Expanding the Legacy
Expanding the Legacy
He lapped up life daringly, mastered the art of rebellion, and looked far beyond the horizon to find adventure and clam his restless soul. Just before the implacable woke crowd could ‘cancel’ him, biographer Sue Prideaux snatched Paul Gauguin from its claws. The French postimpressionist painter seemed ripe for the picking: the perfect candidate to be knocked off his pedestal, thrown from his perch, and relegated to the scrapheap of art history. It was not for a lack of trying that the über politically correct posse failed in its pursuit.
To placate its critics, the German government has temporarily reasserted control over the country’s borders. The measure is meant to stem the flow of immigrants entering the country to submit unfounded asylum claims. As of tomorrow, checks will take place on incoming traffic by roving border patrols.
The Republican campaign for the presidency is being shredded by an epic catfight between Trump groupies vying for the love and attention of their idol. Get the popcorn! Also: Kamala Harris Takes Advice from Chinese Sage and American Cheapskates Fail to Pay Up for Defence of Ukraine.
Whichever way US voters decide on election day, it’s the day after that causes most concern. A win by Donald Trump is unlikely to be contested by his opponents but promises to usher in a man who vowed to don the mantle of a dictator on his first day in office. Conversely, it is a foregone conclusion that a loss will be bitterly contested by Mr Trump.
It has all the trappings of a country - a government and parliament, army, courts, elections, passports, and a currency - but it doesn’t feature on any map other than as a terra incognita marked by a speculative broken line. However, this geographic entity has been in existence since 1991, yet the wider world stoically denies its existence. Somaliland seceded from greater Somalia in 1991 after that country’s dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, a major general who seized power in a 1969 coup, responded to local unrest by unleashing his army on the region and dismantling the economic and political power base of the Isaaq clan which had dominated the area since Medieval times.
The showdown between the two contenders for the US presidency produced only winners. Campaign staffers on both sides declared their candidate victorious. To gauge who actually came out ahead, it is telling that mere minutes after both debaters had finished their closing arguments, Democratic campaign leader Jen O’Malley Dillon released a statement saying that Kamala Harris is ready for a second debate next month and asking, rhetorically, if Donald Trump would be up for that. He is believed to mull the question.
It never takes long for Brazilian voters to regret their choice. After the restoration of democracy in 1985, some eighteen year went by before the country’s electorate turned to an outsider in near desperation over successive failed presidencies. Long discarded as a dangerous extremist by a nation that traditionally seeks compromise and prefers to avoid confrontation, Workers’ Party frontman Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva was reluctantly dispatched to the Palacio do Planalto – the Brazilian seat of power.
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As the Greek debt crisis inches to its climax, the euro’s guardians soften their tone of voice; not quite so sure any longer that contagion – and financial Armageddon – may yet be avoided. Over the past few weeks, the assurances that Europe will be fine, should Greece decide to drop out, have been gradually replaced by appeals to common sense.
Less is more, and you better get used to it. That is the message US real estate tycoon Jeff Greene brought to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. One of the hundred or so billionaires to attend the annual powwow of the world’s decision makers, Mr Greene warned that Americans’ lifestyle expectation are too high: “These need to be adjusted so we have less and smaller things. We need to reinvent our whole system of life.”
Over 2,600 of the world’s most notable people have ascended to Europe’s highest mountain town for a series of meetings that aim to address ‘key issues of global importance’. Nestled at 1,560 metres above sea level in a picture-perfect Alpine valley, Davos becomes the capital of the world for a few days each year as the town’s 11,000 or so inhabitants welcome heads of state and government, captains of industry, billionaires, and scores of other allegedly prominent people who arrive to deliver their take on global affairs.
One of the world’s fastest growing economies for ten years in a row, Azerbaijan is set to showcase its accomplishments and promising future outlook at the annual meeting of World Economic Forum starting tomorrow in Davos, Switzerland.
On the eve of its annual flagship meeting in the Swiss Alpine village Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has released a fourteen-point discussion paper on inclusive growth and the need to shrink the widening income gap. The forum calls on the world’s policymakers to refrain from ‘vaguely aspirational’ talk and tackle growing inequality in more ‘concrete’ ways.
Davos - Pundits and assorted others in-the-know flock to the Swiss mountain village Davos in their hundreds on an annual pilgrimage that aims to explain the state of the world – invariable described as worrisome – and offers ways to improve matters – without fail rather impractical.
Since the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ditched its one-size-fits-all approach, the economic guidelines dispensed by the organisation have become rather vague. On a visit to Britain, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Thursday surprised friend and foe as she lavishly praised British Prime-Minister David Cameron for his ‘eloquent and convincing’ economic leadership.
The annual meeting of top businessmen, leading public officials, and a host of other VIPs in Davos usually sees emerging markets claim centre stage and draw attention to the marvels of their booming economies. Save for China, at this year’s Davos happening the world’s erstwhile movers and shakers are expected to tone down some.