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March 26, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin Hungary has now taken over from its neighbour, the Czech Republic, as the world’s most covid-fatal country in the most recent week. The top seven countries are in Eastern Europe, as is the ninth country (Poland); plenty of others from the region also feature. Only Brazil, scoring much higher than in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Victims of the latest wave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-victims-of-the-latest-wave/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Victims of the latest wave">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. “If the nations of the world fail to honour the pledges they made in Paris, the climate could return to Pliocene conditions when okapi-like creatures and giant vipers thrived in Europe. … Ernst Haeckel’s name for our Neanderthal ancestors, homo stupidus, may yet have some validity – for us.” Tim Flannery, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Homo Stupidus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/23/keith-rankin-essay-homo-stupidus/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Homo Stupidus?">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Italy and Spain were the first major European entry points for Covid19. The pandemic appears to have spread to the rest of the Europe mainly from Italy, and to the rest of the world from Europe. Most of the world’s first dramatic news pictures of hospital wards and burial caskets came ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: A New Wave?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-a-new-wave/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: A New Wave?">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. “What psychologists call apophenia – the human tendency to see connections and patterns that are not really there – gives rise to conspiracy theories”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apophenia The Gordon Riots “June 1780 [witnessed] the worst mob riots of the eighteenth century. Lord George Gordon was a born incendiary of extreme, almost insane, views. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Apophenia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/keith-rankin-essay-apophenia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Apophenia">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. “… a future where certain people think of people as being of value for what they can provide to the dominant class” Jessie Mulligan, ‘Afternoons’ on RNZ (9 March 2021), quoted from “Book Critic” (8:00′) Historical Background Societies split into two strata following the post ice age (Neolithic) agricultural revolution. The ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – The International Labour System" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/keith-rankin-essay-the-international-labour-system/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – The International Labour System">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. On Friday at 6am I woke up in Covid Level 3 Auckland to news of a big earthquake around 100km east of East Cape, at about 2:30am. While many people in Auckland had apparently felt it, many more had uninterrupted sleep. Descriptions on Radio New Zealand’s Morning Reportsuggested that this was ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Friday’s Tsunami Messaging: Why Not Tauranga and Auckland?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/keith-rankin-essay-fridays-tsunami-messaging-why-not-tauranga-and-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Friday’s Tsunami Messaging: Why Not Tauranga and Auckland?">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. At first glance through our rear-vision mirror, western Europe had a substantial spring outbreak of Covid19, and further outbreaks in spring and autumn. Three countries really ‘spiked’ in the northern winter: United Kingdom, Portugal and Ireland. This was the impact of the “more transmissible” ‘UK variant’. While the other countries shown ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Europe still a matter of concern, one year on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-europe-still-a-matter-of-concern-one-year-on/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Europe still a matter of concern, one year on">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. I’m a neanderthal man You’re not a neanderthal girl Let’s make hybrid love In this neanderthal world [with apologies to Hotlegs, 1970] Homo Stupidus? After my partner read Dan Salmon’s novel Neands – written during lockdown in 2020 – I decided to renew my interest in our distant ancestry, in part ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Our Neanderthal Ancestry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/03/keith-rankin-essay-our-neanderthal-ancestry/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Our Neanderthal Ancestry">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2021
Analysis – Keith Rankin. It is not poor countries with poor access to vaccines that are getting the most new cases. But there are a number of very small countries in the Caribbean Sea and the Indian Ocean which are or were European colonial dependencies, and are very exposed to European covid spreaders. San Marino and ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Where are the New Cases now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/24/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-where-are-the-new-cases-now/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Where are the New Cases now?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin.
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February 15, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. Last Thursday I walked the Tongariro (Alpine) Crossing with my partner. Actually, it was my third time, having also enjoyed that beautiful volcanic walk in 1979 and 1990. This was my first time with a mobile phone in my pocket. My phone assured me that the 19½ kilometre walk took me ... <a title="Keith Rankin on taking 39,000 Steps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/15/keith-rankin-on-taking-39000-steps/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on taking 39,000 Steps">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Before noting the role of Czechia – the Czech Republic – in the most lethal wave of the Covid19 pandemic in Europe, we should note the tragic recent circumstance of Portugal. In the first chart above, we see that Portugal, a country that in April performed very well compared to its neighbours, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Czechia may be the key to Europe’s most lethal wave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-czechia-may-be-the-key-to-europes-most-lethal-wave/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Czechia may be the key to Europe’s most lethal wave">Read more</a>
