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The latest Private Eye's columnist M.D. notes "Private hospitals are now doing more hip and knee replacements than the NHS (56 v 44) for the first time since records began".

So there is a shortage of NHS surgery for life deliberating conditions. I expect that there are disproportionately less Private Hospitals in the Red Wall constituencies - will the new local CONservative MPs complain or are they spineless supplicants grateful for favours from The Dear Leader?

On Wednesday evening there was a political rally in Virginia - it 'began with the pledge of allegiance being delivered to a flag that was present “at the peaceful rally with Donald J. Trump on Jan. 6.”'.

It is a crazy world.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-gop-back-my-big-lie-or-ill-burn-the-party-down?ref=home

Brave woman; she deserves recognition for speaking out but is more likely to face a black list and prosecution if she was stepped too close to the Official Secrets Act, especially with her direct criticism of The Dear Leader.

' we would go in to brief him about yemen and he would just like joke around and waste everybody's time'

Molly speaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsPkdFusJI

Good read, especially when he explains how the con / game works when it comes to abandoning wells:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-14/it-pays-to-not-pay-your-debts

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Groceries seem to be top of the list still. The Daily Fail seems to be encouraging panic buying; anybody would think we had a Labour GOV.

'Sorry we're out of salad. . . but here's some chocolate! Supermarkets pack fresh food aisles with sweets and Lynx and fill chillers with HP Sauce and salad cream in bizarre bid to disguise empty shelves'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10090915/Rishi-Sunak-says-confident-gifts-tree-Christmas.html

Civil war? Lots of gunfire on Al Jazeera. I grew up with Lebanese folks...

https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/SPO/result-of-tender-offer-rylz9q9d87fyjcj.html

I think it is more likely that the warrant holders would be tempted to buy a significant quantity of shares at a deeply discounted price [say 0.5p] with warrants attached at a premium [say 0.7p]. The millions raised [say £3m] would be then used to pay off the CLN and for working capital.

And, hey presto, existing private investors are massively diluted just before the bumper pay day arrives. It may seem a cynical view but experience with some companies listed in the UK breeds cynicism... and many acknowledge concern that cash for general day to day spending [like directors pay and the tea and biscuits] might now be stretched.

Every day without production, is one day closer to the date of delivery of the hedged gas - will there be penalties if they do not deliver on time?

With the share price up just a fraction when the profit on delivered unhedged gas must have increased many fold, the market seems unconvinced. Buying pressure has vaporised and ramping has evaporated; even the cuddo clones seem silent.

But something went wrong during the cloning process and the "a" was not copied and replicated.

We know you have been cloned...

In the event that China was to annex Taiwan, expect the West to cripple TCSM, ideally by attacking and disabling the photolithography systems supplied by ASML. I would be surprised if the US / UK does not already have Trojans waiting to deploy against the machines.

Trek,

To add t o your inflation concerns I posted this on another board a couple of days ago - drought is not the only problem in the food supply:

I've got a combine harvester - but no tyres so food is rotting in the fields

https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/desperate-tires-components-shortage-roils-us-harvest-2021-10-12/

#farmer_joe

It will get interesting when support at 70 and then 80p gets tested.

Careful what you wish for - if Evergrande goes very bad there will be significant contagion amongst the monied class in China just from the unfinished properties let alone the high interest loans sold to members of the Chinese public. An autocratic populist dictator can only survive under popular support and annexing Taiwan under the guise of national security / national interests / the one China policy would be popular and quieten discontent over the stalling / failing economy.

War may be sooner than you want.

Reports of large vessels bringing goods from Asia being diverted away:

Man in street says 'PANIC BUY!"
Brexiteers say "We warned you Britain was full so there is no room for all these foreign goods"
Nom says "The world is already in a recession"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/13/felixstowe-backlog-improving-so-shop-normally-for-christmas-says-minister

#stockpile_canned_goods

Think of it like a taxi fare; if the roads are busy and all trips take longer, the taxi owner needs to charge more for each trip to cover costs.

unless they need to raise cash...

There seems to be plenty of demand from professional landlords - if wages go up by more than interest rates, then expect landlord demand to support prices slowly increasing with rents increasing at the same time.

The landlord demand will also help with insulating properties as there are now energy efficiency minimums for rental properties.