August 19, 2008 archive

Bill O’Reilly Proof Positive That

Evolution Is A Complete

Failure

Eastern Europe gets jittery over Russia

Poland, Ukraine, Moldova and the Czech Republic are among those worried that they could be next after the invasion of Georgia.

By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

August 19, 2008

WARSAW — Signing a missile-defense deal with its good friend the United States has earned Poland nothing less than the threat of nuclear attack from Russia — a threat that might not sound so empty these days, given Moscow’s bloody battle with Georgia.

That conflict has plunged Europe into crisis, sending waves of jitters through Poland and other eastern nations, once-occupied parts of a Soviet empire that some fear Russia may want to reconstruct. Moscow’s actions have also succeeded in driving deeper the wedge between Europe’s East and West.

As Oil Giants Lose Influence, Supply Drops  



By JAD MOUAWAD

Published: August 18, 2008

Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits and eager to expand.

Part of the reason is political. From the Caspian Sea to South America, Western oil companies are being squeezed out of resource-rich provinces. They are being forced to renegotiate contracts on less-favorable terms and are fighting losing battles with assertive state-owned oil companies.

And much of their production is in mature regions that are declining, like the North Sea.

USA

Some Nonprofits Push for Increased Federal Involvement



By Philip Rucker

Washington Post Staff Writer

Tuesday, August 19, 2008; Page A01  

In the world of philanthropy, where independence from government has long been sacred, a revolution is underway. Social entrepreneurs are clamoring for a realignment of the way the federal government and nonprofit groups work together to maximize the impact of American generosity.

With the presidential campaign in full swing, nonprofit leaders are organizing what some call an unprecedented effort to boost the presence of philanthropy and community service in a new administration. They are calling for a White House office or an agency similar to the Small Business Administration to match nonprofit programs with government priorities, help successful community-based initiatives grow and organize a corps of service volunteers.

A Stars Hollow Gazette

Well, Detective Greenwald is back on the case, but before we get to him I just want to outline why I find it so fascinating.

To me the Anthrax attacks perfectly illustrate the Colossal Conspiracy of Incestuous Incompetence by our government’s leadership and agencies on the one hand and the Villager Idiots of our Mental Masturbatory Beltway Blind Bozo Media on the other.

And you get hairy palms too you perverts.

The story so far is that the FBI has decided to blame this dead guy who committed suicide under the pressure of their investigation.  None of their public “proof” holds up to any kind of scrutiny at all.  They are constantly changing their timelines and plotlines as new facts continue to be discovered and practically everybody in D.C. is trying to ignore that the only thing left of Ivins the Anthrax man is a corncob pipe and his button nose and two eyes made out of coal.

Oh and that old silk hat they found.  Must have been some magic in it.

Then there is the local angle- I’ve been in Oxford, where Ottilie Lundgren died, and to Pine Grove Cemetery in Ansonia, where she is buried.  I drive through Wallingford, where the postal processing center is, all the time when I’m traveling from Hartford to points south.

Still, I don’t want to seem obsessed-

• Anthrax
• Anthrax II
• Yet More Anthrax III

And now-

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Anthrax

Yeah, well the main one was to do something constructive that I liked and put food on the table for my loved ones.  I had a career, a twenty two year career but the business assholianism of globalization and “free” trade is about to end all of that.  I am offered an early retirement package at the height of my skill set mainly because they can do it in China for 1/9th the cost.  People wonder why I have watched zero minutes of the Beijing Olympics and their carbon exempt smog laden air.  The seats are empty mainly because China don’t like large numbers of people getting together.  Their system BTW is THE model for OUR dystopian New World Order corporate fascist future.

I am almost destined to take the lump sum now and run or face the prospects of a non-existent pension from a company with a future potenial of Enron.