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November 8, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. To be fair to Russia, it is one of the quickest in the world to release its total death data. It is less good about reporting deaths as attributable to Covid19. (See Russia: The nation with half a million secret Covid-19 deaths, NZ Herald, 8 Nov 2021.) Based on the data ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Russia is First Equal for Covid Deaths per capita" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-russia-is-first-equal-for-covid-deaths-per-capita/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Russia is First Equal for Covid Deaths per capita">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2021
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss two issues: the evolution of new generation attack drones; and the COP26 meeting in Glasgow this week. Specifically, Buchanan and Manning unpack: Whether Geopolitics has railroaded a broad-based consensus of climate interventionism; Why Russia and China abandoned the Cop26 multilateral forum?
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November 4, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The global influenza epidemic of late 2016 to early 2018 was a pandemic in all but name. For the United States, see The Perfect Storm Behind This Year’s Nasty Flu Season, The Atlantic 14 Jan 2018; and Last year’s flu broke records for deaths and illnesses new CDC numbers show,Washington Post, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Influenza: Global Epidemic 2017 versus the Flu Season of 2019/20" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/keith-rankin-analysis-influenza-global-epidemic-2017-versus-the-flu-season-of-2019-20/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Influenza: Global Epidemic 2017 versus the Flu Season of 2019/20">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss two issues: the evolution of new generation attack drones; and the COP26 meeting in Glasgow this week. Specifically, Buchanan and Manning will unpack: Whether Geopolitics has railroaded a broad-based consensus of climate interventionism. Why Russia and China abandoned the Cop26 multilateral forum?
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November 2, 2021
Influenza et.al.; charting normal to see Covid19 in context Analysis by Keith Rankin. So much of our analysis of the public health impact of Covid19 has been taken out of context. The officially reported case data are incomplete, and take little account of how these health impacts deviate from normal, or even what ‘normal’ is. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Influenza context for covid deaths in selected countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-influenza-context-for-covid-deaths-in-selected-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Influenza context for covid deaths in selected countries">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The first chart shows excess deaths in Germany for every year from 2015. (The chart is essentially the one that can be found here, on the Our World in Data website, though it uses three-period moving averages to smooth out some of the ‘random noise’ that inevitably accompanies such time-series data. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 deaths, the German case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/30/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-deaths-the-german-case/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 deaths, the German case">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT by Selwyn Manning. This week, on October 27 to 28 Julian Assange appeared before a United Kingdom court defending himself against an appeal that, if successful, would see him extradited to the United States of America to face a raft of indictments that ultimately could see him spend the rest of his life ... <a title="SPECIAL REPORT: Assumptions Vs Facts – How the Assange Case Confronts Our Biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/29/special-report-assumptions-vs-facts-how-the-assange-case-confronts-us-all/" aria-label="Read more about SPECIAL REPORT: Assumptions Vs Facts – How the Assange Case Confronts Our Biases">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2021
Op-Ed by António Guterres, UN Secretary-General. The climate crisis is a code red for humanity. World leaders will soon be put to the test at the UN Climate Conference — known as COP26 — in Glasgow. Their actions — or inactions — will show their seriousness about addressing this planetary emergency. The warning signs are hard ... <a title="Op-Ed: The Glasgow Climate Test by António Guterres UN Secretary-General" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/29/op-ed-the-glasgow-climate-test-by-antonio-guterres-un-secretary-general/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: The Glasgow Climate Test by António Guterres UN Secretary-General">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2021
Analysis Keith Rankin. In its pandemic response, the New Zealand government has consistently been tardy, and then found itself playing catch-up, having to ‘go hard’ (indeed a ‘world-leading’ hardest) on account of its lack of preparedness. Further, having gone hard, there has always been an ambivalence about when the emergency period is over; an unwillingness ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19: Revaccinate Now, and address Influenza too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/28/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-revaccinate-now-and-address-influenza-too/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19: Revaccinate Now, and address Influenza too">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These charts are of the type that I have published approximately monthly. Last time, three weeks ago, the key covid places were clearly the Caribbean and the Balkans. This time, while these two regions are important pandemic sites, there is clearly a new outbreak beginning in the European Union, starting from ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Latest Outbreaks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/27/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-latest-outbreaks/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Latest Outbreaks">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart of New Zealand weekly deaths since 2015 clearly shows the impact of winter influenzas and pneumonias on the mortality landscape of New Zealand. 2017 was a particularly bad year, with a substantially increased mortality in July of that year. 2016 was a particularly good year for mortality in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 and its impact so far on New Zealand Mortality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-and-its-impact-so-far-on-new-zealand-mortality/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 and its impact so far on New Zealand Mortality">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how supply-chain bottlenecks, a global economic reset, and post-pandemic security are about to trigger a new era in geo-economics. Wherever you are around the world, if you haven’t yet experienced the impact of supply-chain pressures, then you soon will.
