Japan and the United States agreed on Friday on a deal that paves the way for Tokyo to join talks on an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement. I wonder if the whole bogus North Korea crisis has something to do with this?
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The second leg of the 4,200-kilometre (2,600-mile) pipeline runs from fields west of Lake Baikal to the Pacific port of Kozmino near the northeastern edge of China.
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As nearly a dozen countries – including the United States, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Mexico and Vietnam – gathered in New Zealand last week for the 14th round of talks, skeptics here have already expressed doubts about the benefits of the proposed deal.
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It is every explorer’s wish to discover unmapped territory — but few expect to undiscover territory that is already mapped. That is what happened to a team of Australian scientists who found themselves sailing through what appeared on charts as a large island during a research trip in the South Pacific.
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A South Pacific island identified on Google Earth and world maps does not exist, according to Australian scientists who went searching for the mystery landmass during a geological expedition.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Pacific “is big enough for all of us” as the United States pushes for a more visible military role across the region to counter China.
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The corporate cabal behind it, including names like Cargill, Pfizer, Nike and WalMart, has done an exceptional job of maintaining an almost total lack of transparency as they literally design the future we will all inhabit.
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Well not exactly it’s waters; they were found 2000 kilometers southeast of Tokyo. (Right now there is a lot of fuss surrounding the Law of the Sea ratification to plunder such wealth)
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Environmentalist organizations have used images from South Pacific islands to illustrate the disastrous effects of rising sea levels. But a group of French researchers has found that the problem is much more complicated: The islands are also being pulled under by shifting tectonic plates.
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This patch, now the size of Texas, is called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The NPSG is providing a new habitat for ocean insects called “sea-skaters” which prey on plankton and fish eggs and are in turn fed on by seabirds, turtles and fish.
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