We haven’t learnt from this pandemic – just ask the author of The Big Short
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In October 2019, a group of epidemiology boffins compiled the Global Health Security Index, which ranked countries according to how well prepared they were for a global pandemic. The US came top, and the UK second. As of early May 2021, there have been nearly 600,000 deaths in the US and 127,000 in the UK, compared with 10,000 in Japan, 1,800 in South Korea, and 26 in New Zealand. What went wrong?
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Libya Economic Monitor, Spring 2021
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Libya entered 2020 as a divided nation, with competing political and military factions operating redundant and often conflicting systems of governance. The Government of National Accord (GNA) controlled the country’s western regions around the capital Tripoli, while the Interim Government (IG), backed by the Libyan National Army (LNA), controlled most of the eastern, central, and southern parts of the country. The separate controlling bodies operated on separate budgets. The Central Bank of Libya was divided into parallel branches with Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli controlling the country’s money supply and foreign reserves, with the branch in the east mimicking the central bank’s currency printing function. The National Oil Corporation, based in Tripoli, is solely responsible for oil exports; but the Petroleum Facilities Guard, which secures the country’s oil assets, is divided into rival western and eastern
NZ s potentially catastrophic near-miss from outer space: We re not learning
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Experts including a former chief science advisor say New Zealand s risk-management systems are flawed and we can no longer rely on our she ll be right mantra. By Donna Chisholm. The email giving New Zealand 24 hours warning of a potentially catastrophic solar flare landed in chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman s inbox in late July 2012. It was an alert from his UK counterpart, Sir John Beddington, advising of a severe space weather event known as a mass coronal ejection. A huge amount of matter had been released from the sun that, if directed at the Earth, would cause a geomagnetic storm with the potential to destroy critical infrastructure including satellites, GPS systems and electricity grids.