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The opening shot of Kim Jong Un surrounded by a Phalanx of North Korean Officials [later replayed as chairman Kim sat in his presidential vehicle surrounded by his Ninja bodyguards] was almost as good as the opening Sequence in PT Anderson’s boogie nights [Steadicam operator Andy Shuttleworth].

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has begun laying the groundwork to ban private investments in media organizations, according to US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA).
Under proposed rule changes posted to its official website on Oct. 8, the State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) said it was soliciting public opinion on adding private sector investment in media organizations to a list of banned investments.
The list, which is intended to apply across China without local variation, requires that "organizations with no public sector investment shall not engage in business involving newsgathering, editing or broadcasting." -RFA

And it all left me wondering Who exactly is controlling the Console?

You will all be no better than fields of garlic chives, giving yourselves up to being harvested by the blade of power, time and time again. 
[ “garlic chives,” Allium tuberosum, often used as a metaphor to describe an endlessly renewable resource.]
What is thriving, however, is all that ridiculous ―Red Culture and the nauseating adulation that the system heaps on itself via shameless pro-Party hacks who chirrup hosannahs at every turn @ChinaFile #COVID19

The same problems it unleashed on the world-ex-China it unleashed on itself. Those private firms can control the narrative in the US like abroad. They're monopolistic in the US like abroad.

“Hatred, jealousy, and greed - emotions, rather than strategy - will set the terms of [information warfare] struggles”.

"But it’s still an unacceptably high level: almost 50,000 deaths a week, and the real number is certainly higher."

According to my colleagues @JohnsHopkins 2,809 new cases and 9 new deaths were recorded on Sunday.

Euro 1.1597
Dollar Index 94.001
Japan Yen 113.57
Swiss Franc 0.9215
Pound 1.3683
Aussie 0.7393
India Rupee 75.3175
South Korea Won 1187
Brazil Real 5.5139
Egypt Pound 15.7108
South Africa Rand 14.75

Gabon at peak 

#Djibouti: 2021: 5% (2022: 5.5%)
#Eritrea: 2.9% (4.8%)
#Kenya: 5.6% (6%)
#Somalia: 1.6% (3.9%)
#South_Sudan: 5.3% (6.5%)
#Sudan: 0.9% (3.5%)

#Afghanistan, #Lybia & #Syria are the only other countries without data projections for the coming years.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
https://bit.ly/3Bk45Gj

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

We will go as far as it takes to break the siege on the children and women of Tigray.

If I could I would be limit short the Ethiopian Birr [It trades at 60 to the $ on the black market]

Any politician asserting #religious legitimacy arguing they are doing God’s work, presents an ersatz claim.

I have been reading Yuval Noah Harari and in his best-seller he says this about money;
“Money is accordingly a system of mutual trust, and not just any system of mutual trust: money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
“Cowry shells and dollars have value only in our common imagination. Their worth is not inherent in the chemical structure of the shells and paper, or their colour, or their shape. In other words, money isn’t a material reality – it is a psychological construct. It works by converting matter into mind.”