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Remembering our dead 2008
Today is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, where the trans communities remember those of us who died violently almost 40 this year. Given the relative sizes of the LGB and T communities, it’s probably comparable to 400 gays and lesbians being killed annually. (Huuuullo… Mike Huckabee.) Not every identified themselves as trans—i.e. a transsexual, crossdresser, transvestite, drag queen/king, gender queer, etc. The best known of the victims—Lawrence King—may have been on his way to growing
20 Nov 2008, 8:52 pm | click here for more
Interesting, If Not Lucrative
Where to start? The newsflow over the past twenty four hours has been very interesting indeed, as has the price action. Not that it’s been a particularly lucrative twenty four hours….despite trying to rise over the noise, Macro Man has managed to top and tail himself a couple of times. Fun, fun, fun…..or B. So yesterday, US CPI fell 1% m/m, the largest monthly decline in the history of the series by a fairly wide margin. Frankly, Macro Man isn’t quite sure what to make of this. On the one han
20 Nov 2008, 6:06 am | click here for more
Iraq snapshot
Thursday, November 20, 2008. Chaos and violence continue, the US military announces another death, Congress explores the treaty Wednesday and the press plays dumb on Thursday, and more. An important Congressional hearing took place yesterday. The same press that sold the illegal war worked overtime to ignore the hearing. Let's start with the new romantic drama/comedy hour, The Unnamed Source Whisperer. Yes, there's Nancy A. Youssef embarrassing the hell out of herself. Not McClatc
20 Nov 2008, 5:48 pm | click here for more
Turkish social services demands Duchess of York investigation
Turkish social services demands Duchess of York investigation Ankara - Turkey's social services board filed an official compliant Thursday against a British television documentary in which the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson bluffed her way into state-run...
20 Nov 2008, 3:26 pm | click here for more
Second Round Of North Cyprus Reunification Talks Start Today - Property Prices Poised To Rise
Property prices in North Cyprus are already nudging upwards alongside the revived reunification talks between the left-winger Demetris Christofias and his ideological fellow and apparent pal, the Turkish Cypriot Mehmet Ali Talat. Yesterday the UN?s Envoy to Cyprus ? the Australian Alexander Downer ? returned to Cyprus after meetings in both Athens and Ankara, to help move negotiations along. The similarities in Talat and Christofias?s ideology, their separately announced desire for reunifica
20 Nov 2008, 2:31 pm | click here for more
Day of Remembrance
Too much to remember, including Angie Zapata and Aimee Wilcoxson, very close to home: 2008 January 8th - Patrick Murphy, Age 39 - Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Shot multiple times in the head. January 22nd, in her 20s - Fedra - Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia - Found dead in a pool of blood. January 23rd - Adolphus Simmons, Age 18 - North Charleston, South Carolina, United States - Shot to death while taking out the trash. February 4th - Ashley Sweeney - Detroit, Michigan, United States
20 Nov 2008, 1:46 pm | click here for more
Hyun Bin is maturing in The World They Live In
Hyun Bin takes a breather & holds an interview at Ankara Park, Yeouido, Seoul Hyun Bin takes a break from the grueling filming schedule of The World We Live In, and talks with reporters in an interview. He was at a park, amidst the beautiful autumn backdrop. In real life, Hyun Bin (26) is not the cocky prince charming he usually portrays. Hyun Bin has won the hearts of many women in his previous KBS 2TV dramas, namely "My Lovely Samsoon", "Snow Queen" and movie "A Millionaire's First Love
20 Nov 2008, 10:48 pm | click here for more
Eurasian Education Union (Uluslararası Avrasya Eğitim Sendikaları Birliği) supports Turkish as common language for Turkic republics
Here's a tiny piece on a Eurasian Education Union (Uluslararası Avrasya Eğitim Sendikaları Birliği, nice of a union of teachers' unions I think) that gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, from the 3rd to the 4th of November. Apparently they criticized Armenia in the gathering because of the part of Azerbaijan Armenia still has below its control, but the more interesting part (to me as a student of languages that is) is that they also supported Turkish as the common language for Turkic republics, namely
19 Nov 2008, 7:40 pm | click here for more
BBC: "Violent nationalism blights Turkey"
BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports (her full report has been shown tonight on BBC's Newsnight programme) Writer Hrant Dink was the first victim, killed last year because some in Turkey could not tolerate what he stood for. To nationalists, he was a traitor. In a country where every citizen is defined as a Turk, Hrant Dink defined himself as ethnic Armenian. That was already subversive to some. But Mr Dink went further. He wrote about the expulsion and killing of hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Ar
