Yep, it’s that time again. I’ll be off on my travels for a couple of days, so until my return, please feel completely free to blame ALL ills in the world or your personal sphere, any bad experience, marital break-ups, horse breaking a leg, Lebanese 2nd civil war, Israel being swallowed by a huge whale, …
Month: May 2007
Kuwait saw this: and got rightly concerned, so: Kuwait drops dollar peg in blow to Gulf currency union KUWAIT, May 20 (Reuters) – Kuwait unshackled its dinar from the tumbling U.S. dollar on Sunday and switched the exchange rate mechanism to a basket of currencies, throwing plans for currency union with other Gulf Arab oil …
Hah! What is this world coming to? Don’t they have respect for class, for the local people, for men? What the hell has she got to become the Minister of Justice in France? Lawyer Rachida Dati, named as French justice minister by President Sarkozy, is the first person of North African origin to hold a …
Wasn’t it only a few years ago that the then Minister of the Interior got, erm, sidegraded because he ordered his troops to “intervene” against a public demonstration attended by high religious figures, in which one of those respected figures got injured and taken to hospital? When the new minister took the reigns and due …
Having revisited the site more than 20 years later last Saturday, Dr Sheppard described how “depressing” the scene had become. “I don’t know of any sort of destruction like (the one at Fasht Al Adhm) happening elsewhere, it was depressing,” he said. “In the last 20 years, there has been a massive shift of corals …