<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151</id><updated>2011-07-08T01:08:26.819+02:00</updated><category term='theory'/><category term='nuclear'/><category term='Visualizing Empires Decline'/><title type='text'>VirtualNomad</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>50</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-8874026559357651664</id><published>2009-11-25T13:18:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-25T19:47:54.777+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theory'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Latour...
</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/8874026559357651664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/8874026559357651664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_2312.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-2568489749484986552</id><published>2009-11-25T12:42:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-25T19:48:15.775+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theory'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>...vs. Waltz

</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/2568489749484986552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/2568489749484986552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_25.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-5046030530142637498</id><published>2009-11-24T15:46:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-25T19:48:43.147+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nuclear'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Enrichment Supply &amp; Technology Outside the U.S. 
Via FAS's Ivanka Barzashka: 

FAS has posted a report on “Enrichment Supply and Technology Outside the United States” by S. A. Levin and S. Blumkin from the Enrichment Department of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, operated at the time by Union Carbide. The document, prepared for the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/5046030530142637498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/5046030530142637498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2009/11/enrichment-supply-technology-outside-u.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-587871520985195369</id><published>2009-11-24T11:10:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T11:30:58.072+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nuclear'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>          Via Dark Roasted Blend</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/587871520985195369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/587871520985195369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_24.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r7LpNDHukTM/SwuyHE83hOI/AAAAAAAAAAU/zQdyXF11QGk/s72-c/abomb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-8992420928317417864</id><published>2009-11-24T11:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T11:08:30.758+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/8992420928317417864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/8992420928317417864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-8327897441505597009</id><published>2009-11-24T10:47:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T10:50:12.495+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Visualizing Empires Decline'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>via 3quarksdaily by Abbas Raza</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/8327897441505597009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/8327897441505597009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2009/11/via-3quarksdaily-by-abbas-raza.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112874876867053848</id><published>2005-10-07T07:18:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-08T07:19:28.676+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>ElBaradei, UN Nuclear Watchdog, Win Nobel Peace Prize     The International Atomic EnergyAgency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, won thisyear's Nobel Peace prize for their work to prevent the militaryuse of nuclear energy, the Oslo-based Nobel Committee saidtoday.    ElBaradei, a 63-year-old Egyptian, and the Vienna-basedIAEA, established in 1957 under the slogan ``Atoms for Peace,''</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112874876867053848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112874876867053848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/10/elbaradei-un-nuclear-watchdog-win-nobel.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834772712020463</id><published>2005-09-24T15:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:55:27.123+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Will Go to UN Security Council Over Nuclear Work Iran will be referred to theUnited Nations Security Council after a divided nuclearsafeguards group cited the Islamic Republic's intention to makeatomic fuel as evidence its motives might not be ``peaceful.''    The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member boardof governors voted today in favor of referring Iran to the UNSecurity Council</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834772712020463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834772712020463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/09/iran-will-go-to-un-security-council.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834777419113494</id><published>2005-09-23T15:55:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:56:14.193+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>EU Backs Off `Dangerous' UN Council Referral for Iran  The European Union submitted aresolution that would delay a United Nations Security Councilreferral over Iran's uranium enrichment intentions, after theIranian government said the threat could lead to confrontation.    The U.S.-backed resolution proposed by the EU says Iran is in``non-compliance'' and that Iran's nuclear program has ``</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834777419113494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834777419113494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/09/eu-backs-off-dangerous-un-council.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834781518731413</id><published>2005-09-22T15:56:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:56:55.190+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>EU Plan to Send Iran to UN Council Is Put on Hold The European Union put on hold a U.S.-backed proposal to send Iran to the United Nations SecurityCouncil for possible sanctions after a group of developing nationssupported by China and Russia defended the Islamic Republic'sright to enrich uranium.    