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@@ -1,9 +1,64 @@ -## 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. |