- Biden Will Pull US Troops Out of Afghanistan by 9/11: U.S. intelligence predicted that Taliban will make battlefield gains.
'A full withdrawal from Afghanistan is dumber than dirt and devilishly dangerous'. - India's millionaire exodus: Nearly 5,000 millionaires, or 2% of the total number of high net-worth individuals left the country in 2020 alone.
- Chip shortage: Biden meets with CEOs. . . . . Intel to step into automotive chips, but it'll take a while. . . . It takes four years to build a new fab.
- How Singapore Uses Science to Stay Cool: Scientists are coming up with novel, new designs to help keep temperatures down in Singapore.
- Dams along the Mekong threatening farmers and fish: China's construction of large hydropower dams along the river is having devastating impacts on water availability and the fertile soil that feeds hundreds of millions of people in Southeast Asia.
- White man's privilege: Livestock and dairy industries responsible for 50% of New Zealand’s greenhouse gases. . . . . . NZ’s clean, green image hides a dirty truth. Polluted by intensive dairy farming, its waterways are some of the most degraded in the world.
- Used masks in mattresses: "Officials in Maharashtra found mattresses being stuffed with used masks. A case was registered against the factory owner, Amjad Ahmed Mansoori".
- Thread on women in the military:
Thread on what actually happens when you put womyn in the military: https://t.co/zC3xNShWrs
— Frontier Indica (@frontierindica) March 22, 2021
2 comments:
does the millionaire exodus matter at all? isn't it more interesting that we have grown a whole bunch of billionaires in the last couple of years? the guys who left may have been old school types depending on rent-seeking while the new guys are actually creating value?
re china screwing lower riparians on the mekong, brahma chellaney has been warning us the same thing is about to happen on the brahmaputra.
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