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If 2020 was a math problem: If you’re walking on the Ice Cream at 5 ounces per toaster and your bicycle loses a sock, how much gravy will you need to repaint your hamster? @astrotoya
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2020 Opens with a Bang.
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River of Life (Nature Documentary)
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Remember to look up. Some of this light took millions of years to arrive to you at this moment. Some of this light are from stars that have long flickered out. It is your personal time machine. Look up. @BrianRoemmele
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Adunni promises herself that “I don’t just want to be having any kind voice ... I want a louding voice.” @thecontinent_
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Paolo’s photos of our fabulous coastline between Malindi and Ngomeni, with the Sabaki river, salt pans, Ocean and sand dunes. Possibly the loveliest place in the world alongside Laikipia. @TheHorseCure
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Beautiful Kenyan coast from the air. Photos by Paolo Parazzi @kenyapics
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Great escapes: spectacular, secluded and for sale @FT.
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What's between the last second of cosciousness and the first of sleep? @cosmos_clara
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The Way We Live Now
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Aleks Gjika, Porthcawl lighthouse is engulfed by waves as a storm lashes the south coast of Wales @thesundaytimes
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Duncan Graham Abstract patterns of melting snow on the sand near Durdle Door in Dorset DUNCAN GRAHAM @thesundaytimes
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The Oracle of Our Unease @nybooks
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All those New Year’s partygoers seem to have forgotten that the revelry ends with Gatsby dead in a swimming pool, an obscene word scrawled on the porch of his preposterous house.
Gatsby is a cautionary tale about the consequences of misreading history, while its parties depict a society spinning out of control.
The Jazz Age doesn’t end well in the novel that’s supposed to make it sound like so much fun.
Fitzgerald’s remarkably sensitive inner ear helped him register, before almost anyone else, when America started losing its balance—and calling its vertigo “jazz.” Jazz related to slang for “pep,” its earliest recorded uses signifying liveliness as often as music.
Jazz soon became so semantically mercurial that by 1915 it denoted volatility per se; before long it stood for misrule. Unpredictability was jazz, as they would have put it: when Einstein overthrew Newtonian laws of gravity, he was said to have discovered “the jazz-molecule.”
Jazz, he added, was that energy; it was “associated with a state of nervous stimulation, not unlike that of big cities behind the lines of a war.”
It is a state that readers unexpectedly catapulted into our own age of anxiety thanks to a global pandemic may suddenly be better able to apprehend.
Jazz spirit in 1920 wasn’t carefree: it was the hysteria of the near miss, an overwrought reaction to surviving calamity, a society going berserk because it didn’t know where else to go.
But even at the time, Americans thought they were entering a “jazz age.” “The age of jazz” spread “like flu,” “a musical virus” transmitted across the country from Kansas (“this wild age of jazz”) to Missouri (“this age of jazz and abominations”) to Alabama (“we are living in the age of jazz”). A Nebraska editorial was comforted “in this age of jazz” by a local old-fashioned spelling bee, suggesting the “younger generation is not going to the dogs” after all. A minister in Philadelphia took up the lament: Americans inhabited “a jazz age,” “an age where everything goes,” he added, “with jazz in the atmosphere and even the moral structure jazzing.” Conservative white America found jazz deeply threatening, not least for its racially coded implications of wildness, violence, permissiveness: “jungle jazz,” they called it. In Fitzgerald’s recollection, jazz—possibly cognate to “jism,” though no one knows for sure—meant sex first, even before it meant music.
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“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Political Reflections
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President Trump’s influential supporter Rupert Murdoch is telling close associates he believes Joe Biden will win the election in a landslide. @thedailybeast @LachCartwright
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The Australian-born billionaire is disgusted by Trump’s handling of COVID-19, remarking that the president is his own worst enemy, that he is not listening to advice about how best to handle the pandemic, and that he’s creating a never-ending crisis for his administration, according to three people who have spoken with Murdoch.
In response to an email inquiry for this report asking him if he believes Biden will win in a landslide and his thoughts on Trump’s handling of coronavirus, Murdoch responded, “No comment except I’ve never called Trump an idiot,” referring to a 2018 report that the media mogul called the president a “fucking idiot” following a chat about immigration.
