He’s responsible for two wars, countless deaths, torture, profiteering, corruption and he even shot a man in the face. Now, finally, someone has decided to take Dick Cheney to task, or more specifically to court, in Nigeria. As the former CEO of Haliburton, Cheney is named in a $180 million anti-bribery case brought about by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria’s anti-corruption police. Basically, through subsidiary KBR, Haliburton bribed Nigerian officials between 1994 and 2004 to secure $6 billion worth of contracts for the Bonny Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the Niger Delta.
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The swirling vortex of death – our plasticized ocean
I couldn’t help it when a groan slipped out while reading yet another email about horrible, terrible, very bad plastic. Another outcry against the toxic, non biodegradable stuff, killing the poor innocent creatures of the ocean, blah blah blah. All this while sitting comfortably in my warm home, sipping tea to my heart’s content. I live so far away from the Texas-sized swirling vortex of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean and all the litter lining every shoreline on earth. It’s easy to ignore one little email and go on with my day when I’m not face to face with it.Well, lucky for us that there’s a group of guys who decided to make it their business
Breaking eco-news: Harper officially hates the environment
This message is directly copied from an urgent email I received last night. Its urgency required me to just get the word out as quickly as possible.
Step 1) read the pasted article below
Step 2) Call Stephen Harper, like I did, at 613 992 4211
Email him: http://pm.gc.ca/eng/contact.asp
Tell him that canceling Canada’s only climate act right before COP16 was an incredibly stupid, undemocratic thing to do.
Step 3) Share this blog posting with everyone you know.
And now, the message:
Some very sad news. Tonight the country’s only federal climate change legislation in Parliament, the Climate Change Accountability Act, was defeated in the Senate 43 to 32.
Christine O’Donnell admits to dabbling in witchcraft
Christine O’Donnell, GOP U.S. Senate candidate for Delaware senate seat has had even more damaging footage of her on television revealed. Yesterday Bill Maher released never-before-seen footage of O’Donnell speaking about exposure to witchcraft and participating in “satanic” rituals. O’Donnell has been acquiring an influx of money and support, thanks to her Tea Party backing, her public views on masturbation and her ties to the Christian Right of the Republican party. It is unknown how these recent revelations might affect her campaign as she tries to wrestle the Democrats hold on the blue state senate seat.
JR goes green as Larry Hagman endorses solar energy
He is known as an oil man, through and through, or at least his character is….make that was. For years on the hit TV show Dallas, actor Larry Hagman portrayed the quintessential Texas black gold tycoon JR Ewing. Now Hagman is playing JR once again, this time in a commercial for solar power. In the ad for Solar World, a German company that makes photovoltaic modules, Hagman, as JR, announces that the oil business has been very good to him over the years but it’s far too dirty now, which is why he’s gone solar. Then, in a parody of Sarah Palin’s famous “drill, baby, drill” line, he urges the audience to “shine, baby, shine!”
Azra Rashid
Azra Rashid is a freelance journalist and a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University, Montreal. After completing her HBA in Political Science from the University of […]