Falling oil prices are wreaking havoc on Oil Producers and workers. This week Royal Dutch Shell said profits fell 56 in the last three months of 2015 compared to the year earlier, and confirmed the new wave of job cuts. American oil giant Conoco Phillips lost a billion in the same. Here is why u. S. Crude settled at the 31. 72. Prices dipped into the 20s, thats a far cry from the 100 plus that oil traded at in mid 2014. And the downward spiral takes a toll on global stock market in asia and america. And that caused angst at the World Economic forum. In davos switzerland, that brings together leaders, executives and others from the global elite. They meet to change ideas and solutions. I sat with some of the big wigs in davos, including sir richard branson, the british typhoon, and he offered a different take on the mayhem of falling oil prices. Have a listen. I cannot understand why the stock markets are panicking over low oil prices. Many companies will be affected and Oil Producing c
What does that tell the public at large . Belligerence. You cant ignore the perverse events like this on perceptions. And you cant ignore perceptions. You cant govern without people. Its not good enough to say the right thing. The question is can you carry. And, you know, in light of the experience and failed experience of diplomacy for the past 30 years, its very difficult for me to see the palestinian framework as is able to carry. And thats the bottom line. Thats the bottom line. That cant be ignored. You know, what im saying to you here, that drives people away from their comfort zones. This is not really i would exclude myself from many. But look, there is tragedy going on. And it will repeat itself, time and again. And there are consequences to failure. You cant keep doing the same thing. And really in the process do nothing more but kick the can down the road and pretend that you can go back to the old framework and do it. You just cant. Im sorry if this pushes some outside thei
400 and 40,000 people in the gaza strip are now displaced. Almost 24 of the population. Hosted whileeing others are seeking refuge buildings,ey can in hospital grounds, or families and friends. These areas are becoming harder to find. Long and5 kilometers six and 14 kilometers wide. With the blockade in place, most people are not able to leave gaza even to get Urgent Medical attention. They come to the United Nations facilities for protection when their homes and neighborhoods come under fire. People, but0,000 over 103 u. N. Facilities have come under attack including a school hosting 3300 displaced yesterday. 19 people were killed and over 100 injured. Lostnited nations has several and other humanitarian workers have been killed since the outbreak of hostilities. No place is safe. The other attacks in the strongest possible terms. With direct or indiscriminate attacks. Nations must remain in viable. A parties to the conflict should protect humanitarian workers. Justificationo for fail
Kind of ceasefire that might allow both what the israelis want, which is the demilitarizization of hamas and what might allow hamas to get what it wants, which is the opening of the borders for flows of goods and services. You talked a little bit about that. What kind of arrangement might permit that. The role that the p. A. Might play in that. And also, the issue of reconstruction of gaza and how that might be structured in such a way that actually could begin not just a reconstruction process but a reform process that could begin to do what you talked about, getting these institutions in a line between gaza and the west bank. I admit these are sensitive questions. I think what you said was very interesting and would be useful, and i would just simply invite you to share that portions that youre comfortable with. Thank you very much. No, i would be extensive on those issues. I think its really important to place this in the right context in terms of how to deal with gaza and to begin
These are things that are not kind of accidentally detrimental to the political participation and people of color. We still have the struggles ahead of us. But it also is just simply the reality. Is it then that do we need to change attitudes first and the structural change, or do we have to go directly to changing structures and have attitudes change afterwards . I guess thats a question for all of you. I would go as is structures and change the structure. I mean, i think that the polling these things are always a little hard to read because people do say what they think that you want them to year, particularly when it comes to race the many polling on race matters. But i would say, you know, culturally we are very. The new american majority, you know, the tolerance and the attitudes of the millenniums to miami, we are so far behind. We have a saying in our office. Dont recruit people you will have to lobby later. It is moving, and we need to structure catch up. One of the things that