What Actually Mattered This Week: California Reels from Back-to-Back Mass Shootings
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WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERED THIS WEEK
In less than 48 hours, 18 people were killed in two different mass shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, California.
While California mourns, there’s important context to add: there have already been 41 mass shootings in the United States this year, according to the gun violence archive.
Unfortunately, there’s still no policy solution in sight.
In a policy shift following a diplomatic impasse for both countries, Biden and Scholz agreed to send their respective Abrams and Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
President Zelenskyy welcomed the reversal as “an important step on the path to victory.”
However, these tanks won’t be battlefield ready anytime soon.
This is the correct decision, especially since many foreign leaders have remained on the platform despite far greater transgressions.
But it’s deeply uncomfortable that the decision to remove/return a US president is arbitrarily made by a single person.
The world faces tremendous problems in 2023.
But I promise it’s not all doom and gloom.
TRUTHS, DAMNED TRUTHS, AND STATISTICS
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THE GZERO WORLD WE’RE JUST LIVING IN
GRAPHIC TRUTH
Chinese century? Try again.
YOUR GZERO WORLD
After two years, we returned to Davos, braving the Swiss mountain cold for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.?
The 2023 WEF is all about "polycrisis," which in WEF-speak means many crises all at once, which compound each other, like tangled knots. But how do you untangle those knots?
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That's a question that the world's business and political elite is struggling with at a time when the globalization they adore is being questioned by the developing world.
On GZERO World, I speak to former Finnish PM Alexander Stubb in Davos. Stubb analyzes why Crimea is crucial for Ukraine to win the war against Russia and why Finland views its eastern neighbor with suspicion.
Ian also interviews Volker Türk, the UN's high commissioner for human rights, who (for a UN official) is surprisingly candid about the Security Council's track record so far on Ukraine.
For a longer, wider-ranging version of my interview with Stubb and Türk, check out the GZERO World podcast .
WORLD IN 60 SECONDS
Will resignations and a political shake-up in Ukraine negatively affect its war efforts?
How will Kevin McCarthy's planned visit to Taiwan further escalate tensions with China?
Pipe dream or real possibility: a common South American currency?
Find out in this week’s World in 60 Seconds!
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BECAUSE THE INTERNET
Damn, Australia...
WHAT TO READ THIS WEEK
The market for spy thrillers is plenty saturated. What makes Amy B. Zegart’s “Spies, Lies, and Algorithms” stand out from the crowd? Her skillful guidance for readers on how to delineate between fact and fiction – with prose that’s easily digestible for experts and novices alike. Weaving anecdotes from hundreds of intelligence officials and expert historical analysis, "Spies, Lies, and Algorithms" is a riveting telling of the past, present, and future of American espionage. In a wide-ranging history from the American Revolution through the AI revolution, she presents a telling analysis of how new technologies are empowering our enemies…and a sober prediction of what’s to come.
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DEEP THOUGHTS
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” ―Shonda Rhimes
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Chief Executive Officer at Drive By Agony/Stop the Violence
5 个月JUST SAD, and as a victim of many crimes, I know arguing, and having issues over GUNS only fuels funding for those that think it so important, while the innocent BLOOD of victims continues to grow, and expand. We are the ones being USED in this war on Violence in AMERICA, on AMERICAN SOIL.
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1 年Howvmake comfortable save with a gun????
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1 年Is America becomes country of terrorist minded people ? If we look at this figure 39 in first month of 2023 it is somewhat near to attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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1 年Thanks for sharing the news from around the world. Were we better off anytime in the past than we are now? From a thousand feet above the earth, how does it all play out? Chaotic, milling. Nevertheless, the technological innovations are making people's lives more comfortable. But as humans we are ever more lacking in our essential character of being humans, aren't we?