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The first chart shows all countries and territories. The little places – many islands (ie with natural moats) – get their chance to compete with the big 'guys'. There has never been evidence that islands are somehow safer from Covid19 than countries with land borders.
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Omicron, NZ border, MIQ, Govt management of Covid-19 Thomas Coughlan (Herald): The border will ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 23 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-23-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 23 2021">Read more</a>
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Omicron, NZ border changes, MIQ Henry Cooke (Stuff): New Zealand decides to keep ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 22 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-22-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 22 2021">Read more</a>
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content 2021 reviews, 2022 predictions, Parliament, parties Spinoff: NZ politics in 2021: We pick the ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 21 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-21-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 21 2021">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Public policy has a number of biases. One is that certain real or alleged emergencies require (or seem to require) an urgent policy intervention. The result is a consortium of elected politicians, bureaucrat officials, and expert technocrats get on board, and assume a drivers’ role in a society which would otherwise ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Visualising a Way out of the Pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/keith-rankin-analysis-visualising-a-way-out-of-the-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Visualising a Way out of the Pandemic">Read more</a>
While the Omicron strain of Covid19 was first sequenced in South Africa, it was found independently in the Netherlands in November. So, while Netherlands was one of the European countries which caught the latest sudden European wave (mainly featuring Delta), most likely the Omicron strain was already spreading there; indeed the main constraint on the growth of Omicron in Netherlands was probably Delta.
Taxation is the mechanism for redistribution of wealth to combat inequality and for redirecting resources to build a society. But our current tax principles though largely hidden or not understood by ordinary people, lie at the root of all our current inequality and struggling economy. Struggling at least for ordinary people. This article shows our current tax principles are central to our economic problems. Understand and fix tax and we are on a path to greater economic security and wealth for all, a ‘citizens economy’.
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content 2021 reviews, 2022 predictions, Parliament, parties Luke Malpass (Stuff): ‘Tis the season for ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 20 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-20-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 20 2021">Read more</a>
How to stop ‘the normal principles of taxation’ destroying our economy and begin changes to create a citizen economy (Part A) EDITOR’S NOTE: Taxation is the mechanism for redistribution of wealth to combat inequality and for redirecting resources to build a society. But our current tax principles though largely hidden or not understood by ordinary ... <a title="LONG-FORM REPORT: Creating the citizen economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/18/long-form-report-creating-the-citizen-economy/" aria-label="Read more about LONG-FORM REPORT: Creating the citizen economy">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Sweden Re Covid19, Sweden remains the enigma country that almost nobody wants to talk about, because the Swedish scientists may have been correct all along (although the Swedish bureaucrats certainly had significant shortcomings in the early months of the pandemic). The first chart shows five waves of covid in Sweden. The ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Scandinavia, Poland and Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-scandinavia-poland-and-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Scandinavia, Poland and Australia">Read more</a>
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Parliament, parties, polling Richard Harman (Politik): Delta’s big victim; Jacinda Ardern and her ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-17-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2021">Read more</a>
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Govt finances, economy, govt subsidies Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Two political fault lines ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 16 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-16-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 16 2021">Read more</a>