My tweets
Fri, 14:33: 1st pin event day! Left room at 6:45, advantage of Club Level was coffee by elevators before lounge opens. Fri, 14:34: Gates before Epcot ticket area still closed: we joined the existing line. Fri, 14:35: Those gates opened at maybe 7:20, move to line at security. Person checked names on ...
Turkiye pt. 1
Two plane rides, three cities, five hostels, three overnight buses, one hot air balloon ride, a ferry to Greece and a different ferry to Asia, two Lizzie McGuire-esque scooter rides, a dive boat, and our own two (usually lost) feet later... back in Benin. I guess if I were a real blogger, I would've ...
Forty-Four Million Zionists in Turkey!
By Burak Bekdil If you are a Jew in Turkey not even a funeral is peaceful. Just imagine a Turkish Jew having a legal dispute with a Muslim Turk and facing this judge in the courtroom... As usual, apparently Muslims are allowed to kill Muslims as they like, only Jews are not.Nearly three years ago, t ...
Saturday 9th September – Rakia v Kahlua to kill the bugs
We were told last night that tonight would be a special ‘Welcome’ dinner. It seems we entered the cruise halfway and a few nights ago we wondered why everyone was dressed extra special. We were casual as usual. Turns out it was a farewell dinner. Flippin forgot to read the memo! So we need to be dre ...
REPOST: A new opium pipe
Christina Smolke and her colleagues at Stanford University are working on a synthetic process for the cultivation of opium poppy, which is essential for the production of opiates. If their experiment proved successful and the production procession commercially viable, will become a non-protein medic ...
Sebastián, El Canal y el Nuncio
Sebastián, El Canal y el Nuncio Felipe de J. Pérez Cruz Rebelión Sebastián, inició hoy el prescolar. Está feliz. Comparte con sus ya “viejos” amigos del círculo infantil. Sebastián y sus compañeritos en la vitalidad y el asombro de sus cinco-seis años, nos privilegian con el disfrute de la emoción: ...
Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
We are on our last day in this city full of a wonderful mix of cultures. Istanbul is a transcontinental city , straddling the Bosphorus —one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea . Its commercial and historical centre lies in Europe, wh ...
Kurdish fighters retake territories seized by ISIS
US airstrikes along with Kurdish fighters regain territory and villages taken by ISIS; Obama addresses ISIS and new NATO coalition in summit with British PM; Obama to meet with Congress Tuesday Peshmerga, Kurdish fighters in Iraq Kurdish fighters, known as the Peshmerga, have recaptured villages sei ...
Turkey may play quiet role in US coalition against IS
Turkey may find it hard to play a public role in the coalition the US is building to strike at Islamic State targets in Iraq and possibly Syria for fear the militant group might retaliate against dozens of Turks held hostage. President Barack Obama has ...
Turkey and Greece at odds over Cyprus problem
During a meeting between Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit in Wales, Samaras told Erdogan that the two countries had “real differences” over the Cyprus problem. Greek Prime Minister ...
Turkey government wins vote of confidence
ANKARA - The government of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu won a vote of confidence in parliament on Saturday, little over a week after the former chief diplomat was crowned to take over from long-time premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey's ruling ...
Turkey's cabinet ratifies new cabinet, no policy shift expected
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's government gave its new cabinet headed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu a vote of confidence on Saturday. The cabinet was announced last week with the core team responsible for economic management remaining in place in a line ...
