Al-Waqt was the only paper this morning to carry the story that Disney World might be coming to Bahrain, and a collection of investors including Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, the Kuwait Finance House and a collection of Bahraini companies and investors putting up 3 billion US$ Bahraini Dinars (US$7.95 billion) to build …
Month: February 2007
And for a change, it’s actually saying the truth about itself..
It’s that time again; RSF released it’s 2007 Press Freedom Survey and Bahrain again does not fair well… their map of Bahrain is resolutely black in this area. Here’s what they have to say about us: The monarchy’s progress towards democracy has not included decriminalising press offences and the regime continues to control the media. …
Guys, sorry for the various downtimes the server has been experiencing. The biggest culprit is the amount of comments being pulled all the time from the database which is overwhelming it. In the words of tech support: SELECT comment_post_ID, post_title FROM (wp_comments LEFT JOIN wp_posts ON (comment_post_ID = ID)) WHERE comment_approved = ‘1’ AND (wp_posts.post_status=’publish’ …
07010500 – Planning the new border, originally uploaded by malyousif. The hose is the outline of the new border which I started to cut and plan this afternoon (5 Feb 07). This is going to be my new project over the next few months and I’m going to document it. I’ve created a new set …