Delegates from 111 nations agreed Wednesday a landmark treaty to ban cluster bombs, Ireland’s foreign ministry said, in a deal that lacks the backing of major producers and stockpilers of the lethal weapons. After 10 days of painstaking negotiations at Croke Park stadium in Dublin, diplomats agreed the wording of a wide-ranging pact to outlaw [...]
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Landmark cluster bomb ban agreed by 111 countries
Posted by Matt in May 29th, 2008 | no comment
Published in Military, Cluster Bomb, Cluster Bombs, Croke Park Stadium, Delegates, Diplomats, Dublin, Foreign Ministry, Ireland, Landmark Treaty, Lethal Weapons, Negotiations, Outlaw, Pact, Producers
The U.S. and China are over a barrel
Posted by Matt in April 28th, 2008 | no comment
Published in China, Oil, U.S., China Factor, Declining Oil, Foreseeable Future, Gasoline Prices, Global Oil, Inadequacies, Internal Violence, iraq, Mexico, Nigeria, Oil Brokers, Oil Output, Producers, Refinery, Russia, Venezuela, Violence In Iraq
The reality is that as far as the current run-up in gasoline prices is concerned, other factors are more to blame: shrinking oil output from such key producers as Mexico, Russia and Venezuela; internal violence in Iraq and Nigeria; refinery inadequacies in the U.S. and elsewhere; speculative stockpiling by global oil brokers, and so on. [...]
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