"Deese said Joe Biden was working with Congress on legislation to lower costs including for prescription drugs and utilities.” More a sign of how limited the options are than a real answer.
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In 1965 Rayner Banham wrote an extraordinary essay on the gadget or gizmo and its role in American ideology. It is eerily prescient of the ideological charge attached to weapons such as Javelin in war in Ukraine.
Chartbook #123 on the ideology of ATGM.
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Is America’s arsenal of democracy depleting?
This from @TheEconomist
https://t.co/KMv166aOdx
Pairs well with Chartbook #120 on St Javelin.
https://t.co/e0Fbcg8jrK
Meme-mythology of Ukraine war places Javelin missile in the hands of the Virgin Mary. In fact every single one of the missiles has gone through the hands of Ms Linda Griffin Sr Assembler at Lockheed’s plant in Troy Alabama
Chartbook #120
https://t.co/e0Fbcg8jrK
Methinks there is one thing wrong about the image of Saint Javelin of Kyiv.
Meet Ms Linda Griffin, Sr Assembler at Lockheed’s plant in Troy Alabama who can claim to have handled every one of 50,000 missiles ever produced there.
Check out Chartbook #120
https://t.co/e0Fbcg8jrK
Meme-mythology of Ukraine war places Javelin missile in the hands of a Mary Magdalene figure. In fact every single one of the missiles has gone through the hands of Ms Linda Griffin Sr Assembler at Lockheed’s plant in Troy Alabama
Chartbook #120
https://t.co/P94KIt65Yx
A quarter-million metric tonnes of spent fuel rods are believed to be spread across 14 countries worldwide, mostly collected in cooling pools at closed-down nuclear plants, as engineers and waste specialists puzzle over how to dispose of them permanently
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Why has COVAX been such a weak offset to the massive imbalance in global vaccine supply?
Reports by @MSF & @TBIJ feature in Chartbook #77, a roundup on the ongoing COVID pandemic.
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The tiny nation of Kiribati, which switched diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China in 2019, this year announced Beijing-backed plans to upgrade one of its airstrips
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In 2020 only 29 m people live in parts of world with mean annual temp of 29C. By 2070 that could be 3bn people!
https://t.co/zG23J10OEI