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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.
The Economic Collapse
Laughing Squid
RISK! is a live show and weekly podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by comedian Kevin Allison ( The State ). The live show happens monthly in both New York and Los Angeles venues (and sometimes other cities ) and features like true stories from people like Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Nealon, Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Lili Taylor, Rachel Dratch, Andy Borowitz and more. Listeners can also pitch their own stories .
A 0.2 percent dip in GDP at the end of 2011, which followed a drastic decline in the third quarter, has thrown Ireland back into recession, alongside Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Greece, and begs the question of whether austerity is the answer to Europe’s economic woes.
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
‘Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends…. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.’ ~Henry David Thoreau We are not consumers. We are people. We are not living lives meant to earn money in order to support a shopping habit, or a large home and two cars, or lives of luxury eating and entertainment.
Breaking Free From Consumerist Chains | zen habits
The China Beat · Blogging How the East Is Read
The runaway from a Tibetan village in Naba, China, led the way down the slippery dirt track to the doorstep of a restaurant with a Potala Palace bereft of tourists and soldiers painted on its blue walls. The Tibetan-speaking attendant at Chonor House politely declined to serve my first meal in McLeod Ganj. The kitchens were functioning only for hotel guests until the end of Losar. The three-day Tibetan New Year passed uncelebrated earlier this month in the Indian hill-town teeming with Tibetan exiles who give Dharamshala the moniker of Little Lhasa. The exiled Tibetan government is edged higher in the cliff-side of Dharamshala in the former British cantonment of McLeod Ganj.I've never thought of my allergies as a big deal. Sure, my peanut allergy has caused an emergency room visit here and there, and my dad used to pick me up from sleepovers because of my emphysema-like wheezing around cats. No big thing, right? But a few years back it seemed about time I went to see an allergy specialist and get a comprehensive list of the things my body hates.
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Fuck Yeah, Tattoos!
This i my 5th tattoo. It’s a blue seashell, with the wuote: “ swim good ” written over. It’s made by Malene from Blind Owl Tattoo ind Odder, Denmark.The Scholarly Kitchen
Find Posts by Category The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is "[t]o advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking." SSP established The Scholarly Kitchen blog in February 2008 to keep SSP members and interested parties aware of new developments in publishing. ...................................... The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog.
May 9th 2012, 14:14 by M.S. NORTH CAROLINA passed its constitutional amendment to bar gay marriage by a thumping 61-39 majority yesterday. Celebrating the vote, Tami Fitzgerald of Marriage NC, the group that backed the amendment, provided a slightly different variety of question-begging from the ones my colleague addressed yesterday . "We are not anti-gay, we are pro-marriage," said Tami Fitzgerald, chairwoman of the group.
