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Oil they say is the major driver of the world and that is no doubt about the veracity of that statement. Oil is one resource which has truly revolutionized the world and it has been the object of wars even.

Oil is a finite resource of energy and we cannot say that it will be there forever. Oil is formed in the earth’s bowels and it takes millions of years for the oil to be in a stage where it can be extracted.

The major oil exporting countries have become rich because of oil found in their estates. They usually keep the supply less than the demand so that the prices are high. But that is their motive. The major thing to worry is not the costly but the fact that the oil will get depleted very fast and it is not replenished at the speed at which it is being depleted.

The major source of consumption of oil is the automobiles and if you see the automobiles on the road in the past few years the number have grown tremendously. The availability of finance to own the automobiles have led to mushrooming growth in the automobile sector but has also led to major consumption of petroleum and its derivatives.

Of late however experts have been warning about the over dependence of oil as well as the depletion of major reserves of oil. This has instigated major governments all over the world to initiate developmental programs for alternative sources of energy.

Automobile companies all over the world have been putting money in to the research so that they can have cars which can run on electricity or with hydrogen fuel cells. This is easier said than done. The alternative fuel acres which have come into the market are very expensive and yet to become a mass medium of transport.

Power generation has also found success in wind farms generating power as well as nuclear power plants.

Some governments and city councils have been more proactive than the others and they have initiated a green day or a no car to work day. At least for one day the consumption of petrol will come down. A big thing if you estimate the number of cars and the amount of gas they consume.

Hopefully all these steps will help us prevent the day which we all dread which is that there will be no oil to drill.

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The assassination of former United States president John F Kennedy has always fascinated people since that November day in 1963 when it is reported that Lee Harvey Oswald gunned the president down from a window in a Dallas, Texas book depository. Conspiracy theorists insist that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone and many still maintain that Oswald did not act at all. They maintain that Oswald was a pre-ordained scapegoat for a larger organization of ruthless assassins that wanted the president dead and out of the way. But what are some of the facts that people can use to help them decide who really killed JFK? There has been a lot of conjecture on exactly what happened but a look at some of the more interesting facts might help to shed some light on what happened on that day in Dallas.

Conspiracy theorists maintain that Oswald could not have shot the president because the president’s vehicle was moving and at the distance that the president’s vehicle was from the book depository was no one could have hit the president with any kind of rifle. The fact is that the president was only a couple of hundred feet from the window Oswald was said to be stationed at during the assassination and Oswald was actually an expert shot from his days in the military on targets smaller than the president’s head from distances of several hundred yards away. An expert shot only a few hundred feet away from a target only moving at approximately 20 miles per hour would easily hit their target.

Another commonly held notion is that there had to have been more than one shooter because of the rapid fire nature of the shots and the fact that the fatal blow obviously hit from the front of the president because of the graphic nature of the entry wound that can be seen on the film of the assassination. The fact is that the rifle that Oswald used when used by an expert, which Oswald was, was more than capable of firing off the number of rounds that were fired in the amount of time they were fired. It is estimated that three shots were fired in a time ranging somewhere between 8 and 10 seconds. The Carcano rifle that Oswald was said to have used was more than capable of firing three accurate shots in that amount of time.

As for the fatal wound it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that what you see on the Zapruder film of the assassination is actually an exit wound and not an entry wound. The entry wound is a small hole in the back of the president’s skull that has been documented in pictures in various now public records. Publicly published ballistics tests have shown that the shell used from Carcano rifle will produce a large and dramatic exit wound such as the one seen in the Kennedy assassination. The force of the shot entering the president’s head is what causes the head to seem to pull violently backwards. In reality what is happening is that the president’s head lurches forward and then violently backwards. This is a consistent reaction with a fatal shot to the back of the head.

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They say religions are responsible for most of the wars if not all of the wars that have occurred on this planet. Well the middle East is really no different, more complicated than people hating the fact that other people believe in a different god but pretty close.

