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thank you, thank you. we are going to get underway here. i am >> 93.5 fm pacifica am proud to be part of wp fw and equally excited about this evening tonight. we are going to begin with a little bit of introduction. you know me, hope you know me and if you don't, start listening to wp fw 9.3 pacifica. i cohost with raucous baucus on tuesday night. you have to come down in c. and you get a free trip. you don't get a free crabcake but you can get a free crabcake and then he can watch her show and join in on the show. we do that every second, fourth and fifth tuesday just to confuse you but we are there with my cohost garland nixon and mark levine. and then also i help out also as a regular host on what's it stake a wp fw as well which allows me to lead men to do my

introduction of the loveliest mentor i've ever had. and of course i'm talking about the original host, the host, the producer of what is at stake on w. vfw and that is broadcast on wednesday mornings at -- and you want to catch that for sure. both of us have interviewed greg palast many times. , map. [applause] >> good evening everyone. >> we are going to share this mic and yell a little bit at you. just so you know in case you didn't know ferne has got a 23 year history with pacifica radio and she has been just about everything from a volunteer to the capitol reporter, an anchor on the national news and a lady of integrity when pacifica got a little weird in the year 2000. she decided to separate herself until they straighten things out

and returned to that progressive agenda that we all value. came back in 2001 and she was the deputy executive director of pacifica. if you're going to leave and come back to an organization that is the way to do it, come back and take over. and then she was in california for a little bit but she belongs to washington and lived her whole life here. so she came back and became the washington bureau chief. we came up about eight years ago, 10 years ago? a long time ago when we began on what's at stake and she also has now putting in a plug for a family business called the ultimate gaming zone and laurel maryland and is says there's something about taking over the capitalist world soon. ohoh no, i misread that. i'm sorry. to start a business and it's really going well. we are really really privileged to be here and thank you for coming out on this wpfw special

occasion. burn and i wanted to chat with you a little bit about wpfw. i think you know about it but they might tell you a few things that you're not generally where. >> terry thank you for that generous introduction and i knew i should've brought my son. they need to hear that. they think of me have is a person who is nagging them constantly about hurry up, get a job, move up. [laughter] but aside from my family, my lovely husband is here. >> hey robbie. my lovely wife is with the. >> aside from my family i think working for pacific and wpfw is a mocha filling work that i have ever done and i have done work in commercial radio as well as noncommercial radio. the antiwar coverage that wpfw did and pacifica was second to none. we were out there in the frigid

cold attending those rallies but the peace movement was in full force. pacifica would be there, but we would look around and we would watch the 6:00 news and there was absolutely no coverage. we would be out there. there were celebrities there, harry belafonte was there, susan sarandon, desmond tutu, aussie davis. these were significant antiwar rallies but the media just fail to cover it. i attended a discussion group with my alma mater american university and a number of my colleagues are members of the mainstream media. i said you know, you guys were awol at the peace movement. and i asked them why. they said well, basically we understood that the bush administration was hell-bent on going to war so it seems futile. >> is that any way to approach our politics? i mean can we get in the streets

occasionally, please? >> the thing about it, that kind of struck me because they see their role is fundamentally different from a way that we at pacifica see our role. they see their role as to showing up and reporting what happens. i think at pacifica at wpfw our role was seen as trying to somehow shape what is going to happen next. so for example, we produced a show called peace watch. i don't no, some of you may have seen it or heard it rather. it was a daily news program, national, and we can't simply worked against drumbeat for war, pushing back, keeping the focus on peace as opposed is supposed to war only. right now, amy goodman is in south africa and durbin covering the conference bear and the u.n. economic conference, climate change conference. i can guarantee you if their other media there they are not

going to be talking to the same individuals that amy goodman will speak to. >> is kind of a race between the amy goodman and greg palast on who is going to get their first first nl. >> that's right and were fortunate to have both of them. and the convention coverage. terry you and i covered. >> went to boston to meet all the policeman, and there are two things that stuck out from an covering the convention. the first in boston was the police coverage and it began to be, it was frightening. was really scary. they didn't show this on mainstream media again. you probably heard about the free speech zone. this little tiny zone with one entrance with art wire fence around a brit could go 1/2 quote free speech. yeah and that was the only place he could go. up above you, all around you were the sharpshooters, both secret service, army, boston police, you name it. with guns in their hands at the

free speech zone. i began to think, this country is beginning to worry me. it only got worse. there was an incident once on the street right beside the free speech zone and one young man called -- cause trouble. i don't know what he did, and maybe mooned a cop, have no idea. but anyway and simply -- calyx, phallic anyway this wall of the lease and black armor came marching down the street across the sidewalks onto the street from building to building and just swept us into a nice little trapped space. that was democracy in boston during the convention. >> i just got a notice today that the senate has actually passed a bill that will allow the military --

