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In The News: It’s been a rough weekend on Wall Street and, as the old pitch goes: THEY’RE GIVIN’ IT AWAY! - A tension filled conclave of the big bucks boys try to figure their way out of the mess they’ve created… and they can’t. Lehman Brothers goes bankrupt and Merrill Lynch is taken over by Bank of America. AIG, a major insurer/re-insurer goes next. The price of gold is surging now. More.

MEND, the guerilla army of Nigeria declares war with the government about oil revenue distribution to the communities after days of battles with Nigerian troops.

A MEND action… from a few years back:

JOURNAL: Shell disappears from the Niger Delta
from Global Guerrillas by John Robb
May 06 2007

Last year, Shell Oil abandoned facilities that produced 600,000 barrels a day of oil due relentless attacks by the global guerrilla facilitator MEND. Upon its return to these facilities this month, the company found much of its infrastructure missing. In the area near the Forcados terminal alone, 435 miles of pipeline disappeared. Estimates of the reconstruction costs now exceed $2 billion, under the assumption both Shell and its construction partners will be allowed to return unimpeded. That isn’t a good bet: 11 Daewoo construction workers working on a power plant deep inland (which shows the guerrillas have more reach than ever) were kidnapped and two assaults were made on off-shore platforms as recently as last week. Further, MEND like its counter-parts in Iraq, are very adept at the disruption of corporate activity.

So far, the returns on its investments (ROIs) have been stellar. [Source, with linkage]

Russia starts to pull it’s troops out of Western Georgia per their agreement with France’s Prime Minister. More.

In the US, restrictions on producing petroleum products from High Sulphur oil is to be relaxed in the wake of Hurricane Ike (This related to the following story as much of Latin America’s oil falls in that category). 13 refineries in Texas are currently offline due to the storm.

Brazil throws out the US ambassador over ‘Military Aid’ to the breakaway Panda province of Bolivia. Meanwhile, there is a full scale battle going on in the Eastern oil producing region of Bolivia

4155 American soldiers are now dead due to the illegal invasion of Iraq. 582 are dead due to our incursion into Afghanistan, and the ‘rate of casualties’ adds ‘bullet’ to it’s charts. Military command changes are coming with the General David Petraeus’ move to CENTCOM tomorrow.

Also in Iraq, 4 sunni tribal leaders from the US financed “Awakening Council” are assassinated outside Baghdad.

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