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The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it. This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be fully operational in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu by 2014. Over the past several years, China has sought to aggressively expand trade with Saudi Arabia, and China now actually imports more oil from Saudi Arabia than the United States does. In February, China imported 1.39 million barrels of oil per day from Saudi Arabia.
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The location of legal activist Chen Guangcheng remains uncertain following his escape from house arrest in the Shandong village of Dongshigu, with widespread speculation pointing to the US embassy in Beijing. He is reported to be somewhere “100% safe”, but the same cannot be said of friends, family and supporters, against whom reprisals are either feared or already apparently underway. Chen is said to have prepared for months for his escape, spending more and more time in bed so that
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T-Mobile Admits It Made A $250 Error, Still Manages To Blame Me Welcome to the T-Mobile Customer Service Labyrinth, where every turn brings you back to the center, where headset wearing minotaurs tell you that the exit is right in front of you but it's not the exit, and where the company can admit in writing to making an error that costs you $250 but says it's your fault. More » Aer Lingus Really Doesn't Want Ryanair To Be All Up In Its Business Anymore Aer Lingus scored a hit against fellow Irish airline Ryanair in court today, which will allow British authorities to continue investigating the cheapo carriers over its ownership of a 30% stake in Aer Lingus. More » Broadcasters Would Rather Not Have To Post Political Ad Rates Online Last month, the FCC approved a new rule that requires broadcasters who air political ads to post on their websites the rates they charge — and other related information — for these commercials.
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Yesterday, YNet, the Times of Israel, the JTA, and the Jewish Daily Forward published reports about the targeting of 200 Jewish university students in a guerrilla campaign instigated by “pro-Palestinian” activists at the start of Passover. One problem with the story — it never happened. Continue reading
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Costa Rica: ¿Qué está pasando en Pérez Zeledón y por qué nos afecta a todos? Costa Rica está viviendo un momento crítico, una mafia política amenaza seriamente con tomar el control de nuestra Democracia, y lo que está pasando en Pérez Zeledón es un claro ejemplo. ¿Qué está pasando? Hace más de un año, el pueblo de Pérez Zeledón acusó a su alcalde, Luis Mendieta (PLN) de faltar a sus responsabilidades y [...]
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With his recent conviction on 13 counts of money laundering—ensuring that a man who once lived in a $57 million mansion with a moat will be doing his entertaining behind bars for a very long time—the Allen Stanford scandal would seem to be all but over.
05/03/2012 5:48 am Leave a Comment I'm disappointed in Newt Gingrich. The man has bragged about his bona fides ad nauseum, so I thought he'd at least have the cojones to take his campaign to the convention. Alas, Gingrich has proved that he is what we already knew he was: a big mouth … [Read More...] 05/03/2012 5:32 am 2 Comments There were a couple of stories that hit the blogosphere this week that should send a shudder down the spines of each and every citizen.
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from latimes.com : The Supreme Court's conservative justices said Wednesday they are prepared to strike down President Obama’s healthcare law entirely . Picking up where they left off Tuesday, the conservatives said they thought a decision striking down the law's controversial individual mandate to purchase health insurance means the whole statute should fall with it.
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FDR Memorial: The Four Freedoms (Wikipedia) The Republican Presidential primary has unmasked one astonishingly ugly facet after another in the GOP’s character, leaving the party’s soul stripped bare of any moral pretense and revealing, at its core, an appalling indifference to — even a smug pleasure in — other peoples’ suffering. Consider what has been on display in just three months of debates and campaigning.