[inaudible] the police day part of this country is really starting to make me angry. >> me to matt. [. the bill they are trying to pass, not only can they arrest american citizens, they can keep you for as long as they like. [. hello? >> thank god for pacifica. i hadn't heard anything much about that. some of the occupiers earlier today, that is what i got that information from. in the book, greg palast's book which will have the pleasure of introducing greg momentarily come he talks about katrina and i was shocked to learn about the real guilty party that he talks about an applicant is not hurricane katrina. the mississippi river of outlet, pallas writes quote had it not

been for him katrina would have been a storm of no note so we will hear more about that in his remarks. according to greg louisiana shut down its hurricane center after katrina and i'm wondering if they have rebuilt it yet. >> probably not. no funding. >> in his book which we will get to momentarily. i am so excited. greg palast is all over the map. he is everywhere. you practically need a passport just to see him. he creates -- it's a little squeamish at some point. it's got everything. i was really surprised at that, greg. [laughter] he creates his own sex scandal. he's not afraid to name names in this book. i know you all have copies and i'm sure you have read it. there is jamaica.

there is sweet and. >> we are going to do that. >> he writes all over the world. i've heard people scream but no one was listening. americans just turn up their tvs. that is a little scary and i hope he addresses that as well. >> couple more things just so you know i am sure you have all heard of greg palast the fournier had "the new york times" bestseller book, the best democracy money can buy. you remember when it was purchased back a few years ago and it's not for sale by the way. they're holding onto. he also wrote our madhouse and some of the quotes from some of his contemporaries are just astounding. this one from a baltimore prodigal, no one investigated the bush doctrine like greg palast and lived to write about it. >> well, another quote from naomi prins, an eye-opening

heart pumping mind-blowing experience that should not, must not process. he will be signing books by the way. pulp fiction, from my favorite investigative reporter, nonfiction from my favorite investigative reporter. that is robert f. kennedy jr.'s quote. a quote from ron paul in the op ed news, what greg palast does to investigate is unbelievable and the results of the stories are muckraking and exposés that will knock your socks off. katherine harris. >> remember her down in florida was in that? good old katherine. >> she calls him twisted and maniacal. >> which is a come poe. >> the "chicago tribune" says greg palast is what a reporter should be, tenacious, adopted by

power, his stories are so relevant they threaten to alter history. greg palast is the author of two "new york times" bestsellers as terry just mentioned, madhouse and best democracy money can buy. and brittany is called a top investigative reporter of our time. greg palast is best known in the u.s. for discovering how the 2000 election katherine harris and jeb loesh remove tens of thousands of african-american citizens from voter rolls calling them felons and thereby stealing the election for george bush. but in britain the economist is best known for financial investigations of enron. pat robertson and others. before he was an investigative reporter he was one of the top investigators of fraud and racketeering. the baltimore chronicle wrote, as terry said, no one has investigated the bush family

like greg palast and lived to tell about it. spam look to tell about. that is a book and you are getting your book tonight. we are so thankful you're your joining us tonight with vfp fw. when you start reading this you will dog-ear every single page. you underline, highlight and try to fix these things your memory but one thing i would ask you to do on this great evening you will have a greg palast is just listening connect the dots. that is what he is genius that, connecting the dots between these three wonderful groups, petroleum, -- in pursuit of petroleum pigs, power pirates, and high-finance carnivores. they are partners, believe me. >> here tonight live, in pursuit of petroleum pigs, power pirates, and high-finance carnivores, the intrepid, the muckraker, the magnet for confidential documents, and the emma double greg palast.

