Jan 5, 2010

Countdown to Catastrophe

from BizarroBlog by Piraro

Bizarro is brought to you today by The End Of The World.

A lot of people wrote to "high five" me about this cartoon. It seems there is no shortage of folks annoyed by the gullibility of their family and friends regarding this latest threat to our survival. We humans are always looking for secret clues to the ultimate catastrophic ending, as though the universe were controlled by Dan Brown.

But it is an irresistible part of our nature as apes with huge, mutant brains: we take our natural instincts to spot patterns and guard against injury, and extend them to ludicrous degrees. My apologies to those readers who don't like hearing this, but in my opinion it is the very reason humans have always invented gods to explain the things we don't understand or can't comprehend. We live in a world with natural rules and order and when the facts of our existence fall outside of our understanding, a make-believe answer is more comforting than no answer at all. Most of us need to know that there is a Purpose to our existence and a destination beyond death.

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Petrobras: Robust Recovery for Brazil

By Nancy DeMarco (Article from here) 
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Brazil is a huge country with a healthy appetite for lubricants, consuming more than 1.3 million cubic meters (about 1.18 million metric tons) in 2008. While the market may shrink about 3 percent in 2009, expect demand to grow 2 to 3 percent annually from 2011 to 2020, a Petrobras official told the ICIS conference here.

Dah Chong Hong and UMW Malaysia build a lubricants joint venture into the construction phase of the project

Source: Business Network Posted by: Roadside Agency

January 5, 2010

In 2008, according to foreign media reports, DCH also announced that a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dah Chong Hong Automotive Service Center, with UMW Holdings Berhad's wholly-owned subsidiary of UMW Corporation Sdn Bhd ([UMW]) signed a letter of intent joint venture in China to produce High-precision lubricating oil.

Jan 4, 2010

Goldman Makes ‘Call of Decade’ by Promoting BRICs

By David Wilson

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s forecast that Brazil, Russia, India and China would eventually eclipse the Group of Seven countries economically has been described as “the biggest market call of the decade.

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