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Sweden distributes 'be prepared for war' leaflet to all 4.8m homes @guardian Law & Politics |
The Swedish government has begun sending all 4.8m of the country’s
households a public information leaflet telling the population, for
the first time in more than half a century, what to do in the event of
a war.
Om krisen eller kriget kommer (If crisis or war comes) explains how
people can secure basic needs such as food, water and heat, what
warning signals mean, where to find bomb shelters and how to
contribute to Sweden’s “total defence”.
The 20-page pamphlet, illustrated with pictures of sirens, warplanes
and families fleeing their homes, also prepares the population for
dangers such as cyber and terror attacks and climate change, and
includes a page on identifying fake news.
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05-DEC-2016:: "We have a deviate, Tomahawk." Law & Politics |
However, my starting point is the election of President Donald Trump
because hindsight will surely show that Russia ran a seriously
sophisticated programme of interference, mostly digital. Don DeLillo,
who is a prophetic 21st writer, writes as follows in one of his short
stories:
The specialist is monitoring data on his mission console when a voice
breaks in, “a voice that carried with it a strange and unspecifiable
poignancy”.
He checks in with his flight-dynamics and conceptual- paradigm
officers at Colorado Command:
“We have a deviate, Tomahawk.”
“We copy. There’s a voice.”
“We have gross oscillation here.”
“There’s some interference. I have gone redundant but I’m not sure
it’s helping.”
“We are clearing an outframe to locate source.”
“Thank you, Colorado.”
“It is probably just selective noise. You are negative red on the
step-function quad.”
“It was a voice,” I told them.
“We have just received an affirm on selective noise... We will
correct, Tomahawk. In the meantime, advise you to stay redundant.”
The voice, in contrast to Colorado’s metallic pidgin, is a melange of
repartee, laughter, and song, with a “quality of purest, sweetest
sadness”.
“Somehow we are picking up signals from radio programmes of 40, 50, 60
years ago.”
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Zimbabwe opens for business Euromoney Africa |
Now Mugabe is gone, one of the poorest nations in southern Africa can
see the first signs of interest from international investors, but a
chaotic currency regime, heavily indebted economy and looming
elections are turning initial euphoria into cautious optimism.
Delegates from all points of the planet begin filling the hotels and
eateries of the US capital for the annual World Bank and IMF gabfests.
Patrick Chinamasa, well into his fifth year as Zimbabwe’s finance
minister, is among them. These meetings have tended to be tricky for
Zimbabwe since it defaulted on billions owed to the World Bank and IMF
in 1999. Now officially in hock to its lenders to the tune of nearly
$12 billion – a level of indebtedness approaching the country’s GDP –
Zimbabwe has generally been confined to the multilaterals’ naughty
corner, a pariah for most mainstream lenders.
“Zimbabwe’s open for business, man!” declares John Mangudya, the
hail-fellow-well-met governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, as he
leans into a handshake with Euromoney’s reporter. “This is the new
Zimbabwe. I’m happy that there’s a change of administration. We missed
the opportunity. This is our second chance.”
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Blockchain technology is being used for micro-lending in the early disruption of Kenya's agribusiness Kenyan Economy |
In many emerging markets, food retailers along with smallholder
farmers, struggle to secure loans and develop a credit history. And
without the proper financing, many of them fail to scale their
businesses. To tackle this, IBM has been working with the Kenya-based
food logistics startup Twiga Foods to facilitate micro-lending options
for food vendors.
Twiga Foods operates a mobile-based business-to-business supply
platform for retail outlets and stalls. After analyzing these purchase
records from mobile devices, IBM researchers determine
creditworthiness, after which they use blockchain technology to
administer the entire lending experience from application to receiving
offers to accepting terms of repayment. The first eight-week pilot
processed more than 220 loans averaging $30 each, with customers
repaying within four to eight days with an interest rate of up to 2%.
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