This isn’t the first time Murdoch has predicted a Democratic landslide, telling a conference in 2008 that Obama would win the election in a convincing victory.
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4-NOV-2019 :: Pollice verso or verso pollice is a Latin phrase, meaning "with a turned thumb", that is used in the context of gladiatorial combat.
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25-MAR-2019 :: :: If You want to measure a Soft Power Leapfrog, Keep an Eye on the Kiwis and this remarkably sophisticated epitome of c21st Girl Power @jacindaardern
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JACINDA. that’s the tweet @benphillips76
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USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier spotted in the South China Sea on 17 October. @duandang
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02-JUN-2020 :: Fast Forward The Markets are very complacent about A US China ‘’Hot War’’
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Any attempt by #China at an #amphibious landing on #Taiwan would be unlikely to succeed, says U.S. #NationalSecurity Adviser Robert O'Brien @TaiwanNews886
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02-JUN-2020 :: Fast Forward it has come to a Put Up or Shut Up moment Taiwan
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Chinese military beefs up coastal forces as it prepares for possible invasion of Taiwan @SCMPNews
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Beijing is stepping up the militarisation of its southeast coast as it prepares for a possible invasion of Taiwan, military observers and sources have said.
The People’s Liberation Army has been upgrading its missile bases, and one Beijing-based military source said it has deployed its most advanced hypersonic missile the DF-17 to the area.“The DF-17 hypersonic missile will gradually replace the old DF-11s and DF-15s that were deployed in the southeast region for decades,” the source, who requested anonymity, because of the sensitivity of the topic.
“The new missile has a longer range and is able to hit targets more accurately.”
Satellite images show that both the Marine Corps and Rocket Force bases in Fujian and Guangdong provinces have expanded in recent years, according to Andrei Chang, editor-in-chief of the Canada-based Kanwa Defence Review.
“Every rocket force brigade in Fujian and Guangdong is now fully equipped,” he said.
“The size of some of the missile bases in the Eastern and Southern theatre commands have even doubled in recent years, showing the PLA is stepping up preparations for a war targeting Taiwan.”
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Coastal rocket bases have been equipped with DF-17 ballistic missiles. Photo: AP
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The DF-17, which has a maximum range of 2,500km (1,550 miles), made its first public appearance on last year’s October 1 National Day parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
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07-OCT-2019 :: China turns 70
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''The legendary DF41 ICBM. But it is not a tale. Today it is displayed at Tiananmen Square I touched one about four years ago in the production plant. No need to fear it. Just respect it and respect China that owns it’’.
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China begins to boil the Taiwanese frog @Jkylebass
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Not going to pretend to understand what’s happening in Thailand, other than the respected king is dead, his son is a buffoon, the junta still runs things.... and a lot of ppl are fed up with that status quo? @Comparativist
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But unlike the flow of capital, this virus seeks proliferation, not profit, and has, therefore, inadvertently, to some extent, reversed the direction of the flow. Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ @FT
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#COVID19 Confirmed cases and deaths worldwide. @Marco_Piani
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The number of new cases worldwide increased to 411,337 on Friday, the third-straight daily record
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Year of the Virus
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Global Cases Added Per Day New cases: 406,660
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BREAKING - More than 400,000 new #COVID19 cases have been reported for the first time worldwide within 24 hours. @disclosetv
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Drinking the Kool-Aid We are not there yet. The exponential moment is still in front of us. #COVID19
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Since the last Weekly Epidemiological Update issued on 5 October, over 2.2 million new cases and 39,000 deaths of COVID-19 have been reported across all six WHO regions. This is the highest number of reported cases so far in a single week.
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By WHO region, the European Region reported the greatest increase (34%) in cases in the past week while the African Region reported a substantial rise in deaths, with a 27% increase compared to the previous week.
Within the African Region, South Africa continues to register more than half (56%, 690 896) of all reported confirmed cases.
