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May 13, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Modern ‘western’ governments are known as ‘liberal democracies’. While each political party in a liberal democracy has a ‘policy agenda’ which it would like to implement, only single-party governments have a realistic opportunity to fully implement their agenda; and they typically need multiple terms of single party (or near single party) ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Liberal Democracy in the new neonationalist era: The Three ‘O’s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/13/keith-rankin-essay-liberal-democracy-in-the-new-neonationalist-era-the-three-os/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Liberal Democracy in the new neonationalist era: The Three ‘O’s">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning bring you a programme in three parts. First a roundup of Putin’s V-Day speech; they then evaluate a raft of election results that have occurred around the world; and then deep dive into the PRC-Solomons security deal.
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May 6, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The countries shown here have rates of Covid19 mortality comparable with each other, and – with one exception – have recent ‘excess deaths’ data. We should note that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has just released its world Covid19 mortality estimates for the pandemic so far, suggesting a death toll ‘from’ ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths from March 2021 in Comparable Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/06/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-deaths-from-march-2021-in-comparable-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths from March 2021 in Comparable Countries">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. There is more than one useful perspective on the present Russian war in Ukraine. None of these put the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin’s Russian war machine in anything other than an egregious light; Mr Putin is a geopolitical warrior of the worst order. He believes that he is waging a war ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Secession tribulations, and the United States’ Civil War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/04/keith-rankin-essay-secession-tribulations-and-the-united-states-civil-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Secession tribulations, and the United States’ Civil War">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The new (though not unfamiliar to older New Zealanders) crisis of 2022 (and most likely beyond) has become, alternatively, a ‘cost of living’ or an ‘inflation’ crisis. The public discussion treats these two ‘enemies of the people’ as one and the same thing. But they are not. Indeed such conflation is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Problem of Price Increases: ‘Cost of Living’ versus ‘Inflation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/21/keith-rankin-essay-problem-of-price-increases-cost-of-living-versus-inflation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Problem of Price Increases: ‘Cost of Living’ versus ‘Inflation’">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss how numerous countries have committed aid, intelligence expertise, military hardware and weapons to a multilateral effort in support of Ukraine.
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April 13, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These charts show reported cases and deaths for the week ending 10 April. We have now reached a stage where the world has largely moved on from the Covid19 pandemic, so ‘official’ recording is far from the diligent process that existed for most of the last two years. Throughout the pandemic, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: ‘Official’ Cases and Deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/13/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-official-cases-and-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: ‘Official’ Cases and Deaths">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. Earlier this week the final report from the IPCC (press release) on climate change was released. While it indicates that it is still technically possible to limit global warming to 1½ degrees; such an outcome is both unlikely and may require more than lots of trees to pull excess carbon from ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Global Warming: Considering the Lesser Evils" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/07/keith-rankin-essay-global-warming-considering-the-lesser-evils/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Global Warming: Considering the Lesser Evils">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2022
In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how it is now clear atrocities committed against Ukrainian civilians is widespread, appears systematic, and may be coldly planned by Russian leaders as troops withdraw toward the east. But can justice be achieved?
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April 6, 2022
RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand’s Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield — the man who has tirelessly steered the country’s covid-19 pandemic response for the past two years — is stepping down from his role at the end of July. Public Service Commissioner Peter Hughes revealed Dr Bloomfield’s decision in a statement today. Dr Bloomfield ... <a title="NZ’s Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield to step down from role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/06/nzs-director-general-of-health-ashley-bloomfield-to-step-down-from-role/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield to step down from role">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how New Zealand and other nations are providing intelligence expertise in the defence of Ukraine. But are the SIGINT and TECHINT operations a part of the NATO partnership, or, a part of the Five Eyes intelligence network's operations - where the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand share resources to acquire and coordinate global and targeted intelligence?
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March 30, 2022
By Robert Iroga in Honiara Fourteen officers of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) have completed the first public order management (POM) training conducted by Chinese instructors. During the two week course, the Police Response Team (PRT) and Operational Safety Training (OST) officers were trained in unarmed combat skills, advanced use of long sticks, ... <a title="Solomon Islands police complete combat drill with Chinese trainers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/30/solomon-islands-police-complete-combat-drill-with-chinese-trainers/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands police complete combat drill with Chinese trainers">Read more</a>
