Originally posted to a LinkedIn group on 7 April 2014 at 20:42
This weekend, the People's Climate March will happen simultaneously around the world. Will corporation-addled news media cover it?
I posted this rant to a LinkedIn group for political campaign managers. Sadly, few will read it there, so I decided to cross-post this to DailyKos. I've had it with the pro-fracking and pro-fossil-fuel shills who infest LinkedIn groups.
Dear intelligent, non-Flat-Earthers who have contributed to this discussion about hydraulic fracturing and its short- and long-term toxic impact:
In just the past two days alone[4/5-6/2014], two fracking workers were killed on drilling sites in pipeline ruptures, explosions, and fires, and residents had to be evacuated.
Thousands of fracking earthquakes continue to shatter OK, AR, TX, WY, ND, CO, OH, WV and elsewhere around the world, including the Netherlands, Poland, and the UK. One need only visit the USGS site to confirm this.
Four US states have confirmed irreversible groundwater pollution from fracking, thus destroying property values and the town's tax revenues as a result. And yes, more now-toxic aquifer lawsuits are pending. Just one of thousands: http://www.marcellus-shale.us/... and http://www.scientificamerican.com/...
When social media discussions devolve into Godwin's Law territory -- in which one resorts to flinging Nazi and Hitler into it -- we know it's time to disengage from the disinformers. The Overton Window has been flung wide open, and the Flat-Earthers' foolishness flaps in the breeze, revealing them for what they are.
Hill and Knowlton, ERM, Frank Luntz, Heartland, Bracewell and Giuliani, and the other public relations, advertising, and legal firms peddle doubt for their clients, including ANGA and all the big fossil fuel firms. And ooh, look, there's even an app for it: http://www.reuters.com/...
Humans infest the fossil fuel industry's resources: therefore, humans are expendable, merely collateral damage.
Why else would Chevron think that $1,000.00 worth of pizza and soda pop would assuage the instant incineration death of a fracking worker and thus eliminate that town's grief and anger?
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Chevron gives pizza and soda pop coupons to grieving town following death of fracking worker
Why else would sickened families -- those who sought redress and proved their cases in court -- now be forever silenced by frackers' very expensive non-disclosure agreement lip-locks?
[http://www.theguardian.com/... , regarding the Hallowich family of whose fracking damages lawsuit settlement included a lifetime gag order upon their very young children.
Hallowich family's children under lifetime gag order by Range Resources, The Guardian UK
Remember: the fossil fuel, hydraulic fracturing, and nuclear energy industries all use the tobacco biz playbook: http://tobaccodocuments.org/...
"..Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' [linking smoking with disease] that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy...if we are successful in establishing a controversy at the public level, there is an opportunity to put across the real facts about smoking and health, " from the Brown and Williamson memo to defeat anti-tobacco regulations..."
A PS. http://www.spiegel.de/...