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International Markets
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The total amount of negative yielding debt outstanding is approaching the 2019 high of $17 trillion, rising to $16.58 trillion as European yields plunge. @lisaabramowicz1
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Drinking the Kool-Aid
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US budget deficit breached $3.1tn in 2020 as pandemic slammed economy, by far biggest one-year gap between govt spending and tax revenue in US history @Schuldensuehner
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The prev highest deficit recorded was in 2009, when it came in at $1.4tn, less than half 2020′s tally.
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22-JUN-2020 :: The FED WILL KEEP ON PRINTING THEY HAVE ONLY JUST GOTTEN STARTED
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Italian 10-year yields have never been so low in its 710 years of history. @leadlagreport
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24 JUN 19 :: Wizard of Oz World. We are in ‘’nose-bleed’’ territory. This is ‘’Voodoo Economics’’
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Germany's 10-year bond #yield is back to -0.63% the lowest level since March. @jsblokland
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And we all know how that turned out: The Great Depression.
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Currency Markets at a Glance WSJ
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Euro 1.171250
Dollar Index 93.718
Japan Yen 105.4250
Swiss Franc 0.91548
Pound 1.293680
Aussie 0.709275
India Rupee 73.3701
South Korea Won 1142.69
Brazil Real 5.6458
Egypt Pound 15.709712
South Africa Rand 16.510950
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Dollar Index Chart @HakCapital 93.718 [Target 88.00]
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Euro versus the Dollar Chart @FXPIPTITAN 1.1709 [Target 1.2500]
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The share of online retail sales spiked to 16.1% in the second quarter as #lockdowns kept people at home @jsblokland
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The Way We Live Now
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Commodity Markets at a Glance WSJ
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Gold @Panglossary 1907.75 [been soft but that softness is nearing its end]
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Crude Oil Chart INO 40.72
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This October is election season as voters in Guinea, Tanzania and Côte d’Ivoire all head to the polls to choose a new president (or an existing president – maybe even for the third time). @thecontinent_
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A country where the median age is 18.9 years old, both the 78-year-old incumbent and his octogenarian main rival, Henri Konan Bedié, 86, will have to entice a growing youth population with their electoral promises.
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Hugh Masekela said "I want to be there when the people start to turn it around."
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Tanzania’s election is scheduled for October 28 @thecontinent_
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Lissu can pull a crowd: Chadema rallies are just as full as those for the ruling party. And on social media, where – despite its best efforts – the government has less control, it is clear that the opposition enjoys significant popular support.
Working in Chadema’s favour is an informal deal it has struck with the third biggest party in the country, ACT- Wazalendo, led by Zitto Kabwe. ACT- Wazalendo is asking its supporters to vote for Lissu; in exchange, Chadema has endorsed ACT-Wazalendo’s candidate to lead Zanzibar (the island is a semi- autonomous region with the Tanzanian federation).
The question now is whether this united opposition front will be enough to unseat a sitting president who is strategically exploiting all the advantages of incumbency. Take the ballot paper itself, a sample of which was released by the electoral commission this week. Usually, the names of candidates are ordered alphabetically, but this time it is supposed to be random. Sure enough, CCM and Magufuli are first, while Chadema and Lissu are last. That’s quite the coincidence.
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The African @jairbolsonaro is of course @MagufuliJP
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The biggest nationwide protests in the history of democratic Nigeria @thecontinent_
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Without union jingoism, without powerpoints, and without a hidden hand, we came together and solidified a hundred thousand voices into one voice. This is powerful. Power belongs to the people. @ayosogunro
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Zero public statements on the Nigerian events from the Great Powers. Nothing from UK/US; Silence from Germany/EU. And of course, zilch from China. @dondee_don
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The reason: they have worked out how to deal with the old corrupt Nigeria and not sure about this new one struggling to be born
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So, better to stick with the devil you know. they are watching VERY closely. They understand this is bigger than Nigeria. About Africa and its place in the world. Really big. But prefer to watch/wait @dondee_don
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So, better to stick with the devil you know. These are their cynical and short-sighted calculations. One thing is certain: they are watching VERY closely. They understand this is bigger than Nigeria. About Africa and its place in the world. Really big. But prefer to watch/wait
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A harsh lesson in global power politics for the Nigerian youth demonstrators putting their lives on the line. But better to be clear-sighted on these realities than to dwell in in a world of political illusions @dondee_don
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18-FEB-2019 :: We dream of a new politics That will renew the world Under their weary suspicious gaze. There's always a new way, A better way that's not been tried before.
