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    Their legaue is a two horse race every year. Real just didn't get going. Tired? They didn't look it against Milan and for 20 minutes against PSG. Possession is nothing if you're not penetrating and pass it around non dangerous areas of the pitch. They lacked belief. Teams have worked them out but still fail most of the time but t in the latter stages of Champions League chances are top teams will do it more often than Gatafe and Mallorca.

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    At the end of the 1960s, the Seven Sisters, the major oil companies, controlled 85 percent of the world's oil reserves. Today, they control just 10 percent.

     

    New hunting grounds are therefore required, and the Sisters have turned their gaze towards Africa. With peak oil, wars in the Middle East, and the rise in crude prices, Africa is the oil companies' new battleground.

     

    But the real story, the secret story of oil, begins far from Africa.

     

    In their bid to dominate Africa, the Sisters installed a king in Libya, a dictator in Gabon, fought the nationalisation of oil resources in Algeria, and through corruption, war and assassinations, brought Nigeria to its knees.

     

    Oil may be flowing into the holds of huge tankers, but in Lagos, petrol shortages are chronic.

     

    The country's four refineries are obsolete and the continent's main oil exporter is forced to import refined petrol - a paradox that reaps fortunes for a handful of oil companies.

     

    Encouraged by the companies, corruption has become a system of government - some $50bn are estimated to have 'disappeared' out of the $350bn received since independence.

     

    But new players have now joined the great oil game.

     

    China, with its growing appetite for energy, has found new friends in Sudan, and the Chinese builders have moved in. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is proud of his co-operation with China - a dam on the Nile, roads, and stadiums.

     

    In order to export 500,000 barrels of oil a day from the oil fields in the South - China financed and built the Heglig pipeline connected to Port Sudan - now South Sudan's precious oil is shipped through North Sudan to Chinese ports.

     

    In a bid to secure oil supplies out of Libya, the US, the UK and the Seven Sisters made peace with the once shunned Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, until he was killed during the Libyan uprising of 2011, but the flow of Libyan oil remains uninterrupted.

     

    In need of funds for rebuilding, Libya is now back to pumping more than a million barrels of oil per day. And the Sisters are happy to oblige.

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    W/Salaam my fellow dispondent LFC fan

     

    My celebrations have been cut short...

     

    Saudi Arabia’s Shoura Council has denied reports it has approved moving the weekend forward one day to Friday-Saturday.

     

    It was reported on Monday that the kingdom would follow in the footsteps of all other GCC countries and change its weekend from Thursday-Friday.

     

    However, the council has since clarified its decision. It will only review a study by the Ministry of Civil Service (MCS) that recommended changing the weekend to bring the kingdom into line with the GCC and closer to the same weekend as the rest of the world, which is generally Saturday-Sunday.

     

    “To review the study does not mean that it has been approved by the council,” Shoura Council vice chairman Fahd Al-Hammad told Arab News.

     

     

     

     

     

    “[The] MCS study takes into consideration various social and religious aspects. The study was conducted after a number of parties called for a change of the weekend sequence.

     

     

     

    Many in the kingdom are calling for the change, particularly those in business because presently Saudi Arabia is only able to interact with majority of the world on three days per week.

     

    Saudi economist Ahmad Al-Humaidi said that cost the country “huge losses” last year.

     

    Oman was the most recent country to move to a Friday-Saturday weekend, in March.

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    Something that has been done in the middle east for centuries and that has worked. Somalis do it even. It will lead to a lesser qabilified society if people are known as Mohammed Ismail Ali [insert tribe name]. The problem is we would find another of cruel differencial practice - class would be the new thing.