An alternative plan, offered by French, German and U.K.diplomats at a meeting of the UN's </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834781518731413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834781518731413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/09/eu-plan-to-send-iran-to-un-council-is.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834788890730098</id><published>2005-09-21T15:57:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:58:08.910+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Wins Developing States' Support on UN Referral Diplomats from developing nationsrejected calls by the U.S. and Europe to send Iran to the UnitedNations Security Council for possible sanctions over its nuclearprogram.    Iran's case ``should remain in the purview of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency,'' according to a one-pageresolution drafted by the 14-member Non-Aligned Movement at </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834788890730098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834788890730098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/09/iran-wins-developing-states-support-on.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834785349098451</id><published>2005-09-21T15:57:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:57:33.496+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran to Allow More UN Inspections of Nuclear Sites  Iran today agreed to allow stepped-up inspections by United Nations atomic experts, as U.S. andEuropean delegates began negotiations to avoid the escalation ofa dispute over the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.    ``Iran isn't going for confrontation,'' the country'sambassador to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency,Mohamad Mahdi </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834785349098451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834785349098451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/09/iran-to-allow-more-un-inspections-of.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834793124671539</id><published>2005-09-20T15:58:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:58:51.246+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>U.S., EU Want Iran Sent Before UN Security Council U.S. and European diplomats drafteda resolution asking the United Nations Security Council toconfront Iran about its intention to enrich uranium.    The resolution asks the UN's International Atomic EnergyAgency to report Iran to the Security Council, according to afour-page draft obtained by Bloomberg News. The 15-member councilshould tell Iran </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834793124671539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834793124671539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/09/u.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112818077602594708</id><published>2005-08-31T17:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T17:32:56.033+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Man Group's Benz Says German Rules Crimp Hedge Fund Returns Man Group Plc, the world's biggesthedge fund company, said German rules that require fund managers toreveal their trading positions hurt investors' returns.    ``We have to disclose so much, in such detail, that itdestroys some of the performance,'' said Andreas Benz, who overseesMan's operations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112818077602594708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112818077602594708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/08/man-groups-benz-says-german-rules-crimp.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112818121404288470</id><published>2005-08-26T17:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T17:41:26.206+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Says UN Nuclear Referral Isn't in U.S. Interests Iran's new top nuclear negotiator,Ali Ardshir Larijani, said a United Nations Security Councilreferral on Iran's nuclear program wouldn't be in U.S. interestsand that it will widen talks beyond Britain, France and Germany.    ``A referral to the Security Council isn't in the interestof the Americans or the Europeans,'' said Larijani at a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112818121404288470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112818121404288470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/08/iran-says-un-nuclear-referral-isnt-in-u.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112818108971612223</id><published>2005-08-22T17:36:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T17:38:09.716+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Raiffeisen International Looks to Ukraine for Growth Raiffeisen International Bank-HoldingAG, an Austrian bank with almost 1,000 branches across easternEurope, is counting on its acquisition of Ukraine's Bank Aval tofuel growth further, Chief Executive Herbert Stepic said.    Raiffeisen will complete its purchase of Bank Aval by mid-October, Stepic said in a conference call today. The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112818108971612223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112818108971612223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/08/raiffeisen-international-looks-to.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112818093897654134</id><published>2005-08-12T17:35:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T17:35:38.976+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>UN Referral for Iran Nuclear Program Is `Next Step,' U.S. SaysThe U.S. government said it willrefer Iran to the United Nations Security Council unless it haltsits uranium processing program, after the Iranian governmentrejected calls from a nuclear watchdog to stop the work.    Iran rejected a resolution from the United NationsInternational Atomic Energy Agency urging it to freeze theuranium </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112818093897654134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112818093897654134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/08/un-referral-for-iran-nuclear-program-is.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112817970987329586</id><published>2005-08-11T17:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T17:15:09.876+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran rejected a resolution from theUnited Nations nuclear watchdog agency urging it to freeze auranium processing program, and vowed to become a nuclear fuelexporter within the next decade.    