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marym625

(17,997 posts)
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 07:19 PM Apr 2015

Greg Palast is allowing free download of Vultures and Vote Rustlers

Last edited Sun Apr 19, 2015, 10:03 PM - Edit history (1)

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

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Greg Palast is allowing free download of Vultures and Vote Rustlers (Original Post) marym625 Apr 2015 OP
K&R Thanks! haikugal Apr 2015 #1
You're welcome marym625 Apr 2015 #2
That's great! G_j Apr 2015 #3
wow G_j Apr 2015 #4
yep. great article marym625 Apr 2015 #5
Oil company execs should have to spend time on the rigs during critical drilling phases. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #13
K & R L0oniX Apr 2015 #6
I hope you are able to get it! marym625 Apr 2015 #7
K&R!!!!!!!!!!! burrowowl Apr 2015 #8
I own it marym625 Apr 2015 #9
Thank you! nt bananas Apr 2015 #10
Enjoy! marym625 Apr 2015 #11
Yes - it said today's the last day to download. nt bananas Apr 2015 #12
Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Apr 2015 #14
Thank you marym625 Apr 2015 #15
Link Page NOT WORKING Viplava Apr 2016 #16
This particular offer was from 2015... Rhiannon12866 Apr 2016 #17

marym625

(17,997 posts)
2. You're welcome
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 08:13 PM
Apr 2015

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)
4. wow
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 08:26 PM
Apr 2015

from the article,

<>

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 cement’s 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 BP’s 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 BP’s 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.
<>

marym625

(17,997 posts)
5. yep. great article
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 08:36 PM
Apr 2015

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)
13. Oil company execs should have to spend time on the rigs during critical drilling phases.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 07:14 AM
Apr 2015

I'm just saying.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
15. Thank you
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 07:18 AM
Apr 2015

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)
16. Link Page NOT WORKING
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 09:04 PM
Apr 2016

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.
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