Saturday, June 14th
SOMEBODY'S GOTTA SAY IT
OUT IN PAPERBACK TUESDAY! Well .. not yet, but it will be in your book stores on Tuesday. This book debuted Number 2 on the New York Times Bestseller list. There was some book by someone named Obama (I think) that kept me out of the number one spot. If you can't make it to your favorite book store this week, then you can click here and order it on Amazon.com! Well, right now they only have the link to the hardback up, but I'm sure (I think) that the link for the paperback will be there REAL soon. By the way .. if you have one of those Kindle book readers, you can order the wireless version also. My favorite part of the book is the Boortz Citizenship Test. About 63 question that test your true knowledge of this country and its history. Sample? You want a sample? OK .. try this one: No. 16 -- "Most foreign countries appoint an ambassador to be their official representative before the government of the United States. Who officially represents the fifty state governments before the government of the United States?" Many teachers in government an private schools across the country have (with my permission, of course) replicated this Citizenship Test and have given it to their children as a take-home quiz; with some astounding results, I might say. So .. Whether it's Amazon.com, your bookstore, or you just pick up a copy at the airport before your next flight ... Paperbacks on sale Tuesday. Go get 'em. THE SUPREMES AND GITMO So the Supreme Court has decided that the Islamist goons (for the most part) held at Guantanamo are entitled to an attorney and access to U.S. Courts under out Constitution. Dandy. Now .. the question. If our troops in Iraq capture some Al Qaeda operatives and hold them ... are they also entitled to access to our courts and an attorney? What is this, the Ramsey Clark full employment for radical attorneys decision? SO ... IS CHINA REALLY DRILLING OFF CUBA? Yesterday Florida Senator Mel Martinez said that China drilling off the coast of Cuba was merely an urban legend. So because we here at the Neal Boortz Show are so incredibly fair and balanced ... we have tried to get to the bottom of this mystery. Here's what we found. All the way back in 2004, China's Petrochemical Corporation known as Sinopec signed a memorandum of understanding with Cuba's national oil company, known as Cupet to explore four oil blocks in Cuba. Keep in mind that both of these companies are owned by their communist governments. China's Sinopec conducted six months of geological studies of the four Cuban blocks. This was the first attempt by Sinopec, China's second largest oil and gas company, to enter oil and gas exploration and production in Cuba. Then in 2005, China's Sinopec signed an agreement with the Cuban government to jointly produce oil in Cuba off the coast of Pinar del Río. Ok so let's get this straight. The governments of China and Cuba enter into a production sharing agreement ... what exactly does that mean? This is when the Cuban government awards the execution of exploration and production activities to an international oil company like Sinopec. The contractor bears the mineral and financial risk of the initiative and, when successful, recovers capital expenditure and costs incurred in the year (cost oil) by means of a share of production. So now, for your reading pleasure (and Mel Martinez's) is a timeline of China's oil exploration efforts in Cuba. This is from the World Security Institute ... 2005 January 31: Cuba and China signed a contract in Havana providing for the Asian giant's participation in extracting oil from a deposit off the island's north shore, the press reported. The deal is between Cubapetroleos and the Chinese oil company Sinopec, said the official daily newspapaer Granma. In December, Fidel Castro announced discovery of oil at a site offshore from Santa Cruz del Norte, some 55 kilometers (33 miles) east of Havana. The deposit is believed to hold some 100 million barrels of "light" crude, or the equivalent of 14 million tons. (EFE, Prensa Latina, 31/1/05)
February 8: China's oil giants began cultivating their virgin soil in Cuba. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), as the first comer, has inked a contract with Cuba Oil Company (Cubapetroleo) to jointly exploit oil in the Caribbean country. Under the terms of their contract, the two sides will join forces to prospect and exploit a potential oil-producing region. Chinese experts believe it is a significant beginning of the cooperation between China and Cuba in the petroleum industry. (SinoCast, 8/2/05)
March 22: Chinese oil drilling equipment has begun arriving in Cuba as state-run Cubapetroleo (Cupet) and its foreign partners prepare to significantly increase drilling along the northwest coast, industry sources said. "Four service units and a small rig have arrived and we are waiting for more," said a Cuban oil service manager, asking his name not be used. There are currently five rigs operating along the northwest heavy oil belt, an 80-mile (128-km) stretch of coast in Havana and Matanzas provinces from whence come all of Cuba's 70,000 to 80,000 barrels per day of heavy crude at 8 API to 18 API and with a high sulfur content. The poor-quality oil is burned in modified power plants and factories. (Reuters, 22/3/05) April 6: The operator of China's second-largest Shengli oilfield is stepping up overseas exploration, spending more on such ventures this year as the world's No. 2 oil user grapples with falling reserves, officials said. Shengli Oilfield Administration Bureau, a unit of state-run Sinopec Group, will spend about $40 million drilling for oil and gas in Cuba, Iran and central Asia in 2005, company officials said. "This will be the heaviest spending in a year and we expect the pace to continue in the next few years," a Shengli executive told the press. Shengli, which is among the first Chinese companies to venture abroad, will sink a total of eight wildcat and appraisal wells this year, four in Kazakhstan, two in Iran, and one each in Cuba and Kyrgyzstan. (Reuters, 6/4/05) November 24: PetroChina Great Wall Drilling Co., Ltd. and Petroleum Company of Cuba held a ceremony for signing two drilling service contracts on November 3, 2005. It is the second-time cooperation between Great Wall Drilling Co., Ltd. and Petroleum Company of Cuba after the signing of a one-year petroleum service agreement on one 1500HP drilling rig and one 2000HP rig on April 8 this year. The contract signed this time includes three 2000HP drilling rigs. The contract has a period of one year and a value of over US$24 million. The project will be launched in January 2006. (China Chemical Reporter, 24/11/05) December 22: Sinopec of China signed an agreement earlier this year to jointly produce heavy oil with Cupet in westernmost Pinar del Río province, with drilling expected to begin in 2006. (The Oil Daily, 27/12/05) Still not convinced Senator Martinez? Here are some more reports from 2005 from the Energy Intelligence