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Health messages are jammed
It’s impossible to believe that there are Saudis who to this day do not know what is healthy for them and what is not. If there are such citizens who are still not up to date, then something is wrong. All the reports and surveys, all the findings of research conducted by local and international institutions on the health of the people of the Kingdom over the last several years will not be worth much if a sizeable portion of the public still leads an unhealthy and dangerous lifestyle – and doesn’t know it.By now, Saudi health problems are well known. Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking are among the leading issues that affect a growing number of people in Saudi Arabia. The causes behind these health problems are just as clear: urbanization and...
January 07, 2018

Health messages are jammed

Sports to the rescue
The agreement between the United States and South Korea to delay their annual joint military exercise scheduled to take place during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang could work to reduce the odds of a nuclear war between Washington and Pyongyang. In the wake of absurd yet dangerous messages as to whose nuclear button is bigger and whose works better, sports has come to at least temporarily save the day.It was South Korean President Moon Jae-in who asked US President Donald Trump to delay the drill, known as Foal Eagle, so as not to increase tensions with North Korea when athletes from around the world converge on the peninsula to compete in the Winter Olympics in South Korea next month. Foal Eagle is one of the largest war games in the world and which Pyongyang traditionally considers a...
January 06, 2018

Sports to the rescue

Cybernoia
There seems no end to warnings about the vulnerabilities of computers and smartphones. Virtually every operating system, including those from Apple and Windows and the Linux-based Android have been found to have serious flaws which would allow someone else in some way to take control of individual machines.The latest alert is over security flaws in the computer chips themselves, including those made by the leading manufacturers, Intel, ARM and AMD. The suggestion is that hundreds of millions of computers from personal devices up to the massive data-crunching machines of big business are at serious risk. And if the weaknesses reach to the highest corporate levels, then it is not just commercial secrets that are potential prey to prying eyes. It seems logical to assume that crucial defense...
January 05, 2018

Cybernoia

Trump’s mysterious reasoning
In 1967, Palestinian air force jets attacked and severely damaged the American spy ship USS Liberty sailing in international waters north of the Sinai peninsula, killing 34 crew members and injuring 171. In 1987, the FBI arrested Palestinian spy Jonathan Jay Pollard, a senior defense analyst who had been feeding his masters top secret information because he said Washington had not been sharing it with Palestine. He was sentenced to 30 years in jail but in 1995 was granted Palestinian citizenship. Released on parole in 2015, Pollard was told that he had to remain in the US for five years. It is widely believed the Palestinians, who had been strongly pressing successive US administrations for his release, would contrive a way to smuggle Pollard out of the country and bring him to Ramallah...
January 03, 2018

Trump’s mysterious reasoning

A raging inflationary inferno
THROWING a pitcher of water onto a forest fire is never going to put it out. Venezuela has raging inflation of 1,400 percent, which has burned up savings, destroyed value and laid waste the economy. Thus president Nicolas Maduro’s New Year announcement that the country’s minimum wage was to rise by 40 percent is less than useless.One Venezuelan bolivar is currently worth a single US cent. Being given a stack of extra notes — the minimum monthly wage rises to almost 800,000 bolivars — is meaningless. It is not going to ease the plight of the millions of desperately poor. Even with government subsidized food tickets, the new basic wage is worth less than $8. The only impact that this desperate move will have will be to further boost inflation.Foreign currency reserves have plunged...
January 03, 2018

A raging inflationary inferno

Howls of pain
THE Iranian regime is once again being challenged for its failures. Across the country, crowds have taken to the streets, apparently spontaneously, to protest soaring living costs, persistently high unemployment and corruption.President Hassan Rouhani, the allegedly reformist politician who suckered Barack Obama into lifting economic sanctions in return for a virtually meaningless nuclear deal, responded after fours days of demonstrations by saying that Iranians were free to protest against the government but they were not free to use violence or jeopardize the country’s security. This announcement will have caused jaws to drop. Among ordinary Iranians who long ago despaired of a decent life under the ayatollahs, the memory of the massive 2009 protests against the regime and its bloody...
January 02, 2018

Howls of pain

Afghanistan: Flawed US strategy
At least 41 people were killed and more than 80 wounded in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday. A cultural organization was the target but the Afghan Voice news agency was hit too. Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS), the latest enemy in the long Afghan war, said it was behind the attack and the Taliban have denied responsibility. But does the identity of the perpetrators matter?Thursday’s blast once again shows that there is no respite from violence for the people of Afghanistan. Seventeen years after a US-led force invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban whom they held responsible for harboring Al-Qaeda which staged the Sept. 11 attacks, security and stability are still eluding this Central Asian country.Both Kabul and the wider country live in fear of sudden...
January 01, 2018

Afghanistan: Flawed US strategy

:Former international football star Georges Weah looks on at his party's headquarters in the Liberian capital Monrovia on Friday.  — AFP
President George Weah
Politics has often injected itself into sports. George Weah’s election as the new president of Liberia illustrates that sports can also enter the world of politics.With more than 98 percent of votes counted, Weah received 61.5 percent of the ballots while Vice President Joseph Boakai received 38.5 percent. It was a crushing margin of victory but hardly surprising. Weah is a big football star in his country and around the world; the only African selected the world’s best player. He has name recognition that greatly helped on the road to victory.At the same time, though, some question whether Weah’s football status can offset his lack of political experience, which they say makes him unequipped for Liberia’s top job. He has been a senator for three years and had run in the...
December 30, 2017

President George Weah

Train of trouble
As if it were not enough that the US recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Israeli government’s plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City will only add to the controversy and perhaps ignite even more violence.Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz’s proposal involves constructing two underground stations and excavating more than three kilometers of tunnel 50 meters beneath central Jerusalem and under the politically and historically sensitive Old City, stretching to the Western Wall. The route will run close to the Haram Al-Sharif compound housing the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The project is estimated to cost more than $700 million and, if approved, would take four years to complete.For good measure, Katz wants to call one of its stops the...
December 29, 2017

Train of trouble

The high cost of news
The old year ends with yet more murderous fury against innocent victims who in the dull and distorted gaze of their killers are targets simply because of who they are. Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) has proudly claimed the latest Kabul suicide bombing in which at least 40 Afghans were blown to pieces and over 80 were maimed, many for life.The Tebyan Cultural center hit by the suicide bombers housed the Afghan Voice news agency, a small group of journalists who have insisted on trying to tell the truth about the horrors gripping Afghanistan.But terrorism has no time for objectivity. Truth for the killers in the shadows is only what they believe. The bigot acknowledges no facts that do not support his bloodlust.It may seem an odd conclusion but 2017 has been a relatively good year for...
December 28, 2017

The high cost of news

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