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"vultures' picnic" it is paying glyn's true the first interactive book a few duds the top of each chapter of film will appear. my friends keep punching the top chapter. but if you get this copy of "vultures' picnic" you'll miss the film because you have to get the enhanced by pad iphone whatever it is. they asked me there is a film for every chapter of all 15 to meet the people e and see the photos in my publisher because he has to spend $4 extra asked me not to make those available for

free because they said it is not our corporate policy which means they have never read any of my books. [laughter] see you can't get those four free. if you say you are friend of wpfw. i am an investigative reporter for bbc television because as you know, it is illegal to do investigative reporting under patriot act 3-d united states you can still write a book to tell patriot act iv. i wanted think, will be all have to take the wto f.w. with the pacific said network your weapon of mass destruction for the capital. thank you to c-span and booktv lending me through the electronic berlin wall. that is fresh.

i very much want to think terry. don't miss his show and also for ferdinand and my special guest tonight, friends of the congo. because we will talk about the enemies of the congo. and also greenpeace as i invited them here tonight to 84 the submarine. you better put it back before somebody notices it is missing. i have toward new. my bosses at bbc television

the other call last week about "vultures' picnic" in pursuit of petroleum pigs, power pirates, and high-finance carnivores" a call from of culture senior. i don't name them vultures they call themselves that. worth about $4 billion he has some of the beat the call hot for him the knuckle draggers says your may gain of filled with bbc based on "vultures' picnic." we have a file. of 99. [laughter] we said we know. we have read it. [laughter] the city has. do want to see the file on me? i will explain why i have my pants off they cannot smear me anymore but that is not

the point*. the point* is mr. sr. not the coke brothers but the number one donor to the republican party. the chief sugar daddy and adviser on the economy to mr. romney and is mr. romney's billionaire. it is not partisan because he made a purchase for the republican party but aides the democrats as needed.ie it does not matter if mitts billionaire vultures singer has a file on me. tonight i will show you the file on him. for good reason. is mr. goldfinger here?

note? i invited his body.ifing cool finger. his fellow vulture investor there really is the goals finger operating out of the dc area. the difference between their real goldfinger in the james bond is that is the girl scout compared to the real one. you will meet him.e t tonight, we occupy the airwaves. you're brother-in-law said why are they occupying? why they are intents? what is thiss about? they have no demands they did not have the $12 million pr firm to come up with us look set of demands. as if you don't know.

but i will tell you and talk tel about why we occupy her bru-ha-ha i was that wall street occupy yesterday. it is not about wall street. we do not dislike wall street. it is a place on a map it has a street side with the address. nobody cares about wall street. we care about those who occupy a wall street those starting at about this 67th floor and up.dy theou 1% of the 1% the cold figures. it is not about the real estate. what i am doing with "vultures' picnic" is a four year investigation of the bbc television over five continents. of the 1%.

i want you to me their names, their trophy wives wives, the movers and shakers horror movie and shaking us and meet the people that have moved and shake 10. it is not about wall street. we occupy for stanley mattingly. by the way he lives in a trailer in oklahoma. on the property like indian reservation property there is the metal horses that go up and down to pull up oil. they have a contract with the company to go around to pull out the oil and he was pulling in $30 a month that she really needed. the truck would come to pull out the stripper well and

mark 16 then they would take out a 11 and marked down eight. the difference is called overage. or theft. a couple barrels here and there are would say $160 million by my calculation. how do i know this by the way? i am filming it. before i was an investigative reporter i did big cases. working with the fbi, they have film. take eight or markdown six that all of the trucks one back to the loading dock in oklahoma. there on the loading dock was the guy who was telling the truckers that they could

lose their jobs. he would say i want more of rich. -- overage. are one more. filming. we have witnesses. we have of wire. my question is why? he was born with $1 billion. the head of the john birch society but he was a billionaire. $30? twenty dollars a week from stanley mattingly. we know the answer because we had his executive the top guy wired talking abroad his conversation.

and according to the wire that they said he said i want what is coming to me. and that is all of it. and that is why we occupy. now, we occupy four jason alexander. april 20 last year on deepwater horizon, methane blowout, he went to hit the ball well presenters which and was vaporized instantly with 10 other workers. how could this happen? it is a british petroleum. they have those green gas stations. we know that.

