Monday, April 22, 2019

David DeGraw "Our natural resources are being looted"


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On , we should probably pay attention to the fact that our natural resources are being looted for pennies on the dollar at record-breaking extraction rates... Read All About It:
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From David DeGraw:



On Earth Day, we should probably pay attention to the fact that our natural resources are being looted for pennies on the dollar at record-breaking extraction rates. It's such a smash and grab heist that our land is being polluted in unprecedented fashion. Water supplies are being contaminated in communities across the entire country.
The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, the agencies who oversee our natural resources, are being run by people who worked with the global corporations that are currently looting our natural resources.
The U.S. is now the world's top oil and gas "exporter."
In 2018, petroleum production increased by 1.3 million barrels per day… by 1.3 million barrels per day.
Quite the smash and grab imperial heist.
Everyone talks about how the wars in the Middle East are driven by oil and the theft of natural resources, yet here we are in the US, having our resources stolen by the same Global War Profiteers who are robbing Middle Eastern resources... and we are the biggest energy exporter now. So not only do we get buried in debt by paying trillions to fund the Global War Profiteers, now we even have the most energy resources being "exported" (stolen)!
A win-win for war profiteers, a lose-lose for Americans.
And our corrupted Congress has now decided to "sell" off 290 million barrels of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Given the strategic importance of keeping our energy reserve supplies after recent extreme weather events, after major storms caused us to use more of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve recently, it is shocking that they would now decide to cut our Strategic Petroleum Reserve in half now. That leaves us wide open & exposed for when new disasters strike.
It's imperial plunder. Corruption is running amok.
We have to overcome divide & conquer propaganda / partisanship / identity politics, and unite against global imperialism.
We are all on the same sinking / burning ship...
Happy Earth Day!!
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