Group and National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing in Canada. ... China is seeking oil everywhere and Cuba is no exception. Three large Chinese companies, SINOPEC, Petro China and CINOOC - China National Offshore Corporation, are involved in a large agreement, perhaps already underway, for coastal and deep-water explorations. Most significant to this topic, especially in light of other Chinese investment in Cuba, is the fact that Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, has stated a goal of helping boost Cuba's domestic oil production and producing 60% of its oil needs by 2006 ... Additional plans for exploration and development of other blocs of potential reserves were announced by two other Chinese oil companies, China National Petroleum Corp. and China National Offshore Oil Corp., after talks with CUPET, Cuba Petroleum. Some exploration will be in coastal regions but much, based on the better quality of the oil, will take place in off-shore deep waters. Let's cut to the chase ... and pardon me if I scream here: The point isn't that China is not presently drilling for oil within 90 miles of the U.S. The point is that they CAN! --- and, thanks to the Democrat congress --- we CAN'T. Democrats would like us to wrangle over what IS happening. The issue is what CAN happen. They can drill. We can't. They're planning to. We aren't. Even government educated Democrat myrmidons can understand that. WHO SAID IT We always like to keep you Nealz Nuze readers guessing. So which brain-dead liberal came up with this quote about Barack Obama: "What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation's political history. The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance." While you are pondering the many accomplishments of Barack Obama ... click here to find out who said it. THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW Here's a gem of a quote from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation's weekly newsletter: - "The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state government, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government - James Madison As we said, that was then. This is now. To listen to Democrats you would think that the primary purpose of our federal government is to redistribute wealth. THANK THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS Real estate developers and property owners in one of Spain's premier beach resort towns are threatening to sue Greenpeace. They want to sue over Greenpeace's graphic predictions of what global warming will do to their area, which has caused housing prices to plummet by 50%. Over six months ago, La Manga, Spain was prominently featured in a photo book published by Greenpeace that was supposed to act as a wakeup call for the Spanish government to take action on climate change. It showed a dried up river and desert in an area that is currently covered in lemon and orange groves. It shows digitally modified photos of the town submerged in water with only the tops of hotels, apartments and palm trees sticking out. Greenpeace says that they were just depicting an accurate portrayal of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's prediction that global warming will cause the sea levels to rise. Unless Greenpeace agrees to a settlement of about $60 million, the people of La Manga will take the organization to court. By the way .. do you realize there has been no warming in the last ten years? THE LIBERAL MENTALITY Just in case you have been feeling empathetic towards a liberal lately ... maybe a buddy of yours, maybe a co-worker ... just keep little thoughts like this in your mind. Here's a quote from Ron Pollack, the executive director of Families USA. He says that the government should take action to better protect people who are looking for individual healthcare coverage. Then Pollack goes on to say, "The most important thing that needs to happen is, there really needs to be a federal set of rules so no one has to worry about certain basic rights." So according to this liberal, not only is healthcare a right in this country but it is a basic right. So what this guy is saying that is that it is your right to be given services, labor and time of a healthcare professional. Therefore, if you are a doctor, another person actually has claim to your property (your ability, your services, you time) because some liberal believes that the government protects this "basic right." READING ASSIGNMENTS: The United States is sitting on an ocean of energy ... and we do nothing. The Wall Street Journal's outlook on yesterday's Supreme Court decision. This, my friends, is why Supreme Court appointments are so important. Clearly President Bush disagreed with yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that recognizes the right of foreign terrorist suspects at Gitmo to challenge their detention in US courts. At least 14 Congressional Republicans refuse to support John McCain for president. They may have a point, but aren't we truly faced with a "lesser of two evils" situation here? Italy's prime minister (age 71) is backing John McCain (also 71) because he won't feel so old on the world stage. Don't forget that this Doudou Diène character of the United Nations did his tour of the US to find out if racism is an issue the presidential election. Clearly he couldn't leave the US without meeting with the Council on American Islamic Relations. Now that Tony Rezko is in prison, he has all sorts of time to come up with gems like this: federal prosecutors improperly pressured him to implicate Barack Obama in his corruption case. Democrats hired a group called VIP to be in charge of a large voter registration effort, which turned out to be fraudulent. Guess who runs this VIP campaign ... the Muslim American Society. Rep. Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania wants his name removed from a $1.5 million facility he created in his district thanks to a pork earmark. He says he's sick of being criticized for building a "monument to me." Community activists and government school parents in Philadelphia are furious with the vice principal who punished their children by making them eat lunch for two weeks while sitting on the floor of the gym. Nealz Nuze readers have sent us this article -- What In The World Is Going On?
A Global Intelligence Briefing For CEOs. This is another unfortunately story of a young lady who went for a jog a never returned. Something tells me she was unable to carry a weapon with her to protect herself from SOBs. Here's a no brainer ... the FDA (a government agency) hasn't actually done its job, which is to make food supplies safer. A Polish 737 Boeing airline almost crashed because the pilots did not understand English. It's bad enough that this girl is a tattoo artist ... what's worse is that she's five-years-old. This sleepover either went horribly right or horribly wrong ... depending on whom you ask. | 
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