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21 OCT 19 :: “The revolutionary contingent attains its ideal form not in the place of production, but in the street''
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“The revolutionary contingent attains its ideal form not in the place of production, but in the street, where for a moment it stops being a cog in the technical machine and itself becomes a motor (machine of attack), in other words, a producer of speed.’’
Antonio Gramsci wrote, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. now is the time of monsters.”
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“I don’t want to leave Guinea to thieves and liars. I’m counting on the youth.” President Alpha Condé @thecontinent_
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Guinea’s election pits President Alpha Condé and his Guinean People’s Assembly against Cellou Dalein Diallo, a former prime minister and leader of the main opposition party, the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea
Guinea is now the third-largest producer of bauxite in the world.
Conté died in office in 2008. Sékou Touré died in office in 1984. Is Guinea doomed to repeat history once again?
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Boyarkin blames the protests mainly on “outside forces” and has nothing but praise for Conde. “I consider him a savior for Guinea.”
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Omubanda affuse ensonga. In Luganda, this loosely translates as ‘The gangster has become a pain in the neck’, @thecontinent_
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On Tuesday, with no prior warning, dozens of armed state security personnel forced their way inside. According to one eyewitness, as they did so they shouted: “Anyone with a soft heart should leave!”
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CoViD19-ΛFЯICΛ: Confirmed: 1 638 123 (+ 14288) Actives: 252 345 (+ 4809) Deaths: 39 564 (+ 264) @NCoVAfrica
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African Region Although the Region had seen a slow but continuous decline in newly- reported cases since mid-July, there were 11% more cases reported in the last 7 days compared to the prior week
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The increase in the number of newly- confirmed cases is partially attributed to the higher number of countries reporting an increase in cases (21 countries), compared to the previous week (14 countries).
Although there are a greater number of countries reporting increases, the pattern of increasing cases is driven by South Africa and Ethiopia, which continue to report the highest numbers of new cases in the last 7 days, followed by Kenya, Uganda, and Algeria.
Continuing the trend from last week, the number of reported deaths increased this week with South Africa accounting for the majority of the new deaths in the Region (74%).
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#Tunisia total #COVID19 cases growing fastest in world. @jmlukens
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Country: Avg Growth Rate
#Tunisia: 8.28%
#Andorra: 6.95%
#Slovakia: 5.76%
#Jordan: 5.73%
#Burma: 5.26%
#Czechia: 5.25%
#Slovenia: 4.64%
#Georgia: 4.56%
#Poland: 3.90%
#Belgium: 3.85%
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Coronavirus is exponential, non linear and multiplicative.
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Average Daily Growth Rate #Botswana: 14.65% #Tunisia: 8.12% @jmlukens
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#Andorra: 7.21%
#Slovakia: 6.08%
#Jordan: 5.77%
#Czechia: 5.28%
#Slovenia: 5.27%
#Georgia: 4.94%
#Burma: 4.68%
#Belgium: 4.26%
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They fancied themselves free, wrote Camus, ―and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences
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The question that puzzles me the most about the #coronavirus: Why has Latin America had so many more infections and deaths than Africa? This is prevalence (active cases/100k ppl) ~14x lower in Africa on average @tomaspueyo
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Latin America has a staggering 10 years (!) higher median age than Africa, 13 years higher than Sub Saharan Africa. While South Africa has a median age similar to Latin America. Age structure is the only factor where Africa stands out. @Esbjornsson
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The latest figures show that #Zimbabwe’s consumer price inflation decelerated to 659.4% y-o-y in September @NKCAfrica
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There is a correlation between high Inflation and revolutionary conditions
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Tourist Island’s Stocks Lag Most Markets as Virus Clears Beaches @markets
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The Mauritian economy has been struck by waves of adversity this year, and it’s evident in the Indian Ocean island’s stock market -- one of the worst performers in the world.
