Center for Media and Democracy: PR Watch.org featuring BP + other oil corporations

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Stuff the MSM can't handle

PR Watch home
http://www.prwatch.org

[Octafish]

1. Big Oil knows how to handle Big Media

Forgotten Oil Atrocities

All eyes are on BP and its disastrous oil leak in the Gulf, but BP isn't the only oil company committing ongoing atrocities. Royal Dutch Shell's drilling operations have been spilling oil into the Niger Delta in Nigeria since 1958, but because Nigeria is a poor nation and its oil revenues fund a majority of government operations, Shell and other companies have been drilling and polluting without serious oversight for decades.

How many Roils are there? Little People?

[PATRICK]

2. NPR

had a show so horrible it was like reading about terrors on an alien planet, a fence protected volcano of pollutants spewing over poor and helpless residents and the murderous results both for the environment and the people. This is one of the places where people have taken up guns while their corrupted government sells them out and no one blinks on the rest of the planet. The character of NPR is to nakedly display some of these piteous stories for some sort of empathic interest without ever encouraging or imagining or discussing the simple issues of crime and punishment, doing something to end the victim soap opera feature. One of the features of American media is show these human interest stories, lead you up to the horror and outrage then break to commercial without pinning down the villains or any action that a lawful world could take. What a victim is allowed to do is stand up for showing their plight and being heroic. The few and the monstrous who force them to be heroic are never stopped, certainly not by the NPR type media they sponsor or own. When consistency strikes home NPR will again be peddling victims, uplifting and without question impotent.

The empathy seems to end pointlessly as if to highlight the logical conclusion of going no farther. The part of the world that owns most of the media is doing the desertification, the exploiting, the murder with impunity for no real necessary good to anyone on the planet. And oh yes they are also poor black Africans who are blessed with resources to give to their executioners. Over there. Too bad.

[Octafish]

3. A church sent my neighbor and his family to Nigeria as missionairies.

About five years ago. He quit his job as an engineer to do it. She's a physician and left her practice to tend to their flock. They took their kids, who are now around 13 and 10.

It's an ultraconservative Protestant denomination. They all walk the walk, though, putting into action the Gospel as they see it: Treating other people like they'd like to be treated and believing in the Good Lord. My friend and his family have suffered for their Faith, including illness and doing without the comforts we take for granted. It's part of the job, they said.

The thing is: They had no idea about the political situation they were stepping into. Before they left on their first "tour," I tried to explain to the guy what was happening in Nigeria. How the Muslims and Christians are engaged in a long-running civil war for control of the nation's territory and resources.

I tried to bring up JFK's policies for Africa with my neighbor and how this world would be very different had he lived, but his brain has been conservatively washed. So, when he hears "JFK," he thinks "Marilyn Monroe."

From what I understand, the bishop gets some sort of credit for the number of missionaries his churches send. Personally, I thinks its some kind of CIA operation where the bigger the Christian presence, the easier it is to control the resources.

[bobthedrummer]

5. I concur, religion (not spiritual realm) is used by TPTB-it is highly politicized, the kind of folks

(religious leadership) and practices that Jesus Christ rightly condemned.

Btw, another planecrash in Africa took out many mining executives-including Austraila's one and only Ken Talbot.

Plane wreckage of mining magnate Ken Talbot found (by Matthew Weaver and agencies 6-22-10 Guardian)
Remains of up to 10 people discovered at crash site in Congo-Brazzaville
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/22/plane-wreckage-mining-ken-talbot

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