I have been very fortunate to visit Israel, twice. My family isn’t Jewish, I say this because this is usually the first question I am asked after mentioning that I have visited. No I had some family members that lived there and worked within Israel’s burgeoning hi tech sector. So why would anyone living a rather peaceful life in North America want to live in a sometimes crazy place like Israel?

I can only answer this from my perspective, as mentioned I was there twice and both times it was roughly 2 1/2 weeks for each visit. First off because there is a lot to see and do while Israel does have some amazing beaches this vacation will require another vacation to wind down upon your return. Israel really is a place for the history buff especially if you are into the history of religion or for that matter unless you are Buddhist you will pretty much find your religion within the small confines’ of the old city in Jerusalem.

While I was there I did on occasion see soldiers walking around with machine guns and the only shocking part was the fact that they were so young. All Israeli’s upon turning 18 spend at least two years in the army. Anytime you entire a large public place or restaurant you are greeted with something that looks a lot like airport security, before 9/11. So while you notice the fact that a war is going on it didn’t really interfere with life too much.

Here is the problem every 6-12 months of somewhat normal living in the middle east there is a crack in the wall and the fighting starts as it did a week ago. Either the Israeli’s are fighting with the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Iran or Egypt, everyone appears to be after the Israeli’s. Regardless of whose side your on imagine living in a country where every single country that surrounds you wants you dead. This is how these people live and surprisingly they live really well. The food is excellent, the architecture is world class and so is the shopping if you are into that.

This hatred between sides is very complicated and is more than just a religious issue. It really is a land issue. The Jews owned the land after they were marched out thousands of years ago, then the Arabs or Palestinians took it over during that time the British took over the land and let the Palestinians use it. Then after the second world war they allowed the Jews to come back and start rebuilding what is now Israel. The story I have read is the Jews where to rent the land from the Palestinians and while they were renting the land the British instituted their land title system and the Jews now officially own the land. Confusing isn’t it?

First off I might be off a little here and there but this is based on reading many books during the time so while this interpretation may not suit everyone’s needs this is close. So who is wrong, how could you possibly pick sides, this is one complicated mess that is only becoming more complicated. I don’t have the answer and apparently nor do any politicians I can only hope this mess resolves itself sooner than later.

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Have you ever seen or been in a water war? I’m sure that you have as a child with water balloon fights. We in our history have had many water wars as most of your fights have been in some way on the waters that surround our worlds. All of our biggest battles have in some way been fought on water or on the coasts of our countries.

This has happened all throughout our history even before we came to this country as all nations tried to capture other land away from their home ports. If you were to look in your history books at school, you will find out that all the different groups of people in the world want the same thing, and that is more land and power over the people that might live on this land. At this date in time, we are doing this very thing in Iraq, and then we are going to go right over to Afghanistan where we already have some soldiers so as to try to do the same and rid this country of terrorists. As we don’t want this land for our own, like the wars we have fought in the past, this is just to help them get rid of these terrorist groups.

Like I said, this war has had some part of it fought on the waters around its country, as we have had to carry our troops over the water to get to these countries first to get them on this ground so that they could do what they had to do. All of the water wars that we have had over the centuries have cost us and the countries that start the wars or even the ones that get pulled into these wars lose a lot of innocent lives and the cost of their lands and homes.

As all of these groups want to get the power over the people under their thumbs, so to speak, they will try to keep the fight going for as long as they think it needs to be or until they have what they want with no regards from the damages it costs the other country or its people as long as they get what they want. We should be able to live together and not think that we need more land because there are so many people in this world already, and the places that we go to might not be any better so we need to learn that and get along.

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Mount Laurel Township is a mid-sized town of about 40,000 people in Burlington County, New Jersey; the county sits on the southern side of New Jersey’s “crook,” and the township lies on the northwestern side of the county. It was officially named a township by the state legislature on March 7th, 1872, but its history certainly precedes this recognition by the state.

The land was originally inhabited by the Lenni-Lenape natives; anthropological evidence seems to suggest that they occupied the land for about four centuries–from the 1400 to the 1700’s. The main thoroughfare in the town today–Hainesport-Mt. Laurel Road–originated as a trail created by those early Native Americans.

