Oil Investors at Brink of Losing Trillions of Dollars in Assets - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-02/oil-investors-may-be-running-off-a-cliff-they-can-t-see
Al Gore likens today’s fossil fuels to the subprime mortgages of the last decade that triggered the global credit crisis. Their value “is based on an assumption every bit as absurd,” specifically the notion that all known oil, gas and coal will be consumed.
Un mois de décembre annoncé particulièrement doux : même la météo ne veut pas de Poutine.
Gas Stocks Brimming for Biggest EU Users in Mildest Year - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-02/eu-s-biggest-gas-hoards-intact-in-mildest-year-on-record
Europe’s biggest gas-consuming nations are headed for their mildest year on record, preserving fuel inventories needed as a bulwark against disruptions in Russian supplies via Ukraine.
Parts of England will probably have the warmest year since records began in 1659, according to Met Office data. Germany is also poised for its mildest year ever, says MeteoGroup, a forecaster. Gas inventories at the U.K.’s biggest storage site climbed to a record Oct. 26, while stockpiles at German facilities are the largest since at least 2009.
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“The weather seems to be Putin’s worst enemy,” Marina Petroleka, the London-based head of energy and infrastructure research at Business Monitor International, a Fitch Group company, wrote in an e-mail Nov. 28. “If this mild weather continues through December, there will not be any cause for concern about shortages in early 2015.”
Travail des enfants : Samsung pris au piège de ses beaux discours
▻http://www.bastamag.net/Travail-des-enfants-Samsung-pris
Cible d’une plainte en France pour « pratique commerciale trompeuse », désigné par une association de consommateurs britanniques comme l’une des marques les moins éthiques du monde, étrillé par l’émission Cash Investigation sur France 2 à qui ses dirigeants ont refusé de répondre, nominé aux Prix Pinocchio comme « l’entreprise ayant mené la politique la plus opaque », la situation ne s’arrange pas pour le géant coréen Samsung. A force de promouvoir, publicités à l’appui, un « monde meilleur » sans bannir le (...)
/ #Asie_et_Pacifique, #Transformer_le_travail, #Conditions_de_travail, #Droits_fondamentaux, (...)
"Fort symboliquement, le film s’ouvre sur une pièce remplie de cartons débordant de liasses de billets ; alors qu’un jeune homme en costume-cravate en remplit une valise, un vieux monsieur le pousse à en mettre quelques-uns dans sa poche « comme tout le monde ». Très scrupuleux, le jeune secrétaire Young-jak refuse. Quelques images plus tard, la valise passe entre les mains d’un juge qui ne manque pas d’assurer qu’il accepte à titre exceptionnel. Sourire du vieux monsieur... Au fil de ce long métrage d’une très grande beauté, Im Sang-soo nous invite dans l’intimité de la famille Baek, représentative de ces grandes fortunes dynastiques qui dirigent les empires industriels sud-coréens, les chaebols. Des familles capables du plus haut raffinement — peintures et sculptures d’exception (Erro, Arman...), musique classique occidentale (ah, la sonate de Schubert quand le mari, « qui n’est pas de notre milieu », se suicide !), grands vins... Des familles également capables des comportements les plus méprisants vis-à-vis de tout ce qui est extérieur à leur caste. Des aristocrates de l’industrie qui aiment faire plier les récalcitrants (le jeune secrétaire amoureux de la fille devra coucher avec la mère qui détient le pouvoir, la bonne sera tuée, le juge acheté, l’investisseur étranger cadenassé...). Si l’on en croit la chronique médiatique de la famille Lee, qui détient l’empire Samsung, le réalisateur pourrait passer pour un documentariste."
►http://blog.mondediplo.net/2013-06-26-L-univers-impitoyable-des-dynasties-sud-coreennes
Samsung ou l’empire de la peur ►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/07/BULARD/49317
Samsung’s War at Home ▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-10/deaths-at-samsung-alter-south-koreas-corporate-is-king-mindset
Ukraine Coalition Talks Start as Russia Sends Aid to East - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-27/ukraine-coalition-talks-start-as-russia-weighs-east-pleas
Ukrainian parties that advocate closer European ties began talks on forging a coalition as Russia said it will send a fourth convoy to the easternmost regions torn by a separatist rebellion.
