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Big Oil trades oil back and forth, so Nigerian might be traded for Iraqi oil or Indonesian oil. But everywhere Big Oil goes, human suffering, death and desolation follows, from children's lungs in Wilmington to political tyranny in Myanmar.
| Nigeria, 140M people with 42% under the age of 15 and a median age of only 18, a life expectancy below 50 and a shattered demographic, is largely under the heel of Big Oil. 95% of Nigeria's foreign exchange comes from Big Oil, much of it used to bribe the ruling faction to suppress the rest of the Ibos, Bantus, etc., into terrible and dismal POVERTY. With 50% nutcase Muslims, 40% Christians, the native spiritual beliefs have largely been crushed together with the aspirations for a better life of its downtrodden people. Essentially, Big Oil came in, murdered the politicians who would not play along, dominated the oil regions, destroying native agricultural, fishing and other industries, and, using client-state goons, blasted all opposition. Big Oil has proven that having oil deposits can be a big NEGATIVE for quality of life. Similar tragedies are played out in Iraq and in Saudi and in many other places that suffer human disasters every day just so that, supposedly, Soccer Mom can scoot around from the Safeway to the hairdresser in the family Titan, Humongosaurus or Yuckon. Big Oil makes a big effort to keep its Oil Stations clean and spiffy, as if the dirty black stuff were not soaked in the blood of enslaved captive peoples such as the Nigerians. These tragedies occur every day, unnoticed and bypassed on the way to the Oil Station. Here's just one, with the background information that Big Oil came in, bifurcating native communities with oil wells, oil pipelines and oil facilities right through formerly human-serving fields, schools and communities. That's why this oil tragedy took so many lives. (From Yesterday's Paper:) "...Fire kills 100 in Nigeria "Lagos, Nigeria -- Flames from a burst fuel pipeline swept through homes and a school Thursday, killing about 100 people and injuring 20 in a village on this city's distant outskirts, a Red Cross official said. "'It was like hell was raining down on us, then everybody started running in different directions,' resident John Egbowon said. "Road construction machinery pierced the pipe carrying refined fuel...Many children fled the school before it was engulfed in flames...it was unclear how many children had died. Pipeline fires are common in Nigeria. More than 400 people died in two similar pipeline explosions in 2006 and at least 40 died in December. "Authorities frequently blame the disasters on criminal gangs..." |
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