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Moon Trees
It is the season for pumpkin-flavored fun
Young friends prepare for a triathlon
Chinese sports stars pledge quake relief
Quiet philanthropist Osher donates $70 million to state community colleges
Swaminathan nurtures his foundation to adulthood
Venezuela and Bolivia have both thrown the US ambassadors out of their countries. Wait, that's not all... long-range Russian bombers just landed in Venezuela. Here is a short video from the BBC. (and yes, this is just another reason to vote for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of America)
Wait there's more:
Russians and Venezuelans are having joint military exercises in the Caribbean.
Russia is also dispatching a nuclear cruiser and other warships and planes to the Caribbean for the joint exercises with Venezuela, seen as a direct rebuff to the United States in the first such deployment since the Cold War.
These numbers are from the EIA - Energy Information Administration - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government. Note the numbers from Venezuela
June 2008 Import Highlights: August 26, 2008
Monthly data on the origins of crude oil imports (to the United States) in June 2008 has been released
| Crude Oil Imports (Top 15 Countries) (Thousand Barrels per Day) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Jun-08 | May-08 | YTD 2008 | Jun-07 | YTD 2007 |
| CANADA | 1,883 | 1,840 | 1,888 | 1,905 | 1,881 |
| SAUDI ARABIA | 1,479 | 1,579 | 1,523 | 1,501 | 1,407 |
| MEXICO | 1,124 | 1,116 | 1,193 | 1,392 | 1,454 |
| VENEZUELA | 1,085 | 1,030 | 1,012 | 1,135 | 1,109 |
| NIGERIA | 946 | 851 | 1,036 | 893 | 1,022 |
| IRAQ | 693 | 583 | 674 | 573 | 476 |
| ANGOLA | 636 | 464 | 496 | 502 | 568 |
| BRAZIL | 280 | 318 | 221 | 121 | 158 |
| ALGERIA | 269 | 440 | 319 | 504 | 494 |
| RUSSIA | 228 | 119 | 109 | 29 | 135 |
| KUWAIT | 179 | 263 | 219 | 263 | 193 |
| ECUADOR | 178 | 162 | 192 | 166 | 195 |
| COLOMBIA | 177 | 245 | 182 | 143 | 108 |
| CHAD | 107 | 57 | 101 | 80 | 69 |
| LIBYA | 89 | 96 | 76 | 144 | 66 |
| Total Imports of Petroleum (Top 15 Countries) (Thousand Barrels per Day) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Jun-08 | May-08 | YTD 2008 | Jun-07 | YTD 2007 |
| CANADA | 2,359 | 2,346 | 2,472 | 2,410 | 2,470 |
| SAUDI ARABIA | 1,493 | 1,604 | 1,538 | 1,534 | 1,434 |
| MEXICO | 1,254 | 1,218 | 1,304 | 1,529 | 1,590 |
| VENEZUELA | 1,215 | 1,171 | 1,172 | 1,364 | 1,356 |
| NIGERIA | 1,020 | 918 | 1,092 | 968 | 1,080 |
| RUSSIA | 764 | 441 | 474 | 285 | 400 |
| IRAQ | 693 | 583 | 674 | 573 | 476 |
| ANGOLA | 649 | 476 | 506 | 514 | 580 |
| ALGERIA | 492 | 620 | 535 | 709 | 718 |
| VIRGIN ISLANDS | 314 | 340 | 336 | 218 | 319 |
| BRAZIL | 314 | 335 | 246 | 161 | 205 |
| UNITED KINGDOM | 286 | 237 | 223 | 345 | 310 |
| NETHERLANDS | 264 | 192 | 167 | 171 | 126 |
| ECUADOR | 184 | 162 | 200 | 168 | 199 |
| KUWAIT | 183 | 263 | 222 | 263 | 200 |
Note: The data in the tables above exclude oil imports into the U.S. territories.
MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat
By BRIAN STELTER
MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election.
That experiment appears to be over.
After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage...
...In interviews, 10 current and former staff members said that long-simmering tensions between MSNBC and NBC reached a boiling point during the conventions. “MSNBC is behaving like a heroin addict,” one senior staff member observed. “They’re living from fix to fix and swearing they’ll go into rehab the next week.”...
...Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, the past and present anchors of “NBC Nightly News,” have told friends and colleagues that they are finding it tougher and tougher to defend the cable arm of the news division, even while they anchored daytime hours of convention coverage on MSNBC and contributed commentary each evening...
5th human foot washes up on Canada coast
By Jeremy Hainsworth
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A fifth human foot in a year has washed ashore off the coast of British Columbia, and this time it's a left one.
Police said two people out for a walk spotted the left foot floating in water off Westham Island on Monday morning.
Delta Police Const. Sharlene Brooks said officials are working with the B.C. Coroner's office to see if this foot is linked to any other partial remains recovered in the province.
Westham Island is at the mouth of the Fraser River, about 15 miles south of Vancouver.
"A passerby noticed a shoe floating in the water, pulled it in and notified police," Brooks said. "We're treating it as a criminal investigation."
While the similarities to the other found feet is strong, she said there's no indication this foot is related to the other cases.
"We're certainly not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it's just too premature and very speculative for us to even entertain that right now," she said.
The last foot was found May 22 on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River, about one mile away from Monday's discovery.
The first in the series was found nearly a year ago on Jedidiah Island in the Strait of Georgia. Within days, another right foot was found inside a man's Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island. The third was found in the same area, on the east side of Valdez Island in early February.
The origin on any of the remains is still unknown.
"This might take a long time," Brooks said. "This is not CSI." She said in order to identify the foot, other remains from the body or identifying material such as a DNA would be needed. "It's going to be pretty difficult."
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has said there's no evidence the feet were severed or removed from the victims' legs by force.
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer based in Seattle, Wash., said when a human body is submerged in the ocean, the main parts like arms, legs, hands, feet and the head are usually what come off the body.
He said his theory is that the feet came along as a result of an accident that might have happened up along the Fraser River, that washed down and spread out along the Straight of Georgia.
Ebbesmeyer said when the third foot was found the feet could have drifted from as far as 1,000 miles away. Ebbesmeyer said the feet could have been severed or detached from their bodies on their own.
NEW YORK - The New York Times is reporting that NBC Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert has died from an apparent heart attack. They are citing family reports. He was 58-years-old.
According to the MSNBC biography on Russert, he was the Managing Editor and Moderator of "Meet the Press" and political analyst for "NBC Nightly News" and the "TODAY" program. He anchors "The Tim Russert Show," a weekly interview program on MSNBC. Russert also serves as senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News.
This is something the Republicans don't want to hear. Clinton and Obama advocating Democratic Party unity at last night's North Carolina's Democratic Party 2008 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.
Via AP (Associated Press)
11:10 PM CST
Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the
chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and also portrayed Moses,
Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics
of the 1950s and '60s, has died, a spokesman for the actor's
family told The Associated Press. He was 84.