The resolution ``is a vote of no-confidence in the agency,''said the Middle Eastern country's chief delegate to theInternational Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Cyrus Nasseri, at apress conference today in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112817970987329586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112817970987329586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/08/iran-rejected-resolution-from-united.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112817955902394549</id><published>2005-08-10T17:11:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T17:12:39.026+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Breaks UN Seals at Plant; EU Weighs Response  Iran today removed United Nationsseals on equipment used in uranium enrichment at the Isfahanfacility, as the International Atomic Energy Agency debated aresolution calling on the government in Tehran to halt nuclearwork.    ``The seals were broken, and our cameras and surveillancesystem is fully operational,'' IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112817955902394549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112817955902394549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/08/iran-breaks-un-seals-at-plant-eu-weighs.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112817943924067064</id><published>2005-08-09T17:09:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T17:10:39.243+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>UN Urges `Maximum Restraint' Over Iran's Nuclear Work The United Nations nuclear watchdogurged diplomats to exercise ``maximum restraint'' as they try toavert a crisis between Iran and the U.S. over the IslamicRepublic's resumption of uranium conversion activities.    ``I would request all parties to exercise maximumrestraint,'' International Atomic Energy Agency Director MohamedElBaradei said at</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112817943924067064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112817943924067064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/08/un-urges-maximum-restraint-over-irans.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112817926989407361</id><published>2005-08-08T17:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T17:07:49.900+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Resumes Uranium Conversion Against UN Wishes Iran resumed uranium conversionactivities at its nuclear plant in the central city of Isfahantoday in a move that could prompt the United Nations SecurityCouncil to impose sanctions on the Islamic Republic.    Iran began to feed uranium ore concentrate into the firstpart of its process line, the International Atomic Energy Agencysaid in an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112817926989407361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112817926989407361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/08/iran-resumes-uranium-conversion-against.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112815086372033353</id><published>2005-07-19T09:11:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T09:16:38.276+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Austria to Tighten Immigration as Crime Increases Nigerian immigrant Michael Smith makeshis living selling ``Augustin,'' a monthly magazine published by ahomeless coalition, to Vienna's subway commuters. He says salesare dropping as Austrians become more hostile to immigrants.    ``People treat me with suspicion all the time,'' said Smith,36, in an interview on July 7 at the city's Karlsplatz </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815086372033353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815086372033353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/07/austria-to-tighten-immigration-as-crime.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112815064272519685</id><published>2005-07-06T09:09:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T09:10:42.726+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Quadriga Criticizes `Foolish' German Hedge Fund Talks The Quadriga Superfund Investment Group,a hedge fund company with about $1.9 billion of assets, called aGerman debate on fund regulation ``foolish'' and said the countryshould follow Austria's lead in attracting international investors.    ``It's tactically foolish that many German politicians, out ofsheer political motivation, are costing an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815064272519685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815064272519685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/07/quadriga-criticizes-foolish-german.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112815053935525452</id><published>2005-07-06T09:07:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T09:08:59.356+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran's Ahmadinejad Accused in Kurd Death; Austria Investigates Austrian authorities are trying todetermine the accuracy of allegations that Iran's president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had a role in the 1989 assassinationof an Iranian Kurdish leader in Vienna, Austria's JusticeMinistry said today.    Austrian Green Party politician Peter Pilz said an Iranianjournalist living in France told him </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815053935525452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815053935525452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/07/irans-ahmadinejad-accused-in-kurd-death.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112815041347629328</id><published>2005-06-20T09:04:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T09:06:53.476+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Uranium Price Rise Spurred by Hedge Funds on Energy OptimismA 62 percent surge in uranium pricesin the past year has been partly driven by hedge funds as moneymanagers bet more atomic energy will be generated, the ChiefExecutive Officer of the world's biggest uranium producer said.    The price of uranium, used to fuel nuclear reactors, climbedto $29 per pound from $17.90 per pound a year ago, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815041347629328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815041347629328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/06/uranium-price-rise-spurred-by-hedge.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112815023500370378</id><published>2005-06-16T09:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T09:03:55.006+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Admits Plutonium Separation Experiments to UN Iran's government told UnitedNations inspectors it continued separating plutonium five yearsafter declaring an end to the work, the UN nuclear agency said.The process may be used in the production of an atomic bomb.    