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Car accidents don’t seem to matter
If any more chilling statistics were needed on traffic accidents, here are a few more: Road injuries are now the biggest killer of children and young adults worldwide, and have also moved up to the eighth leading cause of death in the world for people of all ages.These are the latest facts from the World Health Organization. Will they make a difference? The evidence suggests they will not. For the past 15 years, the rate of road deaths has stayed fairly constant, at about 18 per 100,000 people. Since that figure has not changed, it can be assumed that the second worst part of the WHO report, after the deaths and injuries, is that we have become numb to these sorts of statistics. We are no longer surprised or shocked by them. We take them as the norm. We just assume that this is an...
December 10, 2018

Car accidents don’t seem to matter

Netanyahu won’t leave quietly
Indictment or no indictment, it will not be easy for Benjamin Netanyahu to be ousted as Israel’s prime minister, even after police recently recommended indicting him and his wife for fraud, bribery and breach of trust. His own Likud Party is with him, the other parties in the ruling coalition seem to support him and according to the polls, despite the scandals, he would win elections next year.Netanyahu remains popular even after being accused of accepting expensive gifts from friends, involvement in a deal for better press coverage in a newspaper by undercutting its competitor, and awarding special treatment to a telecommunications magnate in return for more than positive coverage for him and his wife on the magnate’s popular online news site.Netanyahu has had a rough 2018. The world...
December 09, 2018

Netanyahu won’t leave quietly

Hard knocks for European Mafiosi
It has been a bad week for international crime bosses. A two-year operation by European police forces just came to a triumphant end when law officers in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands swooped on Mafia operations. At least 90 suspects were detained. Over three tons of cocaine and 140 kilograms were seized along with millions of euros. The mobsters targeted in this apparently painstaking “Operation Pollino” belonged to the crime syndicate the Ndrangheta, arguably the most vicious and brutal of all the Mafia gangs. Based in Calabria in southern Italy, it is understood that some of its key bosses were picked up as hundreds of European police officers conducted in the simultaneous dawn raids Wednesday across all four countries. This is a significant blow to organized crime,...
December 06, 2018

Hard knocks for European Mafiosi

Macron loses his way
The French are paying a high price for keeping the racist Marine Le Pen out of the Élysée Palace in last summer’s presidential election. Le Pen and her since-renamed far-right National Front promised a range of generous incentives for voters which were widely mocked as being completely unaffordable by a France already burdened by excessively open-handed health, welfare and social security systems.The only alternative was Emmanuel Macron, the clean-cut banker, unsullied by any past political record, who promised widespread economic reforms. The last time the French chose a president with much the same economic agenda was in 2007. Nicolas Sarkozy promised to balance the French budget and cut back on what he characterized as unaffordable featherbedding. However, in the event, the global...
December 06, 2018

Macron loses his way

When was the Internet ever secure?
A succession of governments around the world is warning against the use of Chinese-built technology, particularly in the routers that distribute Internet traffic. The concern is that within the chips that run these devices there are hidden “backdoors” that will allow Beijing’s spies to monitor sensitive communications. The Chinese manufacturers of this equipment, including Huawei, of course deny their products pose any sort of risk to those who use them.Ever since the first use of telegraph wire, signals sent by electronic impulse have been open to interception. In the First World War combatants on both sides found out how to tap into each other’s fixed wire links. The arrival of radio “wireless” communications opened up a new avenue of interception and monitoring even when...
December 05, 2018

When was the Internet ever secure?

Another electoral triumph for bigotry
Another European election and another set of gains for politicians who build their platform on prejudice, race-hate and Islamophobia. This time, the ugly head of bigotry has raised itself in Spain, where the far-right Vox party has done significantly better than expected in regional elections in the autonomous southern region of Andalusia.Predicted to win at the most only five seats in the regional parliament, voters in fact returned 12 Vox legislators. It is now possible that this party, which was formed less than four years ago, could now be part of a right-wing coalition to run the region.Vox’s anti-immigration message has been strengthened in Andalusia by the fact that the region’s long Mediterranean coastline has been the major landing point for asylum-seekers setting off from...
December 04, 2018

Another electoral triumph for bigotry

Bush Sr. was tough on Israel
While the one term of US President George H. W. Bush, who died Saturday, is defined largely by the end of the Cold War and the 1991 war against Saddam Hussein, it should also be remembered that Bush Sr. was tough on Israel, perhaps more than any other occupant of the White House. Despite his inability to mediate a long-term peace settlement between the Palestinians and Israel, Bush’s readiness to confront Israel forced Tel Aviv to concede that it would not get a free pass simply because of its historical ties with Washington.When on March 6, 1991, Bush told Congress, “The time has come to put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict”, that declaration culminated in the Madrid Peace Conference in October that year. The conference for the first time gathered all of the parties to the...
December 03, 2018

Bush Sr. was tough on Israel

Designer genes
A Chinese scientist’s claim to have created the first genetically edited babies has evoked widespread condemnation from the scientific community, for good reason. Playing with humanity’s genetic code could open a Pandora’s box. Scientists could eventually be able to alter DNA to create genetically enhanced human beings, which goes against all the ethics and norms of life as we know it.The Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, used a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to alter the DNA of two unborn children to make them resistant to HIV.Regardless of the fact that the little data He has revealed suggests that his efforts might or might not have worked, and in fact may have put the babies’ health at risk, there’s a huge difference between gene therapy and genetic engineering. The...
December 02, 2018

Designer genes

Purblind banking madness
A Danish bank, which once boasted a squeaky-clean reputation, has just been charged with money laundering involving at least $230 billion over a period of only two years. Danske Bank, owned by the Maersk shipping family, has already seen the ousting of its chief executive and chairman.The scam centered on the bank’s once obscure branch in Estonia, which it now admits became one of Danske’s most profitable operations as it took in tens of billions of suspect foreign currency, largely from Russians or citizens from former Soviet States.But the ripples from this major financial scandal are spreading beyond Copenhagen. Thursday police and financial regulators conducted a high-profile raid on the prestigious Frankfurt headquarters of mighty Deutsche Bank.The whistleblower at the Danish...
November 30, 2018

Purblind banking madness

International sanctions must be consistent
Over the last century, international sanctions have become a geopolitical weapon of choice. At interstate level they have had mixed results. The 1940 US-led oil embargo on Japan in the face of its continued aggression in China and Indochina finally convinced Tokyo to attack the United States and Great Britain.More recently, sanctions on apartheid South Africa made a significant but not overwhelming contribution to the end of white rule. Sanctions on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq arguably did succeed in that they caused him to abandon his WMD program. However, the George W. Bush White House deliberately ignored the finding of UN inspectors that they had indeed gone. In the end the sanctions on Iraq only hurt ordinary citizens, as top members of the regime could look after themselves.The Iranian...
November 28, 2018

International sanctions must be consistent

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