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| Europe's One Musketeer |
 KAISER Bill would approve. A
hundred years after he tried
and failed, his heirs - a woman
on top - have achieved mastery
over Europe. And without firing
a single shot - what an irony. Those nice
pacifist Germans who refused to bomb
Libya and to join the war ... |
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| PRISONS, PATRONAGE,
PRIVATISATION |
 OVER the past few days, The
New York Times has published
several terrifying
reports about New Jersey's
system of halfway houses - privately
run adjuncts to the regular system
of prisons.
The series is a model of investigative
reporting ... |
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 | Qatar set to turn R&D hub
of energy industry: Shell THE gas-to-liquids (GTL)
process industry in which Qatar
is a leading player offers an
alternative route to monetise
gas resources by turning it into
high-quality liquid hydrocarbons
which are heavily demanded
in the rapidly-expanding
Asian markets and elsewhere...
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| | Expanded Las Vegas airport may
help Nevada get out of recession |  WITH the arrival of an
overnight flight from London
this week, Las Vegas will mark
the opening of a $2.4 billion
airport terminal that officials
say could help lift the southern
Nevada economy from the
depths of the Great Recession.
Some are crediting
McCarran International
Airport planners with foresight
for giving a go-ahead in
2008 for a project that airport
chief Randall Walker now
calls crucial to serving tourists
from the US and Britain, plus
places like Panama, South
Korea, the Philippines,
Amsterdam and Berlin.
"What they´ve done is good,
solid planning," said Michael
Boyd, an aviation analyst
based in Evergreen, Colo.
"When Air China wants to
come in, AirIndia or Turkish
Air, they´re going to want a
gate right away. This is a ... | | | PDVSA turns to
foreign traders to
sustain oil deal
with Ecuador |  VENEZUELAN state oil
giant PDVSA has had to
buy dozens of extra fuel
cargoes from countries as
far away as Estonia and
Saudi Arabia to keep up
its side of a 2008 oil supply
deal with leftist ally
Ecuador, according to
traders and sales documents.
In an examination of
shipping data that highlights
the practical risks of
political trade deals,
Reuters found that half
the fuel Venezuela sent to
Ecuador, which cannot
process its own heavy
crude, came from third
countries, often via trading
companies including
Glencore.
What was meant to be an
example of cooperation
between ideologically
aligned states, with
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez importing
Ecuadorean crude in
return for refined fuel, has
instead become another
... | | | Argentines hoarding dollars after govt
bid to control currency exchanges |  ARGENTINES are on edge
since the government
imposed draconian measures
to control money changers.
The measure has complicated
their compulsive buying of
dollars which, alongside football,
is a national pass-time.
So-called cellars, the few
places where US dollars can
still be illegally bought, have
sprung up in the capital, but
the greenback in these places
is now sold at a premium —
up to six pesos. The official
exchange rate is 4.5.
The vendors lining Florida
street in the city center are
constantly at risk of being
caught by policemen, who
have dogs trained to sniff out
dollars.
The dollar is an Argentine
disease," economist Miguel
Kiguel, director of Econviews
Institute and a consultant for
the Inter-American
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