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• Tuesday, September 23, 2008 08:58 AM

  Connect the dots yourself - the press sure won't.

  Iraq strikes gas deal with Shell, 23 Sep 2008

  Iraq has agreed to set up a joint venture with oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell to invest in developing the country's natural gas supply.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7631108.stm

  Shell... they won Sarah Palin's bidding project for offshore oil leases, carried out in close cooperation with Randall Luthi's (Cheney's tool) corrupt mineral management service...

  Athan Manuel, an offshore-drilling expert for the Sierra Club, said that the oil companies would be drilling "in an Arctic ecosystem that is frozen much of the time and, when it's not frozen, is full of other hazards such as huge floating chunks of ice that could be hazards to rigs and pipelines."

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020604451.html

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The U.S. Minerals Management Service said Wednesday it will offer oil and gas exploration rights next month to 29.7 million acres in the remote Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.

  The decision to hold the February 6 lease sale, the first in the Chukchi since 1991, comes days before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether to list the polar bear as threatened and has drawn fire from environmentalists seeking to limit oil development in the area.

  http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/28534

  So Palin's "Old Boy Network" is the same network that Cheney is involved in - fossil fuel interests want access to whatever they want - Cheney got them into Iraq, Palin got them into the offshore Alaskan oilfields and brokered a Pipeline to the Tar Sands.

  More to the point, the lying corporate-owned American press won't report on it. Instead, all you get is fluff - you don't get any analysis of the real issues.

  And, of course, Palin will support Cheney's militaristic approach to controllign foreign oil resources, carried out under the cover of "anti-terrorism".

  The two biggest deals that Palin engineered (Chukchi sea oil lease sales and the Pipeline to the Tar Sands) are being ignored by Salon.

  Wonder why that is? Probably for the same reason that Salon has never published an article critical of PG&E, for example. Probably for the same reason that Salon ran this pro-oil drilling article:

  http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/09/12/offshore_drilling_and_mms_2/index.html

  The truth is just too much for a liberal corporate paper to discuss, isn't it? Oh, we all know why, and Salon is no different from anyone else - advertising revenue issues mean you have to stick to safe topics. Nevertheless, you end up with lots of pulp, by default, since the real stories can't be touched.

  We need independent journalists who are not beholden to corporate interests - but we have no financial model for supporting that. Dilemma, isn't it?

  —CargoCult Read CargoCult's other letters
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