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Guys...remember the Peak Oil debates? They seem to have, well, peaked. Check out all the money Russian oil giant Rosneft is throwing around at global oil supplies these days.

The Magnitsky List of bad boy Russians is set for a version 2.0 and the Kremlin is not too happy about it. Victoria Nuland, nominated to be the next deputy U.S. Secretary of State, and Daniel Baer, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the post of U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said Thursday that they were in favor of adding more Russians to the blacklist of Russians accused to aiding and abetting in the human rights abuse of 37-year-old Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.

Survey by Transparency International shows overwhelming number of Americans believe their politicians and their political institutions are somewhat to extremely corrupt. And they're getting fed up...

A look at how the stock markets have performed over the last year in countries where Central Bankers have ruled the roost, versus countries where Central Bankers have not. If you ain't got Ben Bernanke or the Bank of Japan on your team, better of keeping your ball and bat and staying home.

Want a limited government that’s held accountable by society? Then start packing...

Russian oil giant Rosneft is slowly taking over the world's oil fields, especially outside of OPEC. From the Gulf of Mexico to Venezuela, this is fast becoming the world's largest publicly traded oil company you've probably never heard of.

Guys, I found this interesting as I was reporting on it and reading more on it. Most of the news comes from China Daily, admittedly, but I did more research on this and if you've heard of Washington's desire to "pivot" towards Asia -- as Obama described his Pacific Agenda around five years ago now -- every diplomat involved now saying the military is a key component to this. So libertarians against empire might find this interesting.

Hello Russia news Freepers. Tired of all this talk about companies hiding money offshore and not paying taxes? If there is one man who can make some noise about this, it won't be Obama. It'll be Putin. He already is taking over from British PM David Cameron who first made overtures to the fact that offshoring was unfair.

Add two more activists to Russian President Vladimir Putin's most wanted: Left Front members Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev were charged by federal prosecutors with organizing anti-United Russia parties on May 6, 2012, two months after the election of Putin. They might face 10 years in prison as a result.

This article excerpts from a report called Measure for America, which created an index for well being in the 50 states and major metro areas. It leads with the fact that "red states" run by Republicans still score low on the index, and points out one non-shocker to Freepers: the city with the highest gains on the index in terms of rising incomes, education levels and healthcare? Guess...

Beechcraft hopes Congress will get involved to kill a U.S. Air Force contract with its Brazilian rival Embraer to make $431 million worth of fighter planes for Afghanistan.

Excerpt: "If you want peace of mind, dear immigrants, don’t come here, might be the message."

For frack fans out there. Russia rules the roost on shale, but those reserves are useless until it learns how to pull that stuff out of the rock.

This is no longer the old Happy Meal economy of the 1980s, making toys and sneakers.

Hi guys. Any car lovers out there? China watchers? I discovered this little interesting tid bit on China. It's going to subsidize R&D to build the next Tesla. Thing with China is, they wont go broke doing it...

Progressive shareholders and environmental groups to call for the firing of Chevron CEO John Watson at tomorrow's annual shareholder meeting. Here's why.

Russian intelligence services will have access to some FBI data from now on in hopes to both avoid another Boston Marathon style disaster and help protect athletes and fans at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.

Start buying Chinese currency, guys. It's going to be big time.

President Barack Obama wants Russia to be friends. Since he and former president Dmitry Medvedev, now the country’s Prime Minister, discussed a “reset” of relations, the Cold War’s Punch & Judy have been more like frenemies than friends.

Sharing this for those Freepers concerned about the dollar. It's actually strong compared to the euro and yen, but that's only cuz the Central Bankers there have opted to use more fire power against the weak dollar and make their currencies even WEAKER. What does this mean for those of us with real skin in the game, as in money in the markets?