To oppose grassroots uprisings the Master Class sets up contras in this case to defend and extend oil profits they mobilise their wage slaves to blame "greens"; its all about controlling the blame pattern. “Astroturf Activism”: Leaked Memo Reveals Oil Industry Effort to Stage Rallies Against Climate Legislation August 21, 2009 A leaked memo reveals the American Petroleum Institute is asking oil companies to recruit employees, retirees and contractors to take part in rallies against climate change legislation. We speak with Greenpeace USA research director Kert Davies. Yesterday, in fact, Iraqi and Afghanistan veterans, in a new group called Operation Free, a group dedicated to getting us off of oil, getting us off—unaddicted to oil, protested the API astroturf campaign as a cynical effort to keep us addicted to oil. And they held an event here in DC, protesting loudly that this was an attack on democracy, frankly, that we should—and on freedom, that we should get off of oil, stop sending our young men and women over to fight oil wars. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/21/astroturf_activism_leaked_memo_reveals_oil more: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/exposed-oil-tricks190809 Oil memo 18 August 2009 An American Petroleum Institute (API) memo, leaked to Greenpeace last week, called on the CEOs of some of the world’s biggest oil companies (including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron) to involve their employees in anti US climate action rallies masquerading as concerned “energy citizens”. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/oil-memo Official Line: The American Petroleum Institute, commonly referred to as API, is the main U.S trade association for the oil and natural gas industry, representing about 400 corporations involved in production, refinement, distribution, and many other aspects of the petroleum industry. The association’s chief functions on behalf of the industry include advocacy and negotiation with governmental, legal, and regulatory agencies; research into economic, toxicological, and environmental effects; establishment and certification of industry standards; and education outreach. http://www.api.org/Newsroom/refining_sector.cfm ExxonMobil, which was named the Green Company of the Year in this month’s issue of Forbes Magazine. Greenpeace has run a long-standing campaign against the oil company dubbed ExxonSecrets, and some of their findings are downright shameful. As recently as this May, Exxon has been accused of directly funding junk scientists that claim global warming is a farce. Last year, NASA scientist James Hansen proclaimed that CEO’s (like Exxon’s Rex Tillerson) who fund these junk scientists “should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.” more: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/20/is-it-green-exxonmobil/ related: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0824/energy-oil-exxonmobil-green-company-of-year.html or EXXON SECRETS http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/exxon-secrets or UNSW solar cell researchers have played the key role in achieving the highest efficiency for solar power, setting a new world record of 43 per cent of sunlight converted into electricity. http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2009/aug/New_Solar_Record.html The Queensland University of Technology recently announced that it has been working with Dyesol to develop an innovative solar cell technology that re-envisions windows as clear, clean energy providers. Professor John Bell has said that these dye-infused solar cells would significantly reduce building energy costs, and could even generate surplus energy to be stored or sold. The development has been touted as the most promising advance in solar cell technology since the invention of the silicon cell. http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/14/dyesol-solar-windows/ or The MagLev wind turbine, which was first unveiled at the Wind Power Asia exhibition in Beijing, is expected take wind power technology to the next level with magnetic levitation. http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/26/super-powered-magnetic-wind-turbine-maglev/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America). 12 South American countries are involved in this project, this so called capitalist integration project will destroy the Amazonia, devastation of the lands and displacement of Indigenous people, privatises water and natural resources, increase the exploitation and poverty for the excluded people and the contamination of our planet. No consultation or people’s participation throughout the continent have been organised during the creation, development and review of this project. A LASNET representative attended the Capitalist's Crisis, Re-Colonisation and Grassroots Popular Alternatives International Gathering in Bolivia. At this Gathering various grassroots popular and indigenous movements get together, to oppose this Capitalist integration project, and others that the Capitalist dominant sectors are attempting to implement to save their profits, such us Puebla Panama, Plan Colombia, etc. www.latinamericansoldaritynetwork.org |
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Fossil Fuels = Achilles' Heel: Enemy targets our weakness
* Consuming too much, controlling too little. The U.S. consumes 25% of the world's oil production, but controls less than 3% of the supply.
* Terrorist Attacks Increasing on Oil Infrastructure. In 2006, al Qaeda staged an attack against the oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia. Although the attack failed, it caused a 3.6% spike in global oil prices and proved that the world's oil infrastructure is an Achilles' heel through which terrorists can strike at American interests. Fewer than 50 attacks against oil and gas occurred before 9/11. By 2005, 265 major attacks took place; by 2006 that number reached 344.
* Osama bin Laden has targeted our oil infrastructure: "One of the main causes for our enemies' gaining hegemony over our country is their stealing our oil; therefore, you should make every effort in your power to stop the greatest theft in history." Climate Change Hits the Homeland
* Tropical Storms and American Cities. Climate Change causes tropical storms, like Hurricane Katrina, which displaced 1.1 million Americans and destroyed a great city.
* Drought and Water Supplies. Climate Change causes drought, which threatens to dry up the Ogallala aquifer, which supplies 70%-90% of the irrigation water used by major grain producing states such as Texas, Nebraska, and Kansas. Climate Change is a "Threat Multiplier" Increasing Conflict
* The Long War Gets Longer. Climate Change creates the conditions that will make the "Long War" even longer.
* Resource Wars ? Darfur is the tip of the iceberg. Competition over resources can lead to conflict, as we have seen in Darfur, and it can lead to fragile or failed states where terrorists and extremist groups can step into the vacuum. This instability provides an opportunity for terrorists to exploit the situation and establish safe havens for operations, i.e. Afghanistan in the 1990s and Somalia today.
* Mass Migration and Safe Havens. Climate change causes drought, the disappearance of drinking water, and a rise in sea levels. Billions of people live near coastal plains that could end up underwater. This would cause the mass-migration of millions and create instability with ungoverned spaces where extremists and terrorists can flourish. Oil Addiction Means the U.S. must fight just to keep the lights on
* Iraq and Afghanistan. The longer the U.S. remains dependent on fossil fuel, the more the U.S. will have to engage in tough fights just to protect our energy supplies.
* Oil States are Failed States. Of the top ten holders of oil reserves in the world as of April 2008, all but one are considered to be failed states or in danger of becoming failed states. If and when major oil-producing states fail, that is where the U.S. military will have to go next.
* Patrolling Sea Lanes for Petroleum. The U.S. Navy is budgeting $28.1 billion for operations alone in 2009 a significant portion of this outlay is to make sure oil flows are not interrupted.
* As Former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey declared, "this is the first time since the civil war that we've financed both sides of a conflict." (30 January 2006)