The screencap at right is a few hours old, but the visual was striking to me.
Notice how "STALLED: Slow auto sales blamed on housing market, gas prices" and "Fuel cost rise is fast, furious" are stories with prime real estate and a visual aid.
But also take note of the top item in the "In the news" digest:
"Venezuela takes over oil field operations from big firms."
Geopolitical instability and inefficient allocation of resources from state-run oil enterprises in Venezuela and other oil-producing countries are one factor in the rising cost of petroleum products. Unfortunately the way Chavez's May Day oil grab is being reported, it's little more than a footnote.
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Stealing the oil companies, p
May 1, 2007 - 17:53 ET by upcountrywaterStealing the oil companies, pure and simple.. chavez is such the entrepreneur! NOPE HE'S JUST A PETTY CROOK!
1300 IRANIAN GAS CENTRIFUGES MAKING H BOMBS, AND YOU THINK IT'S YOUR RIGHT TO FILL UP!
What?
May 1, 2007 - 18:12 ET by Six String SpiffWhat?
Chavez stole the oil companie
May 1, 2007 - 18:20 ET by upcountrywaterChavez stole the oil companies, he didn't pay then (those oil companies) a penny, it's all for socialism, the people's paradice. We get to watch as all the money leaves that country.
I've been following this sinc
May 1, 2007 - 18:16 ET by bigtimerI've been following this since early this morning, as usual the media gives it little attention.
Pathetic.
We have leftists world-wide doing their thing today, and the majority of the leftist media takes their side on every one of them...even throw in some of their own zingers.
I am in the middle of working and trying to not sit down until later, but there is a link to this happening and the WB/Wolfowitz BS....purposeful BS..all an agenda, they (Chavez and ilk) are wanting more countries to pull out of too like Ecuador did lately, only bigger ones that owe debts...going to be interesting what happens.
They never stop, the devil never sleeps.
Unfortunately we have not one large group of unison voices crying out for self-dependency here, it is almost unbelievable to me...especially the situation the world is in and we are now.
Drill Often....Drill Everywhere! (especially within our borders and off-shore.)
Here is the latest with the Wolfowitz situation, unfortuanately I got rid of my other link about four days ago that would show what I mean about a tie in to all of this...I am sure a lot here already know that anyway, just thought I would throw that in...lol!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/30/AR2007043000121.html?hpid=sec-nations
I can't wait for the next Jos
May 1, 2007 - 18:37 ET by Gat New YorkI can't wait for the next Joseph Kennedy commercial where he put his arm around Chavez embracing socialism.
Don't forget Chavez's other l
May 2, 2007 - 07:56 ET by GalvanicDon't forget Chavez's other little American buddy: Cindy Sheehan.
BP PLC, ConocoPhillips, Exxon
May 2, 2007 - 07:12 ET by rimskyBP PLC, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., France’s Total SA and Norway’s Statoil ASA - all these companies HAD to know the risks of making huge investments in a place like Venezuela. If the Venezuela Government doesn't know how to refine it without the expertise of all of the above, then let 'em choke on all that stolen, tar-like crude.
Besides, ask the Saudi dict
May 2, 2007 - 07:17 ET by sarcasmoBesides, ask the Saudi dictatorship...If you wait a sufficient period after the theft, you get to be "allies" anyway, even if you spread hate.
JMR
..even if you spread hate..
May 2, 2007 - 07:36 ET by rimsky..even if you spread hate.. by flying jets into buildings, killing thousands of innocent people.
At least Chavez had the good
May 2, 2007 - 09:22 ET by Michael ChapmanAt least Chavez had the good sense---knowingly or not---to pull out of the World Bank, which is a corrupt, bureaucratic, one-size-fits-all institution that does no good and wastes billions of dollars on "programs" that fail over and over again. (Sounds like the U.S. Congress.) Close the World Bank. If there were a need for such a "Bank," the market would have provided it. There was no need. A bunch of politicians and business-welfare addicts created it.