Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, September 19, 2005
The real looters step up, let's blame Ellen, & Marxist sea mammals
So, now the hardcore looting begins: the U.S. government is hiring multi-nationals like Halliburton to do to New Orleans what Rudy Guiliani and his corporate cronies did to Times Square.
Related to Gulf Coast rebuilding:
http://tinyurl.com/85m3x
http://tinyurl.com/czld6
Of course, we’re bound to hear plenty of pious “Marshall Plan” references...but, as Prof. Chomsky reminds us, these comparisons are far more accurate and nefarious than most might realize.
“The Marshall Plan was far from altruistic - it made other countries dependent on U.S. business agro-exports and surplus production,” Noam explains. “Actually one of the purposes of the Marshall Plan, this great benevolent plan, was to shift Europe and Japan from coal to oil. Europe and Japan both had indigenous coal resources but they switched to oil in order to give the US control. About $2 billion out of the $13 billion Marshall Plan dollars went straight to the oil companies to help convert Europe and Japan to oil based economies. For power, it’s enormously significant to control the resources and oil’s expected to be the main resource for the next couple of generations.”
Obviously, we are the victims of more than a little deception here.
Fortunately for us democracy-dwellers, our government representatives have taught us how to identify misinformation:
http://tinyurl.com/dh9c7
For the more skeptical in spirit, a few enterprising souls have created an “alternative” version:
http://www.company23.net/missing
(This post is presented in solidarity with the Progressive Blogger Union. For more information, please visit: http://www.pbu.blogspot.com.)
Tag: PBU38
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Pat being Pat, Vol. 23,471
For anyone wondering why this whole Katrina disaster happened in the first place, you can thank Rev. Pat Robertson for identifying the real culprit:
http://tinyurl.com/7tz97
(Thanks to Chris from Gorilla Radio for sending me the link.)
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(Stole this one from Harry’s blog)
Sea Lions of the World Unite
http://tinyurl.com/d988g
Original LA Times story: http://tinyurl.com/dtp9a
Perhaps this is what P.B. Shelley meant when he wrote:
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few
Add the word “Sea” to that first line and Percy comes off like a g.d. prophet.
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