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Jan 24

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A thread (my 205 @SwarajyaMag piece):
"For Sir Winston Churchill Was an Honourable Man"

Churchill authored the six-volume magnum opus, “The Second World War”.
It helped the author earn millions of dollars in today’s value, a Nobel Prize in Literature.

swarajyamag.com/commentary/for…

This work was written substantially by a team of ghost writers called The Syndicate – which researched and wrote the drafts for most of the book, as well as pulling material from the war records and archives.
Churchill alone collected the royalties, credit, & the Nobel.

Churchill told his private secretary that 'the Hindus were a foul race “protected by their mere pullation from the doom that is their due”'
“He wished that Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris, head of British bomber command, could “send some of his surplus bombers to destroy them.””

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Jan 24

A thread that provides some context on Ukraine that may not be reported in mainstream media...

"In three years, between 2014 and 2017, the US Vice President Joe Biden made five trips to Ukraine, in addition to consulting "regularly with the Ukrainian president by telephone.""

"Joe Biden and John Kerry championed $1.8 billion in taxpayer-backed loans to be given to Ukraine courtesy of the IMF." Most of the that $1.8 billion "would go through Kolomoisky’s PrivatBank. And more than $1 billion from Privat just simply disapppeared."

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Jan 19

@KanchanGupta

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Srinagar, Jan 4, 1990.
"Aftab, a local Urdu newspaper, publishes a press release issued by Hizb-ul Mujahideen... asking all Hindus to pack up and leave. Another local paper, Al Safa, repeats this expulsion order.

@KanchanGupta's article from 2005.
rediff.com/news/2005/jan/…

2/10
"Walls are plastered with posters and handbills, summarily ordering all Kashmiris to strictly follow the Islamic dress code, prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks and imposing a ban on video parlours and cinemas."

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"The masked men with Kalashnikovs force people to re-set their watches and clocks to Pakistan Standard Time."

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@AbhinavAgarwal

Jan 17

@TheRegister

"Google and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves
Latest iteration of Texas-led antitrust complaint against Google expands claims of bad behavior"
@TheRegister
theregister.com/2022/01/15/goo…

"Civil Action No.: 1:21-md-03010-PKC" - Third Amended Complaint

"407. Google first created Accelerated Mobile Pages (“AMP”), a framework for developing mobile webpages, & made AMP compatible with Google’s ad server but substantially hindered compatibility with header bidding."

"Specifically, Google made AMP unable to execute JavaScript in the header, which frustrated publishers’ use of header bidding. When Google observed that publishers were working around the JavaScript restraint using a mechanism known as remote.html,
Google nixed remote.html and.."

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Abhinav Agarwal

@AbhinavAgarwal

Dec 28, 2021

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"Criticism/rejection become commonplace as competitive parents continue to push their children toward higher levels of accomplishment.
As a result,kids can’t find the time, literal/psychological,to linger in internal exploration; a precursor to a well-developed sense of self."

2/
"Kids can present as models of competence and still lack a fundamental sense of who they are. Psychologists call this the “false self,” and it is highly correlated with a number of emotional problems, most notably depression."

3/
"Working primarily to please others and to gain their approval takes time and energy away from children’s real job of figuring out their authentic talents, skills, and interests. The “false self” becomes particularly problematic in adolescence..."

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@AbhinavAgarwal

Nov 12, 2021

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A short thread on the boom in startups and their valuations:
Interest rates have been low in the US for more than 10 years. The Fed Funds rate has been at 0.25% since 2008, except for a few years during the Trump administration when they rose to 2%. They are back to 0.25% now.

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Quantitative Easing (QE) has pumped in trillions of dollars into the US economy.
Clearly, the money has to go somewhere and VCs need returns.
Startups is where some of that money has gone.

3/
The startup party has never had it so good.
Companies with zero profits, no business plan or hope in hell of ever getting profitable, became "unicorns", making their founders, funders, and some employees rich beyond imagination.
Good.

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