EcoloCap Solutions Inc. will be hosting representatives from four continents in Korea this November in the first ever public unveiling of the company’s M-Fuel product, an innovative suspension fuel for use in diesel engines. M-Fuel, developed and manufactured by MBT (Micro Bubble Technologies), a subsidiary of EcoloCap Solutions Inc., is an innovative suspension fuel that far exceeds efficiencies for all conventional fuels. This environmentally-friendly and economical product is designed to offer fully scalable and customizable fuel solutions that increase efficiency, lower operating costs, and reduce emissions.

M-Fuel is a suspension mixture of 60% heavy oil, and 40% separated hydrogen and oxygen, plus a stabilizing additive. Nano Processing Units (NPUs) produce the fuel and can be configured to be integrated with an engine, producing fuel on demand, or the fuel can be pre-manufactured for delivery.

The event in Korea, scheduled for November 18th, will have representatives from more than

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The first ever visit by a Russian President to Serbia has yielded another 'strategic partnership', this time soldered with a $1.5 billion loan to the debt-hit nation.  A certain diplomatic interdependence between the two countries seems to be a de facto necessity, as the Balkan state relies upon Moscow for backing in the U.N. Security Council to counter the secession of Kosovo.  For Russia, on the other hand, who vociferously opposed the bombing of Serbia by NATO in 1999, the area is 'an arena for Moscow's effort to resurrect its former status as a world power', the Washington Post suggests.A deal in Eastern Europe wouldn't be a deal without some whiff of gas.  Gazprom Neft has reason ...

According to ITAR-TASS, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has commented that Russia does not object to selling energy resources using domestic currencies.  How done is the Russia-China gas deal? wonders the the FT.  Gazprom will buy 500 million cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan next year.  The Times has a piece on the 'take-and-pay' system which is now causing friction between suppliers and buyers.  Norway's Aladdin has signed a five-year contract to provide gas from a field in the Komi republic to a Gapzrom subsidiary.  ConocoPhillips is apparently 'non-committal' on a possible sale of its 20% stake in Lukoil.  Serbia expects as much as $13.4 billion to be invested in modernizing its energy sector by 2015, and is working with Gazprom.  Iraq has given a consortium led by Eni the right to develop its ...

Oct. 14, 2009 (Business Wire) — Green Star Alternative Energy, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GSAE; “GSAE” or the “Company”) (http://www.greenstarae.com) is pleased to announce that an analysis of the Veliko Gradiste zone demonstrates the potential for 50MW of wind energy development. As per the agreement with the municipality, Green Star is exploring the economic viability of the region’s wind resources to determine whether to exercise the right to develop wind power and supply the area with green electricity.

The Company’s wind resource engineer, MSc. Nikola Vasiljevic, has sited three separate micro locations in his report: two in Ram and one in Deliblatska Pescara. Plans to erect one of the Company’s wind sensors at the Ram site are underway. The Municipality of Veliko Gradiste is located in north-east Serbia approximately 100 km east of the capital, Belgrade. Its territory encompasses 344 square km on the right bank of the

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TODAY: Iran uranium plan waiting to be concluded; Russia backs Serbia on Kosovo; Lavrov exit denied; Ingushetian cabinet out.  Ex-US Yukos unit to launch mammoth lawsuit; picketed journalist gets unlikely defender; UN says Russia should improve immigration policies; grave problem for MoscowThe Washington Post reports that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that an agreement between Tehran and six world powers to allow Russia to help enrich uranium for an Iranian reactor awaits finalizing.  ITAR-TASS says that the Foreign Ministry has denied rumors that Lavrov may resign.  The Foreign Minister has rebuffed questions about who truly runs Russia, Putin or Medvedev, at a press conference, where he answered, 'you should not pit the Kremlin against ...

The United States is the New Tanzania? Ugh…

by Robert Williams, Publisher

Switzerland sits atop the overall ranking in The Global Competitiveness Report, just released by the World Economic Forum, representing the first time since 2004 that the United States doesn’t hold the top spot. But hey, that’s what being at the epicenter of a global financial crisis will do, right?

