faustasblog.com - 1/8/2009
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Via RWN, The day the sea froze: Temperature plunges to MINUS 12C and forecasters say it won’t warm up until Sunday
Temperatures plunged so low today that the sea actually began to freeze as Arctic conditions continued to grip the UK.
In the exclusive enclave of Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset ...
uk.reuters.com - 1/1/2009
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* Ukraine's gas to be cut at 0700
GMT on Thursday * Ukraine says it will maintain
European supplies * Europe has stocks to ride out crisis - analysts By Vladimir Soldatkin and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW/KIEV, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Russia was preparing to ...
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WRAPUP 1-Russia prepares to halt gas supplies to ...
ft.com - 1/7/2009
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ft.com —
A monolithic, Putin-led Kremlin using the “energy weapon”
to browbeat neighbouring Ukraine and beyond and threaten the
rest of Europe with natural gas shortages: the image has become commonplace during the “gas spats” of the past few years. Yet those ...
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - The battle of the oligarchs ...
telegraph.co.uk - 1/6/2009
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UK starts paying subsidies for record colds
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... for Londoners for the first time ever. The temperature hasn’t gotten cold enough in southern England in the ten years of the subsidy program for the government to pay out the £25 checks. In fact, as Fausta points out , the seas have begun to freeze in the north: Cold weather payouts for pensioners and the vulnerable reached record levels today after Britain’s deep freeze plunged temperatures as low as minus 11C. Forecasters warned that tonight will be even colder. The Government’s bill will rise over £100 million as Londoners become eligible for the payment for the first ...
The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday - 1/8/2009
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... Fausta dubs Russian strongman Mad Vladmir Putin “Mr. Freeze” for shutting off the gas spigot to the Ukrane and the Balkans even as Europe freezes. ...
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