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Friday 15th of January 2021 |
04-JAN-2021 :: we are witnessing massive decline in the cognitive capacity of leadership and a steep decline in the intellectual capacity of the corpus. Misc. |
"Time is a flat circle. Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over again- forever."
“Making masks a culture war issue was the dumbest thing imaginable,” said an Advisor to President Trump but remember it was also a culture war issue during the Spanish Flu.
The Virus and The Economy
In 1720 Marseille allowed a ship from plague-ridden Cyprus into port, under pressure from merchants who wanted the goods and didn’t want to wait for the usual quarantine.
More than half the population of Marseille died in the next two years
Ibn Khaldun explained the intrinsic relationship between political leadership and the management of pandemics in the pre-colonial period in his book Muqaddimah
Historically, such pandemics had the capacity to overtake “the dynasties at the time of their senility, when they had reached the limit of their duration” and, in the process, challenged their “power and curtailed their [rulers’] influence...”
Rulers who are only concerned with the well-being of their “inner circle and their parties” are an incurable “disease”.
States with such rulers can get “seized by senility and the chronic disease from which [they] can hardly ever rid [themselves], for which [they] can find no cure”
Chancellor Merkel pronounced “You cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation...the limits of Populism are being laid bare.”
And wherever You care to turn whether it is the US under Trump, the United Kingdom under Boris Johnson, we are witnessing massive decline in the cognitive capacity of leadership and a steep decline in the intellectual capacity of the cognitive capacity of the corpus.
We live in an Era of gobbledygook debate, a moment of complete combustion. Just open your social media account and its a torrent of bite sized nonsense.
This is the Achilles Heel which the Sun Tzu Maestro Xi Jinping understood and the Viral War he launched was a perfectly aimed Bullet.
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Weekly epidemiological update - 12 January 2021 @WHO Misc. |
Following two weeks of low reporting, likely due to the year-end holiday period, the overall upward trend seen in earlier weeks has resumed, with just under 5 million new cases reported last week globally.
The number of new deaths has also shown a similar trend, with over 85 000 reported last week, an 11% increase
All regions apart from South-East Asia showed an increase in new cases, with the Western Pacific, Africa and the Americas reporting increases of over 30%.
The Region of the Americas accounted for 51% of all new cases and 45% of all new deaths globally in the past week.
The European Region had a lower increase in new cases (10%), however still accounts for over a third of new cases globally. In South-East Asia, the decline in new cases and new deaths seen since the end of November 2020 continues.
Although the Eastern Mediterranean Region is showing an 11% increase in new cases, new deaths have fallen by 9%, continuing a downward trend since a peak in mid-November.
The African Region reported 175 000 new cases and 4300 new deaths, an increase of over 30% in new cases and new deaths, far exceeding previous peaks in July 2020.
The Western Pacific also reported an increase of more than 30% in new cases, while the number of new deaths also rose by 14%.
In the past week, the five countries reporting the highest number of cases were the United States of America (with 1 786 773 cases, a 35% increase)
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (417 620 cases, a 22% increase)
Brazil (313 130 cases, a 24% increase)
the Russian Federation (165 167 cases, continuing last week’s decrease with an 12% decrease)
Germany (142 861 cases, reversing last week’s decrease with a 15% increase)
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Data from #Covid19 worldwide on January 14: + 733,461 cases in 24 hours, i.e. 93,088,325 in total @CovidTracker_fr Misc. |
Data from #Covid19 worldwide on January 14: + 733,461 cases in 24 hours, i.e. 93,088,325 in total + 14,964 deaths in 24 hours, i.e. 1,994,415 in total |
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The Vaccine Story Is Another Myth Misc. |
No-one has ever produced a safe and effective vaccine against a coronavirus. Birger Sørensen, Angus Dalgleish & Andres Susrud
What if, as I fear, there will never be a vaccine. I was involved in the early stages of identifying the HIV virus as the cause of Aids.
I remember drugs companies back then saying there would be a vaccine within around 18 months. Some 37 years on, we are still waiting. Prof ANGUS DALGLEISH @MailOnline
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However, after sequencing the full genome for RaTG13 the lab’s sample of the virus disintegrated, he said. “I think they tried to culture it but they were unable to, so that sample, I think, has gone.” Misc. |
According to Daszak, the mine sample had been stored in Wuhan for six years. Its scientists “went back to that sample in 2020, in early January or maybe even at the end of last year, I don’t know. They tried to get full genome sequencing, which is important to find out the whole diversity of the viral genome.”
However, after sequencing the full genome for RaTG13 the lab’s sample of the virus disintegrated, he said. “I think they tried to culture it but they were unable to, so that sample, I think, has gone.”