The initial known European settlers were members of the Evans family that settled along the Rancocas Creek. William Evans, a son of this settler family, acquired three hundred acres of land at the “Site of the Mount,” then known as Mount Pray. The mountain was later rechristened as Mount Laurel, as it is called today. This purchase, made in 1682, was the earliest recorded real estate transaction in the area.

Sixteen years later, in 1698, William Evans conferred a single acre upon the Society of Friends so that they would have a plot upon which to build a meetinghouse. The meetinghouse that they built still stands today, and it is among the longest standing Christian meetinghouses in the country. It was constructed using sandstone taken from the mountain, so its roots are deeply embedded in the locale.

In general, the community is fairly wealthy. As of the census taken in the year 2000, the average family income was a little more than $76,000 a year. At that time, only about 2.5% of the township was below the poverty line, but many of those reported to be at that income level were residents under the age of eighteen and over the age of sixty-five, which aligns with the national age groups that tend to fall into poverty.

Within the last four decades, Mount Laurel has altered its government from a Township Committee to a Council-Manager structure–this means that the mayor serves the role of a manager and therefore directs the day-to-day goings on of the township. There is a supporting committee consisting of five members, one or two of which are up for partisan election each year; committee members’ terms last for four years.

Mount Laurel Township is a small town with a big history to be explored and appreciated.

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Rioting started almost 7 days ago in Greece and is still continuing to go strong. The rioting began when police shot dead a 15 year old boy, claiming they had fired a warning shot in the air as youths threatened him and a fellow officer. But there defence lawyer states that the young boy was killed from a ricochet rather than a direct fire shot.

Police have been trying to control the rioting with tear gas, but it is now said that it is starting to run out after battling for 7 days in a row. The police are said to have already fired over four thousand canisters. The police have already asked other countries to help them with supplies, as it was also stated that the police were using old stock from the 1980’s, which in fact is said to have some corroded chemicals which is causing some people to need urgent medical attention.

Rioters are torching hundreds of shops and banks and then camping out inside them. Police have been told that it is forbidden for them to enter as it is too dangerous.

We all know the reason that people are rioting it is very upsetting to see a young boy shot, but I believe there must be another way to get the message across of there unhappiness as a lot more people could end up getting hurt in the long run, which will be terrible.

People are running around and police are firing canisters everywhere it is only a matter of time until someone else gets hurt and we start seeing a lot more casualties, who will probably end up being innocent by passers or tourists.

Left-wing demonstrators have been chanting things such as “Cops are murderers” and carried placards saying “Bullets in the kids, money in the bank” and “Down with the government of property and privatization”.

It is also now stated that over 100,000 people could lose there jobs in the run up to Christmas and New Year. Students at mass demonstrations have also been handing out timetables indicating another week of the civil unrest that has brought violence to Athens and other parts of Greece. At least 70 people have been injured and hurt. Hundreds of stores and banks have been smashed and looted, and more than 200 people arrested. A lot more people will end up getting hurt if a resolution is not found.

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There is constantly talk about illegal immigration and the effects on the economy. The US illegal immigration is clearly a problem. More and more people are entering into the country with the idea that citizenship is optional. This produces quick a few ripple effects that are felt by citizens of the US as well as the economy. These effects are felt on the healthcare system, unemployment rates and food supplies.

Healthcare and Illegal Immigration

One of the most prominent effects of illegal immigration on the economy is in regards to the healthcare system. The US emergency healthcare system is set up to accept any person in a time of need regardless of their citizenship status or their insurance coverage. While this is truly beneficial for the person, it is not beneficial for the hospital providing care and the paying healthcare consumer. Without a social security number, driver license or any way to collect the fees due for the care provided, the hospitals are left to write off the debt in the long run. This write off costs the US consumer more money in healthcare every year.

