In their talks on Friday, the two men agreed that that the presence of undersea hydrocarbon reserves off Cyprus should not be a point of contention “but a tool, a motive for cooperation,” Kasoulides told the Athens-Macedonia News Agency.
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This time, it wasn’t the surrounding ecosystem that turned out to have feet of clay, but the software behind Bitcoin itself. It seems that version 0.7 of the Bitcoin mining software – the program that does the cryptographic guessing, and exchanges blockchains over its peer-to-peer network – had a fatal but unknown flaw.
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Most of this is taking cheap shots at France and it goes to show that things are not going well between France and Germany.
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One of the many paradoxes of the Persian Gulf is that, while Sunnis hold much of the political power in the region, Shi’a occupy the land that holds the region’s most strategic asset: its energy fields.
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The eyes of the financial world are on Greece and other heavily indebted euro-zone countries. But Japan is in even worse shape. The country’s debt load is immense and growing, to the point that a quarter of its budget goes to servicing it. The government in Tokyo has done little to change things.
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In a country with vast oil wealth and lavish royalty, an estimated quarter of Saudis live below the poverty line. This is a vast reservoir of discontent if the Arab Spring decides to come home.
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Vice President Joe Biden is expected to lead the White House task force to examine more gun control legislation, but back in 2008 he did everything he could to convince voters that his running mate supported the Second Amendment.
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“And so you have to deal with the primary problem that America faces, which is guns. Guns. Guns. Guns. And it’s nothing to do with the Second Amendment right to defend yourself, and everything to do with military-style weapons that could slaughter,” he insisted.
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For the first time, noncommunicable diseases like diabetes, stroke and heart disease top the list of leading causes of years spent sick or injured.
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Does the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believe we have a peak oil problem? The precise answer is that the IMF is currently studying how constraints in world oil supplies might affect economies around the world in two so-called working papers, “The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology” and “Oil and the World Economy: Some Possible Futures.”
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