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Employment: Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity

Another problem for American professionals is off-shore out-sourcing, especially to India.
American CEO's give themselves big fat bonus because the out-source American jobs to India.
The effect is cascading in that it takes away jobs from Americans, especially educated Americans.
Oracle, IBM, American Express, Bank of American to name a few have removed professional jobs from Americans especially veterans who are now unemployed and watch folks from India come into our country that we fought for and risked our lives for and to be unemployed and watch these folks from India take our jobs.
Shame on the greed of American CEO's. I'm sure if any American CEO was a veteran and served to defend out country this would not be happening.

Dave Forest: Stick with Proven Track Records and Potential for Discovery

" . . . Given that demand in many developing countries is on the verge of growing, and in some cases perhaps exploding it would seem that we have yet another variable pointing towards higher future oil prices. . . "

Another smaller Oil & Exploration company is from Houston, TX called Hyperdynamics - HDY (NYSE) seeking a JV partner for it's 31,000 sq. mile find of 'crude' found off-shore the West African coast of Guinea which was identified as the largest find of 'crude' in all Africa.

They have a new CEO (to be named July 29 2009) with strong ties in the O&G arena and a added new BOD member noted Dr. Pasquale Scaturro to head up their search for a JV partner.

This is an exciting time.