BP’s Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill corrupt clean up attempt. All BP did was bring in acres of sand and bulldoze it over the oil. They didn’t “clean up” a damned thing, they just buried it.
We are living in a full-blown international corporate command and control system where even the most basic rescue efforts are in the hands of proven pirates. It also has become clear that the pirate flotilla is owned by Goldman Sachs . . . and the president of the United States is the captain.
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The Orinoco Belt, situated squarely underneath the South American nation, may hold some 513 billion barrels of crude oil, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
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The dollar’s position as the world’s leading reserve currency faces increased pressure as the financial crisis allows emerging economies greater influence on the world stage
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Iran has discovered more than 8.8 billion barrels of oil in four layers of reserves in the country’s southwestern Susangerd oil field.
“These reserves were discovered after drilling through all the new layers of reserves, to a depth of 5,026 meters
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June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg
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The Peak Oil story was never about running out of oil. It was about the collapse of complex systems in a world economy faced by the prospect of no further oil-fueled growth
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A Secret Behind Israel’s Siege of Gaza: Palestinians Have Oil and Natural Gas Resources
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