Unemployment Rates

Unemployment is a problem all over the United States. In certain parts of the US, the illegal immigrant population is so great that construction and service jobs are often filled by day laborers. In Las Vegas, NV for instance, on any given morning there are day workers standing on corners waiting for work. Construction companies will stop and load the workers into the back of the truck and pay them a fraction of the going pay rate to complete the more labor driven tasks for the day. For every day laborer used to complete a job there is a US citizen that did not get that job.

Food Supplies

Recently, the corn supplies were diminishing and the cost of food skyrocketing thanks to the link between corn and other food products. The number of illegal immigrants in the United States is estimated between 7 million and 20 million. To put that number into perspective, there are as many illegal immigrants in the US as there are people in the entire continent of Australia. The food supply needs are figured in the US based upon the census data providing the number of people in the country, but this number does not take into consideration the 20 million more people that are not on record.

Illegal immigration is a problem and a solution. There are millions of people living in the United States that are not paying taxes on the money they make, eating the food supply and taking part in a healthcare system without paying. These actions all lead to a huge economic dent that is placed on the country because of this problem. Once a mandatory crack down on the borders of the country and a application process is streamlined to include all illegal immigrants, the problem should get under control but that is a dream that may not be attainable.

Jordan Mcpelt is a professional author who specializes in illegal immigration. For more information about the Federation for American Immigration Reform please visit http://www.fairus.org

If it seems a little unusual that President-elect Barack Obama is holding daily press conferences and lining up legislation to be signed his first days in office that’s because this is a presidential transition like no other. Perhaps it is indicative of the economic crisis, but the handing off of the baton to the 44th president stands out in many ways.

Some of the transitions from one administration to another in the past have gone smoothly, and others have been difficult. A recent article in the Los Angeles Times referred to the period between the end of James Buchanan’s presidency and the start of Abraham Lincoln’s as, “Arguably the most catastrophic transition in American history.” President Buchanan did little to stop the flood of states seceding from the Union the last months of his term, thus making the Civil War impossible for Lincoln to avoid.

There have been many transitions marked by animosity, such as John Adams snubbing Thomas Jefferson by refusing to accompany the new president to the Capitol for the inauguration. Or there was the hostility between Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, which did not help the financial situation during the changeover in 1933.

The willingness of President Bush to work with President-elect Obama has certainly distinguished this transition from others. However, it is not only the willingness of the Bush administration to cooperate with Obama, it is also, as the article in the Los Angeles Times stated, “the near-record speed and precision with which Obama has named his team and outlined a sweeping agenda for dealing with the worst economic crisis in a generation.”

Obama’s swiftness in setting up his White House staff stands in stark difference to the pre-inauguration days of Bill Clinton. The months leading up to Clinton’s transition into the White House were full of high-profile cabinet appointments, but little was done to put a staff together until a few weeks before his inauguration. With the same attentive determination he used for his campaign, Obama quickly put a staff together in the days after his nomination starting with Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.

To say that Obama has also made some high-profile cabinet appointments is putting it mildly. This week has seen the nomination of campaign rivals Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State and Bill Richardson for Secretary of Commerce. It is rare for future presidents to install their former foes into their cabinets. There are other unusual steps like making Robert Gates the first Secretary of Defense to be carried over from one administration to the next.

The next president of the United States will come into the office in January with a nation fighting a war in two countries, a financial crisis the likes-of -which has not been seen in generations and the constant threat of global terrorism. Even without the backdrop of the daunting job facing President-elect Obama, the few months between the nomination of one president and the end of the term of another can be times of much uncertainty. During this transition Americans can be certain that an ambitious plan is being made.

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The legalization of documents is a in depth process of ensuring the document is what the document says it is. When conversing legally with other countries, the apostille is often needed by one or more parties before the finalization of any legal proceedings can occur. The most common usage for an apostille is cross country adoptions and opening Swiss bank accounts.

What is an Apostille?

An apostille is the term for a document that has been legalized. The legalized document is most often used for an international proceeding.

What Kinds of Documents Need to be Legalized?

