Greg Palase will never bore you, even when talking about hanging chads and caged lists. This American reporter who can only get a real audience (and employment) through the BBC was THE MAN with regards to the stealing of the 2000 election. This new report by him should be enlightening, coming to us in the thick of phony salutes to our in'juns, Cristóbal Colón, aka Columbus, and the working class stiffs who think th
ey have the rights to, well, anything!
War Paint and Lawyers: Rainforest Indians v. Big Oil
Greg Palast investigates for BBC Newsnight - TONIGHT
Chevron: "Nobody has proved that crude causes cancer." BBC Television Newsnight has been able to get close-in film of a new Cofan Indian ritual deep in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. Known as "The Filing of the Law Suit," natives of Ecuador's jungle, decked in feathers and war paint and heavily armed with lawyers, are filmed presenting a new complaint in their litigation seeking $12 billion from Chevron Inc., the international oil goliath.
[...] For Newsnight, reporter Greg Palast, steps (somewhat inelegantly) into a dug-out log canoe to seek out the Cofan in their rainforest village to investigate their allegations.
Greg Palast investigates for BBC Newsnight - TONIGHT
Chevron: "Nobody has proved that crude causes cancer." BBC Television Newsnight has been able to get close-in film of a new Cofan Indian ritual deep in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. Known as "The Filing of the Law Suit," natives of Ecuador's jungle, decked in feathers and war paint and heavily armed with lawyers, are filmed presenting a new complaint in their litigation seeking $12 billion from Chevron Inc., the international oil goliath.
[...] For Newsnight, reporter Greg Palast, steps (somewhat inelegantly) into a dug-out log canoe to seek out the Cofan in their rainforest village to investigate their allegations. [...] The Cofan's leader, Emergildo Criollo, tells Palast that when Texaco Oil, now part of Chevron, came to the village in 1972, it obtained permission to drill by offering the Indians candy and cheese. The indigenous folk threw the funny-smelling cheese into the jungle.
Criollo says his three-year son died from oil contamination after, "He went swimming, then began vomiting blood."
[…] "It's the largest fraud in history!" asserts Chevron lawyer Jaime Varela reacting to the Cofan law suits against his company.... What about the Indian kids dying of cancer? Texaco lawyer Rodrigo Perez asks, "And it’s the only case of cancer in the world? How many cases of children with cancer do you have in the States, in Europe, in Quito? If there is somebody with cancer there, [the Cofan parents] must prove [the deaths were] caused by crude or by petroleum industry. And, second, they have to prove that it is OUR crude – which is absolutely impossible." The Texaco man stated, "Scientifically, nobody has proved that crude causes cancer."
[…] Watch the story live on BBC2 or, in the US, on the net at http://mailings.gregpalast.com/lt/t_go.php?i=55&e=MzU4MDY=&l=-http--news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm after broadcast - or via a link from http://www.gregpalast.com/.
WARNING: The day's news events may require Newsnight to delay broadcast to another evening.
Criollo says his three-year son died from oil contamination after, "He went swimming, then began vomiting blood."
[…] "It's the largest fraud in history!" asserts Chevron lawyer Jaime Varela reacting to the Cofan law suits against his company.... What about the Indian kids dying of cancer? Texaco lawyer Rodrigo Perez asks, "And it’s the only case of cancer in the world? How many cases of children with cancer do you have in the States, in Europe, in Quito? If there is somebody with cancer there, [the Cofan parents] must prove [the deaths were] caused by crude or by petroleum industry. And, second, they have to prove that it is OUR crude – which is absolutely impossible." The Texaco man stated, "Scientifically, nobody has proved that crude causes cancer."
[…] Watch the story live on BBC2 or, in the US, on the net at http://mailings.gregpalast.com/lt/t_go.php?i=55&e=MzU4MDY=&l=-http--news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm after broadcast - or via a link from http://www.gregpalast.com/.
WARNING: The day's news events may require Newsnight to delay broadcast to another evening.
2 comments:
Greg Pallast at service of big corporations is doing his job , this time his victims are indigenous people of the ecuadorian amazon .
Check www.gregpallast/war-paint-and-lawyers-rainforest-indians-versus-big-oil/
Anonymous, please proofread your post and be clear. I don't understand your post and the link doesn't work. Thanks.
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