Not once I've seen "respectable" news blogs or media online publications wannabe, just filling the space in order to keep daily posting alive. If you leave the announcement short, without too many insider details, avoiding to be too specific on what you already snatched from another respectable media publication, you avoid also the ridicule. The problem appears when you try to correct the author with a polite comment, and tell him where the fault is. He can check, modify, and thank you after … [Read more...]
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Is Now, the New Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the "Man of the People". I have featured Turkish Prime Minister many times in my blogs. I had a grudge against him from long ago, when he played the dissident and became the most freely advertised politician in Turkish history, maybe just a little bit less than Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. [source] I have been wrong all along, because after years of bad mouthing him, as a two faced painted Taliban, I now admire him without restraint. I am a little bit ("just a little … [Read more...]
Turkish PacMan Eats Twitter
Twitter has been banned in Turkey. It is nothing unnatural, considering the Turkish past, especially the recent one, since the beginning of the internet era. What I say here, now, is from an uncontested personal view, and it is not my intention to create any discontent between Turkey and its neighbors or other passionate social media consumer nations. In Turkey, the access banning of certain sites is not news. Not that Twitter is the most accessed Social Media site in the democratic country, not … [Read more...]
About Olive Oil, an Ingredient for Life
I have spent a few important years in Turkey. The rural population consider it an important olive oil producer and exporter. Fortunately, the villagers who own olive trees, have also virgin olive oil. Unfortunately, one cannot find in supermarkets something remotely closer even to that, because what is sold for the rest of Turkey, is obviously refined. Actually a very few know for real, because it can be sometimes a physical impossibility to tell the difference while not having comparison … [Read more...]
Erdoğan to Retract
Zionism is defined by some American Congress members as "a non-discriminatory affirmation of Jewish nationhood". The same persons wrote a letter to the Turkish Prime Minister in which they call him to retract his recent remarks that defined Zionism as a crime against humanity. Zionism is not a crime, it is a noble historical enterprise. Zionists generally preferred to speak Hebrew, a Semitic language that developed under conditions of freedom in ancient Judah, modernizing and adapting it for … [Read more...]
Brazil, How?
“The monetary system of a people reflects everything that the nation wants, does, suffers, is.” Joseph Schumpeter It's astonishing how a country with a record debt to IMF at a moment in time, quite recent, not a century ago, can become the seventh economy in the world, with the prospect to overtake Britain by becoming the sixth largest economy in the world in 2012. Now, I read in various economy magazines that the established civilized world may be afraid of the exotic emergence of four … [Read more...]