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Leaked Emails Reveal Widespread Corruption in Global Oil Industry (theage.com.au)
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Michael Bachelard, and Daniel Quinlan report on a widespread corruption in the global oil industry for The Huffington Post: In the list of the world's great companies, Unaoil is nowhere to be seen. But for the best part of the past two decades, the family business from Monaco has systematically corrupted the global oil industry, distributing many millions of dollars worth of bribes on behalf of corporate behemoths including Samsung, Rolls-Royce, Halliburton and Australia's own Leighton Holdings. A massive leak of confidential documents has for the first time exposed the true extent of corruption within the oil industry, implicating dozens of leading companies, bureaucrats and politicians in a sophisticated global web of bribery and graft. After a six-month investigation across two continents, Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post can reveal that billions of dollars of government contracts were awarded as the direct result of bribes paid on behalf of firms including British icon Rolls-Royce, US giant Halliburton, Australia's Leighton Holdings and Korean heavyweights Samsung and Hyundai.
Shut the fuck up! Oil is Jesus juice! God loves oil! Do not ever question oil. It is holy beyond all other things. God wants us to burn it. The mighty Koch Brothers have decreed it, and they are billionaires, which makes them better than everyone else. If I were in charge, I would outlaw alternative energies, execute all climatologists, and all skeptics would be given a million dollars and a dozen 19 year old hookers as reward for promoting the use of completely harmless hydrocarbons for energy production.
Oil is good, alternatives are evil and a sign of Satan. You wouldn't wan tot be on the side of Satan by questioning the righteousness of oil companies, would you?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Here's your oil stock dividends, Captain Renault....
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
skeptics would be given a million dollars and a dozen 19 year old hookers
Oh thank god. I can't tell you how skeptical I am.
I'm a climate denier. I emphatically deny the existence of any climate on this or any other world.
You mean "Shell Shocked" , don't you?