A "brief" recapitulation of monthly events/turmoil in 2020 :-

⚠ LONG THREAD

JANUARY
-US airstrike killed one of the most important leader of Iran, Gen.Qassem Soleimani
-Philippines Taal Volcano eruption
-Trump impeachment inquiry
-Iranian military by mistake downed a Ukraine plane killing all 176 on board
FEBRUARY
-Anti CAA riots in India
-Namaste trump event
-Coronavirus Spreading
-UK leaves Brexit
-US confirmed killing of Yemen AlQaeda Leader
-US-Taliban sign peace agreement (withdrawal of American Soldiers from Afghanistan, releasing prisoners)
MARCH
-India becomes observer of Indian Ocean Commission
-Finland topped the World Happiness Report
-Olympics Postponed
-Former CJI nominated in Rajya Sabha
-Syrian strikes kill Turkish soldiers
-Migrant exodus struck India
APRIL
-India supplies HCQ and paracetamol worldwide
-Hole opened up in Ozone layer in Arctic got closed
-Global surge in violence against women due to lockdowns
-Oil prices hit negative
-KimJongUn "dead or alive"
MAY
-Self reliant India initiative
-Nepal unveils new political map
-Indian Health Minister to be Chairman of WHO executive Board
-HongKong protests on National Security Law approved by China
-Locust attack
-Gas leak at Vizag
-Protests in Chile and Slovenia
-Misdirected Iranian missile killed 19 at Gulf of Oman

JUNE
-BLM protests
-Protest in Lebanon
-Boko Haram attacks Nigeria
-Attack at Pak Stock Exchange
-India elected non permanent member of UNSC
-Oil spill in Russia's arctic region
-Decline in ice cover in Arctic sea
-Pakistan remains on grey list (FATF)
-Yemen Humanitarian Crisis
-India China Border standoff
-SpaceX becomes 1st private company to send humans in space

JULY
-UAE launches Mars Mission
-Hagia Sophia converted to Mosque
-Indian Cabinet approves National Education Policy
AUGUST
-Explosion in Beirut
-Lebanon PM resign
-Protest in Belarus and Mali
-Flood in Assam and Bihar
-Oil Spill in Mauritius
-Japan PM resigns
-Foundation stone of historic Ram Mandir laid by Indian PM
-Bengaluru Riots
-Sweden Riots
-Norway Riots
-UAE Israel normalize relations
SEPTEMBER
-Libyan PM resigns
-Lebanon designate PM resigns
-Kesavannada Bharti Passed away
-Intra Afghan Peace talks in Doha
-India joined Djibouti Code of Conduct/Jeddah Amendment (DCOC/JA) as an observer
OCTOBER
-Protest in Thailand and Kyrgyzstan
-Israel Sudan Normalize relations
-Protest in Poland
-Nobel Peace Prize distribution
-Armenia Azerbaijan Conflict
-India US sign defence agreement
-Pakistan re elected in UNHRC
-France knife attack
-UN 75th anniversary
NOVEMBER
-Vienna Attack
-Ethiopia-Tigray tension
-Pakistan grants provincial status to Gilgit Baltistan
-Indian PM inaugurated world's longest highway tunnel
-Joe Biden becomes the President of US
-Quad formed to counter china
-Cyclones and Earthquakes
DECEMBER
-Great conjunction
-Protest in Peru
-Israel Morocco normalize relations
-Forgot pandemic but vaccine approved
-Boko haram insurgency
-Indian farmers protest
-Attacks in Afghanistan by Taliban and loss of lives (every month)
-Attacks in Middle east continue(every month)

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"MLs" do support the proletariat of Xinjiang & have the whole time. People like @Tursunali_7 & @GulnarNorthwest (and many others) who show the world the real Xinjiang via their everyday videos.

Shopkeepers like in this video below say

"Pompeo, we Xinjiang people hate you."


Or everyday working people like Zaynura Namatqari, who speak out against vicious & disgusting US lies and accusations about


.@qiaocollective have a brilliant thread of everyday proletarian Uyghurs speaking out against the harassment they face from the US and their paid


'Uyghur proletariat' looks like this:


Not like this: (photo from a pro Islamist separatist protest in Turkey in 2017)

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Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)

It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.

Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".