Just about any document can be legalized. The most common forms include birth certificates, marriage certificates, adoption certificates, divorce documents, power of attorney forms, school documents including diplomas and degrees, identity based documents, passports, deeds to properties, wills and proof of ownership documents.

How is a Document Legalized?

In order to ensure the document is processed quickly, there are certain guidelines which must be met for your document to be legalized. The following checklist will need to be followed completely in order to legalize your document for international use: (1)notarize the document, (2)have the notary legalized by taking the document to a local court house to verify the notary is licensed to notarize in your state, (3)obtain a certification of clerk’s signature from the Secretary of State, (4)take the document to the United States Department of State for approval, (5)take the document to the consulate for legalization.

Each embassy will need a copy of the document for legalization. This means you will need to follow these procedures for each country you require legalization of the documents for. Steps one through four can take place on all documents. Step five needs to be unique to the country where the documents will be presented.

When is a Legalized Document Needed?

Legalized documents are needed for many situations. The documents can be required by other countries in order to open bank accounts and complete adoption proceedings. Whenever legal agreements are entered into with a country outside of the United States, an apostille may be needed to complete the process. The apostilling of a document can take time, up to 6 months or more, so make sure to start the legalization process well in advance of when you will need the document.

The process for obtaining an apostilled or legalized document requires an in depth knowledge of this legal process. While the individual can obtain the legalization of a document on their own, the process often requires a legal expertise far beyond that of the normal person. When an apostille is requested, the process takes time and this time can increase if there are steps missed or information not provided. This is the main reason to hire an outside company to apostille your documents. Some international businesses will handle the apostille process for you during the legal proceedings; however, this is not the norm. Most often, the individual sees the greatest benefit from asking about which documents need to be legalized and obtaining the apostilles before starting any legal processes.

Jordan Mcpelt is a professional author who specializes in document legalization and obtaining apostilles. For more information on document legalization services please visit http://www.apostilla.com.

I’m really not the sort of person who’s interested enough in politics to be compelled to take time out of my busy schedule to help a political candidate. If I have any free time, I’d rather be working on my little art projects. However, something very interesting happened recently. Somehow, a few months before the presidential election, I got inspired to help Obama.

Like many others, I’d been freaked out about the state of our country and our world. At one point, all the bad news just kept piling up. The economy has been going downhill for a long time, but only recently did people start noticing; and I was worrying about what will happen when China decides to stop buying our debt.

With gasoline at $4 per gallon and rising at the time, our fuel and energy situation clearly didn’t look sustainable. Weird climate changes and strong hurricanes were making the global warming problem a little harder to ignore. I was worried about having no health insurance…

And of course I’d been upset about the war. As far as I’m concerned, there is no good reason to start a war. Most Americans have no understanding of the horrors of war on a deep level. It’s just all so abstract when it’s half way across the world. Now there are two wars to be upset about.

And here was a presidential candidate who was saying all the things we all wanted to hear, with real, coherent ideas and plans. I actually heard a calling. I somehow felt compelled to help Obama win, and the feeling was too strong to ignore.

What’s interesting to me is that so many others heard the calling, and like me, many of them were not the activist types. It was like a large number of people woke up at the same time. We all realized that if things keep going in the same direction, things could get very ugly very quickly.

Many of the volunteers I met have never worked on a political campaign before either. Some of them took months out from their busy lives, flocking to the swing states, just to help the cause, which was pretty amazing in itself. There were busloads of college kids from New York, here to help in the final weeks.

There were so many volunteers here in Pittsburgh, PA, that we needed many local headquarters locations, and more were being added all the time, to have more space for phone banking, and getting the canvassing shifts started.

My friend Lance, who’s the Outreach/Student Coordinator for the Santa Clara, CA election board, said, “Our county had an almost 90% voter turnout. Everything about the election was unusual and amazing - even months ago. We are a non partisan organization, and offer the same services to all political parties and campaigns. During the summer, I was training Obama precinct captains on voter registration, and their foot soldiers - 15 and 16 year old teenagers - would show up at our office every week for more voter registration forms. I received 1900 applications to work in this election from the high school student program - usually we get about 600.”
I wasn’t really aware of the extent of what was happening until I too decided to help. I just walked into one of the local headquarters, and asked how I can be helpful.

