
Warren
Buffett, sitting in his office at Kiewit Plaza in Omaha, displays
"the whistle", the trophy to be handed out with a
reported $100 million in total cash prizes to this year's top
100 entries in his Whistleblower Awards Contest. The old loon
may in fact be onto something rather profound, with ramifications
that could forever fully realize the dream of a completely free
and utopian civilization. |
Warren
Buffett Offers Up $100 Million In Whistleblowing Prize Money
Sage of Omaha "Just Hopes To Get Everything Straightened
Out, Once And For All"
7/25/03 - With government, commerce, and most of society on
the brink of complete ethical meltdown, billionaire Warren Buffett
has announced a multi-million dollar "Whistleblowing Award"
prize, to be shared by the top 100 submissions as selected by Buffett
himself. With a ceremony planned for the internationally renowned
financial mecca known as Omaha, Nebraska in the fall, the intention,
per Buffett, is to simply "expose all truths."
"Let's
cut the crap gentleman. Ante up," said Buffett in a brief statement.
Buffett has
offered up $100 million in his own money for what he hopes could
continue on as an annual awards program. The incentive program is
in no way associated with the National
Whistleblower Center, which per its own obscurity has rendered
it ineffective.
Journalists
like Greg Palast and Robert Fisk, and filmmaker Michael Moore are
expected to fair very well in Buffett's contest. The same can be
said for the 40,000 members of the International
Association of Administrative Professionals. Meanwhile. On
another front, most former Bush Administration officials have fled
to Canada, knowing SARS and Mad Cow Disease are far less dangerous
then the US Government.
"Whistleblower
Park", as it has already been dubbed, is being planned for
land adjacent to the Berkshire Hathaway headquarters located just
west of Omaha, yah, Omaha of all places. Designers plan a
80 foot tall black slate whistle to serve as a centerpiece for the
park, inscribed with winners of whistleblowing awards. Next
to that park will be "Comeuppance Park" for those singled
out.
In related news,
Warren Buffett, nor Berkshire Hathaway, have any plans to hand out
webmaster
awards at anytime in the foreseeable future.
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