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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreg Palast is allowing free download of Vultures and Vote Rustlers
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Just for tonight!
http://www.gregpalast.com/vulturesandvoterustlersfreedownload/
That and he has a great article about Chelsea Manning, wikileaks and the Deep Water Horizon disaster. I would post about this but it's not my area of expertise. I figure someone else who posted more about it can use the article in a post
Chelsea Manning
and the Deepwater Horizon Killings
http://www.gregpalast.com/chelsea-manning-and-the-deepwater-horizon-killings/#more-10399
haikugal
(6,476 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)He's doing one of his drives right now. His organization is a 501 (c) and donations are tax deductible. It's that money that allows him to investigate
G_j
(40,367 posts)thanks!
from the article,
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In both the Gulf and Caspian blow-outs, the immediate culprit was the failure of the cement, in both cases caused by the use misuse of nitrogen in the cement mix, a money-saving but ultimately deadly measure intended to speed the cements drying.
The cover-up meant that U.S. regulators, the U.S. Congress and the public had no inkling that the cost-saving quick-dry cement process had failed on an offshore rig only a year before the Deepwater Horizon blew.
But Pvt. Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning tried to warn us. The details of the Caspian Sea blow-out off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan, were revealed in the secret State Department cables Manning released in December 2010 through Wikileaks. Cables from the U.S. ambassador relayed a summary of confidential meetings in which BPs top Azeri executive confided that their big Caspian offshore rig suffered a blow-out in September 2008 leading to the largest such emergency evacuation in BP's history its likely cause "a bad cement job.
The message was relayed to Washington after BPs American partners in the Caspian, Exxon and Chevron, asked the State Department to find out why BP had ceased to drill in the Caspian, costing them all millions. State, then headed by former Chevron board member Condoleezza Rice, got the oil chiefs their answer then joined them in keeping it secret.
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marym625
(17,997 posts)Palast has a many articles about the Deep Water Horizon horror. He has even more about BP. Including that the Exxon Valdez was BP and they got away with it. He was actually an attorney working for people in the region back then. He probably knows more about BP than BP does.
He has many reports in Fukushima disaster too.
He's an investigative journalist with many different areas in which he excels.
And thanks for the rec!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I'm just saying.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Thanks
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)But I am going to watch it again now. This has me in the mood for it
bananas
(27,509 posts)It's only today left. I thought it started today
bananas
(27,509 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Unfortunately, the free download time is up. But you can always purchase it or other works by Greg Palast and his team.
I swear you would think I work for him. Wish I could!
Viplava
(1 post)After 5 PM Wednesday, 4/20/16, I've used several browsers and a few different computers, yet the download page does not fulfill the offer.