Introduction
The Special Forces have a deep and paradoxical phrase that applies to many fields: “Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” This mantra has been adopted by a culture that frequently values speed and hustle. The principles of this approach stress the value of accuracy, reliability, and measured progress. Despite the widespread belief that acting quickly is crucial to success, this mantra tells us that taking things slowly and steadily is, in many cases, more effective.
The adage “Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast” was first used by elite Special Forces groups like the Navy SEALs. In the beginning, it served as a training mantra for when time and accuracy were of the utmost importance. The goal was to proceed slowly…
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Cam McGrath
CAIRO, Aug 23 2009 (IPS) – Muslims marked the start of the fasting month of Ramadan Saturday, but the global H1N1 pandemic has put a damper on religious festivities throughout the Middle East.
Everyone is worried about swine flu, says Anwar Mohamed, a Yemeni antique dealer. We have been told to avoid crowds, but everywhere there are crowds.
Arab governments have taken measures aimed at reducing the spread and impact of the H1N1 virus, which has infected over 5,000 people in the region, and killed at least 30. Authorities have implemented border surveillance, quarantine procedures and swine flu awareness campaigns. They have also sought to restrict activities that draw large crowds, including religious gatherings and pilgrimages.
As Islam s holies…
Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 27 2010 (IPS) – Experts from 13 Latin American countries called for a shift in counter-drug policies from a punitive to a public health-based approach for users, in order to reduce drug-related violence, on the argument that the current war on drugs has been lost in the region.
The Aug. 26-27 Second Latin American Conference on Drug Policy was organised in Rio de Janeiro by Intercambios Civil Association for the Study of and Assistance for Drug-Related Problems, of Argentina, and Psicotropicus of Brazil, two non-governmental organisations that advocate a new approach to global anti-drug policy.
The conference, which brought together public officials, academics and activists from around the region to debate drug policy, discussed …
Julio Godoy
PARIS, Dec 25 2010 (IPS) – Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and border customs are enabling international companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material across continents.
The Wikileaks cables reveal that U.S. diplomats posted in a number of African countries the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Niger, and Burundi, among others have had direct knowledge of the poor safety and security standards in these countries uranium and nuclear facilities.
The cables also highlight the involvement of European, Chinese, Indian, and South Korean companies in the illegal extraction and smuggli…
Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 23 2011 (IPS) – Some 13 million people across Europe, Russia, and other parts of the world remain largely dependent on Afghanistan s poppy production to fuel their addiction to heroin, according to a new U.N. report on global use of illicit drugs.
Yes, Afghanistan is on top of the list, Thomas Pietschmann, a researcher at the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), told IPS.
Last year, more than 210 million people around the world used illegal substances such as heroin, cocaine and cannabis, as well as prescription opioid drugs and new synthetic drugs, said. But while global markets for cocaine, heroin and cannabis declined or remained stable, the production and abuse of prescription drugs rose.
The gains we have witnessed i…
Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 27 2011 (IPS) – Two years into his term, El Salvador s first-ever leftwing president, Mauricio Funes, finds himself more and more distanced from the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) that brought him to power and from the promises of change that got him elected, analysts say.
Some of the moves made by Funes have not been the ones expected by the voters who put him in office with 51 percent of the vote in the March 2009 elections.
He has not lived up to expectations, and I perceive a gradual disillusionment which, like a cup, is filling up drop by drop, Omar Serrano, a vice rector at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University, told IPS.
Funes, a former CNN journalist and popular TV host, did not even joi…
Miriam Gathigah
BUSAN, Dec 1 2011 (IPS) – Billions of people are marking yet another World AIDS Day this one themed Getting to Zero , for zero AIDS-related deaths, zero new infections, and zero stigma and discrimination.
But in Africa, what may be needed is zero tolerance for corruption so that funds required to fight HIV/AIDS and create awareness around the virus do not get siphoned away.
In East Africa alone, Uganda has had its main source of HIV funding suspended. Kenya has, on several occasions, come close to a similar fate due to evidence of massive misappropriation of HIV funding, says John Peter Kaguruzi, a public policy analyst in Rwanda.
In Djibouti, of the 5.3 million dollars given as an anti-HIV grant, 750,000 dollars were spent on expenditure tha…
Jul 11 2016 – The current debate on the re-emergence of eugenics is worrying, as most of its proponents seem to be urging for gene manipulation for higher intelligence and beauty, while only a few are concerned with its dystopian implications.
The writer is a former federal secretary.
Plato was the first to develop the idea of eugenics, which literally means ‘good race/stock’, to improve the human race through controlled and selective mating. In ancient Greece, if a child was considered incapable of living independently by the city elders he was either executed or exposed to the elements to die. Similarly, the Fourth Law of t…