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starroute

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7. Funny -- I just read those pages in Vulture's Picnic yesterday

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Mon Jan 30, 2012, 01:18 PM

Jan 2012

Palast has been after the energy industry for decades -- and the stories he has to tell just get deeper and dirtier.

Yes, his style can be overly cinematic at times, but he's earned the right to it. There's blood on every page of that book.

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Palast newsletter: The Pig in the XL Pipeline [View all] Generic Other Jan 2012 OP

K & R snagglepuss Jan 2012 #1

Good material, but hard to take seriously with the cutesy phrasing and tabloid hysteria. Richardo Jan 2012 #2

cutesy phrasing? he was not the one who invented the name of that object niyad Jan 2012 #4

"The robot porker, tethered to a GPS, beeps and boops as it rolls through, electronically squealing- Richardo Jan 2012 #9

That style is one of the things I love about him arcane1 Jan 2012 #14

well, having heard an example of how they work, that is a fairly accurate description niyad Jan 2012 #15

Nah he's always been ... er redqueen Jan 2012 #11

Ah well. Richardo Jan 2012 #13

K&R TY for posting. These whistle blowers need to get immunity and testify before congress /nt think Jan 2012 #3

This information needs to be shouted from the rooftops. CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2012 #5

k and r and thank you for posting this. niyad Jan 2012 #6

Funny -- I just read those pages in Vulture's Picnic yesterday starroute Jan 2012 #7

have you read the section about the fukishima nuclear plant--the company involved in it, the same niyad Jan 2012 #16

No, I haven't gotten that far starroute Jan 2012 #18

I know what you mean--it took me three times to watch the whole speech-- I would just get too mad niyad Jan 2012 #21

This needs to get out there. More faulty equipment just like that used in the Gulf. jwirr Jan 2012 #8

Greg rocks!!! arcane1 Jan 2012 #10

Oh yes, redqueen Jan 2012 #12

Good reportage, as usual, from Greg Palast. Thanks. K&R (nt) T S Justly Jan 2012 #17

K and R. AdHocSolver Jan 2012 #19

Mr. Palast had better have some big assed body guards who never take their eyes off of him. lonestarnot Jan 2012 #20