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		<title>The US-China Battle for Angola&#8217;s Oil</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-us-china-battle-for-angolas-oil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa’s natural resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa’s oil reserves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angola’s oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[offshore oil exploration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angola is poised to become the darling of the global oil industry. Although the country is a ‘corrupt, underdeveloped and war-scarred country’ and ‘one of the poorest lands on earth,’ it is a place of vast natural resources and immense potential wealth. Oil and diamonds comprise 99 percent of Angola’s exports. It has also been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran +Turkey: new Middle East power shift</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/iran-turkey-new-middle-east-power-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alliance with the West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nabucco pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northern tier of Middle Eastern states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[principal supplier of natural gas to central Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunni dominance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=29724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Turkey has finally loosened its alliance with the West and ‘turned its focus toward its former Ottoman neighbors in Asia and the Middle East.’ Pursuing this trend, ‘it will be as strategically significant for the balance of power in the region as the emergence of Iran as a preeminent power thanks to the collapse of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US War on the Taliban: a dark, slimy, and precious reason</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/us-war-on-the-taliban-a-dark-slimy-and-precious-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/us-war-on-the-taliban-a-dark-slimy-and-precious-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cold War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamist ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[militant insurgency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new world order]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outrage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petroleum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US antiterrorist mobilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Evangelical Christian ‘extremism’]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US global oil interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US oil motivations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US petroleum strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US thirst for oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[War on Terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The US war on the Taliban is founded on something deeper, but actually more obvious, than waging a war against militant insurgency and/or ideology. ‘The short answer is that today, as has been the case since 1979, neither a specific ‘militant’ nor ‘ideology’ is ‘being fought.’ Rather, the target of operations, for which more troops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin advocates for local oil production: “Drill, Baby, Drill!”</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/sarah-palin-advocates-for-local-oil-production-%e2%80%9cdrill-baby-drill%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/sarah-palin-advocates-for-local-oil-production-%e2%80%9cdrill-baby-drill%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alaska energy plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative sources of energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fertilizers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[plastics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin advocates for local oil production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transport service power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US dependence on foreign oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US local oil development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin believes that oil is here to stay for the US, and that renewable energy and domestic oil development should go hand-in-hand. “Alternative sources of energy are part of the answer, but only part. There’s no getting around the fact that we still need to &#8216;drill, baby, drill!&#8217; And if those in D.C. say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq Petro-State: the ironically cruel fate of owning vast untapped oil reserves</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/iraq-petro-state-the-ironically-cruel-fate-of-owning-vast-untapped-oil-reserves/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/iraq-petro-state-the-ironically-cruel-fate-of-owning-vast-untapped-oil-reserves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geopolitics of oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydrocarbon preserves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasion of Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraqi oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern oil search technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil reserves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak oil hysteria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak oil paranoia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petro-state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vast untapped oil reserves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Modern Iraq is all about oil. It exists for and because of it. Its turmoil and troubles are due to it. Wars have been waged on the country’s soil because of the black gold mine that lies under the ground. Iraq has ‘one of the world&#8217;s great hydrocarbon preserves,’ with proven oil reserves of 115 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China’s pollution is now a global problem</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/china%e2%80%99s-pollution-is-now-a-global-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/china%e2%80%99s-pollution-is-now-a-global-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acid rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car exhaust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car manufacting hub]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dumping ground of e-waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest denudation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global pollution problem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gas emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leading CO2 emitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polluted marine environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollution of river systems and seas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sulfir dioxide emissions. toxi metals in groundwater]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=19294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The alarming pollution levels in China have now become a global concern. Fueled by the spoils of its fast emerging economy, the people of China have become voracious consumers, an effect of what some call as the country’s ‘money-induced euphoria.’ This consumerism has brought about a need for raw materials. Upwards of 75 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WatCleaner: The Water&#8217;s Knight in Shining Armor</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/watcleaner-the-waters-knight-in-shining-armor/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/watcleaner-the-waters-knight-in-shining-armor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Finds of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eco Gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garbage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Design Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan Design Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sensors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WatCleaner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ye Yao]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=18777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[‘Almost all the water bodies around the world are polluted and need cleansing’. Most of you would surely agree with me on the statement and so does the Chinese industrial designer Ye Yao; otherwise, he would’ve never created the WatCleaner. Frontrunner of the “Excellent Works” designation in Japan Design Foundation International Design Competition, 2007 this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq reopens its vast oil reserves to foreign companies</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/iraq-reopens-its-vast-oil-reserves-to-foreign-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/iraq-reopens-its-vast-oil-reserves-to-foreign-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign expertise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global oil companies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nouri Al-Maliki]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=17722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The sorry state of its facilities, a decade of international embargo, successive wars, and the alarming state of its finances today forced Iraq to reopen its oil deposits to foreign capital and expertise. The decision of the government of Nouri al-Maliki to auction ‘service contracts’ for the operation of Iraq’s six largest oil fields and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian oil: chaos over black gold</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/nigerian-oil-chaos-over-black-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/nigerian-oil-chaos-over-black-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crude oil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[insurgents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[major oil players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[militants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The considerations have now become political. Today, the production is safer in the deep offshore. The ‘new frontier’ of Nigeria&#8217;s oil which is near the coast or in the Delta is a veritable war zone for oil where militants declared war against major oil players and foreign authorities. Several facilities of major oil companies have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Years of Hugo Chavez</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/10-years-of-hugo-chavez/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/10-years-of-hugo-chavez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivarian revolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez celebrated 10 years in power on February 2. It was a day of celebrations across Venezuela, a feat that the political opposition calls as massive propaganda. It was a day of joy for the government and distaste for the opposition. Faced with a polarized Venezuela, Chavez said that the revolution is [...]]]></description>
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