Bechtel, Halliburton, Enron, Peabody, Hanson. What's it all about?
What it comes right down to is energy resources. Coal, Uranium, Wood,
etc., etc., etc. Why are we yanking so much stuff out of the ground?
Why are we risking the final destruction of the entire planet? So people
in the "first world" don't have to stop consuming at an alarming rate.
It's that simple, my dear reader. Please respond if and when you can.
I'd love to hear more about this. This info's really the only thing
keeping us alive anymore, I believe. So the 1st world can continue
on at the full expense of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th world(s).

That's the real story. Read it over and over if you need to. Try to
keep a discerning eye on all this. Whether you're looking at a war,
a land dispute, or annual globalization meeting.

It's about trying to rush indigenous people off their lands so you
can rape the dirt underneath them, disembowel the earth's contents,
and so you can continue driving an automobile that gets about 11 miles
per gallon.

Oh, it goes much deeper than that, my friends. So you can eat processed
foods, and so you can shove petroleum-product-coated pills down your
throat to overcome all the food allergies attached to those same
nutritionless processed foods! Can you say "Proctor & Gamble?" Can you
say "fat free fat, what the *&^% is that???" [I can tell you it's yet
more morphed-out petroleum product still!!!]

And it goes EVEN deeper. There's no real money left in the whole planet.
Fact of the matter is there hasn't been any since the late 1920s really.
So what do "first world nations do?" They print their own. But at the
same time, they war all over the globe and try to sneak as much of the
resources back into their nations as they possibly can.

And when people call these multinational corporations on what they're
doing, they try their hardest to whitewash it and greenwash it. But
they're losing their pull aren't they?

We're on to them!

They keep "painting turds" and we keep pointing at them and saying,
"Turd. It's still a turd, you dolt."

Unfortunately it's not like the morning cartoons, or else people
representing these multinationals like Bechtel and Peabody coal
corporation would just say, "drats. Foiled again."

Instead we suffer through dogma like:

Marshall, Bechtel's media relations manager, said Bechtel halted work
in Iraq after its employees were taken prisoner during the Gulf War,
but has bid on construction projects to rebuild Iraq.

"We are currently bidding on a $600 million USAID contract to help
rebuild damaged or neglected schools, hospitals, irrigation facilities
and other civilian infrastructure in Iraq. We were asked, along with a
number of other companies, to bid on the basis of our proven record of
managing large, complex infrastructure projects."

[ref]=[ http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=308587]

and:

America’s energy policies must meet the needs of hard working
Americans while building a strong economy, clean environment
and secure nation. President George Bush promotes increased
use of coal and clean coal technologies to ensure these goals
are achieved. A number of his predecessors, including Bill
Clinton, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Richard
Nixon and other presidents all supported this view.

[ref]=[ http://mke.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2912]

Historians might note that this same kind of dogma was flying around
right before apartheid fell. Amy Carter was fighting Brown university
to divest. Right before one semester ended, Brown made this major
public statement that they'd seen the light and were pulling out of
South Afrika for good. Students went home feeling victorious. Of course
Amy dropped out because her tireless work 20+ hours a day brought her
down to a 1.85 grade point average. But I digress. You would think if
you read the corporate media that Apartheid was won entirely through
Brown University pulling out all their investments.

What happened in actuality was that they cancelled all forthcoming
contracts with clearly apartheid-oriented companies. They then immediately
beefed up all their study-abroad programs to include weeklong and monthlong
journeys to south afrika and back. Guess what hotels, hotdog venders and
helicopter companies were colluded with?

I rest my "case."

marco