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Michael Olsen
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Communications and media, markets, government, good policy/bad, human economics, technology, politics, triathlon, cycling. My own views, natch
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"We don't ask you to resist evil instead of us. We ask you to stop feeding evil [with images of a gas pump and oil wells]." Posted today by Ukraine's president as Europe considers the previously unthinkable: an embargo on Russian oil. Fair warning -- very graphic images here.
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Mariupol 6 weeks ago vs. Now. This was a city full of Russian-speaking people. The very type of people Putin claimed he was interested in protecting from "Nazis". Now Russian bombs have decimated the city. Killed thousands.
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Interesting and thoughtful thread.
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How to sabotage Russian war efforts? There are ways to sabotage Russian war capacities by focusing on its three major bottlenecks: demographic, economic & institutional. Let's start with demography. Russian started this war suffering from the shortage of young draftable males🧵
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President Zelensky shows the United States Congress a video of his nation being destroyed by Vladimir Putin's forces, and tells America: "Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace."
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This is so shocking; everyone should read it and know and never forget it.
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"Death is everywhere." Two @AP journalists have been the only international media present in Mariupol since the war began. This is their dispatch: apnews.com/article/russia
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Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who ran onto a live state TV news broadcast, even recorded a message beforehand. In it, she says her father is Ukrainian. She calls for anti-war protests, says she’s ashamed about working for Kremlin propaganda, and she denounces the war absolutely.
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Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko tells he needs Patriot style missiles and Ukraine will “close the skies” over Ukraine itself. Mayor Klitschko, a heavy weight boxing champ, says he will fight and laughs at suggestion that Russia will kidnap him. Amazing interview.
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From the bottom of our heart and the center of Europe: we need YOUR support 🇺🇦 Act now, find ways how to in my Bio ⬆ 🔗 #SaveUkraine #Kyiv #StopPutinsWar #Standtogether #Ukraine #FreeUkraine #WeAreAllUkrainians #StandWithUkraine #StopTheWar #StopWar #SupportUkraine
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This article does NOT do justice to the story. He hit a guy, left the scene, and claimed he didn’t know he hit a man. But the mans face was in his windshield and his glasses were found in the attorney generals car.
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South Dakota’s attorney general has pleaded no contest to a pair of misdemeanor charges in the death of a pedestrian last year. Jason Ravnsborg entered the pleas to charges of making an illegal lane change and using a phone while driving. apne.ws/V66vxVW
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"I think it is time where God is separating the sheep from the goats....I'm a goat. Because I am not a sheep. I'm not doing what they tell me to do. I'm fighting against it (the vaccine)." In Alabama -- the state with the lowest vaccination rate in the nation. w/
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we are losing against covid for now.. that's what's got everyone so jittery.. Locally its just AMC and GME and Tether again...And way too many deals and too much margin..
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Tokyo 2020 sponsor Toyota pulls Olympics TV ads and neither the carmaker’s president nor other top executives will be attending the opening ceremony later this week. nbcnews.to/3kyMk00
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