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The Price of Oil
Don't ask Uncle Sam, because George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are running a regime marinated in oil that does not issue reports which explain the real determinants of petroleum pricing beyond the conventional supply-demand curves. First, let us create a historical framework to provide some background. In the good ‘ole oil days, before the producer-countries' cartel in the Third World gained pricing power, there were seven giant oil companies called the ‘seven sisters' led by Standard Oil (now Exxon) and Shell. As chronicled in Robert Engler's classic book, The Brotherhood of Oil, they were able to affect pricing through extra-market means. Economists called them a tight oligopoly. OPEC later took their place at the table in the mid to late Seventies and set the price of crude oil at highly publicized meetings of the various member countries representatives from the Middle East, South America and Africa.
CENTRAL ASIA: Aral Sea crisis continues to erode health
The sea, located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the fourth largest lake in the world. However, it continues to shrink despite regional commitments to halt the draining of the rivers that feed it. It is now a quarter of its original size. Over the last 40 years an estimated 45 million mt of salt-contaminated dust has been created due to the shrinking, resulting in massive health problems that affect millions of people, experts say. In 1994, the governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan established the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) to address the environmental impact. Usman Buranov, IFAS' technical director of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects, said that the health problems in the region were related to the low quality of drinking water.
It's Telstra or nobody
TELSTRA builds Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's precious high-speed broadband network or nobody does. Next year, or the year after. Indeed, pretty much as far into an internet warp speed future that it's possible to see. It's Telstra or its nobody. In all the spin, the claims and counter-claims, the abuse, the assertions of "readiness to build", the seeking of and/or gaining "approval", this is the one solid truth. Telstra builds the network. Or it agrees to joint venture it with the taxpayer. Or it allows someone else to build it. It's entirely in Telstra's gift. And it WILL exercise that power, to its own best-perceived advantage. That advantage is simply that it builds the network on its terms. Or nobody does.
Homes around the world -- free
It's almost January, which means my family will soon be in demand again, though there's no predicting where. ¶ A golf resort on a Washington state wildlife preserve? A farmhouse in the south of France? England's Lake District? A Danish island? ¶ My wife, two teenagers and I have been invited to them all -- just as we have invited adventurous strangers from around the world to our house in Laguna Beach. ¶ Since discovering the services that help vacationers swap homes, we've chalked up six trades in five years, giving us accommodations in such distinctive settings as a labor lawyer's flat in a diverse Montreal neighborhood, a currency trader's remodeled Victorian mansion near London and a house flipper's built-to-look-ancient villa in the Mexican colonial town of San Miguel de Allende.
The deals usually gave us the use of a car, and two even included the use of second homes.
Internet EarthLink Ready to Bail on Municipal WiFi
EarthLink decides that municipal WiFi isn't adding value to its shareholders and throws a $40 million USD price tag on its operations. Municipal WiFi continues to struggle in the United States. EarthLink, one of the biggest proponents of municipal WiFi services, announced plans to eliminate nearly half of its workforce in late August. The company stands to lose 900 employees and four offices before the close of 2007 as a result of the cuts. EarthLink's downward spiral has lead to the implosion of several citywide WiFi initiatives. EarthLink's WiFi plans in San Francisco have failed as have its efforts in Houston. EarthLink's failure to develop a wireless network for that city cost the company $5 million USD. EarthLink's other endeavors in Chicago, Cincinnati, Lompoc, Sacramento, St.
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