Problem…reaction…solution.

They have created a problem…the financial situation.

They need a reaction.

Solution…this silly bailout plan.

LUCKILY, A HELL OF A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT HIP TO THIS.

Keep the pressure on, folks. Don’t let these elite few run you over. It’s only going to get worse, and these powers that be are going to offer you solutions to a problem THEY created. Don’t fall for it!! It’s going to get worse before it gets better, please realize that, but they cannot steal our souls.

MONEY IS NOTHING when it comes to humanity.

HL

JUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unidentified flying object regularly observed over Sarnia

By SHAWN JEFFORDS

The Observer

It may not be stuff of the X-Files, but a UFO-tracker is reviewing a report of a strange craft seen flying over Sarnia this summer.

The unidentified flying object was reported July 20 at 9:30 p.m. Three people say they saw a white, square-shaped craft flying over an East Street apartment building. It was 30 feet wide,10 feet high and made no sound as it moved east overhead.

“It’s a very, very, very unusual sighting,” said Brian Vike, who catalogues and investigates UFO sightings on his website, HBCC UFO Research.

The three witnesses said the object had a black stripe down the middle and was flying 300-to-400 feet off the ground, far too low for an aircraft, he said.

“I’m not saying it couldn’t be something from ‘out there;’ who knows,” he said. “But when you start to give a description with markings on it, maybe it’s something manmade.”

Vike, 57, has investigated hundreds of reports from his home in Houston, British Columbia. More than one hundred cases came from Ontario this year.

“The idea is to try to investigate and figure out what it is,” he said. “A lot of it is pretty darn easy. When it gets to the really weird stuff that’s when it becomes a problem.”

Police and military officials, who often have sightings reported to them, generally aren’t co-operative, he said.

“You don’t want to make it a conspiracy kind of deal, but come on, something isn’t jibing here.”

Beyond that, it can be tough separating hoaxes from serious reports. Vike recently discovered a faked but exceptionally well-written report sent by a boy in the U.S. Apparently, he wrote it under threat of receiving a “wedgy” from his friends, Vike said.

“I just about flipped. As soon as I found out I pulled the report off (the website). You can see where they’re going sometimes and it just doesn’t make sense.”

But the Sarnia sighting is a fascinating one, he said, although he hasn’t spoken with the witnesses who filed it.

Vike said he believes there is other life in the universe. Most people aren’t reporting seeing aliens, just something unusual, he said.

“The majority of people who actually report these sightings are credible. They’re not saying they saw an alien craft, although there are some. They just saw something that didn’t sort of compute in their head.”

“This one here from Sarnia, this white box-shaped UFO doesn’t fit anything celestial,” he said. “It’s not an astronomical body, so now we’ve got something either man-made or whatever. I don’t like to get too crazy with the whatever, but we may never know.”

To view Vike’s UFO reports visit http://www.hbccufo.org/

http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1223191

Ike death toll increases as two bodies found along shore

The death toll from Hurricane Ike reached to at least 31 over the weekend, with the discovery of two unidentified bodies that were found along the Galveston County shore.

“The more people that are out and about going places, the more likely they are to find folks,” said D.J. Florence, chief investigator at the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Both remains are greatly decomposed, but authorities are hoping to find more clues to their identity during autopsies scheduled for today.

Since the storm, more than 530 people have been reported missing, with more than 400 of the cases still unresolved.

As for the latest bodies, the first, believed to be a Caucasian male, was discovered on the rocks Saturday at about 3:15 p.m. by a fisherman two miles west of an area known as Severs Cut.

Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens recovered the body.

The other, believed to be a Caucasian female, was spotted about three hours later in a debris pile by all-terrrain vehicle riders roaming among the flats on the northwest side of Pelican Island, about 300 yards from Pelican Cut.

The ATV riders called Galveston Police.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/morenews/6029478.html

No quick end to gas shortage in Southeast

ATLANTA — A storm-related gas shortage in the Southeast that has left some places bone-dry and others with two-hour gas lines is expected to continue for at least another two weeks, energy experts and industry officials say.

The shortage began two weeks after Hurricane Gustav hit the oil-refining regions of the Gulf Coast on Sept. 1. Operations that shut down before that storm were just coming back online when Hurricane Ike hit, forcing another shutdown. The gas shortage, now in its third week, is particularly acute here in sprawling Atlanta, in Nashville in parts of the Carolinas and in Anniston, Ala.

“I don’t go anywhere once I find some and get my tank filled up,” says Alicia Woods, 32, who waited 45 minutes to fill up Sunday morning at a QuikTrip in Cobb County, Ga. “Going out, visiting friends, all that just has to wait. I have to keep my gas for getting back and forth to work.”

Long gas lines continued to plague the Charlotte area over the weekend. Asheville, N.C., shut down some government offices Friday.

“Things were pretty severe to the point gas stations did not have gas, and the ones that did have gas had an hour to two-hour wait,” said city spokeswoman Trisha Hardin.

