Xi and Biden met to temporarily end the US-China standoff.
– The US is out of cash and can't afford four wars (Russia, Iran, DPRK, China).
– China is in a painful transition and facing a financial war.
This 🧵reveals what's hidden that will change the world in 2024.
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If you want to understand how little the Palestinian ‘activists’ and sympathizers in the world know about the reality in Israel - spend 5 minutes watching what happened when I arrived at the University of Auckland to "register" for their Palestinian club...
An interesting note prepared by the Commerce Commision for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage in the wake of the proposed NZME/Stuff merger in 2020 observed that from an international perspective NZ ranked last equal with Turkey and Romania for media plurality.
16/ To conclude, let's talk about the Global South being energy poor (solving hunger, electrification, infra will all require a lot FF energy) & why the Alex Epstein type narratives are wrong.
5 reasons below:
15/ This is an imp point. As long as we are in a consmp driven world, our dependence on oil isn't going anywhere.
It is time to smell the coffee & make the climate movement based on reality, not feel-good narratives. EVs & RE aren't enough to displace all the other uses of oil!
Elon Musk fired 6,500 employees at Twitter.
A little birdie told me it's down to:
- 2 designers
- 6 iOS developers
- 20 web developers
- Around 1,400 sales and operations people
How is it possible that we are still using this website?
Two words:
Parkinson's Law.
Have you…
In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan celebrated as their city elected a Muslim-majority city council," the first-ever in the US.
That city council just "passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property."
theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j…
My own summary views on EVs here:
I think focus on EVs is a distraction from our core challenge. As long as there is a marketable, plausible (narrow boundary) ‘response’ to climate/energy challenges, society will focus on supply side "answers" over the larger need to change our…
I love this picture from today.
Prime Minister weighs in on Russian interest in Chatham Islands, government not investigating 'Putin's chef' stuff.co.nz/national/30089…
In January Justice Minister Kris Faafoi was bragging about New Zealand being the least corrupt country in the world. Just 10 months later he's formed a lobbying company. He's a lovely guy, but this is an appalling situation. theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…
"Prohibition doesn't work either in reducing demand for or supply of drugs. It actually causes serious harm, not least as criminalisation further stigmatises people & worsens downward cycles of addiction." My op ed on new @nzdrug@HelenClarkFound report stuff.co.nz/national/healt…
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Salman Rushdie, 75, is on a ventilator and unable to speak following hours of surgery after the novelist was stabbed onstage at a lecture in New York state reut.rs/3SP94aw
Thornhill et al, NEJM, MPOX summary:
-98% gay/bisexual
-41% have concurrent HIV
-95% transmission by sexual activity
-13% hospitalized for derm/anogenital lesions
-No deaths
Govt response mass indiscriminate purchase/deployment of JYNNEOS nonreplicating orthopox product? No way!
Here is the risk to kids from this NEJM paper
I've blown up the risk of hospitalization
Getting O2 while hospitalized
Death
Any strong advocate for Kids covid vaccination is off their rocker. It really doesn't matter. The risks are super low. Kids should return to normalcy
Here is the risk to kids from this NEJM paper
I've blown up the risk of hospitalization
Getting O2 while hospitalized
Death
Any strong advocate for Kids covid vaccination is off their rocker. It really doesn't matter. The risks are super low. Kids should return to normalcy https://t.co/ERPU2aZOU1
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