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Commentary: Beating COVID-19 will be harder if governments are trying to win a popularity contest 2020 has been a brutal year of lessons regarding good governance. A look at why some low-income countries thrived should spark rethinking on the parts of advanced nations like the US and UK, says Ngaire Woods.
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OXFORD: COVID-19 has offered some tough but useful lessons about governance.
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TikTok routes job applicants personal data through China, but doesn t always tell people, Business Insider reported this week.
US and UK lawmakers tell us the revelation is concerning, with one planning to confront TikTok about it on Friday. There is no reason Americans should subject themselves and their personal information to that risk, said a spokesperson for US senator Rick Scott.
The issue raises many questions about every other piece of data shared with them, said Tom Tugendhat MP.
TikTok has said it will halt sending applicant data to China, and said again that it does not store app user data in China.
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The most tarnished legacy of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be his introduction to U.S. foreign policy the racist dogma of the Christian Reconstructionist/Dominionist Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which, along with its sister Presbyterian denominations – the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC) and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) – are rife with warnings of a “yellow peril” endangering Western Christian “civilization.” This racialist dogma was proffered by the leading fanatic Presbyterian Orthodox Reconstructionist theologian, Rousas John (R.J.) Rushdoony. A founder of the far-right Chalcedon Foundation, a proponent of Christian Dominionism, Rushdoony and fundamentalist Presbyterian disciples like Pompeo argue that, as stated by Rushdoony, “all non-Christian knowledge is sinful, invalid nonsense. The only valid knowledge that non-Christians possess is ‘stolen’ from ‘Christian-theistic’ sourc