Major research by Greg Palast
The chapter begins with a New York City’s stake-out. It then progresses to the King of Mardi Gras leading to a shopping spree in Geneva. Subsequently, murder and suicide incidences in a native village in Alaska become significant to the Deepwater Horizon Investigation. This chapter focuses on major investigations by Greg Palast. The MI6 specializes in handling bribes on behalf of Kalashnikovs and British Petroleum (BP). The chapter also highlights the ex-trophy wife of the billionaire who was prepared to burn the bed and open the files. There is also the mention of the Radioactive Brick from an unknown address containing documentation of a large scale fraud by Tokyo Electric Power Company. This takes place ten months before the melting of Fukushima. The chapter briefly mentions Treasury Secretary, Geithner’s highly secretive memo waiting for the nod from both Citibank and Goldman Sachs.
At Rolling Hills outside New York City, the writer acknowledges his fault for using an expensive vehicle instead of a simple red Honda car. He then proceeds to Las Vegas, Nevada. Here he hopes to meet and trade information with Daniel Beckel, one of the best lawyers in America. The two get engrossed in a discussion about the oil spill along the Gulf of Mexico, before being interrupted by a distress call about an explosion back home. The chapter then proceeds to somewhere off the coast of Azerbaijan. The writer mentions that despite the name Exxon that is written on the ill-fated ship, the culprit responsible for the spillage which destroyed the Alaska coastline was British Petroleum. In Azerbaijan, the discussion is centered on the shock by British Petroleum upon learning of the spillage.
The chapter then progresses to Liberia, a West African nation where sexual perversions are not tolerated. The chapter touches on the Liberian civil war in which the country was converted into a killing zone. He recounts some of his family histories before offering a description to a heart-warming stand ovation at the bequest of Martin Luther King’s dinner party where he assumes a back seat. Here he hopes to meet and trade information with Daniel Beckel, one of the best lawyers in America. Palast attempts to expose a plethora of criminals and murders. It also includes the folly of President Barrack Obama’s attitude concerning a corrupt leader in Africa involved in an illicit diamond syndicate. This illicit trade also involved an American businessman. It also constituted the Teflon nature of men who turn out to vote to win elections.
According to Palast, the world is warped. The Vultures ‘Picnic occurs along with the remains of the population of human beings. This is the scenario when it comes to financial terms through ripping off little towns, mortgage holders, and pension funds. This can also be done via clearing of forests, animals, sea-life, and village children. The human population occupies their niche because the vultures must continue to gorge themselves at the expense of other people. Palast has tried to push the concept of investigative journalism. He mentions those corporate vultures like British Petroleum that feed on the susceptible and weak. The chapter also illustrates how huge powers within the oil and money industries are ruining the planet using their lethal activities. Instead of regulating natural resources, these big corporations simply destroy these resources.