#POLITICAL

Uganda's election is on 14 Jan. To mark the occasion, here are a few @Reuters clips from Yoweri Museveni's long political career.Museveni was sworn in as president on 29 Jan.
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Because an important part of my job here is demonstrating in public that the emperor has no clothes and you are this morning's teaching example.Maybe don't run up to strangers
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- An IAF veteran, whose TL is littered with explicit Hindu-phobic tweets, gets sacked by an airline, and we've some veterans, and @VishnuNDTV, talking about ethos, his previous service record
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In 2016, France allowed the first ever mural to be painted below the Eiffel Tower.This is the artist they chose to paint it: And this is the hideous mural itself:
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Seen all those pix of Jupiter from last night showing three or four of its moons? Yeah, it actually has more. A lot more. A LOT lot more.A new paper
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1/ We are in a crisis: pandemic, racist violence, political uncertainty, cultural clashes, economic downturn. All this is exposing fragility of our lives and calls our way of life as
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The bleating about the Erasmus scheme, which 95% of the population won't have heard of and wouldn't have cared about if they had heard of, is hilarious. A free holiday
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I can't believe the "sceptical" noises are already starting about the SPI-M long-term scenarios. How we respond to these and how they are presented is a political choice, but they
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As a pre-modern specialist, I think it's important to add that "population" has never been a neutral or indeed even a purely quantitative concept. (Not that quantification entails neutrality or
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It's odd that people anthropomorphize political parties & see them as having values and emotions. It's like saying the Coca-Cola corporation has feelings. In practice, parties are transactional machines --
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People saying only white Latinos voted for Trump also don’t know how far conspiracy theories have gone, Q and right-wing fake news are also abound in Latin America. In DR
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Reflecting on Johnson it occurs to me he has never been successful in normal terms. He has only been successful through deception.His is a story of failure made, through smoke
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One reason for the constant focus on children as a significant transmission risk for #COVID19 is scientists/political groups trying to convince those who are dismissive, or believe children cannot transmit
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"And as the noted historian, C. Vann Woodward, in his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, clearly points out, the segregation of the races was really a political stratagem
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If you’re smarter than a 5th grader, you realize that the radical Left is trying to brainwash the world into believing January 6th was similar to 9/11 or Pearl Harbor.
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1. Least important news: I am back on Twitter, sad for my city Beirut for the horrific blast and for my country Lebanon for the existential crisis it is going
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