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Colombian President Santos & Drug-Trafficking Reform, “It makes no sense to imprison a peasant who grows marijuana”
Colombian President receives Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for bringing peace between Colombia and FARC Video via CBS News Colombian President Juan Miguel Santos used his minutes at the Noble Peace prize podium to discuss the need for world governments to “rethink” the war on drugs saying, “It makes no sense to imprison a peasant […]
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News Headlines for May 15, 2015: Recording Suggests ISIS Leader Alive, Norway Teens Kidnap Penguins, PRC Reduces Emissions
Top news stories from around the globe for Friday May 15, 2015 ISIL recording suggests leader al-Baghdadi is not dead Israeli Government to Fund Grants to African Refugees Encouraging them to Emigrate NASA: Antarctic Ice Shelf Near Disintegration Venezuelan Currency Implodes as Inflation Jumps 100% High Line for Seoul New Zealand Recognizes Animals as Sentient Beings PRC reduces emissions […]
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News Headlines May 4, 2015: LSD a Human Right in Norway? Massive Ice Sheet Drifting, Russian Official Beaten for Reporting Fraud
Large Number of Nigerian Girls Rescued from Boko Haram Pregnant Russian Offical Beaten After Reporting Election Fraud Norwegians Campaign to Make LSD a Human Right Germany Complicity in NSA Spying? Prime Minister of Nepal Transferring Relief Funds to Government-Administered Account 17 Mile Ice Sheet Breaks Off of Antarctica’s Getz Shelf President of Kenya: No Room […]
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Extra! Extra!: Snipers Open Fire on UN Inspectors in Syria, Norway’s Progress Party Promises Legal Moonshine
Snipers Open Fire on UN Chemical Weapons Inspection Team in Syria Need More Testosterone? UC Santa Barbara Scientists Recommend Chopping Wood US Electrical Grid Possibly Unstable School Year Begins in Chicago with Fewer Teachers, Schools Russia Warns US Against Syria Intervention Archaeological Secrets of Beowulf Japanese School Board Bans Antiwar Manga The Washington Post Debuts […]
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China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) May Purchase Exxon Mobil’s Iraq West Qurna 1 Field
- January 19, 2013
- 2035
- Asia
- business and finance
- China
- China National Petroleum Corporation
- Chinese oil consumption
- CNPC
- international business
- Iraq
- Iraqi oil fields
- Iraqi Oil Ministry
- Lukoil
- Malaysia
- Middle East
- Norway
- Oil industry
- Oil Ministry of Iraq
- People's Republic of China
- PRC
- Russia
- SOE
- Staatoil
- state owned enterprise
- West Qurna 1 Field
- West Qurna 2 Field
Current CNPC holdings in Iraq include three fields in the south producing more than 1.4 million barrels of oil per day. The largest foreign players in Iraq’s emerging oil industry are China and Malaysia. China National Petroleum Corporation has sought to expand its presence by acquiring the West Qurna 1 Field which holds reserves estimated to be […]
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Eple – Röyksopp Music Video
Röyksopp is a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, formed in 1998. Their style ranges across various sub-genres such as electronic, downtempo, ambient, trip hop, dance, electropop, synthpop, and house music. [Vevo]
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Iceland and Greenland Discuss Adopting the Canadian Dollar as National Currency
The economic downturn has claimed many victims: individual citizens, corporations, countries and potentially entire monetary unions (such as Greece in the euro). Iceland is no stranger to economic hardship, becoming the first nation to declare sovereign bankruptcy in years when it did so in 2008. In order to jumpstart the economy, use of the loonie […]
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Study Finds 40% of British National Party Supporters ‘Willing to Prepare for Armed Conflict’
“From Voting to Violence? Rightwing Extremists in Modern Britain,” a study by Matthew Goodwin of the University of Nottingham and Jocelyn Evans of Salford University questioned over 2,000 voters for ‘radical right’ and ‘far-right’ political groups and found that most endorsed violence and were willing to prepare for such events. The study’s findings provide a […]
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Polar Bear that mauled British schoolboy to death had decaying teeth.
This is absolutely sad. Apparently some travelers to Norway were attacked by an underweight and malnourished polar bear who mauled one to death and severely wounded the others. It is hard to fault the polar bear for the tragedy, but that doesn’t lessen the bizarre and tragic nature surrounding of this incident.
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Norway’s PM: We Choose Dignity
Norway’s Prime Minister speaks about the tragic massacre in that country.
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