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Weekly epidemiological update - 12 January 2021 The African Region reported 175 000 new cases and 4300 new deaths, an increase of over 30% in new cases and new deaths @WHO Africa |
Weekly epidemiological update - 12 January 2021 The African Region reported 175 000 new cases and 4300 new deaths, an increase of over 30% in new cases and new deaths, far exceeding previous peaks in July 2020
In the past week, the African Region reported the highest percentage increases in both cases and deaths compared to the previous week.
Over 174 000 new cases and over 4300 deaths were reported, increases of 34% and 31% respectively.
Cases in the Region have been increasing since mid-September 2020 but steeper increases have been observed since late November.
The highest numbers of new cases were reported in South Africa (125 287 new cases; 211.2 new cases per 100 000 population; a 27% increase)
Nigeria (8315 new cases; 4.0 new cases per 100 000; a 49% increase)
Zimbabwe (6008 new cases; 40.4 new cases per 100 000; a 293% increase).
The countries reporting the highest number of new deaths in the past week were South Africa (3649 new deaths; 6.2 new deaths per 100 000; a 37% increase)
Zimbabwe (106 new deaths; 0.7 new deaths per 100 000; a 194% increase)
Zambia (72 new deaths; 0.4 new deaths per 100 000; a 620% increase).
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Turning to Africa the Spinning Top Africa |
Democracy from Tanzania to Zimbabwe to Cameroon has been shredded.
We are getting closer and closer to the Virilian Tipping Point
“The revolutionary contingent attains its ideal form not in the place of production, but in the street''
Political leadership in most cases completely gerontocratic will use violence to cling onto Power but any Early Warning System would be warning a Tsunami is coming
10 NOV 14 : African youth demographic {many characterise this as a 'demographic dividend"} - which for Beautiful Blaise turned into a demographic terminator
Martin Aglo, a law student from Benin, told Reuters: “After the Arab Spring, this is the Black Spring”.We need to ask ourselves; how many people can incumbent shoot stone cold dead in such a situation – 100, 1,000, 10,000?
This is another point: there is a threshold beyond which the incumbent can’t go. Where that threshold lies will be discovered in the throes of the event.
The Event is no longer over the Horizon.
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Seychelles is struggling to pay state workers as the government faces a revenue shortfall triggered by the coronavirus pandemic @bpolitics Africa |
Seychelles is struggling to pay state workers as the government faces a revenue shortfall triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Treasury ran out of cash this month as tourists, the nation’s main source of income, stayed away because of the Covid-19 disease.
The slump in arrivals forced the government to borrow 500 million Seychellois rupees ($23.6 million) from the central bank to cover immediate expenses, according to Finance minister Naadir Hassan.
“If the finance ministry does not take measures to raise funds, we will not have money to pay wages for the next quarter,” Hassan told reporters in Victoria, the capital, on Wednesday.
The Treasury is working “on some avenues” to enable the government to meet all of its obligations in the first quarter, he said, without providing further details.
Preliminary estimates show that government expenses for the year will amount to 12 billion rupees. Revenue in 2021 is forecast at 7.5 billion rupees, leaving the Treasury with a shortfall of 4.5 billion rupees, Hassan said.
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The Spinning Top The real challenge is the Economic Emergency. Africa |
The real challenge is the Economic Emergency.
The latest Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa projects economic activity in the region to decline by 3.0% in 2020 and recover by 3.1% in 2021. @IMFNews
The IMF is so bright eyed and bushy tailed and I want some of whatever Pills they are popping.
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Sasini Tea & Coffee reports FY Earnings 2020 EPS 0.07 N.S.E Equities - Agricultural |
Par Value: 1/-
Closing Price: 19.55
Total Shares Issued: 228055504.00
Market Capitalization: 4,458,485,103
EPS: 0.07
PE: 279.28
Sasini PLC FY 2020 results through 30th September 2020 vs. 30th September 2019
FY Group Revenue 4.145408b versus 2.794830b +48%
FY [Losses] Gains arising from changes in Fair Value of biological assets [47.375m] versus [5.843m]
FY Results from operating Activities 34.324m versus [392.109m]
FY Profit [Loss] before Tax 41.492m versus [361.299m]
FY Profit [Loss] for the Year 12.605m versus [337.737m]
FY Revaluation 0 versus 2.181675b
FY EPS 0.07 versus [1.39]
FY Cash and Bank Balances 593.689m versus 429.264m
Commentary
Reduction in Admin expenses by 13%
automation projection in Tea Business fully rolled out.
Revenue +48% Cost of Sales +41%
No Dividend
Conclusions
Reported a Big Revenue Surge and eked out a Profit.
Its all about NAV.
Sasini Plc - Results for the Year Ended 30th September 2020 @tradingroomke
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