Again, something interesting happened. I got on the Obama email list, and started getting a couple of emails every day. These emails kept me posted on what was going on, encouraged me to get involved and most had a donate button, so that people could donate to the campaign.

The whole campaign was funded by regular people like me, without taking any money from special interests. Most other political candidates can be bought, but not this one. Even the brokest of the broke in this country, can afford to chip in a few bucks for a cause they believe in. With everyone giving whatever they could, apparently these contributions did add up and did the job.

This campaign used email and the internet like no other political campaign I’m aware of. I’ve been saving these emails.

I have emails from James Fogarty, the team leader from my local headquarters; from Barack Obama; Joe Biden; Michelle Obama; David Plouffe - the brilliant campaign manager for Obama for America; Craig Schirmer, Pennsylvania State Director, Obama for America; Eric Greenwald, Voter Protection Director, Pennsylvania Campaign for Change; Al Gore; Marianne Markowitz, Chief Financial Officer, Obama for America. There’s certainly some direct communication going on, making me feel like I’m in the loop, like I’m being treated like an intelligent adult.

I’m recognizing all the internet marketing strategies used in business, employed in this brilliant campaign. Marketing research shows that you usually need to make at least 7 contacts with a prospect before he or she decides to work with you. Hence the repetition with emails, phone calls and home visits in the campaign. Many people were annoyed that we pestered them so often, but you can’t argue with results. We had unprecedented voter turnouts here in PA, not to mention all the volunteers and donors.

There are YouTube videos put out by the campaign, designed to inform and involve the public. I got lots of these videos in the emails from the campaign. You can watch any speech or debate that you missed, as well as a wide variety of campaign related videos posted by a wide variety of people. Surely, the media has normally been a very powerful catalyst in politics, but media + internet takes it to a whole new level. Not only can we watch the videos any time, and as often as we want, but anyone can make their own campaign related videos and post them on YouTube, therefore truly having an uncensored voice.

I’ve been blown away by the extent to which every American has had an opportunity to be informed and involved in this campaign. While the US has been fighting wars in the name of democracy in far away lands, our own democracy has been lagging to say the least. You can’t have democracy when no one is paying attention; democracy requires involvement and participation. Americans got too comfortable and too distracted by their televisions, video games, pro sports, and other fun distractions.

On November 5th, I got a very gracious thank you email from Barack Obama:

Emilie —

I’m about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.

We just made history.

And I don’t want you to forget how we did it.

You made history every single day during this campaign — every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it’s time for change.

I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I’ll be in touch soon about what comes next.

But I want to be very clear about one thing…

All of this happened because of you.

Thank you,

Barack

I was very much moved by this email, but I hadn’t even thought about what comes next. But of course, this was only the beginning. The campaign has built up so much momentum, it would be a huge waste to stop here. If we could get an unlikely candidate elected with just grass roots and internet strategies, couldn’t we do something similar, to help create the change we want to see? Even the president of the United States can’t do it alone.

Today, I got an email from John Podesta, from the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team; that includes a video of a meeting of our Energy and Environment Policy Transition Team, an interview with team member Heather Zichal, and a link I can click on to submit my ideas. When was the last time your federal government asked you for your ideas?

In the spirit of continued communication, Barack Obama is creating very short, weekly addresses, and posting them on YouTube.

Now, with every email I get from the campaign, with every video I watch, I realize that something magical is happening - something many of us have been hoping for, but were too cynical to really expect it to happen.

The problem is, I don’t think everyone realizes this yet, and I know that not everyone is on Obama’s email list, and not everyone scours Video Sift for the latest Obama videos. This is what motivated me to write this article. I think it’s important for everyone to be aware, to get involved, because this is what Democracy was supposed to be all about in the first place.

Emilie Nottle is a graphic/web designer, online strategist, and principal at Zooop Design - a full service graphic and web design firm.