19 Nov 2008, 7:01 pm | click here for more
Iran and Turkey sign deal for natural gas
ISTANBUL - Tehran and Ankara signed an accord Monday reinforcing agreements to develop Iran's gas fields and the transit of Iranian gas to Europe, the official news agency IRNA reported. The accord covers the development of three phases 22, 23 and 24 in Iran's ... read more
19 Nov 2008, 4:28 am | click here for more
Bucuresti - Cartierul Bonaparte
Impreuna cu niste prieteni cu adevarat pasionati de fotografie (http://www.orasul.ro/) ... am colindat prin Bucuresti week-endul trecut...Orasul acesta poate avea si o alta fata...[Piata Victoriei - Str. Paris - Haga - Tokio - Londra - Varsovia - Atena - Aleea Alexandru - Pangratti - Rabat - Ankara - Sofia - Demetriade - Statuia Aviatorilor - Zambaccian - Dorobanti]So it begins... [Nikon D80; No Flash; Exposure time 1/250 sec; ISO 200; Exposure Compensation 0.0; Lens aperture F.4.5][I walked in
19 Nov 2008, 3:26 am | click here for more
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/19/2008
Lots of pirate news tonight. The pirates are living high on the hog with their sick-gotten gains, but the Indian navy just blew one of their ships out of the water. Also, the Saudis appear to be negotiating with the freebooters to try to receive their supertanker back…Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Henrik, Insubria, JD, KGS, Paul Green, Steen, TB, Zonka, and every the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold.- - - - - - - - -CanadaCanada: Conversation Cops Step in to
19 Nov 2008, 11:58 pm | click here for more
Q: Where Is The Best Place To Buy Investment Property? A: North Cyprus.
Q: Where Is The Best Place To Buy Investment Property? A: North Cyprus. Wednesday 19 November 2008 @ 12:15 am With the UK economy and property market struggling, and investing in the Euro appearing less and less appealing by the day, many people are scratching their heads and wondering: just where is the best place to buy investment property? Tips on buying investment properties abroad often tend toward the well trodden path, but Sterling’s current relationship to the Euro means that the
18 Nov 2008, 7:15 pm | click here for more
Property Investors Keep An Eye On North Cyprus
roperty prices in North Cyprus are between a half and a third those in the South of the island, despite the fact that the North benefits from the same blissful climate, boasts the warmest sea temperatures in the Mediterranean and is covered in unspoiled, ancient countryside. During 2004, when the Annan plan was still on the table, property prices began to rise and, even though the plan did not succeed, values remained higher. below the new round of talks between North Cyprus and South Cyprus p
18 Nov 2008, 7:14 pm | click here for more
North Cyprus Property Market And Cyprus Reunifican Remain Entwined
North Cyprus Property Market And Cyprus Reunifican Remain Entwined Wednesday 19 November 2008 @ 12:09 am The next round of direct diplomatic negotiations between Mehmet Ali Talat, the Turkish Cypriot leader, and his Greek Cypriot counterpart, Demetris Christofias, begins today. The first meeting, which occurred on the third of this month, was met with optimism by commentators and journalists, and the leaders themselves seemed in high spirits immediately following the meeting. It is becomin
18 Nov 2008, 7:09 pm | click here for more
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18Nov08 Part 7: knife fights, train confusion and a freezing icy night By ian in hamburg Categories: Travel, kids, danger, family, memoir, photography and photos Tags: istanbul, railway, train, Turkey Leaving Istanbul was a trial. We got way too close to a knife battle down by the docks, then froze in a train car which wasn’t the one we’d expected. To receive to the Haydarpasa train station for the trip to Cappadocia we had to take a ferry close sundown. Great timing, beca
18 Nov 2008, 1:57 pm | click here for more
Russian Defence Minister Warns Against Georgia’s NATO Integration [civil.ge]
http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=19981 Russian Defense Minister Warns Against Georgia’s NATO Integration Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 18 Nov.’08 / 19:23 Further increase of Georgia’s military potential and its NATO integration may trigger even more serious conflict than the August war, Anatoly Serdyukov, the Russian defense minister, said in Ankara on November 18. “We are concerned about the Georgian leadership’s efforts to increase its military potential and to drag the country into NATO. Thi
18 Nov 2008, 12:53 pm | click here for more
Russia Warns Georgia Against Boosting Military
From Yahoo News/Reuters: ANKARA (Reuters) – Russia's Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Tuesday he was concerned by what he called Georgia's efforts to boost its military potential, adding this could have bigger consequences than August's conflict. "The Georgian side's efforts to increase the military potential is causing concern and I think those initiatives could have bigger consequences than what we saw in August," he told a news conference in Ankara. He did not elaborate. Read mor
18 Nov 2008, 12:20 pm | click here for more