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In the last couple of days I have discovered gearhead youtube and it is totally DESTROYING my productivity. Im main… https://t.co/ybTqmznmh7

They will instead focus their efforts on their core audience: YouTubers that buy heavily used Gallardos for 20 cent… https://t.co/yXNsYxZBfm

China’s membership in international organizations has grown rapidly and steadily since the 1970s.… https://t.co/eJPRMMtfrZ

“We’re not speaking German today because American business in past didn’t think that way. They stood with US. All p… https://t.co/x25h5nB6zP

“the American business community has been a big part of the problem,” Barr on the Trump admin struggle with China.… https://t.co/QjviUbhIKh

More than a fifth of China’s population have migrated from the countryside to join the urban workforce. But they ar… https://t.co/KLo8Oecjzc

Coal in the transition from China’s the 13-14th 5 year Plan is a critical issue not just for China but for global c… https://t.co/J262Y8KmcT

How Fed Swap Lines Supported the U.S. Corporate Credit Market amid COVID-19 Strains. Cetorelli, Goldberg, Ravazzol… https://t.co/eUCq4ps4V9

New York’s Rising Tides: Climate Inequality and Sandy’s Legacy Great piece by Willa Glickman in @nybooks Riffing o… https://t.co/5azlaP3I3O

Nearly half of NYCs electricity comes from aging facilities along coast in Long Island City & Astoria. Wastewater t… https://t.co/Wha6yBkC6o

How satisfied are you with the solidarity of EU members in fighting COVID? Unsurprisingly Italy and Spain least ent… https://t.co/V0vLjMUcmf

How European public opinion divides over COVID19 lockdown btw those who think health benefits outweigh cost (Fr) v.… https://t.co/TT5beSyDPE

Operation Rösselsprung (1944) Marshal Tito with his Cabinet Ministers and Supreme Staff at his mountain hq in Yugos… https://t.co/YdojgaEkRQ

In the past five years in UN Security Council Russia has wielded 14 vetoes, China five and America two (Britain and… https://t.co/7PtkllxlCv

Last year about $18bn in humanitarian funding, some 70% of the world’s total, was channelled through the UN, helpin… https://t.co/APJh4P4Wlm

UN peacekeeping operations deploy 100,000 people from 120 countries on 13 missions. Protect about 125m vulnerable p… https://t.co/hOY67UAy7g

UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic has a budget ($1bn) twice that of the national government, whic… https://t.co/uIknOC4Tbs

Caribbean state of St Vincent and the Grenadines has population 110k. Has 6 embassies around world. One in Taipei.… https://t.co/AFT6yU0HtJ

Chinese nationals now head four of the un’s 15 specialised agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organisatio… https://t.co/eo7zdWZK0y

This is consistent with everything I have heard in conversations with folks in the federal government. A concerte… https://t.co/3tKXJIVK6p

Got the chops? As evidenced by the battle for control of the Arm chip-making joint-venture, In business in China c… https://t.co/iMwg4CLFDP

What do Peet’s Coffee, Pret A Manger, Dr Pepper, Krispy Kreme, Panera Bread, Max Factor, Keurig, Jacobs coffee… https://t.co/qyshC7sN6j

Virus cases rising. Jobless claims barely improving. Service sector slowing down in some of the reopened states. An… https://t.co/m4UnUPhaZe

"Clarifying the battle lines China’s poverty line is not as stingy as commentators think Nor is China as poor as Li… https://t.co/psuM5C3zZ2

After a huge surge in purchases, the Fed now owns just shy of 40% of long-dated US Treasuries.… https://t.co/W8cPRMsChO

“The Fed steadfastly refuses to view itself as the world’s central bank, which is a pity, because it is becoming qu… https://t.co/XTM9TSl4CA

Only 2 % of employees in UK public admin earned < 2/3 of median hourly pay in 2019 v. 52% in hotel & restaurants, 2…

The COVID shock hit those hardest who were in most precarious position in labour market. Striking data from… https://t.co/CxUxoSVNHU

Death rates for all causes vary strongly by level of economic deprivation across the UK (age standardized). For COV… https://t.co/TX8HUftVag

Online learning has dramatically reinforced the advantage of better-off families paying for private education. Much… https://t.co/qHSuRVKRgr

In Germany HUGE support across the politics spectrum (with exception of AfD) for borrowing to fund COVID-19 respons… https://t.co/1jH6YYjypI

Remarkable thread on Toronto and Canadian support for the Confederacy. https://t.co/djqQS6liS3

"History, it is often said, is written by the winners—but that is only if they can write. If they can’t, then histo… https://t.co/Y1RJgbkiaW