Euro Berhad : Khazanah open to sukuk issue in Eastern Europe
(4-traders.com) KUALA LUMPUR: GOVERNMENT investment arm Khazanah Nasional Bhd is eyeing Eastern European countries to issue sukuk to strengthen its presence in the region. Khazanah executive director and chief financial officer Mohd Izani Ghani said said since its investment in Turkey last November, ...
USA-funded ISIS a real threat? So let their neighbors kick them back!
Something stinks in Denmark. Or somewhere. Form the link: In an article yesterday at Foreign Policy, two authors reported on a ISIS laptop found in Syria with instructions for making a chemical weapon on it and noted that ISIS may have access to the facilities to take this next step, which long elud ...
Guilt-Free Road Trip Snacks!!
It happens every time, you know it does. You have a road trip coming up, so what do you do? Well, if you don’t bring a bag of snacks before hand you end up loading up on chocolate bars and pretzels at the first gas stop and eat…and eat…and EAT… until by the end of the trip, you feel like a rolling b ...
Sweet Earth
Hi there! Hope your Wednesday was as good as a Wednesday can be. I had a really great day which was spent primarily outside. Really trying to soak up the last of summer weather and free time! I started the day with a long walk in Cranbrook with my mom and Brody. In the afternoon, I hung out around t ...
Alaska Cruise-Day 7-Victoria BC
In yesterday's blog I forgot to mention that we had a visit with Tiffani Faison in the Martini Bar. Since we were at sea the bar was more crowded than usual. Our LGBT friends were with us and, apparently, Tiffani noticed. She sat down with us. It was so loud that she could only talk to Tony and me. ...
Post-election blues
Hi everyone, The presidential elections are long over and Erdogan won as we all predicted. Ahmet Davutoglu, the Foreign Minister in Erdogan’s cabinet, was tapped to become Prime Minister while Abdullah Gul bids farewell to the presidency and a high-ranking position in the AKP. Dubbed “his Master’s v ...
A jury of my peers
I had jury today, after deferring it for a decade. I am deeply resentful, for a number of reasons, mostly because it is the first day of school, my most busy time, and I need to be at work. I am needed at work. I also need the money I am missing because of this "service". They are paying me $35, for ...
(Still) Catching Up on (Still More) Reading
(Greetings blog-o-verse! I write to you from the Playa Artist Residency program in Summer Lake, Oregon, where I’m on the downslope of a four-week stay. I plan to post a piece about my experiences here, but that one will take some time to get written, I think. While here, I’ve been drafting many new ...
Tips For Eating Out
Going out for a meal is a cultural norm in American society. Whether it be for convenience, taste, or a social event, every body goes out to eat. If you're trying to lose weight or focus on a healthy diet, eating out is not usually a good choice. But with the busy lives we lead, it's nearly impossib ...
Filter It
Filtered Stains What You'll Need: Coffee Filters Construction Paper Glue Markers Scissors Sprat Water Bottle This project is endless. Our intentions were to make window décor for our home for the holidays. We have a large window that we stare at most the day and with our insane cold winter we needed ...
Turkey’s new premier says ‘no hope’ of normalizing ties with Israel unless Gaza blockade lifted
Turkey’s new prime minister said on Monday he would pursue strong economic growth and EU ambitions, while in the Middle East he saw no hope of “normalizing” ties with Israel unless it ended a blockade of the Gaza strip. Ahmet Davutoglu offered no ...
Turkey Hosts Internet Forum Despite Its Dismal Web Freedom
The site selected for the United Nations forum on developing Internet policy is generating a great deal of controversy, with critics taking aim at the irony of Turkey's poor record regarding social media, Web sites and press freedom. Over the past year ...
Turkey Struggles to Halt 'Jihadist Highway'
Workers in April lay concrete slabs to build a wall in the Turkish town of Reyhanli to help stop jihadists and smugglers between Turkey and Syria. Cihan News Agency/Reuters ANTAKYA, Turkey—Turkey is struggling to close a "jihadist highway" that lets ...