i have been investigating bp 25 years. one message came back in eyewitness the cable it you will see it in the book, came from the caspian sea. how do i have been eyewitness from the caspian sea? i was a las vegas when i get the message. it says i have firsthand knowledge but it would not be wise for me to communicate by this system. i set up a secure system. what is this about? he was the eye witness to the aid did to colby be made

pullout that blew out for the same reason quick money save a little box per day and it doesn't always work. it blew out two years before deepwater horizon exposure which is a bit surprising because bp and the caspian oil buddies in the u.s. will buddies testified november 2009 that we have done this 50 years with no problem. so congress overrule to make sure they got their permits. they knew in they covered it up because they covered it up, they have been doing the same crap senate job that killed jason. deepwater horizon was not an accident.

it was a homicide. it was a homicide. wait a minute. as investigative reporter my british network says you have to go with him. i come up with a cockamamie story taking my camera crew and two acer by john. eyes are by sean we learn these later. that is all americans learn geography. let's be cool to head across the desert of the tracks through the roadless desert to get the inside story and we're busted and arrested by the people least a look like

little toy soldiers but then quickly the military police and the security ministry shows up. that is quite an honor the torture and chief himself came out i was a bit concerned that meant someone had tipped them off for that story. but the first thing they do is say give us the film. okay. we give them the film. they say give us the chips they have learned you get computer chips so they took the film but i am still would journalist i could keep my 10 but in then is

doing the austin powers job ahead took the evidence out. if that happened before. i had the evidence. homicide. that is why reoccupy. you'll hear ms. a bad penny her moniker just like there really is a goldfinger. this is real? the first words of the book is everything that happens here happened. the occupied for mirvari. how do you coverup a blowout? it is a fun news event.

for a couple weeks. how did they cover it up? bp. beatings, babes, bribery, the 727 used to we set down pick up the officials for zero week in london with zippers down and mouth shut meetings. people say you are courageous. no-no no. the sources are courageous. i fear for them. i wish they would fear for themselves. caspian man who sent me the cable, i will not use his name. but mirvari trying to form

an oil union with bp workers and azerbaijani which is not legal. standing before four legs of copps and then another copps bd the crap out of her they did that three times they -- she knew they would do with the fourth time after i met with her but she insisted. courageous. we occupy for her. but what about the bribery? you can cover up the oil speed with -- oil spill with money but how? we meet the bad man in london down to make the pay off but all he could show me

was the empty bag. and then handing down the cia agent. who just got the $90 million check from the p i knew he was not in a good mood because by my calculation he is no fool. that is $180 million short so he agrees to meet with me in a safe house. i say what is going on? how did they get away with this? he says bp pays bribes. first of all, i cannot just say that. in britain. all of this stuff they are hearing is prime-time british television here time -- jarret is no time

but i sought front-page last week that the news. the top story is cold finger right out of "vultures' picnic." i said i cannot say this because there is no freedom of press or freedom of speech and no bill of rights. journalists have been fighting to get the first amendment freedoms speech freedom of the press i suggest they can borrowers because we don't use a. [laughter] i said come on. how do note? how much? he said at least one was $84 million. that was one. $84 million. he said nicely divided among seven oil companies.

i said i cannot say that without getting sued. i have to have some proof. he said they sammy invoice for his share. and that is why we occupy. and we occupy. look at this can of coca-cola. it has three little polar bears and if you read this it says it take this number you donate $1 coca-cola will put an additional dollar to create a sanctuary for the endangered polar bear. i am an investigative reporter i am thinking why

duple the bears a need a sanctuary? i thought the polar bear sanctuary was the polar cap? why are removing the polar bears? what is going on? i get a message. from the chief of intelligence of a free republic of the arctic who says you have to get up right now. right now. it isn't i lint off the north of alaska above the arctic circle son now awaiting for my staff to send me another message from santa's elves from the intelligence chief of the free republic of the arctic saying etak is expecting you. so i turned to a bad penny and said see if we can get a

plane with skis on the ice he is a legendary whale hunter of the north slope of alaska and he does not waste his time. i landed. he says they are tagging bloggers. so i contact department. they say it is in danger species to track them. no. eric tagging them two move them. okay. acquire the moving them? it is what is under the bears. oil. wait. we're at the arctic national wildlife district even george the driller bush could not get into that and furthermore etauk nobody

