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March 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Horvath, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Many commentators have already debunked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s absurd claim to be waging war to “de-nazify” Ukraine. Some have pointed out the far right received only 2% of the vote in Ukraine’s 2019 parliamentary elections, far ... <a title="Putin’s fascists: the Russian state’s long history of cultivating homegrown neo-Nazis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/22/putins-fascists-the-russian-states-long-history-of-cultivating-homegrown-neo-nazis-178535/" aria-label="Read more about Putin’s fascists: the Russian state’s long history of cultivating homegrown neo-Nazis">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In a few countries – already noted – there has been a recent rise in deaths that may be due to omicron-covid. In many other countries there has not been a notable rise in excess deaths, despite rises in recorded deaths with Covid19. Chile Chile’s omicron-wave of covid looks more like ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Ages of People Dying in excess numbers during the Omicron Wave of Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-ages-of-people-dying-in-excess-numbers-during-the-omicron-wave-of-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Ages of People Dying in excess numbers during the Omicron Wave of Covid19">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning unpack why the west has been losing a strategic deterrence advantage against Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin, but equally how this may be about to change.
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March 16, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The big new story in the news cycle – in New Zealand but not only in New Zealand – is the rising ‘cost of living’, which is usually conflated with ‘inflation’. These topics – together and separately – are, like Covid19, devolved to ‘social science’ (macroeconomist in this case) ‘experts’; within ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Rising ‘Cost of Living’ and Inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/16/keith-rankin-essay-rising-cost-of-living-and-inflation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Rising ‘Cost of Living’ and Inflation">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. One of the important indicators of a society’s living standards is the ability of its people to stay alive. Covid19 is seen as a problem mainly because, like the road toll, it represents a cause of death that has the potential to reduce that society’s life expectancy. Deaths averted may indeed ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – New Zealand Mortality before and during Covid Times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/15/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-new-zealand-mortality-before-and-during-covid-times/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – New Zealand Mortality before and during Covid Times">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In the present conflict that has huge potential to escalate into a global catastrophe, it is appropriate to impose the highest level of opprobrium on Russia’s present military agenda, and on Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. However, that does not excuse us from the need to critique problematic behaviour by other ‘actors’, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Asymmetry in International Politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/14/keith-rankin-essay-territorial-asymmetry-in-international-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Asymmetry in International Politics">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This summary, of reported cases of people testing positive for Covid19, and deaths recorded of people with Covid19, is the first to include New Zealand. Reported Positive Cases: All Countries (except Turkmenistan and North Korea) Most countries in this list are experiencing a covid-omicron wave of cases, but have relatively few ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: First Week of March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/10/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-first-week-of-march/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: First Week of March">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2022
In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep dive into the big picture that hangs over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That big picture has many aspects to it, and as such any resolution to the atrocities being committed in Ukraine will likely be weighed against what is a challenge to the International law and rules-based order.
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March 9, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The war in Ukraine possibly represents the most dangerous episode in the history of humanity in historical times; especially but not only because it comes on top of two other overt global crises – climate change and pandemic – and another less overt global crisis, the slow implosion of the international ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Russia and Ukraine – Fighting an Unclear War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/09/keith-rankin-on-russia-and-ukraine-fighting-an-unclear-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Russia and Ukraine – Fighting an Unclear War">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These five charts look at five countries for which excess death information is available. First, it is important to note that I am presenting a different definition of excess deaths than other sources, in that these charts include seasonal excess deaths arising from triggers other than Covid19. Switzerland, the Optimistic Note ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-four-problems-and-one-not/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University As Russia’s attempt to intimidate Ukraine and, presumably, install a puppet regime stumbles into its second week, it is clear the Kremlin has miscalculated on several fronts. Ukrainian resistance is proving more resilient than anticipated, and a global response, led ... <a title="Has Xi Jinping miscalculated in aligning himself with Vladimir Putin?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/has-xi-jinping-miscalculated-in-aligning-himself-with-vladimir-putin-178308/" aria-label="Read more about Has Xi Jinping miscalculated in aligning himself with Vladimir Putin?">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. I watched the very short movie Forgive Us Our Trespasses on Netflix today (Saturday, March 05). Set in Germany in the 1930s, it starts with a schoolteacher giving an arithmetic lesson to a class of children. The question posed was that the cost of caring for a disabled child was 12.00 ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Immigration New Zealand Cancelling Disabled Children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/05/keith-rankin-on-immigration-new-zealand-cancelling-disabled-children/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Immigration New Zealand Cancelling Disabled Children">Read more</a>