President Petro Poroshenko, who said coalition talks should take no more than 10 days, yesterday met with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy, the leaders of the People’s Front and the Samopomich party, two of the biggest pro-European blocs.
The pro-European parties may have won enough seats in the Oct. 26 election to gain a two-thirds constitutional majority after sweeping aside the Russian-leaning political forces that are more popular in the nation’s war-ravaged east.
Norway’s Arctic Oil Ambitions Threatened by Slump in Oil - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-23/norway-s-arctic-oil-ambitions-threatened-by-slump-in-oil
Norway’s push to exploit Arctic waters for oil, already denounced by environmentalists, is now under threat from the slump in crude prices.
The Arctic Barents Sea off northern Norway is reckoned to contain 40 percent of the country’s undiscovered resources and seen as key to extending oil output as aging North Sea fields decline. But operating there is expensive, and even before the recent plunge in prices, state-controlled Statoil ASA (STL)’s key project in the area had been delayed twice.
“The premises for what we’re discussing could be gone because of a weakening market,” Terje Aasland, a lawmaker from the opposition Labor Party, said during a debate on Arctic oil in Oslo yesterday. “What we believed a few months ago, we don’t believe today.”
Le PDG de Total meurt dans un accident d’avion à Moscou
▻http://www.lecourrierderussie.com/2014/10/pdg-total-meurt-accident-avion-moscou
Christophe de Margerie était âgé de 63 ans. En 2014, il avait fêté sa quarantième année passée dans le groupe pétrolier. Il était également co-président du Conseil économique de la CCI France Russie.
« Le groupe Total confirme avec une grande émotion et une profonde tristesse que son président-directeur général Christophe de Margerie est décédé cette nuit peu après 22h (heure de Paris) dans un accident d’avion, à l’aéroport de Vnoukovo de Moscou, à la suite d’une collision avec un engin de déneigement. Trois membres d’équipage ont également trouvé la mort », a confirmé la société française dans un communiqué publié sur son site. M. de Margerie était sur le point de rentrer à Paris.
Total n’a pas confirmé la nationalité des autres victimes, indiquant seulement que la compagnie aérienne était française. Le jet privé était un Dassault Falcon. Le conducteur de la déneigeuse n’a, lui, pas été blessé. Le service de presse de l’aéroport moscovite a précisé que la visibilité était de 350 mètres au moment du crash.
Les boîtes noires de l’appareil ont été trouvées. Une enquête a d’ores et déjà été lancée pour établir toutes les circonstances de l’accident. L’erreur humaine n’est pas exclue, qu’il s’agisse des pilotes de l’appareil, des contrôleurs aériens comme du conducteur de la déneigeuse, dont il a déjà été établi qu’il était sous l’emprise de l’alcool, a annoncé le responsable du bureau moscovite du Comité d’enquête russe Ivan Siboul.
Christophe de Margerie revenait d’une réunion avec le Premier ministre russe Dmitri Medvedev consacrée aux investissements étrangers en Russie, qui est visée depuis plusieurs mois par les sanctions occidentales.
Malgré l’adoption de nouvelles sanctions européennes et américaines contre Moscou, le groupe français Total, rappelons-le, avait toujours maintenu ses projets en Russie.
Christophe de Margerie, Total CEO Who Wooed Russia, Dies at 63 - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-21/christophe-de-margerie-total-ceo-who-wooed-russia-dies-at-63
De Margerie “was a remarkable French businessman who was at the forefront of many large joint projects that laid the foundation of the long, fruitful partnership between Russia and France,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said today.
Christophe de Margerie, le pétroleur - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2014/10/21/christophe-de-margerie-le-petroleur_1126367
Les circonstances de la mort de Christophe de Margerie auraient pu sortir du cerveau de John Le Carré : ce chasse-neige conduit par un homme dont les Russes affirment qu’il était ivre, et qui accroche le train d’atterrissage du Falcon sur un aéroport moscovite au cœur de la nuit alors qu’un parfum de guerre froide se répand en Europe est plus qu’étrange et risque de nourrir tous les fantasmes. Une enquête pour « homicide involontaire » vient d’être ouverte. Pour l’heure, le scénario de l’accident est privilégié, mais le BEA (Bureau d’enquêtes et d’analyses) a tout de même envoyé des experts sur place pour tenter de reconstituer le déroulé de la tragédie. Un destin hors norme, du début jusqu’à la fin.
