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Mexico humiliated by its terrorists
LAST week the authorities in Mexico acted decisively when they arrested the wanted son of the notorious drugs baron El Chapo. But almost immediately, the police action in the city of Culiacan went disastrously wrong. Members of the El Chapo gang fought back ferociously. Eight people including law officers were killed and 16 injured. At this point the police effectively surrendered by letting their prisoner go free.Mexican President Andres Obrador announced after Ovido Guzan was released that: “The capture of a criminal is not worth more than people's lives ” compounded the shame of this botched operation. El Chapo — Joaquin Guzman — is currently in the United States to where he was extradited to face a raft of charges relating his worldwide narcotics empire. His son Ovido...
October 21, 2019

Mexico humiliated by its terrorists

The oil magician!
WHEN the history of oil and its impact on the world's economy is reviewed, important milestones need to be considered. While oil was first discovered in China in 600 BC, the history of oil shaping economy began in North America, specifically in Canada, Ontario, in 1858.But oil became a serious industry when oil was discovered in America, Pennsylvania in 1859, and that in commercial quantities.The US and European giants began exploring prospecting opportunities, giving birth to BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil, Texaco, Mobil and Exxon. Gradually, oil has become the most important economic commodity that harnesses political action around the world.For a long time, the commodity was driven by the rules of market economies based on supply and demand. This situation continued until the...
October 21, 2019

The oil magician!

Orban’s humiliating Budapest defeat
Hungary’s controversial Prime Minister Viktor Orban has suffered a shock political defeat. His Fidesz party’s two-term mayor of the capital Budapest, Istvan Tarlos, was ousted in elections at the weekend. It represents an important first-ever check for the increasingly authoritarian Orban, who clearly imagined his racist blockade of migrants and his barely-disguised Islamophobia continued to be widely popular.Fidesz mayors were ousted from ten of the 23 cities in which votes were held. That is the good news. But less encouraging is the reality that it took a series of deals among opposition parties to bring about these results. Essentially it was agreed among them that they would agree on and back just one candidate to challenge the incumbents of the long-dominant governing party,...
October 15, 2019

Orban’s humiliating Budapest defeat

The call to be proactive
A few years ago, a fire quickly raged through one of Jeddah’s schools killing two teachers. The regional governor, Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, stated that he “received the news of the fire while I was inside the governorate in Makkah attending a meeting. I rushed immediately to Jeddah to see the incident for myself.”More recently, the main terminal of the Al Haramain train at Jeddah was consumed by another fire that rendered the station inoperable. Although the loss of lives was minimal in both situations, the fact is that even one lost life should be enough to wake up the relevant authorities over the need to be more proactive.Today there are thousands of schools in the various regions of this country, some in a very dilapidated state, that need a closer inspection in terms of fire...
October 15, 2019

The call to be proactive

RAJENDRA K. ANEJA
A Man and a Star
A salesman in a garments shop in a shopping mall in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia asked me, “You are from India. Do you know Mr. Amitabh Bachchan?” “How do you know Mr. Bachchan,” I queried back. “Oh! We see all his pictures. He is a great actor.” Another time, at Lagos airport in Nigeria, after seeing my Indian passport, the Immigration officer announced to me, “You are from the land of Amitabh Bachchan!”Later, I was working the grocery retail outlets in Dakar in Senegal. I noticed an African shopkeeper watching the movie “Deewar” with French subtitles. I could not help asking him how and why he was watching an Indian movie made thousands of miles away. “I love Amitabh Bachchan, I watch all his movies,” he told me. I was amazed at the fan following of Amitabh Bachchan...
October 15, 2019

A Man and a Star

Tunisia’s new president
Tunisians have become so fed up with the bickering politicians that they have elected since they triggered the so-called Arab Spring in 2011, that they have just chosen a president who is the complete antithesis of a political animal.Indeed the country’s new head of state, Kais Saied, a 61-year-old retired constitutional law professor, is so lacking in charisma and charm that even loyal supporters happily describe him variously as “Robot” and “Robocop”. The dour-faced president-elect’s victory - he stood as an independent - was based on widespread disgust with the existing political establishment and its failure to grapple with an ailing economy and rising joblessness. Though predictably, they all protested to the contrary, too few politicians, even within some of the leading...
October 14, 2019

Tunisia’s new president

Saudi Arabia’s pride in Gitex Dubai 2019 Exhibition
With its presence in the Gitex Dubai 2019 Exhibition, the Saudi Ministry of Interior was keen to make the optimum use of the media to highlight the Kingdom’s various hi-tech accomplishments, especially in protecting its security and facilitating the services being provided to citizens and expatriates.The Interior Ministry’s pavilion at the Gitex Dubai 2019 Exhibition attracted visitors from different countries of the world. Some were amazed at the modern technology they saw and the methods used to serve citizens. Others took the opportunity to apply for a tourist visa to the Kingdom, as it was easy to submit an application and complete procedures in a short time. The applicant only had to wait for a short while to receive an email approving his visa application.The pavilion attracted...
October 14, 2019

Saudi Arabia’s pride in Gitex Dubai 2019 Exhibition

Lebanon between two projects!
Followers of the popular movement in Lebanon know who the enemies of the country are. It is the same team that kidnapped the civilian state at gunpoint, the same team that pledged allegiance to a non-Lebanese imam and leader and declared its absolute loyalty to him.It is the same team that distributed pictures of non-Lebanese figures and flags that you see outside Rafik Hariri International Airport, as if this were a sign of the death of Hariri’s national nonsectarian project and the end of Lebanese independence as Iranian sectarian domination returns the country to a black and ignorant era.This is responsible for social fragmentation, violent economic recession, deterioration of the value of the national currency, rampant unemployment, uncontrolled inflation, lack of investment, arms...
October 14, 2019

Lebanon between two projects!

Dealing with terror
THE murderous assault on a synagogue and a Turkish-owned eatery in the German city of Halle are both being blamed on a far-right extremist. Two people died in a hail of gunfire. It comes in a week that a suspected Syrian terrorist hijacked a truck in Limburg, near Frankfurt and plowed it into a line of motorists, seriously injuring nine people. Both these crimes were acts of terror, like all such enormities the deeds of ignorant and hate-filled bigots. In their warped view of the world, they somehow imagined that killing and maiming complete strangers were going to advance the cause that they espouse. They doubtless saw themselves in some perverse way as heroes. They were striking a blow against enemies, who in their pathetic estimation, were so wicked, they did not deserve the slightest...
October 11, 2019

Dealing with terror

Bringing down the president
THE cacophony of hatred and vilification launched against President Donald Trump by the US political elite began even before the man sat down for the first time in the Oval Office. And it has not ceased since then, even for a moment. Many of the inhabitants of the Capitol Hill “swamp” that Trump promised to drain loathe their elected president, to the point of distraction. The boom box of social media produces an endless litany of often-violent abuse condemning every little thing Trump says or does. But how substantial is this self-appointed jury? Does its constant screaming hubbub really represent the feelings of the majority of Americans? For sure Trump is boorish, unsubtle and undiplomatic. He refuses to play by Washington’s long-standing political rules. Some of his more inept...
October 09, 2019

Bringing down the president

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