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"When you push against a system and it is an unjust system, you must prepare yourself mentally for the isolation and resistance that comes with that. Activism and whistleblowing looks sexy on TV, but it’s hard on your mind and wellbeing." --Dr. Monica Cox greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/dai…
The Rise and Fall of World's Fairs
smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ri…
#AmericanHistory, #WorldsFairs, #ChangingTimes
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#AmericanHistory, #WorldsFairs, #ChangingTimes
Life expectancy in Africa – Landgeist
landgeist.com/2022/04/25/lif…
#DataVisualization, #LifeExpectancy, #AfricanCountries, #GraphicRepresentation
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#DataVisualization, #LifeExpectancy, #AfricanCountries, #GraphicRepresentation
1. #NixonMao #rapprochement 50th ANNIVERSARY: SOME FACTS & LESSONS.
In only 50 years, everything changes. Strategic interests of two great powers aligned then as much as they clash today.
I hate threads but my blog is not out yet: here some disorderly thoughts.
In only 50 years, everything changes. Strategic interests of two great powers aligned then as much as they clash today.
I hate threads but my blog is not out yet: here some disorderly thoughts.
2. In 1972, China needed to avert a terrestrial invasion from #USSR. The #UnitedStates was keen to gain a heavy-weight partner to checkmate #Moscow; but the long-term objective was to bring the most populous country into a rising US-led global economic order for the US to profit
3. In the following decades, the relationship was not void of tensions. However, strategic interests were important enough to save it from #TaiwanRelationsAct, #Reagan anti #communism and support for #Taiwan; #TiananmenSquare; #StraitCrisis 1995-1996; #Belgrade bombing
2019: "a person's average micro-plastic consumption is between 70,000-121,000 particles per yr & rising for those who drank bottled water closer to 100,000."
Imagine plastic inhalation/consumption for those wearing #masks for past yr. #VirtueSignalling
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Imagine plastic inhalation/consumption for those wearing #masks for past yr. #VirtueSignalling
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"Disposable face masks (single use masks) are produced from polymers such as #polypropylene, #polyurethane, #polyacrylonitrile, #polystyrene, #polycarbonate, #polyethylene, or #polyester (Potluri and Needham, 2005)."
They shed. Plastic is inhaled/ingested. By adults & #children.
They shed. Plastic is inhaled/ingested. By adults & #children.
"This new emergence of #facemasks as environmental litter both in the terrestrial & aquatic environment is a piece of evidence that the global pandemic has not in any way reduced the challenge of increasing #plastic #pollution in the environment."
#Biodiversity #Ecology
#Biodiversity #Ecology
Addressing the annual conference of @NigBarAssoc in Aug, @MBuhari claimed #HumanRights were subject to his own notion of national security. As #Nigerians in different walks pay wth their lives for growing insecurity, it's impt to address #TheBuhariDoctrine
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Supporters of #TheBuhariDoctrine of national security easily cite the side comment (dictum) of a Justice of #Nigeria's Supreme Court in the case of Mujahid Asari Dokubo v. Federal Republic of #Nigeria decided when OBJ was President on 8 June 2006.
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In July 2009, during, under OBJ's successor, #UMYA, Yusuf Mohammed, the founder of #BokoHaram was executed extra-judicially by @PoliceNG. His killing became the proximate cause of an insurgency that has triggered multiple forms of lethal violence in #Nigeria
The bomb dropped today in the middle of nowhere, Afghanistan, cost $314,000,000. articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/16/bu… (credit @thenib)
.@thenib US President (and Army General) Dwight D. Eisenhower on dropping $16,000,000 bombs on caves in the middle of nowhere:
.@thenib Those mujahedeen tunnel networks we're bombing in Afghanistan? We paid for them. #Blowback nytimes.com/2005/09/11/mag… (via @GabiElenaDohm)
