[NYTr] Enviro: Video - Blood and Oil in Irleand: Protestors Not Arrested, Just Bust Beaten up

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

sent by Joan Malerich - Dec 5, 2007


Click on following  Brasscheck TV link to view video:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/212.html

Oil company business as usual

Shell Oil - corporate criminals

>From information/comments with the video (about 8 minutes). 

Blood and oil in Ireland

We hear about a looming energy shortage and we see high fuels prices. 
The media talks endlessly about global warming, but when do we hear 
about what goes on "behind the scenes" of oil and gas extraction
projects?

Shell Oil, one of the most notorious thug corporations, routinely uses 
violence and threats of violence to guarantee its profits.

Here were see a well trained group of thugs, paid for at taxpayers 
expense, attack unarmed demonstrators. Local politicians? Nowhere to be 
seen.

[NOTE:  The police give order not to arrest anyone--just beat them up. 

Those companies that pay taxes pay only 12 1/2 percent, except for Shell, which pays no taxes.  

The drinking water has been contaminated with aluminium, at times more
than 1000 times the safe limit.  Aluminium is related to dementia and
bone diseases.  The site is still under construction, and the question
at the end is:  What will it be like when it is operational?  -JM]