Tycoons and politicians,
industrialists and bureaucrats all vie for the attention of Mammon.
The shifting coalitions of well groomed man in back stabbed suits,
an hallucinatory carousel of avarice and guile. But every circus
folds and every luna park is destined to shut down. The dying music,
the frozen accounts of the deceived, the bankrupt banks, the
Jurassic Park of skeletal industrial beasts - a muted testimony to a
wild age of mutual assured destruction and self deceit. The future
of Eastern and South Europe. The present of Russia, Albania and
Yugoslavia.
Treasure Island Revisited
On Maritime Piracy
The rumors concerning the demise of maritime piracy back in the 19th
century were a tad premature. The scourge has so resurged that the
International Maritime Board (IMB), founded by the International
Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1981, is forced to broadcast daily
piracy reports to all shipping companies by satellite from its Kuala
Lumpur Piracy Reporting Center, established in 1992 and partly
funded by maritime insurers. The reports carry this alarming
disclaimer:
"For statistical purposes, the IMB defines piracy and armed robbery
as: An act of boarding or attempting to board any ship with the
apparent intent to commit theft or any other crime and with the
apparent intent or capability to use force in the furtherance of
that act.
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