The pandemic has deprived Mauritius of the visitors who support about a fifth of gross domestic product, tipping it into the first recession for almost 40 years.
To make things worse, a Japanese bulk carrier ran aground on a reef in August, polluting tourist beaches in the country’s biggest ecological disaster.
And the inclusion of Mauritius in a list of countries posing threats to the European Union’s financial system because of deficiencies in combating money laundering and terrorist financing battered its reputation among investors.
The Mauritian stock exchange’s Semdex index has dropped 32% in 2020, the second-poorest performance among 93 equity benchmarks tracked by Bloomberg as of Oct. 14, and on track for its worst year since 2008 and the global financial crisis. An index of frontier emerging markets is down 17%.
“The pandemic has significantly hurt the domestic economy -- tourism has ground to a halt,” Bhavik Desai, head of research at AXYS Stockbroking, said in emailed comments.
“Exacerbating the situation was the oil spill in the southeast, and the European Union placing Mauritius on its list of High Risk Third Countries.”
Of the 38 listed Mauritian companies, only five are in the green for 2020. The island’s hotel and resort operators are among the most severely hit, along with financial and banking stocks. Index giant MCB Group Ltd., which accounts for 28% of the Port Louis benchmark, is down 36%.
“In the short term, understanding where the Mauritius Investment Corporation will inject funds will offer greater clarity and offer confidence,” he said.
“In the medium term, we need a clear road-map as to how the government and the private sector intend to navigate out of this unprecedented crisis.”
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OIl leaks from the MV Wakashio tanker off the coast of Mauritius in Aug. Source: AFP via Getty Images @markets
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10-MAY-2020 For example Tourism – I believe it is stopped out through Q4 2021
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02-MAR-2020 :: The #COVID19 and SSA and the R Word
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5 March 2020 Debt, virus and locusts create a perfect storm for Africa @TheAfricaReport
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Dollar versus Rand 6 Month Chart INO 16.5283
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Egypt Pound versus The Dollar 3 Month Chart INO 15.7004
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Here's a @Reuters clip of Sankara at a summit of African leaders organised by Pres. Mitterrand, 3 Oct. 1983. Houphet-Boigny appears first; then Mobutu; then Sankara, wearing a revolver. 1/3 @Unseen_Archive
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My photo from Gadaffi's December 1983 visit with Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou. @hofrench
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24th October 2011 Gaddafi's Body in a Freezer - What's the Message?
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@WilhelmSasnal Gaddafi 1 2011 @Tate
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Gaddafi 1 depicts the body of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed by rebel fighters on 20 October 2011. Rather than show the corpse directly, Sasnal depicts an amorphous mass of paint resting on what appears to be a mattress. The thick impasto of the oil paint, alludes to the ripped and torn body of the dictator, contrasting sharply with the flat paint work of the surrounding space. Gaddafi 1 is the first in a group of three paintings based on digital images of the violent death of Gaddafi, the others being Gaddafi 2 2011 (Tate T14240) and Gaddafi 3 2011 (Tate T14242). It is the smallest painting in the group and the only one to focus exclusively on the body of the dictator.
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@WilhelmSasnal Gaddafi 2 2011 @Tate
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Gaddafi 2 depicts a group of rebel fighters looking at, and taking images of, the body of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed by rebels on 20 October 2011. The figure on the right is caught in the process of filming the scene, which forms the central action of the image. The mediation of the event, first through video footage, which was broadcast on the news worldwide, then through the translation of some of these images into painting, is elevated to the central subject matter of the work. Gaddafi 2 is the second in a group of three paintings based on digital images of the violent death of Gaddafi, the others being Gaddafi 1 2011 (Tate T14241) and Gaddafi 3 2011 (Tate T14242). It is rare for Sasnal to make the relationship of his paintings to digital imagery so explicit, whereas the dramatic cropping, stark palette and obscured facial features are all highly typical of his approach.
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24 OCT 11 :: Gaddafi's Body in a Freezer - What's the Message?
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The raw feed of the capture and then death of the Liby- an dictator Muammar Gadd- afi and his son Mo’tassim Gaddafi raise plenty of questions.
