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The Colonial Pipeline spill has caused 6 states (Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and North Carolina) to declare a state of emergency. Gasoline (petrol) prices on the east coast are likely to spike. Yet, most puzzling is how this vast emergency and its likely effect on cost of living has gone unnoticed by mainstream media outlets. The pipeline is owned by Koch Industries: is this why the media is silent?
[Are there any Soylentils in the affected area who can corroborate this story? Have you heard of the spill, seen long gas lines, or any price gouging? -Ed.]
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Six US States Declare Emergency after Major Gasoline Pipeline Spill; Media Almost Silent
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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday September 19 2016, @06:20PM
Oh I dunno about that. He grew up in a Socialist country (you might have heard of the Mexican Revolution. If you were educated in the U.S. you weren't taught that it was one of 'those' revolutions. It was.) Read Slim's Wikipedia page, note (and note how carefully it isn't openly stated) how plugged into the Mexican government he had to be to pull most of his deals. Add in the observable fact he was allowed to gain effective control of the U.S. Socialist Party's principle propaganda pipeline. He was known to them and is believed an acceptable holder of the asset. In exactly the same way Bezos was carefully vetted before being allowed to outright buy the #2 PR shop pushing Party propaganda into the media bloodstream.
But the big tell is that Slim is one of the richest people in the world, he isn't a God of Silicon Valley and yet the usual suspects do not hate him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @08:07PM
> Read Slim's Wikipedia page, note (and note how carefully it isn't openly stated) how plugged into the Mexican government he had to be to pull most of his deals.
Only in jmorris's fantasyland is corrupt government cronyism a sign of being liberal.
Here's a clue for you: Money makes you illiberal, the more money the less liberal you are likely to be because, as the original social justice warrior once said, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @08:13PM
...because it's anti-Capitalist in Mexico and The Workers own the means of production there.
What's that you say? That's the complete OPPOSITE of the facts?
Hmmm. That must mean that jmorris is still full of shit.
one of the richest people in the world
...in a "socialist" country.
jmorris continues to use words that he doesn't understand.
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