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• NOCs: Need for energy is driving force behind global thirst for assets - FT.com

  "This year, for the first time, NOCs are on track to spend more on buying international oil and gas production and exploration assets than their private sector rivals, according to Wood Mackenzie, the consultancy. "

  tags: noc oil gas energy energysector

• Poop Therapy: More Than You Probably Wanted To Know About Fecal Transplants | Mother Jones

  "It's Monday morning—always a terrific time to think about fecal transplants. (Feel free to finish your breakfast first.) Playful references to this kind of poop therapy keep popping up in the news, as in the headlines two weeks ago about a young woman from Marietta, Georgia, whose fecal treatment cured a raging bacterial infection."

  tags: random hmm gross medicine healthcare

• PressTV - Anti-regime protesters rally in Saudi Arabia’s Qatif region

  "Tens of thousands of Saudi protesters have held a massive anti-regime rally in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, Press TV reports. Chanting slogans against the Saudi authorities, the demonstrators turned out in Qatif late on Sunday to condemn the regime’s suppression of dissent. "

  tags: saudiarabia protests ksa easternprovince

• Chris Matthews To Jack Welch On Jobs Conspiracy: 'Do You Want To Take That Back?' (VIDEO)

  "Chris Matthews laid into former GE CEO Jack Welch on Friday's "Hardball" for baselessly suggesting that the latest unemployment figures had been manipulated by the Obama campaign."

  tags: chrismatthews msnbc media employment

• South Korea Allowed To Develop Longer-Range Missiles Under New Agreement

  "The United States has agreed to allow South Korea to possess longer-range missiles that could strike all of North Korea, officials said Sunday, a development expected to draw an angry response from the North."

  tags: southkorea northkorea war weapons military-industrial

• Holy Mecca Will Be Saudi’s First Solar City | Green Prophet

  "Saudi Arabia’s government has confirmed that it will develop and build a $640 million solar power plant in the holy city of Mecca. It continues the country’s recent talks of bolstering its clean energy sector and with the holy pilgrimage of Hajj beginning, the government believes this is the best time to announce the massive project. More importantly, however, the announcement of the solar power plant, one of the largest in the Middle East North Africa region, comes as numerous reports, including one from Citibank, have said the country could become a net importer of oil by 2030, making it difficult to meet the energy needs of the population."

  tags: saudiarabia ksa energysecurity energyefficiency solarenergy mecca

• Global refining industry shifts to the Middle East

  "As high oil prices and improved efficiency force refineries in the U.S. and Europe towards closure, the industry is shifting toward the Middle East and Asia in a move fuelled by a thirst for energy among emerging economies. China and India in particular are driving the demand, with multiple refineries cropping up in China and the Gulf and Indian energy group Reliance, for example, running two giant refineries capable of processing a total of 1.2 million barrels of crude oil per day."

  tags: oil refining energy gas energysector energysecurity total saudiarabia

• Leaks confirm death of top Russian general in Syria

  "Contrary to an official denial on Moscow’s behalf, leaked documents aired by Al Arabiya suggest that a Russian military general who worked as a military advisor to the Syrian regime was indeed killed by opposition forces on Aug. Maj. Gen. Vladimir Kojève was reportedly killed when opposition Free Syrian Army raided his car. Following his death, a number of documents were obtained from his personal briefcase which was found inside his vehicle."

  tags: russia syria revolution protest levant

• Over a thousand Hezbollah agents operating in Syria

  "Hezbollah is operating inside Syria’s borders, with about 1,500 of its agents providing “extensive support” for the Syrian regime, The Times has reported, lending strength to an earlier Al Arabiya report, which cited leaked Syrian files, that Hezbollah was actively involved in the Syrian unrest from the early months of the uprising. Hezbollah is long believed to be providing ground support for there gime of incumbent Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in its bid to quash the national uprising that began in March of 2011."

  tags: hezbollah syria lebanon protest resistance middleeast

• Why a President Romney would have Obama to thank for an economic recovery - The Washington Post

  "Cast your mind forward to October 2014. The economic rebound for which Barack Obama had worked so hard and hoped so long is finally underway: Growth is humming, unemployment is steadily dropping, and the stock market is hitting one record high after another. But unfortunately for Obama, he’s not in the White House anymore — and President Mitt Romney is the man whose approval ratings are being carried aloft by the Dow. "

  tags: obama romney economy politics unitedstates

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