Gas prices are out of hand and there’s no ceiling in sight. We’ll be looking at $4.00/gallon and up before GWB and his oil men buddies depart Washington next January.
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"On April Fool’s Day, the biggest joke of all is being played on American families by Big Oil," said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass. , as his committee began hearing from the oil company executives.
"These companies are defending billions of federal subsidies ... while reaping over a hundred billion dollars in profits in just the last year alone," complained Markey, chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Regulation? Taxes? NO WAY!
"Our earnings, though high in absolute terms, need to be viewed in the context of the scale and cyclical, long-term nature of our industry as well as the huge investment requirements," said J.S. Simon, Exxon Mobil’s senior vice president. Last year the oil and gas industry earned 8.3 cen...
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With hundreds of trails to choose from Washington state is a hiking paradise. There are beach hikes, desert hikes and excellent mountain hiking trails to please all. On the east side of the state over the Cascade Mountain range the weather is drier and hot in the summer. The western portion of Washington is much wetter and it rains often. The best months for hiking in Washington state is July, August and September.
With three National parks offering plenty of camping and hiking, you c... more
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10356
By Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
Global Research , September 28, 2008
“When troubles come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Shakespeare (1564-1616)
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of governm... more
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill will visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) later this week, the State Department confirmed Monday.
Hill is due to arrive in Seoul, South Korea Tuesday. “Later in the week, he’ll visit Pyongyang, before going to Beijing, where he’ll meet with the Chinese vice foreign minister, Wu Dawei,” State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told a... more
Two congressmen are looking for reassurance that broadcast networks and federal agencies will resolve the lingering problems associated with the digital television transition to take place in February.
Representatives John D. Dingell (D-MI) and Edward Markey (D-MA) on Friday sent separate letters to the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the National Association of Broadcasters, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox.
The letters n... more
A Plea for Decency From: feeds.feedburner.com Post Date: 2008-03-04 10:48:42
Bloviation from The Bobosphere :
What passes online for opinion, analysis, criticism and commentary too often lacks logic, coherent argument, evidence, intellectual rigor or even simple honesty. It wallows instead in snide cheapshots and ad hominem bile, scurrilousness and schadenfreude, free-floating hostility and bullying disguised as wit. We’d like to imagine the internet as a tool for democracy and Platonic justice. But the blogosphere isn’t exactly Plato’s "Republic... more
Tim Brunelle is calling for executive-level participants in the this Participation Age thingamajiggy.
It’s not enough to trot out the resident one or two social media experts inside the agency, and have a pleasant forced laugh around how "the kids" in your agency are "participating." I truly believe the CEO, President, Chairman, CFO, CCO, ECD, Head of Planning, Head of Media, Head of Production, Head of HR — the people running the agency — absolutely need to be participating th... more
Brian Morrissey of Adweek reminds us that ad peeps are often restless souls with gigantic ambitions.
A half-dozen executives from the London operations of DDB, Naked Communications, Isobar, Tribal DDB and Diageo have joined forced to launch AnalogFolk , a shop that is dedicated to what it is calling "communications products" that meld digital technology with real-world interaction. Unlike regular bits of ad messaging, a communications product is sought out by consumers, even bought, ... more
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