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| Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
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Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:11 am
The country's invaders should be paying billions in reparations not using the war as a reason to pillage its richest resource | Quote: | Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly rightwing media hosts had to prove their populist credibility by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil. Some have gone so far as to invite me on for a friendly chat about an insidious new phenomenon: "disaster capitalism." It usually goes well - until it doesn't.
For instance, "independent conservative" radio host Jerry Doyle and I were having a perfectly amiable conversation about sleazy insurance companies and inept politicians when this happened: "I think I have a quick way to bring the prices down," Doyle announced. "We've invested $650bn to liberate a nation of 25 million people, shouldn't we just demand that they give us oil? There should be tankers after tankers backed up like a traffic jam getting into the Lincoln Tunnel, the stinkin' Lincoln, at rush-hour with thank-you notes from the Iraqi government ... Why don't we just take the oil? We've invested it liberating a country. I can have the problem solved of gas prices coming down in 10 days, not 10 years."
There were a couple of problems with Doyle's plan, of course. The first was that he was describing the biggest stick-up in world history. The second that he was too late. "We" are already heisting Iraq's oil, or at least are on the brink of doing so.
It started with no-bid service contracts announced for Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and Total (they have yet to be signed but are still on course). Paying multinationals for their technical expertise is not unusual in itself. What is odd is that such contracts almost invariably go to oil service companies - not to the oil majors, whose work is exploring, producing and owning carbon wealth. The contracts only make sense in the context of reports that the oil majors have insisted on the right of first refusal on subsequent contracts handed out to manage and produce Iraq's oilfields. In other words, other companies will be free to bid on those future contracts, but these companies will win. |
Guardian
A country created by Churchill, divi'd up by Bush 
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| Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
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Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:57 pm
| Quote: | [Thursday, June 26, 2008] Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay the $5 billion in punitive damages awarded by the jury. And now they won't have to. The Supreme Court today cut Exxon's liability by 90% to half a billion. It's so cheap, it's like a permit to spill.
Exxon knew this would happen. Right after the spill, I was brought to Alaska by the Natives whose Prince William Sound islands, livelihoods, and their food source was contaminated by Exxon crude. My assignment: to investigate oil company frauds that led to to the disaster. There were plenty. |
 This is just shocking!
A motivation to spread the word that the capitalists have won the roost
Greg Palast
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| Torture |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
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Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:15 am
Guess promising that the UK is the most compassionate, but sorry to see that people would condone the torture of others... as long as it's not themselves 
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| No ice at the North Pole |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
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Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:01 am
Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change
| Quote: | It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer. |
Independent
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| The new vegetarianism: meat is more murderous than ever |
Author:
ultima ratio ::
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Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:27 am
I gave up flesh-eating in 1984. But for the new wave of herbivores, the agenda is more about human, than animal, lives
| Quote: | | Back in April, under the auspices of a campaign titled No Meat No Heat, around a million people in Taiwan - including the speaker of parliament, the environment minister, and the mayors of Taipei and Kaohsiung - vowed to never again touch flesh nor fish. Given that Taiwan's Buddhist traditions mean around 1.2 million of its people are already vegetarian, this was perhaps not such a bold move as it seemed, but still: the organisers of the mass pledge cited the often overlooked contribution of livestock farming to greenhouse gas emissions, and presented it as an environmental move par excellence. |
Guardian
So, the environment & disadvantaged of the World would benefit, would you turn veggie?
Or do you think meat will become a luxury item, farmers losing their subsidies... would cows go feral
For what reasons would you go veggie?
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