Internet Birthday

[Duck-Stew]

I am sure glad we have an internet that allows people to make up anything without context or reference and spew it out.

ain't that the truth....


(& it's true because it's on the 'net!) 

[causeofkaos]

I am sure glad we have an internet that allows people to make up anything without context or reference and spew it out.

REALLY?? Forget the fact that this is where i work, and the industry im in.
here is the link
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=468

For thousands of years, the Kitanemuk Indians made their home in the Elk Hills of central California. Come February 2001, the last of the 100 burial grounds, holy places and other archaeological sites of the Kitanemuks will be obliterated by the oil drilling of Occidental Petroleum Company. Oxy's plans will "destroy forever the evidence that we once existed on this land," according to Dee Dominguez, a Kitanemuk whose great grandfather was a signatory to the 1851 treaty that surrendered the Elk Hills.

Occidental's planned drilling of the Elk Hills doesn't only threaten the memory of the Kitanemuk. Environmentalists say a rare species of fox, lizard and the kangaroo rat would also be threatened by Oxy's plans. A lawsuit has been filed under the Endangered Species Act. But none of that has given pause to Occidental or the politician who helped engineer the sale of the drilling rights to the federally-owned Elk Hills. That politician is Al Gore.

Gore recommended that the Elk Hills be sold as part of his 1995 "Reinventing Government" National Performance Review program. Gore-confidant (and former campaign manager) Tony Coelho served on the board of directors of the private company hired to assess the sale's environmental consequences. The sale was a windfall for Oxy. Within weeks of the announced purchase Occidental stock rose ten percent.

That was good news for Gore. Despite controversy over Dick Cheney's plans to keep stock options if elected, most Americans don't know that we already have a vice president with oil company stocks. Before the Elk Hills sale, Al Gore controlled between $250,000-$500,000 of Occidental stock (he is executor of a trust that he says goes only to his mother, but will revert to him upon her death). After the sale, Gore began disclosing between $500,000 and $1 million of his significantly more valuable stock.

Nowhere is Al Gore's environmental hypocrisy more glaring than when it comes to his relationship with Occidental. While on the one hand talking tough about his "big oil" opponents and waxing poetic about indigenous peoples in his 1992 book "Earth in the Balance," the Elk Hills sale and other deals show that money has always been more important to Al Gore than ideals.


Theres your reference, context and my spew. enjoy

[derby]

REALLY?? Forget the fact that this is where i work, and the industry im in.

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Theres your reference, context and my spew. enjoy

i can't recall the last time i heard somebody so bitter to have a job.

[causeofkaos]

oh no i love my job! seriously, but to be told im making shit up is what got my goat.

[Grampa]

FYI...the internets run on fuel made by rotting whale and polar bear flesh.



I just read it in a blog

[Grampa]

oh..... and it was Al Roker that invented it.