From: octimotor
Sun.18Dec.2011, afternoon USA EST, I saw a bit of a presentation on linktv, distributed via satellite, DishTV. (linktv.org) .
The person speaking during that part of mid-afternoon was Greg Palast. That part of his presentation was surely gripping.
His perspective, apparently as an international investigative journalist, is that of one whose book chapter reads like a stereotypical, cynically speaking, “hard-boiled private detective”, tracking down solutions to crime mysteries. One journalistic story he told involves how a cholera quarantine camp in Congo (DRC), and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina are connected strongly.
Between these 2 war ravaged regions, there had been some cooperative ventures. In a previous one, financed and constructed in DRC, built by business entities in republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, were hi voltage long distance electrical distribution lines. A planned, almost implemented second one, would have been a project for a large number of soon to be bored well holes to bring sanitary drinking water to a wide area of DRC, constructed by entities based in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
However, as his visit to the capitol city Sarajevo in the Balkans for the purposes to investigate the matter showed, the deal was viciously sabotaged by a group of financial interests. G.P. terms them The Vultures (cruel business persons not feathered birds). The payment by DRC for the Water Wells project was seized by the group of international financial community operatives. As apparent authority to cover their actions, they employed Debt Paper. It was a promissory note, a promise of one nation to pay a debt. It was from a date long before the current DRC national project. The document had been illegally purchased, for pennies on the dollar, from a corrupt head of state in the Balkans. (That former leader is facing criminal indictment on associated corruption charges filed by a later administration.) Meanwhile, the rural folk in DRC have had this chance to provide them clean water stolen.
“This”, said G.P., “is Why We, those representing the majority against the top 1%, now OCCUPY!”
He has a book out now being sold. Because he was by his publishers told not to do so, he is making its first chapter available for free on-line to read or download. Visit the url-s,
http://www.gregpalast.com/vulturespicnic/documents/Vultures_Picnic_Chapter1_Goldfinger.pdf
VulturesPicnic.org .
read or d/l Vultures Picnic by Greg Palast; Ch.1; pdf document, 759KB;
It contains significant info regarding the BP oil spill off USA gulf coast. To any informed observer such as himself it was immediately obvious from the very first CNN news coverage onward, that just a symbolic small effort, not a serious oil spill containment effort, was applied.
So, mass oil spill containment methods could have been made available, but by someones choice, were left not un-applied in that instance? Also, recall some accounts of that spill which reported extensive usage of disputants (soap), although gov. regulators declared this should not be used. Some other reports further indicated scientists seeking independently to make their own measurements found they were denied access to public areas by security personnel.
Whats UP?
There hapens to be a science fiction author, perhaps M.Z. Bradley, who wrote a novel titled _The World Wreckers_ . The above situation is a reminder of that title.