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Different writer with bold ideas!
There are some writers, like Alvin Toffler and John Naisbitt, who can be described as great and “different”, because they have the ability and insight to see what others do not see and in their scientific way they can extrapolate what they have learned from different sources.Today, there is a writer who does not receive enough attention and who only seems to be followed in elite circles, but whose name will inevitably be at the forefront of writers influential in the fields of technology, energy, climate and economics.The writer I refer to is Vaclav Smil, a Canadian of Czech descent, who has written over 40 very important books on topics, such as “energy and civilization”. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada, and is the favorite writer of the...
December 02, 2019

Different writer with bold ideas!

The grim story in the “China Cables”
THANKS to leaked documents, there now seems no doubt that the Chinese authorities are holding upward of a million Muslims in detention camps in the supposedly autonomous Xinjiang region in the far West of the country. Within these forbidding installations, with multiple high walls and concrete watch towers inmates are being “reeducated”.Beijing has always pretended that all those in these high-security prisons were there voluntarily for education and training. A bundle of official documents that has found its way into the public domain now proves these claims are false.The majority of the detainees come from Xinjiang. Earlier this year, the government allowed strictly-controlled access to foreign media. The journalists were shown happy Uighur inmates, singing and dancing and protesting...
November 29, 2019

The grim story in the “China Cables”

KSA & UAE… a partnership that overcomes all challenges
No one can define the nature of the deep-rooted relations between Saudi Arabia and the UAE; the strong bonds between the two countries draw their strength from blood, kinship, neighbor, language, and religion.These relations have been growing over the decades since Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan founded the UAE in the early 1970s; they have evolved — and continue to evolve — into a strong strategic fraternal partnership that resists the challenges globally and regionally.It is thus natural that the bonds between the two countries have reached this current status through unprecedented coordination, integrated action on vital issues, and a full understanding of the regional concerns and threats facing the two countries.The visit of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, deputy premier and...
November 28, 2019

KSA & UAE… a partnership that overcomes all challenges

Trump and Mexico’s narcoterrorists
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s apparently sudden decisions often bring confusion in their wake. But there ought to be no mistaking the significance of his plan to designate Mexican drugs cartels as “terrorists”. When these death-dealing gangsters are legally defined as “terrorists,” it will be possible to deploy a whole new panoply of organizations and measures against them.There is, in truth, little to choose between the sadistic and gross violence of Daesh (the so-called IS) and the South American drugs cartels, of which those in Mexico are by far and away the most brutal and ruthless. Like Daesh, the Mexican butchers have also filmed their depraved killing and torturing, but unlike Daesh, this footage is not for broadcasting round the world on social media, but kept largely for the...
November 28, 2019

Trump and Mexico’s narcoterrorists

Aramco IPO: To buy or not to buy?
“To buy or not to buy”, that is the question! Most Saudis will eventually buy into their oil company giant Saudi Aramco as the question has moved from if to how much. That’s normal. Everything about this sale is amazingly enormous and different. We never thought this day would come! After the first announcement that 5 percent of Aramco would be sold to local and international investors, there was total shock followed by heated debate. Some thought we were selling our notational treasures to foreigners – including our oil wells. Many felt that allowing outsiders to own part of the company would give them the right to share in management and decision making - including production levels. “Having oil consumers on board will enable them to drive production up and prices down, against...
November 25, 2019

Aramco IPO: To buy or not to buy?

Impeachment and the US election!
News related to next year’s American elections is of vital interest to the whole world because of the great weight and influence of the United States, as well as the fact that American democracy is one of the most successful and most important models in the world.The US Congress, which is currently contemplating the impeachment and removal of the US president, is gathering evidence and documents, as well as obtaining the testimony of influential figures in the government.The issue being investigated is whether or not the president applied pressure on a foreign country (Ukraine) in order to obtain information against his main rival in the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, whose son was once involved with a Ukrainian company. It is alleged that the president held up military aid to Ukraine to...
November 25, 2019

Impeachment and the US election!

Why is the Indian economy in free fall?
“We have seen many young adults coming to hospitals with hypertension and elevated sugar related to work stress and uncertainty of jobs. Even occult depression in on the rise,” wrote a renowned cardiologist to me, a few days ago. The news sent a shiver down my spine. Surely the Indian economy had not slipped so precariously?Indian GDP growth rates have slipped to around five percent from seven/eight percent in earlier years. The Indian economy is in a free-fall state. Poor are not getting enough to eat:A survey by the National Statistical office (NSO), reports that cconsumer spending has fallen after four decades. The report is alarming since overall rural demand has declined by 8.8 percent. Rural demand for rudimentary items like salt, sugar and spices has declined by 16.6 percent....
November 24, 2019

Why is the Indian economy in free fall?

The Iranian threat
Since the 1979 revolution that led to the establishment of a totalitarian theocracy, the Tehran regime has threatened the stability and security of the Middle East.In deciding to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement and reinstate sanctions against Iran, President Donald Trump stressed on May 8, 2018 that the Joint Global Action Plan, concluded in 2015, was the “worst agreement ever signed by his country”.Indeed, this agreement was conceived by former President Obama who wanted to reverse alliances as part of his destructive strategy, of which the so-called “Arab springs” are a sad illustration. In reality, it was a fool’s market that mainly allowed the Iranian regime to strengthen itself and use most of the income from sanctions relief to finance Iran’s...
November 24, 2019

The Iranian threat

Aung San Suu Kyi — delusions of grandeur?
MYANMAR leader Aung San Suu Kyi has decided to become personally involved in the genocide lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Gambia, on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, filed the charges last week.There was widespread surprise when she announced she would be leading the Myanmar legal team to the court in The Hague. She has no formal legal training. Her degrees were politics, economics and philosophy.This deeply-tarnished Nobel Peace Laureate appears to be intent on using her once-lofty reputation to argue in court that there was no genocide of the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state and there was no ethnic cleansing. It would be a neat trick if she could persuade the judges that approaching a million Rohingya moved voluntarily to refugee camps in...
November 22, 2019

Aung San Suu Kyi — delusions of grandeur?

Third World lessons for the First
THE devastating fires in California and Australia have had an added horror, in that they have not simply consumed relatively scattered rural properties, they have actually reached the very edges of Los Angeles and Sydney.The iconic Australian city is this week covered in a thick haze of smoke from the inferno licking at its suburbs. Exhausted firefighters are being relieved by crews brought in from other parts of the country. Continuing high temperatures and strong winds threaten to fan the blaze. Though New South Wales is the hardest hit, there are also serious blazes elsewhere, all brought about by a three-year drought. Some parts of the country have just recorded their driest ever nine months.Environmentalists may argue many tree species require fires to help them to regenerate....
November 21, 2019

Third World lessons for the First

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