Les #inégalités aux #États-Unis inquiètent la présidente de la Fed
▻http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/etats-unis/201410/17/01-4810034-les-inegalites-aux-etats-unis-inquietent-la-presidente-
"Le creusement des inégalités a recommencé pendant la reprise économique », après la crise financière et immobilière de 2008, « alors que le marché boursier a rebondi, que la croissance des #salaires (...) a été faible et que la hausse des prix des maisons n’a pas restauré le patrimoine perdu pour une grande partie des ménages », a déclaré Mme Yellen.
La patronne de la Fed a en outre mentionné le fardeau de la #dette des étudiants contractée pour financer leurs études qui a quadruplé entre 2004 et 2014.
America Is a Great Place to Get Really, Really Rich
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-21/american-income-inequality-hard-to-get-rich-harder-to-get-un-poor
America (...) is lousy at moving many people out of poverty but great at making a very few very rich. The 2014 global wealth report (PDF) from Credit Suisse claimed that the U.S. created more new millionaires than any other country last year. Bill Gates recently noted that about half of the country’s wealthiest are, like him, entrepreneurs—not heirs. Columbia economist Wojciech Kopczuk and Berkeley’s Emmanuel Saez studied estate tax returns from 1916 to 2000 and argued that the recent rise in income inequality stems from the massive salaries of high-income earners, rather than heirs living off their inheritances. That’s consistent with a study by Lena Edlund and Kopczuk, based on Forbes‘s list of the 400 richest Americans, that claimed the super-wealthy are increasingly people who earned, rather than inherited, their wealth. Saez and Wopczuk speculated that the U.S. progressive tax structure and estate taxes have reduced the number of heirs in America’s super-rich club.
UPDATE 1-Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum makes big oil find, shares surge | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/14/lundinpetroleum-discovery-arctic-idUSL6N0S90X020141014
Apparemment un truc énorme.
Norwegian Arctic discovery could be game changer - analyst
Lundin Petroleum shares rise 7 percent
Noreco, Det Norske shares also rise on news (Adds detail)
OSLO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Swedish oil firm Lundin Petroleum has made a big oil and gas discovery in the Norwegian Arctic, sending its shares more than 7 percent higher and raising hopes that more oil could be found in the remote region.
Lundin Petroleum’s find in the Alta prospect contains between 125 and 400 million barrels of oil equivalent, including 85 to 310 million barrels of oil, near Statoil’s Snoehvit field and Lundin’s own Gohta find, the firm said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Statoil, Lundin Urged to Combine Billion-Barrel Arctic Finds - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-16/statoil-lundin-urged-to-combine-billion-barrel-arctic-finds
Norway urged explorers like Statoil ASA (STL) and Lundin Petroleum AB (LUPE) to combine Barents Sea oil finds of as much as a billion barrels to make them profitable as output from the nation’s aging fields has slumped by half since 2000.
Lundin’s recent Alta discovery, with as much as 310 million barrels of oil, is good news after Statoil this year again delayed the nearby Johan Castberg project over costs, Bente Nyland, director of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, told a conference today.
De la porte blindée au gilet pare-balles, une bien belle histoire d’adaptation à la demande.
Kiev Armored Door Company Goes Where the Money Is : Flak Jackets - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-05/kiev-armored-door-company-goes-where-the-money-is-flak-jackets
Omelchenko says he sells 2,000 to 3,000 Class 4 flak jackets every month, at $350 each. Class 4 jackets have plates made of Kevlar and steel. He also sells more sophisticated Class 6 models, which include metal breastplates, side plates in the kidney area, a neck guard, and a groin guard. Those sell for as much as $800. Omelchenko says he moves about 300 Class 6 vests each month.
