Every week these cats hook up each other with hot hits and big phazed cookies to peruse and then vote on their individual fancy catchers.
And now - without further adieu or a don't
Here are this week’s full results:
Council Winners
- *First place with 2 2/3 votes! Joshuapundit–-The Secret Blue State Plan To Steal The 2012 Elections
- Second place with 2 1/3 votes – The Razor-A Short List of Lessons Since 9-11
- Third place with 1 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room – The Hate That Never Ended
- Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes – Simply Jews-Iran irked by errors in Qurans from China
- Fifth place with 1 vote – Bookworm Room-Paul Krugman And Potemkin Jobs
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Colossus Of Rhodey – Evidence that racism must not really be a problem anymore
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – New Zeal – Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Russian Sympathizer
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Right Truth – The Meaning Of Memorial For 9/11
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – What If 9/11 Never Happened?
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Political Commentator- Obama jobs speech: This time with feeling!
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Christopher Hitchens- Simply Evil submitted byThe Watcher
- Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Accuracy In Media – Media Prepare Russian Treaty Trap for the U.S. submitted by New Zeal
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes -Patterico – Bad Facts Make Bad (ADA) Law; The Case of the Alcoholic Truck Driver submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes -Zen Pundit – R2P is a Doctrine Designed to Strike Down the Hand that Wields It submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes -The Moral Liberal – The Art Of Political Rhetoric submitted by Right Truth
- Fourth place with 1 vote -Andrew McCarthy – How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right submitted by Joshuapundit
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Commentary/Omri Ceren – New York Times not even bothering to source their anti-Israel partisans submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis – Deutsche Bank CEO says "It's Obvious Many Banks Will Not Survive if Forced to Value Sovereign Debt at Market Prices" submitted by The Political Commentator
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Passing Parade – Dr. Strangetuber, Or How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Potato submitted by Simply Jews
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Fear, Honor and Interest – Libya: Airpower, SOF and the NTC submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Business Insider/Nassim Taleb – The American Economy Will Transfer $5 Trillion To Banker Pay And Bonuses Over The Next 10 Years submitted by The Razor
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China Sonangol, known also as The China International Fund or the “Queensway Syndicate” is a corporate partnership that started trading oil in Angola and now operates in oil markets around the world.
ReplyDelete"Since then Sonangol has published some information on its operations. But oil contracts are treated as state secrets. Revenues from deals with the syndicate go to an opaque agency controlled by the president whose accounts are off-limits even to government ministers. Although Sonangol scores reasonably for some criteria, such as revenue, in rankings by Transparency International and Revenue Watch, two lobbies for corporate openness, it still receives bottom rankings for safeguards against corruption.
The syndicate itself is even more opaque. Who ultimately benefits by how much from the lucrative deals is not clear from public records. The syndicate’s corporate structure is fiendishly complex. Individual companies are not vertically integrated—it is not a group in the usual sense. There is no holding company, though the same people keep cropping up as directors in the records of affiliated companies, which are often owned by shell companies registered in lightly regulated tax shelters. Final beneficial ownership is impossible for an outsider to establish."
Now that I know it's just some 32 yr old guy, this site just doesn't do it for me anymore.
ReplyDeleteCan you guys write normally now and clean up your blog a bit?
It was cool when I thought you were a hot co-ed into int'l news, but now I just wanna read something worth while and not have to be reminded of the 32 yr old guy behind the scene.