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.

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[Archangel Michael]

Politicfact is leftwing And talking heads aren't "News" But here is an example of Politicfact doing its own "Pants on Fire" (the rating given to Ann Coulter)

Ann Coulter

Says South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley "is an immigrant."

Please note, this is SARCASM/Humor. Something most people don't get about Ann, especially the left. Is it true she said this? Yes, Is it true, that it is a lie, in the strictest sense it isn't true. In context, it isn't even remotely accurate that Ann believes it, or that she expects her audience to believe it.

On the other hand, you have Fox news actually reporting things that OTHER stations simply avoid. Which is why you should get your news from more than one source, and should include sources you don't agree with. Well, you better not, after all, you might end up changing your mind, and closed minds don't like that.

And you can use Politifact to dismiss the actual Reporting all you want, it only proves my point. ;-)