Covid 19 will be with us forever

COVID 19 HAS EVOLVED AND NOW CHILDREN ARE DYING IN ITALY!

There are new spikes in cases with children!

COVID 19 WILL BE WITH US FOREVER!

“A pandemic is not about ideas or even medicine. Speculative approaches won’t do: Every habit of hubris, decision-stupidity or presumption ends in tragedy.

The best national responses have been Taiwan, New Zealand, Senegal, South Korea, Iceland, Japan, Dubai, Estonia and Singapore. Their approaches confirmed the need for mathematical skills, a game theoretical sensibility and empathy.

A pandemic is about interstitial demographics; dynamics of cascading, data gathering and analytics; exponentiality statistics and avoiding utilitarian triage.

Bubonic plague rose in 1347. We know now it was just the Justinian Plague of the 5th century AD. It killed 50% of known civilisation, wrecked the feudal system and invented the “Job” (yes I mean employment.  So many people died, peasants were able to bargain for compensation).

The pestilence terrorised Europe for 200 years, evolving into the “Black Death”.

There were 1000 Bubonic Plague cases in the 20th century - that we know of - nearly 700 years later. There were 3 Bubonic deaths in the US in 2019!

Covid 19 will be with us forever.” -

Professor Gilbert Morris on ZNS TV Bahamas

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The Politics of Pandemics

THIS HEADLINE IS FALSE! 

By Gilbert Morris:

There will be no reckoning: the idea of reckoning is not the arrival of catastrophe.

The calamity is here and deepening absolutely. But this pandemic will not produce any sort of systemic or structural reckoning as a correction for past failures in the political sense.

Governments across the world have adopted an authoritarian stance - from America, to Philippines, to Austria, Italy, Poland and Brazil - in which they assume the citizen-voter’s perspective means nothing!

We ourselves in the Caribbean have known this political authoritarian - know-it-all - stance since independence. Most winning political parties don’t bother about with policy substance, campaigning by merely maligning their opponents.

The Hon. Mia Mottley MP in Barbados - a heroine for her humanity in this Covid 19 era - is potentially the only leader whom citizens voted for rather than against the outgoing administration.

So, there will be no reckoning: governments in the places named will wreck their citizens lives through haphazard policies at a time when 20% of jobs will vanish and 80% of what’s left will pay 50% of pre-Covid 19 wages levels.
There will be no reforms for three cardinal reasons:

1. In crisis cronyocracies seek to protect cronies, not citizens. Lackeys and government form an unimpeachable cabal - as is to be witnessed now in the US - and they claim all must be done to save businesses, premised not on innovation, growth or fair broad prosperity, but rather whatever is needed to maintain chokeholds on their patronised economic sectors!

2. Congenital imaginative laziness: cronyocracies induce creative avoidance and laziness. Ideas have no career in such places.

Our governments in this region will largely await the opening of the US and “wing it” on the hope that there are no explosions in Covid 19 infections.

That is because Cronyocracies cannot respond to crisis in any broad sense. First, because they do not possess or cultivate citizen trust.

Second, because they destory and so lack strategic verve or creative capacity!

3. Citizens who howl at crony government cabals are themselves to blame as well. We have the governments we deserve. Cronyocracies survive because each demented political tribe feeds off of collusive nexus, in hopes of some temporary crumbs from its table of feckless skullduggery!

We are our worst political enemies!

There will be no protests because governments now have the excuse of “Emergency Powers”; which means they can prevent citizens protesting against failures now crippling their lives, even though that failures have been expanding for decades.

This is how pandemics work politically!

Country defaults and company bankruptcies will cascade. Governments will never blame their cranial sclerosis for the carnage; even as they ignore, wilfully, basic sound policy options in preference for reactionary decisions that protect their lackeys...as we are now discovering with Trump and Boris Johnson in the UK!

They will have at the ready - galloping nonsense - excuses, stating the obvious that this - pandemic - has never happened before; despite the fact that the majority of their citizens have been living in Covid 19 conditions for decades.

For companies the only margins available will be those which digitisation brings...but that means not only 20% fewer jobs globally, it means at a time when nations have seen their incomes vanish, the social-safety-net/public assistance will face unprecedented demands.

And starvation level suffering will pervade the world, whilst overfed politicians make mumbling excuses. 

Mark my words!


