Olive oil is becoming increasingly valuable due to its growing popularity and supply shortages caused by weather extremes and disease affecting olive tree groves.
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Turkey's President Erdogan has been using the war in Gaza to claim moral high ground and criticize Western countries for their policies towards Palestine. The author also mentions that similar sentiments have been widespread in many parts of the global south, but Turkey's human rights record invites more scrutiny than most due to its Muslim majority population.
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#Turkey #Erdogan #Palestine #WesternCountries #GlobalSouth
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has roiled the globe and may have just reinforced the Middle East's long-standing problems. The diplomat from a Gulf state predicted that de-escalation and diplomacy would be the orders of the day, but instead, the region is now a neighbourhood pariah due to the recent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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#IsraeliPalestinianConflict #MiddleEastProblems #Diplomacy
Ryan Cohen used the emoji on Twitter and it became part of a legal dispute involving securities fraud. The court held that emojis may be actionable, and they have become infiltrated into corporate world with examples such as FTX using them to approve million-dollar expense reports.
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#Twitter #Emoji #LegalDispute #SecuritiesFraud #CourtRuling #CorporateWorld
Lee Caggiano, who died several weeks ago, was a speech-language pathologist who worked on treating patients with stuttering disorder and helped them see the purer version of themselves without infantilizing them due to their speech.
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#speechpathology #stutteringdisorders #treatment #self
Two regions stood out in the Worldwide Cost of Living survey by EIU, with European cities being the most expensive, while Latin American cities rose significantly in the rankings due to factors such as exchange rates and local inflation.
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#CostOfLiving #EuropeanCities #LatinAmericanCities
The Worldwide Cost of Living survey by EIU shows that cities in Latin America have become significantly more expensive for foreigners over the past two years, with Mexico City being among the biggest climbers. This is partly due to a stronger Mexican peso against the American dollar and inflation in some parts of the region being tamed, while others remain high.
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The combined net worth of the 500 richest people surged by $1.5 trillion in 2023, fully rebounding from the $1.4 trillion lost the year prior due to factors such as intense hype around artificial intelligence and successes of Tesla Inc., SpaceX, Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., and others. However, not all billionaires fared well in 2023, with Indian billionaire Gautam Adani losing a significant amount due to factors such as the value of his group being tanked by short-seller Hindenburg Research.
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#Billionaires #NetWorth #ArtificialIntelligence #TeslaInc #SpaceX #AmazoncomInc #MetaPlatformsInc
Tattoos are mysterious because scientists do not fully understand why they survive on the skin despite being considered an assault by the immune system.
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Geological processes have been occurring for billions of years and there are occasional glitches such as climate destabilization, which has led to the need for governments to negotiate their response at a conference. Additionally, the text mentions that the Arabian peninsula's oil wealth has contributed to the development of Dubai but also highlights the negative impact of burning fossil fuels on the environment and global climate change.
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#Geology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels
It discusses the performance of CEOs in large listed companies and ranks them based on their returns relative to their sector's average, leaving out some bosses due to macroeconomic forces or shareholders rejecting their pay.
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#Performance #Rankings
Global GDP has probably grown by 3% and that some countries, such as Greece and Chile, have performed well economically while others like Britain, Germany, Sweden and Finland have struggled.
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#GDPgrowth #economicperformance #economicstruggles
Donald Trump successfully crashed a much bigger party called Republican National Convention in 2016 and the conservative media has accelerated under his leadership since then.
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Ukraine has changed its Christmas holiday from January 7th to December 25th in line with the Russian Orthodox Church but there will not be much to celebrate because a long-awaited and much-needed assistance package from the US Congress will not arrive on time for the new Christmas, and lawmakers appear unlikely to approve legislation in time for the old one either.
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#UkraineChristmas #RussianOrthodoxChurch #USCongressAssistancePackage #LawmakersApproval
Pierce Brosnan walked in an off-limits area at Mammoth Terraces during a recent visit to Yellowstone National Park, which led him to be charged with stepping out of bounds and scheduled for a mandatory court appearance.
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Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" has influenced many bad books about Congo and some good ones, including Van Reybrouck's "Congo: The Epic History of a People."
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https://read.distractionfree.site/economist/the-economist-reads/2023/12/11/what-to-read-about-congo
#Influence #BookReviews #LiteraryAnalysis
Queen Latifah has partnered with Lenovo to distribute her AI-generated image to small businesses across the U.S. and Canada, while also discussing her involvement in the historic SAG-AFTRA strike related to AI technologies in entertainment.
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#QueenLatifah #Lenovo #AItechnology #SAGAFTRAstrike
2024 will be a pivotal year for the Palestinian conflict as it will either spiral out of control or bring change. It also discusses how the attack by Hamas on Israelis has destroyed the strategic concept that allowed both sides to ignore the plight of the Palestinians, and how this catastrophe has led to new leaders in both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The text also mentions that many women and children are being killed as a result of the conflict, which could further escalate tensions and violence in the region.
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The combined net worth of the 500 richest people surged by $1.5 trillion in 2023, fully rebounding from the previous year's loss, and their fortunes were closely correlated to the performance of tech stocks.
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#WealthGap #TechStocks #RichestPeople
A man with a giant tattoo of a carp jumping over a dragon is making a video of himself standing in the water, while his high school classmates smoke nearby. It also mentions China's economic struggles and how the population's growing enthusiasm for being beside the seaside points to changing relationships between state and society in China over the past 70 years.
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#ManWithGiantTattoo #ClassmatesSmoking #ChinaEconomicStruggles #StateAndSocietyRelationships