Former teacher, journalist, business communicator. Writing stuff.
Buus, Switzerland
Joined April 2010
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Shit happens. At this level, with the what passes for intellectual commentary, only in Germany.
He Smeared Feces on a Critic, and Lost a Job. Now, He Wants to Be Heard. nyti.ms/3jXOpon
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It's a mad world, bonking mad.
Inclusive or Alienating? The Language Wars Go On nyti.ms/3wSySbW
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Bjorn Edlund retweeted
Kenneth Williams telling *that* story about Bertrand Russell and the taxi driver
A sad report of things the way they are.
A Decade of Failed Efforts to Protect Journalists in Latin America
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Devastatingly clear. Trump attempted a coup d'etat.
June 9, 2022 heathercoxrichardson.substac…
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This is how the coup attempt on Jan 6, 2020, was engineered by POTUS 45 and his henchmen.
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No shit. Terrible.
CPJ: ‘Putin has plunged Russia into an information dark age’: mailchi.mp/cpj/cpj-putin-has…
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Wise words. A warning to be heeded.
Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opini…
A chilling reminder of how little it would have taken to push the USA into totalitarianism. Let's hope this parliamentarian roll-up doesn't get stuck in the DC quagmire.
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GATT was known in journalist circles as the General Agreement to Talk and Talk. There's hope, it seems, that WTO won't stand for We'll Talk it Over.
Today, 67 WTO-members, representing 90% of services trade, finalized & concluded the services domestic regulations negotiations in the #wto. Important step & sign that the WTO can deliver on trade negotiations.
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Giving Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize was like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain, said Leonard Cohen - himself a mighty peak.
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"Christmas party in the test center." A Neue Zürcher Zeitung cartoon displays rare silliness. The words "it's got to stink just a little" are a Coop slogan, and what Swiss Germans say about ripe cheese.
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Summers makes great points. Global corporate tax helps halt globalization's race to the bottom.
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Great insights and guidance from my friend @saliltripathi . He spoke at the Launch of Reporting Business and Human Rights – A Handbook | ihrb.org/news/salil-tripathi…
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I'm going to give Twitter a miss for a while. It's restful to open the door and see how the light shifts, and listen to and talk to people. And to read and think, on my own.
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Because I find her reflections worth reading, I just subscribed to Letters from an American heathercoxrichardson.substac…