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Cannibals in the Church of The Bahamas

Are Cannibals in the Church of The Bahamas?

By Huedley Moss:

During the 40s and 50s a reporter asked Mahatma Ghandhi his view on Christianity. He responded, I know of Jesus, but Christians are so unlike Jesus Christ!

Right he is. It seems, the Bible and Jesus as the head of church is inappropriate with all of its examples for us to learn from and follow; is no longer the golden standard for Christian stewardship!

Let’s faced it. Of the more than 9 billion people who have lived and living on earth, not one of us were perfect and without flaws! Not Noah, Abraham, Moses, Job, Daniel Peter and Paul! Jesus Christ is our example!

If we modeled our lives after Mortals, we will most certainly not accomplish our primary goal, of entering His Kingdom!

So why are contemporary Christians cannibalizing each other in Satan’s Arena?

Samuel, David, Elijah, Nehemiah, Paul and Jesus never destroy a flawed brother publicly!

They never used Fleshly works to attack a brother! Cuz they realized we are all mortal corruptible beings!

Naturally Jesus Christ is the Only exception!

What we have seen on social media with one person claiming to be God’s Oracle viciously attacking the well loved Singing Bishop in a setting chaired by Satan himself, is the most outrageous attack I have ever seen one mortal Inflicted on another! To God be the Glory.

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Our United War on the Coronavirus

Dear friends and family around the World:

It is now certain that we are at the early start of an extraordinary pandemic of the new corona virus 19 - with at least two mutations: S being the original and L being the later one - which is much more fatal than the original.

In this period of great uncertainty none of us knows how future events will turn out - other than knowing that dealing with the virus is not a sprint but a long marathon that is to last probably at least two years.

We have to make a joint combined effort to overcome this global challenge, and each of us has much to contribute in the positive; even though such things may seem minor they will become monumental if done by as many of us as possible.

We are facing a war like scenario to combat, contain and become immune to this new virus. In the emergency situations our institutions will be put under unprecedented stress tests.

Like in any turmoil, some individuals will try to disregard our institutional framework and misuse the fog of first major biological war for their selfish aims.

Irrespective of the country you may be in, I appeal to you to preserve a social order and the type of constitutional democracy you live under.

Every challenge is also a great opportunity to make an historical contribution to a better society, and to be remembered for the positive and heroic deeds we are all capable of.

Both stability and progress toward a better society are essential.  Our joint efforts will greatly contribute to our humanity's survival - as we emerge in a better, healthier and more prosperous World for us and the future generations.

I wish you my very best, and remember that tough times do not last - but tough people do.

As challenging as it may seem, let’s unify the World to pursue greater and more ambitious goals then ever before.

Victor Kozeny

ANTI-BAHAMIAN NASSAU

By Gladstone Thurston

Downtown Nassau was abuzz with cruise ship tourists.

Decked out in summer wear, they sauntered lazily along taking in this balmy, winter’s day.

Merchants touted their wares; taxis plied their passengers; walking tours showed off sites of interest.

Gay music filled the air contributing to a brisk, upbeat tempo.

But, wait! Screeeech! Slam emergency brakes. Something is not right here!

Not a single one of the songs being played was Bahamian. Not one. Not while I was there.

And as if downtown Nassau today is not anti-Bahamian enough already, merchants are driving perhaps the last nail in their cultural takeover of the capital of the Bahamas.

Back in the day, Bahamian music and Bahamian entertainment played key roles in showcasing Nassau to the world.

I say, unabashedly, that downtown Nassau is all but Bahamian! One would need an electron microscope to find anything Bahamian in the shops and restaurants there.

We are presenting as the face of this nation that which this nation is not. We are giving the world a false impression of who and what we are.

Take a close look, folks. Nassau has degenerated into nothing more than a very expensive flea market featuring cheap tee-shirts and merchandise many say borders on fakery.

If tourists come to the Bahamas to enjoy things Bahamian, then downtown Nassau is not the place for them to go.

We have, appointed to serve this nation, a well-paid minister with responsibility for culture.

To what extent the current minister has been advocating on the part of Bahamian culture, I don’t know.

But, based on the preponderance of non-Bahamian cultural expressions taking root in the Bahamas, we have to question the effectiveness of the minister's policy as it relates to Bahamian culture, if there is one.

