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• Ted Cruz's Biggest Cheerleaders Are On Right-Wing Talk Radio - The Daily Beast

  "Say you’re Ted Cruz. You’ve been sent to Washington by pissed-off Tea Party revolutionaries to blow up the system. Thus far, you’ve pursued your mission with gusto, refusing to compromise ideological purity for the sake of getting stuff done, no matter how nicely/rudely/plaintively members of your own team ask. As a result, in a town dominated by a yawning red-blue chasm, you have emerged, with impressive speed, as a rare object of bipartisan agreement: everyone hates you. Most consider you an arrogant, short-sighted, self-promoting jackass. Some suspect that you may be genuinely crazy. Forget the Democratic opposition: Fellow Republicans are sending oppo research on you to the media. To Fox News, no less! When you have drifted so far out on the right fringe that Fox News is no longer a reliably safe harbor, where can you turn? What friendly port remains? "

  tags: cruz teabagger republicans limbaugh

• Russian energy: Frozen assets - FT.com

  "The Soviets went to great lengths to try to extract their vast reserves of unconventional oil. In the far north of Russia, near the Pechora river estuary, they even experimented with nuclear explosives. These only succeeded in fusing the sandstone into glass. But decades later, Russia’s oil companies are far closer to figuring out how to harness the country’s shale riches."

  tags: oil ussr russia gas exploration energy shale

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