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Vultures' Picnic
Vultures' Picnic | Greg Palast
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The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller-a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman-to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil. With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write-and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process.
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I'm not sure what attracted them, but there were a couple dozen vultures in the parking lot when we went out for coffee this morning, hanging out in the trees and on the lamp posts. It was more than a little weird. This one was in the tree over our car; fortunately, he didn't leave us a souvenir 😂 I wish I could have gotten a better picture, but they weren't being very cooperative.

DGRachel I hate walking out of a building into a scene from The Birds. 😳 7y
RealBooks4ever Yipes! 😨 7y
minkyb Creepy. 7y
Jinjer Awesome! I love seeing them! 7y
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