Increasing World Oil Price & Gold : Effect of Rising Tensions in the Middle East Region

As had been reported by Kompas.com, Russian aircraft was shot down by Turkey that indicated a rising tensions in the Middle East Region last Tuesday (24 November 2015). Turkey claimed that Russian aircraft was flying in the area of Turkey and had made 10 times violation before, while on the other hand, Russia believed that the aircraft was still flying in the territory of Syrian. 

Russian aircraft shot down by Turkey, Nov 24 2015 (BBC INDONESIA)

This increasing geopolitical issue had made the price of crude oil increases as well. Many believe that this tensions in the oil-rich region will in turn affect the oil supply. Not only the price of crude oil, the geopolitical tensions in the Middle East region has made US Dollar depreciated, that in turn made many investors switch their investment to gold. Thus, the price of gold increased 0.66% (USD 1,073.80 / ounce). When political situation is not conducive, investors tend to choose gold which is considered as a safe-haven asset, a 'currency' that can't be manipulated by any interest rate policies and can be use as a hedge to face inflation.  

Biking to Office and Get Paid? Italia!

According to Kompas.com, in a city in Italia, Massarosa, citizen will get hundreds of Euro per year as a cash incentive if they ride a bike to go to the office. 25 cent will be paid for every kilometer using a smartphone application to measure the distance.

For the trial, 50 employees will participate this scheme for 12 months. This scheme is applied to reduce the traffic in Italia.

Massarosa - Google map

If this could happen in Jakarta, Indonesia with high pressure traffic (imagine million of people go to Jakarta from neighbor cities for working), then many people will save much time. Currently, Jakarta's traffic is so terrible. People use private cars to go to work instead of using public transportation although there is a 3-in-1 policy for some critical area. Unfortunately, the traffic remains unsolved. Just if people realize how much gasoline they can save, how much CO2 they create,how much meaningful time they can grab ...unless they put high importance on self-dignity and ignore the environment.

Traffic in Jakarta, taken from manajemenproyekindonesia.com

Mekong Giant Cat Fish Appeared in Cambodia

Released by Yahoo news, fishers in Cambodia saw and catch a 7-feet long a giant cat fish that is endangered. This, confirms that the critically endangered water fish species can still be found and still making its  annual migration from Tonle Sap lake to Mekong River.

Scientists claimed that the population of Mekong fish have been dropped until 90% from the last 10 years. Even, this size of fish can't be found in USA for the last 100 years.Therefore, the migration of the adult fish is very critical since they will secure the number of population. Nowadays, the activities in Mekong River have a great impact to the population, that has been shrinking year by year.

A giant Mekong cat fish found in mid of Nov, 2015

Kim Kardashian: SHOWED OFF HER 2nd BABY PREGNANCY

Kim Kardashian finally showed off her bump of her 2nd pregnancy in her bestfriend's baby shower. The picture was taken from the instagram of her friend @tracyhnguyen on Saturday 14, 2015.
Just like the first pregnancy, Kim also claimed that she doesn't really enjoy her current pregnancy as she feels that she looks miserable with her body.

in her friend's baby shower party (source: US Magazine)

Kim is known as an actress and entrepreneur. She is famous from her reality show that involves her sisters and mom: Keeping up with Kardashian.

Maternity Style of KIM (US Magazine)

The picture above shows several fashion designs that Kim wore during her pregnancy. No matter how her body is, she keeps her style high. This was her 2nd pregnancy after giving birth to a lovely baby girl named North-West, her lovely daughter from her husband Kanye West.

Paris Attacks: Respond around the World

Paris Attacks and other countries attacks were such a wound for the world, betraying humanity that is often used by political background. Religion, has no more power to make people more civilized and live in peace. Ironically, religion has been used as a method to divisive people and the ultimate aim is to conquer something BIG: power and wealth.

These are the pictures from AFP /yahoonews related to the respond from all -over the word, as a sympathy for the victims of Paris Attacks. 

Islamabad

Swiss

Yangoon

It is such a regretful action that threaten the peace of the world. More terrible, ISIS, who claimed responsible for this, stated that this is only the first storm.

It might be predicted, the main threat for human, is human. Global warming, poverty, national disasters, health&sanitation, education and now war. There are more complex problems in this world that need to be solved, why would war or terrorism give more burden to people?

Imagine all the people, living life in peace (John Lennon)

Paris Attacks: Saved by Cell Phone

Paris tragedy (Saturday Nov 14, 2015) with more than 120 people killed during the several attacks left an interesting story. Reported by people.com, a man claim that his cell phone has saved his life from a piece of shrapnel when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside a stadium of Stade de France. Sylvestre, the guy, was shocked when the explosion was right in front of him while he just ended a call on his Samsung phone.

Another interesting story as reported by republika.co.id also comes from Michael O' Connor who pretended to be dead for around 1 hour. Not only him, several people also pretended to be dead to avoid a brutal attack from the terrorist that finally ended after polices came.Those who are still alive become witnesses of a bloody murder with 118 innocent people dead in Bataclan Theatre. 

On Saturday, the government of French has officially announced that at least 129 people were killed during the tragedy (352 injured, 99 critically injured). Moreover, 8 people that were claimed as the terrorists have been killed related to the attacks.

On the other place, ISIS, the Islamic State, has claimed that they are responsible for the series of the attacks.