A World of Armored Doors is one of four or five large flak jacket retailers in Ukraine. “I’d say that about 20 percent of the vests that we see on TV, they’re ours,” Omelchenko says.
Because of the long-term financial neglect of the Ukrainian army following the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, its military has had to rush to update or purchase new gear. New recruits, along with new members of Ukraine’s recently formed parliamentary battalions, have had to gear up, sometimes from scratch and often on their own dime.
The wait for a new jacket can sometimes take as long as a month, says Omelchenko. Mindful of the urgency some soldiers face, A World of Armored Doors now houses stacks of metal plates and fabric casing. The company also limits civilian buyers to two jackets at a time.
Sometimes, parents from villages will scrape together enough money to buy their newly enlisted son a flak jacket—no small feat, considering the least expensive jacket starts at $350, roughly equivalent to two months’ wages for the average Ukrainian. Other times, volunteer organizations will collect money to purchase the jackets for different battalions.
Judge Rules That Creators of Facebook Pages Don’t Own Their Likes
Business Week By Joshua Brustein August 26, 2014 via @opironet
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-26/judge-rules-creators-of-facebook-pages-dont-own-their-likes
The blue-and-white thumbs-up can be courted, bought or transferred, but a Florida judge dismissed the idea that #Facebook Likes can be owned.
The story (of the legal dispute, not the television show) begins in 2008, when Stacey Mattocks started a fan page for The Game. Soon thereafter, the show went off the air, but the Facebook page lived on. When BET decided to revive The Game in 2010, the network reached out to Mattocks, offering to give her part-time work maintaining her page as the show’s official fan page. BET wasn’t eager to start from scratch: Mattocks had already gathered about 2 million “likes,” according to court documents.
Mattocks and BET signed a deal giving the company administrative access to the page; each agreed not to lock the other out. BET employees and Mattocks worked together, quickly amassing 4 million additional “likes.” But Mattocks wanted a full-time job, and she decided to play hardball to get it. She revoked BET’s administrative access, saying she’d give it back when they agreed to pay her an acceptable salary. The company responded by starting its own page. It also asked Facebook to shut down Mattocks’s page—it contained copyrighted material—and have all the “likes” transferred to its own page. Facebook obliged and Mattocks sued, arguing that she should have the right to capitalize on the business opportunity she had created by getting a lot of people to approve of her page.
Juliet Marine’s #Ghost Boat Will Be Hard Sell to U.S. Navy - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-21/juliet-marines-ghost-boat-will-be-hard-sell-to-u-dot-s-dot-navy
Matte gray, with the chiseled angles of a Nighthawk stealth aircraft, Ghost doesn’t look like a boat. Its 38-foot main hull is designed to travel above the water’s surface, propped up by two narrow struts, both 12 feet long and razor-sharp at the front so they can cut through ocean debris. Underwater, each strut is attached to a 62-foot-long tube that contains a gas turbine engine. Hinges allow the struts to move up and down like wings. While parked, or traveling through shallow waters, they can be extended to the side. In deeper waters, at speeds of eight knots or higher, they can rotate downward to lift the hull into the air, eliminating the jarring impact of waves.
Four propellers positioned at the front of the tubes are powered by the two 2,000-horsepower engines. They pull the craft and, with the help of air funneling down through the struts, create a gas bubble around each tube—an effect known as supercavitation that can reduce drag by a factor of 900. In short, Ghost makes a bubble and flies through it.
#supercavitation comme la torpille Squale qui explosa dans le
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWjZAbI2V4
L’article WP ressemble pas mal à un dépliant publicitaire ▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHOST_(vessel) Il faut dire, le projet est financé sur fonds privés et il faut convaincre le Pentagone…
Chinese Hackers Vacuum Data From U.S. Health Industry - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-08-21/chinese-hackers-vacuum-data-from-u-dot-s-dot-health-industry
For four years, a sophisticated group of Chinese cyberspies has cut a digital swath through the health-care industry, stealing everything from trade secrets to trial data, say security firms probing the campaign.