The pipelines that supply the region are operating at less than normal capacity, due largely to storm-related power outages at Texas refineries, said Kenneth Medlock, energy fellow at the Baker Institute, a non-partisan public policy think tank at Rice University in Houston.

The Southeast, the only region of the nation that has no oil refining or major gasoline storage capacity, pumps all of its gasoline in by pipeline, he said.

“In isolation, neither of these storms would have been that big a deal, because there’s enough inventory (at stations) to make up the shortfall,” said Medlock. “But there was a three- to four-week period of refinery capacity not operating. That’s basically a month when nothing’s being produced.”

Panic buying — drivers topping off every time they happen across a station that actually has gas — made the problem worse, said Marylee Booth, executive director of the Tennessee Oil Marketers Association.

“If people saw a tanker drive up to a station, they’d start lining up. The panic has died down. It’s getting a little better every day.”

Gary Harris, executive director of the North Carolina Petroleum and Convenience Marketers, whose members sell about 90% of the gasoline in North Carolina, says he expects two to four more weeks of shortages. “There was a lot of panic buying fueled by media coverage of the shortage,” he says. “Now, it’s hard to catch up.”

The shortage has residents like Woods changing their habits. There was even talk of canceling Saturday’s highly-anticipated football game in Athens between the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama, which Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue dismissed as “ridiculous.”

Public transit ridership is soaring, more employees are telecommuting or working shorter weeks and Perdue is closely monitoring the situation in case it becomes necessary to close schools or take other steps, says his press secretary Bert Brantley.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-09-28-Gas-shortage_N.htm

Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Parties Make Gains in Austrian Elections

BERLIN — Austria’s anti-immigrant, far-right parties benefited from the severe discontent among citizens of that small Alpine nation, winning almost a third of the vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday.

The country’s two mainstream parties suffered significant losses, though they received the most votes and could rebuild their fractious, unpopular coalition. The Social Democratic Party led the voting with 30 percent, followed by the conservative People’s Party with 26 percent; they slipped by roughly 6 percentage points for the Social Democrats and 9 percentage points for the People’s Party.

But by far the most notable result was the success of the far-right parties. The Freedom Party, which is led by Heinz-Christian Strache, won 18 percent of the vote, a gain of 7 percentage points. The Alliance for Austria’s Future, led by Jörg Haider, a longtime Freedom Party leader who broke away and formed the new party in 2005, got 11 percent, nearly tripling its result in the last vote two years ago.

Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiments have been powerful forces in European politics in recent years, and rising discontent over globalization and higher prices has helped fuel populist sentiment, benefiting right-wing groups that place the blame for economic woes squarely on immigrants and foreign competition.

Mr. Strache, a former dental technician, has called for a halt to immigration and a reclamation of some of the sovereign powers handed over to the European Union. For Mr. Haider, his party’s strong gains — and victory with almost 40 percent of the vote in the province of Carinthia, where he is governor — seal a political comeback since his departure from the Freedom Party.

There is no love lost between the erstwhile allies, which would make any coalition including both of the far-right parties more difficult to form. Mr. Haider, in particular, tried to adopt a more moderate line in this campaign than in the past.

“There are no longer any major parties,” Mr. Haider said in an interview with the Austrian television station ORF. “It shows how great the exasperation is with red and black,” a reference to the colors of Social Democrats and the People’s Party.

The election was not a referendum on immigration, according to Wolfgang Bachmayer, managing director of the OGM Institute, a political consulting firm. It was primarily frustration with the dysfunctional government that defined the results, he said.

“In this election campaign, it also was more about social themes and an anti-European Union attitude,” he said. “The Freedom Party in this campaign made far fewer attacks on foreigners than in the past.”

The Austrian government, a coalition between the Social Democrats and the People’s Party, collapsed after 18 months of bitter dispute between them, which prevented action on much-discussed reforms. Their combined popularity had reached a postwar low.

For the People’s Party, the weak showing continued a stunning reversal from its victory in 2002. Yet Austria’s two largest parties could reconstitute their so-called grand coalition and, despite their losses, continue to govern together.

A coalition of the three right-wing parties is also possible, though the People’s Party ruled that out during the campaign. When the conservatives formed a coalition with the Freedom Party in 2000, it provoked international outrage and sanctions by other European countries.

“If you ask the voters, ‘Are you economically or socially in a better situation than two or three years before?’ then a clear majority says, ‘No, we are worse,’ ” said Peter Filzmaier, a political science professor at Danube University in Krems. “This is a typical mood that helps populist parties. Then there’s a profit for right-wing groups that say it is foreigners and other countries that are to blame.”

Britta Schellenberg, a research analyst on right-wing radicalism in Europe at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, said that xenophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment had joined with increasing antipathy toward globalization and capitalism. “This is exploited by the radical right more frequently than even a couple of years ago,” she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/world/europe/29austria.html?em