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POPS Oil Outlook Clouds Russia’s Economic Future That could trigger a vicious circle of falling income and investment, as production gets more expensive in Russia's aging fields. The era of record profits from oil and gas is over - that's according to Russia's Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin. 2008 is likely to be the year of peak oil and gas production in the country. The big oil companies are cutting investment in new projects. Russia has received up to $1 Billion a day in oil revenues in recent years, and the country's budget and economy remain highly dependent on hydrocarbon earnings. The world financial crisis and recession has triggered big falls in the world's oil price. That will significantly affect the Russian budget, according to Mikhail Kroutikhin, partner at Rusenergy.
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POPS720 Full Time Staff Take Down U.S. Economy Are you scared of ACORN? They do have almost 1,000 employees. Their membership is approximately 75% elderly black women. Active members number approximately 50-100 people in 110 cities. That is one POWERFUL organization if you believe right wing pundits. If you believe right wing pundits.
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POPSWind-Subsidy Land: T. Boone-Doggle's Plan Will Pickens' plan reduce our dependence on foreign oil? Doubtful. Even if the fleet of natural gas-powered vehicles is enlarged, the bulk of existing and new vehicles will continue to depend for the foreseeable future on gasoline. Americans currently own about 260 million vehicles, a total that grows by more than 3 million new vehicles every year. Turnover is low as about 60 percent are owned for more than seven years. But all is not well in Wind Subsidy-land. Since Congress didn't renew the wind subsidy as part of the 2007 energy bill, it will expire at the end of this year unless reauthorized. Subsidies are perhaps more important to the wind industry that wind itself. Without them, wind can't compete against fossil fuel-generated power. As pointed out by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (July 9), "In 1999, 2001 and 2003, when Congress temporarily killed the credits, the number of new turbines dropped dramatically."
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POPSPure Announces New Flip Camcorder The Flip is a really cool product, simple and convenient and smartly designed. Gadget geeks are eager to see if Pure can repeat its success with the Mino -- and whether $179 is a low-enough price point to attract the members of the "myspace generation" it's being marketed towards.
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POPSBIOFUELS – A MAN MADE DISASTER BIOFUEL DISASTER_THANK CONGRESS AND GREENIES! Contrary to popular belief, the production of biofuels is extremely unfriendly to the environment. The increased use of fertilizer needed in the growing corn crop has resulted in additional soil and water pollution. The National Academy of Sciences recently reported that the 15% food to fuel mandate will increase the size of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone by 10 to 19% as a result of water pollution caused by fertilizer runoff. The production of ethanol requires copious amounts of water, thereby draining local water tables. Congress never learns. Manipulating the market with subsidies and taxation can have disastrous, deadly results. If ethanol is such a great product, then it will thrive in the free market. How many people will have to starve before Congress and the do-gooder environmentalist lobby admit that our biofuel policy is a complete disaster and a potential threat to our economy and global stability.
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POPSTrade Unions: Don't follow anti-Worker USA
"Compared to the thriving £2.3bn-a-year anti-union industry in the United States, where up to 80% of corporations faced with a union organising campaign turn to a union-busting consultancy or specialist law firm, the business is still fairly low-key in Britain. Only a handful of companies are known to have thus far availed themselves of the services of the major US firms, which bear names such as the Burke Group, Labour Relations Institute and PTI Labour Research and have shown a mounting interest in the UK market ever since the Blair government's Employment Relations Act came into effect in June 2000, guaranteeing union recognition wherever a majority of employees are in favour. "The US firms got very excited about this," says John Logan of the London School of Economics, who recently completed a report on the issue for the TUC. "Their marketing line is basically: we've got 60 years of experience in union avoidance under laws like these, and we can help you. To my knowledge, at lea
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POPSChina catches up on US for fast internet as Africa gets left behind One in five people in the world has high-speed lines but the gap is growing Indonesia scored the highest growth across the world in the first quarter - almost 28% - but from a very low base. The figures, however, show just how large the gap is between the digital haves and have nots. Many sub-Saharan African states do not register in the figures at all
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POPSNBC renewing 30 Rock -- depsite low ratings I heard this show was pretty good, i should check it out-- perhaps they should renew Studio 60 despite low ratings..the same audience they have faith in to catch onto 30 rock will catch Studio 60 as well...
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POPSOlder Japanese Men Tend Their Marriages Is sad for a couple to be like this...That is why Ito said: "Repent, repent, repent. That's whay I do every day." "I had never told Setsuko I love her - not like that. But now I want to say it more often...It feels nice," he said. I think that never is too late, but why do we have to wait that much time, 30 years, to say "I love you."
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POPSChina's population to increase by 200 million in 30 years " According to the plan set out in the report, county and town-level agencies in rural areas should improve their services to better implement family planning policies. Families with one child will be rewarded by the government, and the endowment insurance system in rural areas should be strengthened to improve care for the elderly. The report also calls for improvements to the nine-year compulsory education system, the control of HIV/AIDS and public health services."
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POPSBush: U.S. on Verge of Energy Breakthrough Ok - I am all for alternative energy. Believe me, if I can get this personal windmill to clear local zoning, it is going up. But the problem I see is now three-fold. First there needs to be funding to get this stuff out of prototypes and into mass production with a very low entry cost for consumers. Second - some type of tax breaks and government assistance is needed to allow everyone to convert, since people will not be able to afford even new hybrid cars - if they are working min. wage jobs. Third - new jobs and job training need to be put in place, since not only is our dependence on oil via consumption, there are many jobs that key off of this. I would love to see it all happen next year - but I don't think it will occur until 2020.
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