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February 17, 2019
Honest hotels
Hotel booking sites can make it so much easier to choose a destination for a holiday or streamline a business trip, but only if the public is able to trust them. This looks like it will happen soon. Major travel websites have agreed to change the way they do business after a UK investigation found some of them were deceiving users. They have now agreed to follow a common set ...
February 14, 2019
Russia’s internet chess game
THE Russian government plans to turn off direct connections to all internet routers outside its borders. The exercise, which is unlikely to last for more than a day or two, is supposed to allow Moscow to test its defenses against outside cyberattack. The shutdown does not in fact mean that Russians will suddenly find themselves unable to access servers around the world, but rather than they will reach those sites ...
February 14, 2019
Hold on there
As Bugs Bunny would have said: “Just one cotton-picking moment!” Newly elected Democrat congresswoman Ilham Omar has been damned for anti-Semitism and forced to apologize for two social media messages. Her “crime” was to write that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was using its financial and lobbying muscle to influence US politicians in support of Israel.It has long been a fact of Washington political life that major lobbying ...
February 13, 2019
Erdogan gets it wrong
It seems perfectly possible that the Chinese leadership set a trap for Turkey’s president. Somebody told Recep Tayyip Erdogan that a prominent Uighur musician had perished in one of the huge camps Beijing has established in China’s western and supposedly autonomous Xinjiang region.Erdogan, anxious to demonstrate his standing with the Muslim Brotherhood and its fellow sponsor Qatar, thundered against the death of the musician Abdurehim Heyit and went on to ...
February 12, 2019
Hungarian Islamophobia
When five paintings supposedly by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler failed to sell at the Nuremberg auction this week, the main reason given was that they were probably fakes. However, there was no shame about trying to sell these pictures along with other Hitlerian memorabilia.Adolf Hitler was himself a fake, with his racist diatribes and megalomaniacal ambitions. Yet, astonishingly, the civilized, educated and urbane people of Germany, the country that gave ...
February 11, 2019
The Ifs and Buts of Bitcoin
It could be argued the only reason that crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin have been given any sort of house room by the markets is that, as a general rule, there is far too much money chasing too few attractive investments. And that word “attractive” is worth refining into its modern sense. By and large it no longer means, “safe” and “reliable” but “high return”. But with any security offering a ...
February 11, 2019
Unlikely foes
The fraying of relations between France and Italy is extraordinary. These are two west European countries who are neighbors, allies and - from fashion to football, tourism to culture - marquee names on the continent.The dispute is all of Italy’s making. It was Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio’s decision to show up unannounced near Paris last week for a meeting with a prominent yellow vest protester – one of ...
February 10, 2019
Anti-BDS bill is unconstitutional
TheUS Senate has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would give states legal cover to punish companies that choose not to do business with Israel or Israeli-owned enterprises. The bill, known as S 1, thus clears its first major hurdle in Congress. But the bill is trying to muzzle criticism of Israel at the expense of the US Constitution.The bill, which passed in a 77-23 vote, says US ...
February 7, 2019
The State of the Union
To his political opponents, in their almost demented disdain for him, Donald Trump is a buffoon. But it did not seem to be a buffoon who delivered the State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday. The President liberals so love to hate gave an assured performance. One commentator noted that the arrogant Trump swagger seemed less evident, but then added that maybe that was because Americans have become ...
February 6, 2019
Trump and his generals are both wrong
US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from Syria was based on the erroneous assumption the menace of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) was at an end. It also took no account of the fate of the Syrian Kurdish YPG forces, alongside whom some 2,000 US troops have been operating. The YPG rather than the Assad regime’s army has been most responsible for the defeat of Daesh. Assad’s troops ...
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