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NGO’s are not above the law
NONGOVERNMENTAL Organizations, (NGOs) including United Nations humanitarian bodies seek to bring food, shelter and medical aid to the suffering.The camps they establish to support victims of war and natural disaster may quickly become unpleasantly overcrowded but at least they provide a place of safety where people can be housed, fed and given medical care.Almost invariably this aid is provided by NGOs who use funding from governments around the world as well as their own supporters in the wealthy First World. This means, that for example in Jordan or Bangladesh, the local health services and economies are not overwhelmed by the sudden spike in population.Most of these international NGOs, such as Oxfam and Médecins sans Frontières are charities. The work they do looking after people who...
June 18, 2019

NGO’s are not above the law

Two fresh shipping outrages
Iranian media yesterday described the damage to two tankers in the Gulf of Oman as “an accident”. It is hard to believe this. The two vessels, the Kokuka Courageous loaded with methanol and the Front Altair carrying 75,000 tons of naphtha, were some 50 kilometers apart when disasters struck them. A fire broke out on board the Front Altair.The crews of both vessels abandoned ship. All 44 of them were reportedly picked up by one or more Iranian vessels. It is not yet clear what these Iranian craft were. However, the alarming suspicion must be that if they were not warships, they were vessels that were standing by for just such an eventuality.The Taiwanese charterer of the Front Altair said that the crew believed that they had been struck by a torpedo. There was also a report that the...
June 13, 2019

Two fresh shipping outrages

Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds
UNLESS Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan scraps his order for Russian S-400 ground-to-air missiles, next month Washington will suspend his country’s participation in the Lockheed F-35 stealth fighter program.The Russian missiles, which are designed to shoot down warplanes, including the F-35, were due to be delivered this month. But in May Ankara’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said that there might be a delay. Even though Akar went on to insist the deployment of the Russian equipment would be going ahead in due time, this caused some analysts to speculate that Erdogan was going cold on his Moscow deal. Their reasoning was that the Turkish president, aware of his rising tide of economic troubles, had suddenly realized that a dislocation in economic relations with the United States,...
June 13, 2019

Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds

Nuclear Iran: Europe should get behind Trump
SOME apparently sensational multilateral agreements that at the time have been hailed to the rafters have turned out to be anything but epoch-making. Unfortunately the Middle East has been the subject of two of them. Where, more than a quarter of a century after the deal was signed, are the peace and justice promised the Palestinians in the Oslo Accord? Of no less pressing concern, where is the non-nuclear good neighbor Iran that was supposed to have been created four years ago in Obama’s much-heralded Geneva nuclear accord with Tehran? There has been sound evidence that far from abandoning their nuclear weapons program, the ayatollahs have pressed on in secret. For reasons best known to themselves the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continued to sign off...
June 12, 2019

Nuclear Iran: Europe should get behind Trump

Rape and race hatred
RAPE is an appalling crime, made even more abhorrent when it is motivated by racial or religious hatred and contempt. Six Hindus have just been found guilty of the abduction, torture, rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-administered Kashmir. This savage attack disgusted many Indians, regardless of background, chiming as it did with the widespread movement against the sexual crimes against women throughout the country. The only people not expressing revulsion were members of right-wing Hindu groups who protested the arrests of their eight co-religionists. The court acquitted two of the accused but Hindu extremists are still protesting the guilty verdicts against five of the men. An accused minor is due to be tried separately. There can be little doubt that those...
June 11, 2019

Rape and race hatred

Trying to put the brakes of high frequency trading
TECHNOLOGY cannot be “un-invented”. Once a discovery is made, it continues to exist for good or ill. Some of the Los Alamos scientists behind the development of the first atomic bomb were appalled at what they had created. A few decided the new weapon was so geopolitically destabilizing they passed its secrets to the Russians. By frustrating American military dominance, these scientists brought about nuclear power parity which has prevented it ever being used again after Japan had been blasted to the peace table by the devastating detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The same is true of high frequency trading. This trading scheme combines powerful algorithms with state-of-the-art fiber optic communications to allow computers within milliseconds to identify and take advantage of...
May 31, 2019

Trying to put the brakes of high frequency trading

Venezuelan rivals to talk again in Oslo
The Norwegians are due to host a second round of talks between Venezuela’s bitter rivals. Two representatives each of beleaguered president Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido are expected to meet again next week in Oslo.Though some opposition leaders oppose the talks, arguing that they are merely a delaying tactic by Maduro, it would surely be wrong to dismiss them as a pointless exercise. It is easy to understand the suspicions coming from Guaido’s camp. The stark reality is that the opposition’s attempt to force Maduro from power with huge popular demonstrations have so far failed.Indeed, after the initial heady days when it seemed to opposition protesters that it required just one more shove to send Maduro and his people off to exile in Cuba or Russia or even Turkey,...
May 29, 2019

Venezuelan rivals to talk again in Oslo

Ebola rears its terrible head again
When the largest-ever outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease struck West Africa in 2013, there was worldwide panic. The medical response mirrored the earlier irruption of Avian Flu except that tackling Ebola involved far more intensive treatment of victims, by medical personal who all too often risked and sometimes lost their own lives in caring for them. And there was another important factor that almost certainly influenced the global reaction to Avian Flu. In the end, influenza is a common condition occurring regularly every winter. Though Avian Flu was alarming, treatments became available. It was an inconvenience rather than a threat to life. Few people now remember that in the three years from 1918, more people died from the so-called Spanish Flu pandemic than during the...
May 28, 2019

Ebola rears its terrible head again

Consensus politics hit in EU elections
The loudest message from Sunday’s European election results is that opinion in the continent is polarizing. It is going too far to say that the political center ground is being hollowed out, but voters in the 28 member states have punished long dominant centrist parties by supporting anti-establishment candidates. The 751-seat European parliament has long been dominated by three out of eight main groups. The center-right European People’s Party bloc remains the largest and has traditionally formed a grand alliance with center-left Socialist and Democrat blocs. However, all three lost MEPs and have thus forfeited their absolute majority. They will need to look for support from the Liberals and the Greens who were significant winners in this election. The other main victors in...
May 27, 2019

Consensus politics hit in EU elections

More is not merrier
While some national football associations as well as FIFA President Gianni Infantino will no doubt be disappointed at the news that plans to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams, up from 32, have been abandoned, many others should welcome it. While it is set that the 2026 World Cup will be enlarged to 48 teams, Infantino had toyed with the notion of bringing forward the increase to the 2022 tournament in Qatar. But meeting a few days ago, FIFA, world football’s governing body, said that after a “thorough and comprehensive consultation process” the change “could not be made now”. That conclusion should come as a major relief. The change would have required Qatar to share hosting duties with other countries in the region, however, at this stage, Qatar cannot co-host with...
May 26, 2019

More is not merrier

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