Going the extra mile (The Age)
Transporting food chews up fossil fuel so how about trying to eat only what's grown within 160 kilometres of your house?...more...Oil revenues help fuel Russian tech revival (Electronics Supply and Manufacturing)
MOSCOW -- By pumping the proceeds of its oil and natural-resources boom into the high-tech industry, Russia is creating an electronics bonanza and an unprecedented mood of optimism....more... Iran and Caspian Meet (Arab News)
It had been tipped as a major diplomatic coup for Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad strategy of building a series of regional alliances against the ?Great Satan? and its allies....more... Business Briefs (The Fresno Bee)
$700k donation will upgrade Oakhurst clinic ...more... Letters to the Editor (Berkeley Daily Planet)
A recent letter in the Daily Planet claimed that those of us who oppose legalization of undocumented immigrants engage in ?self-serving intransigence.?...more... Indo-Iranian Ties: Thicker Than Oil (YaleGlobal Online)
Since the 1990s, Delhi and Tehran have sought to forge a robust and comprehensive relationship inclusive of energy and other forms of commercial cooperation, infrastructure development in Iran and beyond, as well as military and intelligence ties....more... IN SUPPORT OF THE LADY OF BURMA (Bangkok Post)
Today , Thais join people in 16 other countries in commemorating the 62nd birthday of the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, by demanding that China modify its unquestioning support for the Burmese junta....more... GE Grows in Critical Energy Infrastructure with Acquisition of Midstream Natural Gas Master Limited Partnership from HM ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS & HOUSTON----Catapulting its growth in critical energy infrastructure, GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE , announced today that it has acquired interests in Regency Energy Partners LP -- a master limited partnership that owns natural gas gathering and processing systems in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kansas, as well as an intrastate pipeline in Louisiana -- from HM Capital ......more... From Hiroshima to Iraq, 61 years of uranium wars (Kavkaz Center)
The conduct of secret nuclear wars since 1991, through the use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States and Great Britain with their allies, has taken place in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan2 and Lebanon.3 It has been carried out for the express purpose of destroying the public health and mutilating the genetic future of vast populations in oil rich and/or pipeline ......more... |