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-## Question
+Do international organisations matter in times of global crises, and
+if so how?
 
-Questions I like:
+# Reading
 
-* Do international organisations matter in times of global crises, and
-  if so how?
-* Should people offending each other on social media be a matter of
-  criminal justice?
-* Can news media be politically neutral?
+## Bank of International Settlements
+
+### Guardian: BIS on interest rates
+
+* potentially a crisis
+* a statement on important events
+* someone who can say such a thing and has authority on the matter
+* still cannot do anything to the banks
+* link to cryptocurrency
+
+    BIS was the one global body to point out in advance of the
+    financial crash of 2007 that booming asset prices could cause
+    problems even during periods of low inflation, and its latest
+    warning will be seen as a call for its central bank members to
+    start returning monetary policy to more normal settings.
+
+    “Globally, interest rates have been extraordinarily low for an
+    exceptionally long time, in nominal and inflation-adjusted terms,
+    against any benchmark”, the report said.
+
+    The US Federal Reserve is likely to be the first central bank in any
+    major advanced country to raise interest rates. Wall Street expects
+    the Fed to tighten policy later this year, with the Bank of England
+    forecast to follow in 2016. The European Central Bank and the Bank of
+    Japan are currently still using quantitative easing – the creation of
+    electronic money – to boost activity.
+
+## Interpol
+
+## United Nations
+
+### NYT: UN on Systemic Racism in Policing
+
+* potential crisis
+* will it really achieve anything at all
+* reference ted kazyniski : societal issues, cannot be changed
+
+    “It’s a very important step forward,” said Hannah Garry, a law
+    professor at the University of Southern California. “I see this
+    international mechanism as a precursor to a future commission of
+    inquiry.”
+
+### UN on Russian involvement in Africa
+
+* UN supported this action
+* UN then found it wasn't such a good thing
+* UN still unable to do anything in relation to the matter
+
+    The Kremlin offered to send unarmed military trainers to help
+    train the Central African Army in a mission blessed by the United
+    Nations, which carved out an exception to the arms embargo on the
+    Central African Republic in place since 2013.
+
+    But it quickly became clear that the Russian trainers were in fact
+    armed mercenaries, and the operation has evolved into a thinly
+    veiled effort to build influence and strike business deals for the
+    Kremlin in Africa, including lucrative diamond deals, to the
+    benefit of businessmen including a close confidant of President
+    Vladimir V. Putin.