make way for sheep in the early 19th Century.
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Petition:Please sign and share.The Home Office wants to deport Non-UK nationals for rough sleeping. Homelessness is a structural issue that has been amplified hugely because of the pandemic and that
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This number isn’t credible as presented, & if this is what our government really thinks & the advice it is getting is pushing this “>1000 engineers” number, we will not
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Ive read the interview with Amb. Jeffrey. The inherent tension is that tethering US presence in Syria to Max Pressure means that the US will also remain tethered to the
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MAJOR EDUCATIONAL REFORMS ANNOUNCED. A THREAD.#NewEducationPolicy #NewEducationPolicy2020 1. 6% of GDP will be allocated towards education. It was 3% in 2018-19. 2. Education will be imparted to students in their
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Tony DeAngelo’s chances, a list:1. If your first chance is just anything before you’re given a second chance, he was born into privilege as white kid from Jersey whose parents
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Since WB elections are round the corner let’s burst the myth regarding Industrialisation in West Bengal.A thread. You would have always heard vaguely that LF govt in general and Jyoti
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Yesterday @PIDEpk arranged an excellent discussion on exchange rate functioning in Pakistan. Led by @nadeemhaque and other economists, there seemed to be almost universal consensus that that FX should be
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Misguided Defense of John Brennan and The Logan Act: a Dangerous and Unconstitutional Lawhttps://greenwald.substack.com/p/rep-ilhan-omars-misguided-defense Foreign policy dissidents have the greatest interest in repealin
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Important clarity on the Bell v Tavistock rulingThe High Court’s Order from the Bell v Tavistock case - and what do they mean when they say the judgment is 'stayed'?
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People operate under the profoundly misguided notion that a Biden administration will simply polish up the rough edges of Trump China policy and away we go. This is simply wrong.
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It's been almost a year since I decided to take a different direction, left my job at Museum of London and joined the GLA. This week two really big projects
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Texas hates the federal government so much it has its own outdated power grid. No other state in the country has been quite this stubborn, stupid and self-destructive about energy
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