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The brokers can offer plenty of shares this morning. From th 29 July Trading Statement:

'The Company expects to announce its interim results for the period ended 30 June 2020 in early September 2020'

I look forward to reading them and watching the market reaction.

Maybe part of Boris's Brexit master plan [he has one?] is to crash the £ to make exports more competitive - why else would he say he is reneging on the Withdrawal Agreement signed last year?

Where is the CONservatives 'oven ready' trade deal [other than on the BBQ]? I wore out my Levi jeans earlier this year - bought 4 new pairs as I was expecting imports to get more expensive.

VAL401 [risperidone] is used to treat schizophrenia and other psychoses - might help those bothered by conspiracies?

US closed tomorrow [labour day]

China bringing in a new Rectification Movement [support Xi or?]

California burning properly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEKWz3vD3NA

I thought the trade deal was oven ready; not ready to be thrown on a bonfire?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/06/five-weeks-clinch-brexit-deal-uk-move-boris-johnson-to-say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-06/johnson-warns-eu-not-to-expect-compromise-ahead-of-trade-talks?srnd=premium-europe

Why are they trying to devalue the £?

Burn, baby burn.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-06/the-bro-trader-options-enhanced-stock-money-machine-goes-global

The CONservatives got into power in 2010 with a manifesto commitment to scrap the Identity Cards Act 2006 (which they carried out). Now in power with "4 more years" to go they are bringing in digital id cards without meaningful public discourse.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/next-steps-outlined-for-uks-use-of-digital-identity

I doubt backbenchers will show spine as it will be spun as a way to deal with these pesky foreigners. Steps towards 'racial purity' always start with tiptoes. A bit like claiming to be defending the free press (from extreme rebellion) whilst cancelling daily press briefings from Downing Street and going straight to supporters on Feacesbook.

2 prizes in the trophy cabinet

Member of the 95% drop in Share Price club- awarded with merit.
The Least Oil per Share for an AIM Oil Producers - the Silver Egg Cup award.

And they are off to the races - Trump's nightmare to have a thousand armed NFAC Militia members gathered, outnumbering the National Guard presence.

The Trump loving Patriots seem to have beaten a retreat; if them red necks have gone off to drink beer it will get messy after dark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3FOTJ3P2s

The Americans love their Second Amendment until the ones they do not like arm themselves.

Why no TR-1 RNS? Surely you should submit the paperwork?

Big fight live?

'LIVE: Louisville, opposing militias gathering near Kentucky Derby'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKk1XSUMGQQ

All properly tooled up.

DDT is a pesticide banned for agriculture but still used in India and parts of Africa to treat mosquito infections. In the US they are using genetically modified mosquitos to try and spread a gene to stop the transmission of dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever in the mutant offspring of the wild female mosquitos.

Trump about to have another press conference, but he is normally late...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDYeCMj1Z88

That association is for human medical tech; I am more interested in plant science at the moment as humans keep breeding and damaging the soil's fertility whilst using chemicals that the pests they are trying to control develop resistance to those treatments.

Here’s some classic Abbottisms on women, sex, and gays:

1970s: “I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.”

2002: Virginity “is the greatest gift you can give someone.”

2010: “What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.”

2010: “I probably feel a bit threatened” by homosexuals.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/22/how-australias-winking-tony-abbott-became-one-of-the-worlds-most-unpopular-prime-ministers/

'does that include banana'

Some holders seem to have slipped up on a banana skin.

'In Cape Town, 3,700 blood samples were tested from the end of July to the beginning of August from women attending public antenatal clinics and people with HIV attending their public clinics. The researchers found that in this sample 37% of people had Covid-19 antibodies present.'

More and more evidence is coming out that Covid-19 is far more infectious than thought and that far more people have been asymptomatic; hopefully the feared winter double hit of flu and Covid-19 will not materialise. Whilst there is evidence of people being re-infected (the genome of the infections have not been the same so it has not been a lingering infection), the reinfections have mainly been mild or asymptomatic.

Seems good news to me.

Is 'Moving forward' the new drifting backwards?

'Don't play the game if you do not know the rules.'

My favourite saying when I was a Turf Accountant and people complained about deductions for non-runners or losing their money on an ante-post bet. Nobody ever complained after I told them the rules (but then again they did not want to argue with the large man with a side arm and a pump action shotgun).

Why people enter into the most significant financial contract of their lives without reading the fine print is beyond me. The smaller the fine print the bigger the magnifier glass should be.

From this months newsletter:

https://mega.online/en/articles/pandemic-boost-for-chinas-digital-revolution

https://mega.online/en/articles/innovative-solutions-to-bacterial-and-antibiotic-resistance

https://mega.online/en/articles/this-time-its-personal/

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