The Islamic republic informed the International AtomicEnergy Agency May 25 that it conducted plutonium-separationexperiments </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815023500370378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112815023500370378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/06/iran-admits-plutonium-separation.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112814998013265489</id><published>2005-06-14T08:44:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-01T09:00:15.933+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Facilitates Nuclear Site Inspections, UN Says   Iran is giving more access to itsnuclear sites and has made ``progress'' in its effort to showthat its program doesn't violate international treaties, theUnited Nations nuclear watchdog said.    ``Iran has facilitated Agency access under its safeguardsagreement and additional protocol to nuclear materials andfacilities,'' International Atomic </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112814998013265489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112814998013265489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/06/iran-facilitates-nuclear-site.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111493047578085761</id><published>2005-05-01T08:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-05-01T08:54:35.783+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>UN Nuclear Agency's Board Supports Another ElBaradei TermThe United Nations nuclear watchdog's board of governors will likely vote to give Director General Mohammed ElBaradei a third-term, against U.S. wishes, the head of the nuclear board said.The Egyptian diplomat ElBaradei maintains ``strong and broad support'' among members, and his support as increased, said International Atomic Energy </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111493047578085761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111493047578085761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/05/un-nuclear-agencys-board-supports.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111453060669280669</id><published>2005-04-26T17:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-04-26T17:50:06.696+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>UN Nuclear Agency Meets Tomorrow to Discuss ElBaradei's Future                                               The United Nations nuclear watchdog's board of governors will convene an extraordinarymeeting tomorrow to discuss whether its Director General,Mohammed ElBaradei, will be awarded a third term over U.S.objections.    The 35-member International Atomic Energy Agency board meetstomorrow in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111453060669280669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111453060669280669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/04/un-nuclear-agency-meets-tomorrow-to.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111424642952520995</id><published>2005-04-14T10:52:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T10:53:49.530+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Nuclear Power Will Grow as Cost of Fuel, Kyoto Rises, IAEA SaysNuclear power's use will grow as higher fuel prices and the cost of carbon-emissions trading motivate companies and governments to invest in reactors, the United Nations nuclear watchdog predicted.The International Atomic Energy Agency has raised its forecast for nuclear power for a fourth year, chief economist Alan McDonald said in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424642952520995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424642952520995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/04/nuclear-power-will-grow-as-cost-of-fuel.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111316136766377480</id><published>2005-04-10T21:28:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-04-10T21:29:27.666+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Pimco's Gross Predicts 2% to 3% Return, Rising Yields     April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Bill Gross, the manager of theworld's biggest bond fund, said real returns of 2 percent to 3percent on classes of assets from bonds to stamp collections areas much as investors can expect ``over long periods of time.''    Gross, chief investment officer at Pacific InvestmentManagement Co. in Newport Beach, California</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111316136766377480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111316136766377480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/04/pimcos-gross-predicts-2-to-3-return.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111424513492844332</id><published>2005-04-06T10:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T10:58:12.163+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Pimco's El-Erian Sees Risk If Emerging Market Snubbed     April 6 -- Mohamed El-Erian, the manager of theworld's biggest emerging-market bond fund, said the U.S. andEurope don't recognize the importance of developing economies, afailure that may imperil the global economy.    The world economy's state of ``stable dis-equilibrium'' is indanger of unraveling unless emerging market policy makers </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424513492844332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424513492844332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/04/pimcos-el-erian-sees-risk-if-emerging.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111242216739236404</id><published>2005-04-02T08:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-04-02T08:09:27.400+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Austrian Banks, Hemmed in at Home, Turn to E. Europe    March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Herbert Stepic can look out his 10th-story Vienna office window on a cloudless day and see across thePannonian Plain to the hills surrounding Bratislava, the capitalof Slovakia, 56 kilometers (35 miles) away.    The Eastern Europe connection is financial, too. Stepic, thedeputy chairman of Raiffeisen Zentralbank </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111242216739236404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111242216739236404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/04/austrian-banks-hemmed-in-at-home-turn.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111424561287187867</id><published>2005-03-04T10:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T10:40:12.873+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>U.S. Criticizes UN Nuclear Watchdog Over Iran Program     The U.S criticized the United Nationsnuclear watchdog today over its ability to assure the world thatIran is using atomic technology for peaceful means.    ``The IAEA is still not able to provide assurances that Iranis not pursuing clandestine activities at undeclared locations asit has been doing for years,'' U.S. Ambassador Jackie </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424561287187867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424561287187867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/03/u.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111424552304201440</id><published>2005-03-02T10:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T10:38:43.043+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>N. Korea Told U.S. Has `No Intention' of Attacking; Talks Urged    The U.S. today assured North Korea itisn't threatened by military attack and urged Kim Jong Il'sgovernment to return to the six-nation talks designed to end itsnuclear weapons program.    ``The president of the United States has said that we haveno intention of attacking or invading North Korea,'' according toa statement from the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424552304201440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424552304201440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/03/n.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111424532956909209</id><published>2005-02-28T10:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T10:35:29.570+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>UN Looks at Nuclear Ties Between Iran and Pakistan     Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations nuclear watchdogsaid it's investigating a Pakistani offer to supply Iran withatomic technology in 1987 as part of its continuing verificationof the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.    ``We're getting cooperation from Pakistan about thenetwork,'' International Atomic Energy Agency spokesman </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424532956909209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424532956909209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/02/un-looks-at-nuclear-ties-between-iran.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111424544284857614</id><published>2005-02-27T10:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T10:37:22.850+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Nuclear Power on the Rise Because of Kyoto, UN Agency Says   Countries are investing more innuclear power since the Kyoto Protocol came into effect thismonth, binding 35 nations and the European Union to cut theiremissions of greenhouse gases to combat atmospheric warming.    The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agencyexpects the equivalent of 127 new 1000-megawatt nuclear powerplants </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424544284857614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424544284857614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2005/02/nuclear-power-on-rise-because-of-kyoto.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834751214698672</id><published>2004-11-29T15:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:51:52.146+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Agrees to Halt All Uranium Enrichment Activities The United Nations nuclear watchdogsaid that Iran has agreed to suspend all uranium enrichmentactivities, according to a resolution passed by the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency in Vienna.    The accord was reached after Iran sent a letter yesterdaywithdrawing its request to exempt 20 nuclear centrifuges andallowing them to be put under </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834751214698672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834751214698672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/11/iran-agrees-to-halt-all-uranium.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834746039977789</id><published>2004-11-29T15:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:51:00.406+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Telekom Austria Plans to Buy MobilTel for $1.5 Bln Telekom Austria AG plans to buyBulgaria's largest wireless company, MobilTel EAD, for 1.15billion euros ($1.5 billion), adding 3 million subscribers in anation where less than half the population has a cellular phone.    Vienna-based Telekom Austria, the country's biggest phonecompany, can exercise an option to buy the company at the end of2005, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834746039977789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834746039977789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/11/telekom-austria-plans-to-buy-mobiltel.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834756317838413</id><published>2004-11-25T15:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:52:43.180+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran's Suspension of Uranium Enrichment Incomplete The United Nations nuclear watchdogsaid Iran's suspension of its uranium enrichment program isn'tyet complete and that it hoped to resolve Iran's requestregarding 20 centrifuges in the next day.    ``We have completed our work with regard to verification ofthe suspension with one exception, and that's a request by Iranto exempt 20 centrifuges for</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834756317838413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834756317838413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/11/irans-suspension-of-uranium-enrichment.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111424583959601738</id><published>2004-11-18T10:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T10:43:59.600+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Afghanistan Opium Poppy Cultivation Grew 64% in 2004 Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation,its main engine of economic growth, increased 64 percent in 2004 asmore people sought to make a living from the narcotic with anexport value of $2.8 billion, a United Nations report said.    Opium cultivation grew to 131,000 hectares (324,000 acres)from 80,000 hectares in 2003, said the UN Office on Drugs </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424583959601738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424583959601738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/11/afghanistan-opium-poppy-cultivation.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834761569604883</id><published>2004-11-15T15:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:53:35.700+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Promises UN It Will Suspend Uranium Enrichment Iran told the United Nations nuclearwatchdog that it agreed to a European Union proposal tovoluntarily stop uranium conversion starting Nov. 22, to ward offU.S. calls that the Islamic government be subjected to sanctionsby the UN Security Council.    