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• Dubai World: A Great Precedent

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 652
  Felix Salmon submits: The Dubai World default is big news — big enough that it’s even made it into Gawker . Your one-stop shop for bloggy coverage this Thanksgiving is Alphaville , which features for instance this wonderful chart of the debt structure which is now being crawled over by lawyers around the ...
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• Eid ul Azha Being Celebrated in Gulf

  
  MastiFunda.com — Authority: 152
  Eid ul Azha Being Celebrated in Gulf, Eid-ul Azha is being celebrated in Britain, Europe and Gulf States including Saudi Arabia with religious fervor. Some two million Hajj pilgrims have offered Eid prayers in Saudi Arabia. The pilgrims will collect pebbles to throw at walls at the Jamarat Bridge on three occasions ...
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• Will You Access Facebook On Your TV Sets Whilst Your Family Is Around?

  
  WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India — Authority: 558
  There was a time when people used to call it an ‘ idiot box ‘ and then came the time during the Gulf War when they were glued to their couch watching CNN news to get live updates from the war zone for the very first time. Now is a slightly different story with all the terrorism hoo-hah all around which makes ...
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• Eid ul Azha Being Celebrated in Gulf

  
  A Pakistan News — Authority: 604
  Eid ul Azha Being Celebrated in Gulf, Eid-ul Azha is being celebrated in Britain, Europe and Gulf States including Saudi Arabia with religious fervor. Some two million Hajj pilgrims have offered Eid prayers in Saudi Arabia. The pilgrims will collect pebbles to throw at walls at the Jamarat Bridge on three occasions ...
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• Markets react to Dubai World debt plan

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  Dubai World’s surprise request for a freeze on debt payments provided the focus for world financial markets yesterday, hitting bank stocks and the price of oil, but lifting the dollar on a day when US and most Gulf markets were closed. With the US on holiday for Thanksgiving, the region observing Eid al ...
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• Dubai World and properties built on sand (one-time darling of business media)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  November 26, 2009 Dubai World and properties built on sand David Wighton: Business Editor’s commentary The world’s tallest building will open in Dubai in just five weeks’ time and visitors to its observation deck on the 124th floor will be able to look down on the half-finished buildings and empty construction ...
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• A black swan in the desert

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 126
  Just when investors were settling down to lock in a few of the year’s profits and put their feet up for the end of the year holidays, a black swan has come waddling out of the desert to put everything on edge. The unwelcome cygnus atratus came in the form of Gulf emirate Dubai telling creditors of Dubai ...
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• Oceanic crust formation much more dynamic than previously believed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 26 (ANI): Earth scientists in the US have found strong evidence that the geological processes that lead to the formation of oceanic crust are not as uniformly passive as believed, and is quite dynamic. The team found evidence in the form of a geological phenomenon known as dynamic upwelling in the ...
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• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
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• Thanksgiving blessings

  
  O ECOTEXTILES — Authority: 108
  I have been trying to think of a good subject for this week – one that isn’t too dire and downbeat – while we in the United States are in the midst of our national feast called Thanksgiving.   We’re living in a country where I can get a free range turkey with all the bells and whistles – or soybeans from ...
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• Burqa shades add a chic twist to tradition

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  Normally a branding consultancy waits for a brief before sharpening its pencils, but the Dubai office of GS Fitch decided to instigate its own project this summer. The result is a US$1 million (Dh3.6m) concept for a pair of sunglasses designed to replicate the burqa, but with a modern twist. “We wanted to ...
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• Bellaire gives OK to new fire station

  
  Texas-Fire.com — Authority: 146
  Bellaire firefighters will soon have a $4.25 million new home, with their existing one set to be torn down as early as this week. The Bellaire City Council, in a 6-1 vote, accepted the proposal for a new fire station on Nov. 16, voting to approve the base construction price with some required equipment, such as a ...
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• Gulf States Leaving the Dollar Behind?

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 619
  by Vasko Kohlmayer “The Gulf single currency is not happening tomorrow or the day after,” says Kuwait’s Finance Minister Mustafa al-Shamali. “Sufficient time” is needed to prepare for such a move the minister told the Kuwaiti parliament last week. Al-Shamali’s statement is startling in how ...
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• The Lovers of The Isle of Demons

  
  Trifter — Authority: 545
  In 1555, Thevet sailed the entire coast of North and South America as far north as Bacalaos or Codfish Land, as Newfoundland then was called. Upon his return, in 1558, he published in Antwerp an account of his travels, stating that he had set foot on “Isola des Demonias”, and that he had seen how malicious the ...
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• Carry a Surfboard on Your Bicycle

  
  Texas Surfers — Authority: 116
  With this contraption you can carry your surfboard on your bicycle. These pictures were taken recently in Galveston, Texas. Surf shops in the area have these; I’ve seen them at Surf Specialties and I’m pretty sure the others will have them too.
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• Video : Ron Paul Al Qaeda ‘Visited Afghanistan’

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 481
  Though Governor Paul is correct in asserting that the United States has supported puppet governments throughout the Arab and “Muslim world,” however, he seems to be grasping at anything to support his argument. First off, Governor, the United States did have a very specific reason for going into Afghanistan: Al ...
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• Who owns the dead zone?

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 127
  Agricultural pollution flowing out of the Midwest kills aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, with seafood harvesters and eaters paying the cost for this displaced cost of "cheap food."By Krista Hozyash
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• Celebrating Lebanese Independence Day a Crime

  
  Lebanon News: Under Rug Swept — Authority: 423
  That’s according to the UAE’s Gulf News newspaper . The article just mentions the celebrations held at the Lebanese Consulate in Dubai. But here is the interesting part, check out the URL of the article: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/ crime /lebanese-expats-celebrate-66th-independence-day-1.531573 Not ...
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• ‘China Model’ May Leave ‘Washington Consensus’ in the Dust: Al-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Perhaps it was inevitable. If so, the inevitable has happened. Countries that have either an authoritarian streak or are outright totalitarian are beginning to talk of a new model of development to replace what’s known as the “Washington Consensus.” In other words, state-controlled economics divorced from ...
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