…Done with 5 night shifts in a row. Mrs Coldwarrior is going to take me to lunch after I nap. I picked the place.
It’s a new bar in an old building in a town that fell on hard times when the mills closed and NAFTA/GATT gutted what was left of manufacturing.
It seems there is a little revitalization going on in that beat up town down the road…it’s not gentrification as that wouldn’t work here. Maybe the town is slowly getting back on its feet.
I will report back later this afternoon.
Good Morning All and happy Schumer Shutdown Saturday! And welcome to the Return of Saturday Lecture Series!
Today’s lecture is on a topic that I had not considered, how energy markets can be a useful insight for intelligence on a given country. The link below is to the full PDF and it is well worth the read. So grab some coffee and get started!
Intelligence Today and Tomorrow
The Potential of Energy Data
A Guide to the Application of Energy Data for Intelligence Analysis
Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Ph.D.US government agencies and many foreign governments track energy data from around the world for a variety of reasons, some obvious, some less so. The numbers provide material to forecast energy trends, including energy demand and supply, prices, and energy trade flows. Less obviously, intelligence agencies apply energy data to political and economic forecasts, such as estimates of the impact of energy revenue trends on the stability and foreign policies of energy-producing states. Such data is especially important in forecasting political and economic outcomes in major oil and natural gas exporting states, most importantly in the Middle East, where study of energy data trends can contribute to predictions of broad economic trends and assessments of the likelihood and timing of anti-government activity. The purpose of this article is to provide analysts in intelligence or other government agencies a guide to understanding how energy data can be applied to the analysis of a range of issues in countries around the world.
This could also be applied to water and food as well…
Happy Reading!
Web Posted: 01/17/98 23:32:47 PST -- NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERNBLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of his career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication. A young woman, 23, sexually involved with the love of her life, the President of the United States, since she was a 21-year-old intern at the White House. She was a frequent visitor to a small study just off the Oval Office where she claims to have indulged the president’s sexual preference. Reports of the relationship spread in White House quarters and she was moved to a job at the Pentagon, where she worked until last month.
The young intern wrote long love letters to President Clinton, which she delivered through a delivery service. She was a frequent visitor at the White House after midnight, where she checked in the WAVE logs as visiting a secretary named Betty Curry, 57.
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that tapes of intimate phone conversations exist.
The relationship between the president and the young woman become strained when the president believed that the young woman was bragging about the affair to others.
NEWSWEEK and Isikoff were planning to name the woman. Word of the story’s impeding release caused blind chaos in media circles; TIME magazine spent Saturday scrambling for its own version of the story, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The NEW YORK POST on Sunday was set to front the young intern’s affair, but was forced to fall back on the dated ABC NEWS Kathleen Willey break.
The story was set to break just hours after President Clinton testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
Ironically, several years ago, it was Isikoff that found himself in a shouting match with editors who were refusing to publish even a portion of his meticulously researched investigative report that was to break Paula Jones. Isikoff worked for the WASHINGTON POST at the time, and left shortly after the incident to build them for the paper’s sister magazine, NEWSWEEK.
Michael Isikoff was not available for comment late Saturday. NEWSWEEK was on voice mail.
The White House was busy checking the DRUDGE REPORT for details.
The day the Feminist movement died and the day that the complicity of the MSM was laid open for all to see.
Well, the wife’s armored monster Swedish-Death-Hammer Volvo needed a new battery. Easy enough. Went down to my local parts store and I didn’t recognize ANY of the faces behind the counter. My Parts Guys weren’t there! They had been replaced with new people. Probably taken up by the aliens, I bet. Yeah, that’s the ticket, aliens.
So I asked the cute 20-something female where were Joe and Andy? This is the answer that I got: Three of the guys who worked there got better jobs. One went to Royal Dutch Shell, one went to a construction company, and the other took an apprentice position with the electricians.
HELL YES! I thought to myself. Those are long-term, good pay, and great benefit gigs! Good for those guys!
Now my parts store is staffed by 20-something females…this should be interesting when I need some technical details, but I digress. The new manager is in her 50’s…these retail positions have been taken by young, new workers. This is excellent! The guys are on to bigger and better things. The fact that now the atore is staffed by females tells me something, men are back to work in men jobs. As it should be.
Item 2: There are billboards and radio spots all over for $35/hr full benefits from day one carpenters. electricians, and plumbers/HVAC people, START PAY. /S T A R T P A Y/. That’s $72,800 a year WITHOUT OVERTIME. Helpers/Laborers go in at $23 an hour, that’s $42,800 a year WITHOUT OVERTIME. The tool and die / machine shops up north can’t get enough machinists and CNC operators, there aren’t anywhere near enough truck drivers, labor is getting scarce as the economy expands.
Item 3: The Union Halls for the Crafts are empty. There is NO ONE available to work…EVERYONE is out on jobs…Out on jobs IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER. This is unheard of.
So, tell me Nevertrumpers, how does economics work in your world?
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