I am left thinking, this dead Gaddafi business is one powerful message.
And today Marshall McLuhan’s prediction in The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) that ‘The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village’ has come to pass.
The image of a bloodied Gaddafi, then of a dead Gaddafi in a meat locker have flashed around the world via the mobile, YouTube and Twitter.
Who is in charge of the messaging? Through the fog of real time and raw footage, I note a very powerful message. The essence of that message being;
‘Don’t Fxxk with us! Be- cause you will end up dead and a trophy souvenir in a fridge.’
That same person is probably repeating Muammar’s comment, “I tell the coward crusaders: I live in a place where you can’t get me. I live in the hearts of millions.”
And asking ‘Really? Are You? Or are you now very dead and in a meat locker?’
“We are not afraid, we are not afraid, we are afraid only of God,” the crowds chanted in Tunis in January a few days before Tunisia’s Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled.
Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his Wife Leila Trebelsi are currently sunning themselves in Jeddah, apparently in the very same villa that was availed to Idi Amin Dada. They remain alive.
President Mubarak was deposed in February and he is locked up.
Muammar is in a meat locker and dead. The trend is your friend is an ancient mantra in the markets.
There is, i think, a narrative fallacy, that the events triggered by Mohamed Bouzizi deep on the Tunisian frontier would some somehow be contained North of the Sahara.
I noted a new market being made on departure dates around the longest serving African Leaders. Teodoro Obiang Nguema of equatorial Guinea (32), Jose Santos of Angola (32), Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe (31), Paul Biya of Cameroon (29) and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda (25), King Mswati III of Swaziland (24), Blaise Campore of Burkina Fasso (24). We are living in very accelerated times.
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@WilhelmSasnal Gaddafi 3 2011 @Tate
Africa
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Gaddafi 3 depicts the body of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed by rebels on 20 October 2011, lying on a mattress surrounded by a group of rebel fighters. Gaddafi 3 is the third in a group of three paintings based on digital images of the violent death of Gaddafi, the others being Gaddafi 1 2011 (Tate T14241) and Gaddafi 2 2011 (Tate T14240). The scale of this canvas, the largest of the three, establishes a direct physical relationship between the viewer and the fighters depicted within it, both engaged in focusing on the lifeless body. The flat application of oil paint, unusual fleshy palette and use of grey-scale with a preponderance of saturated black, are all typical of Sasnal’s practice. The dramatically foreshortened figure of Gaddafi also recalls Andrea Mantegna’s painting Lamentation of Christ c.1480 (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
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The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Africa
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945% “Today 685 persons have tested positive for the virus from a sample size of 4,912 in the last 24 hours.'' @citizentvkenya
Africa
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The second wave for #COVID19KE is here with us evidenced by rising #COVID19 positivity rates that may end up surpassing that of the first wave @DrAhmedKalebi
Africa
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Exponential, non linear and multiplicative.
Africa
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Output declined by 5.7 percent in 2020 Q2 relative to the same quarter in 2019. Sectors with the largest declines were accommodation and restaurants, education, transport- agriculture reported strong growth of 6.4 percent. @ouma_timothy
Africa
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Travel restrictions saw the total number of visitors arriving through (JKIA) and Moi International Airport (MIA) drop by 99.5% and 99.9% respectively @CytonnInvest
Tourism, Travel & Transport
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10-MAY-2020 :: For example Tourism – I believe it is stopped out through Q4 2021
Tourism, Travel & Transport
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Yields on the $ 10-year and 30-year Eurobond at 7.1% and 8.5% respectively @CytonnInvest
World Of Finance
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Kenya Shilling versus The Dollar Live ForexPros
World Currencies
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Usable foreign exchange reserves stood at USD 8,311 million translating to 5.04 months of import cover as at October 15 compared to USD 8457 million on 8 October a decrease of USD 146 million @ouma_timothy
World Of Finance
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Nairobi All Share Bloomberg
N.S.E General
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The NSE20 share index year to date performance now stands at -31.77%. @tradingroomke
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Nairobi ^NSE20 Bloomberg
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Every Listed Share can be interrogated here
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