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@70sBachchan
Jul 21, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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1/ Thread: Summer of 2020

Summer of Corona gone Bad
Summer of Antiracism gone Woke
Summer of US-China relations gone MAD
Summer of Arctic & Amazon on Smoke
Summer of Asia gone Soak
Summer of People gone Broke
#NEOWISE

2/ Summer of Corona gone Bad
covid19.who.int
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3/ Summer of Antiracism gone Woke
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4/ Summer of US-China relations gone MAD
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5/ Summer of Arctic on Smoke
6/ Summer of Amazon on Smoke ht @domphillips theguardian.com/environment/20…
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7/ Summer of Asia gone Soak
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8/ Summer of People gone Broke
ht UN report 'A Pandemic of Poverty' Philip Alston
chrgj.org/wp-content/upl…
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END/ This thread in coherent non rhyme form & what to do about it via Chomsky "we’ve got to take our lives under control...can’t leave them in the hands of the authorities who declared themselves our masters. We have to take charge" jacobinmag.com/2020/06/noam-c…

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Aug 22
The "flying geese" model
"(originally presented by Akamatsu), according to which transfers of tech foreign investment, &trade between richer and poorer parts of a region generate development through a restructuring in the division of labor" - Alice Amsden
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid…Image
2/"Japanese and South Korean firms built supply chains across SE Asia to lower production costs and reach Western markets. Samsung invested heavily in manufacturing plants in Vietnam. Japanese automakers like Toyota...set up auto plants across Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia" Image
3/ "And of course, Japan and South Korea helped turn China into a global manuf hub. Along the way, Japanese & Korean companies frequently brought over their own machinery and equipment while keeping the high-tech, high-value work at home." - @kyleichan
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Aug 14
NEW Dispatch @polycrisis @kmac: Trump is BRICS' greatest champion. buttondown.com/polycrisisdisp…Image
This week we scan the latest frontiers of Trump’s trade war, from India to Brazil, amid the US pressure campaign against Russia. We end in Alaska, where Putin is slated to meet Trump on Friday. Is a new world order taking shape before our very eyes?
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2/ On Aug 6, Trump punished India with an addil 25% tariff for buying Russian oil in an executive order The EO’s title —Addressing threats to the US by the Russian Federation —made it clear that this wasn’t about bilateral US-India trade but about Ukraine
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Aug 5
Holy moly trump killed Moderna in US!!
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...." Image
“The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.”
apnews.com/article/kenned…Image
Trump government curbing research in vaccines, satellites, NIH, NSF, cancer research, clean energy,
Is this the beginning of the American dark ages? Sure feels like it
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Jul 19
America in its florentine Medici
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America in its Florentine Medici era
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Free market capitalism is designed to produce Billionaire Raj. But the extraordinary FAANG tech boom is a v recent development. Since 2016 the largest corporations have shot up in market value. Their CEOs became *more* Right to protect wealth from taxes policytensor.substack.com/p/a-note-on-th…Image
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Apr 29
Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum is an energy systems expert. She is positioning Mexico to lead in the global green economy —from EVs & batteries to Renewables,Critical minerals,HVAC manufacturing. Her Plan Mexico is at a critical juncture. Our report:
netzeropolicylab.com/mexico-green-o… x.com/maxvejares/sta…Image
Claudia Sheinbaum:“Plan Mexico is the path that I am certain will lead us to a Mexico with more well-paid jobs, with less poverty & inequality...with a lower carbon footprint that respects the environment and increases our self-sufficiency and sovereignty"
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3/ How did Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum became the most popular president in the world?
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“We will not return to the neoliberal model … We will continue with Mexican Humanism and with the maxim of ‘For the good of all, first the poor.’”
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-f…Image
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Jan 12
"The Financial Times has misled its readers by not clearly stating that its promotion of trade blocs and revision of other key principles means in reality the abandonment of neoliberal globalization as a project"

This shd be published in FT @BrankoMilan
braveneweurope.com/branko-milanov…
Its genesis was Martin Wolf leaving a tart comment on Milanovic's blogpost:

Wolf misread @BrankoMilan argument which was not a peaen to Trump ending global neoliberalism but that he ia tool of History. Well worth reading:

branko2f7.substack.com/p/to-the-finla…Image
Martin Wolf: "It is conflicts over power that most threaten globalisation. By seeking to enhance their security, great powers make their rivals more insecure, creating a vicious downward spiral of distrust. We are already a long way down this spiral" ft.com/content/8954a5…Image
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