Iran ``decided on a voluntary basis and as furtherconfidence-building measures, to continue and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834761569604883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834761569604883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/11/iran-promises-un-it-will-suspend.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834765862428362</id><published>2004-11-12T15:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T15:54:18.626+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>S. Korea Nuclear Inspections Yield No Weapons Program There's no evidence South Korea wastrying to make nuclear weapons when 14 of its scientistssecretly produced enriched uranium and plutonium withoutgovernment approval, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said.    The nuclear experiments yielded only small amounts of thematerials, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in aneight-page </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834765862428362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834765862428362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/11/s.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-111424571819804347</id><published>2004-11-08T10:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T10:44:42.910+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Arctic Melting Threatens to Disrupt Oil Pipelines Atmospheric warming threatens todisrupt Arctic oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia as meltingice caps turn the permafrost into a ``sea of mud,'' aninternational scientific report said.    The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, a report by 300scientists and sponsored by Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland,Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the U.S., </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424571819804347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/111424571819804347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/11/arctic-melting-threatens-to-disrupt-oil.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834802926330948</id><published>2004-10-28T15:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T16:00:29.266+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Quadriga Hedge Funds Stick With Strategy After Losses The Quadriga Group, a hedge fundcompany targeting private investors, is sticking with itsinvestment strategies after some of its computer-run funds lostmoney this year, Chief Executive Christian Baha said.    Quadriga manages $1.5 billion for about 50,000 clientsworldwide with an average of about 10 percent of any fund in metalsfutures. Metal </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834802926330948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834802926330948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/10/quadriga-hedge-funds-stick-with.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834824904396080</id><published>2004-09-19T16:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T16:04:43.223+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Iran Refuses UN Uranium Demand, Is Rebuked by U.S. (Iran refused a demand by the UnitedNations' nuclear watchdog to halt all uranium-enrichmentactivities, prompting a U.S. rebuke as the Islamic Republic facespossible economic sanctions.    The U.S. reproached Iran today for refusing an InternationalAtomic Energy Agency resolution urging an immediate halt toIranian enrichment-related activities. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834824904396080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834824904396080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/09/iran-refuses-un-uranium-demand-is.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834820124771349</id><published>2004-09-18T16:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T16:03:21.250+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>UN Nuclear Agency Demands Iran Suspend Uranium EnrichmentThe United Nation's nuclear watchdogagency demanded Iran cease all uranium enrichment activities andsaid it will decide on Nov. 25 whether to take  steps to ensurethe country's atomic program isn't a threat to the internationalcommunity.    The International Atomic Energy Agency ``considers itnecessary that Iran immediately suspend all </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834820124771349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834820124771349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/09/un-nuclear-agency-demands-iran-suspend.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834813844321080</id><published>2004-09-13T16:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T16:02:18.446+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>UN Says Iran Takes Steps on Peaceful Nuclear Program (Update2)    (Adds details on November report in fifth paragraph.)By Jonathan Tirone    Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations' nucleartechnology watchdog said that Iran is making ``steady progress''toward building confidence that its atomic energy program ispeaceful, as it begins a week of meetings about nuclear security.    The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834813844321080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834813844321080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/09/un-says-iran-takes-steps-on-peaceful.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-112834808368278410</id><published>2004-09-01T16:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T16:01:23.683+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>UN Watchdog Rebukes Iran on Nuclear Questions The United Nation's nucleartechnology watchdog has rebuked Iran for providing toolittle information on its nuclear program and said it stillhas questions about the country's adherence to a treatybanning the development of atomic weapons.    The 11-page International Atomic Energy Agency reportabout Iranian cooperation with international inspectors </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834808368278410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/112834808368278410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://virtualnomad.blogspot.com/2004/09/un-watchdog-rebukes-iran-on-nuclear.html' title=''/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181151.post-107090471714086044</id><published>2003-12-08T18:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2003-12-08T18:32:08.723+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Testing...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/107090471714086044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6181151/posts/default/107090471714086044'/><author><name>VirtualNomad</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