Long story short: we call on the minister for culture and the government to rise to the occasion and Bahamianized downtown Nassau.

Failure to do so and we will move for the minister’s permanent recall from parliament.

We also warn those who would want to highjack Nassau, for their petty, personal gain, that unless things Bahamian obtain, we will lead a boycott of the anti-Bahamian Nassau merchants.

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...something ordinary yet extraordinary as hell for the white elite of the Caribbean...

By Christian Campbell:



It must have been fifteen years ago that Ian Strachan invited me to speak at a Majority Rule event at the former College of The Bahamas with the recently honoured ex-minister of the colonial UBP regime.

I was fresh from Oxford, recovering, working as a journalist and editor in the meanwhile. Ex-Minister was revealing in this public conversation. He said that he had no white friends because, in his words, all the set he knew were boring and only spoke of money, no thought.

Then, he did something ordinary yet extraordinary as hell for the white elite of the Caribbean (or anywhere for that matter)— he said that as a child he once asked, *Why Grammy so dark?* And they explained why.

Of course, to my eyes, perhaps to Blind Blake’s eyes too, it was obvious. I told him he looks like Michael Manley. Without missing a beat, he said, “First cousin!” We laughed.

To be sure, this late-life phase of pseudo-atonement posed no great risk to him— he had long since made his money by any means necessary; he had long since damaged and denied education for black people that couldn’t pass, meaning for everyone. But it remains intriguing.

What, we must ask, is more fragile, more suspect, more slippery than whiteness in the Caribbean (or anywhere for that matter)? The tarbrush levitates overhead, Avenging Angel. We, Manley Cousin and I, laughed the strange laugh of the Plantation, knowing. How maimed and monstered are we by the eugenics of the Ship.

¿Y tu abuela, dónde está?

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...the largest money laundering and drug dealing centre in the world is the United States!

US NAMES BAHAMAS AS MONEYLAUNDERING DRUG DEALING NATION!


By: Gilbert Morris:



Well, here we go again! Let us at least try to read the tea leaves and resist drinking other people’s tea: First, the largest money laundering and drug dealing centre in the world is the United States!

 But who is prepared to risk their Miami privileges to say that? On the regulatory compliance aspects of the report, the US complied with NOTHING in its reports.

In Delaware, Wyoming, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona and Wisconsin, anonymous accounts are permitted. In fact, Delaware lives off of them.

Second, when you are the “big dog” and you are surrounded by incompetent nations, you can hog-slap them for doing what you are doing. But when these weaklings have spent nearly 50 years with no strategy, merely begging the US and Europe, when these pusillanimous nations are festooned with debt and crime, yet tethered to the US economy by tourism: the US then has got your goat! Grin and bear it!

Now let’s do some geopolitics: First, this list is a dragnet. There are nations named toward which nothing will change and others that will feel the wrath of the US in direct and indirect ways.

Second, look at the list of nations: the US itself is on the list, so is Israel and more than 50 other nations.

Third, how will smaller nations feel the US pressure? Did you notice Canada’s name on the list?

That’s now really for Canada. That’s because Canada is the banking powerhouse in the Caribbean Basin.

The US has been pressuring Canada to tighten the screws on Caribbean banking operations. In the case of Bahamas, there is an added dimension, the US concerns about China creates a lynchpin and the US can press its China concerns under the guise of regulatory issues, demanding corporate and financial transparencies unavailable in the US itself!

Fourth, under Mr Trump’s aggressive “America First” approach, this report now sets the ground work for foreign policy specific to each country on the list. What shall we do?

I have warned politicians in this region that when you see this sort of report or initiative, don’t wait for the US to frame you. Go to them first.

Now that we in the Bahamas seem to have hit a wall with the WTO nonsense. Let’s do what i have advised since 2001: instigate and sign a bi-lateral Friendship Treaty with the US, in which all these matters are treated or face one sided US directed rules that demands compliance by threats.

Under a treaty arrangement we get something for everything given up. Under a treaty we can show the economic impact of our financial services on investment in the US; we can explain “generative investment”, pass-through status” and “node building for capital aggregation” all impacting the US economy.

We could leverage transshipment countermeasures for financial services benefits...all under one agreement; whilst neutralising the European Union and the OECD in one move. If we wait, we are just a problem the US must deal with, and that means a fat stick across our backs under threat!

If we don’t hear; we’ll feel!

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