17 January 2012 bilateral cooperation between Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia is getting strengthened from time to time, Agriculture Minister Tefera Deribew said.
February 1, 2013 "A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media."
Letter in the Evening Standard 17.01.13Firstly, 'al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb' (AQIM) was, according to experts like Professor Jeremy Keenan from SOAS - the most cited academic in the world on North Africa - virtually manufactured in the region by Algerian intelligence services with clandestine US support. This short-sighted policy originated with the Algerian military junta's attempts to fabricate a justification for exterminating members of the peaceful Islamic Salvation Front after it won democratic elections decades ago. The policy was reinforced by NATO's intervention in Libya, shoring up Islamist militias with AQIM affiliations across the region.
"But the gas may not be as easy and cheap to extract from shale formations deep underground as the companies are saying, according to hundreds of industry e-mails and internal documents and an analysis of data from thousands of wells." Nyt 25.6.2011
Buzgalin: "...Russia creates some problems for hegemony of foreign capital in our economic space. And this is also problem of division inside Russian bourgeoisie and inside Russian economic elite, because big part of this elite is interconnected with state and has wonderful access to very tasty natural resources, budget, and so on and so far. But another part of bourgeoisie, another part of our economic elite, does not have this access, and, of course, they are very angry because they cannot have such big norm of profit as their competitors, who received power and who save the power and who reelect again Putin."
While BP’s shares recovered some ground to close 6.6% down — wiping another £5bn off the value of the group — investors were spooked after US Department of Justice officials reportedly said they were planning “to take action” to make sure BP had enough ca
"The biggest Brazilian investor in Africa - and one of the biggest investors in the continent from anywhere - is Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, which is usually known as Vale. It is one of the three biggest mining companies in the world and is the world's biggest iron ore miner, controlling about 27% of the global market. It also produces coal, nickel, copper, bauxite, alumina, aluminium and a wide range of other commodities. As a result of the needs of its mining operations, it also invests heavily in power plants, railways and port infrastructure. Vale currently has investments totalling $7.7bn in nine African countries and plans to invest more than $18bn in Africa over the next five years but much will depend on the direction of global markets over that time." "The firm's biggest investment, however, is its Moatize coal mining project in the Moatize Basin of Tete Province in northwestern Mozambique."
Gail Tverberg: "In my view, oil and gas resource limits are major contributors to the conflict in Syria. This is happening in several ways: 1. Syria is an oil exporter that is in increasingly perilous financial condition because of depleting oil resources. When oil production is increasing, it can help an oil exporter in two ways: (a) part of the of the oil supply can be used internally, to grow more food and to support increased industry, and (b) exports of oil can be used to provide revenue for governmental programs such as food subsidies, education, and building highways. Syria’s population grew from 8.8 million in 1980 to 22.8 million in 2012, at least in part because of the wealth available from oil extraction."
Suvi Turtiainen, HS 29.9.Oliko Venäjän viranomaisten kova vastareaktio yllätys? "Ei", vastasi Greenpeacen suomalaisaktivisti Sini Saarela, kun käynnissä oli oikeusistunto hänen tutkintavankeudestaan Murmanskissa sunnuntaina. "Sen sijaan, että keskitytään meidän tuomitsemiseen, Venäjällä voitaisiin keskustella siitä, mitä riskejä arktisessa öljynporauksessa on", hän jatkoi.
Simply adding energy such as heat or light to the more basic organic molecules in the "soup" does not generate RNA. Instead, it generates tar.RNA needs to be coaxed into shape by "templating" atoms at the crystalline surfaces of minerals. The minerals most effective at templating RNA would have dissolved in the oceans of the early Earth, but would have been more abundant on Mars, according to Prof Benner.
16 dec "Aujourd'hui, fête de l'Indépendance du Kazakhstan, plus de 3.000 personnes se sont rassemblées pacifiquement à Janaözen (ou Zhanaozen, à l’ouest du pays) afin de soutenir les revendications des travailleurs du pétrole, en grève depuis le mois de mai. La police et les forces spéciales ont attaqué la manifestation et ont ouvert le feu sur les grévistes ainsi que sur leurs familles. Aux alentours de 11 heures ce matin, heure belge, 70 personnes avaient déjà été tuées, avec au moins 500 blessés graves. "
kinesisk gas- och oljeutvinning i sydkinesiska sjön samt polymetallic sulphide ore i indiska oceanen. "stratifierade (stratiforma, skiktade) anhopningar av sulfidmineral som fällts ut från hydrotermiska källor på eller under havsbotten, i rikliga förekom