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Very silly. This was still the go-to gold standard for reliable public data on air quality in Beijing when living there 3yrs ago. Can confirm begrudging acknowledgement of CCP types it boosted momentum to lift their act.

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President Trump has announced plans to sell US$5m “gold card” resident permits to foreigners. Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.

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Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. A baboon annointing you with gourd juice over an Elton John coronation hymn does.

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Tears falling as I blow out candles on a loaf of bread, butter and sprinkles, while wishing, hoping, to one day taste American cake

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Upcoming 'humor' in Berlin

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Shot: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/its-open-b... Chaser: 👇👇👇

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The FCPA was one of the great achievements of Jimmy Carter's presidency - which enabled, among other things, punishing Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB scandal

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The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index shows Australia has reversed its decade-long slide, ranking back in the top 10 least corrupt countries.

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Export the swamp

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"Corruption is an evolving global threat that does far more than undermine development – it is a key cause of declining democracy, instability and human rights violations." - François Valérian, Chair of Transparency International. Explore the results of the #CPI2024 ➡️ anticorru.pt/39b

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"Whoever wins (race for artificial general intelligence) has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process - Cute coda to DeepSeek story in FT on.ft.com/4jD3qWD

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! www.ft.com/content/2262...

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Eesh. The FDIC is somewhat essential to why the '08 financial crisis didn't result in our timeline turning into Grapes of Wrath meets Fury Road. Though ... could be good for mattressmen like the Pillow guy - money would be better 'invested' under the bed in any future run on the banks.

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Vogon alert.

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Massive away win for the little fella.

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Australia closing down its Consulate in Shenyang will not substantively change anything about its relationship with China. Source, me: I worked in that consulate. www-theaustralian-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.thea...

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Amongst everything passed by the Senate last night was world leading corporate tax transparency laws All big multinationals operating in Australia now must publish country-by-country data on the scale of activities, inc profits & tax, in high risk countries taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju... #auspol

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Pleased to also uninstall Threads - anodyne, and Mastodon - bewildering. I welcome the coming Bluesky bubble.

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Is World Press Photo of the year team on Bsky yet because I have this pic of Biden waving from the Beast at Rio G20 summit.

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Across the G20 countries, financial secrecy, complicit enablers & insufficient cooperation on cross-border cases facilitate the flow of dirty money. Yet, their leaders have been treating corruption as a low-priority problem. Now is the time: #G20TakeAction! ➡ See our campaign: anticorru.pt/36X

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Xi Jinping's motorcade about to hit Rio G20 summit - 'fans' waiting along the route with chinese and Brazilian flags, i asked when he was coming and most played dumb (one even pretended he wasn't waiting for Xi while holding a huge 🇨🇳), another: 'i dont know but we were told to wait until 6.30pm'

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#G20TakeAction: Yesterday, 48h before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, we filled Rio de Janeiro’s skies with giant dollar bills. Will this finally get leaders to pay attention? There’s more to come. We will release our campaign video on Monday, 18 Nov. Learn more ➡️ transparency.org/g20

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48h before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, @anticorruption.bsky.social filled Rio de Janeiro’s skies with giant dollar bills. Will G20 leaders finally get real on preventing dirty money from landing on their shores? 💸 transparency.org/g20

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Slim hope: There's a kind of insane brain melting charisma to Trump that thrives off symbiosis with edgelords. I'm still worried, but not as worried as I'd be if Dutton actually had the charisma to woo a Joe Rogan listener.

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This just in.

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If I were the richest man on earth, having my mom go on cable TV to talk about how cool and successful I am would cause me to disappear from public life forever. What a fucking dork.

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We're on the board skeeters.

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G20 Ministers responsible for anti-corruption met yesterday, with predictable but no less disappointing results - here's the @anticorruption.bsky.social statement to @g20org.bsky.social #G20TakeAction #G20Brazil www.transparency.org/en/press/g20...

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Aside from everything else: further evidence that Selina Meyers was always much more more realistic than Jed Bartlett www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/p...

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My vision is for every neo-fascist political front to be destroyed then permanently memorialized with delicious street-food from the nations they vilified in their nationalist fervors.

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Tugendhat's answer 💀

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Somewhere out there, looking up at the same moon and thinking of me, is a small mouse wearing the outfit of a Russian man

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Fwiw I didn't leave Twitter because of conservative Tweets: I left because its owned by a racist creep and half the posts were ads for crypto and whatever shit joe rogan sells on.ft.com/3B6Qwy7 @FT

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Oh my god

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A great write up from @catneilan.bsky.social in @tortoisemedia.bsky.social of our new report. We found £15 billion in COVID contracts that raised corruption red flags. The UK government should urgently act on the lessons learnt to prevent further harm. www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/09/09/1...

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Having worked in 东北 (old Manchuria) I occasionally asked locals about land ceded to Russia - responses generally boiled down to 'that's a problem for later', amid stanning of Putin the 牛人 (badass)

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Zakia Khudadadi, a Hazara girl, fled the Taliban and today made history by winning the first-ever Paralympic medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team with a bronze in Taekwondo. #Paralympic2024 #Paris2024 #Refugees

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