I touched on the massive oil prospecting and processing operations in Alberta here in February, and here a while back. (For a characteristically articulate and comprehensive overview, you can’t beat Betsy Kolbert’s “New Yorker” article, Unconventional Crude.) StatoilHydro, the Norwegian state oil and gas company, one of the biggest in the world, has a big […]
The Congress Party wins big, while Hindu nationalists and communists lose out in the largest democratic elections in the world. And the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty keeps going and going… BBC’s vast election coverage (beaming with post-colonial pride) is worth checking out. India’s Finance Ministry is holding a contest to see who can come up with a […]
The biggest land grab since the scramble for Africa is taking place under the sea. Last Wednesday was the ten-year deadline for most countries to submit claims over seabeds. States that have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are able to claim extensions to their continental shelves beyond the normal […]
The internal power struggles in the Kremlin are still surprisingly hard to understand and predict. President Dmitry Medvedev was Vladimir Putin’s handpicked successor (Putin was constitutionally prevented from seeking a third consecutive term in office in 2008). At the time, many outside analysts and experts believed Medvedev would simply implement Putin’s desired policies and actions. […]
President Obama will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today at the White House. The Mideast peace process will be on the agenda, though as this report points out, the two leaders bring two very different agendas to the table: Israel’s new conservative prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, comes to the White House Monday set on […]
Thanks to my colleague Roger Scher for sending me an article from today’s New York Times concerning “Love Land” (I wrote about it yesterday: here). It turns out Chinese authorities have had enough and have ordered the park to close. Read more here.
Sri Lankan officials Monday claimed defeat over the Tamil Tigers guerrilla organization amid reports its leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed in the latest raids. The victory puts an end to nearly a quater century of violent conflict in Sri Lanka, though the reconciliation campaign may take even longer. European Union nations called Monday for an […]
That’s how I’d paraphrase the old Bill Clinton internal campaign motto in the context of the present-day campaign to get an American law into place to combat GHGs. I’ve written about cap-and-trade and the Carbon Markets dozens of times here, including on the cap-and-trade vs. carbon tax debate. For an interesting look at the history […]
A lot is going on in the Rising Powers at the moment, so why not begin the week with a survey of key developments and important news articles?
Interesting article by noted economic historian Niall Ferguson from the New York Times magazine, Sun 17 May 2009.
Elizabeth Warren of the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) and Arianna Huffington, Founder of HuffPo share uncanny, common sense clarity and insight on financial markets crisis. They get it.
China is to have its first-ever sex theme park, to be called “Love Land”. For a traditional country, the development seems quite radical. The purpose of the park, located in Chongquing province, is to educate people about sex. The park’s manager explains: “We are building the park for the good of the public… to help […]
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