Exxon Oil Scum Rewarded for Spill

[darkbeaver]

Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill

By Greg Palast

Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay the $5 billion in punitive damages awarded by the jury. And now they won't have to. The Supreme Court today cut Exxon's liability by 90% to half a billion. It's so cheap, it's like a permit to spill. Continue​

 

[Risus]

I couldn't believe this ruling, especially considering the profits that the company has been recording.

 

[darkbeaver]

They have lots of lawyers and lots of money, now they have more, ya got to spend money to make money. Wait till they sue Alaska for damages.:lol:

 

[MikeyDB]

This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated by one segment of the population over all others. No Virginina it isn't the fact that the American government (actually a cabal of greedy industrialists who've bought the "American Dream") pushed the United States into an invaision and war...on the basis of lies and exaggeration....

No Virginina it isn't the corruption of Enron and the mortgage companies eviscerating the future of Americans......

This hoax...the notion that this society is one that embraces a "system of laws" and subscribes to particular "codes of justice" or "principles".... That's the great hoax of the postmodern era.

How can one pretend that a "system of laws" exists at the apex of a citizenry when laws and principles are abandoned in the name of protecting the wealth of the few?

Sure we can surrender agreements to abide-by principles like "torture is a crime"....because at a seminal level, we've never fully embraced this idea and have been involved in torture and fear-mongering and promulgating division and hatred from our politics to our religions.....throughout human history.

Sure we can forego all the noises we've made in the past about sovereinity and the right of independent nations to self-rule... We've deterimined that some are more entitled than others....and have taken land and self-rule away from one group and given it to another...time and time again....

No Virginina the greatest hoax is that you can run either a dominion or a republic on the underpinnings of greed, arrogance and ignorance. That the stockholders and CEOs of multinational geoglobal cabals can in their pursuit of even greater wealth and control turn your atmospheric envelope into toxic soup.....that the oceans and ecologies of the world are disposable "commodities" that notions like "justice" and "law" don't apply to the few who conscript the ignorance and the petty greed of the "majority" to sacrifice a planet in the name of satisfying our appetities.

The greatest hoax Virginina is that principle and justice and any form of personal self-responsibility for anything that happens can be "paid-for" through a system of government and law, commerce and international agreements....while the essential fabric the critical cycles of life and the interrelatedness of everything on this planet can be stripped from everyone but the wealthy.

You have the right to accept what the wealthy will allow you through a system of laws that has been bought and paid-for by the wealthy elite. You have the right to die in the cause of pipelines and resource agreements that benefit the wealthy. You havethe right to play your silly games of "politics" and "religion" and keep yourself amused watching old rock stars and retired "wrestlers" and spoiled chldren of the wealthy dipping in and out of embrace with this charade of laws and principles.....

The greatest hoax is that you believe you're free to live on this planet without the approval of the wealthy. That your governments and your social institutions aren't subject to the will and caprices of the monetary elite.

You're free to enjoy the freedom of attempting to survive war and ecological destruction that satisfies the "end" of securing the wealth and power of the world in the hands of a very few. This is your (and mine) "freedom".

 

[darkbeaver]

The great laws of money suspend all other considerations eh. CHA-CHING

 

[darkbeaver]

Oil prices strike record highs near 142 dollars

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LONDON (AFP) — Oil prices jumped to record high levels nearing 142 dollars a barrel on Friday, as the US currency weakened further and stock markets tumbled at the end of a volatile trading week for investors.
Brent North Sea crude reached a historic 141.98 dollars and New York light sweet crude struck 141.71 dollars a barrel in electronic deals.
"Crude oil futures made fresh record highs, with higher oil prices fuelling inflationary fears and thus hurting stock markets, which in turn triggered a further rally in commodities as investors seek better returns," Sucden analyst Michael Davies said in London.
Prices "continued to be buoyed by the dollar, as the greenback continues its free fall decent this week," he added.
OPEC's president on Thursday predicted that oil prices could reach 170 dollars this year owing to a weak dollar and geopolitical unrest.
Crude futures crossed 140 dollars for the first time on Thursday following the price forecast made by OPEC's chief, Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil, in an interview with television news channel France 24http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilX3POYAIjo8w6HoJS5fjXeyEnMw