The group infiltrated one U.S. drugmaker by hacking into a company it was about to acquire, said a security consultant who asked not to be identified because of a confidentiality agreement. In other cases, the hackers accessed pharmaceutical labs through their connections with university researchers, scooping up trial data and other trade secrets, said Aaron Shelmire, a threat researcher for Dell SecureWorks.
A newly reported theft of personal data from 4.5 million patients served by Community Health Systems Inc., the second biggest U.S. for-profit hospital chain, may be the first time the Chinese group has targeted consumer data, terrain usually left to cybercriminals in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, say security experts after the break-in.
The efforts of the Chinese group has forced medical technology and drug companies to make huge new investments in computer security, and left the $160 billion U.S. medical device market worrying about what may be done down the line with the pilfered data.
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The Chinese group goes by many names among U.S. security consultants, including Dynamite Panda, APT 18 and TG-0416. It’s most commonly known as Wekby, the group security companies say was responsible for one of the most famous hacks in recent history — the 2011 breach of the security company RSA. In that incident, hackers stole authentication keys used to protect the secrets of banks and the U.S. government.
#Ebola Drug Supply Is Exhausted After Doses Sent to Africa - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-08-11/ebola-drug-supply-is-exhausted-after-doses-sent-to-africa
Countries including Nigeria and Liberia had requested the drug, called ZMapp. Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., based in San Diego, said it has complied with every request for the drug that was authorized by legal and regulatory authorities. The drug was provided at no cost, according to Mapp.
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“Additional resources are being brought to bear on scaling up,” the company said. “The emergency use of an experimental medicine is a highly unusual situation.”
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A panel of ethicists convened by the WHO began meeting yesterday to weigh the use of experimental drugs that have shown early promise against Ebola. (...) “This is the first effort to have a long-overdue, transparent, public discussion about how to distribute life-saving medicines in an emergency,” said Arthur Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, in a telephone interview. “A ton of attention is going to follow this panel.”
Des dizaines de milliards de dollars perdus en Libye : Libya : Waste, Fraud Erase Billions in National Wealth
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-07/libya-waste-fraud-erase-billions-in-national-wealth
Of the nine companies to which the LIA entrusted its $70 billion bankroll, almost all appear to have lost incredible amounts of money while charging sky-high fees. […]
But the outstanding single offender was Goldman Sachs, which charged $350 million in fees for a series of trades that lost the Libyans 98 percent of their $1.3 billion investment.
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Giveaways to individuals and militias from Libyan state coffers during her time in office from November 2011 to August 2012 amounted to $20 billion, according to her own estimate. In addition, the government, to buy loyalty, pays 40 percent of the adult population a salary at a cost of about $6 billion a month.
Ten days in Kenya with no cash, only a phone
▻http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/205975-ten-days-in-kenya-with-no-cash-only-a-phone #payment #paiement #mobile
“My phone buzzes and dings with a personalized welcome text and account balance. I feel like a caveman who’s just been handed a Bic lighter”
Scientists’ Cheat Sheet for Improving Global Food Production - Businessweek (v Agricultural Biodiversity)
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-23/scientists-cheat-sheet-for-improving-global-food-production
What Happened To The Malaysian Airliner? By Paul Craig Roberts
▻http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts200714.htm
Indeed the entire Western media spoke as one: Russia did it. And the presstitutes are still speaking the same way.
Possibly, this uniform opinion merely reflects the pavlovian training of the Western media to automatically line up with Washington. No media source wants to be subject to criticism for being unamerican or to find itself isolated by majority opinion, which carries the day, and earn black marks for being wrong. As a former journalist for, and contributor to, America’s most important news publications, I know how this works.
On the other hand, if we discount the pavlovian conditioning, the only conclusion is that the entire news cycle pertaining to the downing of the Malaysian airliner is orchestrated in order to lay the blame on Putin.
Romesh Ratnesar, deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, provides convincing evidence for orchestration in his own remarks of July 17. Ratnesar’s opinion title is: “The Malaysia Airlines Shootdown Spells Disaster for Putin.” ▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-17/the-malaysia-airlines-shootdown-spells-disaster-for-putin?campaign_id=
Ratnesar does not mean that Putin is being framed-up. He means that prior to Putin having the Malaysian airliner shot down, “to the vast majority of Americans, Russia’s meddling in Ukraine has largely seemed of peripheral importance to U.S. interests. That calculus has changed. . . . It may take months, even years, but Putin’s recklessness is bound to catch up to him. When it does, the downing of MH 17 may be seen as the beginning of his undoing.”
