Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?

Minority rights and their content can furthermore be clarified by indicating their place among the two pillars of a system of minority protection sensu lato, namely the prohibition of discrimination (inter alia in combination with the individual human rights) on the one hand and minority protection sensu stricto (implying 'special' measures for (members of) minorities) on the other hand.

Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?

I do not know if he wrote his own script, but whoever did, his subsequent pep talk was a masterpiece of intempestivity.