Singapore, Sweden and Denmark round out the top five.

The shocker, however, is how badly the United States scored for the soundness of its banks. It placed 108th, just ahead of Venezuela, Serbia and Vietnam and right behind Tanzania.

“Given that the financial crisis originated in large part in the United States, it is hardly surprising that there has been a weakening of the assessment of its financial market sophistication…” said the WEF.

Yeah. But Tanzania?

For the record, Tanzania borders nations

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Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc.

(Public, PINK:HTDS)

With the upcoming flu season upon us (considered between October and May with the peak of the season falling between late December and March), StocksHaven Investments highlights one of the most undervalued pink sheet penny biomedical stocks available, which not only tackles influenza treatments, but also many other harmful and dangerous viruses and infections. Hard to Treat Diseases is unlike any other company we have profiled before — rather than concentrating and manufacturing its own drugs for research and development purposes, it focuses on being a parent company for two subsidiaries: Slavica Bio Chem Co. and China Mellow Hope Inc.

About

The company operates 2 medical subsidiaries in Serbia, Europe and Mainland ChinaHTDS is a parent co with operations in a East European medical company (Serbia) Slavica Bio Chem Co (formerly ReNuYu

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by Edward Hugh: Barcelonabr /br /br /The Russian ruble strengthened the most in more than three months against the dollar yesterday (gaining 1.7 percent to 32.2247 per dollar at one point) as oil rebounded above $60 a barrel and OAO Sberbank reported better-than-expected earnings. Sberbank shares jumped 5.1 percent after first-quarter net income turned out to be above analyst estimates. But the rise was also helped by the fact that Russia’s central bank spent approximately $2 billion from reserves to try to stop the ruble from falling yesterday, taking central bank reserve spending over the two working days since they lowered interest rates half a percantage point on Friday to around $4 billion, a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchiveamp;sid=aTqgrOY1vdEo"according to reports in the newspaper Kommersant/a.br /br /Russia’s central bank cut its main interest rates for the fourth time in less than three months at the end of last week after the government estimated the ...

Green Star Alternative Energy, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GSAE; “GSAE” or the “Company”) (http://www.greenstarae.com) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement between the Green Star/Notos JV and the Municipality of Veliko Gradiste. The arrangement allows Green Star to explore the economic viability of the regional wind resources; and upon evaluation, the right to develop wind power and supply the area with green electricity.

The Municipality of Veliko Gradiste is located in north-east Serbia approximately 100 km east of the capital, Belgrade. Its territory encompasses 344 square km on the right bank of the Danube River and left bank of the Pek River. The initial micro location for placement of the Company’s wind sensors has been identified in the settlement of Ram, and the Municipality has allotted 200 hectares of land towards this endeavour.

Miodrag Andric, CEO of Green Star Alternative Energy, stated: “The Company will continue to

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by Edward Hugh: Barcelonabr /br /br /pa href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ngczZkrw340/SlmdGD2bh-I/AAAAAAAAOoo/P8vnyB3RTno/s1600-h/bulgaria+population.png"img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 258px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357485959172294626" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ngczZkrw340/SlmdGD2bh-I/AAAAAAAAOoo/P8vnyB3RTno/s400/bulgaria+population.png" //abr /br /br /The International Monetary Fund this week forecast the recession in Bulgaria would be deeper than it previously predicted. Such a decision should come as no surprise to anyone, since the country's economic dynamics in both the short and long term look extremely unstable, and Bulgaria is now almost certainly headed towards a series of more or less hair-raising roller-coaster rides. Even the briefest of glances at the population chart above should lead even the most sceptical among us to stop and think a little about the possible economic implications of such an appauling demographic outlook. As can be seen, the opening to the west brought a sharp outflow of people in the late 1980s (mainly ethnic Turks), but the important thing ...