Dark heart of the American dream

[billbuckhead]

"Dark heart of the American dream

It's the most polluted state in the planet's most powerful country. Ed Vulliamy goes into George Bush's backyard to reveal how big oil got in bed with big politics and the price paid by the little people

Sunday June 16, 2002
The Observer

There is a perverse beauty to the landscape arraigned below the iron bridge where Highway 255 strides the Houston Ship Channel: great towers of light and fire as far as the eye can behold; sinewy steel piping, plumes of smoke and flame twinkling into a Texas twilight coloured by a shroud of pollution hanging from the sky. The awesome prepotency of this smokescape is no illusion, for this is an epicentre of power, oil capital of the Western world and the most industrialised corner of the United States. It is also the capital of a power machine perfected in Texas, elevated to rule the nation and now unchallenged across the planet. A machine that operates in perpetual motion - an equilibrium of interests - between industry and politics. LaNell Anderson, former Republican voter, businesswoman and real-estate broker who lived many years in this land of smokestacks and smog, calls it 'vending-machine politics: you puts your money in and you gets your product out'."
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Something to think about as we fight in Iraqnam during Kennedy assassination week. Check out the intertwining of the Carlyle Group and the Bin Ladin family at the end of the article.

[Maple]

1. THAT is

dreadful! EEeeeeeuuuuuuccccckkkk!

[ixion]

2. wow... chilling article

If you didn't believe in the BFEE before, you will by the end of the read. :tinfoilhat:

[TXvote]

3. Consider The Texas Example

as an experiment of the GOP to see how much the public will tolerate. We are merely the petri dish for the bigger plan. And so you know, we are dying by the thousands down here from bad air, crappy water, no health care, and policies designed to kill citizens by denying access to health care. Hell, they will only track cancer clusters by residential zip code (not workplace)in order to protect industry from the law.
You're next.

Peace,
Teresa
www.votervirgin.com