As a former Wall Street Journal editor, anyone who handed me a piece of shit like Ratnesar published would have been fired. Look at the insinuations when there is no evidence to support them. Look at the lie that Washington’s coup is “Russia’s meddling in Ukraine.” What we are witnessing is the total corruption of Western journalism by Washington’s imperial agenda. Journalists have to get on board with the lies or get run over.
Look around for still honest journalists. Who are they? Glenn Greenwald, who is under constant attack by his fellow journalists, all of whom are whores. Who else can you think of? Julian Assange, locked away in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London on Washington’s orders. The British puppet government won’t permit free transit to Assange to take up his asylum in Ecuador. The last country that did this was the Soviet Union, which required its Hungarian puppet to keep Cardinal Mindszenty interred in the US Embassy in Budapest for 15 years from 1956 until 1971. Mindszenty was granted political asylum by the United States, but Hungary, on Soviet orders, would not honor his asylum, just as Washington’s British puppet, on Washington’s orders, will not honor Assange’s asylum.
If we are honest and have the strength to face reality, we will realize that the Soviet Union did not collapse. It simply moved, along with Mao and Pol Pot, to Washington and London.
The flaw in Putin’s diplomacy is that Putin’s diplomacy relies on good will and on truth prevailing. However, the West has no good will, and Washington is not interested in truth prevailing but in Washington prevailing. What Putin confronts is not reasonable “partners,” but a propaganda ministry aimed at him.
If we are honest and have the strength to face reality, we will realize that the Soviet Union did not collapse. It simply moved, along with Mao and Pol Pot, to Washington and London.
Ah oui, quand même. Ca commence à devenir sérieux les analyses :-D Et c’est PCG qui le dit ! Vivement que Pujadas s’en rende compte !!!
Russian Gas : How Much Is That ?
▻http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-gas-how-much-gazprom/25442003.html
A study of publicly available data shows that West European countries pay less to Gazprom, the Russian state-run gas giant, than do poorer Central and East European countries.
Seuls les prix sont comparés, sans considération sur les natures des contrats (long terme, engagement de quantité, clause take or pay…)
Le prix du gaz de l’accord avec la Chine vient de fuiter.
Gazprom Gas Price in China Deal Said to Be Near German Level - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-02/gazprom-gas-price-in-china-deal-said-to-be-near-germany-s-level
OAO Gazprom (OGZD), the world largest natural-gas producer, will supply fuel to China at a price close to Germany’s, according to Russian officials.
Keeping parity between Germany and China, which will be Gazprom’s two largest customers after shipments to the Asian country start, may reassure investors that Russia didn’t offer excessive discounts to win a deal that had been sought for more than a decade.
The base price for China National Petroleum Corp. is about $360 per 1,000 cubic meters, two government officials in Moscow said, asking not to be identified because the information is confidential. That’s near the average $366 that Gazprom charged Germany last year, which pays one of the lowest prices in Europe, one of the officials said.
The World’s Most Crazed Soccer Nation? Try #Nigeria - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-20/the-worlds-most-crazed-soccer-nation-try-nigeria
In #New_York, a Bill to Grant Undocumented Immigrants State Citizenship
While Congress drags its feet on immigration reform, New York State lawmakers are mulling an immigration bill of their own: It would grant state citizenship to some noncitizen immigrants, including undocumented residents, allowing them to vote and run for office. Under the New York Is Home Act, noncitizen residents who have proof of identity and have lived and paid taxes in the state for three years could apply for legal status that would let some qualify for Medicaid coverage, professional licensing, tuition assistance, and driver’s licenses, as well as state and local—but not federal—voting rights. The responsibilities of citizenship would also apply, including jury duty.
▻http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-16/in-new-york-a-bill-to-grant-undocumented-immigrants-state-citizenship