General Lies and Corruption
The Nation In Numbers September 2007 Atlantic Monthly by Graeme Wood Aug. 23 2007 Secrecy that matches the corruption and the refusal to be held accountable Classify This The Bush administration conducts much of its work in the shadows. “Black site” detentions, extraordinary renditions, and domestic eavesdropping all happen in secret, and only by the grace of leaks and slipups do we know they happen at all. CONTINUE
March 24, 2007 http://pppad.blogspot.com/2007/05/nimh-held-hostage-by-chevron-texaco.html Chevron and EVs Plug-in hybrids are forced to use lead-acid or lithium batteries, and it’s no accident. The existing and proven EV-95 NiMH battery from Panasonic, which lasts longer than the life of the car, has adequate power for acceleration without an Internal Combustion (“IC”) engine, and can drive an EV at 80 mph for up to 120 miles, went into production in Jan., 1997. These. . . CONTINUE
September 20, 2006, Posted by Teresa The Royal Society — the world’s oldest learned society — has publicly taken on Exxon. Just so you know: this is the first time in the Royal Society’s 364 years that they’ve done something like this. Britain’s leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. In an unprecedented step,. . . CONTINUE
Pay Heed On July 12, 2006, Sterling D. Allan wrote: Billed as the largest bankruptcy ever, the Enron demise is something to which our generation must pay heed. Surely Enron is not the only company in our day engaged in the kind of greed-driven and unethical practices that brought about Enron’s demise. They were focused on money, not service nor enduring principles. Anything to increase earnings, no matter how many. . . CONTINUE
updated 2016-09-18 “The towers didn’t burn up, nor did they slam to the ground. They turned into dust in mid air.” – Dr Judy Wood Apart from the fact that no steel-framed high-rise building has ever collapsed due to fire prior to or since Sept. 11, the manner in which the buildings came down is itself a substantial cause for re-investigation. A collapse due to fire would likely proceed. . . CONTINUE
Natural Resources Defense Council health threats posed by a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives January 10, 2005: The Bush White House, the Defense Department and industry collaborated in a backroom campaign to manipulate a National Academy of Sciences report on health threats posed by a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives, according to documents obtained by NRDC. The NAS report, ordered by the Bush administration,. . . CONTINUE