will draw on the ice sheet as it keeps coming in every winter. it washes away the rigs and he said mr. palast, the icecap is permanently receding. those who are melting the caps our profiting from it. those who start the fire make the money from the fire sale. they want to the oil that is being exposed. i said they cannot do it with the arctic wildlife refuge. he said yes. let me show you something. he invites me out to lunch we get inside a whale carcass that is in -- easily as big as this room we share a lunch of fermented we'll

meet and congealed blood. if you ever have a chance to eat that, i don't. [laughter] you can see me in the film trying not to do the social full pot of vomiting on my host. you also see etauk on the bbc broadcast he is head of state so he wanted to speak to my head of state of the queen to say there are better places to put her oil well and i said it is anatomically impossible. he says wails still like to swim in oil any more than humans. they are not a cultural experience it is a lunch experience. no whales, and no eskimo except the clean porta-potti

on the rich. that is not happening. i could not report that i did not see how they would drill their and put the bears in this do. august 4th this year authorizing the permit for the drilling offshore. that is why we occupy. we occupy for a 13 year-old who was my daughter's age. you see these ads in the "washington post" the "wall street journal." 530,000 new u.s. jobs. maybe the keystone xl pipeline will cut america and half. don't worry it is safe. look at the rules we have. we have a thick rule book and we have the new fancies safety equipment.

it is called the smart pig. and there is a pig in every pipeline. not just the executive that get sucked in every once in awhile but it is a robot. it has whiskers except they are wires, lasers, gps, they wanted the pipeline to tell you when there is corrosion and? and when something will blowup but i get it there is a lot of dumb takes because we have? in big spills in yellowstone. the alaskan pipeline. all over the place. they will lay 100,000 miles of new pipes with the new fracking. how come some p.i.g.s. are down? i put out the word.

the oil industry can nec's big man one and big man to and big man three have the same story. they have been silenced. how do you silence a pig? you cannot threaten it use silence it with software. this is the pig in the pipeline. of "vultures' picnic." they silence they use the technologies it is desensitizing analyzing it in such a way it does not be the way that it should it is like pulling the battery out of your smoke detector which is fine unless you have a fire. it is stupid if you do it in your kids' room but it is criminal on a pipeline because the rules are very specific i said you have to go on camera. no.

i cannot do it unless you let these degree to speak in shadow. no. the results the last year standard no california what happens? gas pipeline blows up. eight people incinerated including the 13 year-old janessa and her mom. p.i.g.s. run away. no kidding? is not an accident anymore. it is a homicide. they do not want to be around this issue. pig man won the says when i saw the pictures and i saw the names of the kids and

imams, he said put me on camera. i put them in shadow but we got the information. accident no. homicide yes. that is why reoccupy. we occupy for the chief and his sons but actually i did not have to do the investigation of bp and runaround four continent's because pbs declined. we asked could we do it jointly because i am the expert of the oil area and they would not do with us because we're doing our own. frontline is doing something called spilt in it was excellent it told you all about the problem and the t's lack of safety culture. they have been ignoring problems with oil drilling safety for years. i thought actually pbs has been ignoring the problems for years but that is a different question but it is said bp lack of a safety

culture like they're not wearing gloves. unlike the chevron corporation that pbs had president of chevron on frontline to say this won't happen with us. not chevron. we have a culture of safety. bbc television said you better check them out. why we have to? greg palast look at their website. go to the zero playback and looked six months and sure enough pbs newshour says logo of the national pbs sponsor is chevron corporation. chevron petroleum. no connection.

they said you cannot realign-- o check them out yourself and amazon with the texaco unit that has been accused of dumping will to poison the local people and the kids our dying price of the "wall street journal" said it is of fraud and "new york times" is repeating it and it is called investigative repeating. [laughter] but i am not allowed to do that in britain. by the way bbc cannot take money from british petroleum. how do i get there? we'll arrange a boat to i take the planes and a jeep into the jungle but if you are in the sierra club it is the rain forest but if you are there is a jungle. take my word and the guy says who was driving said

they showed am looking for the african queen to take into the village. he is pointing your boat. said dug out log with that hand carved paddle i see my hat floating down luckily the indigenous person comes out of the jungle to grab the paddle and off we go. i go to check out these people we were told by chevron and the "wall street journal" it is a con. i meet a man, the chief who was very formal he has more page because he is confronting chevron. really. okay with the make up. what is going on? he said my son went swimming

