NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
War Over Privatizing Transneft Pipeline Monopoly Roils Russian Government. Ever since the December 1991 piece to implosion of the USSR, Western investors have hungrily eyed the post-Soviet space as a prime ground for plunder.
Magnitude 6.8 quake hits Japan
Muslim leaders boycott breakfast over surveillance program
Iran-US stand-off over Strait of Hormuz worsens. DUBAI The stand-off between the US and Iran over access to the strategic Strait of Hormuz shipping channel worsened Thursday with Tehran declaring that any threat would be "responded by ...
Fire Onboard Russian Nuclear Submarine. They're still in there! Crew of blazing Russian nuclear submarine remain inside... as officials claim there is no radiation leak Blaze: Smoke rises from the dock where the Yekaterinburg was being repaired Russia's Defence Ministry said there has been no radiation leak from the fire, which began last night on wooden ...
US Moves EMP Attack To Iran From North America After Russian Report. An urgent follow-up report from General Director Vladimir Popovkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) to Prime Minister Putin on the failed Phobos-Grunt Mars space probe mission circulating in the Kremlin today states that since his last report (which we reported on in our 26 December report US Warned Could Soon Face Russian Wrath From Space) the Americans who have taken control [...]
War Imminent in Straits of Hormuz? $200 a Barrel Oil? (Reuters) - A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Thursday the United States was not in a position to tell Tehran "what to do in the Strait of Hormuz," state television reported, after the U.S. said it would preserve oil shipments in the Gulf...
HEALTH/MEDICAL
Stroke and Heart Attack Symptoms You Never Saw Coming
New Danger Found to Affect Many Children and Adults During Recreational Play
TECH
U.S.
Eastern Ohio rattled by 4.0-magnitude earthquake
California officials post $60,000 reward after 21–fire arson spree
AMERICAS
First nations fiercely opposed to Northern Gateway. Third in a series: While bands support projects involving natural gas and mines, oil spill threats raise red flags.
Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here’s the text that says so.
Venezuela’s Chavez: Did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?
CANADA
Toronto goes TOU - Smart Grids in Canada
MIDDLE EAST/ASIA
Iran wants to defuse crisis with West.
How Iran’s Saber Rattling Could Affect Oil Prices and the Environment
Assad to be Toppled Within Weeks. Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime will be toppled within weeks, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.Barak said there is a deepening.
AFRICA
Nigeria Ends Fuel Subsidies in Face of Protest Threats
MSF loses track of 130 staff members in Pibor
In 2011 Democracy took one step forward, two steps back.
MARKETS/BUSINESS
Chinese Imports of Iranian Petroleum Products Soar. Chinese imports of Iranian oil jumped 53 percent in June over the previous month, according to the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China.
Bank of America severing some small-business credit lines. Bank of America is demanding that some small-business customers pay off their credit line balances all at once instead of making monthly payments.
WILL THE EURO SURVIVE? ~ By Bruce Porteous
Venezuela says it will pay ExxonMobil $255 million over nationalization
Natural Gas Analysis for the Week of January 2, 2012.
Crude Oil Analysis for the Week of January 2, 2011
Hyundai, Kia see slower sales growth in 2012
SC/ENVIRONMENT
Vietnam Considers Wind Power. While Vietnam is a rising exporter of hydrocarbons, government authorities are increasingly interested in increasingly the country’s investments in renewable power sources.
The Lost City of Cahokia. [A] millennium ago, this strategic spot along the Mississippi River was an affluent neighborhood of Native Americans, set amid the largest concentration of people and monumental architecture north of what is now Mexico.
Pakistan to Produce Natural Gas - By Burning Underground Coal
