Few months ago I posted about how Wikileaks was doing to survive. Today I need to update and review that post. Since Wikileaks released the US embassy cables it has come under pressure on several fronts, from frozen bank accounts to DDoS attacks. US embassy cables leak was the third of three major leaks, the first [...]
Category Archives: Economics and politics
The most boring of the categories for some of the readers, but I need it for some postings.
Made in Palestine صنع في فلسطين
- 11
- Oct
Darin Zeidan, sent me the third of the five notes about Middle East. In this case we´ll read about life in Palestine. I super recommend you to read it: A few days ago, Sebastian asked to write in his blog something about the Middle East because for so many people they cannot understand this culture or even [...]
Someone who doesn´t like pennies
- 12
- Sep
After seeing the video some things came to my mind: With my flatmate we put pennies in a can, there are two cans, one already full, we never cash them yet. I found it illogical that a 5 cent coin is physically larger than a 10 cent coin. If one day they decide to stop [...]
Middle East – Super big sopa de letras
- 24
- Aug
This is going to be the first, of 5 post, about Middle East. They all are going to be publish in the next two months or so. The first one is an introduction and it’ll explain how was Middle East in my mind and some of the stuff that I have been reading lately. The [...]
Qatar 2022?
- 19
- Jul
South Africa 2010 finished and the next one will find Brazil as the hoster. The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups is currently underway, however the first Arab nation, Qatar, with a population of 1.2 million, is attempting to host the World Cup on 2022; Australia, Japan and South Korea are the [...]