in a watering holes. i investigated the exxon valdez you get the real story in the book. the real culprit is british petroleum. i look around and i smell a ground. hydrocarbons. that telltale rainbow on the water and it is everywhere i pick up sticks and co-ops. you will see that i go down to the oil in the gulf. that is for the greenpeace submarine comes in. i go down. and compared to the amazon the gulf after the spill was gardens. this is bad. he is swimming in the watering hole that looks okay but his son came up vomiting blood and died. his older son took longer to die of leukemia.

i take the oil and would never have and i meet with the lawyers for chevron and the texaco unit. am not exaggerating body language. so. these are the only kids that have ever gotten cancer? okay. fair. you don't get cancer from oil. i said i showed a steady from doctors that kids our getting the key man from will toxins in the oil drilling areas in the amazon. okay. well, maybe it is the oil. but you cannot prove it is our oil. that is impossible. because there is no documents or evidence it is our will. i said. i did not see that they do

have this document and you see this in the book. "vultures' picnic" that chapter called the ritchie's smelled funny because the third in the jungle. how do they get the oil? they come down with a helicopter and they explained it all in spanish to the families who did not speak spanish. [laughter] here are some trinkets in she's and they said the cheese smelled five days of a third in the jungle. the rainforest that is how they got the oil. but it also brought them the sole. of course, they say what you do with this? rub it on your body and year your ailments. what about this document?

this is from someone who calls himself the president. the president of the texaco unit is ordering three items. his workers and executives to remove all documents related to the dumping of the oil and oil waste in the amazon from the main offices and in the location worksites. all of those documents are to me. [speaking spanish] what does that mean? destroyed. destroyed. my interpretation is it means a felony hard time obstruction of justice. what do you think? that is why we occupy.

we occupy four chico santo i was then the publisher said we are out now i was stunned march 12 tsunami earthquake fukushima is shaking. of the nuclear plants i said to bad penny i will not make it. she said so now you are clairvoyant 2,000 miles away? i said no. file cabinets. it was quite an argument actually. in raiders of the lost ark those file cabinets those are mine. go back 1988 when i was

doing federal state government local government new york racketeering investigation. of the nuclear power plant you may know stoner webster if you ever read john perkins conceptions -- confessions of economic demand. i was the other side. we had a racketeering case with what these guys were up two. i said get the no book. every nuclear engineer, they carry a notebook you write down everything you here and say and what you did and the notebooks said 1983 no book. i really knew the words. handwritten notes. very upset. he seemed very nervous and very agitated. the handwritten notes.

the nuclear engineer. this is from a man who is the chief structural engineer for starter webster. and we sold was the head of the guy who judged seismic qualification of anything that will shake the plant and says in the construction testing, he is upset. the plant is riddled with problems that no way on earth could stand an earthquake. most of these components would completely and utterly failed. during an earthquake. they knew. they knew they covered it up. i should tell you by the way i put that in front of a

federal jury and a federal court. the jury found a starter webster was part of conspiracy. they fake said diesel generator test and faked the cost of the plants hit them at $4 billion and put them out of business except corporations are people. right? they can go to iraq to get their legs blown off. right? corporations can do something very special to shift shape. like harry potter characters. corporation people are very different. last year did you notice obama had passed the emergency bill with armor

for our boys in iraq and afghanistan? who is against bar at -- body armor for our soldiers? there is no member of congress who would vote against body armor for the soldiers in four nuclear plants. in the foot notes wrapped in the body armor come $8 billion of loan guarantees for, of four reactors down payment of the $56 billion program stuck in the body armor. cool. i was quite impressed. i smelled houston. i knew. sure enough there is a shift shape corporation back and forth. that is a lot of construction work. of four plants will be built

of the company which is the new name of stoner webster nuclear. they are already busy and have been given a contract to rebuild fish -- fukushima i kid you not. of the radioactive brick from texas. i don't know who sent it because i burned to the avello before i could read the return address. all i know there is a document that says said nick did in, but as trade secrets or confidential they did not know what cover they wanted to use. all of these documents people say where are the footnotes? this is not s